Opinion

More than just a time difference: Reflections of an international student

Won-Jae Chang

Yes, we are international: that’s the label that we’re given for coming from opposite ends of the world. But before that, we’re simply students. Our passports might say South Korea, Brazil, or Kenya, but we all, including American students, applied to Princeton and rejoiced when we got in. We went through the same standardized exams and teenage melodrama, and still struggle through the same problem sets and cry through our papers. We are no different, and we deserve to be prioritized in the same way that students are.

OPINION | 11/05/2020

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck ’81: Divestment from fossil fuels is a foolish endeavor

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck ’81: Divestment from fossil fuels is a foolish endeavor

Ken Buck

Rather than focusing on divesting from fossil fuels, student activists could help usher in the next era of clean energy derived from fossil fuels, with an emphasis on even greater improvements in natural gas production.

OPINION | 11/05/2020

Read International: Advocating for globally-oriented news consumption

Read International: Advocating for globally-oriented news consumption

Arman Badrei

Don’t limit your own development or succumb to political tunnel-vision. Instead, read globally.

OPINION | 11/04/2020

The leaves might be falling, but your mask should stay put

The leaves might be falling, but your mask should stay put

Alaina Joby

So go ahead, wear that mask, social distance, put on a turtleneck and continue to save your loved ones and others around you.

OPINION | 11/04/2020

A vote for Biden won’t bring true democracy

A vote for Biden won’t bring true democracy

Braden Flax

As long as we buy the logic of lesser evil and the rationales of civic duty, any risk to that order will be inconsequential.

OPINION | 11/02/2020

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s hearings revealed the risks facing our judiciary

Panorama_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_Building_at_Dusk.jpg

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s hearings revealed the risks facing our judiciary

Juan José López Haddad

While it isn’t new for judicial hearings to be drawn out and stuffed with party politics to the point of pointlessness, the events and circumstances of these hearings are notable for the refusal to change to aremote format and the hyprocrisy aired through them.

OPINION | 11/02/2020

Joe Biden’s vanilla politics might be just what America needs

Joe Biden’s vanilla politics might be just what America needs

Andi Grene

However, as the radically unexpected events of 2020 have unfolded, Biden’s embodiment of vanilla politics might be just what Americans need.

OPINION | 11/02/2020

Attention and intentionality in the digital space

Remy Reya

Our relationships in and beyond the classroom are undeniably central to the quality of our learning. And while it will surprise no one that virtual Princeton is markedly different from physical Princeton, the potentially damaging impact of online learning on our way of engaging with each other should alarm us. Knowing this — and knowing what lies immediately ahead — we should fight to mitigate the effects of these phenomena.

OPINION | 11/01/2020

Illness in the Oval Office shouldn’t be a weakness

Illness in the Oval Office shouldn’t be a weakness

Aditi Desai

American presidents have the ability to set an example for the rest of the country. By being honest and open about their health, they can display how illness can be viewed not as a weakness, but as a mark of resilience.

OPINION | 11/01/2020

Locked out of the voting booth

Julia Chaffers

People in prison are counted in the census in the places where they are incarcerated, but not in their home areas. This means that less resources go to their home communities, and more resources go to the location of their prison. Thus, incarcerated people are counted, but denied a voice; they are exploited for everyone’s political gain except their own.

OPINION | 10/29/2020

As U. settles over female professorial pay, institutional hypocrisy injures the most vulnerable

As U. settles over female professorial pay, institutional hypocrisy injures the most vulnerable

Sally Jane Ruybàlid

This finding by the U.S. Department of Labor is sobering.

OPINION | 10/29/2020

My Asian parents are voting this year. It isn’t enough.

My Asian parents are voting this year. It isn’t enough.

Lillian Chen

College is not why you should be proud of me. Rather, you should be proud of all the Black and Asian Americans who fought to enter white-dominated institutions,such as Princeton, so that I, too, could be blessed with this opportunity.

OPINION | 10/29/2020

Why we shouldn’t have classes on Election Day

Why we shouldn’t have classes on Election Day

Mohan Setty-Charity

In the service of the nation, Princeton should suspend classes on Election Day every year.

OPINION | 10/29/2020

Without democracy, Princeton’s anti-racism promise will remain hollow

Without democracy, Princeton’s anti-racism promise will remain hollow

Braden Flax and Kristal Grant

The reality is, nothing will be done for the students and campus workers who need change, so long as the venal relic of an antidemocratic administration hoards the University’s assets and the Board of Trustees are compelled by their very job descriptions to relieve anti-racism of whatever fangs it might carry.

OPINION | 10/27/2020

Don’t voter shame third-party voters

Rohit Narayanan

If you want someone’s vote, you have to convince them that that vote would do the most good, not just feel deserving and sanctimonious.

OPINION | 10/27/2020

Learning to live for now

Learning to live for now

Maisie McPherson

With the midterms stress dying down and finals just around the corner, I want to remind students to take a step back and live for what we have now. The uncertainty about the spring is daunting, but we need to remember and be grateful for the moments we have now because we don’t know when they will be gone.

OPINION | 10/25/2020

To prevent the ‘insect apocalypse,’ we must reduce light pollution

To prevent the ‘insect apocalypse,’ we must reduce light pollution

Genrietta Churbanova

With a few minor adjustments, the orange bubble could become a sanctuary that protects insets from light’s dark side.

OPINION | 10/25/2020

What does ‘The West Wing’ have to teach us 20 years later?

Julia Chaffers

The show is premised on the idea that if the right people are at the helm, government can serve everyone fairly. But at a time when systemic issues are top of mind, where we question whether reform is enough, that idea is harder to accept, as much as we wish it were true.

OPINION | 10/22/2020

On disease and divestment: ‘First do no harm’

On disease and divestment: ‘First do no harm’

Ryan Warsing

Knowing what we know, it would be malpractice not to divest with all due speed.

OPINION | 10/22/2020

The purpose of anger from a family trip gone awry

Lillian Chen

Living a life of forgiveness is ultimately for ourselves. Resentment is simply poison that we drink believing it will fix us. But it rarely ever does. Anger will make us feel vindicated, but it will not set us free.

OPINION | 10/22/2020

Most Popular