We call on Princeton University: step up and use your power to protect your Black students.
With these pills, our democracy can recover better than it was before. The question only remains if they are too big to swallow.
Anyone can speak, but minorities advocating for change have historically been ignored and met with violent backlash from dominant groups. When people of color attempt to speak freely, they are often degraded, ignored, and attacked.
If we must continue to cling so helplessly to naming as a tradition, we should defuse the ticking time bomb of eponymic memorialization by normalizing public scrutiny — not as behavior deemed oppositional to naming practices, but as a welcomed endeavor.
Making sure that Princeton’s Title IX system keeps survivors’ best interests at heart is necessary.
We urge the University to establish a center that is dedicated to the eradication and remediation of the effects of systemic racism.
We must carry on without John Lewis, but if we ever hope to make this nation’s promise true, we must carry his legacy within us: disrupt the status quo, follow your conscience with morality as your north star regardless of popular sentiment, and never give up the pursuit of what is right.
Professors who actually believe in racial equality should embrace a committee of experts on the workings of racism who will alert them that they are perpetuating racist ideas in their research.
If an infrastructure for online education already exists, we should use it.
It is absolutely possible for Princeton to uphold core academic principles such as freedom of speech and diversity of thought and values antithetical to the Chinese Communist Party, while also defending its students from misdirected race-based attacks and discrimination.
When what you eat is your only sense of control, the chaos of pandemic is life-threatening.
USG’s low voter turnout rate leaves me with no choice but to declare it as an illegitimate government formed by a minority of students to speak on behalf of a supposed majority.
We should resist the impulse of going back to business as usual and embrace a growing movement to build a better society.
If we admire the city’s glamour, it’s only right that we study its underlying issues as well.
Let’s replace Bicker culture with service culture.
It is unfair for partial-aid families to continue to have the same financial burden placed on them for this inherently less valuable semester.
Princeton will no doubt one day go back to the way it was, but until then, we have to be grateful for the small things and stop lamenting what we had, so that sooner rather than later, we can have it back again.
Even as the administration drags its feet in giving us answers or solving already apparent problems, we as students should still hold true to the principles of our motto: “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.”
It’s bad faith to treat Joshua Katz as a pariah, a racist, a Trump surrogate, and so on because one doesn’t want to engage with his objections.
