Dear Princeton Student Protesters: I hear congratulations are in order. They’re not coming from me, but a part of me respects what you did.
I am pleased to hear that students finally decided it was time for Woodrow Wilson’s name to be expunged from our campus.
I sat with the Black Justice League for over six hours during Wednesday’s sit-in protest in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.
By now there has been a lot written about the recent activism at Yale and Mizzou both within and outside the Orange Bubble.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, in their novel “Good Omens,”wrote “most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.” I remembered these words this month as I watched the world bleed, this week as campus tore itself apart over race, and this year as dear friends, despite (or because of) their senses of justice, loyalty and love, hurt each other and me.
There are many in this country that argue political correctness is killing our constitutional right to freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, the Black Justice League presented to the student body and the administration a list of three demands, designed to make Princeton more welcoming to black students.
There are probably very few people who have not heard of the tragedy that struck Paris this past Friday.
To Beni Snow, who authored a recent piece defending the Christakises, and anyone else who conflates racism and a culture of anti-Blackness with “freedom of speech.” When we justify racially offensive remarks, Halloween costumes and actions with “freedom of speech” in universities, we invoke the fatal flaw of conflating First Amendment rights with what should be considered “freedom of thought.” We also ignore the hard truth that much of what we attempt to protect under this guise is racist, and for students of color, it feels like hate speech.
In the days following the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, Nov. 13, the world has come together in remarkable ways to show France solidarity.
It seems that each time a minority student population confronts University administrators about incidents of racial insensitivity within their communities, a predictable response emerges.
I’m writing this column to propose that the salary of President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 be lowered to $538,667, or precisely $1 above the 1 percent income line for New Jersey in 2012 . His current salary, according to Princeton’s 2013 financial report, is about $750,000, although it’s hard to tell exactly, as he’s not yet listed as President in that report.
Since Oct. 1, over 50 attacks, mainly stabbings, against Jews by Palestinians have occurred in Israel.
In light of the protests and controversy around racism at Yale University and the University of Missouri, college students across the country took to Facebook to show solidarity with students of color whose lives were threatened at these institutions.
There was a certain magic to frosh week. We all remember the feeling, whether like me, this year’s was your first, or whether you’ve experienced it from the enlightened perspective of a frosh week veteran.
Recent emails sent by Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun reminded the student body of the resources available from UHS’s Counseling and Psychological Services and encouraged students to “function as a community of care and responsibility” in looking out for one another’s well-being.
In this column, I argue that freedom of expression is a good and worthwhile thing. It is an uncontroversial stance on the face of it, for our country guarantees the freedom in its Constitution.
This month marks the beginning of a season where blazers are the fashion and résumé-filled folders are accessories.
If you are a user of any kind of social media right now, debate over the protests at Yale is probably impossible to avoid.
When hip-hop artist T-Dubb-O gets on stage, it’s like he was born there. The stage is where he proclaims his truth in verse as he makes eye contact with each and every fan and he tells us, “I don’t want a Trap Queen/I’d rather have a Coretta.” T-Dubb-O is one of the leaders of Hands Up United, a collective of politically engaged minds building toward the liberation of oppressed Black, Brown and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy and agriculture.
