As Princeton students, we like to think we can craft a perfectly structured, well-reasoned argument on the first try. The fact that in many cases, we cannot rewrite our essays, only reinforces this misconception.
Even if Jesus were straight, and even if queer joy manifests in blasphemous fashions (whatever that means), queer people should still be free, loved, and embraced for their queerness.
Though the balance between challenging us with new theories and giving us the opportunity to truly engage in genuine discourse is delicate, it must be met. Let’s create a pedagogy that places the student at the center. Let’s stop raising our hands.
Public service calls us to do something less soaring than Rumsfeld’s station, but all the more meaningful for its humility. Serving the nation means harnessing the privilege of our Princeton education — not for power or profit, but to the benefit of our fellow Americans.
We take eight ROTC classes over the course of our time here at Princeton, and we do not get a single credit for them.
While our American peers celebrated the honor and merit of veterans, they often failed to hear the voices of the fallen.
We hear often of ways to lessen the college transition — perhaps the best way to do so is not to acknowledge the differences between past and future lives, rather to minimize those differences.
Above all I think it’s time for us to have an earnest discussion about our endowment.
The introduction of more faculty will mean an increase in courses, and this marks a perfect moment to increase the seminar format’s frequency.
As the ‘Prince’ Editorial Board aptly argued, respecting free speech is not the same as awarding free pulpits.
Together, the diversity and brilliance to be found in our student body represent an untapped resource of knowledge and understanding the University can no longer afford to leave unrecognized.
Recycling allows us to get there, but only if we all participate willingly and enthusiastically. It’s not that difficult to take five minutes to familiarize yourself with Princeton’s recycling guidelines and then change your daily routine to make sure you’re tossing things away correctly.
These first relationships are inescapable in the college experience: we all make friends by necessity and proximity. But we have to do ourselves (and them) a favor and wonder: do we maintain them because they mean something to us? Or because we just don’t know anything else?
Facebook should not get away with its abysmal track record on discrimination and indifference towards fixing its failures. As Representative Beatty said to Zuckerberg, “it’s almost like you think this is a joke.” It’s time for Facebook to realize it’s not.
It seems like whenever protests like these come up, the backlash against the protesters never disagrees with the basic facts of the matter.
The Harvard lawsuit, and Judge Burroughs’ rather comprehensive opinion released on the subject, gives us an opportunity to re-examine what it means to be an Asian person residing in America. It pushes the question of where exactly Asians stand in conversations about race. There are important biases that exist outside of college admissions, and we should think more about and ultimately reject such biases, such as the model minority myth.
You will never see a performance or read a book or attend a gallery show by someone who has never been rejected. You probably will never even work with them. The only people who have never been rejected are those who have never opened themselves up to failure and thus have never opened themselves up to success.
It is great that so many students wish to offer opportunities to others on campus, but we should do so in an orderly, respectful, and non-wasteful fashion.
Unfortunately, it seems we live in a time when the more spectacular political decision garners more attention and thus more support from the people.
Tammy Murphy’s crusade to improve maternal outcomes is urgently needed. Yet, misleading characterizations about the magnitude of the maternal mortality crisis, however big or small, can hamper that urgency.
