Opinion

Looking back, looking ahead

Behind the pages of The Daily Princetonian, there are more than 150 students devoting thousands of hours to creating the paper you read every morning. Those people disappear behind the bylines and mastheads — and part of that’s our fault. As journalists, we aim to collect facts and personalities and to convey them as objectively as possible. Doing so necessitates that we remove ourselves from the equation, which is no easy feat when we’re writing about the same campus community to which we all belong. Even talking about this publication in its own pages is generally taboo, but each outgoing editor-in-chief gets one chance to break this rule.

Editorial: Make culture mandatory, language optional

While it certainly is important that some degree of exposure to foreign culture be a component of a Princeton education, that goal would be better served by replacing the foreign language requirement with an additional distribution requirement in cultural studies.

Cartoon: The pains of being irresponsible

PrinceCast #9: Semester Wrap-Up Edition

The incoming and outgoing executive editor for opinions sit down with host Michael Medeiros to discuss this semester's top columns and debates.

The University is not trying to kill the clubs

While “The University” is not engaged in an intentional campaign to destroy the clubs, it has been actively pursuing policies that are not in the best interest of the continued survival of Prospect Avenue. The proverbial Road to Hell is always paved with good intentions. 

Involuntary confinement: The life of a grad student

The underlying question is thus: When one has issues or problems that one would not feel appropriate revealing to one’s superiors and colleagues — the latter often being your closest friends — to whom does one turn?

Letters to the Editor: January 12, 2011

My friend was carrying a heavy bag of corpses down the Street. When I offered to help her with it, she opened a can of whoopass on me.

An unfinished symphony

 Ask yourself: when is the last time you ever ventured, really ventured, outside the Orange Bubble, physically or psychologically? I don’t mean taking that trip to Panera. (Good use of “that” to create implied familiarity.)

Cartoon: Yaro's Technocracy

Editorial: To our reader

Welcome to the Editorial page!

In defense of dilettantism

Much more than interdisciplinarity, however, is lost — I’ll risk incurring the wrath of some by calling it culture — when students of physics and literature consider each other to be fools because the former don’t care what century Chaucer lived in and the latter have never heard of Boyle’s law.

Outdated stereotypes

After being here at Princeton for almost a whole semester, I can testify that Princeton has created an environment where not only is it easy to remain a religious Jew, but it is possible to get exposure to Judaism even when one does not seek it out.

From the Archives: The night before Dean's Date

On Dean's Date eve, the 'Prince' brings back a very timely column from five years ago.

Why Bob Durkee '69 is wrong about eating clubs

The University’s current course of continuing to buttress the four-year colleges, flooding them with resources and expanding their size, will kill off more eating clubs unless residency and meal plans are unlinked.

From the Archives: The night before Dean's Date

The 'Prince' brings back a timely column from six years ago.

How Princetonians don't save the world

Cartoon: Major injuries

The cost of prestige

The creative writing program has become more and more self-important in its dealings with the outside world.

Pulling the plug on sustainable debate

It was all a psychology experiment! A recent thesis project underscores the need to speak up for free debate on campus.

Editorial: Curbing fire safety overreach

The housing office should reevaluate its fire safety policies and make changes that improve the quality of student life without seriously increasing the risk of accidents.