Opinion

The privilege of knowing our peers

My little sister came to town this past weekend. It was her first time visiting me at Princeton in my four years here, though, as a second semester junior in high school, I suppose it only recently became appropriate for her to spend an extended period of time here.

Cartoon: Last week of classes

Editorial: Prefrosh, congratulations!

As the college application season draws to a final close and the May 1 deadline for matriculation waits just around the corner, we hope to provide you with one final summary of the reasons why you should consider coming to this great University. It is rather unfortunate that this year you have been handed the short end of the stick with a condensed Princeton Preview program.

Cartoon: When BuzzFeed quizzes get accurate

You're not fooling us

The mental health issues on campus have led to at least one good result: a subsequent discussion of these issues and their possible solutions.

On fear and CPS

As a columnist for The Daily Princetonian, I pay more attention than most to these pages. Knowing that, and having heard thehorrorstoriesover the last month regarding Counseling and Psychological Services and the administration’s treatment of mental health, you might be surprised at where I was last Tuesday morning.

Cartoon: Food crime

Rejecting and maintaining tradition

On Easter morning, I awoke to a text from my grandmother. In the message, she expressed her wish that I attend a church service, as it is my family’s tradition.

Letter to the Editor: April 24, 2014

To the Editor, The University's Counseling and Psychological Services has received a great deal of attention in recent weeks, so I'd like to take this opportunity to describe the services and the high level of care we provide to students.

Editorial: Investigating gender pay discrepancy at Princeton

Recently, the American Association of University Professors released its 2013-2014 Faculty Salary Survey.

Cartoon: Preview awkwardness

“Heartbleed? That’s the thing where I’m supposed to change my password, right?”

On April 1, Google notified workers at OpenSSL that they had discovered Heartbleed, an online bug that caused a fatal flaw in OpenSSL that left many users’ data vulnerable.

Nothing left to say

It’s a trend that I initially started to realize during the middle of first semester, and as time went on, it became more apparent to me.

The problem with dress codes

The internet has been buzzing recently with the controversy regarding a middle school in Evanston, Ill.

Cartoon: Leisure reading, Princeton style

Letter to the Editor: April 23, 2014

To the Editor: Several recent op-eds in The Daily Princetonian have erroneously asserted that when the University makes decisions regarding students coping with mental health issues, it is motivated by concerns about liability and reputation.

AP credits should fulfill distribution requirements

When the time comes to pick classes at the end of each semester, we all find ourselves going through some stage of the same basic process: We consider how we’re going to fill our distribution requirements, what prerequisites or departmentals we need, which classes fill another class’s prereqs or how we’ll take classes around our independent work.

Lawnparties: Quality or quantity?

This spring, we Princetonians are experiencing what has been called “easily the worst lineup of all the Ivies.”I am referring, of course, to USG’s disappointing decision to subject us to GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne this Lawnparties.

Cartoon: Mobilization for late meal

Missing the point

“South Korea is a culture that prizes obeying your superiors,” CNN correspondent Kyung Lah stated in her coverage of the now capsized South Korean ferry. More than 450 passengers, many of them teenage students on a high school field trip, were aboard a ferry when it tipped over and began to sink off the South Korean coast on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.