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Appreciating veterans

Since we cannot personally thank the dead, we most certainly should show our appreciation for the living veterans. It’s men like the following four who we thank on this day. Each epitomizes the soldier’s duty of putting his own life at risk to protect others.

OPINION | 11/10/2011

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Unhelpful advice

It seems that there are enough advisers per student to take care of every social and academic aspect of our lives. And yet, one semester into my college career, I have difficulty identifying ways my advisers have benefited me in concrete terms.

OPINION | 11/09/2011

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A different kind of service

The way she saw it, loads of kids come into Princeton having done community service by volunteering throughout high school, but something happens during their time here, and, instead of graduating loads of kids into not-for-profit, volunteer-oriented jobs, we place them at consulting firms, banks or other corporate entities. This career trajectory was presented as a non sequitur for the once civically minded. She wanted to know: What was it that happened?

OPINION | 11/09/2011

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The Orange and Black Ball

A ball. There are very few things that inspire such a romantic notion in a girl’s mind as a ball, especially a girl who grew up watching Cinderella and who until age 8 would leave single shoes in parks, classrooms and hotels so that “Prince Charming could find her.” So when the idea of an all-school ball was presented in a random class government meeting last winter, I was sold.

OPINION | 11/07/2011

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Not another wristband

My red bracelet traveled a long way before Grillo tied the strings around my wrist. The bracelets are handmade by Nepalese women and girls at a safe house near the Indian border. The safe house is a temporary home for girls either rescued from sex traffickers or girls who have nowhere else to turn. The bracelets are distributed in the United States by the Red Threads Movement, a student-run charity affiliated with Eternal Threads, a Texas-based non-profit that supports impoverished women throughout the world by selling their products in the United States.

OPINION | 11/07/2011

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Just occupation

So when is civil disobedience justified? “One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty,” said King. “I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

OPINION | 11/07/2011

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All the good things and the bad things

Although defining which kind of sex is immoral is for many people easy (i.e., they see all or most consensual sex as not immoral, as Toni Alimi mentions), what is not easy and indeed requires an ethical framework and an ethical discussion is defining which kind of sex is positively moral, i.e., which kind should be had.

OPINION | 10/27/2011