Opinion

Vote Colón Roosevelt ’27 for president: your guide to the winter 2025 USG ballot

The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board weighs in on the USG candidates up and down the ballot, including endorsing Quentin Colón Roosevelt ’27 for president. In his platform and responses to our questions, Colón Roosevelt focused on relevant issues and pathways through which USG can exercise power — both in ways that address inefficiencies and leverage existing structures and in ways that expand the current role of undergraduate student representation.

The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board weighs in on the USG candidates up and down the ballot, including endorsing Quentin Colón Roosevelt ’27 for president. In his platform and responses to our questions, Colón Roosevelt focused on relevant issues and pathways through which USG can exercise power — both in ways that address inefficiencies and leverage existing structures and in ways that expand the current role of undergraduate student representation.

The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board should not endorse USG candidates

While the idea of endorsing candidates has merit, the nature of the endorsement process is flawed, opaque, lacks external accountability, and projects the confidence of an institutional voice while having unclear standards.

While the idea of endorsing candidates has merit, the nature of the endorsement process is flawed, opaque, lacks external accountability, and projects the confidence of an institutional voice while having unclear standards.

Vote ‘yes’ on Referendum No. 1: Princeton should not own a fossil fuel company

A vote for Referendum No. 1 is a vote for sustainability, in every sense of the word. And cutting ties with PetroTiger is a win-win-win for climate action, students, and the University.

A vote for Referendum No. 1 is a vote for sustainability, in every sense of the word. And cutting ties with PetroTiger is a win-win-win for climate action, students, and the University.

The University wants a compliant USG. Recently, it’s gotten what it wants.

It is not acceptable for our representatives to simply give up, even — and especially — when obstacles to student interests feel formidable.

It is not acceptable for our representatives to simply give up, even — and especially — when obstacles to student interests feel formidable.

Searching for a partner? Swipe left on intolerance

Your partner’s political choices say something about their values, and their values say something about your values as the person who chose them. Opting for non-confrontation to preserve a relationship that doesn’t align with your values is dismissing the increasingly salient political future ahead of us.

Your partner’s political choices say something about their values, and their values say something about your values as the person who chose them. Opting for non-confrontation to preserve a relationship that doesn’t align with your values is dismissing the increasingly salient political future ahead of us.

Elected CPUC members must answer for their egregious dereliction of duty

While many University members have a legitimate interest in a policy like this one, it is a dereliction of duty to allow administrators to propose an excessively vague and general policy, and then give them extremely wide latitude to interpret it.

While many University members have a legitimate interest in a policy like this one, it is a dereliction of duty to allow administrators to propose an excessively vague and general policy, and then give them extremely wide latitude to interpret it.

Princeton needs a first-year engineering design course

The University should give students the chance to make informed academic choices. If Princeton values interdisciplinarity and genuine exploration, then its commitment shouldn’t end when the study of engineering begins.

The University should give students the chance to make informed academic choices. If Princeton values interdisciplinarity and genuine exploration, then its commitment shouldn’t end when the study of engineering begins.

‘Princeton Rise Up’ showed Princeton students aren’t apathetic, just busy

Becoming more involved in campus activism has forced me to reckon with a simple fact: I’m not as busy as I thought I was. I had time to give. And because I find the job fulfilling, it doesn’t feel like a burden to devote that time to activism.

Becoming more involved in campus activism has forced me to reckon with a simple fact: I’m not as busy as I thought I was. I had time to give. And because I find the job fulfilling, it doesn’t feel like a burden to devote that time to activism.

AI is a bubble. So why don’t we act like it?

None of this is to say that there aren’t genuine uses for — and genuine concerns about — AI. But to discuss these well, we must first have the right conception of the technology.

None of this is to say that there aren’t genuine uses for — and genuine concerns about — AI. But to discuss these well, we must first have the right conception of the technology.

Joe Manchin’s remarks inspire unity, but not how you might think

Manchin’s message about the value of truly representative public service shows that, given Americans’ recent attitude toward elites and support for promises of representation, it is incumbent upon Princetonians who hope to enter public service, whether through organizing or running for elected office, to prove that they are worthy of a vote.

