Music videos are terrible. This is a well-known fact to anyone with a brain in his head and an ounce of taste in his body.
Vast political and ideological differences separate Rush Holt and Dick ZimmerIn the Sept.
Wow! You're a grad student? You seem so . . . normal!"So begins yet another introductory conversation between grad and undergrad, whether it be in one of the residential dining halls, at an ethnic study break, during a night at the 'Street' or in the new Frist Campus Center.
If President Shapiro's departure is, in the words of University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62, like "losing a parent," then the presidential search committee will have to look long and hard for his replacement.
Debate commission's partisan politics destructive to democracyI want to expand on Andrew Frisbie '01's letter on the Commission on Presidential Debates in the Sept.
There are times when efforts at political correctness become patently incorrect. Case in point: Last week at the University of Wisconsin, a student discovered that the admissions office had initiated and approved the doctoring of the cover photo for its 2001 undergraduate application.The photo depicted a group of students ? all of whom happened to be white ? at a Wisconsin football game.
The Class of 2004 has arrived, and I am still the only one from my high school at Princeton. Ever.Attempting to change these statistics and recruit more students to apply to Princeton, I drove down to Muncie, Ind., this August to the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and the Humanities ? my state's only public residential school.
The great fun of an election year is to quibble over issues ranging from the grave to the inconsequential.
It certainly is shaping up to be a thrilling House race here in New Jersey's 12th district. All around campus, political fever buzzes, with students wracking their minds as to whether Democratic incumbent Rush Holt will allay the brave onslaught waged on his Congressional seat by the venerable Republican Dick Zimmer.
A proposed Princeton Borough ordinance allowing Borough Police to enforce underage drinking laws on private property seems to have struck a nerve in the University community.
The announcement of President Shapiro's retirement cluttered our inboxes and doorsteps all weekend long.
I am not a hateful person. In fact, I am normally regarded as a pretty cheerful, optimistic and somewhat sarcastic person, but by no means hateful.
Can't equate lookism with other forms of discriminationZach Pincus-Roth '02's "Look Again" column in the Sept.
As Michael Frazer awoke one night from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his GC bed into a graduate student."What has happened to me?" he thought.
Dude, I hate that Britney Spears song.""Me too. But she's so hot."As a camp counselor, I learned that children can be astute social critics.
Most of the Class of 2001 came to Princeton thinking that a "backdoor pass" would secretly get you into the TI taproom.But after the magical 1997-98 men's basketball season that saw the Tigers routinely beat Ivy opponents by 30 points en route to a national Top 10 finish, the campus was united in a chorus of "Sit down, you suck."Jadwin Gym became more than just a haven for hardcore basketball fans that winter; it evolved into a common sanctuary for anyone donning orange and black, a place where sold-out crowds were as routine as wins over Yale.Who among us hasn't owned a wallet-size men's basketball schedule featuring a picture of Steve Goodrich '98?
The Green Party wants to see its candidate, Ralph Nader '55, participate in the presidential debates, which the Commission on Presidential Debates will host this fall.
If the presidential campaign were a Harry Potter book, abortion would be the Issue-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Excessive Firestone security excludes some from academiaI'm one of those gray-haired old people who sit in the back of the lecture hall.
It is easy to bemoan the state of American politics when the candidates' artificially constructed images seem to determine so much.
