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I can summarize campus politics in two words: Yik Yak. Yik Yak has become the primary platform for debate about issues facing our campus, since the app’s anonymity not only facilitates conversation and ardent debate but alsopersonal attacks, as chronicled in several Buzzfeed articles over the “Urban Congo” controversy. But as heartening as it may be to see students tackling these issues on a variety of social media platforms, these issues must come out of Yik Yak and onto our actual campus and into our dialogue, hopefully without an abundance of ad hominem attacks. And they have, to some degree.

OPINION | 04/29/2015

The missing dimension: reflections on the divestment from Egypt

The missing dimension: reflections on the divestment from Egypt

Guest Contributor

Reading through the divestment referendum that the undergraduates have already voted on and the graduate students are due to vote on in the course of this week, I was utterly shocked that Egypt was included in the referendum.

OPINION | 04/29/2015

Political Correctness in the Age of the Hipster

Imani Thornton

Growing up, I was kindly told that there are three things you never discuss inpolite company: religion, money and politics.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Treading new ground

Will Rivitz

Recently, a “powerful” video highlighting the gender imbalance in the movie industry has been making rounds on social media.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Misleading and factually incorrect coverage of animal research at the University

Guest Contributor

By Laura Conour and Stuart Leland Two articles published recently in The Daily Princetonian contained factual inaccuracies and misleading information about research conducted with animals at the University.

OPINION | 04/28/2015

Bring Back TigerPAWW

Nicholas Wu

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OPINION | 04/27/2015

Why body image campaigns get it right (and have room to progress)

Kelly Hatfield

On April 23,Colter Smith argued that body image campaignshave frequently erred in their attempts to promote a healthier environment insofar as they only target the conception that one’s body isn’t beautiful, rather than unhealthy attributions of self-worth.

OPINION | 04/27/2015

Congratulations, you have been admitted! Now what?

Matthew Choi Taitano

The YouTube channel of Victoria Asbury, who goes by Victoria Shantrell on her channel, was an important part of my college application process.

OPINION | 04/27/2015

A plea for activism

Guest Contributor

By Matt Beienburg Following recent events, the rightful outrage from our community — including the recent student demonstration in the University Chapel — appropriately galvanizes us to confront racial injustice and shame those who spew hate. That racism should be condemned could not be more true, and it is precisely what is true that we must always challenge ourselves to uphold.

OPINION | 04/26/2015

#modernlove: Acknowledging the importance of Tiger Admirers

Lavinia Liang

My mother told me that she thinks my generation is not serious about love. This was after we had gone to college.

OPINION | 04/26/2015

Defeat in Dillon: A recap of the 'Prince' — football matchup in the dodgeball tournament

Miles Hinson

The Daily Princetonian against football was one the most anticipated dodgeball matchups in recent memory.

SPORTS | 04/26/2015

Why I’m choosing never to see my admissions records

Ryan Dukeman

As was widely reported in January, students this year have for the first time figured out en masse how to view their supposedly-confidential admission records, thanks to a loophole in Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act discovered by several students at Stanford.

OPINION | 04/23/2015

Why body image campaigns get it wrong

Colter Smith

Every once in a while, my Facebook feed becomes flooded with pictures of students holding up signs or changing their profile pictures as part of the newest campaign to encourage acceptance of one’s body.

OPINION | 04/23/2015

Why I Hate James Harden

Guest Contributor

by Cameron ZeluckIf you’re a longtime LeBron James fan, you’ve probably come to realize something: you’re not scared of any opposing NBA team.

SPORTS | 04/23/2015

Reconsidering political correctness

Max Grear

When it came time a few weeks ago for administrators at Kean University to pick a commencement speaker, I imagine that Common seemed like a safe choice.

OPINION | 04/22/2015

Princeton’s laboratory animal research program

Guest Contributor

ByPablo G. Debenedetti Two articles published recently in The Daily Princetonian, “U.

OPINION | 04/22/2015

Let’s talk about kale

Nicholas Wu

Kale is beloved by hipsters and foodies across the country, making it one of the most stereotyped vegetables on the planet.

OPINION | 04/22/2015

Argumentum ad yikyakum

Avaneesh Narla

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” — Oscar Wilde In high school, I was a big fan of anonymity.

OPINION | 04/21/2015

Food security and poverty tourism

Lea Trusty

I cannot recall the last time I read a positive column about Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow’s greatest flaw in the public eye has been her inability to relate with others, more so thanatypicalHollywood celebrity.

OPINION | 04/21/2015

Disinvestment is an empty moral gesture

Guest Contributor

By Uwe Reinhardt It is always to be welcomed when students give written or spoken expression to their moral sentiments on issues outside the University’s comfortable cocoon and debate these sentiments in a manner that befits a great university. At the same time, it is less heartening when these expressions lead to facile and morally empty policy recommendations for the operation of the University at large. From the viewpoint of an economist, for example, having the University’s investment arm, PRINCO, rid itself of the stock certificates on a set of companies whose role in Israel and the West Bank is deplored by the advocates of disinvestment strikes me as such an empty gesture. One certainly can debate this issue from a strictly partisan basis, favoring one side or the other, as different factions on this campus have amply done. One can also debate whether it is reasonable to force upon the University community a general policy on which that community is as sharply divided as it is on this issue.

OPINION | 04/21/2015

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