Opinion

CJL: Freedom of speech or association?

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.

Who am I writing for?

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.

Beyond the Rhetoric Part II: The Numbers Don’t Lie

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.

Cartoon: Hand-holding envy

The suicide of the humanities

I recently received an email with the best of intentions — one announcing a workshop for information on career options.

Cartoon: Tiger Comic No. 2

Differentiation in writing seminars

“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.

Fruits are exotic. Humans are not.

“How is your English so good?” I was confused by these words. I’ve never heardthem before—not addressed toward me anyway.

Response from the Center for Jewish Life

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.

Enjoy the honeymoon

A few weeks ago, I went to a law school admission presentation hosted by four of the top programs in the country.

Community engagement is not an experiment

Institutions of higher education are no strangers to high-profile gifts from their successful alumni.

Cartoon: Weekend studying

Cartoon: Coffee cult

Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech on campus?

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.

Towards a safe space in feminist discussions

“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.

Editorial: Toward meaningful grading

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.

Cartoon: Time travelers

#Bringing back awareness

In April earlier this year, 276 girls were abducted from an elementary school in Nigeria by Boko Haram, a terrorist group in northeast Nigeria.

Editorial: Engineering school enhancements

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.

“It’s not you, it’s me”: Princeton’s breakup with tradition

They’d been together for ten years. But they’d been fighting a great deal recently, trying to eschew an inevitable split.