Occupy Princeton
You may have noticed us the past few weeks. Since Nov. 17, we have been congregating weekly outside of Frist Campus Center, standing in a circle and shouting echoes of what speakers say. We are Occupy Princeton.
You may have noticed us the past few weeks. Since Nov. 17, we have been congregating weekly outside of Frist Campus Center, standing in a circle and shouting echoes of what speakers say. We are Occupy Princeton.
However, my complaint is not that we are less competitive when compared to our Harvard peers. My complaint is not even that grade deflation is unfair. Rather, my argument is that the competitive atmosphere created by grades — and grade deflation in particular — is antithetical to education. My proposal is not to merely eliminate grade deflation, but to eliminate grades altogether.
We need to move away from the objectification of sex as something to attain and toward a norm of seeking enthusiastic consent — when one’s sexual partner not only doesn’t say no, but says yes.
The less we schedule, the less pressure we will feel and the more time we will have to do something, if not everything, we want.