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(06/03/24 3:24am)
In November 2023, I wrote a letter to the editor on the importance of remembering the radical side of Princeton’s activist history and the politics of how we remember campus activism. As I wrote that letter, I could never have imagined the incredible things that current Princeton student activists would achieve just six months later with the Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment, also known as the Popular University for Gaza. If my previous letter lamented the lost radicalism of past campus activism we needed to recall, then recall it we have. On a supposedly apolitical, apathetic campus, students occupied space in solidarity with the Palestinian people for three weeks, organized a hunger strike that lasted over a week, held rallies of over 350 people, and, most importantly, put Palestinian liberation at the center of campus discourse in an unprecedented fashion. That is something worth remembering.
(05/22/24 2:24am)
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(05/17/24 3:38am)
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(05/17/24 2:42am)
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(05/14/24 2:04am)
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(05/11/24 10:12pm)
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(05/13/24 1:49am)
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(05/10/24 5:06am)
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(05/10/24 4:32pm)
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(05/10/24 4:01am)
Princeton gives its students much freedom within their distribution requirements. Rather than requiring a small number of specific courses, each student can take many courses that fall into a variety of “general education areas.” There are six distribution requirements in the humanities and social sciences: Culture and Difference, Epistemology and Cognition, Ethical Thought and Moral Values, Historical Analysis (HA), Literature and the Arts, and Social Analysis (SA). A.B. students are required to take one course in each category, other than Literature and the Arts and SA, in which they are required to take two courses. Doubling up in these categories implies that they are particularly important for Princetonians. Social Analysis is one of those prioritized subjects — but, as has become obvious in recent protests, good social analysis relies on a deep understanding of history. For this reason, Princeton should add a second Historical Analysis requirement to accompany the second Social Analysis requirement — because the latter cannot exist without the former.
(05/06/24 4:39am)
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(05/04/24 3:20am)
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(05/03/24 3:45am)
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(05/03/24 5:24am)
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(05/03/24 5:22am)
This week, the stalls of Firestone are full and campus is focused as students are preparing for the end of the semester and the ever-approaching finals period. In an attempt to improve the student experience around this time of the semester, on Feb. 16, Dean of the College Jill Dolan sent an email to the undergraduate student body announcing a pilot final exam schedule for the Spring 2024 semester. According to Dolan, this schedule allows “students to sit for up to two exams in a day, which will facilitate a more efficient exam period.” Ideally, this pilot schedule would help shorten the exam period in the spring, enabling students to finish the semester earlier, something that students were concerned about, according to the email. But this exam schedule has the potential to be detrimental both to students’ academic achievement and mental health during the exam period. Students’ wellbeing and academic success should take priority over efficiency — the University should maintain the old final exam schedule.
(05/02/24 2:56am)
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(05/02/24 2:01am)
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(05/06/24 2:59am)
As a top institution of higher education, Princeton tries to do its best to prepare us for our future: offering career fairs, hosting resume writing sessions, and even offering Last Lectures about careers in local government. But there is one place where the University is falling short: preparing its students to form healthy relationships. There is a normalization of hookup culture at the University that is detrimental to many students’ long-term goals of healthy, sustainable relationships. The University must provide better resources in educating its student body about the potential social and emotional harms of hookup culture during freshman orientation and follow up in SHARE training material for upperclassmen and eating clubs. At the same time, it’s up to us to work towards forming healthy habits.
(05/01/24 4:13am)
In the Opinion piece written by President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 last week, Eisgruber articulated Princeton University’s restrictions on speech and emphasized Princeton’s right to “reasonably regulate the time, place, and manner of expression to ensure that it does not disrupt the ordinary activities of the University.” As a matter of law and administrative policy, President Eisgruber is correct. But restrictions on “disruption” to “ordinary activities” inherently suppresses the underlying intent of creating disruption of many protests that express progressive political views. This includes the University’s recent action taken against Princeton students’ sit-ins and protests on behalf of Gazans, victims of a military campaign — plausibly deemed genocidal — currently being waged by Israeli military forces. Not only do current regulations on “disruption” effectively prohibit impactful expression about progressive concerns, but — contrary to President Eisgruber’s assertions — these regulations are inherently not “viewpoint-neutral.” In fact, these rules stifle progressive speech, which is often accompanied by “disruptive” action supplementing the relevant propagated verbal and written messages.
(04/30/24 4:20pm)
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