Anyone who has held a senior leadership role in a University student group or organization knows, or will quickly learn, that the pace of University institutions is on an entirely different wavelength than that of most leadership terms.
The 2011 Women’s Leadership Report revealed a disturbing reality — in the “highly visible positions” of major student groups on University campus, women held fewer of the top spots since right after the first decade that the University began accepting women.
Hypocrisy is a curious human condition, and one that is important both to experience and to take note of, whether in oneself or in others.
"What is it about silence that is so unsettling and deeply irksome?" I wonder as I spit out some trite retort to a friend’s comment to avoid having nothing to say. Silence makes me so anxious that I instinctively fill it with some equally meaningless remark.
Black History Month has just ended, so I believe now is the perfect time to look at the goals and intentions of the month, and how they fit into the history of the University. In honor of the month, Shriya Sekhsaria has been writing a very informative series in The ‘Prince’ about the history of African Americans on this campus, from the very first evidence of an African American student, way back in 1792, to the feelings of current students with regards to race relations at Princeton.
As I write this, The Daily Princetonian’s editors are concluding the process of selecting new writers to join the ranks of the Opinion section.
Nobody wants life advice from an 18-year-old.
There is a special sense of hopelessness that accompanies leaving the Trustee Reading Room in Firestone Library at 2 a.m., paper unfinished and coffee in hand. I’ve spent more nights than I would have liked searching for a quiet study space after the libraries have closed.
The recent discussion regarding Bicker has attracted much interest and discussion, but as much as I am glad that the dialogue is active, I’d like to present another question to the debate: Why do we still have Bicker?
Apparently, some 24-hour bug has been going around for the past few weeks. I unfortunately know this firsthand, not because I have the stomach flu (yet), but because I recently had to stomach the effects of someone else’s flu. At the end of my seminar class one recent evening, as I casually started toward the door, I looked up just in time to see one of my classmates lurching towards the landfill section of the classroom garbage bin.
There really aren’t any shortcuts on Princeton campus. For a student body whose day-to-day activity involves quite a lot of walking and biking, it seems like there’s never enough time for the trek from Frick Chemistry Laboratory to East Pyne.
By Joseph LoPresti ’15 On Monday, Barbara Zhan ’16 wrote an article arguing that Bicker is necessary.
I finally realized that something was amiss when I was rudely awakened by sirens for the third night in a row.
Let’s throw it back to our Founding Fathers. In his farewell address, George Washington admonished against the rise of political parties. He got it right.
Princeton’s unofficial motto states “in the nations service and the service of all nation.” However, are all nations equally in need of our service?
There are many things that I worried about as a 16-year-old high school sophomore.
There has been a recent initiative on campus in the form of a petition to call forth a referendum to end Bicker in the Princeton eating clubs.
By David Goldstein ’17As someone who has endured multiple concussions, has founded and continued to manage a comprehensive Countywide Concussion Care program, and has helped pass youth concussion legislation in Florida, I saw an immense amount of value in the wise words and lessons that were shared at the Concussions in Youth Sports Discussion on Sept.
With the recent events surrounding the “Princeton Mom” and Tiger Inn, sexual misconduct has been talked about significantly both on campus and in the pages of The Daily Princetonian.
At the start of this academic year, I wrote a column advising freshmen to give themselves more than a couple months to decide how they felt about Princeton and the college experience.
