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(04/16/15 6:24pm)
An Egyptian-American activist, Mohamed Soltan, was recently sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court. His sin? Participating in a sit-in in protest of the 2013 ousting of Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt in over thirty years, by a violent military coup that left thousands dead.
(04/15/15 6:20pm)
In the aftermath of the Urban Congo fiasco and the Big Sean controversy, many of my fellow students have expressed disdain of a perceived boom of liberal sensitivity and outspokenness. It is true that our campus has become more divided, and somewhat chaotic. Since we've recently acquired the tenacity to cite names in public forums, I too feel less inhibited to be forthright in addressing a deplorable statement made by Julius Dixon '16on Facebook. Given the public status’ incredible response —receiving over 400 likes before it was removed by its author —it would not be too presumptuous of me to assume the reader is aware of it. For those who are not familiar, and for a reminder, the 264-word post commanded “Butthurt Princeton students” to stop over-policing perceived political incorrectness, and instructed members of our community to either stop being offended or stop voicing their offense.
(04/14/15 11:20am)
We would like to thank columnist Reva Abrol for her recent article, “A vicious cycle of weak civic engagement,” published last month. Her article brings an important issue to light: here at Princeton, and on many elite college campuses, the immense value of service is not entirely visible. To Reva, and to Princetonians who nodded their heads as they read her article, we say: we sympathize with your experience. We too expect better, both from ourselves and from the institution by which we are all linked.
(04/08/15 6:40pm)
By: Elise Backman
(04/05/15 1:19pm)
By W. Barksdale Maynard '88
(04/02/15 6:34pm)
Last week in Las Vegas, I was confronted with a difficult reality —that your path in life may depend solely on where you live, how much your family makes, the outcome of a lottery, and even which teachers are willing to commit to your district.
(03/31/15 10:12am)
In the recent Israeli elections, hope for productive negotiations with Palestinians was dealt a serious blow. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out definitively against the two-state solution as a means to solidify his support on the Israeli right wing, then rode his public insistence on an indefinite military occupation of the West Bank to victory. Despite two-faced attempts to recover the Obama administration’s confidence, the re-elected Prime Minister’s stance has been made clear: he is in no way committed to achieving a peaceful end to the illegal military occupation. Netanyahu’s credibility to negotiate in good faith was further eroded by racialized remarks warning that Arab voters were going to the polls “in droves,” aimed at stoking fear — and electoral turnout — among his base. In view of this bleak political reality, additional measures to get Israelis and Palestinians to the table are required.
(03/29/15 5:45pm)
The Footnotes are in. diSiac is in. International Relations Council is in. Your roommate is in. And we’re in.
(03/25/15 8:22pm)
In Eileen Torrez’s recent piece about the need to examine Princeton’s commitment to the mental health of its students, it was distressing to read how completely she misinterpreted Dean Claire Fowler’s email on the day of Audrey Dantzlerward’s passing. As the dean of a residential college, I can assure you that our immediate thoughts and actions that sad day were about all of the students who were going to be affected by this tragedy. I spent much of the afternoon and well into the evening writing to students to let them know that they should be with their friends and Audrey’s friends that night and not be writing papers for Dean’s Date. I know my fellow deans, directors of studies and directors of student life were doing the same. Many of us couldn’t come to the memorial that night because we were in our offices letting professors know that papers and assignments were not going to be completed. We all understood that, at that moment, we didn’t want students to choose between mourning and schoolwork. Our grief as a community came first.
(03/24/15 2:48pm)
By Eileen Torrez ’13
(03/22/15 2:22pm)
By Nikki Bowen "08
(03/15/15 5:15pm)
TheDaily Princetonian articlepublished on Feb. 19 about the Princeton Board of Health’s potential prohibition on tobacco sales to individuals under 21 featured some students’ views on the effectiveness of the proposed ordinance. The Student Health Advisory Board would like to use this opportunity to broaden the context and draw attention to the public health implications of tobacco use and prevention.
(03/12/15 7:25pm)
We, the Graduate Student Government Executive Committee, have completed our year at the helm of the University’s graduate representative body. After advocating for graduate interests on campus and expending significant effort to make the best of the challenging circumstances surrounding the Lakeside housing complex, we would like to leave some parting thoughts as we pass the baton to our promising successors.
(03/02/15 6:30pm)
To the editors:
(02/26/15 9:15pm)
Yesterday’s coverage of a lecture given by former Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis was entirely one-sided, recounting only her talking points. In abandoning all pretense of balance and in overlooking any tough questions asked of her following her talk, the ‘Prince’ failed to recognize that the content of Davis’s talk is controversial and subject to legitimate debate.
(02/24/15 2:07pm)
By Joseph LoPresti ’15
(02/19/15 7:45pm)
By David Goldstein ’17
(02/19/15 6:00pm)
By Zach Horton ’15The Daily Princetonian coverage of abortionist Willie Parker’s Wednesday lecture reads like a transcript of Parker’s remarks. It failed to give a balanced account of the extremely controversial event. Unmentioned were the more than 35 pro-life students and faculty present and respectful throughout the event. Unmentioned was Parker’s disparaging of pro-life activists and avoidance of tough questions.Notably, the ‘Prince’ misquoted my question to Parker and failed to report his response in full. I urged Parker to show empathy and suppose for a moment that he believed, as I and many others do, that abortion is tantamount to murder — the deliberate ending of innocent human life. I asked, “How would you act? Would you regard that belief as a private moral opinion and do nothing?” Parker avoided the force of the question, only eventually responding that he would simply have to give up his day job. His answer, however, was damning.Only refusing to commit genocide is not to fight genocide. Likewise, simply refraining from performing abortions is not to fight abortion. To my second question, then, Parker implicitly answered “yes.” This indicates his gross unwillingness to recognize the moral gravity of abortion, and it betrays his absolute refusal even to attempt to understand why we, the members of the pro-life movement, do what we do to fight it.Most deplorable, however, was Parker’s perverse use of civil rights language to promote abortion — the biggest civil rights crisis of our day. Abortion is the widespread discrimination against — and commonplace extermination of — a class of human beings: namely, those still in the womb. There is even more pronounced discrimination against developing human beings with medical conditions (especially Down’s Syndrome) and those of a culturally-unfavored sex (notably women in China and India). It is appalling that this discrimination and total degradation of the dignity of human life would be defended with civil rights rhetoric and the very words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Respectfully,Zach Horton ’15Editor's note: Zach Horton is also a member of The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board, but is writing this letter in his capacity as a member of Princeton Pro-Life who was quoted in a Feb. 19 article, “Well-being of patients most important in abortion cases, Parker argues.”
(02/17/15 2:03pm)
By: Ismael Catovic
(02/12/15 7:04pm)
By Theodore Furchtgott