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Opaque transparency: What we (don’t) know about Princeton’s animal experimentation

Opaque transparency: What we (don’t) know about Princeton’s animal experimentation

Guest Contributor

ByCourtney Buoncore '18 and Gwyndolyn Goldfeder '18 Most Princeton students operate under the assumption that our campus promotes intellectual and moral integrity, as well as academic transparency.

OPINION | 04/20/2015

When I first saw the Lawnparties announcement video, my initial reaction was, “What a tasteless and offensive early April fools joke.” When I found out that the man rapping about a “little stupid-ass bitch” would, in fact, be the headlining act in May, I was not shocked or horrified.

OPINION | 04/20/2015

The growing inefficacy of photo campaigns

Zeena Mubarak

This year multiple photo campaigns were launched and executed by a variety of different groups. Just this semester, we have had the USG Body Image campaign, the SHARE Consent campaign, the Hidden Minority photo campaign and more.

OPINION | 04/20/2015

Divestment: It's about real people

Guest Contributor

By Lina Saud '15 We grew up in a world intimately tied to the land of our parents and grandparents.

OPINION | 04/19/2015

A responsibility not to divest

Guest Contributor

By Caroline Snowden '17 When we signed "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" at the beginning of our freshman year, we committed ourselves to creating a “community in which all members can participate fully and equally.” As Princetonians, we are both honored and compelled to be part of this effort for positive impact in our school, our country and the world. It is therefore imperative that, when our Princeton community is challenged to respond to a complex and divisive issue, we remember our promise.

OPINION | 04/19/2015

Divestment and Egypt

Guest Contributor

An Egyptian-American activist, Mohamed Soltan, was recently sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court.

OPINION | 04/16/2015

Informed dissent is not racism

Christian Wawrzonek

Initially, I did not understand the rage in response to Urban Congo. I was indifferent to the performance and found it nothing more than slightly amusing.

OPINION | 04/16/2015

Princeton is going up in flames

Sarah Sakha

At least, someone who isn’t affiliated with the University, scouring Yik Yak or recent press coverage, would think this.

OPINION | 04/15/2015

Free to hate

Steve Swanson

What does “free speech” mean? Recent campus events have shown that campus is split: columnist Newby Parton writes without qualification that “silencing offensive speech... solves nothing that can’t be solved by growing thicker skin,” while students protest the chapel meeting with signs lambasting the administration’s weak response to Urban Congo and claiming that President Eisgruber wrote, “[Racism] may not be suppressed.” These events, as well as the mixed responses to the University’s new statement on academic freedom, demonstrate that students have very different conceptions of free speech.The two sides of this campus debate basically fall in line with the two competing theories of free speech on the world stage.

OPINION | 04/15/2015

Defending dissenters, a case for political correctness

Guest Contributor

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.

OPINION | 04/15/2015

Adjusting Our Mindset: Prioritizing meaningful service matters at Princeton

Guest Contributor

We would like to thank columnist Reva Abrol for her recent article, “A vicious cycle of weak civic engagement,” published last month.

OPINION | 04/14/2015

Bearing the educational burden

Will Rivitz

By now, almost all of those reading this will have seen University President Eisgruber ’83’s campus-wide email regarding the recent social media explosions of former student group Urban Congo’s performance last week and of the student-led protest of rapper Big Sean’s upcoming Lawnparties appearance.

OPINION | 04/14/2015

Where is the love?: A call to action for camaraderie

Imani Thornton

On a student panel I was on a few days ago, I was seated before three dozen impressionable young men, ranging from the ages of 11 to 15.

OPINION | 04/14/2015

Home

Matthew Choi Taitano

What is home? According to the famous American poet Maya Angelou, it is, “the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” As the semester comes to a close and many students have begun to solidify their summer plans, I have repeatedly asked myself this question.

OPINION | 04/13/2015

Why the As I Am Campaign is important

Kelly Hatfield

There is perhaps no way to accurately convey the experience of living with an eating disorder, but over the course of the past seven years the best way I have discovered to (concisely) convey the point has been to describe a pernicious “voice” that is simultaneously mine and not mine that whispers self-loathing offers of faux control into my consciousness.

OPINION | 04/13/2015

Shout loud for censorship

Newby Parton

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, rates universities on their commitment to free speech.

OPINION | 04/13/2015

Interdisciplinary at the individual course level

Erica Choi

This year, I enrolled in the Humanities Sequence, a year-long class that seeks to examine canonical Western literature — from Homer to Virginia Woolf — in an interdisciplinary manner.

OPINION | 04/12/2015

Dropping the P-bomb

Lavinia Liang

My brother and I were on the airplane, the two of us next to each other in a three-person row.

OPINION | 04/12/2015

On Yik Yak, Facebook and Racism at the University

Ryan Dukeman

As a recent re-adopter of Yik Yak and a (not so) proud Facebook procrastinator, I, like the rest of campus, have witnessed the explosion of social media discussion of racism on campus over the last few days.

OPINION | 04/09/2015

On Steinem and Big Sean: loving sexist music as a feminist

Julia Case-Levine

When “Blurred Lines” was released in 2013, I found myself in the uncomfortable position of being both captivated by a catchy beat and turned off by lyrics that seemed to condone sexual assault, categorizing consent as a “blurred line.” Ironically, my mom was probably Robin Thicke’s biggest fan.

OPINION | 04/09/2015

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