Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Public outrage at the cost of private exploitation

Letter to the Editor: Public outrage at the cost of private exploitation

Guest Contributor

In her March 29 opinion “Outrage,” Jacquelyn Thorbjornson demands that we be in an uproar over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by two of her classmates — and because liberal media defendants are protecting the defendants due to their status as undocumented immigrants. But let’s back up.

OPINION | 04/03/2017

Letter to the Editor: Response to PPPD

Guest Contributor

To the Editor: In your edition on April 3, you published an open letter to me from the Princeton Private Prison Divest Coalition.

OPINION | 04/03/2017

Letter to the Editor: Lack of Current Investments is Not Enough

Guest Contributor

Last Monday, the Resources Committee of CPUC attempted to justify its decision to reject Princeton Private Prison Divest’s (PPPD) proposal for divestment and dissociation from the private prison and detention industry.

OPINION | 04/02/2017

Letter to the Editor: Supporting affirmative action

Guest Contributor

AASA sees why affirmative action can seem like an indirect attack on the Asian community or a race quota in college admissions. But affirmative action is the wrong target for your anger.

OPINION | 03/29/2017

There is a way to save Westminster Choir College

Guest Contributor

Why can’t some kind of jointly-operated music school be developed with Princeton University? Why not a newly-contoured school where students are chosen for admission based on their musical abilities, where the degrees they receive come from either Rider or Princeton, depending on where they matriculate?

OPINION | 03/28/2017

Urgent action today: supporting private prison divestment

Guest Contributor

Today, the University announces its decision to continue funding for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers. The University thus defends its complicity in institutional violence against the nation’s most marginalized communities.

OPINION | 03/26/2017

Integrating graduate students on-campus as a priority for the University

Guest Contributor

The past two Executive Committees of the Graduate Student Government have published statements highlighting the central issue of integrating Princeton’s graduate students into the University campus.

OPINION | 03/15/2017

Letter to the Editor: Stand up for human rights

Guest Contributor

Dear President Eisgruber, We believe that the University, as an internationally-renowned liberal arts institution, has an obligation to fight for the interests of its students, faculty, and the larger community.

OPINION | 03/14/2017

Letter to the Editor: organization is key

Guest Contributor

The bedrock of democracy is an organizationally strong and politically responsive civil society — a dense network among the people, formed through the bonds of community and interest groups.

OPINION | 03/05/2017

Arming PUPD

Guest Contributor

Princeton University wouldn’t have its carpenters do their work without a hammer, so why does the Princeton University Police Department not have the tools they need to do its job effectively?

OPINION | 02/08/2017

Letter to the Editor: Princeton political scientists oppose Trump's executive order

Guest Contributor

We are signing this statement of protest against the President’s executive order entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” of January 27, 2017.

OPINION | 02/07/2017

Letter to the Editor: Princeton Citizen Scientists

Guest Contributor

Over the past few weeks, over 800 members of the University community, including 68 faculty members, 641 students and postdocs, and 105 researchers, lecturers and staff members, have signed a letter supporting a call for a campus-wide day of conversation and action on March 6. This day is intended as an opportunity to put routine aside and focus our attention on learning from each other about the challenges that face us today, as well as what this means to us as a community devoted to scholarship, the use of knowledge for the common good, and the ideals of equality, diversity, freedom, democracy, and justice.

OPINION | 02/07/2017

Letter to the Editor: Take a stand against President Trump

Guest Contributor

This past weekend, I and dozens, if not hundreds of members of the Princeton community emailed President Eisgruber and other key administrators calling upon them to denounce the Trump administration's recent actions to ban entry into the country for people from a number of Muslim-majority countries.

OPINION | 02/07/2017

Letter to the Editor: Introducing Princeton Advocates for Justice and the case for action

Guest Contributor

President Donald Trump’s illiberal, discriminatory, and deeply problematic executive orders on Muslim immigration marked a disgraceful moment in American history.

OPINION | 02/05/2017

Letter to the Editor: Clearing Wonshik's name

Guest Contributor

I am a friend of Wonshik Shin ’19. During the week of December 19 last year, I was privileged to have the opportunity to meet and accompany his parents during their visit to Princeton. I am also writing this letter on their behalf to clear their son’s name of the wrongful accusation that an Honor Code violation may have been related to his death.

OPINION | 01/18/2017

Letter to the Editor: Liberalism in the Orange Bubble

Paul Phillips

My mother, Class of 1984, told me that in her day Princeton was a largely apolitical place. I graduated with the Class of 2016, but during my four years here, I didn’t think that was true.

OPINION | 12/14/2016

Letter to the Editor: The power of bicker

Nationwide, the risk of an undergraduate women experiencing sexual assault decreases from her freshman to senior year, with freshmen being about 50 percent more likely than seniors to experience such conduct.

OPINION | 12/14/2016

It's time to demystify Princeton's eating clubs

Guest Contributor

Seven in ten Princetonians will pay thousands of dollars to eat at a mansion on Prospect Avenue. The eating clubs are like Hogwarts houses, each with a unique culture and personality.

OPINION | 12/05/2016

Letter to the Editor: Now, more than ever, words matter

Guest Contributor

Last Monday, President Eisgruber circulated a letter to the Princeton community in which he affirmed his and the University’s support of the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program and those members of our community currently protected under it.

OPINION | 12/05/2016

Letter to the Editor: On Eisgruber's email supporting DACA students

To President Eisgruber, I am writing in response to the mass email you sent to the student body on Monday regarding DACA.

OPINION | 12/05/2016

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