If Bicker has any point, it is to determine — often baselessly — who would be a good social “fit” for a club’s culture.
So during this holiday season, take a break from the football game once in a while. Check on the Chess World Championship, cheer for Fabiano Caruana, and maybe even play a couple of games yourself!
There must be an effort made, at least for one night, to be able to feel both severe disappointment when a candidate we believe is dangerous or unqualified wins, and a feeling of intense pride in our working democracy.
On Friday, Betsy DeVos unveiled her new plan offering guidelines to schools on how to adjudicate cases of sexual misconduct — in an attempt to increase justice, fairness, and equity in the system. It achieves the antithesis of those values.
What fills me with the most guilt and fear by far is the label I gain when I graduate from Princeton.
Academic growth, however, cannot be achieved by completing unending piles of work; that constant stress will only wear us down to the point where we can no longer do our best work.
However, the changes would be a start in bringing the University’s pass/D/fail system up to par with those at our fellow Ivy League institutions.
Despite our nation’s alleged glorification of the military, we emphasize the superficial aspects, and in doing so, do not place a genuine importance on the serious issues related to the military.
Treadway’s article is a blind expression of the elitism that has plagued the study of classics for decades, if not centuries.
Do things that will put a smile on your face and remind yourself of what you care about beyond the classroom.
Even at an institution that offers so much to its students, it can be tempting to find fault where very little exists. This isn’t to say that Princeton is without shortcomings, but the location of the Fields Center simply isn’t one of them.
If I have the time or if the inquirer is genuinely interested, I will give my spiel for the weight of classics. In fact, I believe that Latin or Greek should be a mandatory element of the high school or college education, regardless of career plans. The education system would benefit from a mandatory requirement of — or at least a greater emphasis on — the classical study.
With this in mind, how can we make Birthright a program that properly connects Jewish youth with Israel, including its politics? We can start by calling for the University’s Birthright trip to have a Palestinian speaker, specifically someone from Area C of the West Bank, which is the region under complete Israeli control, and can speak to the realities of military occupation.
From minor inconveniences such as needing an adapter to charge an iPhone to bigger challenges like having math class taught in Italian, studying abroad forces American students to adapt.
Women are taught to exercise to lose something, rather than to gain something.
If today we allow Twitter to ban those who are despised, we may be building the guillotine for our own heads.
The first step to having a general feeling of inclusion at Princeton is to bring the presence of the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding closer to the center of campus.
Contemplating a building in this way, I argue, is not just enjoyable. More importantly, such an exercise restores and reorients us to physicality and reality. Architecture, firmitatis, will liberate our generation from the chains of digital fatigue.
There is something truly disappointing about the notion that even though I voted along party lines for Bob Menendez as a Democrat, I only did so because I saw him as the lesser of two evils compared not to Bob Hugin ’76 but to Donald Trump.
The federal government should recognize that it is every citizen’s right to reside in a healthy and sustainable environment.
