Opinion

Separate but unequal

Buildings are now efficiently protected from nonresident interlopers by the prox system, which has enabled dorms to be locked 24 hours a day since the fall of 1999. Therefore, the locks are not fulfilling the role for which they were originally intended, but rather an entirely different role: protecting women from other students.

Cartoon: New year, new complaint

Opinion: Decade Issue

A column a year for 10 years.

10 years in America

The 21st century did not start 10 years ago. History regularly fails to line up with the arbitrary lines we draw, marking off measures in time from the birth of Christ.This column provides a look at the most recent era. 

A Princeton decade

Four years is as long as our collective undergraduate memory. A columnist looks back on the trends of the past four years. 

Cartoon: I'm Blue

The royal 'we'

Though my conception of life here is biased by some of my own experiences, I still like to think of this second home as a cohesive unit, a “we,” a network of people who have the feeling that we are all on the same team.

PrinceCast #8: Phat Talk

In this week's PrinceCast, Michael Medeiros '11 sits down with Opinion columnist and Eating Concerns Advisor Sophia LeMaire '11 to discuss her column on No Fat Talk Week.

(Fat) talk of the town

No Fat Talk Week was not about putting tape over our mouths, it was not about talking people out of eating disorders, and it definitely was not about consoling people who have abused their bodies. It was meant to encourage ostensibly average people to reflect on how they speak about others’ bodies or view their own bodies.

Learning to laugh

Every now and then, when I think about PrincetonFML.com, the odd Tiger magazine prank and (dare I say it) Robot Unicorn Attack, I am reminded that behind all the harsh politics, competitiveness and grade deflation lies a community that is willing to have a laugh together. And while campus issues will often get us riled up, we can all chill a little. Things don’t need to be too extreme.

Cartoon: Yaro's Technocracy

The cruelty of Christmas gifts

Tainting the economic purity of Christmas transactions reduces them to a shallow recall of formulaic niceties that say nothing whatsoever about the amount of thought devoted to another individual on a regular basis.

The banana and the chickpea

I think that students voted against the hummus referendum because PCP made two mistakes:First, it let the referendum turn into a political question instead of a moral one. “Yes” votes became votes for Palestine, and “No” votes became votes for Israel. Second, PCP members behaved like activists. They used words like “boycott,” which one peer told me was extremely offensive, and printed posters with images of hummus containers covered with big red X’s.  

Editorial: Green light to energy assessment

Sustainability inspections are justified and the University should consider expanding this program to include inspections during the academic year.

Cartoon: The things they carried

Secrets in the age of WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks forces us to reevaluate whether anyone is entitled to secrets.

Did someone say 'fat'?

The “no fat talk” campaign has nothing to do with making fat people feel better, because, to put it bluntly, there aren’t that many fat people to console. Instead, it is intended to reduce the anxiety anorexics have from fear of being fat.

Spread a little holiday cheer!

I am not entreating anyone to watch holiday specials on TV instead of writing a paper or to go make a gingerbread house with an exam happening the next morning. But we should make more of an effort to treat the holidays as a special time.

Fight obesity, but don’t moralize weight

The everyday fat talk thrown around in the United States is not about health. There is a moral undertone to much of our discussion of obesity.

Cartoon: Gordin's Law