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Sophocles once said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating” — but then again, Sophocles didn’t go to Harvard. A recent survey released by The Harvard Crimson, profiling the incoming freshman class of 2017, found that about 42 percent of incoming freshmen have admitted to cheating on a homework assignment.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

Making a dent in the world

Making a dent in the world

Rebecca Kreutter

This summer, my mom, one of my brothers and I went to see “Jobs.” As we walked home, we talked about visionaries, the impact Steve Jobs had made on our daily lives, the pursuit of the product and the industries he had both created and destroyed.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

Opinion: Reunions and the Bubble

Opinion: Reunions and the Bubble

Reunions can appear like the epitome of Orange Bubble ambivalence and insularity. Thousands of alumni gather for what seems like the sole purpose of partying and reliving their youth, safely enclosed within the Princeton campus. And while Reunions can becriticized for its excess,it doesn’t perpetuate the Bubble as much as it may seem. In a lot of ways, Reunions bursts the Orange Bubble.

OPINION | 05/30/2013

An introduction to the new Daily Princetonian website

To our readers — Beginning today, we will be launching a preview version of our new website.

OPINION | 05/30/2013

Column: Remembering the losers

Some of the most fascinating words of advice I’ve heard came from a veteran professional photography editor.

SPORTS | 05/12/2013

Why stop there?

Guest Contributor and Rebecca Kreutter

By Rebecca Kreutter and Holt Dwyer This column is a satirical response to Susan A.

OPINION | 04/01/2013

Column: Drawing battle lines on the court

Kevin Whitaker

Two important lines are painted on each half of Carril Court, just like every other basketball court in the world.

SPORTS | 02/28/2013

“In the Service of All Nations”: Princeton and Internationalization

Why stop at a center devoted to the Persian Gulf when one could have a whole campus there? What is Princeton’s international strategy? The new president must face these questions as he or she articulates what it means for a university in suburban New Jersey to declare itself “in the service of all nations.”

OPINION | 02/10/2013

The beauty of not knowing

Aaron Applbaum

One of the reasons we come to the University is to accumulate knowledge, but a more important aspect is the building of our capacity to understand how that knowledge is useful. Perhaps, since any factoid can be unearthed immediately, the new frontier of not knowing exists exclusively in the realm of sophisticated problem solving — Princeton teaching us how to think.

OPINION | 02/10/2013

On TigerTracks

Kinnari Shah

But every time I log into TigerTracks, it feels like a hassle. Will I find something useful, or won’t I? How often do I have to log in to find a relevant position — every day, week, month? Do I need to upload an updated resume? Was I automatically logged out again? For what it’s worth, I do find TigerTracks to be pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty … pretty good. However, I would suggest a few updates.

OPINION | 02/07/2013

Un-justifications for Bicker

Susannah Sharpless

It’s hard to deny that, at its core, Bicker is elitist, demeaning and sometimes shockingly cruel. Saying that Bicker is a necessary evil is one thing (though I disagree), but claiming that it’s not problematic is another.

OPINION | 02/07/2013

The trouble with take-home exams

Spencer Shen

In a large body of students, a few will always be tempted to cheat if the opportunity presents itself, but if surreptitiously glancing at a fellow classmate’s test or your own notes is already considered blatant cheating, almost nobody thinks of doing what the Harvard students did. However, because the usual prohibited behaviors were allowed, the format acted as sort of gateway to more extreme methods of cheating.

OPINION | 02/06/2013

On adulthood

Shruthi Deivasigamani

It’s not really a groundbreaking assertion that college isn’t the real world. We live on our own, away from our parents and families, but we’re not really on our own.

OPINION | 02/06/2013

Embracing my mother's tyranny

Monica Greco

My hunch is that other women have something most women in Slaughter’s demographic don’t — a support network that reaches beyond the nuclear family to more distant relatives and friends. It seems that families with lower incomes on the whole tend to live closer to one another — if not together — and interact more frequently.

OPINION | 02/06/2013

Dolce far niente

Lea Trusty

While I enjoy moving forward in this amazing crowd of future senators, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, mol-bio researchers and the like, I must admit that sometimes I feel as if I’m walking while everyone is sprinting before the words “ready, set, go” have even been said.

OPINION | 02/05/2013

Hook-up theory

Guest Contributor

By Colby Pines By now, some readers of the 'Prince' are probably tiring of hookup culture op-eds.

OPINION | 01/13/2013

The art of political protest

Spencer Shen

Protest is certainly a good thing, but those who decide to protest should make an attempt to appear rational and reasonable. The civil rights movement succeeded in part because its supporters protested not only without being violent but also without being smart-asses about it.

OPINION | 01/08/2013

Black Friday II

Spencer Shen

It appears Thanksgiving has slowly morphed from being a traditional winter holiday, when people came together to eat huge portions and tolerate distant relatives, to merely preparation for Black Friday

OPINION | 11/27/2012

Hold the judgment

Spencer Shen

The Petraeus affair is just the latest example of a current event we don’t know much about, yet many of us have already formed our opinions on various aspects of the story and related political issues. Instead, we should take a step back and wait for news stories to unfold further before passing judgment.

OPINION | 11/13/2012

Cats and politics

Kinnari Shah

There is a severe lack of original content when it comes to what I see being posted by my compatriots on social media. And after seeing the same old thing 15 or so times about Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I’m completely apathetic.

OPINION | 11/07/2012

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