Columns

Extending the P/D/F deadline

The Pass/D/Fail option is available for students between the beginning of the seventh and the end of the ninth week of classes. Commonly referred to as P/D/F, this option is designed to encourage students to explore disciplines that they have little prior knowledge of without fear of negatively impacting their GPA.

Extend weekend breakfast hours

During the first couple weeks on campus, as the somewhat stereotypical freshman, I asked myself many questions: I wasn’t the only one who managed to get locked out of my dorm three times within the span of a week, right?

Everybody wants to rule the world

I’m interested in perverse incentives, those peculiar “M.

Back to back: on Woodrow Wilson

We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed. With this statement in mind, we, the Black Justice League, chose to start a discussion on campus that administrators and students alike have skirted around, a discussion about the presence of legacies on our campus and the glorification of prominent and problematic individuals.

Cartoon: Joe Everyman #2

On arming the bubble

I came to Princeton with the preconception that it is a safe, insular campus — no officers roaming around with guns, and no need for such either.

Playboy Bunny is not okay

My friends are well accustomed to my feminist rants by now. But last week when I asked if anyone else had seen the “Colonial Mansion” party signs with the playboy bunny logo, none of us could believe that it was actually happening.

What we put on – Confessions of a once paranoid freshman

Arriving to Princeton just one month ago, I never thought I would be wearing a pair of light pink, three-inch wedges.

Crying wolf: on having too many opinions

Though midterms are looming, last week Princeton students endured the first real storm of the season, the tail end of Hurricane Joaquin.

The cool kids

I met a lot of cool people while rushing St. A’s. And not just cool in the stylish sense; I met genuinely thoughtful and engaging and unconventional people.

Fourteen girls and a guy who just switched in: my experience in freshman sem

The professor had already begun her lecture when I barged into Blair Hall T5, several minutes late for the three-hour seminar.

Expanding the University is not a viable solution

In the past year, there have been quite a few stirrings about expanding the University, with relatively little public discussion about it or what it means.

Stay the Course

I once heard this place described as an oasis of incredible passion and intimacy — a place to seek clarity like you’ve never seen and aimlessness you never wanted to know was possible.

America’s unhealthy obsession with the common lawn

California is now in its fourth year of a record-breaking drought. Call it climate change, call it the result of an abnormally persistent high pressure ridge, call it the wrath of God for all I care, but California and much of the western United States is dry.Luckily for us, there is no shortage of water in Princeton.

In defense of passes and lists

On Oct. 4, senior columnist Marni Morse wrote a column in The Daily Princetonian titled “Open parties: Making eating clubs slightly less restrictive.” In her column she argues that eating clubs should do away with passes and lists and instead be always either members only or PUID.

Wanted: Speaker of the House

The House Republican Conference, by its own admission, is now in a state of ungovernable chaos. As Republican Peter King recently said on the record, “We look absolutely crazy.” Whereas 15 Republicans are currently running for President, the job listing for Speaker of the House may as well as be posted on Craigslist.

A force for good, bad and better

“The papers say 15 percent of youth are on meth... that’s bloody rubbish; try 60 percent.” These are the substance abuse rates according to a local paramedic I met this summer from my hometown of Wangaratta, Australia.

If at first you don’t succeed, quit

My high school had no real music society, so unfortunately I never got the chance to sing.

Think before you bump

I double-checked the number, dread filling my heart. Thirteennotifications?!, I thought.

What to do with the Endowment?

So, what is one to do with the fantastic earnings on the endowment? Last week, PRINCO released its annual report, sparking debate in the Princeton City Council about larger returns to the community, according to the Princeton Packet. But I actually agree with the University that the amount it contributes to the town is already enough.