Christian Wawrzonek wrote a column last week proposing that anger is a counterproductive response to bring to any campus discussion about gender issues.
We’re quickly approaching your favorite sportswriter’s favorite time of the year, and it doesn’t have that much to do with Christmas (though high on my list is Christmas dinner — the thought of a home-cooked meal has carried me through these last two weeks). December, as some of you may know, is bowl season for college football.
If you’re anything like me, then you like to get your news from the ranks of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and “The Onion.”But I’m not the only one.
When I first read the Rolling Stone article about rape at the University of Virginia, I was shocked and outraged, as most other readers were.
The University prides itself on being a leader in sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Providing yet another piece of evidence for the thesis that there is a relevant XKCD strip for everything, an entry in the long-running webcomic depicts in its first couple panels two people engaged in an Internet comment war.
We are alumni of the Princeton University and Tiger Inn classes of 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, which were among the first cohorts that included women.
On my way back from former President Jimmy Carter’s lecture, I spotted an abnormally rotund crow perched on top of the University Chapel.
Last year, the Undergraduate Student Government organized Wintersession, a new program during Intersession in which students can take courses taught by other students and representatives from certain University resource centers, such as Career Services, with topics ranging from “Rubik’s Cube for Beginners” to “Intro Bulgarian.” The program was immensely popular, with over 1,300 students participating in 69 different courses.
With the amount of attention this election cycle has received recently, it seemed like a prudent idea to jump on the bandwagon and look into it myself.
ByAlexandra Scheeler ’11 What do Ivy members and tampons have in common? That was the question printed on T-shirts designed by my eating club, Tiger Inn, in honor of the TI-Ivy Olympics my senior year.
I’m going to take a huge risk here and attempt to discuss an issue that could arguably end in my mutilation.
For many students, going home or visiting relatives for Thanksgiving meant avoiding controversial topics like the events in Ferguson, Mo., only a few days before.
Often, reality doesn’t match our expectations. And, usually, that’s okay — it’s something we either learn to live with or work with.
I do not have to worry about being too suspicious.I do not have to worry about the clothes I wear.I do not have to worry about people crossing the street to avoid me.I do not have to worry about storeowners carefully watching my every move. In fact, I have experienced the opposite.
The belief that freshmen should not write opinion columns is apparently widespread. It lurks in the comments section of The Daily Princetonian’s website, as Sarah Sakha noted in her column “Just keep scrolling.” On Yik Yak, I have seen the same post soar past 100 up-votes, so it cannot be written off as a fringe belief of angry Internet denizens.
Across the country, the outcry over the tragic killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has been loud.
My mom and I sat down together on the living room couch the night before I flew out for college.
If I had been deeply disturbed after reading the Rolling Stone’s article on the rape culture at the University of Virginia, I was even more so after watching the uncut interview video of Nicole Eramo, associate dean of students and head of the Sexual Misconduct Board at UVA.
By W. Barksdale Maynard '88 May I offer you some advice? I think every undergraduate should make it a point to fall in love while they are here. That is, to fall in love with Princeton's architecture. Hey, you might find yourself after graduation at Caltech or NYU, and then what kind of building are you likely to meet?
