The permanent repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” would represent an important opportunity for the University to reevaluate its relationship with the ROTC program and to grant it full recognition.
Imagine you inherit a house with a vast and very fertile garden, and surrounding that garden is nothing but deserts and starving farmers.
In a time when it’s infinitely valuable to have the ability to mold your ideology without being labeled a flip-flopper, it’s best never to have mentioned Proposition 19. Likewise, it’s better never to have joined the “One Million Strong for Barack Obama” group on Facebook. But it goes beyond this: It’s better never to have mentioned your feelings about any subject at all.
What would Princeton do without me? God knows that my detractors have spent thoooouuuusands of hours framing me as abusive, whereas in reality I am almost single-handedly responsible for all reasonable discourse on this campus. When columnists get out of line, I have come to consider it my responsibility to make sure they remember their place on the totem pole.
But the push to enact a University policy in response to such situations is a passive-aggressive way to tackle the issue. There’s a far more natural solution: If students don’t want to smell second-hand smoke, they’re free to talk to the smokers about it.
Contrary to what Vargas Llosa believes, it is only when we doubt and question society and ourselves that we are able to cast off the old order and travel down the road of progress.
Last Sunday afternoon, I stood in a taxi line next to a middle-aged man dressed as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Editorial Board debates the future of gender-neutral housing.
Glenn Sugameli discusses vacant judgeships on U.S. courts and Alex Beal urges us to stand up to bullying and hatred.
Is sustainability simply a fad that’s catching on recently? I used to think so.
Since Princeton promotes a four-way academic culture — I: “The Humanities including Architecture”; II: “The Social Sciences including History and the Woodrow Wilson School”; III: “The Natural Sciences including Mathematics and Psychology”; and IV: “Engineering and Applied Science” — this means that two of the University’s five most senior administrators belong to Division II, two more to Division IV and one to Division III. Where’s Division I?
Rivka Cohen writes that many American Jews and Jewish organizations do grapple with the cognitive dissonance of loving the land of Israel and Tulio Jose Alvarez Burgos urges us to learn the facts behind the news before heading to the polls.
Students would be better served if the University required professors to post their syllabi before students enrolled in courses.
We are in a world where self-misrepresentation is a norm, where affairs, beliefs and insults are swept under the table to avoid conflicts.
In the cocoon of Princeton, the impacts of elections seem negligible. But decisions made by Congress on topics ranging from the economy to health care to climate change will affect us for years to come.
One issue that has not been addressed by University policy is smoking outside University facilities and buildings.
