In a recent series of op-eds in The Daily Princetonian, a colleague of mine, Jacquelyn Thorbjornson ’19, and I have been exchanging arguments surrounding the issue of bias in news coverage.
The last two weeks have been a flurry of excitement as students participate in room draw, selecting where and with whom they will be living for the next academic year.
I propose that “West College” should be named for Dr. Cornel West GS ’80 instead of its geographic position in relation to Cannon Green.
It often seems that people are ruled predominantly by their self-interests, whether they are educated at the finest universities or born into the most prestigious families. But this pessimistic outlook is challenged by the selflessness of the journalists who uncovered the Choi Soon-Sil scandal.
Recently, I penned an opinion column about the lack of liberal news coverage of the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl at a high school in Rockville, Maryland.
There’s a maddening culture of competition on this campus. It’s the least you can expect at such a school, but it definitely creates a sense of overwhelming stress for many students.
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.
It’s tempting to speculate that the lingering artifacts of grade deflation are still at play on campus — when the orgo exam is curved down, when your professor boasts about a 50 percent average on the math midterm, when the “Harvard easy A” jokes are forever funny.
To the Editor: In your edition on April 3, you published an open letter to me from the Princeton Private Prison Divest Coalition.
You’re a Princetonian. You’re about to graduate. Do you take that offer with Goldman, hoping to make millions, or do you go with a nonprofit, making a few thousand but likely doing better for the world? Are you going to sell out?
We echo our editorial from April 21, 2016, in which we rejected private prison divestment, and contend that private prisons do not meet the threshold of community consensus and moral unacceptability required to justify divestment.
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.
It’s obvious that women receive biased and inferior media coverage compared to men: everything from the #LikeAGirl advertisements, to the Cover the Athlete movement, to article after article in the news highlights this discrepancy. There is inordinately more content (tweets and retweets) about the men’s team than the women’s team on the Princeton Athletics Twitter.
The grading process for midterm and final exams requires careful coordination between students, professors, and the Office of the Registrar.
