Productive discourse requires recognition of the strongest arguments on all sides of an issue. We believe there are merits to gay rights advocates’ position and Scalia’s position on state legislatures’ democratic rights.
As one anonymous commenter wrote in response to Tilghman’s letter, “A few nasty comments here and there is an infinitesimally small price to pay for truly free, unabridged speech.” We agree.
Now that bigoted American narrative is applied to LGBT equality, specifically same-sex marriage. Thus the media and others are generally fair in recognizing and condemning Scalia’s thinly veiled discrimination
But it’s not for our gardens or wilderness that I love this great state. I love New Jersey for its eccentricity. The examples of New Jersey’s more questionable and decidedly bizarre state actions — seriously, who makes a law against pumping your own gas? — are rife, but two in particular impress and amuse me to no end.
Tiger Compliments gives us a forum to identify and prioritize what we value in each other, rather than what society values in us. It reminds us that what we value in each other should be the driving factor in our sense of self-worth. Given the overwhelming positive response to the Facebook page, it seems time for a paradigm shift. Hopefully, Tiger Compliments is just the beginning.
When I chose to try to do something ambitious, I signed up to fail. This failure has been uncomfortable, sure. But so is stagnation, and if I hadn’t chosen the former, I would be arrogant, scared and stunted. I can’t imagine myself as a person without the ‘Prince,’ and I suspect that for many other student leaders, their failure has defined them as well. No matter the product, it’s difficult to achieve anything without the process leaving at least a little bit of an indent.
Has the University’s largesse silenced those who might otherwise say that this plan offends sensibility as well as good sense? Bottom line: We know what’s right. Can we now look the other way as Princeton University trades our in-town, historic train station for better access to its parking garage?
Princeton University has one of the strangest academic calendars. Like, ever.
Facebook is still a business, and it exists to sell a product. When that product is our personal information, we should be even more wary of how that business is conducted.
Regarding “Scalia defends gay rights position” (Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012) and “Editorial: Self-scheduled exams” (Monday, Dec. 10, 2012)
So as these bleary-eyed writing students beg the clock to move more quickly toward 10 a.m., I can’t help but wonder how many will end up disappointed with their section. And how many of those will end up loving their class all the same? There may be quite a bit in a name. But there may be just as much in a professor not so well known, but just as impressive.
In our childishness and pettiness we have completely lost the purpose of sexual liberalization — to have fun, fulfilling and healthy sexual encounters or relationships defined on our own terms. Princeton: Just chill out and enjoy yourself. At a school where students often forget that socializing is singularly for fun, the “hookup culture” is equally mired by over-analysis, strategy and insecurity.
Nevertheless, our peer institutions — Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Brown in particular — churn out future professors and researchers in vastly greater quantities, relative populations considered. What is it about Princeton that turns people away from the idea of advanced degrees in academia?
From scholarships to travel, Princeton creates amazing opportunities and the opportunity to create amazing opportunities, and I keep being too chicken to take advantage of them. And as I talk to my friends here, my friends at other schools and my friends worried about applying to other schools, something becomes very obvious.
Schools such as Haverford, Caltech, Williams and Carleton already use self-scheduled exams, which students can choose to take during any one of multiple prescheduled sittings. Implementation of such a policy at Princeton would afford students greater flexibility, eliminate the need for take-homes, make exams fairer and decrease student stress.
The University picks us from a pool of supposedly talented, largely reliable, self-motivated people. We are repeatedly told we have the best minds and the best prospects. Yet, when we get to campus, we aren’t always trusted to look after ourselves. The administration must reverse its policy of social engineering.
We should be unafraid to defend the merit of chaste lifestyles over promiscuous ones. By encouraging our friends’ chastity, we can do them a great service. It is an act of love to help a friend quit hooking up.
The Board strongly advocates against the current proposals that increase the days for Thanksgiving break at the expense of fall break. Instead, we argue for the implementation of an academic calendar that would preserve fall break and extend Thanksgiving break by starting the academic year a few days earlier.
With the only prerequisites often being simply a single class or two in the department, what the humanities most powerfully provide is the individual freedom to follow your heart. And that, Princeton tells us, is what college is really about.
I think that women and men should make whatever choices work for them and their families. But if they do find that they need to stop working or work differently, then they should be able to get back on the track later.
