“Before and during [the world championship chess match], [Bobby] Fischer paid special attention to his physical training and fitness, which was a relatively novel approach for top chess players at that time.
Google has its ball pits and nap pods, but Apple and Facebook may have taken the lead when it comes to perks — if you’re a woman, that is.
I am not the type of person who lives by a set of hard rules. I enjoy being spontaneous and exploring new things.
Over half a century ago, an authoritative body tried to silence an organization’s right to associate.When the issue came before the Supreme Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan II, in a unanimous opinion, wrote, ”It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the ‘liberty’ assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”The case: NAACP v.
Since last week, I’ve had to do some soul-searching to find it in me to keep writing — not because my freshman seminar professor shredded my first essay with the same rapture my five-year-old self found in making confetti, but because my one “successful” work this year didn’t directly achieve what I had hoped.By metrics of circulation, my column titled “Keep misandry out of feminism” was, in fact, a success: it sparked 154 online comments, emails from as far away as Denver, a response column by Marni Morse and a retweet by feminist author Christina Hoff Sommers to her 20,000 followers.
Last week the Daily Princetonian published an op-ed by members of the Latino Graduate Student Association, Graduate Women of Color Caucus, and Black Graduate Caucus on the Graduate School’s recent decision to restructure the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversityand, effectively, deprioritize issues of diversity at the graduate level.While some may disagree with the tone of the article, its central premise remains: Recent changes in the organizational structure of the Graduate School significantly damage underrepresented students’ faith in the current administration's ability to increase minority representation and improve campus climate. Persons of color are underrepresented at all levels of the Graduate School.
I recently received an email with the best of intentions — one announcing a workshop for information on career options.
“Yeah, most people hate their writing seminars,” a junior told me outside J Street Library when I made a face to his question about whether I enjoyed my writing seminar.
“How is your English so good?” I was confused by these words. I’ve never heardthem before—not addressed toward me anyway.
A few weeks ago, I went to a law school admission presentation hosted by four of the top programs in the country.
Institutions of higher education are no strangers to high-profile gifts from their successful alumni.
By Max Weiss I have never met Slav Leibin. Nonetheless, it recently came to my attention that he vetoed, with the approval of the Center for Jewish Life, my right to participate in a proposed panel on the recent hostilities in Gaza.
“Oh, I get it. You’re a feminist until it’s hard.”A fellow Princeton classmate dropped this insult on me during a heated discussion about the sexism of Reddit, and it stung.
One of the greatest struggles I faced as a prepubescent youth was convincing my friends that chess mattered.
In April earlier this year, 276 girls were abducted from an elementary school in Nigeria by Boko Haram, a terrorist group in northeast Nigeria.
They’d been together for ten years. But they’d been fighting a great deal recently, trying to eschew an inevitable split.
Princeton University has deepened the anguish and intensified the alienation of its graduate students of color, all in the name of expanding diversity. On Oct.
The end of grade deflation was initially met with delight, then with some skepticism and finally — as with all things unclear and undefined — with confusion.
Last week I sat, panicked, in the waiting room of McCosh Health Center. I was going to die; I was sure of it. I was awaiting the results of a sexually transmitted disease test panel that, since high school, I have scheduled routinely.
At noon on the afternoon of Aug. 9, Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo. The event spurred days of rioting and unrest in the Southern city.
