Opinion

Activities fair: bigger but not better

As you approach the building, you see fellow freshmen buzzing around. Some are alone, while others approach with awkwardly assembled friends from OA/CA and zee groups, still not quite there yet in the friendship dynamic but desperately trying.

No more nominations

As of Aug. 29, 2014, the ALS Association proudly reported having received $100.9 million from over three million donors within a month, thanks to this summer’s viral Ice Bucket Challenge.

Cartoon: A modest proposal

Princeton: physics, philosophy and pornography

You need to go to college. You have to get an education to be successful. You must have a neat, little degree on your wall to get a job.

Soft chauvinism

My first day in Morocco, I was uncomfortable. After three days, I was angry. By the end of the week, I was more than ready to try out one of those female-only dystopian societies that science fiction writers find so captivating.

Mentoring at Princeton

It will not surprise anyone to hear that the majority of the freshmen whom I have met so far have been extremely —and understandably —anxious.

Cartoon: Existential crisis

Confusing cause and symptom

By Will Rivitz Before I dive into this piece, let’s get one thing out of the way: I fully agree with the central tenet of 'Prince' columnist Shruthi Deivasigamani’s column, “Blaming Women.” The disconnect betweenthe blithe "post-gender" attitude our society ostensibly embodies and the massive, hideous underbelly of an American society extremely conducive to sexual harassment and assault is frightening.

The contradictions of service

The ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge," one of the biggest social media trends to sweep across the nation this summer, was also a source of controversy.

A politically motivated veto?

Annually, an estimated 50,000 people die due to exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the American Lung Association. Last week, Gov.

Cartoon: A nutty perspective

Stop blaming biology

In her Aug. 18 column in the New York Post, Doree Lewak discusses how she views the act of “catcalling” to be an innocuous form of “self-empowerment" for women, saying that it should deliver a “drive-by dose of confidence” rather than being considered something as negative as street harassment.

Editorial: Transparency in the investigatory procedures of the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline

Last spring, The Daily Princetonian reported on the last USG Senate meeting of the year.

What we talk about when we talk about privacy

In the midst of rising racial tensions in Ferguson and an encroaching ISIS abroad, summer’s biggest news story might just have been about a group of naked girls. On Aug.

Cartoon: Squirrels are divas

Cartoon: Attentiveness while driving

Editorial: Instituting a sexual assault prevention program

Before the academic year began, the University administration made important progress in strengthening the University’s stance against sexual assault on campus.

Media coverage and Ferguson

I am from Saint Louis, Miss. I was born there, and I spent most of my childhood and adolescence coming to terms with the mess of contradictions and issues that form the core of the city that I identify as home, while still trying to open my eyes to what makes this “flyover city” special. I am not from Ferguson specifically; I am from another suburb that helps compose the series of rings around Saint Louis’ largely rundown nucleus.

Seeking strangeness

I was speaking with a kind and interesting trucker last week outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a man — a stranger to the both of us — approached my friends and warned them: “Do you know that woman there is actually a man?

When Fidel Castro and Hannah Arendt met at Princeton

By Rafael Rojas Princeton University's archives guard a story that helps to build an understanding of the totalitarian drift of the Cuban Revolution and the convoluted reading that the West gave that Latin American and Caribbean phenomenon.