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Straight Talk About Queer Clergy
This year, for the High Holidays and Gay Pride Week, I went to church. Last week, two of the most notable American Christians spoke at Princeton: Harvard’s chaplain Peter Gomes and George Weigel, perhaps the preeminent Catholic intellectual in America. Weigel is the biographer of his friend Pope John Paul II, a just war theorist…
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Week in Review
It came to (and, it should be noted, faded from) the national attention that San Diego resident John Corcoran taught high school in California for 17 years without being able to read, write, or spell. A college graduate, Corcoran’s secret illiteracy began in grade school and lasted for almost five decades. “I can remember when…
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The Skeleton in the Sea
“A part of this planet for 500,000 years, the Great Barrier Reef bears both the wisdom and ache of old age.”
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Guinness, Galway and Gaelic
Noticed a sudden hankering for Guinness? Find yourself prone to a spontaneous jig? It’s not surprising – you can’t seem to escape the influence of the Irish on campus these days. It’s all thanks to Leonard Milberg ’53, who donated an enormous collection of Irish theater to the University in honor of Paul Muldoon. The…
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Of Turks and Laurels in Stockholm
Perhaps to the slight disappointment of the Princetonians hoping to make the University home to a second Nobel Laureate in literature, this year’s Nobel Prize in literature went to Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s most critically acclaimed novelists. The Swedish Academy commented when announcing the award that the 54-year-old author introduced readers to “new symbols…
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Sisterhood of the Caliphate
Glory is hard to find. In a world of left swipes and back seat dates, in a world where we derive self importance from the attention our statuses get, where political messages are reduced to 140 characters, it can be easy to get lost in the quay.
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Princewatch
A simple question: is it worth reading _The Daily Princetonian_ to keep up on the ways in which it has embarrassed itself? A simple answer: probably not. Welcome to PrinceWatch. Welcome to _The Daily Princetonian_ of November 12, 2010. __Terrace may open doors to graduate students__ by Molly Brean As one becomes familiar with _The…
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A Compromise for Congo
New Jersey dog owners and immigrant baiters breathed a sigh of relief last week as Congo the German shepherd dodged death. Less than 24 hours before his appeal was scheduled to be heard before Superior Court Judge Mitchel Ostrer, the pooch’s lawyer, Robert E. Lytle, cut a deal with prosecutor Doris Galuchie. As it turns…
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Why Am I Still a Statistic?
“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”
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Boston
Probably wearing an oversized baseball cap and a big, sloppy grin, at three years old I stepped onto a characteristically purple and yellow car on the Old Colony Line Railroad with my father. The line extends from Boston down to Kingston, my hometown, and Plymouth, where the rock is, both about an hour away from…
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Sex and the Magic Kingdom
But maybe this is all just my issue, maybe the condom is the new ninja turtle and racism is the new family moral. Sometimes you must just move with the trends, and so as the youth say these days, fuck a ho – Disney sure will.