In the weeks leading up to midterms and during the week of midterms itself, I found myself burdened with more than the small abyss of books and papers consuming my desk.
Dissent among campus publications is a hallmark of the prose, opinion and editorial scene at Princeton.
You may have heard about Erika and Nicholas Christakis, the associate master and master of Yale’s Silliman College.
Almost everyone is told, when we apply to Princeton, that this University distinguishes itself in large part because of its undergraduate focus.
“My professor doesn’t respect my athletic commitments at all,” a student-athlete ranted to me during a study session sometime last week, referring to a specific incident in which her professor had responded with frustration when she informed him of an athletic conflict three days before a quiz.
As you’re reading these lines, other students are celebrating the survival of midterms week. You have solved equations, discussed complicated theories, held conversations in foreign languages and lived to tell the tale.
I was born and raised in Colorado, a state best known (until it legalized marijuana) for its natural beauty and outdoors culture.
A Sept. 29articlein The Daily Princetonianon “We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton University” survey results began by stating, “1 in 3 undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior at U.” The University’s own story on these results led with: “a sizeable majority [of students] knows where to go on campus for help following an incident of nonconsensual sexual contact.” The community’s response to the survey results has been disappointingly muted, perhaps because no one was surprised by the appalling facts the data exposed.
Let me state this outright so that there is no confusion. No, I don’t think Mexicans are rapists.
The Honor Committee is an enigma to many students.
At any given university, there are bound to be a few majors and pre-professional tracks that attract more students than others.
As fortunate students at the University, we are thrown into a “melting pot” of cultures. Our classmates may have grown up halfway around the world and for some, English is not their first language.
He made us laugh and made multicolored sweaters cool. He donated to universities and loaned his art collection to the Smithsonian.
Each day, engineering students make the long trek from their residential colleges to the Engineering Quadrangle for class.
As I read “On arming the bubble,” published in The Daily Princetonian on Oct. 19 by senior columnist Sarah Sakha, my heart rate quickened.
Recently students have initiated an important reexamination of the legacy of President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, as a white supremacist and questioned his place in the names of several of the University’s organizations, including Wilson College.
The Pass/D/Fail option is available for students between the beginning of the seventh and the end of the ninth week of classes. Commonly referred to as P/D/F, this option is designed to encourage students to explore disciplines that they have little prior knowledge of without fear of negatively impacting their GPA.
During the first couple weeks on campus, as the somewhat stereotypical freshman, I asked myself many questions: I wasn’t the only one who managed to get locked out of my dorm three times within the span of a week, right?
I’m interested in perverse incentives, those peculiar “M.
We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed. With this statement in mind, we, the Black Justice League, chose to start a discussion on campus that administrators and students alike have skirted around, a discussion about the presence of legacies on our campus and the glorification of prominent and problematic individuals.
