The eating clubs, an important part of the Princeton experience for many students, will be closed to non-members until you leave. We want to provide you with our take on the system in order to better inform your college decision.
Anyone who decides not to attend Princeton because of the exclusivity of the eating club system will be making one the poorest decisions of their life.
While the richest twentieth of American society is overrepresented at Princeton by a factor of eight, students from the bottom half are underrepresented by roughly a factor of five.
Fortunately, Velandia and Vandiver are not alone, and I applaud the efforts of the Princeton community to petition the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider this policy, as well as the efforts to call on Congress to enact the Respect for Marriage Act which would grant federal recognition to the same-sex marriages officiated by state governments, just as opposite-sex marriages are recognized.
I realized that I had never experienced the sort of community that I enjoyed in this physics class in a philosophy class — or any other non-math or science class here, for that matter.
As incoming freshmen, students are told they don’t declare a major until the end of sophomore year. Though the form is submitted then, students must make many decisions about majors before that point. This practice is reasonable, but there is a troubling inconsistency across departments.
Just as the registrar was required to step in to fill the gap left by the student course guide, the housing department should fill the gap left by the student room guide by creating a centralized room evaluation system to provide more access to information about rooms.
I’m simply here to share my thoughts in this formal, public forum. It doesn’t matter if I purport to speak from anything more than my own perspective, because the utility of the opinion section is not in the rightness of the submission but, instead, in the act of expressing and sharing reasoned personal beliefs with the general public.
Returning treasures to their original context is unfeasible; too much has changed physically and culturally over time for them to speak more clearly in their country of origin than they do in museums, where they can be compared to large assemblies of objects from a variety of cultures. In the advanced world of the 21st century, looting and stealing artifacts should be eliminated altogether — even for the sake of preservation, but the returning of already acquired artifacts should not be expected.
Writing for the ‘Prince’ is like participating in a big precept discussion. Should I ask this question? I hope it’s not too obvious. Should I say I agree with this? What if everybody disagrees?
Now that the construction of new Butler and the renovations in Forbes are complete, it is time to return to offering storage to all students.
Nothing in the code would prevent an economist from weighing in on any public issue of the day while also garnering a retainer from, say, the Koch Brothers or the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, but it would say that full disclosure must be part of every public message.
As leaders in our eating clubs, we would like to take this Pride Week to recommit and reaffirm our constant goal of ensuring that people of all backgrounds, experiences and orientations have a safe and fun outlet in all of the eating clubs.
For every narrative of an Israeli running to a bomb shelter, there exists a parallel anecdote of an innocent Palestinian civilian family fleeing from their home with minutes’ notice to escape an Israeli airstrike, or a college student living in Nablus who is withheld passage through a checkpoint to attend university in Birzeit.
