Opinion

The Princeton many left, the Princeton many first-years never met, may be shadowed by health measures that leave us aching for our college experience. But in that slow and careful crawl back to normalcy, we might find comfort in people and places we have forgotten.

OPINION | 10/18/2020

DPS works to build on its ‘Community Caretaking’ philosophy

DPS works to build on its ‘Community Caretaking’ philosophy

Paul Ominsky

But we want more community feedback, and I want to respond to calls from some in the University community for changes in our department.

OPINION | 10/15/2020

No, liberalism and anti-racism are not the same

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No, liberalism and anti-racism are not the same

Collin Riggins

If you are anti-racist, there should be nothing uncomfortable about hearing BIPOC voices speak their truth. The fight for racial justice necessitates the shedding of white fragility and the wholehearted embrace of perspectives that are often suppressed.

OPINION | 10/15/2020

From God’s lips to your ear: Kindness in fraught times

Ethan Magistro

One solution to the problem of fracturing, which the Pope writes in his letter, has been immortalized, repeated, and preached to hundreds of generations in the simplest, one-sentence formula: love your neighbor as yourself. From Confucius, to Scripture, to Hobbes, Spinoza, and Kant, and to kindergarten classrooms, the golden rule is the keystone to human interactions. Somehow, however, it seems the hardest to follow.

OPINION | 10/15/2020

The 2020 election: Why voting for the climate is of bipartisan interest

The 2020 election: Why voting for the climate is of bipartisan interest

Hannah Reynolds

If you care about the environment, if you want to even give us a fighting chance at mitigating climate change, I implore you to vote for Joe Biden this November.

OPINION | 10/15/2020

What Princeton students can learn from Russian folklore

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What Princeton students can learn from Russian folklore

Genrietta Churbanova

Only a lucky few look back at their time at Princeton and do not wish that they had spent just a little bit more time savoring the experience. Even at Princeton, fortune favors “fools.”

OPINION | 10/14/2020

Start planning time to do nothing

Start planning time to do nothing

Alaina Joby

It is important to heed what happens in the world — but prioritize your mental health above it all.

OPINION | 10/13/2020

With ‘Princeton Promise’ video, U. had a myriad of options, but still chose wrong

Sally Jane Ruybàlid

Instead of focusing on and spotlighting students, the University chose a reality television star.

OPINION | 10/13/2020

Another semester in fine print

Another semester in fine print

Remy Reya

This is a time for us to recognize just how hard all of us are working to stay afloat, and to reward that hard work with positive reinforcement and compassion. It would do us well to accept “the state of the world” as a valid reason for lethargy and shorthand for the multifaceted but difficult-to-explain circumstances that make it challenging for us to be our best selves right now—emotionally, socially, and academically.

OPINION | 10/13/2020

What COVID-19 has shown us about our political culture

What COVID-19 has shown us about our political culture

Brittani Telfair

In the United States, empathy has become a partisan value, when in fact it should be a human one. This is a national emergency, a national time of grief, and a national time of mobilization in and outside of government regardless of political leanings. Unfortunately, we have seen shaky measures at best because the question has become not, “What can the government do?” but rather, “Should the government do anything at all?”

OPINION | 10/08/2020

The danger of Joe Rogan’s mammoth footprint

The danger of Joe Rogan’s mammoth footprint

Arman Badrei

When forums for entertainment become outlets of information — the kind of information necessary for political discourse and democratic society — original intent ceases to be relevant, or at least cedes being priority number one.

OPINION | 10/08/2020

The restraint of ‘will you shut up, man?’

The restraint of ‘will you shut up, man?’

David Palomino

Biden’s performance, and the debate as a whole, offers a valuable lesson. The debate demonstrates not only why discourse cannot survive without restraint, but also why restraint can be a powerful tool to display moral character. As students forming Princeton University’s discourse, and as young adults shaping our own personal characters, we cannot minimize this lesson in restraint. Without it, the future we create is more likely to repeat the mistakes of the present.

OPINION | 10/08/2020

The anti-woke show: a response to Matthew Wilson ’24

The anti-woke show: a response to Matthew Wilson ’24

Braden Flax

When Wilson alleges that Princeton “bends over” backwards for the sake of anti-racist activists and leftist revisionists, he is fictionalizing a widely covered event for which he cares to neither learn of nor represent fairly.

OPINION | 10/06/2020

This still isn’t normal

This still isn’t normal

Julia Chaffers

Nevertheless, the expectations of a Princeton semester remain, intensified by the new shortened calendar.

OPINION | 10/06/2020

Secrecy and shame in the age of COVID-19

Claudia Frykberg

We have suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths at the hands of this virus, and the way to respond to this suffering is not through irrational fear of those who may have been exposed, but rather compassion and understanding of their vulnerability.

OPINION | 10/06/2020

TikTok’s ban and our waning freedom to choose our entertainment

Kelsey Ji

Like puppetry, the government is the one pulling on the general public, whose own choice over the entertainment that they enjoy are now not theirs to make.

OPINION | 10/04/2020

Nuclear Princeton: Indigenous scholarship and representation in an institution ‘not designed’ for Native students

Institutional Support for Native American Students among the Ivy League and Stanford

Nuclear Princeton: Indigenous scholarship and representation in an institution ‘not designed’ for Native students

Hannah Reynolds

The lack of discourse around anti-Native racism at the University is paralleled by minimal representation and resources for people of Indigenous heritage at the University. Princeton has the fewest resources for Indigenous students of any Ivy League institution, with fewer than 0.2 percent of students identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native, no affinity spaces, and very few Indigenous faculty and staff.

OPINION | 10/04/2020

Perhaps abandoning ship is not so bad after all

Sally Jane Ruybàlid

2020 has obviously forced us all out of our comfort zone. It is time we take the courage to jump willingly and abandon the ships that are past the point of repair.

OPINION | 10/04/2020

Letter from the Editor: What makes college meaningful?

Letter from the Editor: What makes college meaningful?

Jon Ort

In the absence of peripheral community, how do we make Princeton meaningful? This issue, I hope, both poses that question and provides an answer.

OPINION | 10/02/2020

Faculty of the future: Broadening the metrics for hiring and promotion

Mohan Setty-Charity

Princeton can make a bold statement among universities that it does not only rely on awards or similarly narrow external metrics in making decisions about hiring and promotion. Instead, broader criteria could draw more professors from all different backgrounds, who can bring in new ideas, instruct and inspire the next generation of scholars, and help the University live up to its ideals.

OPINION | 10/01/2020

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