Opinion

Letter to the Editor: In response to PGSU

As you call on the University to do, we condemn violence and hatred of all kinds. The three of us and the offices we represent work daily to protect the rights and safety of immigrants, transgender people, and people of color (and those whose identities intersect all of these categories and others).

Promoting free speech over patriotism on college campuses

Athletes on our campus should be encouraged to embrace their free speech rights to protest, rather than to separate their athletic career from their beliefs. While Trump encouraged NFL owners to fire protestors, the administration should commit to protect student-athlete protesters and make these commitments clear.

#1 National Rich Kid University

To sum things up: if you’ve ever wondered why Princeton drops $700 a piece on lawn chairs, while still mandating that certain students work campus jobs and not others,  the U.S. News rankings may offer some explanation.

Wholesome Semester Resolutions

The importance of memes

Crime at Princeton

Whiteness as a construct, not a color

  The key distinction to be made is that the term whiteness refers to a construct, not a color. When saying that whiteness is the root of racism, it is not a castigation of all Caucasian people. Rather, it is the recognition and repudiation of a negative ideology founded in the imbalance of powers between races. Whiteness is far more about superiority than it is about color.

Challenge by choice

  At the beginning of each year, Outdoor Action encourages freshmen to, "choose to be challenged." It means that students should actively seek out difficult situations that push them outside of their comfort zone.  Now, I'm asking that all students choose to challenge themselves in the upcoming academic year. A liberal arts education is meant to expose students to bold new ideas. Take advantage of it. 

Incentives Gone Wrong

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A President's Job Is Never Done

Pumpkin Spice Punk

Precept

Speech is free: Sileo response

I am glad that you acknowledged that conservatives are ready and open to debate their opinions. I am also glad to hear that “conservative ideas are still valuable in moderation.” I wish that I could return the compliments.

What you don't want to hear

Without listening to and critically thinking about opinions – even when we know them to be fully, utterly wrong – we lose any reason to reexamine and reevaluate our own opinions. Without contemplation, we become complacent in our established beliefs, and eventually we simply accept them as truth.

Harvey came and Harvey went

Harvey hit every part of Houston. It didn’t discriminate based on race or class or political affiliation. In this way, the natural disaster eliminated the elements of our society that so often play a role in discussion and in our discourse. It equalized people, taking away semblances of difference and division. Everyone was hurt, and everyone is still hurting.  

Free Speech: A Response to Ryan Born

Ryan Born is within his First Amendment rights to express his appalling point of view, and in each of these possible interpretations of his intent, the rest of us have a moral obligation to condemn what he has said. Shame on him!  

The changing purpose of college

While a traditional liberal arts education is intellectually uplifting, another may ask: is it worthwhile considering the jobs required today? 

Princeton for Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, home to over 3.4 million American citizens, just went through one of the most severe natural disasters in its history when Hurricane Maria unleashed a siege of flooding and winds upon it.

Open Letter: PGSU on divergent perspectives

PGSU: "There is no room in a civil, democratic society for these two positions to 'debate' on an even playing field. Allowing or encouraging such “debate” does not affirm 'free speech' but instead threatens many people whose safety and personhood has long been devalued." 

Why can't Spain and Catalonia just get along?

Last week, the Spanish police arrested 14 Catalan officials in Barcelona. The conflict between the Catalans and the Spanish government has escalated in recent weeks, ahead of a referendum scheduled for October 1, in which Catalans want to decide whether to remain in Spain or to become independent.