Beyond bicker: An alternative vision of club admissions
Guest ContributorBy Joseph LoPresti ’15 On Monday, Barbara Zhan ’16 wrote an article arguing that Bicker is necessary.
By Joseph LoPresti ’15 On Monday, Barbara Zhan ’16 wrote an article arguing that Bicker is necessary.
I finally realized that something was amiss when I was rudely awakened by sirens for the third night in a row.
Let’s throw it back to our Founding Fathers. In his farewell address, George Washington admonished against the rise of political parties. He got it right.
Princeton’s unofficial motto states “in the nations service and the service of all nation.” However, are all nations equally in need of our service?
There are many things that I worried about as a 16-year-old high school sophomore.
There has been a recent initiative on campus in the form of a petition to call forth a referendum to end Bicker in the Princeton eating clubs.
By David Goldstein ’17As someone who has endured multiple concussions, has founded and continued to manage a comprehensive Countywide Concussion Care program, and has helped pass youth concussion legislation in Florida, I saw an immense amount of value in the wise words and lessons that were shared at the Concussions in Youth Sports Discussion on Sept.
With the recent events surrounding the “Princeton Mom” and Tiger Inn, sexual misconduct has been talked about significantly both on campus and in the pages of The Daily Princetonian.
At the start of this academic year, I wrote a column advising freshmen to give themselves more than a couple months to decide how they felt about Princeton and the college experience.
I’ve been following Anonymous — a loosely connected group of internet hackers — for a few months now.
To begin with the obvious: diversity is hardly a new topic of conversation at the University.
Last week, guest columnist Theo Furchtgott (full disclosure: Furchtgott is a friend and fellow Governing Council member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society) decried the “steep price” we Ivy Leaguers pay when seeking public office, since our top-ranked degrees are liable to come back and bite us in populist, anti-intellectual attack ads.
By: Ismael CatovicLast Wednesday, I awoke to the tragic news of the murder of three college-age Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, N.C.. Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were murdered execution-style in their condominium two miles from the UNC campus.
Harvard, Yale and Princeton had been educating America’s elite for 200 years when, in the 1920s, the Big Three began to have a problem: Jews. The problem was especially dire at Harvard, where Jews — nationally, 3 percent of the population — made up 27 percent of the student body by 1925.
Last Tuesday, a gunman entered a private residence and shot and killed three students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
If all the recent coverage about sexual assault on college campuses has done anything, it has encouraged people to scrutinize more closely the prevalence of sexual assault and the difficulty of bringing justice as well as to brainstorm potential solutions.
The Daily Princetonian recently published a column titled “Teachers who look like us,” written by Tehila Wenger.
In what I can only interpret as a consequence of near-total obliviousness to any sort of criticism provided to her, Susan Patton '77, in an attempt to reassert her relevancy to current discussions on romance and sex, has inserted herself yet again into the national spotlight.
By Theodore FurchtgottLast weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a Model UN conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The latest victims of the California measles outbreak are college students.As of Feb.