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(5 hours ago)
This past Monday, April 22, was Earth Day. Since the very first Earth Day in 1970, students have used this day to celebrate the environment and demand action from powerful institutions on the climate crisis. The day has brought attention to environmental issues on college campuses, including at Princeton, from its inception. We, as Sunrise Princeton co-coordinators, celebrate how Earth Day has been a unifying force for the mainstream environmental movement. But we’re not satisfied with how Earth Day demonstrations have been co-opted by greenwashing campaigns and have kept the climate movement siloed from other liberatory struggles. That’s why Sunrise Princeton partnered with a coalition of organizers to cast off old frameworks this Earth Day and to demand that Princeton lead both in stopping actions that contribute to the climate crisis and in building climate justice in its community.
(04/23/24 3:48am)
In SPI 499: Making an Exoneree, students have no papers, problem sets, readings, or exams. They just work to exonerate wrongfully imprisoned people. Students in the class “spend an intensive semester as investigative journalists, documentarians, and social justice activists.” As an action-centered class, SPI 499 is a testament to the fact that civic engagement is something that can be incorporated into our everyday learning.
(04/23/24 3:09am)
The following is an open letter and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here.
(04/22/24 2:48am)
Like many of my peers, I was a dedicated student organizer in high school, but I’ve been utterly inactive at Princeton. Instead of attending Sunrise Princeton or SPEAR (Students for Princeton Education, Abolition, and Reform) events, I’ve justified my disengagement by telling myself that I don’t have enough time to make a substantive commitment to those groups.
(04/19/24 5:01am)
Last spring, my Arabic language instructor instituted a policy that non-Muslim students refrain from eating or drinking in class during Ramadan. When I objected to this rule, she told me that the problem with Americans is that we “care too much about our rights.” As such, I was very surprised to see her name appear on an open letter demanding that the administration “defend academic freedom, freedom of speech, and the right to peaceful assembly” in the context of advocacy for “Palestinian liberation.”
(04/18/24 4:41am)
The Opinion section is thrilled to introduce named columns at the ‘Prince,’ starting with six columnists this semester and more to join in coming semesters. Our columnists will publish regularly and, we hope, become consistent voices in the campus conversation.
(04/17/24 3:45am)
As the end of the semester approaches, so too do I approach the end of my University-allotted printing quota. This is a testament to the hefty reading loads often expected in Princeton classes, much of which is uploaded online. As an iPad-less student who values annotating her readings, this means that I am a frequent patron of the various campus printers. While virtual access to course materials is useful, allowing students to practice diverse study methods at no added cost, the academic advantages of reading on paper — to ourselves and our academic community — are too great to ignore. In recognition of this truth, Princeton should encourage professors to return to disseminating their reading through Pequod course packets.
(04/16/24 4:19am)
I’m a first-year, and in less than a year, it’ll be time for me, my friends, and the Class of 2027 to join eating clubs. When we do, we’ll be looking for spaces where we can relax, socialize, and be among friends. We’re looking for places where we can have a reprieve from the fast pace of Princeton life, places where we can eat dinner, play pool, and sit around in complete comfort. For those of us of marginalized identities, that also means that we’re looking for a community that will respect us in a way that the outside world sometimes doesn’t. All of us, in our different ways, are looking for places where we feel at home. To phrase it in a way that has become controversial, we’re looking for safe spaces.
(04/15/24 3:43am)
In February, I experienced a play that is rare at Princeton. It was created for Black women, about Black women, and by Black women. And it was powerful. “Love Type Beat,” written and directed by seniors Tanéyah Jolly ’24 and Nica Evans ’24, was an immersive play staged in the Lewis Center for the Art’s Wallace Theater about Black women and femmes’ many experiences with love, moving the audience through six vignettes of raw, intimate scenes.
(04/12/24 6:30am)
This year, the Class Day speaker is Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order. Last year, Terri Sewell ’86 was the Class Day speaker although she had also spoken two months before at an event jointly hosted by Whig-Clio and Princeton College Democrats. In recent years, high-profile scientists (Anthony Fauci, 2022), comedians (Trevor Noah, 2021), and politicians (Cory Booker, 2018), have been the Class Day speakers. As we near Class Day, we asked our columnists: Who would you choose as the Class Day speaker?
