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The Daily Princetonian

Concussion awareness on campus

By David Goldstein ’17As someone who has endured multiple concussions, has founded and continued to manage a comprehensive Countywide Concussion Care program, and has helped pass youth concussion legislation in Florida, I saw an immense amount of value in the wise words and lessons that were shared at the Concussions in Youth Sports Discussion on Sept.

OPINION | 02/19/2015

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Editorial: Electing Honor Committee Representatives

The Honor Code Constitution designates as members of the Honor Committee “the presidents of the sophomore and junior classes, former sophomore and junior class presidents, a member of the freshman class to be appointed by a subcommittee comprised of four members of the Honor Committee and the Undergraduate Student Government president, and members to be appointed by a selection committee from the student body at large until the committee consists of twelve members.” The Editorial Board believes that the practice of including current and past class presidents in the Honor Committee membership should be discontinued in favor of independent elections, held simultaneously with class council elections, for Honor Committee representatives.

OPINION | 02/19/2015

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Ivy League elitism, revisited

Last week, guest columnist Theo Furchtgott (full disclosure: Furchtgott is a friend and fellow Governing Council member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society) decried the “steep price” we Ivy Leaguers pay when seeking public office, since our top-ranked degrees are liable to come back and bite us in populist, anti-intellectual attack ads.

OPINION | 02/17/2015

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Editorial: Reform Princeton’s academic calendar

Earlier this month, almost 40 percent of Princeton undergraduates voted in an Undergraduate Student Government-sponsored referendum to “call on the faculty and administration to provide for a three-week winter recess during the 2015-16 academic year and future academic years.” Predictably, it passed, with over 96 percent of students voting in favor.

OPINION | 02/15/2015