Opinion

Princeton Graduate Students United: Princeton should be ashamed

Princeton Graduate Students United: Princeton should be ashamed

Vivekananda Nemana

Imagine the kind of example that the University could set by using its vast resources to reinforce an ethic of care in higher education. Imagine the kind of leadership that would show amid this historic crisis. What a shame, then, that our leadership chooses to do little instead.

OPINION | 05/03/2020

Why I would volunteer to get infected with COVID-19

Why I would volunteer to get infected with COVID-19

Guest Contributor

During these unprecedented times, many people want to help the world get through the pandemic. Recently, I realized that in addition to social distancing, I can do something else — volunteer for vaccine human challenge trials.

OPINION | 04/30/2020

Fifty years have passed since protests swept campus. Here’s what they teach us.

Fifty years have passed since protests swept campus. Here’s what they teach us.

Jon Ort

If our four years at Princeton are to be more than a sabbatical, we must first realize that a fragile community requires our utmost care.

OPINION | 04/30/2020

Communalism of class struggle

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Communalism of class struggle

Braden Flax

The critique that Lee levels at individualistic thinking is an astute one; it is long past time that a higher sensibility be cultivated. Yet, the reality of the situation is harsher than how Lee imagines it.

OPINION | 04/29/2020

Making an effort

Leora Eisenberg

We now have to take the initiative to maintain our relationships — with everyone, from friends to professors to love interests. While this lesson is especially clear in quarantine, this is also the case in life.

OPINION | 04/29/2020

A call to action while we stay at home

A call to action while we stay at home

Guest Contributor

Although this might seem at first contradictory to the stay-at-home orders, for those of us with the privilege and comfort of safe environments, now is our time to get involved. We came to Princeton to become leaders in our fields and serve the world – a pandemic isn’t the time to forget that mission, but rather the time to get to work.

OPINION | 04/28/2020

Internet connectivity impacts us all

Sally Jane Ruybàlid

By providing broadband access to all — or at least mandating it — the greedy practices of large-scale internet corporations will be halted, and some amount of equity will finally be granted to those who live in the political and social periphery.

OPINION | 04/28/2020

This isn’t normal

This isn’t normal

Julia Chaffers

Columnist Julia Chaffers argues that we should not expect ourselves to meet normal expectations in our current reality.

OPINION | 04/27/2020

Coronavirus and the media: keeping it in check

Coronavirus and the media: keeping it in check

Richard Ma

I urge you to read past these headlines and analyze the content for yourselves. Don’t let your conclusions be made for you.

OPINION | 04/26/2020

Guarantee students co-op membership

Guarantee students co-op membership

Claire Wayner

It is time for a change to Princeton’s co-op policy.

OPINION | 04/23/2020

Requiem for studio culture

Requiem for studio culture

Sally Jane Ruybàlid

With Princeton’s transition to digital classes, we lost the physicality of the studio, and all the experiences that come with it. We are still expected to make models and drawings, which may compensate for what we have lost academically, but that doesn't account for the Murray-Dodge runs and the scavenging through leftover catering from a special conference or guest lecture.

OPINION | 04/22/2020

Everybody hurts (differently)

Everybody hurts (differently)

Leora Eisenberg

I realized that my friend’s silence wasn’t about me. And, more importantly, that everyone “hurts,” i.e. responds to trauma, differently. My response to this situation was to reach out to friends. I didn’t realize that my friend’s coping mechanism was to stop reaching out altogether.

OPINION | 04/22/2020

The high school advantage

High School Education for Fellowship Recipients

The high school advantage

Liam O'Connor

Senior columnist Liam O’Connor discusses how disparities in high school education affect students’ academic performance — and recognition — in college.

OPINION | 04/20/2020

Disrupted life plans and the pain coronavirus has caused

Disrupted life plans and the pain coronavirus has caused

Sebastian Quiroz

The disruption of life-plans — short-term, long-term, and everything in between — can be painful and harmful in its own way. We should not minimize the pain that students are going through right now. Such reductions in well-being ought to be recognized for what they are.

OPINION | 04/19/2020

A tale of two cultures

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A tale of two cultures

Liam O'Connor

Many academic awards select winners using predetermined criteria. Committees evaluate students’ accomplishments on the same abstract scale. This approach seems egalitarian: everyone plays on the same field. In practice, though, it ignores substantial cultural divides between fields of study that affect class arrangements, study habits, relationships with professors, the amount of free time they have, and how they spend it.

OPINION | 04/16/2020

Communalism: What the U.S. is lacking to fight the coronavirus

Kate Lee

We must learn to see each other, all of us, as people whose lives could just as easily be our own, whose destinies are linked together. We must be willing to cease prejudice toward other cultures and countries. We must learn to see “communalism” as separate from Communism.

OPINION | 04/16/2020

Pencils down: Princeton should drop its testing requirement

Pencils down: Princeton should drop its testing requirement

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

This Board not only recommends a move away from requiring standardized testing for the 2020–21 admissions cycle, but urges a permanent shift beyond the coronavirus pandemic.

OPINION | 04/15/2020

Black Lives Matter: It must be said

Black Lives Matter: It must be said

Rachel Kennedy

As I think of the thousands of black people mourning loved ones now, I doubt pointing to institutional disregard and devaluation provides them with any solace. But by addressing and changing those systemic patterns, we can help prevent others from enduring the same treatment.

OPINION | 04/15/2020

The GPA debacle

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The GPA debacle

Liam O'Connor

It’s high time to stop using GPAs as a rigid measure of undergraduates’ talents.

OPINION | 04/15/2020

COVID-19 and student athletes: Response from President Eisgruber

COVID-19 and student athletes: Response from President Eisgruber

Christopher L. Eisgruber

This public health crisis has required us to ask all Princeton undergraduates to do a difficult thing: to complete their semesters online, and, in the case of our seniors, to forgo experiences that they had anticipated throughout their time here.

OPINION | 04/14/2020

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