Opinion

American as they wanna be, Aussies still just blokes and mates

American as they wanna be, Aussies still just blokes and mates

There's nothing like a 24-hour flight to really put you in a different world. I recently flew Qantas from New York to Sydney, Australia (before showing up in Melbourne, where I'm studying abroad this semester). We crossed the international date line from Feb.

OPINION | 02/23/2000

It's the legacy, stupid: Scandals sully the Slick Willy era

As the year winds down, the curtains are closing on an era for the members of the Class of 2000. Surely, most of my classmates will look back at the last four years with nostalgia.At the same time, America will share a similar process, as eight years of the Clinton presidency dissolve into primaries and conventions and, ultimately, an inauguration.

OPINION | 02/22/2000

Letters to the Editor

U-Council and sweatshopsAs chair of the University's Resources Committee that has been charged by the U-Council with investigating the issue of sweatshop labor, I was surprised to read John Kimble '02's letter in the Feb.

OPINION | 02/22/2000

Post-final pass/D/fail option would minimize semester-long complacency

Seventeen. After figuring out how poorly I would have to score on my final exam to get a D for the semester, I looked up from my calculator, glanced at my closed notebooks and promptly decided to take the night off.

OPINION | 02/22/2000

On sweatshop activism

Because a student's educational experience extends beyond the classroom, the University is obligated to pay careful attention to non-academic aspects of student life if it hopes to retain its claim of being a truly educational institution.Because we've all recently come of voting age, our college years can be seen as the formative period of our political activity.

OPINION | 02/21/2000

Dropping the apathy routine: Rock the vote on Super Tuesday

Few presidential candidates waste their time courting the college vote. It's not just because we lack big bucks to donate to their campaigns; we simply don't go to the polls on election day.

OPINION | 02/21/2000

Why ask Wythes? Committee lacks convincing rationale for change

Since the full implementation of coeducation in 1972, the size of a typical Princeton class has not changed.

OPINION | 02/21/2000

Campus strongmen need to curb alcohol-induced aggression

Homer Simpson once described beer as "the cause and the solution to all life's problems." Though only a cartoon character, Homer's commentary on alcohol is nonetheless astute.

OPINION | 02/20/2000

Students should envy squirrel simplicity

A new revelation formulated by Mark Burrish '02, and brought to my attention by his roommate, Nate Allard '02, goes as follows: On the University campus, it is better to be a squirrel than a student.Absolute truth is nonexistent, so why keep searching?

OPINION | 02/20/2000

Letters to the Editor

On poorly written reviewsFor the love of all that is good, will someone please instruct the Arts Editors and/or their "reviewers" how to write a legitimate theater review?

OPINION | 02/20/2000

Exercising the grad student voice

At the Feb. 14 U-Council meeting, graduate and undergraduate students joined together in opposing the planned closing of Chancellor Green Cafe.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Letters to the Editor

Chancellor Green already an academic spaceI am writing to express my skepticism about the administration's current plans to "change" Chancellor Green into an academic space.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Close quarters prevent privacy

I do not generally consider myself an antisocial person, but I find myself infected with a growing obsession to get away from people.Personal space is an elusive, often impossible goal at Princeton, unless one lives in a single.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Letters to the Editor

Alum agrees on 'architectural degradation'I applaud the recent comments of Ryan Salvatore '02 in his Feb.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

Get on the patch.com: Internet addiction is just a few clicks away

A specter is haunting Princeton ? the specter of Internet Addiction Disorder. A countless number of students spend too many hours online, often with adverse consequences.My addiction began before I got to Princeton.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

Indo-Pak rivalry ignores deep cultural similarities

On a gentle hilltop at the Press Club in Lahore, the din of the early Saturday evening traffic wafted in gently through the trees like the last lazy rays of sunlight.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

University fails to solicit student opinion on rotunda

While the uproar over the fate of the Chancellor Green Cafe is almost as loud as the cafe itself, the administration's disregard for student input in matters regarding space allocation at the University is especially disturbing ? as disturbing as the potential cafe conversion.The University's proposal to convert the cafe into a humanities library beginning in 2001 is premature given Frist's unknown future as a social space on campus and the cafe's well-known success.

OPINION | 02/15/2000

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