Opinion

Friendships: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Leora Eisenberg

As we enter the school year, it might be a good idea to reexamine our friendships and evaluate the purpose of each one. Are we friends with a particular person because of the joy they bring us or because they help our grades stay up? If it’s the latter, ask yourself how you would feel if that’s why someone maintained a friendship with you. Then imagine how your friend would feel if they knew that’s why you maintain a friendship with them.

OPINION | 09/29/2019

Gender-neutral bathrooms should be the norm, not the exception

AG McGee

Often, the push for gender-neutral bathrooms remains labeled as an issue solely for the LGBTQ+ community and their allies — particularly those who are genderqueer, non-binary, trans, or otherwise gender-nonconforming — which places the entire burden of their struggle to safely enter bathrooms that match their identities on actors who have already been systematically, societally disempowered and pushed aside. In reality, however, though gender binary bathrooms directly and aggressively harm members of the LGBTQ+ community, gender binary bathrooms often present a serious nuisance to cis-gendered people as well.

OPINION | 09/29/2019

Where are all the women: A series

Where are all the women: A series

Madeleine Marr

If the University truly valued increasing the number of female professors on its payroll, it would do well to start addressing the actual causes for the dearth of women at the highest ranks. This unequivocally includes sexual harassment.

OPINION | 09/26/2019

America shrugged

America shrugged

Kaveh Badrei

On Monday, Sept. 23, a day before the official commencement of the 74th U.N. General Assembly in New York, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres publicly announced the formation of a Syrian constitutional committee to bring together the government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Negotiations Commission.

OPINION | 09/26/2019

No further questions

No further questions

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

The new requirement will further allow members of CPUC — foremost among them, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 — to manicure, polish, and calibrate platitudes in advance. Council meetings will degenerate into PR. Worse still, there is no way to ensure that the Council will even address, much less disclose, the questions it receives and chooses not to answer.

OPINION | 09/25/2019

Give us course credit for the junior paper

Give us course credit for the junior paper

Hunter Campbell

In its current state, the junior paper is a time-consuming endeavor for which we are neither properly compensated nor sufficiently empowered to complete to its highest potential.

OPINION | 09/24/2019

Let me major in other things

Let me major in other things

Jae-Kyung Sim

Offering more specific, diverse major options would grant students much more freedom and flexibility in navigating through their academic career at the University.

OPINION | 09/24/2019

What is a belief?

Guest Contributor

We cling tight to the innocence of our beliefs because we think they make us who we are.

OPINION | 09/23/2019

Beyond Soccer: Lessons from the World Cup

Beyond Soccer: Lessons from the World Cup

Julia Chaffers

The team’s commitment to lifting others up as they rise presents an example for each of us, aspiring World Cup winners or otherwise. They show us how to use our reach to fight for equality, for ourselves and for others, in whatever we do.

OPINION | 09/23/2019

On Independent life

Members of Real Food co-op eating asian-style vegan black bean burgers on Feb. 14.

On Independent life

Sebastian Quiroz

My point in writing this has little to do with telling you about all the different options available to you. I have only been an independent for about three weeks and there is so much more out there for me to discover. I simply want to suggest that being an independent is not only possible, it can be deeply enriching.

OPINION | 09/23/2019

The danger of the Democratic debates

The danger of the Democratic debates

Emma Treadway

Unfortunately, the debates have left most audiences with only the following: fleeting stump speeches, catchy (and ridiculous) slogans, and ill-defined policy proposals.

OPINION | 09/22/2019

California's student-athlete bill is a step in the right direction

California's student-athlete bill is a step in the right direction

Shannon Chaffers

While the main responsibility should still lie with the NCAA to fairly compensate their athletes, this bill acts as a bridge until such a time, and places pressure on the NCAA to take further action.

OPINION | 09/22/2019

Faculty statement on climate change

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Faculty statement on climate change

Guest Contributor

We, the undersigned faculty, recognize that climate change poses a grave threat to the wellbeing of all inhabitants of the earth.

OPINION | 09/19/2019

Housing Office works to improve, listen and engage

A photo of a gothic building in springtime on an overcast day. The building has a dozen windows, and trees with pink flowers surround the building.

Housing Office works to improve, listen and engage

Guest Contributor

We are mindful of the challenges that some students experienced at the end of the last academic year and we look forward to the opportunities that the new academic year presents to deepen our work with and support of our students - opportunities to improve, opportunities to listen and opportunities to engage.

OPINION | 09/19/2019

The hard stuff

The hard stuff

Samuel Aftel

Existential crises know no boundaries. So many of us are in pain, I can sense it. So many of us are struggling. So many of us need a hug, a shoulder to cry on, someone to talk to, or just someone to hear them.

OPINION | 09/18/2019

The role of corrosive patriotism in the Kashmir lockdown

Khadijah Anwar

Ideally, patriotism is a beautiful notion — a love for one’s homeland and heritage paired with a burning desire to protect those roots. In the real world, however, the idea of “patriotism” devolves into just another weapon used to propel conflicts between nationalist governments. Even more egregiously, it is oftentimes merely a disingenuous rebranding of chauvinism.

OPINION | 09/17/2019

Climate policy is public policy

Climate policy is public policy

Tom Taylor, Sujata Rajpurohit, Molly Brune, Ryan Warsing, and Sagatom Saha

There are few policy problems where the science is so settled, yet our leaders have not faced up to the urgency or significance of the crisis.

OPINION | 09/17/2019

Princeton’s excellence depends on the free exchange of ideas

Princeton’s excellence depends on the free exchange of ideas

Guest Contributor

Free speech at Princeton includes the right to acts of peaceful dissent, protests in peaceable assembly, and orderly demonstrations. Such protests and demonstrations strengthen the fabric of our community by pushing all of us to consider different points of view and reconsider our own ideas.

OPINION | 09/16/2019

It’s time for climate activism to burst the Orange Bubble

It’s time for climate activism to burst the Orange Bubble

Claire Wayner

It is in this space of confusion and social angst, wondering whether we as a species can ever come to grips with the permanent damage that fossil fuels will inflict on our planet, where I have found climate activism, such as the upcoming Global Climate Strike on Friday, to be most compelling and useful.

OPINION | 09/15/2019

It’s just ‘Week’

Siyang Liu

Not only was the ban ineffective at reducing irresponsible drinking, it also produced the negative side effects of encouraging dishonest behavior and supporting an air of elitism.

OPINION | 09/15/2019

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