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How a hate group spurred Princetonians to action

How a hate group spurred Princetonians to action

Daehee Lee

I have always hesitated to do anything political. But students just like me took action that day against the Open Air Outreach protest. They did not have to respond at all. After all, the protest occurred while classes were in session, when many of us would be studying Locke or cleaning chemical glassware.

OPINION | 03/26/2018

What do you mean by “academic freedom?”

Cy Watsky

My point here is not that everything that occurred on the Middlebury campus was justified, but that discussing Murray’s inability to lecture as an affront to academic freedom is irresponsible. The debate surrounding academic freedom is an important one, but not all ideas deserve to be protected in our academic spaces, and Murray’s certainly don’t.

OPINION | 03/26/2018

The need for upperclassmen academic advisors

Rohit Dilip

At the same time, many of the most rewarding and fulfilling classes one could take at Princeton exist outside of one’s major, and do require a substantial amount of work. Freshman year is an ideal time to explore these classes.

OPINION | 03/25/2018

Let it die so you can live: The beauty of a dead phone

Let it die so you can live: The beauty of a dead phone

Rachel Kennedy

I’m the friend whose phone is always dead and I can tell you it’s liberating.

OPINION | 03/15/2018

Mental health reform starts with students

Samuel Aftel

The University — specifically, the University’s student body — needs to undergo a cultural reformation. That is, we need to be more conscious of how we contextualize and frame mental illness, as this will affect how students with mental illness are socially ranked.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

What happened to commitment?

Jessica Nyquist

After the initial excitement and compulsive netID distribution at the club fair, club involvement is often not all that it’s advertised to be. Despite our over-involvement in high school, at Princeton our student organizations suffer from a lack of commitment.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Turn out for what?

Ryan Born

PAJ (and by extension, its leadership) suffers from a practical limit of effectiveness, an affliction of aimlessness, and a passivity of purpose.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Lewis Thomas Laboratory: Icon of architectural postmodernism

Gabe Lipkowitz

In a series of articles, I hope to draw attention to a few buildings on our campus that do not fall easily into one of the two architectural extremes. Possessing neither the timelessness of Collegiate Neogothic nor the novelty of contemporary architecture, they occupy a perhaps awkward, or in the eyes of many students even undesired, position on campus.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough

Nicholas Wu

In December 2014, one of my high school classmates, Paige Stalker, was killed in a hail of gunfire on the east side of Detroit. Police reports suggest that this was a case of mistaken identity in a dispute between drug gangs. But the circumstances of the shooting are irrelevant to the outcome of the case. About 30 shots were fired in the course of the altercation. Three other teenagers riding in the car with Paige were injured. Paige was 16 years old.

OPINION | 03/12/2018

Is “common sense” gun reform enough?

Ryan Born

Gun control policy must be comprehensive — strict regulation, mandatory buybacks, prominent oversight — for gun violence to ever begin to approach an acceptable level: none. And by this metric, common sense gun reform is not enough.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Is our campus really safe?

Hunter Campbell

Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown, and Cornell—the other schools in the Ivy League which possess their own campus police—have already made the choice to give their sworn officers handguns and effectively defend their campuses.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Stop ranting about politics on Facebook

Liam O'Connor

Inevitably, feelings get hurt, friendships are broken, and the issue doesn't get any closer to being resolved. We should stop making and responding to political posts on social media because most people dislike or don’t care about them.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

The day of judgment (and shoes)

The day of judgment (and shoes)

Leora Eisenberg

I can only imagine how many meaningful relationships I’ve missed out on because of my fixation on shoes, instead of the story behind them.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Reading for the sake of reading

Daehee Lee

Reading novels is an important investment in itself, and those who neglect to read fiction are at a loss. Fiction paints unexplored worlds that we cannot find in our textbooks.

OPINION | 03/08/2018

Rethinking Distribution Requirements

Jan Domingo Alsina

The goal of these requirements should be to spur us into taking classes in new fields so that we may discover the breadth of our passions; instead, it is as if we take classes for the purpose of fulfilling these requirements.

OPINION | 03/07/2018

For decisions about gun control, look to the past

Morgan Lucey

It is critical that an emphasis be placed on using all past school shootings in policy decisions, not just the most recent ones.

OPINION | 03/07/2018

Penn Medicine’s acquisition of Princeton Health improves medical care

Jared Shulkin

Higher specialization and better care, both of which we should expect in central New Jersey as a result of Princeton Health’s acquisition by Penn Medicine, will improve patient outcomes, aid in medical student training, and increase financial compensation for UPHS. Good deal? I think so.

OPINION | 03/06/2018

Make no mistake – the issue with gun-based suicides is guns

Guest Contributor

In moments of grief, this truth becomes particularly palpable. I still remember one such instance from my junior year of high school. As I was leaving school late one Friday afternoon, shuffling across the empty parking lot, I received an unexpected call from my mom. She spoke quietly, as if trying to soften the blow of what was to come: A student I had gone to middle school with had just taken their own life, dying from a self-inflicted gunshot.

OPINION | 03/06/2018

Secret hack for brown people at U.S. airports

Bhaamati Borkhetaria

I get stopped every single time when I go through security. And when I wear my hoodie with the large orange letters on it, I feel a bit of self-satisfaction that there’s a great chance that Princeton will save me from discrimination.

OPINION | 03/06/2018

A note on change

Anika Yardi

When I first heard news of the shooting, I knew how the next few weeks would go. America would mourn for the children struck down, young and vibrant and full of life. We would send our thoughts and prayers. There would be a Twitter hashtag for the victims and the community. There would be 24-hour coverage of the incident, and thorough research into the background of the sick perpetrator of these crimes. The debate about gun violence would be resurrected. The same people would say the same things. And, ultimately, nothing would happen.

OPINION | 03/05/2018

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