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Fixing ObamaCare (Yes, We Can)

Fixing ObamaCare (Yes, We Can)

Katherine Zhao

As the confetti settled in Times Square, the New Year rang in with the first wave of new insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act, widely known as “ObamaCare.” The White House reported that more than 2.1 million Americans have already signed up for private insurance through the ObamaCare exchanges.

OPINION | 01/07/2014

The decline of the Renaissance man

Barbara Zhan

In 1829, Thomas Young, hailed “the last man who knew everything,” died, taking with him an era in which the polymath reigned supreme.

OPINION | 01/07/2014

Memories vs. experiences

Jiyoon

In a TED talk titled “The riddle of experience vs.

OPINION | 01/07/2014

Royals

Royals

Mitchell Hammer

There I sat, alone in my room (and for all I knew alone in all of Holder) and thinking of finals yet to be studied for and paintings yet to be finished, while Lorde’s drawling notes eased out of my stereo.

OPINION | 01/05/2014

Representing a full range of careers

Guest Contributor

By Azza Cohen and Kemy Lin Even though we see the snow falling on the castle we call Princeton, we’re thinking about the summer.

OPINION | 01/05/2014

The pregame manifesto

Susannah Sharpless

This is a campus structured around success. We chose Princeton because we wanted it to be as important as it promised us we would be; Princeton chose us because we had proven that we wanted it.

OPINION | 12/12/2013

Taking a break

Benjamin Dinovelli

While trying (and failing miserably) to finish up an essay in the study room in Holder basement, I suddenly felt the urge to go to the bathroom.

OPINION | 12/12/2013

Keep Princeton tax exempt

Benjamin Dinovelli

Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Allocating $120,000 in her will to sue "corrupt" educational institutions, it seems that Eleanor Lewis took his advice seriously. Ms. Lewis, who passed away recently, asked in her will that the money she left behind be used to fund a lawsuit against Princeton University on the claim that it is a corrupt institution.

OPINION | 12/11/2013

Different hues

Prianka Misra

I think if you ask anyone on campus if Princeton is diverse, you would hear a resounding “yes.” It’s not easy to overlook the multitude of student organizations we have here that embrace cultural affinities: the Chinese Students’ Association, South Asian Students’ Association, Black Student Union and the Taiwanese-American Students’ Association immediately come to mind.

OPINION | 12/11/2013

'What'd you do to get into Princeton?'

Ryan Dukeman

Staffing a historical committee at PMUNC, Princeton’s high school Model United Nations tournament, this past weekend, I inevitably got asked some pretty weird questions by the delegates of my 14-person Berlin Conference simulation.

OPINION | 12/11/2013

Rejecting complacency

Mitchell Hammer

It’s been discussed and debated countless times within the past few decades. This very newspaper has published an ample amount of editorials concerning it.

OPINION | 12/10/2013

Listen to more live music

Kinnari Shah

Duke Ellington once said, “There’s two kinds of music: good music ... and the other kind. I like both.” When I first came to campus four years ago, Duke and I disagreed.

OPINION | 12/10/2013

Fulfilling our admissions promise

James Di Palma-Grisi

Princeton does a pretty good job extending financial aid to students. It also has a fairly strong record of nominal diversity —racial, ethnic and economic —in recent history.

OPINION | 12/10/2013

Reclaiming the tools of technology

Lauren Davis

“But lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.” -Henry David Thoreau It is now abundantly clear that we need to do something to manage the role of technology in our lives.

OPINION | 12/09/2013

Untarnishable

Prianka Misra

A few weeks ago, amid a flurry of news reporters prowling our campus in a frenetic mission to share our story of meningitis with the world, I saw a tour crossing in front of Nassau Hall.

OPINION | 12/09/2013

Drawing blanks and buzzwords

Isabella Gomes

Princeton students never seem to fail to dazzle board members of clubs or job interviewers with their impressive resumes and laundry lists of commitments.

OPINION | 12/09/2013

Jagged little pill

Morgan Jerkins

I have a friend whom I consider to be very popular on campus. People are always coming to visit him while he's working, and he tends to be "in the know" about upcoming social events at a level that I cannot even begin to approach.

OPINION | 12/08/2013

Fear of missing out

Barbara Zhan

As course selection draws near, I feel panic setting in. There’s this requirement and that distribution; I really wanted to take a class for fun, but there’s no space and no time.

OPINION | 12/08/2013

Two and a half languages

Jiyoon

On Monday, Paul Phillips wrote an article for The Daily Princetonian on discrepancies in proficiency for students in introductory language classes at Princeton.

OPINION | 12/05/2013

The ideal Princetonian

Bennett McIntosh and Aaron Robertson

Aaron: Before entering Princeton, I held an obscure image of what I believed to be the “ideal University student.” I imagined that once I arrived, I would be expected to participate unquestioningly in a social and academic community to which I was not accustomed.

OPINION | 12/05/2013

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