(04/12/24 3:57am)
BSU, PASA, PCC, PEESA, PNSA, PABW, PBMA — call it the alphabet soup of Black student organizations. These are groups intended to cater to specific niches in the Black community and serve to represent its diversity. These organizations serve critical community-building needs that Princeton’s diverse Black population needs. Yet, informal conversations with Black students reveal that these groups highlight the dissolution of Black union due to its fragmentation. This piece seeks to uncover this dynamic, suggest tips for increased cohesion amongst Black student groups, and propose a novel formal consortium model for the centralization of Black Princeton.
(04/11/24 6:55am)
This year, 27 seniors declared their candidacy for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT). The high number of candidates is hardly a surprise: As members of the 40-person board of trustees, Young Alumni Trustees have significant influence over the University’s governance, budget, and $34 billion dollar endowment. There is no doubt that YAT is the most powerful position that an undergraduate can run for, making it no surprise that YAT attracts some of the best talent from across the Class of 2024 to run.
(04/10/24 4:09am)
The following is a column from the public editor. If you have questions or concerns regarding the paper’s coverage and standards or would like to see her cover a particular issue, please contact publiceditor[at]dailyprincetonian.com.
(04/09/24 4:50am)
There is arguably no phrase more penned in this paper than Princeton’s informal motto, “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.” Last semester, eight separate opinions mentioned it — 14 if you count those published over the summer. It is obvious that Princetonians care about this phrase; it is etched in a medallion on the course from FitzRandolph Gate to Nassau Hall. But we can’t seem to agree on what it means.
(04/08/24 5:38am)
Few Princeton students can forget their writing seminars. From the stress and confusion over the D1 to the feeling of accomplishment unique to finally submitting the R3, the mandatory first-year course provides a shared introduction to all the mixed emotions that will define every Princeton student’s future academic pursuits. However, while writing seminars teach helpful research and argumentation tactics, they often ultimately fall short of helping students with their titular skill: writing. Currently, writing seminar utilizes a one-size-fits-all approach to writing, neglecting the teaching of how different forms, types of sources, and modes of analysis vary in different disciplines. It also does not teach its students how to make the best possible use of language, especially in regards to form and style. In other words, writing seminar fails at its most fundamental task: it does not teach its students how to write, nor how to do so well.
(04/05/24 3:57am)
Princeton defines first-generation students as students who are the first in their families to attend college. Such students are a growing minority on campus. As their presence increases, so does their contribution to the campus community. Princeton’s Class of 2027 is 17 percent first-gen. We should celebrate this expansion as well as the increase in resources offered to these students. But these resources are not offered to all first-gen students.
(04/04/24 3:30am)
In Montgomery County, Maryland, where I grew up, the federal government was the backbone of the local economy. Over 10,000 people work at each of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Naval Hospital, with another nearly 10,000 employed by the Food and Drug Administration. Over one in five jobs in the county are in the government at some level — federal, state, or local. Civil service is woven into the fabric of the community.
(04/03/24 4:11am)
Despite the fact that my high breasts and I do not have a man with an MBA to take care of us, we have yet to be crushed by the unbearable weight of the human experience. This may sound like preposterous brag coming from a 20-year-old Ivy-League student: how could I have lived long enough to be convinced of life’s tragedies, hardships, and the benefit of having a partner who went to business school? According to 27-year-old Grazia Sophia Christie, however, I’m already behind on feeling these burdens.
(04/02/24 5:36am)
The following is a guest submission and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here.
(04/01/24 4:38am)
Postdocs and scholars across Princeton want a union. For the past year, we have been talking with our colleagues and signing union authorization cards. These cards demonstrate our support for collective bargaining through a union. A supermajority of all postdoctoral researchers and Associate Research Scholars — over 65 percent — have signed authorization cards, clearly showing the majority desire for a collective voice and better working conditions.