Opinion

More feedback can cure our fixation on GPA

It’s tempting to speculate that the lingering artifacts of grade deflation are still at play on campus — when the orgo exam is curved down, when your professor boasts about a 50 percent average on the math midterm, when the “Harvard easy A” jokes are forever funny.

Letter to the Editor: Response to PPPD

To the Editor: In your edition on April 3, you published an open letter to me from the Princeton Private Prison Divest Coalition.

The noble career post-Princeton

You’re a Princetonian. You’re about to graduate. Do you take that offer with Goldman, hoping to make millions, or do you go with a nonprofit, making a few thousand but likely doing better for the world? Are you going to sell out?

Editorial: The importance of opposing divestment

We echo our editorial from April 21, 2016, in which we rejected private prison divestment, and contend that private prisons do not meet the threshold of community consensus and moral unacceptability required to justify divestment.

Letter to the Editor: Lack of Current Investments is Not Enough

Last Monday, the Resources Committee of CPUC attempted to justify its decision to reject Princeton Private Prison Divest’s (PPPD) proposal for divestment and dissociation from the private prison and detention industry.

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Mad about March Madness

It’s obvious that women receive biased and inferior media coverage compared to men: everything from the #LikeAGirl advertisements, to the Cover the Athlete movement, to article after article in the news highlights this discrepancy. There is inordinately more content (tweets and retweets) about the men’s team than the women’s team on the Princeton Athletics Twitter.

Editorial: Make grading policies more transparent

The grading process for midterm and final exams requires careful coordination between students, professors, and the Office of the Registrar.

"Cut out and give to a senior! (Or anyone who needs it!)"

Princeton needs a journalism certificate. Here's why.

Privacy should still matter

“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got no reason to hide.” That adage needs some serious rethinking in a world where the word “wrong” can mean something different to every person.

Becky with the bad bias

In her op-ed “Outrage,” columnist Jacquelyn Thorbjornson ’19 took the mainstream media to task for not covering a rape allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants at Rockville, Md. high school. She claims that “the only significant difference between the two cases is the immigration status of the alleged attackers.” This is blatantly false.

The price of being educated

“It is totally over. If Trump wins more than 240 electoral votes, I will eat a bug.” These words, tweeted out on Oct, 18, 2016, and later reiterated on CNN, came from none other than our very own Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience and a founder of the Princeton Election Consortium. At the time, it was music to my ears — I remember texting one of my friends the CNN video clip along with the caption, “okay I feel much better now.” Of course, when a month later Trump won 304 electoral votes (and my hairline receded about the same number of inches), it was time for Wang to eat crow and cricket on live TV. But then I began wondering: Why did I take such solace in his tweet in the first place?

Making the Cut

Cartoon by Nathan Phan

Letter to the Editor: Supporting affirmative action

AASA sees why affirmative action can seem like an indirect attack on the Asian community or a race quota in college admissions. But affirmative action is the wrong target for your anger.

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Outrage

Last week, while the nation was focused on the healthcare debate, a 14-year-old girl was brutally raped in a bathroom stall at her high school in Rockville, Maryland. 

The ethics of giving back

Last summer, Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell argued that donating to Princeton was a “moral crime.” When people decide to donate their money to a cause, he says, they must also consider where that money isnotgoing. He assumes that people donate to improve the lives of others, and, therefore, thatthey are wrong to donate to the school with the largest per capita endowment in the world, where the impact of their donationis minimal.

There is a way to save Westminster Choir College

Why can’t some kind of jointly-operated music school be developed with Princeton University? Why not a newly-contoured school where students are chosen for admission based on their musical abilities, where the degrees they receive come from either Rider or Princeton, depending on where they matriculate? 

Why Not Touch Each Other?

We all follow implicit rules that dictate when and how to touch other people. It’s something we rarely talk about, and even the phrase “touch people” is something of a perversion or a corny spiritual platitude. But the fact is, touch is an integral part of human interaction.