Opinion

The Borough: Time for student involvement

The population of Princeton Borough was roughly 13,400 at the last census. The University’s undergraduate population consisted of roughly 5,100 students. Undergraduates, in other words, account for more than a third of the Borough’s population. If all students voted in Princeton, the University would be a big deal, politically speaking.

A day without the Internet

Unlimited and ubiquitous Internet access has provided many academic and social benefits to Princeton undergraduates, but along with all of these benefits come a host of disadvantages as well.

Cartoon: Enough is enough, already

One billion eyeballs

Today, I lament my current geographical location for a more joyous reason — India’s going crazy with disbelief and happiness, and I wish that I could be there to go crazy with her.

Debunking prefrosh myths

This column is directed at the prefrosh, not as an attempt to persuade, but to lend you my observations of Princeton life as I’ve seen it through the lens of my own experience.

Justice for Daniel Faulkner

Everyone is entitled to free speech, convicted cop-killer or otherwise. But it is another matter to afford someone  a prestigious platform in an academic discussion or elevate him or her to celebrity status.

Cartoon: Princeton state of mind

It's a bloodthirsty beast's world

I appreciate the urgency and analysis our USG president brought to the perception of men on campus. I also believe this point is close to irrelevant in light of the main problem — that women on campus feel, for whatever reason, that their energies would be better spent on activities other than leadership positions.

Editorial: Departmental certificates

The Editorial Board debates whether certificates should be indepedent of departments.

Higher level hosting

The Editorial Board made several suggestions to the Princeton Preview program, and I think one of them in particular is relevant here: host involvement.

The monopoly of the MPAA

­If an unelected committee whose membership is a secret dictated to all parents what their children are allowed to know and see, would that worry you? Would you feel like your liberties are being infringed upon? Though this scenario might sound like a feat worthy of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, I am, in fact, talking about the Motion Picture Association of America’s current stranglehold over movie ratings. While the institutionalized exclusion of teenagers from the consumption of art is problematic in itself, I will argue that the MPAA’s peculiar choices of which content to restrict further exacerbate the issue.

Hegemony in the politics department

The Department of Politics at Princeton is perhaps the finest in the nation, which makes it even more representative of the scandal that American political science has become. Teaching here is dominated by the fetishizing of certain methods, a cold shoulder to theory and the abandonment of reality. The result is a combination of model-made abstraction and number-numbing specificity that has made political science irrelevant to politicians, policy makers and, lest we forget, the general public.

Cartoon: Cannon

Cartoon: Professors' night out

Millennial Generation defines its future

I find it hard to believe that there really is an “isolationist” attitude held by our generation. From everything I’ve seen at Princeton, the opposite is true. Students here seem to acknowledge that we are intimately connected with the world outside of the United States and are deeply involved with international politics regardless of whether or not we think we should be.

Read any good books lately?

Are e-books the future of reading?

Editorial: Reforming course evaluations

Because the course evaluations are University-sponsored and must be filled out (or at the very least, declined) before a student can see the prior semester’s grades on SCORE, the data they yield is far more comprehensive. Hence, it is important that the registrar make course evaluations as informative and useful as possible.

Cartoon: C'mon, guys

Celebrating success

At Princeton, winners of well-respected scholarships like the Rhodes and Marshall are written up in the ‘Prince’ and featured on the homepage. Winners of the class prizes are awarded at opening exercises so that bright-eyed freshman can all think that they will be receiving those awards next year. Yet other than in these extreme situations, sharing and celebrating academic success is generally frowned upon.

Freshmen class presidents on the Honor Committee

The skills that make one effective at adjudicating cases of cheating are not necessarily the same as those that make one effective at ordering Taco Bell for study breaks or planning the famously awkward Freshman Formal.