Opinion

Changing history: Why students should take foreign history classes

Changing history: Why students should take foreign history classes

Elijah Benson

To educate students on topics not traditionally covered in the American education system, broaden their academic horizons, and, most importantly, instill an awareness of different cultures, the University should adjust the distribution requirements so that all students — not just those in the major — must take at least one HA course that does not focus on the United States or Europe, with the exception of those centered on African-American history.

OPINION | 02/27/2020

Reforming the Class Day speaker selection process: Open letter to the Class Day Co-Chairs

Reforming the Class Day speaker selection process: Open letter to the Class Day Co-Chairs

Guest Contributors

We believe that reforming the nomination and selection process by clarifying the procedure and by involving the senior class will definitely anticipate such concerns, giving students a better understanding and moreover a sense of ownership over the decision to invite a specific speaker.

OPINION | 02/27/2020

Art truly for everyone: make student events free

Art truly for everyone: make student events free

Kate Lee

The costs of supporting performance group events would not be small, but it is absolutely worth it to ensure equal access to art and culture. It is a matter of prioritization by the administration: all student athletic events are free, so why should artistic ones be any different?

OPINION | 02/26/2020

‘Parasite’ at the Oscars and its implications for America

Richard Ma

Rather than perpetuate previous failures, the Oscars took a step forward. This year’s win is a reaffirmation of the values we were taught as children and a timely refutation of Trumpian politics.

OPINION | 02/26/2020

Residential college community is a farce

Residential college community is a farce

Claire Wayner

Community occurs organically and should be given room to thrive on its own, not be forcibly structured through the residential college system.

OPINION | 02/25/2020

Don’t set so many limits

Don’t set so many limits

Leora Eisenberg

Whether we are in our first or final years at Princeton, it’s worth challenging whatever it is that we believe in order to determine whether or not we actually believe it.

OPINION | 02/25/2020

Language and our tendency to self-absolve

Braden Flax

There are points at which the way we discuss destructive behavior, whether of ourselves or others, becomes the abuse, as opposed to the use, of the language that should represent a tool for validation and resolution.

OPINION | 02/24/2020

Save Pink House: We need to create more affordable eating options instead of shutting them down

Guest Contributor

By closing Pink House and its food-share, the University is unfairly targeting lower income students who often cannot afford the high fees needed for an eating club or dining hall plan, and instead find a home in a food-share that teaches them how to be self-sufficient.

OPINION | 02/24/2020

On digitization

On digitization

Ollie Thakar

This planted a doubt in my mind about my educational philosophy: in an age where technology makes school work more and more convenient, why do I even use pencil and paper to take notes at all?

OPINION | 02/23/2020

The fight against climate change: what can Princeton learn from other top American institutions?

The fight against climate change: what can Princeton learn from other top American institutions?

Guest Contributors

To ensure that the University remains one of the leading educational institutions in America, the administration should look towards other universities’ endeavors in bolstering its own.

OPINION | 02/23/2020

144th ‘Prince’ Editorial Board: our mission statement

144th ‘Prince’ Editorial Board: our mission statement

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

The Editorial Board exists to affirm The Daily Princetonian as part of the University community and critically examine the world around us.

OPINION | 02/23/2020

Princeton has more than money invested in the fossil fuel industry

Guest Contributor

Last semester, Exxon Mobil graced the grounds of Princeton campus as part of the Fall HireTigers Career Fair. All the while, the college divestment movement is gathering steam. Georgetown, sometimes regarded as more conservative than many of its peers, divested. Almost 400 members of Harvard’s faculty issued a letter in support.

OPINION | 02/20/2020

In defense of ‘fake’ glasses

Arman Badrei

If people want to wear something that suggests a trait they believe to be positive, let them.

OPINION | 02/20/2020

The importance of bats

The importance of bats

Claire Wayner

As winters get milder and human populations grow, we will be forced into more contact with bats, and we will have to decide whether to treat this as a conflict or as an opportunity.

OPINION | 02/20/2020

The problem with Jeff Bezos’s philanthropy

Braden Flax

Collective crises require collective solutions, rather than the appropriation of agency, responsibility, and credit by so narrow a source as a well-funded, and often ill-advised, financial titan.

OPINION | 02/19/2020

The false equivalence of the left

The false equivalence of the left

Juan José López Haddad

It is possible to hold progressive views and still oppose these extremist movements — not only that, it is the only moral thing to do.

OPINION | 02/19/2020

On apathy, self-interestedness, and joy

Sebastian Quiroz

When we refer to our peers as apathetic, we are tacitly charging them with being overly concerned about their personal interests and priorities, to the detriment of being concerned with larger social and political issues, like gun reform.

OPINION | 02/18/2020

The end of reading period as we know it

The end of reading period as we know it

Elijah Benson

Going forward, this change will have myriad effects, including better performance on exams, true rejuvenation from the extended break, and an honest step towards improving the mental health of students.

OPINION | 02/18/2020

Abolish the caucus

Kaveh Badrei

Caucuses represent an outdated, undemocratic system — one whose end in American politics should be welcomed.

OPINION | 02/17/2020

The Bloomberg problem

Julia Chaffers

It is difficult to hold someone accountable who is not beholden to anyone for funding. It is challenging to campaign against someone who can drown you out with an unending stream of advertising and the media coverage that accompanies it.

OPINION | 02/17/2020

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