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(03/29/18 12:48am)
In an op-ed published in the Yale Daily News last month, staff columnist Adrian Rivera claims that honesty may not exactly be the best policy. He recounts a predicament where reporting on an event at the law school, as a good journalist would, caused him to miss an economics pop quiz. Although Rivera was honest with his professor about his reason for missing class, he was not allowed to make up the missed quiz and ultimately dropped the course. Although the reason for dropping the course isn’t explicitly stated, it is likely not a direct consequence of missing the quiz. Now, I can’t say that honesty is always the best policy because it worked for me in a particular scenario, but I can say that honesty is the best policy because the alternative — dishonesty — cannot possibly be.
(03/07/18 2:19am)
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s recent acquisition of Princeton Health is a major step in improving access to medical care for the region. Previously, Princeton Health — which includes Princeton Medical Center, a leading teaching hospital in New Jersey — had been “evaluating partnership opportunities to ensure its continued success in the future,” but ultimately announced its intent to partner with UPHS in 2016. This transaction officially took place early in January, making highly specialized care more accessible via Penn Medicine’s umbrella system.
(02/22/18 1:24am)
Since its inception in 2013, the Princeton Pre-read has introduced incoming first-year students to pressing current events, societal, and campus issues. The Class of 2019’s Pre-read, for example, discussed how race affects mobility. It was aptly assigned in 2015 — a year that saw the rise to national prominence of black police shootings, a subject which received significant media coverage and sparked polarized protests across the country. We see from past trends that the Pre-read speaks to the current state of our society and may even serve as a larger symbol of campus events. Hitting on topics like equality, stereotypes, populism, and honor codes in recent years, the Pre-read educates and makes students aware of issues that may present themselves at the University.
(12/14/17 2:34am)
It’s the week before classes end, each of your five classes has a deadline you must meet, and you effectively budget your time at the beginning of the week to allow for the completion of all five assignments. Of course, five courses with deadlines the same week clearly puts you at a disadvantage, as less time can be allocated for the completion of each assignment when compared to a student with fewer deadlines. Twelve hours before the deadline of your most time-consuming assignment, the professor announces a 24-hour extension, since many of his students complained that they needed extra time. You’ve already completed the assignment for this class (after all, you knew it would take the most time), but the deadlines for your remaining assignments remain unchanged — leaving you, the proactive student, disadvantaged yet again. How is this fair?
(11/15/17 1:14am)
After reading Jessica Nyquist’s column on her perception of Princeton students’ risk-averse culture and its effect on their career paths, I couldn’t help but reflect on my own Princeton experience. As a pre-medical student, a goal of mine — as for practically all other Princeton pre-meds — is to eventually go to medical school. Were I risk-averse, I guess I’d be spending most of my time in a hospital, or in a research lab, or maybe rebuilding clinics in developing countries. But, my intellectual curiosity, as Nyquist puts it, has pointed me in many other directions including, but certainly not limited to, journalism, FM and internet radio, and even competitive poker! By no means am I confined to this single path to medical school, and from my experience, neither are most Princeton students.
(10/06/17 1:12am)
On Sept. 12, 2017, U.S. News and World Report released its annual Best College ranking lists for 2018. For the seventh straight year, Princeton has topped these rankings. But what — if anything — should we as an institution be proud of?
(04/11/17 12:57am)
If you have ever walked into Frist Campus Center to find a long line running around several corners, it’s probably a line for the ticket office. The office provides tickets for various campus events and performances, but it does not do so without flaws. The ticket office wastes an unacceptable amount of students’ time. Last semester, I arrived at Frist two hours before ticket sales went live for a Mathey College Broadway trip, and I wasn’t even among the first people in line. The inconvenience and unnecessary time consumption of buying tickets could easily be avoided through online ticket sales.
(03/15/17 1:07am)
For the first year, every Division I basketball conference hosted a tournament for an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championships. In years past, the Ivy League team with the best conference record made an appearance in the national tournament, but the League’s Council of Presidents recently approved a four-team conference tournament for rights to the automatic bid. Every other NCAA Division I conference has previously hosted its own high-stakes tournament for a guaranteed trip to March Madness.
(02/28/17 2:53am)
On Friday, Feb. 17, I observed the most exciting college tour of my life. As a prospective Orange Key tour guide, I must observe several tours of campus — a dull requirement, for the most part. On this day, I expected a simple stroll through the typical route — until Shrek interrupted my Princeton tour.
(02/16/17 5:09am)
The use of laptop computers in the classroom is a subject of mixed opinion. Fully equipped with note-taking software, word processors, e-books, Blackboard, Facebook, Twitter, iMessage, Youtube, iTunes, and much, much more, laptops can be very effective learning tools. Many University students take advantage of their typing speed to quickly take down notes, or they reference materials like Blackboard pages or eBooks during class. However, although they’re convenient, laptops in the classroom also present an inevitable distraction to the user. Laptops pose a threat to a student’s educational experience at the University, and the use of laptops in the classroom should be restricted.
(12/07/16 1:34am)
Since the fall of 2012, Princeton has upheld a policy in which first-year students are prohibited from affiliating with or rushing fraternities or sororities. Shirley Tilghman, the University’s president at the time of the ban’s implementation, maintained that social life on campus should be centered around the residential colleges and the eating clubs. However, from my experience as a first-year student, the residential colleges aren’t particularly social — with the exception of a few tight-knit zee groups — and eating clubs only exist to host weekly parties, since underclassmen do not become members until sophomore spring. Princeton freshmen are lacking the essential connection to social life on campus.