As important as it is to acknowledge issues and challenges on campus, it is equally crucial that we find the right spaces for the right conversations.
Once we get settled into our Princeton experience, unfortunately, we rarely venture beyond the comfort of our selected friend group.
Tragically, Tigerbook is a shell of what it used to be.
It is critical that we acknowledge the essentiality of menstrual products and work to lift discriminatory taxes and increase accessibility for women across the world.
As Princeton students, we like to think we can craft a perfectly structured, well-reasoned argument on the first try. The fact that in many cases, we cannot rewrite our essays, only reinforces this misconception.
Even if Jesus were straight, and even if queer joy manifests in blasphemous fashions (whatever that means), queer people should still be free, loved, and embraced for their queerness.
Though the balance between challenging us with new theories and giving us the opportunity to truly engage in genuine discourse is delicate, it must be met. Let’s create a pedagogy that places the student at the center. Let’s stop raising our hands.
Public service calls us to do something less soaring than Rumsfeld’s station, but all the more meaningful for its humility. Serving the nation means harnessing the privilege of our Princeton education — not for power or profit, but to the benefit of our fellow Americans.
We take eight ROTC classes over the course of our time here at Princeton, and we do not get a single credit for them.
While our American peers celebrated the honor and merit of veterans, they often failed to hear the voices of the fallen.
We hear often of ways to lessen the college transition — perhaps the best way to do so is not to acknowledge the differences between past and future lives, rather to minimize those differences.
Though Princeton may seem a world away from the uncertainty and terror that Dreamers endure every day, we must not forget that we have peers who are living through this hell. We stand with them as friends, students, and Americans.
Above all I think it’s time for us to have an earnest discussion about our endowment.
The introduction of more faculty will mean an increase in courses, and this marks a perfect moment to increase the seminar format’s frequency.
As the ‘Prince’ Editorial Board aptly argued, respecting free speech is not the same as awarding free pulpits.
Together, the diversity and brilliance to be found in our student body represent an untapped resource of knowledge and understanding the University can no longer afford to leave unrecognized.
Recycling allows us to get there, but only if we all participate willingly and enthusiastically. It’s not that difficult to take five minutes to familiarize yourself with Princeton’s recycling guidelines and then change your daily routine to make sure you’re tossing things away correctly.
These first relationships are inescapable in the college experience: we all make friends by necessity and proximity. But we have to do ourselves (and them) a favor and wonder: do we maintain them because they mean something to us? Or because we just don’t know anything else?
Facebook should not get away with its abysmal track record on discrimination and indifference towards fixing its failures. As Representative Beatty said to Zuckerberg, “it’s almost like you think this is a joke.” It’s time for Facebook to realize it’s not.
It seems like whenever protests like these come up, the backlash against the protesters never disagrees with the basic facts of the matter.
