Letter to the Editor

What is Native American student life like at Princeton?

Guest Contributor

I’m going to be honest, at times your peers won’t recognize you as Native American. People will casually joke “I thought you were Asian the first time I saw you” or at best, “I wasn’t sure of your background.” In situations such as these I laugh along with them, proudly declaring my Diné ancestry.

OPINION | 08/08/2017

Welcome home: An open invitation from the Princeton Black Student Union

Guest Contributor

To the Black Members of the Class of 2021: On behalf of Princeton’s Black Student Union, congratulations on your admission and your accomplishments that have brought you thus far!

OPINION | 08/08/2017

A letter from AASA to the Class of 2021

Guest Contributor

To the Class of 2021, The Asian American Students Association (AASA) wishes you a warm welcome to the Princeton community!

OPINION | 08/08/2017

Letter to the Editor: Transgender service ban

Guest Contributor

As the Pastor of Christ Congregation, an Open and Affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ and American Baptist Church — and as a friend and family member to many who have served in the military — I emphatically denounce the White House’s most recent policy denying transgender people the privilege and right to serve in our nation’s military. Scripture says this: “So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God, God created them; male and female, God created them.” If, like me, you believe all humans were created in the image of God, then we can assume that God’s existence does not conform to binary definitions of gender.

OPINION | 08/02/2017

Sailing the populist moment across the Atlantic

Guest Contributor

The Herman Melville novella “Benito Cereno,” in which a merchant ship is taken over by a slave mutiny, may seem to many like the perfect allegory for populism today. However, I do not believe that populism tricks democracy into such a scenario. We must learn to steer our ship without fearing the foreseeable intrusion of the populist guest, as we sail into perilous and unforeseen depths of the new order in need of a democratic horizon.

OPINION | 07/16/2017

Letter to the Editor: President Eisgruber responds to 'Sign on to "We Are Still In"'

Guest Contributor

Thank you for your recent note and for transmitting your petition. I appreciate your concern for the environment and your commitment to sustainability.

OPINION | 06/15/2017

Letter to the Editor: Naughty by Nature

Guest Contributor

The choice of the group Naughty by Nature as entertainment for the Class of 1992 25th Reunion was short-sighted at best, deplorable at worst.

OPINION | 06/14/2017

Celebrating complacency at Princeton

Guest Contributor

“Ya se agotó,” I said, incredulous (I shouldn’t have been; it’s a weekly occurrence). It’s already run out.

OPINION | 06/06/2017

Standardize the thesis deadline

Guest Contributor

As a glaring disclaimer, I did not write a thesis. As a BSE COS major, I opted to complete my independent research requirement during my junior year.

OPINION | 06/06/2017

Women's leadership at Princeton: How women get to lead

Guest Contributor

Over the last three years, there has been a surprising new trend across student groups: back-to-back women leaders of student groups including the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Whig-Clio, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Princetonian, and Business Today. Contrary to what we might expect from a place like Princeton, many of these organizations have not had women leaders for years.

OPINION | 06/01/2017

It’s not crying wolf: Holding the U. accountable for the Cinco de Mayo party

Guest Contributor

As the current PLA co-President, I was personally hurt to see a fellow PLA member target our response in such a negative manner. This is because the opinion piece by Uri Schwartz ’20, a Mexican-American student who is part of the University’s Latinx community, is relevant in this situation. However, Schwartz’s op-ed also proves to be extremely flawed.

OPINION | 06/01/2017

Noticing

Guest Contributor

Whether it be looking for a hidden gargoyle or $10-million energy efficiency upgrade, be a noticer. Keep your eyes open and look around, because you never know what you will find.

OPINION | 06/01/2017

Letter to the Editor: How do we decolonize an Ivy League institution?

Guest Contributor

Nearly forty years ago, anthropology was forced to reckon with its colonial past and present in a period of upheaval that nearly ended the discipline as we know it.

OPINION | 05/22/2017

Letter to the Editor: Stop whining, all of you

Guest Contributor

To my conservative friends, There has been a development in American progressivism in which people would rather make ad hominem attacks and ignore views that seem antithetical to who they are as a person than productively engage with others.

OPINION | 05/18/2017

Letter to the Editor: Defending the Honor Code's standard penalty

Guest Contributor

While I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, my grandfather Alan Fitz Randolph (B.S., Chemistry, Princeton, 1913), a descendant of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who had contributed the original land for Princeton University in 1753, spoke often of his pride in the University.

OPINION | 05/07/2017

Letter to the Editor: A NeW take on women and conservatism

Guest Contributor

We, the Executive Board of Princeton’s chapterof the Network of enlightened Women (NeW), write in response to this week’s opinion piece “The conservative persecution complex.” We do not consider ourselves persecuted or oppressed, either as conservatives or as women.

OPINION | 05/04/2017

Letter to the Editor: CJL and the sound of silence

Guest Contributor

Earlier this week, along with other veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces, I signed a letter in support of J Street U’s decision to invite the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, former IDF soldiers who seek to share their military experiences in the West Bank with Israeli society.

OPINION | 05/04/2017

Letter to the Editor: In response to “The conservative persecution complex”

Guest Contributor

The article “The conservative persecution complex” by columnist Bhaamati Borkhetaria ’19 questions whether conservatives are being oppressed. In the first few paragraphs, she does an excellent job in setting up the conflict in question: Many conservatives do feel hesitant to share their opinions when there is convincing evidence that right-leaning policies are harmful to minorities and foster power structures favorable to rich white males.

OPINION | 05/04/2017

Letter to the Editor: The case against private prisons

Guest Contributor

Mass incarceration is one of the great moral challenges of our time. With merely 4.4 percent of the world's population, the United States holds almost one quarter of all the prisoners, far more than any other country.

OPINION | 05/03/2017

Letter to the Editor: The University's majors need expansion

Guest Contributor

Sophomores, take note: The options that were offered to you this spring are not nearly as comprehensive as those offered at other Ivy League and top universities. If we hope to live up to our reputation and values as a liberal arts university, this must change. The University’s system of majors is extremely narrow compared to its peers. Princeton offers 37 academic concentrations. Harvard offers 49; Stanford, 65; Yale, 75; Columbia, 80; Brown, 79; Cornell, 80; Dartmouth, 63; and the University of Pennsylvania, 64.

OPINION | 05/03/2017

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