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.
“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got no reason to hide.” That adage needs some serious rethinking in a world where the word “wrong” can mean something different to every person.
In her op-ed “Outrage,” columnist Jacquelyn Thorbjornson ’19 took the mainstream media to task for not covering a rape allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants at Rockville, Md. high school. She claims that “the only significant difference between the two cases is the immigration status of the alleged attackers.” This is blatantly false.
“It is totally over. If Trump wins more than 240 electoral votes, I will eat a bug.” These words, tweeted out on Oct, 18, 2016, and later reiterated on CNN, came from none other than our very own Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience and a founder of the Princeton Election Consortium. At the time, it was music to my ears — I remember texting one of my friends the CNN video clip along with the caption, “okay I feel much better now.” Of course, when a month later Trump won 304 electoral votes (and my hairline receded about the same number of inches), it was time for Wang to eat crow and cricket on live TV. But then I began wondering: Why did I take such solace in his tweet in the first place?
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.
Last week, while the nation was focused on the healthcare debate, a 14-year-old girl was brutally raped in a bathroom stall at her high school in Rockville, Maryland.
