With Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” playing from the room’s speakers and accompanying my steps, I marched confidently into Richardson Auditorium two weeks ago.
“Freedom, ‘I’dom, ‘Me’dom, where’s your ‘We’dom?” It’s an unequivocal call for compassion, sympathy and solidarity.
“Too poor for college, too rich for financial aid” is a phrase that describes the awkward financial status of those who can afford college, but not comfortably.
Everyone knows “that kid” in precept. The one who talks far too much. The one who has the answer to every question.
I hate to do this, but let's talk about Yik Yak for a moment.As many of us have seen over the past few weeks, Princeton’s local Yik Yak has exploded with denouncements of the Black Justice League’s peaceful protest outside and inside of Nassau Hall.
I grew up in Colorado. When I tell people this, they usually make some reference to its natural beauty, its ski resorts, or the possibility of legally purchasing marijuana there for recreational purposes.
Take a flashback with me for a moment. It’s 2013, and your favorite Sports Editor is riding on Cloud Nine after his beloved hometown team has had their best season in years.
On Nov. 16, Luke Gamble wrote an opinion article titled “Mr. Hollande, No new wars”. In the article, Gamble cautioned France against making the same mistakes the US did after 9/11 by creating a “broad and blind war on terror.” While I agree with the sentiment of restraint shown in the article, I believe that such absolute pacifism is not the answer.
Here’s the thing: Ours is a campus with a long history and an infinite future that’s wrestling with the currents of the roiling present.
Intrigued by rumors about inflammatory posts about the protests in Nassau Hall, I made the mistake of downloading YikYak again last week.
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.
