Opinion

Labels and solidarity

In light of the protests and controversy around racism at Yale University and the University of Missouri, college students across the country took to Facebook to show solidarity with students of color whose lives were threatened at these institutions.

Forgotten luggage

An unfortunate disconnect

There was a certain magic to frosh week. We all remember the feeling, whether like me, this year’s was your first, or whether you’ve experienced it from the enlightened perspective of a frosh week veteran.

Editorial: Mental health

Recent emails sent by Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun reminded the student body of the resources available from UHS’s Counseling and Psychological Services and encouraged students to “function as a community of care and responsibility” in looking out for one another’s well-being.

On freedom of expression

In this column, I argue that freedom of expression is a good and worthwhile thing. It is an uncontroversial stance on the face of it, for our country guarantees the freedom in its Constitution.

Cartoon: Day after Fall Break

Clamoring for a job in finance

This month marks the beginning of a season where blazers are the fashion and résumé-filled folders are accessories.

Piercing the veil at Yale

If you are a user of any kind of social media right now, debate over the protests at Yale is probably impossible to avoid.

Find your place in the movement

When hip-hop artist T-Dubb-O gets on stage, it’s like he was born there. The stage is where he proclaims his truth in verse as he makes eye contact with each and every fan and he tells us, “I don’t want a Trap Queen/I’d rather have a Coretta.” T-Dubb-O is one of the leaders of Hands Up United, a collective of politically engaged minds building toward the liberation of oppressed Black, Brown and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy and agriculture.

We all matter

In the weeks leading up to midterms and during the week of midterms itself, I found myself burdened with more than the small abyss of books and papers consuming my desk.

Use social media to bring about change

We have all heard of Cecil the lion. The majestic lion who was friendly to visitors, known for his large size and dark mane, and part of a University of Oxford lion conservation study.

Midterm postmortem

A constructive alternative to inter-publication bickering

Dissent among campus publications is a hallmark of the prose, opinion and editorial scene at Princeton.

Cartoon: Woodpecker humor

In the defense of the Christakises

You may have heard about Erika and Nicholas Christakis, the associate master and master of Yale’s Silliman College.

Editorial: Improve campus walkways and sidewalks

This Monday marks the start of the second half of the fall semester.

The myth of the undergraduate-focused university

Almost everyone is told, when we apply to Princeton, that this University distinguishes itself in large part because of its undergraduate focus.

The falling legacy of the athletic tradition

“My professor doesn’t respect my athletic commitments at all,” a student-athlete ranted to me during a study session sometime last week, referring to a specific incident in which her professor had responded with frustration when she informed him of an athletic conflict three days before a quiz.

Surviving midterms

As you’re reading these lines, other students are celebrating the survival of midterms week. You have solved equations, discussed complicated theories, held conversations in foreign languages and lived to tell the tale.

Editorial: Winter gear

On Sept. 20, the Undergraduate Student Government’s University Student Life Committee and the Princeton Hidden Minority Council hosted a winter coat giveaway at Campus Club.