Opinion

Gender-neutral housing does not fully protect transgender and non-binary students

Editor’s note: The author of this column was granted anonymity due to the intensely personal nature of the events described.During room draw last month, many students developed strategies to draw into their dream rooms for next year.

Representative referenda

April’s referenda came and went with no great shock to the University community. Neither the appeal to divest from private prisons nor the call to create a taskforce to reevaluate disciplinary action around the Honor Code succeeded.

The athlete stigma: what’s the alternative?

This year, the University elected to make either Outdoor Action or Community Action mandatory components of pre-orientation for incoming freshmen – except for athletes.

Letter to the Editor: Latinx studies independent concentration

I would like to bring attention to the fact that, after various meetings with University faculty and administrators and a committee review, my independent concentration proposal for Latinx Studies was rejected.

Honest business model

What these walls will remember

And when these walls in dust are laid,With reverence and aweAnother throng shall breathe our song,In praise of Old NassauAs soon as I leave Princeton, these centuries-old walls will forget me.Well that’s not strictly true.

What I didn’t do at Princeton

Many seniors spend their time, especially during the glorious month of May that came too fast or not fast enough, reminiscing on what we did at Princeton.

Unofficial motto change

The irony

Letter to the editor: Live up to our new unofficial motto

Since March 2011, Syria has been plagued by conflict. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that at least 250,000 Syrians have died, over four million have fled internationally, and over six million have been internally displaced.

The mother we share (and need to represent)

By the time you read this column, the pastel-colored destruction wrought by Lawnparties will have been cleaned up, and the throbbing pulse of the bands will have already faded away.

From the Archives: Defining goals, meaning of the ethnic studies movement

By Kristin Brennan '96, as published in the "Daily Princetonian" on May 1, 1996 Editor's note: In light of recent campus events and discussion around diversity and distribution requirements, the Daily Princetonian revisits a similar debate from two decades ago. The anniversary meeting of the Nassau Hall sit-in for ethnic studies dispelled some fears that I had had about the organizers' intentions, and convinced me that the organizers are indeed committed to a definition of 'diversity' that does not mean 'separate' or 'ghettoized.' My greatest concern about the ethnic studies movement, on this campus and elsewhere, is that it has the potential to be either a powerful instrument for inclusion or a powerful instrument for division.

Rest in papers

Editorial: The Wilson Mural

In an email last week, Head of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava announced that he would accept the recommendation of anad-hoc Student Advisory Committeeand remove the mural of University and U.S.

Editorial: Extend preview

For many admitted students, Princeton Preview is the official introduction to the University’s campus.

Break time

Step aside, Jackson

In an unprecedented and landmark decision, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced on April 20 plans to remove Andrew Jackson from the 20 dollar bill.

Letter to the Editor: Our perspective on the Wilson mural

In the wake of the protests this fall, President Eisgruber wrote Wilson College Head Eduardo Cadava, asking him to consider removing the image of Woodrow Wilson in the Wilcox dining hall.

The homework cycle

The new deafening activism

College students in the United States are involved in political activism now more than any other time in the last 50 years.According to a recent survey conducted by UCLA, more students are committed to social justice now than since the height of the Civil Rights Movement.