Opinion

Puck who?

Over the course of our slightly awkward exchange, it came up that I spent a fair chunk of my senior year oscillating between spending my next four years at Princeton and spending them at Penn, which at the time I valued very highly for not being in my home state of The Dirty Jerz.

The girl in the pantsuit who cried sexism

But it is crucial that we “cry sexism” as long as it exists. I agree with Jones that the goal of feminism is not to divide the sexes in a war of women against men. And yes, it would be wrong to create a problem to garner sympathy and attention. But it is worse to ignore a real problem for fear of rocking the boat.

Black Friday II

It appears Thanksgiving has slowly morphed from being a traditional winter holiday, when people came together to eat huge portions and tolerate distant relatives, to merely preparation for Black Friday

Cartoon: Sir Dashing

Black Friday

We give thanks, only to return to malls and stores to purchase more of what we want and think we need.

International diversity

Internationals at Princeton tend to be a rather wealthy group who have attended either an international school at home or a boarding school in an English-speaking country abroad

3 weeks

At Princeton, away from who I once was and how I once behaved, it’s easy to adopt changes. Going home, I find out which ones stuck, which ones weren’t just a performance but true adjustments to my attitudes and values.

Letter to the Editor: November 27th, 2012

As a former ‘Prince’ opinion editor, I read President Tilghman’s letter in yesterday’s paper with interest. But when she writes that “anonymous debate is no debate at all,” I find myself forced to disagree. Managing anonymity is hard, but banning it would be a mistake.

Anonymity is crucial

I understand the desire to try and mitigate these unsavory consequences of speech. But I honestly and respectfully cannot agree with you, President Tilghman, that “anonymous debate is no debate at all.”

Must everything be sexist?

There is undoubtedly sexism in the workplace. Female managers are earning an average of 73 percent of the salary of male managers. Women account for only 3.8 percent of Fortune 500 chief executive positions. Yet, it is the overwhelming prevalence of these facts and figures in the media that has turned every gender-related comment into a matter of sexism. Men have been pitted against women in a war of sexes. Women are expected to stand against the patriarchal establishment.

Cartoon: What keeps us motivated

Walden meets Princeton

As I sat by the wood fire in a cabin in the woods, Henry David Thoreau reminded me “it is never too late to give up our prejudices.” Our prejudice that our lives need to be busy; our prejudice that we need follow society’s definition of success; our prejudice that our view of ourselves is subordinate to other’s view of us.

Letter to the Editor: Nov. 26, 2012

What value do you place on readers who go to the ‘Prince’ website to witness the verbal equivalent of a food fight?  I very much hope that editors will return to a policy that has served this paper well since its founding in 1876 and ask that its readers “own their words.”

Editorial: Freshman advising

This Board supports integrating the freshman seminar system with the faculty advising system and regularizing contact between peer advisers and students.

A dining minority

When I was in middle school, I had a friend who had moved to a more affluent area. His family was like my family, basically middle-middle class, but many of his friends in the neighborhood were wealthy.

Cartoon: Bad connection

D construction

To P/D/F or not to P/D/F, that is the question. And today is the deadline for deciding.

Love your children

Unlike PCP, I do not mourn the deaths of the 49 Hamas militants, including the architect of Hamas’s missile program, Ahmed Jabari, who have rendered themselves morally liable to harm given their intentional targeting of civilians.

Letter to the Editor: Nov. 21, 2012

Let us all stand together, despite our different perspectives, in our efforts to end this tragedy once and for all, as we become the beginning of a new narrative of peace.

Cartoon: Thoughts on fire