Opinion

Prestige and open sources

Journals, which publishers can sell individually for as much as $40,000 per year, facilitate academic discourse. Through peer review and distribution to an established audience, the journals play an instrumental role in spreading new ideas and discoveries. Because publishing in a top journal is essential for any researcher looking to make a name for herself or at least spread her contributions to the most relevant minds, the journals possess exclusive access to some of the most significant academic literature.

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Let's NOT talk about sex

Princeton may be conservative, but students aren’t too conservative to have sex — some more than others, some less than others, but it’s happening. So why can’t we talk about it? Why must sex only be discussed in the confines of one’s dorm room, in the whispers of a dining hall or a small ’zee group in a residential college? Why can’t we have a Sex Week like Harvard and Yale?

A wider perspective

The University strives to impress upon us how diverse the student body is, but we rarely have substantive interactions with people who are different from us. Perhaps the solution is to utilize new ways of teaching, through groups exercises or projects, to make the classroom a chance for growth in more ways than one.

Editorial: Ambiguous self-defense

While recognizing that Princeton’s behavior in the aftermath of the suicide was constrained by legal factors and a commitment to privacy rights, the Editorial Board nonetheless feels that the University ought to have been more forthcoming in its initial reactions to the news of Calvo’s death.

Talking with the plumber

It all began at my elite boarding school, where I studied English and history, mastered Greek and Latin and learned how to use power tools accurately and safely.

Real dialogue

We celebrate diversity through multicultural and interfaith groups and events, but we miss acknowledging that diversity means we are different — and that conflict can arise from differences.

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Editorial: New kids on the Street

In this editorial, we hope to give you some insight into Princeton’s unique eating club system, considered by many to be an indispensible part of the Princeton experience.

#whatshouldwecallthisarticle

Memes. GIFs. Unpronounceable (mehmeh? jiff?) and even harder to define. As far as I can tell, they’re both things on the Internet that make you LOL, except GIFs move and memes don’t.

Love letter (sort of)

Consider this a thank-you-bordering-on-love letter to Princeton from someone with too many reservations to just say love letter and be done with it. Dear Princeton: I do not (yet) love you, but I appreciate and admire you with all the sincerity my icy skeptical heart can muster. Here’s why.

A matter of time

We need to stop viewing education — both our own as Princetonians and that of children across the country — as the sum of all the lectures we attend, papers we write and time we spend looking at a blackboard — or Blackboard. Instead of trying to extend the school day, policy-makers like Emmanuel should seek to promote those things which ultimately enhance learning: social free time, the arts, efficient lesson plans. Only when we rid ourselves of this obsession with over-structuring and numbers can we improve education in a fundamental and meaningful way.

Undecided, open-minded

Apparently the mere thought that anyone would consider wasting their time applying to college without a major firmly in mind or, even worse, that someone would actually spend up to two years in college without having success in one field planned out every step of the way was so stupid it was laughable. The representative assured me that students did not need to declare a major right away, but the damage was done.

Finishing your thesis with Paul Newman

Getting in from abroad

I am in no position to make a value judgment on either system, and I accept that this is an incomplete picture of both systems. These are merely possible conclusions that provide some sort of explanation to my school’s dilemma. Despite their effort to focus on the American application culture, students still find it hard to place themselves in the American essay mindset through no fault of their own; they are just not prepared to do so.

Intersections

The Lewis Center is relocating to the southwest corner of campus and getting seriously spruced up.

Taking back the night

As SHARE is Princeton’s premiere resource for fostering a community of consent and ending sexual assault and violence, I assumed that the event would be dedicated to something along those lines. But, as I quickly learned, the event was not meant to talk “along the lines” of rape, to say things vaguely or to talk unambiguously about the issue at hand.

Prosumerism

The Internet is such a powerful and unbridled outlet for creativity because it is a wide-reaching, interactive network that undergoes no censorship.

YOLO

While I obviously see the value of gaining a wide variety of experiences, I’m always struck by the pure and simple hedonistic value of these boys’ approach to life. I don’t doubt that it’s the result of being young, and that as they get older they’ll feel more pressure to subscribe to the “check and move on” approach. But I think there’s a nice quality to their style of ‘You Only Live Once’ ideology — one that avoids both the problems of overvaluing new experiences and retroactive application.