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Why you should join the ‘Prince’

This is the promise of The Daily Princetonian: to find something that interests you, and to inspire you to dig into it, relentlessly.

This is the promise of The Daily Princetonian: to find something that interests you, and to inspire you to dig into it, relentlessly.

It’s time to step it up on diversity and inclusion

Over the last five years, Princeton never achieved parity in diversity and inclusion for Black students. Now, the University faces a conservative culture and federal government hostile to anti-racism. Now, more than ever, Princeton cannot abandon its students. 

Over the last five years, Princeton never achieved parity in diversity and inclusion for Black students. Now, the University faces a conservative culture and federal government hostile to anti-racism. Now, more than ever, Princeton cannot abandon its students. 

Class of 2029: Reject selective views of free speech

"Let us make an appeal to the entire Class of 2029: You can care about viewpoint diversity and free expression even if you don’t read the Tory. As liberals and progressives, you can understand that free speech is an issue that affects everyone."

"Let us make an appeal to the entire Class of 2029: You can care about viewpoint diversity and free expression even if you don’t read the Tory. As liberals and progressives, you can understand that free speech is an issue that affects everyone."

For a more effective USG, train newly elected members on the bureaucracy

For student representatives to make the change we can through the systems we have, we need a more onboarding process that prepares us to navigate these byzantine processes. 

For student representatives to make the change we can through the systems we have, we need a more onboarding process that prepares us to navigate these byzantine processes. 

Go big or go home: the case for a single Lawnparties

Consolidating the fall and spring budgets into one would reinforce the position of Lawnparties as a quintessentially Princeton tradition and a mainstay of the social experience.

Consolidating the fall and spring budgets into one would reinforce the position of Lawnparties as a quintessentially Princeton tradition and a mainstay of the social experience.

Princeton must retire the Atatürk Professorship

While no professor has held the title since Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies emeritus Heath W. Lowry departed in 2013, the position remains open for new candidates. Just as Princeton exempted Wilson’s name from celebration due to his racist ideologies, it must do the same for the Atatürk Professorship: It must be retired.

While no professor has held the title since Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies emeritus Heath W. Lowry departed in 2013, the position remains open for new candidates. Just as Princeton exempted Wilson’s name from celebration due to his racist ideologies, it must do the same for the Atatürk Professorship: It must be retired.

What I learned about the forgotten history of science from Guyot Hall

How many other faculty have worked in Guyot’s spaces over the decades? Soon these spaces will be completely redesigned, and their history erased as the building becomes home to computer science. 

How many other faculty have worked in Guyot’s spaces over the decades? Soon these spaces will be completely redesigned, and their history erased as the building becomes home to computer science. 

Reactions: New class times

Our Opinion writers comment on the new class timings, our expanding campus, and the implications for both daily student life and the University itself. 

Our Opinion writers comment on the new class timings, our expanding campus, and the implications for both daily student life and the University itself. 

As we weigh budget cuts, Princeton must not cave to internal division

If we allow our conversations about budget to generate fissures between humanities and sciences, arts and lab research, we risk turning upon ourselves the same transactional, hostile lens through which the Trump administration views higher education.

If we allow our conversations about budget to generate fissures between humanities and sciences, arts and lab research, we risk turning upon ourselves the same transactional, hostile lens through which the Trump administration views higher education.

Class of 2029, it’s okay to be a student first

As high school academic over-achievers, we paradoxically internalize that our academic success isn’t enough, that we somehow have to do more. But at Princeton, intellectual labor isn’t tangential — it’s the whole point.

As high school academic over-achievers, we paradoxically internalize that our academic success isn’t enough, that we somehow have to do more. But at Princeton, intellectual labor isn’t tangential — it’s the whole point.

Before you can give back, you have to get by

Taking a high-paying career can help us give back to both our own families and society at large. Financial security is not at odds with intellectual seriousness or social responsibility; in fact, it can enable a more profound and lasting impact.

Could Princeton avoid the endowment tax by expanding financial aid?

Institutions will have to pay 8 percent on endowment returns if they have “at least 3,000 tuition-paying students” and “a student adjusted endowment in excess of $2,000,000.” Princeton checks all the boxes. So, we have to pay. Right?

Institutions will have to pay 8 percent on endowment returns if they have “at least 3,000 tuition-paying students” and “a student adjusted endowment in excess of $2,000,000.” Princeton checks all the boxes. So, we have to pay. Right?

Keep academic authority in human hands

The Trump administration’s attacks on research and higher education as well as a blind reliance on AI chatbots are reflective of a societal backslide: a commodification of knowledge that prioritizes “efficiency” over the messy process of getting to an answer, where nuances are flattened and the truth is fungible.

The Trump administration’s attacks on research and higher education as well as a blind reliance on AI chatbots are reflective of a societal backslide: a commodification of knowledge that prioritizes “efficiency” over the messy process of getting to an answer, where nuances are flattened and the truth is fungible.

What do we owe society for a Princeton education?

The social and moral responsibility that comes with receiving a degree subsidized by both private generosity and public trust is significant. 

The social and moral responsibility that comes with receiving a degree subsidized by both private generosity and public trust is significant.

Notes from a so-called enemy’s classroom

It wasn’t revolutionary. It was homework. But it was homework that asked: how do we build schools that work for all kids? Inclusion, after all, is the “I” in DEI. That’s what we’re thinking about together. And caring about each other’s experiences and opportunities, it turns out, isn’t something you can outlaw.

It wasn’t revolutionary. It was homework. But it was homework that asked: how do we build schools that work for all kids? Inclusion, after all, is the “I” in DEI. That’s what we’re thinking about together. And caring about each other’s experiences and opportunities, it turns out, isn’t something you can outlaw.

Can a bacchanal Reunions be a sustainability lab?

The path to a net-zero Reunions remains uncertain. But Earth Brands’ story proves that the same university known for beer jackets and century-old traditions can also launch the next wave of sustainable solutions.

The path to a net-zero Reunions remains uncertain. But Earth Brands’ story proves that the same university known for beer jackets and century-old traditions can also launch the next wave of sustainable solutions.

$56,000 in debt at graduation is not the financial aid Princeton advertises

Take my story as an example — despite repeated evidence, both before and after taking out loans, that I would be unable to pay what Princeton asked of me — the University never set a cost that I could truly meet loan-free.

In the Garden State’s service and the service of humanity

It is important to cultivate in students interest in local and state level change, because it is the most direct way to give back to the New Jersey community that sustains the University.

Why do two-thirds of your summer research wages go to Princeton, anyway?

The income that students earn from employment is not “miscellaneous.” So Princeton must decide: Does it want its students — all of them, not only those who can afford it — to be able to work on the important research happening at Princeton, or be forced to go home?

The income that students earn from employment is not “miscellaneous.” So Princeton must decide: Does it want its students — all of them, not only those who can afford it — to be able to work on the important research happening at Princeton, or be forced to go home?

Seniors deserve better than Jay Shetty

We are writing to express our strong disapproval of the selection of Jay Shetty as the 2025 Class Day speaker. We deserve better than a self-help guru and repeated plagiarist who runs a “school” that an expert claims exhibits “similar patterns” to a multi-level marketing scheme.

We are writing to express our strong disapproval of the selection of Jay Shetty as the 2025 Class Day speaker. We deserve better than a self-help guru and repeated plagiarist who runs a “school” that an expert claims exhibits “similar patterns” to a multi-level marketing scheme.