Opinion

In real defense of free speech

Free speech is a legal and political right, not a tool for arbitrating “proper” forms of interpersonal discourse. Freedom of speech includes,among other things, the right to use offensive phrases to convey political messages, to engage in symbolic speech (e.g. burning the flag in protest), or to not speak (e.g. to not salute the flag).

Crying from Start to Finish

Why we don't need internships

As of the drafting of this column, it is almost the tenth week of spring semester. Many seniors are PTL, children and students are frolicking around the Woody Woo fountain, and I am still struggling to find a summer internship. As the end of the school year approaches, I am growing more resigned to the fact that I may not find an internship at all.

Letter to the Editor: Responding to the Graduate School fact sheet

The economist Albert O. Hirschman once wrote that there are three sorts of arguments used to “debunk and overturn ‘progressive’ policies and movements of ideas.” This response will argue that the progressive action will produce the exact opposite of that objective; that the effort to change something won’t make a difference at all; or that the effort will put in danger good things that already are in place. 

Princeton and the protest vote

After the “shock” of Donald J. Trump’s electoral victory settled down, I remember hearing any number of choice quotes about college students’ responsibilities for Trump’s election. “Did you even vote?” “All of these protests, but did you all go to the polls?” “This is why you all shouldn’t have wasted your vote on Harambe.”

When renaming isn't enough

This past year, the Princeton Club of New York remodeled its main dining room. The changes were unveiled in March. What was once the Woodrow Wilson Dining Room has now been rechristened as the “Nassau 1756” Dining Room. 

In defense of same-sex marriage

Debate flared when Princeton received a visit from Ryan Anderson ’04, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on April 12.

I used to be a copycat

Whatever my brother Ben did, I ended up doing too.

Women's Rights

Dating: Worth the pain?

I’ll admit that I take part in my fair share of “man bashing.” Any evening with my girlfriends used to involve talking about how much we “hate men,” how terrible our dating experiences have been, and how foolish our exes were.

Heat wave

Thesis life and death

Don’t condemn white artists for addressing race

Black raises valid concerns in her letter, and Schutz must be careful to be respectful of black people’s pain. But her race does not disqualify her from respectfully exploring black suffering in her art.

Editorial: Improving the departmental experience

We believe both the process of choosing a major and students’ experience within their departments can be further improved in the form of creating departmental summary sheets, hosting open-houses earlier, appointing student ambassadors, forming departmental listservs, and increasing uniformity in department courses.

Editorial: Reforming take-home exam policies

The Honor Committee and the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline are two bodies on campus that are responsible for enforcing disciplinary actions following violations of student standards outlined in "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities."

University evasion tactics: The politics of the “apolitical”

The notion of non-partisan neutrality can be particularly slippery on the University’s campus. As past and recent public debates have shown, it’s a familiar trick to disguise political agendas under the guise of neutrality.

A more perfect housing system

The University’s housing system is a strange and convoluted beast. Our system is unlike that of Yale, where the residential college system is for four years, or Brown, where there are no residential colleges and many students live off campus.

PTL Life

Students shouldn’t run the Honor Committee

The decision to suspend or expel a student should not be made by other students. It is too grave and consequential a decision to entrust it to undergraduates who are just getting their feet wet in the legal process.

Letter to the Editor: Expand Honor Committee membership

The defining feature of the University’s Honor Code and Honor Committee is its legacy of student ownership.