Opinion

Pigeonholed

The reality that there is a decent amount of data about our lives online means people are now concerned with “maintaining” their online identity. Identifying how you want to appear to others, and correcting where necessary to prevent aberrations from this ideal. You may, for example, have been told to cultivate a personal brand. To find a way to market yourself, establish your worth. I’d rather not, thank you very much. Because I am not a brand, I am a person.

Editorial: Moral articulateness

According to Brooks, a major symptom of the hyper-industrious, achievement-seeking “organization kid” native to university environments such as ours is a distinct lack of “moral articulateness.” This is a serious problem in the University and is one that we must address as students ourselves.

Cartoon: Where I go to school

A feminist anthropologist goes to zumba

Zumba is a ritual of stoic confusion.

Cartoon: Illegal Possession

Puck who?

Over the course of our slightly awkward exchange, it came up that I spent a fair chunk of my senior year oscillating between spending my next four years at Princeton and spending them at Penn, which at the time I valued very highly for not being in my home state of The Dirty Jerz.

The girl in the pantsuit who cried sexism

But it is crucial that we “cry sexism” as long as it exists. I agree with Jones that the goal of feminism is not to divide the sexes in a war of women against men. And yes, it would be wrong to create a problem to garner sympathy and attention. But it is worse to ignore a real problem for fear of rocking the boat.

Black Friday II

It appears Thanksgiving has slowly morphed from being a traditional winter holiday, when people came together to eat huge portions and tolerate distant relatives, to merely preparation for Black Friday

Cartoon: Sir Dashing

Black Friday

We give thanks, only to return to malls and stores to purchase more of what we want and think we need.

International diversity

Internationals at Princeton tend to be a rather wealthy group who have attended either an international school at home or a boarding school in an English-speaking country abroad

3 weeks

At Princeton, away from who I once was and how I once behaved, it’s easy to adopt changes. Going home, I find out which ones stuck, which ones weren’t just a performance but true adjustments to my attitudes and values.

Letter to the Editor: November 27th, 2012

As a former ‘Prince’ opinion editor, I read President Tilghman’s letter in yesterday’s paper with interest. But when she writes that “anonymous debate is no debate at all,” I find myself forced to disagree. Managing anonymity is hard, but banning it would be a mistake.

Anonymity is crucial

I understand the desire to try and mitigate these unsavory consequences of speech. But I honestly and respectfully cannot agree with you, President Tilghman, that “anonymous debate is no debate at all.”

Must everything be sexist?

There is undoubtedly sexism in the workplace. Female managers are earning an average of 73 percent of the salary of male managers. Women account for only 3.8 percent of Fortune 500 chief executive positions. Yet, it is the overwhelming prevalence of these facts and figures in the media that has turned every gender-related comment into a matter of sexism. Men have been pitted against women in a war of sexes. Women are expected to stand against the patriarchal establishment.

Cartoon: What keeps us motivated

Walden meets Princeton

As I sat by the wood fire in a cabin in the woods, Henry David Thoreau reminded me “it is never too late to give up our prejudices.” Our prejudice that our lives need to be busy; our prejudice that we need follow society’s definition of success; our prejudice that our view of ourselves is subordinate to other’s view of us.

Letter to the Editor: Nov. 26, 2012

What value do you place on readers who go to the ‘Prince’ website to witness the verbal equivalent of a food fight?  I very much hope that editors will return to a policy that has served this paper well since its founding in 1876 and ask that its readers “own their words.”

Editorial: Freshman advising

This Board supports integrating the freshman seminar system with the faculty advising system and regularizing contact between peer advisers and students.

A dining minority

When I was in middle school, I had a friend who had moved to a more affluent area. His family was like my family, basically middle-middle class, but many of his friends in the neighborhood were wealthy.