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Editorial: Make culture mandatory, language optional

Editorial: Make culture mandatory, language optional

While it certainly is important that some degree of exposure to foreign culture be a component of a Princeton education, that goal would be better served by replacing the foreign language requirement with an additional distribution requirement in cultural studies.

OPINION | 01/13/2011

Cartoon: The pains of being irresponsible

OPINION | 01/13/2011

PrinceCast #9: Semester Wrap-Up Edition

The incoming and outgoing executive editor for opinions sit down with host Michael Medeiros to discuss this semester's top columns and debates.

OPINION | 01/13/2011

The University is not trying to kill the clubs

While “The University” is not engaged in an intentional campaign to destroy the clubs, it has been actively pursuing policies that are not in the best interest of the continued survival of Prospect Avenue. The proverbial Road to Hell is always paved with good intentions.

OPINION | 01/13/2011

Involuntary confinement: The life of a grad student

The underlying question is thus: When one has issues or problems that one would not feel appropriate revealing to one’s superiors and colleagues — the latter often being your closest friends — to whom does one turn?

OPINION | 01/13/2011

Letters to the Editor: January 12, 2011

My friend was carrying a heavy bag of corpses down the Street. When I offered to help her with it, she opened a can of whoopass on me.

OPINION | 01/11/2011

An unfinished symphony

Ask yourself: when is the last time you ever ventured, really ventured, outside the Orange Bubble, physically or psychologically? I don’t mean taking that trip to Panera. (Good use of “that” to create implied familiarity.)

OPINION | 01/11/2011

Cartoon: Yaro's Technocracy

OPINION | 01/11/2011

Editorial: To our reader

Welcome to the Editorial page!

OPINION | 01/11/2011

In defense of dilettantism

Much more than interdisciplinarity, however, is lost — I’ll risk incurring the wrath of some by calling it culture — when students of physics and literature consider each other to be fools because the former don’t care what century Chaucer lived in and the latter have never heard of Boyle’s law.

OPINION | 01/09/2011

Outdated stereotypes

After being here at Princeton for almost a whole semester, I can testify that Princeton has created an environment where not only is it easy to remain a religious Jew, but it is possible to get exposure to Judaism even when one does not seek it out.

OPINION | 01/09/2011

From the Archives: The night before Dean's Date

On Dean's Date eve, the 'Prince' brings back a very timely column from five years ago.

OPINION | 01/09/2011

Why Bob Durkee '69 is wrong about eating clubs

The University’s current course of continuing to buttress the four-year colleges, flooding them with resources and expanding their size, will kill off more eating clubs unless residency and meal plans are unlinked.

OPINION | 01/09/2011

From the Archives: The night before Dean's Date

The 'Prince' brings back a timely column from six years ago.

OPINION | 01/09/2011

How Princetonians don't save the world

OPINION | 01/09/2011

Cartoon: Major injuries

OPINION | 01/06/2011

The cost of prestige

The creative writing program has become more and more self-important in its dealings with the outside world.

OPINION | 01/06/2011

Pulling the plug on sustainable debate

It was all a psychology experiment! A recent thesis project underscores the need to speak up for free debate on campus.

OPINION | 01/06/2011

Editorial: Curbing fire safety overreach

The housing office should reevaluate its fire safety policies and make changes that improve the quality of student life without seriously increasing the risk of accidents.

OPINION | 01/06/2011

Time to use the nuclear option

Though Republicans came close to using the so-called “nuclear option” in 2005, the last time it was actually done was in 1975. The Senate must take action, and it must do so now.

OPINION | 01/04/2011

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