Opinion

Editorial: Campus speakers and diversity of thought

Last week, the Wilson School hosted former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, as well as Dr. Willie Parker, one of the last physicians performing abortions in Mississippi, to deliver lectures in Robertson Hall.

AP U.S. History the Beautiful

There are many things that I worried about as a 16-year-old high school sophomore.

Why Bicker is necessary

There has been a recent initiative on campus in the form of a petition to call forth a referendum to end Bicker in the Princeton eating clubs.

Cartoon: A misunderstood love

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.

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.

Letter to the editor concerning Willie Parker

By Zach Horton ’15The Daily Princetonian coverage of abortionist Willie Parker’s Wednesday lecture reads like a transcript of Parker’s remarks.

More on sexual misconduct

With the recent events surrounding the “Princeton Mom” and Tiger Inn, sexual misconduct has been talked about significantly both on campus and in the pages of The Daily Princetonian.

Let's talk to strangers

At the start of this academic year, I wrote a column advising freshmen to give themselves more than a couple months to decide how they felt about Princeton and the college experience.

Cartoon: Week 3 - keep going tigers

The new sheriff in town: on vigilante justice

I’ve been following Anonymous — a loosely connected group of internet hackers — for a few months now.

Diversity and some inevitable trade-offs

To begin with the obvious: diversity is hardly a new topic of conversation at the University.

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.

The Chapel Hill Murders and Mainstream Media

By: Ismael CatovicLast Wednesday, I awoke to the tragic news of the murder of three college-age Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, N.C.. Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were murdered execution-style in their condominium two miles from the UNC campus.

Princeton admissions and its racism

Harvard, Yale and Princeton had been educating America’s elite for 200 years when, in the 1920s, the Big Three began to have a problem: Jews. The problem was especially dire at Harvard, where Jews — nationally, 3 percent of the population — made up 27 percent of the student body by 1925.

Why we need to talk about the Chapel Hill Shooting

Last Tuesday, a gunman entered a private residence and shot and killed three students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

We’re not ready for mandatory reporting

If all the recent coverage about sexual assault on college campuses has done anything, it has encouraged people to scrutinize more closely the prevalence of sexual assault and the difficulty of bringing justice as well as to brainstorm potential solutions.

Cartoon: Thesis Mountain

Teachers who look as they may

The Daily Princetonian recently published a column titled “Teachers who look like us,” written by Tehila Wenger.

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.