Opinion

Women's leadership at Princeton: How women get to lead

Over the last three years, there has been a surprising new trend across student groups: back-to-back women leaders of student groups including the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Whig-Clio, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Princetonian, and Business Today. Contrary to what we might expect from a place like Princeton, many of these organizations have not had women leaders for years.

What’s wrong with a Mexican party?

On May 12, 2017, The Daily Princetonian broke a story on a Mexican-themed party that took place on campus the night before. Racially insensitive events are so common on this campus that they have come to be expected. In the past year alone we’ve already had one particularly flagrant example, the 27th annual Mandatory Makeout Mexican Mustache Monday Madness Fiesta in September. Then, as we saw more recently this May, one Mexican party was not enough for the year.

It’s not crying wolf: Holding the U. accountable for the Cinco de Mayo party

As the current PLA co-President, I was personally hurt to see a fellow PLA member target our response in such a negative manner. This is because the opinion piece by Uri Schwartz ’20, a Mexican-American student who is part of the University’s Latinx community, is relevant in this situation. However, Schwartz’s op-ed also proves to be extremely flawed.

Noticing

Whether it be looking for a hidden gargoyle or $10-million energy efficiency upgrade, be a noticer. Keep your eyes open and look around, because you never know what you will find.

The exciting uncertainty of the future

What do you want to do with your life? A lucky few Princetonians will be able to answer that question with certainty, knowing exactly their vision for their life, and how they will make it a reality.

Why I, a Mexican, am not offended by the Cinco de Mayo party

I am neither here to call anyone a liar, nor to belittle the experiences of others. I am not in a position to tell people what should and should not offend them. But what I do strongly believe is that PLA and PULPO’s responses to this party were excessive, unnecessarily harsh toward the University, and in some respects unsubstantiated.

Letter to the Editor: How do we decolonize an Ivy League institution?

Nearly forty years ago, anthropology was forced to reckon with its colonial past and present in a period of upheaval that nearly ended the discipline as we know it.

Letter to the Editor: Stop whining, all of you

To my conservative friends, There has been a development in American progressivism in which people would rather make ad hominem attacks and ignore views that seem antithetical to who they are as a person than productively engage with others.

A new deal

Young adults exploit their newfound freedom when they leave their parents and go to college. They experiment in new activities that are normally discouraged by their elders.

School, sadness, and stigma

I wasn’t here for most of this semester. You might have seen my body walking to class or biking to practice, but mentally?

What I (actually) wish I knew freshman year

As of this drafting, two weeks from now I’ll be sitting on a beach somewhere. Three weeks from now I’ll be enjoying my last Reunions as a student.

The sober truth

On February 2, Timothy Piazza — a sophomore at Pennsylvania State University — went to the "pledge night" of the fraternity Beta Theta Pi.

Start conversing with me: Revamping precepts to replace lectures

In an article on April 24th, I declared that Princeton University holds onto a series of pedagogically outdated systems that are disgustingly ill-adapted to the demands of educating the students it purports to support.

Uncertainty in the time of college

The dream, it has been said, is to find a partner of equivalent intellectual merit and productive potential as ourselves; to get married amid the towering buttresses of the University chapel, lit softly by the glow from the stained-glass windows; and to spend the rest of our days happily pursuing our interests and our goals, all the while extolling the virtues of our alma mater and contributing to its endowment in preparation for future generations, including, God willing, our own children. But we are also told, time and time again, to become our own individuals.

Reading period

Summertime Stress

Stealing time

Fifteen minutes isn’t a lot. But, if every week, three of your friends are fifteen minutes late to dinner dates, one of your professors wanders in fifteen minutes late to class, and your teammate is consistently fifteen minutes late to practice, you’ve lost 165 minutes of your time.

#DaddyWillDestroytheMedia

If you’ve heard our president speak, you’ve heard about the dangerous, all-consuming “liberal media.” The “lying media.” The “fake news.” According to Trump and his advisors, the media seems to persecute any idea or person that does not follow its “liberal ideology.” This sort of media framing has become a popular way for editors and writers of alt-right news sources to defend their material.

Pragmatic prevention of sexual assault

We live in a reality where sexual assault is caused by a rape culture and also significantly magnified by alcohol. They are not mutually exclusive. By failing to directly address alcohol's role, we are doing a disservice to ourselves and the college community.

A tale of two black destinies

My grandfather was born and raised in rural Jamaica in the late 1920s. His mother died as an infant, and his father died when he was 13, leaving him, the oldest male in the family, to take care of his stepmother and his siblings.