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Guest Contributor Justin Lee ’26 writes, “A recent op-ed from Guest Contributor Ethan Hicks ’26 claims that Princeton’s academic rigor and mental health problem is merely ‘the price of greatness.’ This price is not right — the price of greatness and excellence should be hard work and dedication, not asking students to sacrifice their mental health.”
Lee continues, “Yes, some stress has been scientifically proven to help performance, and whether it be from academics, extracurriculars, or social life, stress may be an inevitable part of life. But Eisgruber’s and Hicks’ choices to blame students for the campus mental health crisis deflects the causes of stress. We have to invest in our campus resources, not cast blame on the student body.”
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Affirmative action doesn’t do enough to diversify elite education: In light of the likely end of affirmative action and President Christopher Eisgruber’s statement that it will be difficult to ensure a diverse campus with race-blind admissions, Assistant Opinion Editor Christofer Robles ’25 asks, “But why does our admission process fail to include students of color without the bandage of affirmative action in the first place?”
He writes, “It is because our admissions criteria is largely dependent on metrics that guarantee students of color will be excluded. We must reimagine how we admit applicants to guarantee students of color are included without superfluous solutions.”
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