Brazen violation of perfectly just laws fueled by inchoate anger isn’t civil disobedience. It’s anarchy. And it shouldn’t be tolerated, much less encouraged by figures such as Professor West.
Voters affiliated with the University should accept the invitation, and vote YES as well, putting the Borough Council out of business forever. Here’s why.
This final installment sets a critical eye to the implementation of diversity programming on campus and the question of whether or not diversity can be compulsory.
In a tumultuous time, it was a relatively quiet reform, designed to channel students’ indignation towards constructive action within the system. But Princeton’s Fall Break stirred considerable controversy — and, as archival material recently unearthed at the Nixon Presidential Library reveals, it raised sharp concerns inside the Nixon White House.
It is one thing, for example, to say that if we are unsure of the moral status of animals and can subsist without eating them it makes sense to abstain. To say, however, that “suffering is the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration,” making infants the equals of many animals, is to assert a priori that every other characteristic is not worth considering.
Using our talents, passions and personal interests to create social change is a primary legacy left by Kopp. We should all be incredibly proud of Teach for America, but we should also be proud of students such as Satok and Friedman and perhaps take inspiration and motivation from them to be creative and be our own vehicles for global change.
The University ought to implement a shadow-grading system in its assessment of academic performance during the fall of freshman year. Under this system, professors would privately inform students of the grade they received in the class, but that grade would not be publicly available on transcripts and would not affect students’ grade point averages.
We students need to take some responsibility with regard to alcohol in order to create an environment that aligns fun with reasonable precautions for safety.
Both politicians and the public seem less concerned with climate change than they were three years ago, and governmental action seems unlikely in the near future. While this can partially be attributed to the powerful fossil-fuel lobby and the economic recession, I think a large part of the problem stems from the way we talk about climate change.
The Editorial Board encourages the University to work with the Alumni Association and the Library in order to provide JSTOR access to Princeton alumni.
We at Princeton are a privileged bunch — we are expected to become leaders and to have the ability to create change. We ought to use this expectation to benefit the world and to hold ourselves to that higher standard, in earnest and in jest. Because there is no reason a Princeton woman should be less likely, or believe herself less capable, to run for an elected position than a Princeton man.
The University should continue to welcome students from every corner of the world, from every background and with every set of values. However, the administration should beware of shiny statistics and those ticked boxes. Numbers are one thing, reality another. Without real integration, “diversity” will result in a shallow pretense of unity.
Having asked multiple humanities majors about their future career options, most casually respond that, if they do not end up with a job in their respective concentration, they can always go into finance as a backup. As a backup. Even science and engineering majors are ostensibly starting to consider finance as a secondary plan for their future careers and internships. This trend is perceptible among Princeton students.
There is no excuse to continue this practice that hurts those who aren’t accepted, and it is time that we stop letting this happen. We have three months to reconsider how we do this, so we should get started as soon as possible.