Opinion

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.

#selfie

Millennials have been called the "me generation," and if you were to search “selfie” on any form of social media, the claim seems well-founded.

Editorial: Implement blind grading

Recently, in response to criticism about unfair grading, some courses have implemented a system of blind grading for problem sets and papers.

My lying, smiling face

Editor's note: The author of this column was granted anonymity due to the intensely personal nature of the events described. I am writing this column because I am genuinely concerned about the well-being of my fellow students here at Princeton.

Cartoon: Life lessons

Empty chairs

When asked about their favorite aspect of Princeton, most students will respond that it’s “the people.” This answer does not surprise me, as it is my answer too.

Editorial: Standardize course audits

Every semester during course selection, students are faced with a difficult yet necessary task: deciding on only four or five classes.

The commonality of faiths

It was a quiet Tuesday night when my roommate and I decided to take a trip to the U-Store. We were trying to go less frequently, as the store takes so much of our money, but we both knew we had a late night of work ahead of us.

The plight of the Princeton engineer

By Mike Kosk As a high school senior I boasted to my alumni interviewer, a lifelong electrical engineer and biomedical researcher, about my passion for building and modifying things in my spare time.