Opinion

Editorial: On weighting club sign-ins

Charter’s new sign-in system is a reasonable and creative response to the surge in demand that it has experienced in recent years. In the event that other sign-in clubs reach full capacity, they would be wise to consider following Charter’s approach.

Cartoon: Post, poster, postered

Chrashing the Tea Party

In his nine months in office, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has shown himself to be a shrewd and effective dealmaker and a real alternative to the populist, uncompromising Tea Party movement.

Think Yiddish

Most of us have been looking through the registrar?s course offerings this past week ? either as freshmen picking classes or as upperclassmen looking for courses to switch into.

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Some unnecessary face time

We are in a four-year no-man’s land, during which consequences are at a minimum  as long as we don’t get caught.

The freedom to shoot the breeze

On the farm where I stayed in Honduras, there were not even telephones or electricity. I don’t know how my hosts would have reacted if I had mentioned that 1,900 miles away, men in boat shoes abounded with their noses buried in pocket-sized devices that could send and receive text messages, e-mails and phone calls.

Editorial: Room decor of one’s own — A smarter painting policy

Given that Princeton students make their dorm rooms their home while they are on campus, students should be able to more easily customize their living space.

Cartoon: Mystery ingredient

Enter the anecdote

Sometimes a good anecdote — a critical analysis of a narrative — can reveal information that quantitative data cannot.

Cartoon: Grasping at straws

Avoiding navel-gazing and idolization

More deeply than simply asking what classes one should take, one ought to ask oneself: What kind of intellectual model do I want for my four years of intellectual training here? What kind of tools do I want to give myself to educate myself after Princeton?

Make yourself at home

A name gives a sense of what a place looks like, but it can never paint a true picture of the friends and family who make a place home. Even though I count Windsor as my hometown, the longer I stay at Princeton, the more Princeton’s community usurps that “home” feeling.

Traversing the Tiger Trail

Let me be the first to acknowledge that I have no special qualifications for dispensing advice. My only source of credibility is that I tried a healthy dose of new things at Princeton; I endured a more-than-incidental number of failures; and, at final tally, I wouldn’t trade the triumphs or the setbacks. Simply put: If I had to do it all over again, I’d do it all over again. So without further ado, to the Class of 2014 and to classes beyond, here’s one recent alumnus’s recipe for navigating Old Nassau.

Cartoon: Princeton initiation

Princeton: An anti-bike university

Unless you are willing to drag your bike to Dodge-Osborn in Wilson (the only dorm building that has a bike rack protected from the elements) whenever inclement weather occurs, you pretty much have no choice but to leave your bike outside, leaving it to be rained, snowed or sleeted upon. In late October, less than two months after we return to campus, bikes are already showing signs of wear and tear from being exposed to rain.

Editorial: Room for cautious optimism in new RCA policy

Despite the Editorial Board’s concerns over the implementation of the policy and disappointment that this change was instituted so abruptly and with such minimal student input, the board believes that the new policy has the potential to improve the safety of on-campus drinking while not detracting from the ability of RCAs to form positive relationships with students in their colleges.

The Pupillary Age

Privilege affords the time for self-examination but also offers the option not to bother. Try to bother. To do so, you will need to step outside the Orange Bubble, to learn about and then grapple with strongly worded, publicly voiced opinions that simultaneously threaten and seek to improve the age you are now in and what you may want from the three ages to come.

Cartoon: Settling in

Editorial: Dean Malkiel's legacy

The exit of Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel next year marks the end of a transformative era in Princeton’s history.