Opinion

Keeping morality in Princeton, but out of the classroom

This is what college has taught me: to be humble in my ethical beliefs ... And when you’ve critically engaged with radically different ethical beliefs, you may change your mind. But after humbling myself a bit and considering Anscombe’s and related arguments, I’m more convinced than ever that the universe doesn’t care where we put our penises.

Reversing the brain drain

I don’t know how it is for the rest of the world, but going home to India typically involves a simultaneously heartwarming and exhausting number of family gatherings.

Precept procrastination problems

I know that I’m not alone, so I feel comfortable in admitting that I have a problem. It’s not what you’re thinking. But thanks?

Cartoon: Princeton on a bike

University hits a 'home' run

Butler, once the ugly duckling of dorm life, is officially the University’s newest swan. But for all its pizzazz and the obvious cosmetic improvement from the old Butler quad, the University made several errors in judgment in the process.

The talkative American

I made the unfortunate mistake of listing “Syria” as last on my list of countries visited, so the immigration official spent extra time perusing my passport, and he finally asked me, in a low voice, “You didn’t receive any ‘training’ while you were in Syria, did you?  Like, ‘military’ training?”

Cartoon: Size matters

Editorial: Escaping McCosh 50

Seminars usually demand a greater depth of understanding and require more hours of work from students than do lecture courses. As a result, they are often among the most rewarding classes undergraduates take at Princeton and environments in which the highest-quality learning occurs.

Glib global gobbledygook

Our media environment is immensely rich: global in coverage and swift to respond to real or apparent crises. But our individual media are mostly thin … When a real debate erupts, active participants’ knowledge of the globe is often as flat and inauthentic as the cuisine in “global” restaurants.

A more civil library recall

Before you know it, your days are spent plotting your anonymous campaign of terror, just to spite the person who wanted to read the same book as you, at the same time as you.

Copy rites

What good is it if a dean in ODUS abstains from using unethical plagiarism detection software if professors use it? Currently, the University lacks any consistent policy on plagiarism detection software.

Editorial: Leaving the Third World behind

Its new building is a chance for the Carl A. Fields Center to move into a more visible place in campus life - and to remedy the fact that few students know what the Center does and fewer still have been there.

Cartoon: Side effects include hysterics, depression and delusions

My square foot

Mornings: At 8 a.m., I will be jolted from sleep by metallic dumpster thunder and terse cries of Brown Hall parking lot garbage collectors. It is like setting your EarlyRiser Ocean Soundscape alarm-clock to the setting: Din of Battle. Or Imminent Destruction. Or This is What Hell Sounds Like.

Cartoon: Princeton Scheduling

Reinvigorating a wasteland

Expressed as genre, the 2008 election campaign — even if our new president should prove himself exceptional — was once again only a parody of democracy.

The good life

If we are to confront the bad behavior rampant on campus and in the public sphere, we must be comfortable with making moral arguments.

In(ter)dependent work

I suggest that the option be made available to conduct one piece of independent research – be it a junior paper or a senior thesis – in pairs.

Editorial: The flu and you

For Princeton to be successful in preventing or containing a serious outbreak of H1N1, students must recognize and act on the fact that personal responsibility is the most important factor in protecting themselves and others.

Cartoon: The last Saturday brunch