My anxieties over my relationship with my dogs became a mirror for my fear over losing my special relationship with my home.
In this week's PrinceCast, Opinion columnists David Mendelsohn '12 and Allen Paltrow-Krulwich '14 discuss their perspectives on feminism.
"Top Test Scores from Shanghai Stun Educators.” Stunned? Really?
Under the current ticketing system, every senior is given the same amount of tickets, regardless of how many of their friends and family are expected to attend. A more sensible system could make the graduation process easier for seniors and their families.
I will leave the debate over whether Goldman Sachs caused our recent recession to someone with more economics credentials than a B in ECO 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics. But from a social perspective, it is clear that investment banks have a huge impact on our lives by their ability to manipulate staggering amounts of wealth and to decide the fate of millions of people’s financial futures. Yet finance is not the only way to make an impact. We in the humanities (I came out as a philosophy major to my family over Thanksgiving) are constantly trying to convince ourselves and others of the utility of our study.
Students who feel embarrassed sharing their problems with their friends or don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves can find an audience with other Princetonians on PrincetonFML, maybe the same friends whom they can’t approach personally. There’s a certain catharsis that you can experience when you get to express your woes, and a vindication that you feel when others sympathize or empathize with you.
Laiyin Li and Justine Chiu comment on the Ivy League Asian American Conference, Benjamin Kalinsky defends "grade-grubbers," and Samuel Galson objects to TFI's rhetoric.
I’m sick of people complaining about the poor quality of opinion columns in The Daily Princetonian. They’re right, but nevertheless it irritates me.
The editorial board encourages the University community — and especially undergraduate students, who are unlikely to witness these changes during their time at Princeton — to attend these important sessions and provide feedback
You might believe that students at Princeton divide feminists into two major camps: those who calmly pursue a traditional Second Wave feminist agenda (fighting against civic and legal inequalities), and those who just complain. You might believe this, but thankfully, you’d be wrong.
Cason Crosby Cheely applauds professors' accepting different views and Rachna Vyas asks governments to invest more in education.
It has recently come to light that there is an active, constructive debate over whether the University has been forcing students into misuse of water resources on campus. Aggressively pushed both in the press and on Facebook by the Princeton Conservation Pact (PCP) and hotly contested by the Tigers For Innovation (TFI), the debate has caught the eye of many across the country as tempers flare.
Universities around the country have found it necessary to eliminate foreign language programs. The State University of New York at Albany found itself in the headlines not long ago when its administration decided to eliminate majors in French, Italian, Russian, Greek and Latin — a decision that seemed particularly unfortunate for a university that promises students “The World Within Reach.” Louisiana State University; the University of Maine; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Winona State University have announced similar decisions.
To allow for more transparency, accused students should be given the option of having the Honor Committee publicly release all evidence from their trial, including both material evidence and a transcript of the witnesses’ testimonies. Such a system would provide a clearer understanding of how trials work and would allow accused students who disagree with the outcome of their trials to make public the evidence against them.