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After Thanksgiving dinner, I lay on a couch in a family friend’s house, sated and sleepy. Whoever was controlling the remote to the television was graciously interspersing the long stretches of football with periodic spurts of "Modern Family," to appease those of us who were less touchdown-savvy.

OPINION | 12/03/2013

A chance for a better affirmative action system

A chance for a better affirmative action system

Marni Morse

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing yet another affirmative action case from Michigan. This time the Court is considering the constitutionality of a 2006 state referendum that bans the use of racial criteria in college admissions.

OPINION | 12/03/2013

Lemon lime

Daniel Xu

Until recently, I thought that limes were just unripe lemons.

OPINION | 12/02/2013

The USG needs your vote

Spencer Shen

Last week, the 2013 USG elections were held over a three-day period, with the results announced over Thanksgiving break.

OPINION | 12/02/2013

Rethinking the puzzle of well-being

Lea Trusty

The day classes end for Thanksgiving break is a cold and rainy one, a perfect day for being alone with your thoughts.

OPINION | 12/02/2013

Outside the Bubble: Legalize it

David Will

Colorado and Washington state legalized marijuana for recreational use just over one year ago. Opponents warned that voters had created the new Sodom and Gomorrah.

OPINION | 12/01/2013

23andMe vs the FDA

Katherine Zhao

For $99, a customer can spit into a tube and receive a detailed report on their ancestry and inherited risk factors for diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

OPINION | 12/01/2013

Looking past the outbreak

Spencer Shen

In light of the recent meningitis cases on campus and the ensuing news coverage that has catapulted us into the national media spotlight, we should take a step back and consider the general state of public health among the undergraduate student body here at Princeton.

OPINION | 11/25/2013

Beyond TFA

Guest Contributor

by Claire Nuchtern Whenever i tell people I want to be a teacher, I typically get the same response.

OPINION | 11/25/2013

Speaking out on speaking up

Marni Morse

In her column last Thursday, Tehila Wenger argued that the reasons behind “women’s relative silence” in class are nuanced and complex.

OPINION | 11/25/2013

'No collaboration' policies

Barbara Zhan

In theory, the purpose of problems sets should be to reinforce students’ skills outside of class by application of what was taught in lecture.

OPINION | 11/24/2013

Taking back the weekend

Lea Trusty

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard the phrase, “College is the best four years of your life!” Seeing as I am only a little more than a quarter of the way through college, I can’t really vouch for the truth of this statement.

OPINION | 11/24/2013

It's not that we don't care

Marni Morse

Maybe it’s because I grew up near Washington, D.C., but I naturally assume people are engaged and actively involved in politics because, simply put — Public policy impacts you and everything you do. But, across campus, many students are not engaged in political action to try to solve the problems we face.

OPINION | 11/21/2013

Fight with brain and brawn

Bennett McIntosh

You can hardly say I was raised on football. For me, NFL stands for “National Forensics League” and phrases like “The USS Enterprise Carrier is nearly four football fields long” were more confusing than helpful.

OPINION | 11/21/2013

Living in parallel

Ryan Dukeman

When he walked out on stage, I could hardly have missed him. How could I, when he’s six-foot-six?

OPINION | 11/20/2013

The importance of being earnest

Mitchell Hammer

I believe that genuineness is a central core of the human condition, and that without it much of what it means to be human is lost — a deeply metaphysical claim for a freshman who doesn’t even really know what metaphysics is.

OPINION | 11/20/2013

Speak, woman!

Tehila Wenger

In one of my seminars last week, all of the male students happened to leave the classroom during the break while a few women stayed behind.

OPINION | 11/20/2013

How anti-Semitism made me care about Israel

Guest Contributor

I’m anti-Semitic. Well, at least, that’s what people were saying.

OPINION | 11/19/2013

Brace yourselves, meningitis is coming

Brace yourselves, meningitis is coming

Christian Wawrzonek

Shout it in the streets. Spam the email inboxes. And, for god's sake, somebody put an article in the 'Prince.' Autumn is coming to an end, we are severely unprepared, and meningitis is coming.

OPINION | 11/19/2013

The, like, epidemic

Lauren Davis

In middle school in England, my friends and I used to entertain ourselves by exchanging overdrawn imitations of the stereotypical American valley girl: “Let’s, like, go to the mall!” “OMG, I like, love, like, that shirt!” Feeling smug, I sniggered and mocked, certain I’d never actually talk that way. So I was horrified a few weeks ago when I relistened to an interview I had done for a journalism assignment and discovered that the word “like” featured in almost every sentence.

OPINION | 11/18/2013

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