Opinion

This summer, my mom, one of my brothers and I went to see “Jobs.” As we walked home, we talked about visionaries, the impact Steve Jobs had made on our daily lives, the pursuit of the product and the industries he had both created and destroyed.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

Opinion: Reunions and the Bubble

Opinion: Reunions and the Bubble

Reunions can appear like the epitome of Orange Bubble ambivalence and insularity. Thousands of alumni gather for what seems like the sole purpose of partying and reliving their youth, safely enclosed within the Princeton campus. And while Reunions can becriticized for its excess,it doesn’t perpetuate the Bubble as much as it may seem. In a lot of ways, Reunions bursts the Orange Bubble.

OPINION | 05/30/2013

An introduction to the new Daily Princetonian website

To our readers — Beginning today, we will be launching a preview version of our new website.

OPINION | 05/30/2013

What are you afraid of?

Princetonians tend to be a motivated bunch. A quick glance at our resumes would be enough to convince anyone of that.

OPINION | 05/12/2013

Editorial: Lawnparties as a benefit concert

Lawnparties is among Princeton?s most beloved traditions. At the beginning and end of every school year, thousands of undergraduates and guests take to Prospect Avenue for a day of music, preppy clothing and community in a truly one-of-a-kind event.

OPINION | 05/12/2013

Welcome home

That single line of blue and grey text on my Facebook profile has been bothering me of late. It sits just below the unaccountably past-tense ?Studied at Princeton University? and my ?work information? describing a seemingly ancient summer internship.

OPINION | 05/12/2013

Opinion Frosh Talk About Year Number One: Part I

What was the most surprising/awesome/not awesome/unexpected etc. thing about Princeton this year? Bennett McIntosh: Irina Spalko, the villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, dies in one of the most CGI-heavy instances of “careful what you wish for” in film history.

OPINION | 05/10/2013

Manic delight

In an especially dark section of a letter to his younger brother Zooey, J.D. Salinger?s Buddy Glass writes, ?I can?t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.? This sentiment is one I have come to understand in my final days at Princeton.

OPINION | 05/09/2013

Editorial: Spring rush

Majority: Last year, the University announced a new policy regarding Greek letter organizations on Princeton?s campus, forbidding freshmen to take part in any activity sanctioned through these organizations.

OPINION | 05/09/2013

Not knowing everyone

Similar to Lea Trusty, as she mentioned in her recent column ?I Miss Eye Contact,? I hail from a very small town.

OPINION | 05/09/2013

An introvert's insight

I?ve always been an introvert, so big crowds of people, like those at Lawnparties this past weekend, are usually my worst nightmare.

OPINION | 05/07/2013

Negative action?

Last month, high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss spurred national controversy when she penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled ?To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me.? Criticizing universities? emphasis on diversity, she mockingly wrote, ?Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it? and ?Sen.

OPINION | 05/07/2013

The P-word

Princeton is an institution that prides itself on tradition, but not all tradition is good. For years, Princeton has been plagued by issues relating to race and equality.

OPINION | 05/07/2013

Letter to the Editor: May 6, 2013

Regarding ?Philanthropist Kathryn Davis dies at 106? (Thursday, May 2, 2013)A note came to us from the Davis family that Ms. Kathryn W.

OPINION | 05/05/2013

Editorial: On-campus discipline for sexual assault

In a ?Dear Colleague" letter of April 4, 2011, a directive released by the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S.

OPINION | 05/05/2013

Inclusion

After reading the ?Prince? for a couple of years, there are always a handful of topics that repeat themselves.

OPINION | 05/05/2013

Faking nonchalance

Especially now that finals are coming up in just a few weeks, I certainly feel the stress has multiplied.

OPINION | 05/02/2013

Editorial: On P/D/Fing COS 126

Due to the intense popularity of its introductory computer science courses, including COS 126: General Computer Science, COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems and COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures, the Department of Computer Science has recently decided to remove the pass/D/fail option.

OPINION | 05/02/2013

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