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.
In April earlier this year, 276 girls were abducted from an elementary school in Nigeria by Boko Haram, a terrorist group in northeast Nigeria.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton, as this year’s Undergraduate Announcement states, aims to teach “fundamental engineering principles” and their “applications to modern problems.” While the Engineering School has served B.S.E.
They’d been together for ten years. But they’d been fighting a great deal recently, trying to eschew an inevitable split.
Princeton University has deepened the anguish and intensified the alienation of its graduate students of color, all in the name of expanding diversity. On Oct.
The end of grade deflation was initially met with delight, then with some skepticism and finally — as with all things unclear and undefined — with confusion.
Last week I sat, panicked, in the waiting room of McCosh Health Center. I was going to die; I was sure of it. I was awaiting the results of a sexually transmitted disease test panel that, since high school, I have scheduled routinely.
At noon on the afternoon of Aug. 9, Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo. The event spurred days of rioting and unrest in the Southern city.
At the University, and in Western culture at large, it is very common to take a very myopic viewpoint of international affairs.
Last week, Newby Parton wrote quite the controversial column. He began by discussing our revised sexual assault policy but quickly devolved into perceptions of equating feminism with misandry, which were unsubstantiated and which unfortunately furthers a very harmful and false societal trope and obfuscates the much-needed, meaningful dialogue regarding sexual assault.
I’ll be writing my next few pieces on what it’s like to be studying abroad at a university in the United Kingdom.
