Facebook, politics and internet sensationalism
Christian WawrzonekI am not the type of person who lives by a set of hard rules. I enjoy being spontaneous and exploring new things.
I am not the type of person who lives by a set of hard rules. I enjoy being spontaneous and exploring new things.
No liberal arts education is complete without a solid grounding in the Western intellectual tradition.
Over half a century ago, an authoritative body tried to silence an organization’s right to associate.When the issue came before the Supreme Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan II, in a unanimous opinion, wrote, ”It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the ‘liberty’ assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”The case: NAACP v.
Since last week, I’ve had to do some soul-searching to find it in me to keep writing — not because my freshman seminar professor shredded my first essay with the same rapture my five-year-old self found in making confetti, but because my one “successful” work this year didn’t directly achieve what I had hoped.By metrics of circulation, my column titled “Keep misandry out of feminism” was, in fact, a success: it sparked 154 online comments, emails from as far away as Denver, a response column by Marni Morse and a retweet by feminist author Christina Hoff Sommers to her 20,000 followers.
Last week the Daily Princetonian published an op-ed by members of the Latino Graduate Student Association, Graduate Women of Color Caucus, and Black Graduate Caucus on the Graduate School’s recent decision to restructure the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversityand, effectively, deprioritize issues of diversity at the graduate level.While some may disagree with the tone of the article, its central premise remains: Recent changes in the organizational structure of the Graduate School significantly damage underrepresented students’ faith in the current administration's ability to increase minority representation and improve campus climate. Persons of color are underrepresented at all levels of the Graduate School.
I recently received an email with the best of intentions — one announcing a workshop for information on career options.
“Yeah, most people hate their writing seminars,” a junior told me outside J Street Library when I made a face to his question about whether I enjoyed my writing seminar.
“How is your English so good?” I was confused by these words. I’ve never heardthem before—not addressed toward me anyway.
This is a response to Professor Max Weiss’s October 12 article entitled “Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech on campus?”Every member of the Princeton community is always welcome at the Center for Jewish Life.
A few weeks ago, I went to a law school admission presentation hosted by four of the top programs in the country.
Institutions of higher education are no strangers to high-profile gifts from their successful alumni.
By Max Weiss I have never met Slav Leibin. Nonetheless, it recently came to my attention that he vetoed, with the approval of the Center for Jewish Life, my right to participate in a proposed panel on the recent hostilities in Gaza.
“Oh, I get it. You’re a feminist until it’s hard.”A fellow Princeton classmate dropped this insult on me during a heated discussion about the sexism of Reddit, and it stung.
Last Monday, University faculty members voted to revoke the policy of grade deflation implemented in 2004 and to move towards a grading system based not on numerical targets, but on standards determined by each individual department.