Opinion

Discovering religion in the classroom

Discovering religion in the classroom

There are eight students in the class, some Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh and Hindu. On the table in front of us are our three, 500-page Pequod packets, compilations of the major Sufi teachings and their contemporary commentators. The name of this course is NES 324: Introduction to Later Sufism, the second in a two-semester series on mystical Islam.

OPINION | 02/21/2011

Cartoon: Inner nerd

OPINION | 02/20/2011

The proclivity to give back

If community service is considered great and those who “give back” are admired, why should we not institutionalize incentives to perform further community service?

OPINION | 02/20/2011

Have chalk, will travel

Among the many things the American educational system needs are stronger intellectual ties across the unnaturally large institutional divide between 12th grade (and what comes before) and freshman year in college (and what comes after).

OPINION | 02/20/2011

Editorial: Reforming the marijuana policy

The University should cease its current policy of imposing disciplinary consequences on students found in possession of marijuana in excess of those regulations required by law.

OPINION | 02/20/2011

Cartoon: Sometimes things go right

OPINION | 02/17/2011

Don't abandon pick-ups

The Daily Princetonian's editorial board overestimates the negative aspects of pick-ups and misunderstands pick-ups’ significance. Pick-ups should not be abandoned.

OPINION | 02/17/2011

I love that dungeon

Nathan Mathabane cannot understand why one of the largest and wealthiest research libraries in the world should inspire sentiments of “sadness, oppression and darkness.” Why would Firestone frighten anyone who hasn’t yet been assigned a junior paper topic?

OPINION | 02/17/2011

Editorial: Sustaining Pell Grants

Although less effective in reducing the overall budget, President Obama’s recent blueprint proposal for the 2012 budget seems to strike a balance between the importance of post-secondary education and the need to cut overall federal spending.

OPINION | 02/17/2011

Giving us an extra push

I believe we often need to be prodded to be reminded of the importance of our education.

OPINION | 02/16/2011

Cartoon: In the library

OPINION | 02/16/2011

No need to prioritize economics

Princeton does not require that its undergraduates take courses in any particular department, and so Berger’s call for an economics requirement reads as an assumption that the discipline is more valuable to the world than others.

OPINION | 02/16/2011

Trust women

By attempting to chastise Rebecca Gomperts without actually taking a stance on abortion, Darling and Scholl fail to make a convincing case.

OPINION | 02/16/2011

Bicker isn't all to blame

The eating club system — in fact, the entire upperclass social system — is incompatible with the residential college system.

OPINION | 02/15/2011

Taming tenure

Tenure has its downsides: It can leave a lazy professor in authority, soaking up campus resources and blocking energetic underlings from advancement. Students may suffer from incompetent teaching, or worse.

OPINION | 02/15/2011

Cartoon: Eating right

OPINION | 02/15/2011

Editorial: Protect student information

The University should be less cavalier about the private information that students entrust to it, and it must make clear to students when information they share will be revealed to the public.

OPINION | 02/15/2011

Cartoon: Recruiting season

OPINION | 02/14/2011

Public displays

Public displays of rejection might be essential to uniting the members of some campus organizations, eating clubs being no exception.

OPINION | 02/14/2011

Editorial: Further extend Firestone access

The Editorial Board renews our call to extend Firestone Library access to visiting students who are guests of Princeton students.

OPINION | 02/14/2011

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