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Nicollette Sheridan’s Dropped Towel Exposes Republicans
Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for the Republicans. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate them. President Bush’s moral watchdogs have struck again; another victory for censorship and cultural regression…
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Imagined Communities
On the idyllic Great Gatsby-esque campus that is Princeton, there exists a small microcosm of societal interactions and tensions. Although certainly not a true representation of the outside world…
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On Rhetoric
By the time you read this, the president of the United States for the next four years will have been elected.
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Hope, Hip Hop and Hosing Harvard
Prof Cornel West discusses his three piece suits, his escape from Harvard over his hip hop debut, and the general state of American youth and racial politics.
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The Greeks and the Deans
“The administration did not want an event that promoted sorority life, though this was not the intention of the panel,” said Maria Hughes ’06, OWL president and Kappa Kappa Gamma member.
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A Talk with Malkiel
JG: What does it mean to be Dean of the College? DM: Dean of the College means that I’m responsible for undergraduate education, curriculum, academic advising, academic regulations, the academic standing of the students…
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Fishy Business
One of my Chemistry teachers once insisted that if you drank a glass of mercury and waited, you could piss it out. Urban legend or amazing feat? You decide.
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Still Got Game
Men’s college basketball died in 1995. At least that is the consensus you might glean from the wailings of some coaches and sportswriters as they lament the P.G. (post-Garnett) era.
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The Burning Bush: Global Warming in America
The Pentagon challenging the Bush Administration’s stance on global warming – sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone, doesn\\\\\\\’t it? But it’s true; last week, a report on global warming commissioned by a high-level Pentagon official was leaked to a British newspaper. The report argues that global warming “should be elevated beyond a scientific…
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Ye Olde Sportynge Columne
For this sports column, I could write an in-depth investigation of the rape trial/basketball season Kobe Bryant is enduring, which would undoubtedly lead to a playpen of bawdy double-entendre to satisfy even Shakespeare – “Kobe just made a hard backdoor move,” perhaps? But alas, the grandest news in all the sporting world seems not to…
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The English Major and the Policy Speech: An Encounter
The morning of the Colin Powell lecture, I stood in line outside of Richardson Auditorium with my friend Beth. Beth takes Arabic. Last summer, she worked for a senator in Washington. She just applied to Woody Woo. She knows her Public and International Affairs. I, on the other hand, am going to be an English…
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I Have a Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-Related-Program-Activity in My Pants
I think I’ve finally got the screwball logic of our commander-n-thief figured out. G-dub’s advisors actually got it together and read something – in print! Unfortunately for us it was George Orwell’s classic, 1984. On page four (of my paperback edition), the party’s tripartite slogan is introduced. When I read it again, it was too…