Opinion

To be or not be a snake: how I survived the ‘major’ mistakes of college

Lillian Chen

At the end of the day, a major is just a major. But what you choose to do everyday in college - the challenges you choose to face, and the mistakes and lessons that come from those choices - that’s what will shape your mind and character the most.

OPINION | 08/10/2020

Unheeded and still unheard

Unheeded and still unheard

Bella Hubble and Rebekah Adams

We hope Galt realizes the damage he has done to those he has tried to silence.

OPINION | 08/10/2020

Without appropriate and informed calls to action, online activism isn’t really active

Without appropriate and informed calls to action, online activism isn’t really active

Mollika Jai Singh

Civil, logical claims will be taken more seriously than antagonistic and unfounded ones.

OPINION | 08/09/2020

Give an inch and they’ll take a mile: Princeton’s hypocrisy in its fight against racism

Give an inch and they’ll take a mile: Princeton’s hypocrisy in its fight against racism

Sarah Elkordy

There is nothing more in the nation’s service and the service of humanity than the fight against racism.

OPINION | 08/06/2020

Princeton, it’s 2020: stop protecting racial slurs

Princeton, it’s 2020: stop protecting racial slurs

Imani Mulrain, Brittani Telfair, Kathy Palomino, Jordan Stallworth, Mayowa Oke, Kalyn Nix, Grace Simmons, and Josiah Gouker

We call on Princeton University: step up and use your power to protect your Black students.

OPINION | 08/06/2020

Healing the sick: the vaccine and problems of trust

Healing the sick: the vaccine and problems of trust

Ethan Magistro

With these pills, our democracy can recover better than it was before. The question only remains if they are too big to swallow.

OPINION | 08/05/2020

Letter from the Editor: In trying times, a community to call home

Jon Ort

Regardless of whether you join our staff, the ‘Prince’ is your paper, because Princeton is your community.

OPINION | 08/03/2020

Celebrating sickness, ignoring the sick: eating disorders and the hypocrisy of campus culture

Celebrating sickness, ignoring the sick: eating disorders and the hypocrisy of campus culture

Rosamond van Wingerden

If you have an eating disorder or any degree of difficulty around food and exercise, you deserve understanding and support. Unfortunately, at Princeton, you are unlikely to get it.

OPINION | 08/03/2020

Free speech is racial too

Free speech is racial too

Brittani Telfair

Anyone can speak, but minorities advocating for change have historically been ignored and met with violent backlash from dominant groups. When people of color attempt to speak freely, they are often degraded, ignored, and attacked.

OPINION | 08/02/2020

What’s (not) in a name?

What’s (not) in a name?

Remy Reya

If we must continue to cling so helplessly to naming as a tradition, we should defuse the ticking time bomb of eponymic memorialization by normalizing public scrutiny — not as behavior deemed oppositional to naming practices, but as a welcomed endeavor.

OPINION | 08/02/2020

Resetting sexual misconduct to the (Title) IX’s

Resetting sexual misconduct to the (Title) IX’s

Maisie McPherson

Making sure that Princeton’s Title IX system keeps survivors’ best interests at heart is necessary.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Petition of the concerned Black alumni of Princeton

Petition of the concerned Black alumni of Princeton

Guest Contributors

We urge the University to establish a center that is dedicated to the eradication and remediation of the effects of systemic racism.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Charity for the rich: Princeton must revise its pandemic financial aid decision

Charity for the rich: Princeton must revise its pandemic financial aid decision

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

This Board vigorously opposes Princeton’s refusal to change expected family contributions, all the while reducing tuition.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Good trouble: John Lewis and the urgency of today

Good trouble: John Lewis and the urgency of today

Julia Chaffers

We must carry on without John Lewis, but if we ever hope to make this nation’s promise true, we must carry his legacy within us: disrupt the status quo, follow your conscience with morality as your north star regardless of popular sentiment, and never give up the pursuit of what is right.

OPINION | 07/29/2020

No, publishing racist research is not progress: Why we need to reshape our understanding of academic freedom

Shannon Chaffers

Professors who actually believe in racial equality should embrace a committee of experts on the workings of racism who will alert them that they are perpetuating racist ideas in their research.

OPINION | 07/28/2020

Zooming behind: We can do better

Zooming behind: We can do better

Arjun Jagjivan

If an infrastructure for online education already exists, we should use it.

OPINION | 07/28/2020

Chinese Americans in the era of the “China virus”

Matthew Wilson

It is absolutely possible for Princeton to uphold core academic principles such as freedom of speech and diversity of thought and values antithetical to the Chinese Communist Party, while also defending its students from misdirected race-based attacks and discrimination.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

Out of control: COVID-19 and disordered eating

Out of control: COVID-19 and disordered eating

Emma Treadway

When what you eat is your only sense of control, the chaos of pandemic is life-threatening.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

Racist research must be named, but often allowed

Racist research must be named, but often allowed

Elizabeth Harman

Even when some of us have figured out the right answers, we need those who disagree to put forward their best arguments so that we can try to communicate and make progress together.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

As our new website goes live, we’re transforming, too

As our new website goes live, we’re transforming, too

Jon Ort, Ivy Truong, Benjamin Ball, Elizabeth Parker, and Cy Watsky

We’re thrilled to announce a new vision for our publication.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

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