Opinion

Outside the Bubble: Double standards

Two weeks ago, famed Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman —known for his roles in major films like Capote, The Ides of March and The Hunger Games— was found dead in his apartment of apparent heroin overdose. The 46-year-old actor, lauded by The New York Times as “perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation,” had a history of drug abuse during college.

Cartoon: Honesty

Nonprofit career fair should be an alternative, not an afterthought

Each fall, hundreds of students venture over to the career fairs in Dillon Gymnasium, and this year, for the first time, I was among them.

Cartoon: Bad Frosty

Outside the Bubble: Hacked!

Shortly after New Year’s celebrations ended and the confetti in Times Square settled, something insidious slithered into the news: On the night of Dec.

Meeting the sponsor

As it stands, over 60 percent of the University’s undergraduates receive financial aid and the University's no-loan program has been an incredible success over the years.

Susan Patton ’77 is unfair to men

Around this time last year, an unnatural force stormed The Daily Princetonian website, campus and news networks everywhere.

Letter to the Editor: Feb. 17, 2014

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Richard Falk will be delivering the Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Publicity for the lecture lists the English department as one of three cosponsors of the event, along with the Said Memorial Lecture Committee and the Princeton Committee on Palestine.

Cartoon: Flexin' that imagination

The Honor Code and the Dinky

By Anne Waldron Neumann More and more Princetonians complain about the University moving the Dinky station.

Editorial: Defining a University marijuana policy

Recently, TheDaily Princetonianreported on the arrest of a University student for the possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and three Ritalin pills.

Asian-American identity: The Princeton perspective

By Andrew Hahm In 2012, the Pew Research Center published a report on Asian-American demographic trends, proclaiming that “Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States.” The report, entitled “The Rise of Asian Americans,” points to an incredible growth in the visibility of the Asian-American community in recent years.

Students first, staffers second

Newspapers fulfill a unique niche in whatever community they serve, whether that is the campus, city, nation or the world at large, as they are one of the few sources providing concise and clear factual information in the time honored objective of traditional journalists.

Picking classes

Senior year brings an amalgam of intense feelings, confusions and apprehensions. It is a year of transition where independent work becomes significantly more serious and the prospect of leaving the academy for the first time is daunting.

Let yourself go (abroad)

In imagining what can only be the dramatic origins of a certain Princeton mantra, I like to think that one day a Princetonian on the cusp of graduation looked up at Blair Arch, its stones basked in a special sort of afternoon sun, and in a fit of nostalgia placed his hand on the shoulder of a passing freshman and warned, “You only get eight semesters here.” The freshman then thought of the very short eight semesters ahead of him and was struck with unease.

Cartoon: Flow chart

The basic necessities

Over intersession, I spent three days in the living room of a cozy barn house on a retreat with the Princeton’s Women’s Mentorship Program.

The role that rivalries play

My brother recently sent me a photo of a bathroom stall at his school, the University of California at Berkeley, and over the toilet seat dispenser, someone had attached a sign that read “Stanford diplomas, take one.” Naturally, I was tempted to replicate the idea at Princeton, replacing the school name of Stanford with the name Harvard, of course. Yet at the same time, I questioned the ultimate role that rivalries play in academia.

The social effects of recruitment

If I told you I’m on a varsity team, you could probably guess that I spend almost equal amounts of time in class and in practice or that I stress more over big races than big exams.

Cartoon: Working from home