Opinion

A responsibility not to divest

By Caroline Snowden '17 When we signed "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" at the beginning of our freshman year, we committed ourselves to creating a “community in which all members can participate fully and equally.” As Princetonians, we are both honored and compelled to be part of this effort for positive impact in our school, our country and the world. It is therefore imperative that, when our Princeton community is challenged to respond to a complex and divisive issue, we remember our promise.

Editorial: Eisgruber and hate speech

Princeton is not perfect. We have persistent problems with race, gender and class that affect members of our student body every day.

Slippery slope

Divestment and Egypt

An Egyptian-American activist, Mohamed Soltan, was recently sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court.

Informed dissent is not racism

Initially, I did not understand the rage in response to Urban Congo. I was indifferent to the performance and found it nothing more than slightly amusing.

Princeton is going up in flames

At least, someone who isn’t affiliated with the University, scouring Yik Yak or recent press coverage, would think this.

Free to hate

What does “free speech” mean? Recent campus events have shown that campus is split: columnist Newby Parton writes without qualification that “silencing offensive speech... solves nothing that can’t be solved by growing thicker skin,” while students protest the chapel meeting with signs lambasting the administration’s weak response to Urban Congo and claiming that President Eisgruber wrote, “[Racism] may not be suppressed.” These events, as well as the mixed responses to the University’s new statement on academic freedom, demonstrate that students have very different conceptions of free speech.The two sides of this campus debate basically fall in line with the two competing theories of free speech on the world stage.

Defending dissenters, a case for political correctness

In the aftermath of the Urban Congo fiasco and the Big Sean controversy, many of my fellow students have expressed disdain of a perceived boom of liberal sensitivity and outspokenness.

Adjusting Our Mindset: Prioritizing meaningful service matters at Princeton

We would like to thank columnist Reva Abrol for her recent article, “A vicious cycle of weak civic engagement,” published last month.

Bearing the educational burden

By now, almost all of those reading this will have seen University President Eisgruber ’83’s campus-wide email regarding the recent social media explosions of former student group Urban Congo’s performance last week and of the student-led protest of rapper Big Sean’s upcoming Lawnparties appearance.

Cartoon: A lost squirrel

Where is the love?: A call to action for camaraderie

On a student panel I was on a few days ago, I was seated before three dozen impressionable young men, ranging from the ages of 11 to 15.

Home

What is home? According to the famous American poet Maya Angelou, it is, “the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” As the semester comes to a close and many students have begun to solidify their summer plans, I have repeatedly asked myself this question.

Cartoon: New heights

Why the As I Am Campaign is important

There is perhaps no way to accurately convey the experience of living with an eating disorder, but over the course of the past seven years the best way I have discovered to (concisely) convey the point has been to describe a pernicious “voice” that is simultaneously mine and not mine that whispers self-loathing offers of faux control into my consciousness.

Shout loud for censorship

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, rates universities on their commitment to free speech.

Editorial: Guaranteeing academic freedom

A university is a stage for the clash of ideas through reasoned discourse between those of diverse points of view.

Cartoon: Sick day

Interdisciplinary at the individual course level

This year, I enrolled in the Humanities Sequence, a year-long class that seeks to examine canonical Western literature — from Homer to Virginia Woolf — in an interdisciplinary manner.

Dropping the P-bomb

My brother and I were on the airplane, the two of us next to each other in a three-person row.