The Black Justice League’s sit-in in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has reignited an important discussion on race and inclusion at the University.
On Nov. 16, Luke Gamble wrote an opinion article titled “Mr. Hollande, No new wars”. In the article, Gamble cautioned France against making the same mistakes the US did after 9/11 by creating a “broad and blind war on terror.” While I agree with the sentiment of restraint shown in the article, I believe that such absolute pacifism is not the answer.
Here’s the thing: Ours is a campus with a long history and an infinite future that’s wrestling with the currents of the roiling present.
Intrigued by rumors about inflammatory posts about the protests in Nassau Hall, I made the mistake of downloading YikYak again last week.
Dear Princeton Student Protesters: I hear congratulations are in order. They’re not coming from me, but a part of me respects what you did.
Dear Students,On Nov. 18 Princeton University undergraduates, spearheaded by members of the Black Justice League, staged a walkout and a sit-in at Nassau Hall.
I am pleased to hear that students finally decided it was time for Woodrow Wilson’s name to be expunged from our campus.
To the Editor:In my cinema course, I teach how Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, premiered the film “Birth of a Nation” in the White House and approved its racist view of Reconstruction.
Beginning at noon on Monday, Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government will be holding elections through Wednesday in order to elect its leadership for the coming calendar year.
I sat with the Black Justice League for over six hours during Wednesday’s sit-in protest in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.
Since the University pioneered a loan-free financial aid program in 2001, the University has acquired a reputation for its generous financial aid program that now includes approximately 60 percent of undergraduates.
By now there has been a lot written about the recent activism at Yale and Mizzou both within and outside the Orange Bubble.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, in their novel “Good Omens,”wrote “most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.” I remembered these words this month as I watched the world bleed, this week as campus tore itself apart over race, and this year as dear friends, despite (or because of) their senses of justice, loyalty and love, hurt each other and me.
When bombs went off this weekend in the Paris, I was sitting in a workshop discussing the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
There are many in this country that argue political correctness is killing our constitutional right to freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, the Black Justice League presented to the student body and the administration a list of three demands, designed to make Princeton more welcoming to black students.
