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Protecting birds: A lofty argument

Protecting birds: A lofty argument

Jon Ort

Without Neotropical migratory birds, ecosystems across the Americas would unravel. By eating millions of locusts, ants, and mosquitoes every year, migratory birds act as an important natural control on insect populations. Many species of plant depend upon migratory birds to pollinate or disperse their seeds. Ecologists often consider migratory birds to be “indicator species,” because the size and success of their populations reflect wider trends about the health of the ecosystems they inhabit.

OPINION | 08/04/2018

Is the Earth flat?

Liam O'Connor

... Flat Earth arguments are scientifically false, and their proponents’ overwhelming skepticism is unjustified.

OPINION | 07/31/2018

Donald Trump: our misogynist in chief

Donald Trump: our misogynist in chief

Samuel Aftel

Donald Trump’s conduct is abhorrent, but by electing him as the leader of our country, we proved our complicity in — and our approval of — such abhorrence. Worse, by continuing to support the president in substantial numbers, we have allowed him to disgrace American life even more.

OPINION | 07/08/2018

Don’t abolish ICE

Liam O'Connor

ICE does a lot of excellent work that goes unnoticed. It shouldn’t be dismantled for political purposes.

OPINION | 07/08/2018

A core challenge of higher education

A core challenge of higher education

Louis René Beres

Even in our very finest universities, the last or residual claims of literature, art, music, history, and philosophy have often been supplanted by professional or job training.

OPINION | 06/26/2018

The unhealable neo-fascist scars of Trump’s family separation terror

Samuel Aftel

Migrants have not been intentionally slaughtered by the U.S. government, but the state-sanctioned family separation and incarceration of migrant families as well as the racist dehumanization of migrants is terrifyingly similar to the institutional and ideological framework of the Holocaust.

OPINION | 06/24/2018

Wake up to the barbarism of our country’s immigrant family separation policy

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Wake up to the barbarism of our country’s immigrant family separation policy

Samuel Aftel

Wake up, Princetonians. Wake up, America. Wake up to the state terror that is happening every single day in the United States.

OPINION | 06/17/2018

Graduation: a time to reflect on the past and future of University architecture

Graduation: a time to reflect on the past and future of University architecture

Gabe Lipkowitz

If the University can connect the new and old campuses with innovative and effective pedestrian pathways, then it will alleviate the potential issue of inaccessibility. Likewise, if its new designs can successfully relate to historic structures in clear and explicit ways, then they will evolve with time to become extensions of our campus, rather than merely additions to it.

OPINION | 06/04/2018

Stop asking broke college graduates for money

Stop asking broke college graduates for money

Liam O'Connor

In general, there is nothing wrong with asking alumni for donations. After all, the University is a charitable organization that provides a world-class education and conducts groundbreaking research. But it’s simply bad optics to ask seniors and the youngest alumni for their support. They just finished four grueling years of rigorous academic study. And they paid for it. Literally.

OPINION | 06/04/2018

Donate to save history

Liam O'Connor

Battlefields strengthen our shared national identity. They remind us of our ancestors’ struggles to secure this country’s freedom and establish a democratic government. Once preserved, they will forever be dynamic classrooms for future generations. Unlike museums and their “look but don’t touch” policies, visitors can walk around battlefields to experience what soldiers felt, and reenactments bring history alive from dusty textbooks.

OPINION | 05/31/2018

God and man at Princeton

Liam O'Connor

Although I think that creationist science is doubtful at best, I won’t deny that the theological and philosophical arguments in this debate — about truth and its presence in Scripture — remain unresolved. I also can’t exclude the possibility that new evidence in the future could lead to radically different conclusions about creation than what is currently believed.

OPINION | 05/13/2018

Kangaroo court

Kangaroo court

Sinan Ozbay

Unless a reform pushes for increased transparency about the goings-on of the Honor Committee, we ought to remain skeptical of advocates’ motives.

OPINION | 05/13/2018

Why we need more women like Cardi B

Guest Contributor

Women like Cardi B are offering much-needed insight into the roles of women in the hip-hop and adult entertainment businesses.

OPINION | 05/10/2018

Campaigning on motherhood promotes gender equality

Guest Contributor

Female politicians are public leaders who are in a special position to inspire societal gender equality.

OPINION | 05/10/2018

The “but-for” test of life

Nicholas Wu

What I encourage everyone to do, then, is to just take some time to think about the critical junctures in and influences on our time here.

OPINION | 05/10/2018

Letter to the Editor: Stop Station 206

Guest Contributor

As students who live and work in Princeton, we wish to express our grave concern about the dangers posed by the construction of Compressor Station 206 and the entire Northeast Supply Enhancement Project.

OPINION | 05/08/2018

How Princeton's meal plan could change to help FLI students

How Princeton's meal plan could change to help FLI students

Guest Contributor

Despite the positive publicity, the recently proposed and now largely discarded changes to the University dining plan were just the latest evidence of the University failing to understand the outsized impact of proposed changes on the FLI community.

OPINION | 05/08/2018

Full circle

Sarah Sakha

I implore you to recognize your individual responsibility to speak up if you notice something in a friend or classmate, to educate yourselves, to open up honest conversations, before you — or someone you love — gets hurt. I implore you to advocate for the changes we need institutionally in your own life.

OPINION | 05/08/2018

How the Indian government is shifting public focus away from rape culture

Morgan Lucey

Using Asifa Bano as an example through which to protest religious divisions shifts focus away from the more urgent threat of sexual violence that women in India face on a daily basis.

OPINION | 05/06/2018

Marriage on this side of paradise

Guest Contributor

Reunions, our annual campus-wide, beer-fueled bonanza, is right around the corner, and among all the boozing and schmoozing, plenty of Tigers (this senior included) will be on the hunt for that special someone in orange and black.

OPINION | 05/03/2018

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