Opinion

Why don’t you look or act ‘Latino’?

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

Fisticuffs and the future of the Left

Fisticuffs and the future of the Left

Ryan Chavez

The tit-for-tat nature of the Biden-Trump brawl would be indicative of the left-right culture war coming to blows if not for the fact that it’s more worthy of a Monty Python skit than of New York Times headlines. While these audacious quotes garner laughs for their ridiculousness, they also bring to the fore the ethical dilemmas and rifts within left-leaning politics.

OPINION | 03/28/2018

On honesty

Jared Shulkin

I can’t say that honesty is always the best policy because it worked for me in a particular scenario, but I can say that honesty is the best policy because the alternative — dishonesty — cannot possibly be.

OPINION | 03/28/2018

On the never-ending routine

Paige Cleary

Do you ever feel like you’re on an episode of the Truman Show? Following a rigid, agonizingly repetitive script that you aren’t sure you wrote? Like, Eisgruber is secretly some major Hollywood producer and there's an entire audience at home, sick sociopaths filled with joy while watching the pain of your struggling to hand in your paper on time?

OPINION | 03/27/2018

The importance of preserving Utah's national monuments

Morgan Lucey

In December of 2017, President Donald Trump, alongside U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, announced plans to reduce the land of two protected national monuments in Utah. I am calling for students to continue to pressure the government to maintain the natural spaces that are formative to our national identity.

OPINION | 03/27/2018

How a hate group spurred Princetonians to action

Daehee Lee

I have always hesitated to do anything political. But students just like me took action that day against the Open Air Outreach protest. They did not have to respond at all. After all, the protest occurred while classes were in session, when many of us would be studying Locke or cleaning chemical glassware.

OPINION | 03/26/2018

What do you mean by “academic freedom?”

Cy Watsky

My point here is not that everything that occurred on the Middlebury campus was justified, but that discussing Murray’s inability to lecture as an affront to academic freedom is irresponsible. The debate surrounding academic freedom is an important one, but not all ideas deserve to be protected in our academic spaces, and Murray’s certainly don’t.

OPINION | 03/26/2018

The need for upperclassmen academic advisors

Rohit Dilip

At the same time, many of the most rewarding and fulfilling classes one could take at Princeton exist outside of one’s major, and do require a substantial amount of work. Freshman year is an ideal time to explore these classes.

OPINION | 03/25/2018

Looking for grad student writers

Jon Ort, Emily Erdos, and Samuel Parsons

To continue the conversation among the graduate student community, the section is looking for regular contributing columnists.

OPINION | 03/15/2018

Let it die so you can live: The beauty of a dead phone

Let it die so you can live: The beauty of a dead phone

Rachel Kennedy

I’m the friend whose phone is always dead and I can tell you it’s liberating.

OPINION | 03/15/2018

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

Mental health reform starts with students

Samuel Aftel

The University — specifically, the University’s student body — needs to undergo a cultural reformation. That is, we need to be more conscious of how we contextualize and frame mental illness, as this will affect how students with mental illness are socially ranked.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

What happened to commitment?

Jessica Nyquist

After the initial excitement and compulsive netID distribution at the club fair, club involvement is often not all that it’s advertised to be. Despite our over-involvement in high school, at Princeton our student organizations suffer from a lack of commitment.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Turn out for what?

Ryan Born

PAJ (and by extension, its leadership) suffers from a practical limit of effectiveness, an affliction of aimlessness, and a passivity of purpose.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Lewis Thomas Laboratory: Icon of architectural postmodernism

Gabe Lipkowitz

In a series of articles, I hope to draw attention to a few buildings on our campus that do not fall easily into one of the two architectural extremes. Possessing neither the timelessness of Collegiate Neogothic nor the novelty of contemporary architecture, they occupy a perhaps awkward, or in the eyes of many students even undesired, position on campus.

OPINION | 03/13/2018

Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough

Nicholas Wu

In December 2014, one of my high school classmates, Paige Stalker, was killed in a hail of gunfire on the east side of Detroit. Police reports suggest that this was a case of mistaken identity in a dispute between drug gangs. But the circumstances of the shooting are irrelevant to the outcome of the case. About 30 shots were fired in the course of the altercation. Three other teenagers riding in the car with Paige were injured. Paige was 16 years old.

OPINION | 03/12/2018

Is “common sense” gun reform enough?

Ryan Born

Gun control policy must be comprehensive — strict regulation, mandatory buybacks, prominent oversight — for gun violence to ever begin to approach an acceptable level: none. And by this metric, common sense gun reform is not enough.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Is our campus really safe?

Hunter Campbell

Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown, and Cornell—the other schools in the Ivy League which possess their own campus police—have already made the choice to give their sworn officers handguns and effectively defend their campuses.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

Stop ranting about politics on Facebook

Liam O'Connor

Inevitably, feelings get hurt, friendships are broken, and the issue doesn't get any closer to being resolved. We should stop making and responding to political posts on social media because most people dislike or don’t care about them.

OPINION | 03/11/2018

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

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