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Editorial: Join the Editorial Board

Editorial: Join the Editorial Board

Editorial Board

Over the past semester, the unsigned editorials featured on this page have discussed issues such as increased transparency in forced mental health withdrawals, defining a University marijuana policy and investigating gender pay discrepancy at Princeton.

OPINION | 09/18/2014

Feeling old and being young

Chelsea Jones

Watching my little brother pack his belongings into the car before his freshman year of college as I did the same on the cusp of my senior year, I felt old.

OPINION | 09/18/2014

Streamline university websites

Ryan Dukeman

n any institution as large and complex as the University, a network of departments, offices, councils, organizations, programs, and commissions are needed to carry out essential functions.

OPINION | 09/17/2014

Activities fair: bigger but not better

Ali Akram Hayat

As you approach the building, you see fellow freshmen buzzing around. Some are alone, while others approach with awkwardly assembled friends from OA/CA and zee groups, still not quite there yet in the friendship dynamic but desperately trying.

OPINION | 09/17/2014

No more nominations

Isabella Gomes

As of Aug. 29, 2014, the ALS Association proudly reported having received $100.9 million from over three million donors within a month, thanks to this summer’s viral Ice Bucket Challenge.

OPINION | 09/17/2014

Cartoon: A modest proposal

Jack Moore

OPINION | 09/17/2014

Princeton: physics, philosophy and pornography

Mitchell Hammer

You need to go to college. You have to get an education to be successful. You must have a neat, little degree on your wall to get a job.

OPINION | 09/16/2014

Soft chauvinism

Tehila Wenger

My first day in Morocco, I was uncomfortable. After three days, I was angry. By the end of the week, I was more than ready to try out one of those female-only dystopian societies that science fiction writers find so captivating.

OPINION | 09/16/2014

Mentoring at Princeton

Zeena Mubarak

It will not surprise anyone to hear that the majority of the freshmen whom I have met so far have been extremely —and understandably —anxious.

OPINION | 09/16/2014

Cartoon: Existential crisis

Elizabeth Buehler

OPINION | 09/16/2014

Confusing cause and symptom

Guest Contributor

By Will Rivitz Before I dive into this piece, let’s get one thing out of the way: I fully agree with the central tenet of 'Prince' columnist Shruthi Deivasigamani’s column, “Blaming Women.” The disconnect betweenthe blithe "post-gender" attitude our society ostensibly embodies and the massive, hideous underbelly of an American society extremely conducive to sexual harassment and assault is frightening.

OPINION | 09/15/2014

The contradictions of service

Barbara Zhan

The ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge," one of the biggest social media trends to sweep across the nation this summer, was also a source of controversy.

OPINION | 09/15/2014

A politically motivated veto?

Benjamin Dinovelli

Annually, an estimated 50,000 people die due to exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the American Lung Association. Last week, Gov.

OPINION | 09/15/2014

Cartoon: A nutty perspective

Kai Song-Nichols

OPINION | 09/15/2014

Stop blaming biology

Isabella Gomes

In her Aug. 18 column in the New York Post, Doree Lewak discusses how she views the act of “catcalling” to be an innocuous form of “self-empowerment" for women, saying that it should deliver a “drive-by dose of confidence” rather than being considered something as negative as street harassment.

OPINION | 09/14/2014

Editorial: Transparency in the investigatory procedures of the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline

Editorial Board

Last spring, The Daily Princetonian reported on the last USG Senate meeting of the year.

OPINION | 09/14/2014

What we talk about when we talk about privacy

Cameron Langford

In the midst of rising racial tensions in Ferguson and an encroaching ISIS abroad, summer’s biggest news story might just have been about a group of naked girls. On Aug.

OPINION | 09/14/2014

OPINION | 09/11/2014

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