A is for authoritarianism

Academic perfectionism can dull our ability to recognize our own authoritarian tendencies because together they share a flawed reasoning that faultlessness reflects one’s value.

Academic perfectionism can dull our ability to recognize our own authoritarian tendencies because together they share a flawed reasoning that faultlessness reflects one’s value.

Princeton needs a program in Southeast Asian studies

If Southeast Asia is, as CISS described, “an area of global importance and future opportunity,” why does Princeton lack a Program in Southeast Asian Studies?

If Southeast Asia is, as CISS described, “an area of global importance and future opportunity,” why does Princeton lack a Program in Southeast Asian Studies?

Our humanities precepts make us human

If struggling precepts are a symptom of a cultural struggle with care, attention, and socialization, their reevaluation might be an opportunity for Princeton and its students to take a timely diagnostic of the University’s most monumental task: making smart people smarter by teaching them to care about and understand the world beyond their immediate orbit.

If struggling precepts are a symptom of a cultural struggle with care, attention, and socialization, their reevaluation might be an opportunity for Princeton and its students to take a timely diagnostic of the University’s most monumental task: making smart people smarter by teaching them to care about and understand the world beyond their immediate orbit.

Princeton’s scholarship time limits need to go

The University must eliminate these arbitrary time limits. Students should be able to redeem their scholarship benefit at any point during their four years, allowing them the flexibility to buy technology with the money they earned, when they actually need it.

The University must eliminate these arbitrary time limits. Students should be able to redeem their scholarship benefit at any point during their four years, allowing them the flexibility to buy technology with the money they earned, when they actually need it.

Princeton Pals should do better

Prefrosh deserve Princeton Pals who care enough to show up and try hard. Both Princeton students and the administrators who run the program need to ensure it delivers the connections it promises.

Prefrosh deserve Princeton Pals who care enough to show up and try hard. Both Princeton students and the administrators who run the program need to ensure it delivers the connections it promises.

Did you hear about the University’s recording policy? Probably not.

In a time when dissent is repressed and journalism is dying, it is more essential than ever to protect and promote the free flow of ideas and information, the dissemination of truth, and the value of political disagreement. Princeton’s new recording policy harms all three.

In a time when dissent is repressed and journalism is dying, it is more essential than ever to protect and promote the free flow of ideas and information, the dissemination of truth, and the value of political disagreement. Princeton’s new recording policy harms all three.

For FLI students, Princeton’s rigor works in their favor

As a virtue of attending a rigorous institution, FLI students can both engage in extracurricular opportunities and more readily rely on their grades to make them competitive applicants in the job market or to professional schools.

As a virtue of attending a rigorous institution, FLI students can both engage in extracurricular opportunities and more readily rely on their grades to make them competitive applicants in the job market or to professional schools.

The art museum promised a revolutionary layout. Why didn’t the space deliver?

When we look at the scattered display of African Art across its corridor, and then compare it with the lavish, commanding pavilion that houses European Art, we cannot help but ask: Why does one continent deserve permanence in this museum?

When we look at the scattered display of African Art across its corridor, and then compare it with the lavish, commanding pavilion that houses European Art, we cannot help but ask: Why does one continent deserve permanence in this museum?

What Eisgruber gets wrong about student protest

Eisgruber’s greatest error is his characterization of protest as inherently juvenile and unrefined, an expression of half-baked political consciousness.

Eisgruber’s greatest error is his characterization of protest as inherently juvenile and unrefined, an expression of half-baked political consciousness.

Let’s Zohran our Princeton: the case for organizing that’s fun

Mamdani's victory gives Princeton progressives a replicable model for winning, which they can adapt from New York to this University: a people-centered mass movement that builds real community and seeks to genuinely persuade and excite others.

Mamdani's victory gives Princeton progressives a replicable model for winning, which they can adapt from New York to this University: a people-centered mass movement that builds real community and seeks to genuinely persuade and excite others.