One of the most striking speeches at the Democratic National Convention was delivered by a group called the “Mothers of the Movement,” some of the mothers of black Americans killed at the hands of law enforcement, official or otherwise.
Following in the footsteps of dozens of other major publications over the past year or two, Aeon Magazine has just published a critique of student protesters on campuses nationwide.
I wasn’t expecting to agree with much of the talk on pornography and sex trafficking given this past Thursday by University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Dr. Mary Anne Layden at an event sponsored by the Anscombe Society.
This afternoon, in an event sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, a debate of considerable importance will occur.
On the night of the Oscars, a user of a community-driven music blog I write for made a “list” (basically a vehicle for driving site-wide discussions) asking his fellow commenters to discuss the fact that Sam Smith had just won the show’s award for Best Original Song.
You may have heard of "The Wall," an activist art display constructed by the Princeton Committee on Palestine and the Princeton DREAM Team near McCosh.
Recently, you may have heard that temporary “affinity rooms” have been erected in the Fields Center for certain racial minorities on campus.
If you’ve flipped open a copy of this paper to the Opinion section sometime in the past month, you’ve probably seen somebody discussing (and, in most cases, ardently defending) the so-called “right to offend.” It’s been invoked most frequently in the aftermath of the Black Justice League’s recent sit-in in Nassau Hall, and in response to protests at Columbia and Yale. It’s also been examined multiple times with respect to a more general framework of what it means to be in college in 2015.Though ideas vary from column to column, a general consensus from those in opposition to the protests sweeping college campuses is this: Free speech is valuable; we have a right to say whatever we want, even if it is offensive; and curtailing purportedly offensive speech is unethical and unconstitutional.Funnily enough, I’m not sure many people — on all sides of the discourse — disagree with that statement.
I hate to do this, but let's talk about Yik Yak for a moment.As many of us have seen over the past few weeks, Princeton’s local Yik Yak has exploded with denouncements of the Black Justice League’s peaceful protest outside and inside of Nassau Hall.
Dissent among campus publications is a hallmark of the prose, opinion and editorial scene at Princeton.
