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Letter from the Editors: Protect our students

Letter from the Editors: Protect our students

Daily Princetonian Staff

Trump may end DACA as early as Sept. 1. We urge Trump not to end DACA without a suitable, compassionate, and permanent replacement and the University to bring DACA students back to campus before the Sept. 5 deadline imposed by the group of attorneys general who have threatened to sue the Trump administration. Let’s live up to our motto — “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”

OPINION | 09/01/2017

A commitment to dialogue: Rejecting false moral equivalence

Guest Contributor

We encourage all students, faculty, and other community members to think for themselves, seek the truth, and approach every issue, regardless of emotional charge, with an open mind, respectful attitude, and confidence that they can speak freely without false charges of bigotry based on inaccurate moral equivalences.

OPINION | 08/31/2017

Letter to the Editor: Free speech

Guest Contributor

I am honored to join fourteen distinguished colleagues at three of the world’s foremost institutions of higher learning in encouraging the young people joining us on campus this year to think for themselves, and to speak their minds.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Campus lockdown

Guest Contributor

On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Princeton Campus was placed on lockdown for ten minutes while officials investigated reports of an armed person.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Student advocacy is a game-changer

Guest Contributor

As a single student, you may feel frustrated that you cannot impact world affairs, or that even if you really tried to, the time commitment would take away from your future career.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Inclusiveness through diversity

Guest Contributor

Inclusiveness through Diversity, No it’s not an oxymoron, at least not at residential dining at Princeton University.

OPINION | 08/29/2017

In defense of the real woman

Hayley Siegel

James Cameron’s criticism of the recent Wonder Woman film as objectifying an icon rather than celebrating feminism is perfectly valid.

OPINION | 08/29/2017

A commitment to activism: Solidarity and coalition-building for the upcoming year and onward

Guest Contributor

The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have made the presence of neo-Nazism and white nationalism in the United States undeniable.

OPINION | 08/28/2017

Affirmative action's inconvenient history

Liam O'Connor

During the 1960 presidential campaign, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge stated that a black man would be appointed to the cabinet if his running mate, Richard M.

OPINION | 08/28/2017

A letter from the Muslim Students Association to the Class of 2021

Guest Contributor

To the Muslim students of the Class of 2021: Assalamu ‘alaykum! Welcome to Princeton University, home of the exciting next chapter of your lives!

OPINION | 08/25/2017

Letter to the Editor: Standing in solidarity with Charlottesville

Guest Contributor

To the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville Community: In the spirit of diversity and justice, members of the Princeton University Class of 2021 stand in solidarity with the students, family, and community members who were affected by the tragic events that occurred in Charlottesville on August 11th and 12th.

OPINION | 08/24/2017

Now is not the time for complicity

Mason Cox

If I told you Nazis were marching down the street, chanting “Blood and Soil,” waving the infamous black with red swastika flag, you’d think I was giving a history report.

OPINION | 08/19/2017

Reaffirming affirmative action

Ryan Born

I defend the University’s affirmative action policies by placing them in their definitional and historical context. Opponents of affirmative action call it racist, like my fellow columnist Hayley Siegel. Yet arguments like these do not properly understand affirmative action, its importance, nor its context at the University.

OPINION | 08/16/2017

Defining a "fair shake"

Hayley Siegel

President Eisgruber explained that Princeton does consider race in admissions, but that every applicant is nonetheless given “a fair shake.” A truly fair shake would level out the differences in performance resulting from an applicant’s socioeconomic background.

OPINION | 08/16/2017

Frosh know nothing

Ryan Born

I got an email from my editor. Ryan, the frosh are coming, he said, we need some articles for them.

OPINION | 08/16/2017

If you’re reading this, it’s already too late

Newby Parton

When I started to write this column, I intended it to be about freshman seminars. Apply, I was going to say, because they are the best courses you will ever take.

OPINION | 08/08/2017

Letter from the Editor: Welcome to Princeton – Princeton in the Nation's Service and the Service of Humanity

Sarah Sakha

Your class is taking – and will take – unprecedented strides forward in many respects, as the first class to enroll more women than men, the class with the highest percentage of first-generation college students, at 16.9 percent, and the first class to enroll five military veterans. So as Princeton serves this nation, serves humanity, as its unofficial motto prescribes, by moving towards greater equality in opportunity, expanding those opportunities for everyone, and redefining ‘public service’ and what it means to serve, it’s now your turn – as a part of our collective responsibility – to consider how you, too, will serve, not only your community here at Princeton, but humanity. Looking back, as an incoming freshman, I certainly didn’t give Princeton’s motto a second thought (granted, the University motto was different then too). In fact, the only conception of ‘service’ that I harbored before arriving at Princeton entailed volunteering at the local public library, hospital, or food bank.

OPINION | 08/08/2017

A Letter from Princeton Latinos y Amigos to the Class of 2021

Guest Contributor

To the Incoming Latinx Class of 2021, Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! Bem Vinda! As one of the many voices you will hear from prior to your arrival on campus, on behalf of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, we want to extend you all another welcome to what will be some of the most challenging, yet educative and exhilarating years that are to come.

OPINION | 08/08/2017

What is Native American student life like at Princeton?

Guest Contributor

I’m going to be honest, at times your peers won’t recognize you as Native American. People will casually joke “I thought you were Asian the first time I saw you” or at best, “I wasn’t sure of your background.” In situations such as these I laugh along with them, proudly declaring my Diné ancestry.

OPINION | 08/08/2017

Welcome home: An open invitation from the Princeton Black Student Union

Guest Contributor

To the Black Members of the Class of 2021: On behalf of Princeton’s Black Student Union, congratulations on your admission and your accomplishments that have brought you thus far!

OPINION | 08/08/2017

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