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Letter to the Editor: In defense of the students who walked out on Rosen

Letter to the Editor: In defense of the students who walked out on Rosen

Guest Contributor

As an anthropologist teaching in the Princeton Writing Program whose courses regularly involve offensive material, I would like to weigh in on the recent controversy surrounding Lawrence Rosen’s use of the N-word in his class. In short, I write in support of the students who walked out on Rosen.

OPINION | 02/12/2018

Letter to the Editor: In defense of Black Princetonians

Guest Contributor

Letter to the Editor: I am hereby skipping my morning run to write a brief response to Professor Rouse's Feb. 8 letter.

OPINION | 02/11/2018

Letter to the Editor: In defense of the students who walked out of Rosen’s class

Guest Contributor

In her February 8th letter to the editor, Professor Carolyn Rouse offered a pedagogy for Rosen’s class as contextual background for why certain students should not have walked out. Unfortunately, her letter entirely misses the point as to why the students walked out of class.

OPINION | 02/09/2018

Letter to the Editor: In defense of Rosen

Letter to the Editor: In defense of Rosen

Guest Contributor

I write to provide important context to the events reported on Feb. 7 in the Daily Princetonian story “Students walk out of anthropology lecture after professor uses the word “n****r.” Like every semester, professor Lawrence Rosen started the class by breaking a number of taboos in order to get the students to recognize their emotional response to cultural symbols. Rosen was fighting battles for women, Native Americans, and African-Americans before these students were born.

OPINION | 02/08/2018

Letter to the Editor: Why we march

Guest Contributor

Princeton Pro-Life (PPL) is a campus group. The President may be reached at acavasos@princeton.edu.

OPINION | 02/08/2018

Letter to the Editor: Setting the table

Guest Contributor

At Princeton, another year has come and gone, and with it the cycle of all our peculiar rituals. This week, a significant portion of the junior and senior classes gather in big mansions behind locked doors (they’re locked: I’ve checked) to cast judgment on a significant portion of the sophomore class. They will display the sophomore’s names and photos, hear the case for and against the social merits of each, and then, one by one, vote on whether or not to admit the sophomore in question into their mansion.

OPINION | 02/07/2018

The problem with bad sex

Dora Zhao

Rather than slotting “bad sex” as unavoidable, we need to take it as a symbol of how society has stigmatized female sexuality. Blanket advice, telling women to better use verbal cues and just say stop, is not the solution. It unfairly places all the blame on the victim. If we want to address sexual assault, we need to start by examining our society’s toxic sexual culture and the role we play in upholding it.

OPINION | 02/07/2018

Private posts create public profiles

Liam O'Connor

Anything can go viral at the click of a button. Posting pictures like these can have grave consequences in someone’s future professional and personal lives. Just four years ago, a lewd photo from a Tiger Inn party created a national scandal for two Princeton students. As the Street’s holiest weekend approaches, I urge all of my classmates to exercise caution when posting about their late-night escapades on social media.

OPINION | 02/06/2018

Letter from the Editor: In the 142nd year, our purpose

Marcia Brown

Many of us ‘Prince’ folks didn’t know how newspapers worked before we matriculated, but one of our priorities is to make sure that everyone who wants to can have the opportunity to learn. The more heads together working to uncover truth, the better our journalism will be.

OPINION | 02/04/2018

A response to the judgements against judge Rosemarie Aquilina

Winnie Brandfield-Harvey

We need more judges like Aquilina to stand up for silenced victims of sexual assault, when everyone else has left them behind.

OPINION | 02/04/2018

Turn off the TVs in Dillon

Nicholas Wu

A few weeks ago, Life Time Fitness, a Minnesota-based gym chain, made national news by announcing that it was going to eliminate all news channels from its TVs. Members still had the option of watching cable news networks on individual workout machines, but the large TVs in the gym showed lighter content from channels like HGTV or USA.

OPINION | 02/04/2018

Mental Health Peers: A needed support system

Guest Contributor

I propose the establishment of Mental Health Peers. Mental Health Peers will provide a concrete service in the University community by training students how to be friends in mental crisis. We will train our friends, classmates, and peers how to talk about mental health.

OPINION | 01/19/2018

Why I no longer write (poetry)

Allison Huang

Poetry has been good to me in this: It is language, and perhaps one day I will speak. I do not know if time will reincarnate my voice into its own entity, or if one day my old age will legitimize my words and open up an unbridled spot for my voice.

OPINION | 01/16/2018

Honor in solidarity

Ryan Chavez

The question is how to use the advantages of the scope and scale of the support for the referenda. The mass of the student body is critical. Utilizing the popular support of the referenda to start a collective bargaining process is our strongest position.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

The case for a short break

Rachel Kennedy

Three weeks is enough time to see the important people in one’s life, but not enough to fully slip into the routines of home again.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

We need to be more politically active off campus

Samuel Aftel

On-campus activism is highly needed and noble, but only a synthesis of on-campus and off-campus activism can destroy deep-seated inequality, exclusion, and hardship.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

The University's lack of timeframe should alarm us

Jon Ort

Instead, the administration has offered no timetable, writing only that the referenda “cannot take effect at this time.” Such oblique language makes me doubt that anything will be done.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

The most important referendum passed

Ryan Born

Raising the standard of evidence plus lowering penalties seems to encourage cheating more than anything else. Honestly, the administration saved students from themselves.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

Letter from the Editor: It’s not goodbye, but see you later

Sarah Sakha

My greatest hope — for all of our community, not just journalists — is a realization of our shared humanity, and our ability to inspire, to make a positive impact, to effect real change.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

The University’s response to the Honor Constitution referenda was predictable and prudent

Connor Pfeiffer

Since it is almost certain that the University will not reverse its decision on the three referenda, students should move on and focus on how they can play a role in the formal process taking place to review the Honor System.

OPINION | 01/14/2018

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