Opinion

Code of conduct for economists

Nothing in the code would prevent an economist from weighing in on any public issue of the day while also garnering a retainer from, say, the Koch Brothers or the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, but it would say that full disclosure must be part of every public message.

Cartoon: Sure signs of spring

Letter to the Editor: April 11, 2011

As leaders in our eating clubs, we would like to take this Pride Week to recommit and reaffirm our constant goal of ensuring that people of all backgrounds, experiences and orientations have a safe and fun outlet in all of the eating clubs.

Achieving a lasting peace

For every narrative of an Israeli running to a bomb shelter, there exists a parallel anecdote of an innocent Palestinian civilian family fleeing from their home with minutes’ notice to escape an Israeli airstrike, or a college student living in Nablus who is withheld passage through a checkpoint to attend university in Birzeit.

Go green; get nukes

The case against nuclear power is simple: it is expensive to build a nuclear power plant. Finland is one of the few countries currently constructing a new nuclear plant. The project was supposed to cost 3.7 billion euros but has already incurred an additional cost of 2.7 billion euros. The case for nuclear power is more subtle.

Cartoon: Failing while failing

Editorial: Welcome to Princeton

Princeton is a fascinating, quirky and fun place, and you cannot experience all it has to offer in four years, much less in one weekend. These suggestions will, however, hopefully help you see a side of Princeton that you didn’t hear about in Richardson Auditorium.

The Borough: Time for student involvement

The population of Princeton Borough was roughly 13,400 at the last census. The University’s undergraduate population consisted of roughly 5,100 students. Undergraduates, in other words, account for more than a third of the Borough’s population. If all students voted in Princeton, the University would be a big deal, politically speaking.

A day without the Internet

Unlimited and ubiquitous Internet access has provided many academic and social benefits to Princeton undergraduates, but along with all of these benefits come a host of disadvantages as well.

Cartoon: Enough is enough, already

One billion eyeballs

Today, I lament my current geographical location for a more joyous reason — India’s going crazy with disbelief and happiness, and I wish that I could be there to go crazy with her.

Debunking prefrosh myths

This column is directed at the prefrosh, not as an attempt to persuade, but to lend you my observations of Princeton life as I’ve seen it through the lens of my own experience.

Justice for Daniel Faulkner

Everyone is entitled to free speech, convicted cop-killer or otherwise. But it is another matter to afford someone  a prestigious platform in an academic discussion or elevate him or her to celebrity status.

Cartoon: Princeton state of mind

It's a bloodthirsty beast's world

I appreciate the urgency and analysis our USG president brought to the perception of men on campus. I also believe this point is close to irrelevant in light of the main problem — that women on campus feel, for whatever reason, that their energies would be better spent on activities other than leadership positions.

Editorial: Departmental certificates

The Editorial Board debates whether certificates should be indepedent of departments.

Higher level hosting

The Editorial Board made several suggestions to the Princeton Preview program, and I think one of them in particular is relevant here: host involvement.

The monopoly of the MPAA

­If an unelected committee whose membership is a secret dictated to all parents what their children are allowed to know and see, would that worry you? Would you feel like your liberties are being infringed upon? Though this scenario might sound like a feat worthy of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, I am, in fact, talking about the Motion Picture Association of America’s current stranglehold over movie ratings. While the institutionalized exclusion of teenagers from the consumption of art is problematic in itself, I will argue that the MPAA’s peculiar choices of which content to restrict further exacerbate the issue.

Hegemony in the politics department

The Department of Politics at Princeton is perhaps the finest in the nation, which makes it even more representative of the scandal that American political science has become. Teaching here is dominated by the fetishizing of certain methods, a cold shoulder to theory and the abandonment of reality. The result is a combination of model-made abstraction and number-numbing specificity that has made political science irrelevant to politicians, policy makers and, lest we forget, the general public.

Cartoon: Cannon