Opinion

Editorial: Create a First Generation Center

Over the last several decades, Princeton has become a more diverse place, matriculating a student body that includes women, students from diverse cultural backgrounds and students with a wide array of socioeconomic experiences.

Handing down our crowns

By Yesenia Arroyo In a recent opinion article titled “Why working on Wall Street hurts the economy,” Coy Ozias presents an economic argument that suggests pursuing a high-paying job after graduation will increase the income gap in America and hurt the middle class.

Cartoon: COS-o-Vision

Melting the polarizing ice caps on climate change

Two weeks ago, Republicans took back the Senate and promised a wave of conservative reforms regarding issues like healthcare (shrink it), reproductive rights (limit abortion but provide over-the-counter birth control, maybe) and immigration (bolster border security). But they were notably silent on one issue: climate change, about which several Republicans merely shrugged, “I’m not a scientist.” That much is obvious.

Cartoon: Still readjusting

Privacy should be a right

The number of bottles grew over time—first shampoo and conditioner, then hair gel. “This guy must really love his hair,” my friend told me after finding such hair products crowding the men’s bathroom on multiple occasions.

Editorial: Implement broader placement testing

Over the past few weeks, members of the freshman class experienced their first set of midterm exams.

Pro-Israel; Anti-Occupation

By The Board of J Street U Princeton In recent weeks, the controversial tactic of boycott, divestment, and sanctions has been thrust into the center of our community’s conversation on Israel and Palestine.

Cartoon: Meet the A.I.

Improving residential college Broadway trips

I am the reason my friend almost did not get to see “The Lion King” on Broadway last night.

The trust deficit

Ask a room full of people what they think when they hear the word “deficit” and the words “economy,” “government spending” or “taxes” may quickly come to mind.

An open letter from Jewish students to the CJL community and Hillel International

We, the undersigned, are Jewish students on this campus whowere troubled, most recently, by Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life Rabbi Julie Roth’s letter, emailed to all students affiliated with the CJL, that laid out the CJL’s institutional response to a faculty petition calling for the University to “divest from all companies that contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank until the State of Israel complies with UN Resolution 242, ends its military occupation of the West Bank and lifts its siege of Gaza.” The letter states that the CJL is “taking the best, positive strategic approach to defeat this action,” including a direct link to a counter-petition open to all members of the University community—as though taking such action is a foregone conclusion for our community. Last week’s letter is emblematic of the larger bind into which Hillel International forces the CJL and our community.

Letter to the Editor: Pyne Prize nominations

I write to solicit nominations for the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded during Alumni Day, on Feb.

Cartoon: Still paranoid

Let's do long-distance

“Don’t bother befriending any visiting students,” says Creative Director and Deputy Arts & Lit Editor of The Oxford Student, Natalie Harney.

Content over professor

“That sounds like an interesting course, but who teaches it?” When I was signing up for classes at the beginning of the semester, I asked upperclassmen for recommendations.

Letter to the Editor: Nov. 11, 2014

To the Editor: The people in theanti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign are an interesting crowd.

Cartoon: Lamppost lampoon

Offer introductory language courses year-round

One of the best parts of the University’s undergrad curriculum is the freedom to explore during your first two years (and to some degree, even after you’ve selected a major). We don’t have standard general education courses that every single freshman or sophomore has to take, like at Columbia.

Be part of the solution

By Sam Major Last Tuesday, a number of Princeton faculty members ran an advertisement in The Daily Princetonian calling for the University to “divest from all companies that contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continued siege of Gaza.” Many students, however, disagree.