Opinion

Language and umbrage

Medical professionals have for the most part moved away from using “mental retardation” as a medical term because the term was never accurate. That term does not acknowledge the fact that some afflicted people simply think differently and may have savant abilities unattainable by the average person.

Letters to the Editor: April 15, 2010

Rivka Cohen '12 criticizes the labeling of Israel as an apartheid state and Gary Fox '13 defends Princeton's dining options.

Earbuds

Nov. 13, 9:30 a.m. I rolled out of bed and began my daily 30-minutes-before-first-lecture routine. Seventeen minutes later, I found myself with three minutes for my pre-lecture check-down: laptop in backpack, watch on left wrist, wallet in left pocket, phone in right pocket. I saw my headphones on my desk but set them aside. I was ready.

Cartoon: Dandelion Season

Editorial: Switching to Gmail

Google Apps has the potential to effect concrete improvements in the lives of Princeton students.

Do the math

We don’t need to get everyone to major in math, but we do stand to gain from giving everyone a better appreciation of math.

Cartoon: An illustrated memory

A fine line

Princeton’s progress would be hollow if we moved abruptly and without careful respect for the University’s history.

Cartoon: Unintended consequences

Lessons from Frodo

The ability to consider competing moral reasons for action or inaction is a unique aspect of our humanity, and therefore so is the torment that accompanies particularly difficult decisions and the regret that follows deciding wrongly.

Building Princeton upon Princeton

Today we are involved in a project to expand the School of Engineering and Applied Science and create the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The Andlinger Center will be the locus for solving problems of energy and the environment.

Why Dartmouth does it better

It’s a commonly accepted truism that college dining hall food isn’t that great. The real problem is with the one word that precedes “meal plan” for freshmen and sophomores here. That word is “mandatory.”

Letters to the Editor: April 12, 2010

Regarding “Should the Wilson School certificate program be selective?” (Monday, March 1, 2010)

Editorial: Returning student work

Returning mid-semester assignments before reading period and providing greater access to feedback on final exams and papers will provide students with a better understanding of how to improve on future assignments, and the University should incorporate both of these requirements into its academic regulations.

The name game

Am I Joshua, Professor Katz or JTK? How do you know which name to use? And how, for that matter, do I know myself?

Not your daddy's Princeton

An internationalized Princeton won’t look like your daddy’s Princeton.

Cartoon: I pity the fools

I’m gonna be

As I approach my senior year, I am beginning to realize that in the real world, I will not be an athlete, salesperson, programmer, dentist, beekeeper or many of the other jobs in the song. As I suddenly realize that I can’t start my sentences about my future career path with “When I grow up” anymore, the words of the song become a lot more challenging.

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.