Letter to the Editor: Equality of ends is not a worthy goal
To the Editor:
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To the Editor:
Reactions on college campuses to the recent terrorist attack and ensuing conflict in Israel and Palestine have garnered significant national attention. As controversy over responses has roiled universities across the country, the conversation on Princeton’s campus has centered around vigils and grief thus far.
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TigerHub, Princeton’s official portal where students view their grades and schedules and pay their tuition, has come under a fair amount of criticism: “It’s clear from the look and feel of [TigerHub] that insufficient time and money have been allocated to make [it] easy to use and aesthetically on par with modern web standards,” wrote then-Contributing Columnist Christopher Lidard ’25 last fall.
Every October I find myself swept up by the mystic, spooky spirit of Halloween. I have wonderful memories of the holiday, from dressing up in costumes with my family to traversing the neighborhood with my elementary school friends. It is a holiday steeped in a particularly potent nostalgia that I am always excited to reconnect with.
With the brisk autumn atmosphere setting into Princeton’s campus, my usual iced tea orders are quickly being replaced by warm drinks better fit for the incoming chilly seasons. Instead of an energizing coffee, I gravitate towards hot chocolate — the sweeter and more festive winter alternative in my opinion. I’ve always found myself holding a mug of hot chocolate over coffee; in high school, I would prepare a Thermos to savor the drink during my 7:30 a.m. classes, and I usually brought hot chocolate for classmates to celebrate my birthday right before Christmas.
The appalling nature of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, killing more than 1,400, abducting at least 200, and firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian neighborhoods, has understandably prompted an Israeli military response.
The University is in the process of a major academic change, the transition from certificates to minors. At a meeting with the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Academics Committee on Sept. 29, representatives of the Office of the Dean of the College (ODOC) indicated that further changes may be coming. The group discussed initiatives to extend the passing time between classes from 10 to 20 minutes and extend the due dates of papers into finals period.
This Friday the 13th was met by mass enthusiasm from Halloween fanatics and Troye Sivan fans alike when the renowned musical artist released his first album in five years.
This past week, the No. 6 men’s water polo (21–4 overall, 5–0 Northeast Water Polo Conference) team traveled across California, playing seven games over seven days. The seven games included six against opponents ranked in the top 15. The team ended the trip 5–2, returning to the Garden State with the hopes that they would return a third time in early December to compete for a national championship.
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, a truck with provocative images posted on it was seen on Nassau Street in Princeton falsely accusing the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) of “coddling antisemitism” and failing to condemn the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas in Israel.
Elite schools are commonly criticized for disproportionately funneling their graduates into the privileged professions of finance and consulting, fields which have been exposed again and again for unethical practices and corporate greed. Princeton is no exception, with nearly 20 percent of graduates in 2023 entering these sectors, a phenomenon which some Princetonians feel contradicts Princeton’s unofficial motto of being “in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”
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Coming from a frosh whose midterms hit them like a truck: how can Halloween be approaching so quickly when it feels like we just got to Princeton but also feel like we have been here for years?
Five candidates emerged victorious from a crowded field of 23 candidates in the Class of 2027 Class Council election, nearly double the size of last year's field. The USG Fall Elections penalty report reveals that over the course of the campaign, nine candidates broke official USG election rules, with two candidates sanctioned. The most common violation was a failure to submit their expenditure report on time. While submitting late did not incur a campaign restriction for most candidates, penalties increased sharply, with a candidate submitting two hours late losing their ability to send electronic messages and a candidate being disqualified after submitting 12 hours late. Only four candidates reported any expenditures at all during the campaign, meaning at least some of the candidates submitting late were submitting no expenses.
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For many, Halloween elicits nostalgia as a yearly invitation to look back on your childhood when you could dream without any constraints. Halloween is the one night a year when fantasy is reality, when ghosts and ghouls freely roam the streets.
Princeton students: condemn Hamas’s ‘pure, unadulterated evil’