It all started when my ATM card didn't work. I typed in my four-digit PIN again, but the machine repeated that my card had expired.
D'Amico's 'grudge' unwarrantedI am baffled by Alex D'Amico's letter in the Jan. 17 issue of the 'Prince' where he questions the choice of Queen Noor as baccalaureate speaker.
On June 14, 1876, eight Princeton students, led by J.F. Williamson 1877, began publishing a newspaper called The Princetonian.
Two dozen small heads turned upward, all eyes fixed on Bill McCleery. He was reading from "Wolf Story," a bedtime tale written for his son decades ago ? now a childhood classic.
"I'm not going to say goodbye to you," Bill McCleery joked as we walked out of Prospect House in December.
The first lunch invitation was left on my voice mail, but its formality has kept it with me as if it were embossed on fine stationary."Rick," said the voice, strong and deep with just a hint of frailty, "this is Bill McCleery from the Princetonian Board of Trustees.
A 135-edition journey through a small, though significant, fraction of University history comes to a close today for The Daily Princetonian's 2000 Managing Board.We depart with many issues still to be resolved.
Are we defined by who we marry? Regardless of anything else we do in our life, do we end up being viewed as an adjunct to our partners?Absolutely not.
As part of the continuing celebration of 30 years of coeducation at Princeton, the University nominated three alumnae for the honor of Baccalaureate speaker: Meg Whitman '77, President and CEO of the auction Website eBay; Wendy Kopp '80, founder of Teach for America; and Lisa Halaby '73, better known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
Since its founding 100 years ago, the Princeton Alumni Weekly has distinguished itself as one of the best alumni magazines in the country.
Heavy hitters were up to bat last week in another inning of the Middle East peace process ballgame taking place at Shepherdstown, W.
While the rest of us were stockpiling bottled water and/or champagne in anticipation of January 1, all the pundits were reflecting upon what humanity has achieved in the last thousand years and what the next thousand may hold for us.
I am a junior, which means I have written many eight-to-10-page papers in one night. To be honest, I wrote a 20 pager in one night last year (something to brag about, huh?).But the other night, I flipped out.
Today marks one year to the day since my outlook on life changed forever. Jan. 10, 1999 awoke a clear, crisp winter's day with a bite in the wind and a buzz on campus from the Nude Olympics two days before.
When Benjamin Franklin spoke his famous words that you should "never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today," he had most likely never seen Princeton during Reading Period.
There is a serious dearth of arts coverage on this campus. Regardless of your impression of its quality or analytical depth, campus arts coverage is virtually nonexistent, except for the following: a review every two weeks or so of one of the campus theater shows; the semiannual article about the lack of performing space on campus; the obligatory pre-Triangle Show spread/free publicity; and the occasional article about the lack of arts coverage on campus.Currently, arts coverage is relegated to a once-a-week format which mostly consists of said reviews or comments on some recent book, record, or movie release without a clear campus connection.
I feel guilty. It's not because I haven't physically exerted myself in a month or because I didn't study 10 hours per day over break ? I had to save something for reading period.The cause of my guilt is the course selection card I turned in last month.
Like other institutions that have stood the test of time, Princeton can occasionally be Ptolemaic in thinking of itself as the center of the universe.
I used to be proud of my country, but now . . . .Morning rush-hour traffic going into Auckland.
Advocating abstinenceStatistics are statistics, but the author of "Surveys indicate infrequent sex on campus" in your April 15 issue clearly took the position that the lack of sex here was a problem that the student body needs to eradicate.
