Opinion

Risky business

Cannon needs to build itself more slowly. It needs to grow a positive culture in which sophomores want to invest themselves, to create a thriving club. Scavenging for paying bodies is a bad strategy; instead, Cannon’s members must figure out what they want for the club and build up to that goal.

Defining sexual assault

We need to move away from the objectification of sex as something to attain and toward a norm of seeking enthusiastic consent — when one’s sexual partner not only doesn’t say no, but says yes.

Cartoon: Independent work

The Orange Balloon

The measuring stick of the minutiae we use to evaluate our problems takes our attention from the greater issues we seek to solve.

How to pack the house

It’s pretty easy to “sell out” when selling doesn’t require buying.

Be honest with me when you lie, Shirley

I want the University to tell us that the real motivation behind this shift is that they just have it in for Greek life.

Cartoon: Connect the dots

Editorial: A call for more gender-neutral housing

As we have argued in the past, a gender-neutral option should be extended to all upperclassman housing.

Cartoon: That kid in lecture

How I Met Your Mother: Princeton Edition

Lights up on Wu Dining Hall at dinnertime. Four friends sit around a table. It’s Saturday evening and dark outside...

Over before it began

I am skeptical that there is much that can be said universally about sexual ethics. Many claim that sex has the natural purpose of procreation, and thus all non-procreative sex is unacceptable. Yet cancer, rape and war certainly seem more natural parts of the human experience than marriage for love or disease control, if we look to history.

What I know now

Take a foreign language. Study what you love, but figure out what you want to do with yourself at the end of four years and be prepared to do it. Fiercely guard your free time. Sleep. Eat. Exercise. Soak up every minute of this beautiful campus and the people here.

Cartoon: Kool-Aid

In defense of Bicker

Those who virulently oppose the Bicker process should bear in mind how much of our society, and especially our university, is predicated on exclusion. West College is always proud to announce year after year record-low admittance rates, which can be directly translated into more and more students being rejected every year.

Do science

Though there are certainly admirable qualities to studying what you love and are passionate about, we must also consider the political and economics landscape in which we live. This is bad news for people like me, who favor the humanities as a matter of both interest and ability.

Cartoon: The Tabloid Test

Editorial: Do it for the night owls

The late-night study session is a near-unavoidable element of student life at Princeton. We certainly don’t deny that we’re pampered already — but through some simple changes, the University can significantly improve the experience of night owls across campus.

Powerless

All this is a reminder of how dependent we are on infrastructure without which we can’t operate at all, let alone enjoy the services that we take for granted.

Automatons at work

Eventually, we will be thrown into a world where we must produce to stay afloat, no matter the sector in which we are employed. Hopefully, for our own sanities, we will enter that world not as miniature factories, but as beings ready, willing and able to fully interact with our jobs and our lives.

Embracing cellular angst

Cell phone addiction is merely the most visible symptom of a much deeper pathology. The basic “disease” that we now suffer is a painful incapacity to ever be at real peace with ourselves.