Letter to the Editor

Discriminatory meal plan changes under the guise of ‘community engagement’

Discriminatory meal plan changes under the guise of ‘community engagement’

Zoe Zeitler

My phone-typed response soon had the length of an essay, and I’m sharing part of that here. As an engineering major focused on sustainable design, and a health-focused individual who treasures the interpersonal warmth of a great meal, I’ve long taken issue with the required meal plans at this university. The forced predetermination of one’s food and eating place is incomprehensible to my friends and family, in Germany and across the globe.

OPINION | 04/17/2018

The hidden costs of proposed dining plans

The hidden costs of proposed dining plans

Guest Contributor

If the Board Plan Review Committee is truly concerned about flexibility, they should not make any meal plan mandatory. Affordability can be addressed by simply increasing the annual stipend or granting more free meal swipes. Quality of life should not be sacrificed for supposed efficiency, which keeps costs down for the University while the most vulnerable student populations.

OPINION | 04/17/2018

Station 206: Challenging greatness

Station 206: Challenging greatness

Peter Schmidt

If resistance to the Station succeeds, life will proceed as normal. Finding an internship will still be stressful. You will still have that 8:30 precept. Little will change. But we will know the answer to the question posed by Station 206, a question that we would do well to ask ourselves more often. What are you working for: a good world, or your own Greatness?

OPINION | 04/16/2018

Letter to the editor: Panel values student input on dining plans

Letter to the editor: Panel values student input on dining plans

Guest Contributor

We are eager to share more about our recommendations with students and continue to gather their feedback. The committee is holding three focus groups on the recommendations next week. For information, visit the committee’s website, https://boardplan.princeton.edu.

OPINION | 04/12/2018

Me and my mother: Not part of the Tiger Club

Me and my mother: Not part of the Tiger Club

Lucy Chuang

Alongside my godmother and father, my mother taught my brother and me the discipline and hard work ethic that drove us to pursue our own dreams, without tightening nooses around our necks to study or completely secluding us from outside friendships. There were fights about grades and tests, but there were also fights about car privileges and party rights. My mother spearheaded the path I have taken, but she is by no means part of the club that most Asian American women are forced into as a result of the “tiger mom” narrative.

OPINION | 04/12/2018

An always overriding risk: U.S. strikes in Syria and superpower nuclear war

An always overriding risk: U.S. strikes in Syria and superpower nuclear war

Louis René Beres

Precluding his earlier vaunted “element of surprise” (remember the election campaign?), Trump's residual policy options could lead inexorably to a direct U.S.-Russian military encounter. Among other “simple” things, the president's most capable strategic thinkers (not tactical military planners) will need to work very quickly through the unimaginably complex dialectics of virtually all possible nuclear scenarios and outcomes.

OPINION | 04/12/2018

Alliance of Jewish Progressives: Open letter to Eric Fingerhut

Alliance of Jewish Progressives: Open letter to Eric Fingerhut

Guest Contributor

We join our peers on campuses across the country in imploring you to revoke your endorsement of Kenneth Marcus and ensure our safety and the safety of all students.

OPINION | 04/10/2018

Never too Late

Guest Contributor

On April 12, 2011 — seven years ago today — a much-loved senior Spanish lecturer at the University killed himself. The University had suspended him without due process, and in seeming violation of its own procedures. In the time since, there has never been an independent investigation of what the University did. Whenever I think of my Princeton experience, the University’s actions around the death of a beloved community member is what I remember most of all.

OPINION | 04/10/2018

Dear Princeton University

Guest Contributor

Believe it or not, there are people who have to clean up after us. A real-life human person wakes up at 5 a.m. on Monday morning, takes public transportation from Trenton, arrives on campus, walks into a bathroom and is welcomed by a toilet full of of two-day-old vomit. Then, that person has to clean it up.

OPINION | 03/29/2018

Why don’t you look or act ‘Latino’?

Guest Contributor

Under this umbrella, just because we come from the same continent and many may be disadvantaged, does not mean we all vote Democrat. There is an immense socioeconomic diversity in Latin America, and despite popular assumptions, Latinos hold different views and ideologies in politics.

OPINION | 03/29/2018

The emotional cost of gun violence

Guest Contributor

Gun violence takes lives. But it also takes some life away from the living. I’ve heard it said that our generation won’t stand for this kind of violence to continue once we are in power. Surely, our generation will do something. Please, my dear classmates and leaders of the future, let that be true.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Letter to the Editor: Pedestrian safety on Washington

Guest Contributor

Please join me in imploring the university and the town to make the walk signal automatic before, rather than right after, the inevitable tragedy.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Letter to the Editor: Publishing the Honor System Review Committee’s charge

Guest Contributor

We write to provide an update on the process by which we are reviewing the recent referenda regarding the Honor Constitution. As explained in a letter sent to students on Jan. 4, three of the four proposed amendments were remanded for consideration by the faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing.

OPINION | 03/05/2018

Letter to the Editor: What is consensual?

Guest Contributor

Should there necessarily be violent resistance in order to prove it is unwelcome? Does silence in a career-threatening situation imply that it was welcome? If I had not reported that Sergio Verdú sexually harassed me in fear of losing my research career, would it not have been sexual harassment?

OPINION | 02/25/2018

Letter to the Editor: Too much to ask

Anonymous

Have the lives taken by suicide at our school not been enough of a red flag? This is our call to action.

OPINION | 02/22/2018

U.'s malfunction with the recent sexual misconduct

Guest Contributor

Sexual misconduct, and the University's inadequate response to it, has become a much needed topic of discussion, in part because of Yeohee Im’s bravery to discuss it. As was reported this week in the Daily Princetonian, I was one of the people who gave reports to the University surrounding this incident. Notably, the reports began even before Yeohee’s unfortunate incident.

OPINION | 02/22/2018

Letter to the Editor: In defense of women affiliated with Sergio Verdú

Guest Contributor

I would like to respond to a recent article in The Daily Princetonian detailing “new allegations'' against my colleague and mentor, Professor Sergio Verdú. It is troubling how this article constructs its narrative by enveloping Verdú, as well as all the women associated with him, in a fog of rumor, suspicion, and supposition. By publishing an article with such sensationalism and general lack of concrete facts the ‘Prince’ appears to be driven by a tunnel vision desire to vilify Verdú, and not by journalistic integrity, duty to inform the public, or concern for the women involved.

OPINION | 02/21/2018

Open Letter to Sophomores

Guest Contributor

Remember that eating clubs are only one potential aspect of your upperclassmen life. Decisions are scary, but they also lead to exciting changes!

OPINION | 02/17/2018

Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics

Louis René Beres

In the end, credulity remains America's worst enemy. Our still willing inclination to believe that personal and societal redemption can somehow lie in politics describes a potentially fatal disorder.

OPINION | 02/15/2018

Letter to the editor: a challenge to Rouse

Guest Contributor

Students who remained missed the opportunity to join their fellow students outside the classroom, to be curious about the histories and lived experiences that make this one word so intolerable.

OPINION | 02/14/2018

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