Opinion

The Admissions Trick

This past Thursday, the University Admissions Office announced this year’s admission rate has again dropped, down to 6.46% from last year’s 6.99%. To the students who just received their acceptances, this number affirms a sense of uniqueness among high school seniors.

Maintaining Woodrow Wilson’s name: Princeton’s notorious love affair

Princeton University is entangled in a love affair with the status quo. Like someone who’s been in a bad relationship for decades, the University consistently pretends that it will leave.

The glacial pace of change

At 9:30 Monday morning, an email from President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 reached the Princeton community announcing that the Trustees had come to a decision regarding Woodrow Wilson’s name.

The PhD is in!

Editorial: Improve thesis binding process

The last major academic hurdle that many Princeton seniors must clear to graduate is completing their senior thesis.

Cartoon: Slumping towards spring

On cognitive dissonance

I’m pretty sure libertarians are wrong. Neo-cons too – in fact, I find neoconservative foreign policy downright immoral.

Trump is not the only extremist

The University group Muslim Advocates for Social Justice & Individual Dignity (MASJID) has circulated a petition that calls for the Princeton University Board of Trustees to condemn New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. I don’t support Trump, either, and I agree with the MASJID when they cite his “abhorrent policies” that degrade and dehumanize members of certain groups – groups to which many of my closest friends on this campus belong.

Pun

Editorial: Reaffirming Freedom of Expression

President Eisgruber recently stated, “We at Princeton believe that it is a fundamental advantage for a university to be able to tolerate even offensive kinds of speech and to respond to bad arguments when they are made with more speech rather than with disciplinary actions.” His statement was made to defend freedom of expression, up to the point of protecting the right of student groups to commemorate Osama bin Laden, and this Board believes that such freedom extends to other offensive ideas and arguments.This past weekend, a computer hacker known as “Weev” claimed responsibility for printing posters criticizing the presence of Jews in the United States and promoting white supremacy through the website of a group known as The Daily Stormer.

We should speak

Recently the University rolled out the second part of the We Speak survey, designed to collect data on the prevalence of and attitudes toward sexual misconduct on Princeton’s campus so that the University can more effectively respond to such cases.

Playing defense: Why AB vs. BSE is a lose-lose game

I am tired of reading New York Times Opinion articles titled some permutation of “The Humanities Are Important.”This is a weird feeling for me to have.

Maneuvering a manipulative media

This week Western media has been firmly fixed on the Brussels bombings. In her most recent “Prince” column, Sarah Sakha ’18 laments how coverage of the Brussels bombings has completely eclipsed coverage of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Turkey, Iraq and Ivory Coast.

Rihanna and the politicization of English

The first time I listened to “Work,” I was ridiculously excited. I was happy primarily because its release meant Rihanna’s highly anticipated eighth album was soon to follow.

U. Should Provide Cheaper NJ Transit Train Tickets

Because I love seeing Broadway shows so much, I find myself shelling out upwards of $16 for a NJ Transit ticket to New York City a couple of times a semester.

Thesis... Thesis...

Morning routine

The responsibility to vote extends beyond the Presidential election

It’s 2016, and that means there’s a presidential election happening in November.

The "Princeton Man"

Before John F. Kennedy was a candidate for President, he was an applicant to Princeton.

To the finish line

There’s an unwritten rule about small talk as March tips into April: do not ask seniors about their theses.