Opinion

Looking for meaning behind the WROC button

Looking for meaning behind the WROC button

The recently formed Workers' Rights Organizing Committee (WROC) has effectively divided students into two groups: those that 'support Princeton's workers' and those that are 'anti-workers' rights.' Such a black-and-white depiction of this particularly complex issue is disturbing ? for its neglect of a wide range of people standing on common ground, and for its tendency to shun skepticism, however reasonable, from members of the University community.This supposed dichotomy of the issue is particularly unwarranted, in fact, because WROC has failed to provide critical pieces of information that students need before they can assess the movement.My first question: what exactly are the wages and benefits entailed in employment at Princeton?

OPINION | 03/13/2001

Letters to the Editor

Low wages force worker-parents to choose between working for and raising familyIn the aftermath of the recent school shooting, I have heard numerous Princeton students say that the solution to school violence is to have parents that are in touch with their children.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

The road not taken

Although I am removed from the culture of die-hard gym-goers, I admit that exercise is very important to me ? for both my mental and physical health.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

On the value of light in civilized society

Socrates: Be full of joy, O Stankophon (for such is the best way I know to address friends).Stankophon: Why hello, Socrates.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

What it means to drop the 'T-bomb'

The senior thesis is perhaps the greatest task faced by Princeton undergraduates, but it is also the greatest excuse ever invented.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Let the locusts descend

Here is what you should know about me: I like Bob Dylan. I mean, I really, really like him, and not just because he has the soul of a poet.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Students have no excuse for not involving themselves in activism

Where has Jeff Wolf '02 been? In the last two years Princeton has seen a virtual renaissance in accessible and smart political activism: the Workers' Rights effort, anti-Sweatshop activism, critiques of corporate globalization, a prison reform working group, renewed discourse on race, an active anti-hunger movement and the ever-enduring good works of the SVC.Somehow philosopher Wolf has been meandering in the illusion that a) Princeton is an inactive campus and b) that political problems are either intractable, out of one's hands or too taxing on one's fun-loving schedule.While Wolf wallows in Winston Churchill-isms, injustice and suffering persist.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Letters to the Editor

Business and economic interests not in conflictI am dismayed by the views expressed in the article "Slick Money: The Controversial Role of Corporate Funds in University Labs" in the March 5th issue of the Prince Magazine.The article notes the danger that corporations will "use Princeton research not only in the interest of profit but profit at the expense of the global climate." Nonsense.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

Discussion of finance reform nothing new

Adam Frankel's March 7th column, "Post a guard at the revolving door," reads like the day-before-yesterday's New York Times.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

A higher education at Princeton may cost a student his belief in politics and in the nature of its human subjects

Princeton has never felt like a politically charged campus to me (with the grand exception of the appointment of Peter Singer), and I have enjoyed this since I have never been much of a politico.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

Before the house burns down . . .

The only regret I have about being in an eating club is that I'm not in every eating club. Truly, this serves as an endless source of personal anguish, as, let me tell you, eating club life is decadent and, as we all know, decadent times 11 equals much more decadent.

OPINION | 03/07/2001

Peter Singer's 'Heavy Petting'

Peter Singer has a nasty way of pushing everything to the extreme. His arguments on abortion try to induce the reader to believe that unless you think all contraception is immoral, you should support abortion up to the time of birth and then infanticide for 30 days afterwards, just for good measure.But Princeton's favorite ethicist has gotten tired of defending killing disabled babies and has now started defending something completely different: bestiality.Yes.

OPINION | 03/07/2001

Post a guard at the revolving door

Remember Carol Shia? She was the New York City police officer fired after posing for Playboy in uniform: the NYPD thought it was inappropriate to use a police uniform for personal gain ? and in such a questionable manner.

OPINION | 03/06/2001

Letters to the Editor

Princeton community aids in quake reliefI would like to thank the Princeton University community for its overwhelming support in the India Quake Relief Drive.

OPINION | 03/06/2001

When the law gets caught napping

I've been leading a criminal lifestyle for several months now. It's gotten so bad that I sometimes violate federal law several times before breakfast.

OPINION | 03/06/2001

Not a trivial pursuit

Students in the hallowed halls of the Woodrow Wilson School are forming plans to end world hunger, others in Fisher are pondering how to save Social Security and in an organic chemistry lab still others are preparing to heal the world.I'm a classical archaeology major; in other words, I sit around thinking about dead people.

OPINION | 03/05/2001

Created in our image

One day soon, human clones will walk among us. Does the thought send a shiver up your spine? How about the notion of eating french fries from a potato engineered with jellyfish genes to make its leaves bioluminescent?

OPINION | 03/05/2001

Student-worker scarcity jeopardizes wage-raise possibilities

In response to a very solid and excellent presentation of the goals and makeup of the WROC, I feel the need to clarify my previous statements.

OPINION | 03/04/2001

Princeton alumnus fondly remembers Dale Earnhardt

I very much enjoyed Alex Iliff '02's article on Dale Earnhardt. I am a closet Princeton NASCAR fan.

OPINION | 03/04/2001

Time to preach to more than just the choir

If ignorance is bliss, then it makes sense that white undergraduates are on the whole more content at Princeton than their minority peers."I just didn't know this was a problem," one student at a recent panel discussion about race said rather timidly, referring to remarks by several others that the 'Street' proves a major social obstacle for minorities on campus.One of only a handful of white faces amid 10 times as many audience members, she was clearly interested and involved enough to take part in the forum, so it was a bit disconcerting to find that the concept of social elitism, which affects most students, could be alien to her ears.

OPINION | 03/04/2001

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