By Aaron Smargon ’11 This marks my last issue as Publisher of the Tory, and for my final “Publisher’s Letter” I wish to share a view that my Princeton professors and peers have rarely espoused, but that the Tory has always championed: American exceptionalism. It was this very concept that Woodrow Wilson channeled when in […]
Sigma Chi Frat House A few members of the Sigma Chi fraternity recently bought an apartment on Witherspoon Street. This caused the Tory to wonder if members of other student organizations might follow suit. Just imagine all the wild and crazy parties that the Anscombe Society would throw if they had their own house. In […]
By Kevin Halenda ‘12 Princeton’s University Health Services (UHS) recently announced a major change in their policy on testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). “Working in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Health, UHS is now able to offer gonorrhea and Chlamydia testing to all students, regardless of insurance coverage, for $14 effective November […]
By Toni Alimi ‘13 Over Christmas Break, a group of students initiated a study through the Psychology department and Princeton’s Office of Sustainability to observe how external pressures affect Princeton students’ attitudes and actions towards energy-saving initiatives. However, due to carelessness in the implementation of the study, lack of clarity concerning the obligations of students, […]
By David Byler ’14 The “Orange Bubble” – that term effectively describes how many of us Princeton students view the University. We feel happily secluded from the rest of the world with everything we need located no further than a walk to Nassau Street. A little bit of investigation, however, shows that this assumption is […]
Cut Spending Immediately By Chris Goodnow ‘14 Since the dawn of the bailout and stimulus-ridden era of the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. government has taken an inherently wimpy approach in tackling the Great Recession. By promising to gladly pay us Tuesday for stimulus funds today, rampant deficit spending is not only bankrupting the […]
By David Pederson ’12 “Modern times.” – Once attributable to the birth pangs of a new epoch, or the sting of sunlight on the eyes of those who had known only darkness, the pain of modernity has shown itself to be not a mode, but the substance of modernity itself. Even its splendors, dancing through the […]
By Matt Sanyour ‘11 As the chaotic events in Cairo approach some semblance of resolution, with the military guaranteeing elections in six months, one may finally take a moment to look back a few short weeks to the origins of this movement that toppled President Hosni Mubarak after thirty years in power. While the successful […]
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