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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.

Fire safety

On Yik Yak, Facebook and Racism at the University

As a recent re-adopter of Yik Yak and a (not so) proud Facebook procrastinator, I, like the rest of campus, have witnessed the explosion of social media discussion of racism on campus over the last few days.

On Steinem and Big Sean: loving sexist music as a feminist

When “Blurred Lines” was released in 2013, I found myself in the uncomfortable position of being both captivated by a catchy beat and turned off by lyrics that seemed to condone sexual assault, categorizing consent as a “blurred line.” Ironically, my mom was probably Robin Thicke’s biggest fan.

Editorial: music and misogyny

Since it went live on Sunday, the petition to have Big Sean dropped as the Lawnparties main act has fueled an intense debate within the student body.

A better way than divestment

By: Elise Backman Last week, a group of students published an opinion piece supporting the Princeton Divests Coalition’s (PDC) referendum to divest from several companies that sell products used by the Israeli and Egyptian military forces in the West Bank and Gaza.

Cartoon: Don't sacrifice the important things

Terrorizing while white

Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 who crashed it into the French Alps on March 24, has made rounds in news headlines.

Asking the hard questions

This past year,the most prevalent statistic for college campuses across the country was the suicide rate — a number that has been re-calculated time and time again.In the past week alone, the LA Times, the Boston Globe and campus newspapers across thecountry have reported increasing rates of student suicides and the accompanying demand for more psychological services.

Cartoon: Self-esteem troubles

A journalistic failure

If “Jackie” wasn’t actually raped initially, she certainly has been victimized now — this time by Rolling Stone, her three friends, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the University of Virginia and its administrators. Calling more attention to rape on college campuses and beyond is extremely important; however, it should not be built on the basis of lies.

Why USG needs to host debates before referendums

The results of the “Hose Bicker” referendum are in, with the hosers (no offense to our neighbors in the north) losing 1120 to 868. Adding these numbers, we can see that only 1988 students out of 5391 undergraduates voted.

Ending the heart of darkness

The Urban Congo group is offensive, distasteful and morally reprehensible. Kudos goes to Achille Tenkiang ’17, who was able to preserve the video of its performance on YouTube before the group hastily removed it.