Opinion

Why Princeton should offer Real Life 101

Although receiving a Princeton A.B. requires mastery of valuable skills like critical thinking, the degree is not vocational in nature. Despite the fact that Princeton students are graduating with the invaluable skills of an excellent liberal arts education, the majority of students will only have taken a few classes that will help them survive in the real world outside of their careers. Offering a broad selection of more universally relevant courses would allow students to fulfill distribution requirements while also receiving a deeper breadth of knowledge and perspective that could assist them in everyday life.

Editorial: Beyond finance and consulting

This year, as in years past, the offerings presented to students have been disproportionately oriented toward just two industries: consulting and finance. While the Office of Career Services does make an effort to provide Princeton students with information about other options for their futures, Career Services should devote more energy to expanding the breadth of opportunities available to graduating seniors.

Death of a scholarship

Any scholarship over $4,500 for any given year is worthless, for all the scholarship does is cancel out any money offered by Princeton, unless it exceeds the school’s financial aid offer.

Cartoon: Homework

Christianity, politics, and the University

 I went down last week to McCosh Hall with some friends from my church to hear professors Robert George and Cornel West GS ’80 discuss what it means to be a Christian in today’s world.

Don't kill the for-profits

There is one particular industry facing ramped-up government regulation that is relevant to Princeton students: the for-profit college industry.

Editorial: Streamlining thesis access

By ensuring that all future theses are digitized and that past prize-winning theses are made available online, the University can enable students to quickly and easily gain access to a valuable research tool.

Cartoon: Five Stages

Argue with facts, not censorship

We believe that, almost without exception, increasing the available amount of information and the number of different perspectives serves as a positive influence on public discourse. If climate change skeptics truly are as easily refuted as Geronimus claims, then supporters of the theory should have no cause to fear engagement with them.

Sanity, not sensationalism

It seems that media attention itself has become the primary — if not the only — source of legitimization in American politics. Whether the attention is good or bad barely seems to matter, and may in fact be an irrelevant dichotomy.

Learning to spell before we type

Technological safety nets are only helpful if we use them as guides to discovering answers, rather than as search engines for answers.

Editorial: A chance to speak out

We would like to use this space today to explain the editorial process and invite interested freshmen, sophomores and juniors to apply to join the board.

The politicization of Judaism

In all of the recent ranting about religion and politics, the third Abrahamic faith is flying under the radar.

Cartoon: Note to self

Casanova on the Street

I am a blonde, female freshman from an all-girls Catholic school. Needless to say, Lord help me.

Cartoon: Tilghman controls the weather?

Muslims are Americans too

It’s hard to explain why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise, but I suspect it has to do with our new definition of “politically correct.” Slowly, the boundaries of political correctness have expanded to include anti-Muslim comments.

Letters to the Editor: Oct. 5, 2010

Tyler King defends the Princeton tailgate and Cyclab explains how they promote the Princeton cycling community.

In that case, just double tuition?

The point is that if there is a good reason that this University exists as an institution of higher education and not a poverty-relief fund, then it seems highly questionable that it has any business using its means to create a warm glow of charity which makes the ivory tower of learning look a little more like a soup kitchen.

Academia for academia's sake

Some types of research enrich academia with humor and insight, bringing fun to the stacks in Firestone and making it sometimes just as important as more somber research.