Last week, I was able to attend a lecture by Jose Antonio Vargas, an immigration rights activist and journalist.
A few weeks ago, Jesse Watters of Fox News stoked the embers of the “offensive speech” debate with largely inflammatory interviews of Princeton students on campus. Watters asked students how they felt about certain trigger words, among them “ghetto,” “white privilege,” “black crime” and “Islamic terrorism.” The video aired on The O’Reilly Factor and was preceded by a brief description of how “sensitive” college students are to “offensive words.” The video failed on almost all fronts.
By guest contributor Alice Mar-Abe ’18On April 24th, 2014, 26-year-old Madaline Pitkin died alone on the floor of her solitary cell at the Washington County Jail in Oregon.
Princeton is not like other universities. Among the myriad of new and unique experiences the Class of 2020 will have is the surprising and impressive level of trust that the University places in the academic honesty of its students.
The shadows of the discipline processThe Honor Code rules this campus, from when we enroll in this University to the very first performance we see of the Triangle Club to the statement of honor we write on our theses.However, the disciplinary system is far from perfect, and this is why Justin Ziegler ’16 proposed a referendum to consider its reform.
In their response to my column, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education continues their fight against straw men in the supposed battle over free speech in higher education.
In his April 11 op-ed, Nicholas Wu mischaracterizes the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s determination that Princeton’s speech codes threaten students’ expressive rights.
Last Monday, the University announced that it would discontinue its sprint football program. Having existed on campus for 82 years, sprint football is an alternative version of football for players weighing under 172 pounds with a minimum of five-percent body fat.
Following in the footsteps of dozens of other major publications over the past year or two, Aeon Magazine has just published a critique of student protesters on campuses nationwide.
Let’s talk about overcommitment. It goes a little like this: you’ve promised your energy, talent and/or leadership to at least one, if not six, extracurriculars — in addition to a full course load.
Academic integrity is a bedrock value of Princeton University — and something that should be held to a very high standard.
An important, yet often forgotten, historical site in the United States is just around the corner from the University, beyond the Graduate College: the Princeton Battlefield.
Princeton University has a branding problem.
This weekend, hundreds of Jewish alumni will gather on campus to celebrate 100 years of Jewish life at Princeton, with panels on topics ranging from Philosophy of Religion and Modern Jewish Thought to Israeli-American Relations.
We all understand that Princeton is an obscenely wealthy institution, steeped in the kind of riches that go back centuries, but after almost three years here, I still don’t understand what rights we as students have to access that money.Recently, columnist Marni Morse ’17 wrote an article suggesting that the University should subsidize student train tickets to New York.
