Opinion

Editorial: A fairer way to allocate shared meal plans

Because each year spent in a residential college provides a student with an additional 0.1 points when drawing in that same college the next year, those with a shared meal plan their junior year have a significant advantage in securing a shared meal plan their senior year. Thus, the advantages of an early draw time junior year carry over to the next year, creating an unfair system that contradicts the notion that each year’s room draw presents students with an equal opportunity. 

In my little town

For 19 years, I lived in a self-contained community that saw little of the outside world. In this vacuum of ideas, beliefs and identities, I saw my own experiences — as pleasant as they might have been — as nothing more than the flavorless norm. When I was finally given the opportunity to come to the other side of the country, I hoped to see and be a part of one for the first time.

Apartheid label fits Israel

The U.N. definition of apartheid includes “any legislative measures” that deny members of a racial group certain rights. Among these are the right to work, the right to “freedom of movement and residence,” and the right to “freedom of opinion and expression.” Israel limits all of these rights.

Nonie Darwish's scare tactics

Darwish failed to make a coherent argument or suggest actual solutions to the problems that we have in the Arab world. Instead, she left us with the impression that the Arab-Muslim world is a barbaric, inhumane wasteland.

Cartoon: Fountain Cleanup

Making it in academia

There are many reasons to work in academia, whether for the joy of enriching young minds or for the satisfaction of making new discoveries, but job security is no longer one of them. Everyone in academia needs to accept this reality and help prepare its most vulnerable members for the alternatives.

Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2010

Dean Paxson lauds the Woodrow Wilson School's ability to prepare students for civic service.

Editorial and Dissent: Unpaid internship programs

The Editorial Board debates the issue of undergraduate internship compensation.

Cartoon: The gym competitor

Preventing suicide, as a community

Our community has been deeply touched by the news of Cornell’s recent suicides. As we support their healing process, it is also important for us to affirm our commitment to the health and well-being of our own community, and to recognize that suicide prevention calls for a community effort at multiple levels.

Defining learning disabilities

It is only fair that students with learning disabilities be allowed to demonstrate the full extent of their intelligence and knowledge of course material on exams.

Cartoon: The toilet paper

What is the census?

The Queer the Census campaign isn’t about the “interesting question” of how many LGBT people there are in the United States. It’s about understanding the inequalities that LGBT people face and where they live, in order to meet their needs.

Controversy over student loans

You, the students, stand between these contrasting views on government contracting and, after graduating, you will stand between them as taxpayers.

Save the Dinky

The plan to replace the Dinky is deeply flawed on two counts: cost-effectiveness and logistical feasibility.

Cartoon: Cruel admissions

Princeton as a sculpture garden

The sculptures themselves are modern with hints of the past, very much like the campus is old-fashioned in architecture with modern touches of sculpture.

Editorial: Easing the tax burden

The University must take into consideration the true cost of attendance, tax obligation and all, to truly fulfill a student’s financial need.

A deeper understanding of an exhibit

A more in-depth analysis of Rhonda Wall’s exhibition in the Bernstein Gallery of the Woodrow Wilson School, and some help from the artist herself, gave me a new perspective on art, journalism and relevant, consequential debate amongst ourselves.

Don't queer the census

Recently, Brenda Jin ’10 and Johannes Muenzel ’11 wrote a column exhorting Princetonians to “queer the census” by placing a pink sticker on their envelopes when returning their census forms. The goal of this campaign is to encourage the Census Bureau to ask questions about sexual orientation and identity. I will not be attaching my pink sticker.