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When I introduced the 139th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in my first Letter from the Editor in February, I wrote that the new group of editors planned to work constructively with the Princeton community throughout our year at the helm of the paper.Throughout the course of this last semester, we have been hard at work in our newsroom producing content.

OPINION | 05/10/2015

Why I still have hope

Why I still have hope

Anonymous

Editor’s note: The author of this column was granted anonymity due to the intensely personal nature of the events described previously.I saw an anonymous post on Tiger Admirers the other day that broke my heart.

OPINION | 05/10/2015

Expanding civic service

Guest Contributor

In a previous opinion piece, a group of seniors shared how service and community engagement have been integral to our Princeton experiences.

OPINION | 05/10/2015

Coming around the corner

Chelsea Jones

At the final Senior Pub Night, it became painfully clear that I do not know a large portion of the senior class and this seemed to be the consensus among many people I spoke with that night.

OPINION | 05/10/2015

Expanding civic service

Guest Contributor

As graduating seniors, we have been repeatedly told the University’s unofficial motto over four years: “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” Before we walk through the FitzRandolph Gate, we wanted to reflect on why service is such a valuable part of a University education.

OPINION | 05/07/2015

Prisoners of Princeton

Tehila Wenger

In “The Shawshank Redemption,” Morgan Freeman talks about the effects of long-term incarceration on prison inmates: “These walls are funny.

OPINION | 05/07/2015

Searching for meaning in the rubble

Guest Contributor

by Pujan Rai On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the tiny nation of Nepal, killing over 7,000 people and destroying precious cultural heritage sites.

OPINION | 05/05/2015

“Best interests of the University community” and sexual assault policies

Marni Morse

In the midst of formals and Lawnparties, I doubt many people have paid much attention to the round of changes to Princeton’s sexual assault policies the Council of the Princeton University Community finalized on Monday.

OPINION | 05/05/2015

A more complete Princeton Preview

Nicholas Wu

Seeing all of the newly admitted students walking around campus last week brought back a flood of memories for me.

OPINION | 05/05/2015

Room Swap Period after Draw Time

Erica Choi

My three future roommates and I had obsessively checked room reviews, floor plans and the kinds of rooms people got with our draw time last year.

OPINION | 05/03/2015

An Alternative to Big Sean

Guest Contributor

About three weeks ago, I co-organized a petition concerning Big Sean’s planned performance at this year’s Lawnparties.

OPINION | 05/02/2015

The Knicks and the Tigers - being a sports fan in two different contexts

Miles Hinson

As Princeton students, we are lucky for many reasons. We attend what is arguably the best university in the world.

SPORTS | 05/02/2015

Open letter: abolish the box

Guest Contributor

To University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 Dean of the College Valerie Smith Dean of AdmissionJanet Rapelye Provost David Lee GS ’99 Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and DiversityMichele Minter Executive Vice PresidentTreby Williams ’84 Vice President for Campus LifeCynthia Cherrey Over the past three semesters, members of the University community have come together in support of a simple yet important step that the University can take to further its commitment to institutional equality and social justice.

OPINION | 04/30/2015

Looking back

Guest Contributor

By YoniBenyamini It’s been a wild and often difficult year. Since September, we’ve complied with Title IX, defeated grade deflation and given the Wawa an impressive makeover.

OPINION | 04/29/2015

Are we there yet?

Sarah Sakha

I can summarize campus politics in two words: Yik Yak. Yik Yak has become the primary platform for debate about issues facing our campus, since the app’s anonymity not only facilitates conversation and ardent debate but alsopersonal attacks, as chronicled in several Buzzfeed articles over the “Urban Congo” controversy. But as heartening as it may be to see students tackling these issues on a variety of social media platforms, these issues must come out of Yik Yak and onto our actual campus and into our dialogue, hopefully without an abundance of ad hominem attacks. And they have, to some degree.

OPINION | 04/29/2015

The missing dimension: reflections on the divestment from Egypt

Guest Contributor

Reading through the divestment referendum that the undergraduates have already voted on and the graduate students are due to vote on in the course of this week, I was utterly shocked that Egypt was included in the referendum.

OPINION | 04/29/2015

Political Correctness in the Age of the Hipster

Imani Thornton

Growing up, I was kindly told that there are three things you never discuss inpolite company: religion, money and politics.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Treading new ground

Will Rivitz

Recently, a “powerful” video highlighting the gender imbalance in the movie industry has been making rounds on social media.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Misleading and factually incorrect coverage of animal research at the University

Guest Contributor

By Laura Conour and Stuart Leland Two articles published recently in The Daily Princetonian contained factual inaccuracies and misleading information about research conducted with animals at the University.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Bring Back TigerPAWW

Nicholas Wu

Immortalized in everything from theTiger Magto F.

OPINION | 04/27/2015

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