Dear President Eisgruber, We believe that the University, as an internationally-renowned liberal arts institution, has an obligation to fight for the interests of its students, faculty, and the larger community.
Outside of our campus, the education of this town’s children is at stake. Toward the end of last year, Princeton Charter School requested that the state expand its class size by 76 students — draining $1.2 million per year from the Princeton Public Schools district in the process.
This Thursday, Mar. 16, the Princeton School Board will vote on the proposed budget. I recommend that the Board delay the vote, and thoroughly reexamine its proposal. The Board cannot continue relying on taxpayers to foot the bill for its inability to make budgeting decisions.
In the specific context of the swimming team, I have heard from members of the women’s team from different classes spanning several decades who attested to this behavior as common when they were undergraduates. It made them feel uncomfortable, but they felt too intimidated to speak up, lest they be ostracized for not being willing to allow “boys to be boys.”
It is now generally accepted in our society that childcare is not just a woman’s responsibility. We believe that women should be as entitled to a job and equal wages as men, and reciprocally, man should equally bear the responsibility of childcare.
Martin Shkreli may be a rich hedge fund manager whose likeness was plastered across CNN for a week, but this stock jock is still just a lowly internet troll. The current practice of responding to him — as students are currently doing — will not solve the larger problem of Internet trolling. However, we can shun him into silence.
Imagine what it would be like to be cast out in a world that is at your throat. A world in which the most capable, wealthy nation has shut its borders to you.
“Anyone who dares to voice a religious opinion is regarded as unintelligent,” wrote Carrie Pritt in her column “Diversity for the Sake of Democracy,” published in the Quillette. She makes the bold claim that religious beliefs — she is presumably implying Christian statements of faith — are not welcome at Princeton University. The idea that voicing a religious opinion marks the speaker as uninformed and unintelligent is a persistent and dangerous myth on campus; portraying Christians as disadvantaged in a society steeped in Christian tradition and favorable to Christianity equips Christians on campus with a false sense of victimization and undermines the fatal persecution Christians faced historically and continue to face in parts of the world today.
During Bicker I was asked a question that, like most Bicker questions, was banal: What do you look for in a friend?
I was thrilled when I saw so many people taking time out of their day on Monday to participate in the Day of Action. But as with the other actions after the election, this inspiring, heart-warming moment tends to be followed by a deep cynicism. Where were all these people before the election?
The most vocal and effective response thus far to the Trump presidency appears to be comedy; it often feels like the liberal left has a powerful command of comedy beyond that of the conservative right.
Princeton is one of the most selective undergraduate colleges in the world. That is guaranteed, as there are more students who want to attend than spaces.
President Eisgruber does not seem to grasp the irony of touting a letter in support of DACA while simultaneously remaining silent on the University’s investments in facilities which have been used to illegally detain DACA recipients.
I’m afraid to say it out loud sometimes because it’s become a bad word of late. I believe in Israel’s right to exist and its necessity. I put great faith in the Jewish right to self-determination and have a deep love for the State of Israel. This makes me a Zionist.
Once it hits you, there’s no going back: you’ve discovered that someone near and dear to you voted for Trump.
Incredibly, the Board cannot seem to fathom that Princeton, a private institution, has reserved the right to enforce its own rules of conduct regarding speech that is clearly harmful to the values of the community. The First Amendment may protect propagators of unsavory rhetoric from government interference, but Princeton has no legal obligation to tolerate this behavior, despite the Board’s unwillingness to admit it.