Opinion

The ‘social’ network

Think about the last time you ran into a member of a prestigious campus group or exclusive eating club. Were you not nicer, warmer and faker to him or her than you would have been to someone who had no such affiliations? How often do you spend precious Princetonian minutes reaching out to someone new, truly without ulterior motives?

The Organization Kid at 10

A decade after Brooks visited here, it’s worth asking if the essential characteristics of Generation Y have changed. Assuredly to his disappointment, I don’t think they have.

Exploring leadership at Princeton

After a year working on the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, we are both convinced that leadership is an issue that we all need to talk about, because it’s about far more than just getting more women to become eating club officers, or convincing men to join the Pace Council for Civic Values.

Cartoon: Politics

Young Americans, young Americans

Moving beyond turnout, the underlying problem that must be addressed is disenchantment with electoral politics.

Voter's remorse

Our turnout should not make us proud. It means that the majority of us sat this Election Day out.

Cartoon: What's so funny?

Editorial: Bullying and victims' rights

Given the importance of fostering comfortable learning environments in high schools and colleges alike, the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights deserves the support of the New Jersey state legislature.

Overcoming ‘guilty until proven innocent’

We ought to have demanded more of the ‘Prince,’ as the article published failed to address the fundamental question of whether Gawker’s piece ought to have seen the light of day in the first place.

Keeping in touch

We get so caught up in the rush of school that the amount of focus and energy we reserve for our family necessarily diminishes.

Confronting religious disagreement

To what extent should we subject religious views to critique and analysis? On the one hand, religion is a private and personal matter. It seems wrong to tell someone his or her beliefs are misguided. But on the other hand, religion plays a huge role in the day-to-day existence of people and communities.

Cartoon: Going forward

Editorial: Opening doors to grad students

Although there are a number of reasons why some clubs would choose to remain open only to undergraduates, it would be beneficial to both the clubs and the student community for the sign-in clubs to accept graduate student members, conditional on the support of the current membership.

Lighten up, Princeton

When I idealize Princeton, I think about “Mad Men.” I am Don Draper, every other woman in the world is fabulously good-looking; talk and alcohol flow freely. We work hard among beautiful architecture, working important and glamorous jobs dressed in the best New York fashions. Everyone parties hard and goes home happy.The Princeton I am actually in is not like this. People are much too serious. Not in terms of studies; we all got here by seriously working hard in school. I mean that people are too serious when it comes to other people. They are nice, they are polite, and they are distant.

Letter to the Editor: November 8, 2010

I write to solicit nominations for the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded on Alumni Day, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. 

Parachutists, truffle-hunters and the college

Earlier this year, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced that she would step down from her post at the end of the academic year. The University is searching for a new dean of the college. And I have found myself wondering less about who will take on this demanding and important job than about the structure of the University — especially that of the college. More particularly, I have found myself wondering about parachutists and truffle-hunters. 

Editorial: Feeding the masses

Considering the effectiveness of the meal plan system in place during fall break, Intersession and spring break, this system ought to be extended to another period when many students are left without an effective dining option: early September.

Princeton perfection

There is a certain amount of effort required from an administration to make a school run like clockwork. It must be a logistic miracle to sort students into classes, assign rooms, maintain all the facilities and do the thousands of other tasks necessary for making sure Princeton runs perfectly. But there is a certain amount of effort required on top of that to make it look like you didn’t do the work in the first place, to make it seem like Princeton is just naturally perfect.

Overcoming ‘no means yes’

Whether or not Whitman’s high-profile status influenced the decision, it is unlikely that was the only reason the University did not discipline Harsh. There very well may have been insufficient evidence and Harsh may have been innocent. But situations in which a student accused of rape goes unpunished, even when guilty, are not unique among rape cases at American colleges and universities.

Cartoon: Don't make me angry