Opinion

Protesting poor teaching

 It doesn’t matter whether you actually can teach well or not, so long as you go through the motions of teaching for the required amount of classroom time. I suspect that the janitor in my building is held to higher standards for his cleaning than most professors are for their teaching: A previous janitor was removed for not properly carrying out her duties, while I have sat through hopelessly muddled lectures from professors who have been teaching the same course for years, if not decades. There is little accountability of the teaching quality offered by the professors, in part because students don’t demand high-quality teaching.

Governor McDonnell makes the news

What you can do to build a less homophobic campus

Since it will be years until the next chance to decide on marriage in New Jersey, what are equality-loving Princetonians to do?

Study guide to practical ethics

Tilghman's bicker nightmare

In her recent column “On alcohol,” President Tilghman suggested that dangerous drinking will remain a problem until students stop thinking that “drinking oneself into a stupor that is potentially life-threatening” is cool. This leads to a more obvious question: How the hell did anyone at Princeton ever come to think of such heavy drinking as cool? The answer, in part, is Bicker.

The promise of co-ops

At this time of year, many sophomores and some juniors and seniors are considering one of the more important decisions of their time at Princeton: where they will eat. For some of you, this is a big deal. Since the beginning of your freshman year, you’ve been prodded and primed from all directions to join a particular club, to join with a particular group of people and quite possibly to take steps to increase the likelihood of gaining acceptance to a particular bicker club.

We wouldn't have it any other way

Balancing our identities as Princeton students and ‘Prince’ editors is a constant struggle. We’ll be the first to admit that we’ve made some mistakes.

Malkiel: On grading

The faculty had two objectives in adopting the policy. One was fairness. The other was clarity of message.

Tilghman: On alcohol

When I am asked, as I often am, “What keeps you up at night?” my answer is always the same: the fear of a phone call in the middle of the night, telling me that one of our students has just died from alcohol poisoning.

Cartoon: Spidey (non)sense

Editorial: You know you love us

No issue is too small! No point is too trivial.

The best of what we found at 11:22 p.m.

Whenever we here at the ‘Prince’ are feeling down we always look to the same place for a little pick-me-up: our biggest fans, the online commenters.

Cartoon: Get me out of here

Cartoon: The Watchwoman

Editorial: A successful USG presidency

Connor Diemand-Yauman will leave behind a legacy that stands head and shoulders above those of his most recent predecessors.

Instead of deflation, higher standards

There once was a dream that was Princeton. In this quixotic vision, the University would forsake worldly concerns — employment prospects, the delicate psyches of its overly coddled student body — and become, once again, a place of learning.

PrinceCast #23

Opinion columnists Molly Alarcon '10, Brandon McGinley '10 and Charlie Metzger '12 discuss arming Public Safety, Teach for America and civic participation and the COMBO survey and bicker.

What do real men do?

Since more than one person on this campus has confused me with Brandon (there were once three ‘Prince’ columnists variously named “Brandon” or “Brendan”), I thought I would set the record straight: I am appalled by the Dockers “Man-ifesto” and by Brandon McGinley’s article on the subject.

From The Archives: The Night Before Dean's Date

On Dean's Date eve, we bring back a very timely column from five years ago tonight. 'Twas the night before Dean's Date,When throughout every college,Students were furiously typing,Spewing late-gotten knowledge.

Beating the Pequod monopoly

The ULC thus asks all professors to make the switch to E-Reserves and help our community become more sustainable, economical and embracing of a proven pedagogical technology.