Editorial

‘Speak Freely,’ unless you’re running for Young Alumni Trustee

“As previous Boards have pointed out, students running for YAT have, through their four years on campus, likely developed strong and informed views on how to improve the Princeton experience. So we continue to ask: why not allow those views to be expressed?” 

“As previous Boards have pointed out, students running for YAT have, through their four years on campus, likely developed strong and informed views on how to improve the Princeton experience. So we continue to ask: why not allow those views to be expressed?” 

Confronting systemic racism starts at home

The Board encourages all students to not only learn about our institution’s past with racism, but to wholly engage with its present consequences as we continue to seek a more just future.

The Board encourages all students to not only learn about our institution’s past with racism, but to wholly engage with its present consequences as we continue to seek a more just future.

To protect students in cases of faculty misconduct, campus culture must change

The University must work to create a campus where students are safe from sexual and other misconduct by professors and feel empowered to seek support if misconduct occurs.

Editorial Board: Protecting public health can start with a conversation

While understanding that blatant disregard for public well-being should be disciplined, this Board sees empathetic dialogue as a more effective and equitable first option for dealing with pandemic policy transgressions and encourages community members to educate one another.

While understanding that blatant disregard for public wellbeing should be disciplined, this Board sees empathetic dialogue as a more effective and equitable first option for dealing with pandemic policy transgressions and encourages community members to educate one another.

Editorial Board: Why Princeton cannot stay silent on Sen. Ted Cruz ’92

“We call on President Eisgruber to acknowledge the racist nature of this voter-fraud disinformation campaign and to explicitly condemn Cruz for his role in it.”

“We call on President Eisgruber to acknowledge the racist nature of this voter-fraud disinformation campaign and to explicitly condemn Cruz for his role in it.”

Editorial Board: Vote Allen Liu ’22 for USG President

Liu demonstrates a willingness to learn — and, more importantly, a commitment to his fellow students.

Editorial Board: Vote yes on both referenda

The Board endorses both referenda, and it urges the student body to vote yes in the coming days.

To create a more inclusive campus, Princeton must act against racist speech

Until Nassau Hall decides to prevent the most obvious forms of racism from festering on campus, its commitment to uprooting systemic racism will ring hollow. 

Charity for the rich: Princeton must revise its pandemic financial aid decision

This Board vigorously opposes Princeton’s refusal to change expected family contributions, all the while reducing tuition.

After five years of student activism, it’s time for the U. to stop dragging its feet

We demand the administration take material steps to ensure the renaming is the first step of many to address its racist institutional history.

Princeton, don’t leave us in the dark

The University has an obligation to its community to be clear about the options it is considering for the fall semester and beyond. Bringing students into the fold only when a decision is made shirks that obligation.

As Maria Ressa ’86 holds the line, we must act now

Ressa and her colleagues at Rappler, who have unearthed many such abuses, are guilty only of holding Duterte to account.

Reimagining Public Safety at Princeton: Reform is insufficient

Campus security should not mirror, let alone multiply, policing practices and forces. 

U. must drop demand for qualified immunity

Now more than ever, the University must drop and apologize for its desire to extend qualified immunity to Public Safety officers.

U. needs to revise summer housing costs

Though this Board commends efforts to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 on campus over the summer, we are deeply concerned by the large and seemingly arbitrary cost that the University is imposing on these students.

Pencils down: Princeton should drop its testing requirement

This Board not only recommends a move away from requiring standardized testing for the 2020–21 admissions cycle, but urges a permanent shift beyond the coronavirus pandemic.

The ivory tower is not immune to pandemic

We applaud Princeton’s previous decisions to revise policy when confronted with the realities of the pandemic and encourage similar action before the disparate effects of the current grading policy become even more self-evident.

PDF grading is the only responsible solution

The Editorial Board calls on the University to impose a blanket P/D/F policy for all students.

U. needs to reevaluate midterms

The Editorial Board supports this petition and enjoins the University to act on its demands. 

A disservice to the community: Against qualified immunity

This Board opposes qualified immunity on principle and finds no reason for the University to support the expansion of this practice.