Opinion

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

Cartoon: Professors' night out

Millennial Generation defines its future

I find it hard to believe that there really is an “isolationist” attitude held by our generation. From everything I’ve seen at Princeton, the opposite is true. Students here seem to acknowledge that we are intimately connected with the world outside of the United States and are deeply involved with international politics regardless of whether or not we think we should be.

Read any good books lately?

Are e-books the future of reading?

Editorial: Reforming course evaluations

Because the course evaluations are University-sponsored and must be filled out (or at the very least, declined) before a student can see the prior semester’s grades on SCORE, the data they yield is far more comprehensive. Hence, it is important that the registrar make course evaluations as informative and useful as possible.

Cartoon: C'mon, guys

Celebrating success

At Princeton, winners of well-respected scholarships like the Rhodes and Marshall are written up in the ‘Prince’ and featured on the homepage. Winners of the class prizes are awarded at opening exercises so that bright-eyed freshman can all think that they will be receiving those awards next year. Yet other than in these extreme situations, sharing and celebrating academic success is generally frowned upon.

Freshmen class presidents on the Honor Committee

The skills that make one effective at adjudicating cases of cheating are not necessarily the same as those that make one effective at ordering Taco Bell for study breaks or planning the famously awkward Freshman Formal.

Editorial: Responding to calls on the Street

The Editorial Board is concerned that students will respond to the presence of the Borough Police on the Street by adopting behaviors that are potentially more damaging to student health, and we encourage the Borough Police and Public Safety to work together to return to the old policy.

Lead like a girl

The rubric by which we measure women’s progress is often still colored by patriarchal biases.

Cartoon: Come to my show!

The real value of internships

A good internship provides work we can lose ourselves in. But the great ones — that’s work we can find ourselves in.

Why the defensive shield is justified

I cannot possibly fathom the hatred that motivates one to launch rockets from a Palestinian school compound into Israel, risking Palestinian children’s lives to attack Israeli children. Until I do, or until this hatred no longer exists to be fathomed, I will stand by Israel’s right and responsibility to protect its citizens.

Engender equality

The report issued by the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women's Leaship may have accidentally stirred up harmful gender stereotypes that undermine its mission to develop leaders and achieve gender parity.

#Tweet child o' mine

@charliemetzger: hope that the 140 char cap doesn’t limit how fully I can express my ideas.

Cartoon: The Princeton rejection

Editorial: Preempt new lock out policy

This new lock out policy is unreasonable, and the University should seriously reconsider its implementation next year.

War minus the shooting

Pakistan and India face off at Mohali, India in the semifinal of the Cricket World Cup, the third largest sporting event in the world behind the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. Any World Cup semifinal is historic, and any India-Pakistan game is brimming with emotion and spirit, but this particular combination is something else.