Opinion

From the ICC: Street Week — it’s more than a name

Guest Contributor

Street Week, as the name suggests, is a time to explore Street-wide. There is a space for every student at Princeton who wishes to join a club. While registration for selective clubs is limited to a max of two by the time constraints of the Bicker process, the ICC wanted to expand awareness about opportunities for open club exploration.

OPINION | 02/06/2019

The media’s responsibility to call out racism

Julia Chaffers

The failure to label these incidents racist, the choice to instead tiptoe around it, to hedge their language, effectively excuses the offenders. In doing so, the media gives cover to the offenders, failing to condemn their acts with the strength necessary to truly bring change.

OPINION | 02/05/2019

Karen Pence and the culturally acceptable

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Karen Pence and the culturally acceptable

Benjamin Gelman

What these supporters are missing is that the issue concerns homophobia and transphobia, not the religious devotion of public figures. Taking an anti-LGBTQ+ belief and calling it religious does not make it any less malicious or any more legitimate, and it serves only to distract from what is really being debated.

OPINION | 02/05/2019

Princeton needs new campus monuments

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Princeton needs new campus monuments

Guest Contributor

The astute visitor would realize that important parts of Princeton’s history are not reflected in its campus, as they often are at other universities.

OPINION | 02/04/2019

A knowledge of wealth in Princeton’s departments

Liam O'Connor

The data shows not only that students of certain concentrations dominate particular eating clubs but also that members of certain eating clubs dominate entire departments — including some of Princeton’s largest.

OPINION | 02/04/2019

When they don’t love you back: reflections on being hosed (twice)

When they don’t love you back: reflections on being hosed (twice)

Samuel Aftel

If I could give any advice to sophomores, I would tell them to see through the hazy moral hypocrisy and insincerity of Bicker.

OPINION | 02/04/2019

Athletes don’t strike out on the Street

Liam O'Connor

Bicker is often presented as a socially meritocratic process, but it’s different for athletes.

OPINION | 02/04/2019

Our diversity and what we can do about it

Our diversity and what we can do about it

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

To evaluate The Daily Princetonian against the University, the Board circulated a 10-question survey to the entire staff, which is comprised of undergraduate students. Approximately two-thirds of the staff responded to the survey. By closely studying the results, we have identified where the ‘Prince’ lags behind, and we have developed plans to rectify these shortcomings.

OPINION | 01/14/2019

To our readers: Thank you

To our readers: Thank you

Marcia Brown

I am grateful for the opportunity to have served as editor-in-chief, and I am excited to see Chris Murphy ’20 lead the 143rd Board.

OPINION | 01/14/2019

Condemning white nationalism is too easy

Condemning white nationalism is too easy

Guest Contributor

Checking the temperature of race relations both on and off campus only when a group of white nationalists is encroaching is not enough. Condemning white nationalism then becomes too easy.

OPINION | 01/13/2019

Response to 'Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom'

Response to 'Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom'

Guest Contributor

In his Jan. 6 opinion piece in The Daily Princetonian, Jon Ort ’21 underscores the importance of academic freedom that is the lifeblood of the University, but incorrectly suggests that Google’s recently announced plans to open an artificial intelligence research lab in Princeton undercuts that freedom.

OPINION | 01/13/2019

Frist Campus Center: Employing architecture to combat student loneliness

Frist Campus Center, a significant hub of social activity on campus.

Frist Campus Center: Employing architecture to combat student loneliness

Gabe Lipkowitz

I would argue that Frist epitomizes and encourages the best of college socialization, merging work with play and relaxation, thanks to subtle yet significant architectural gestures. As such, I argue that we should interpret Frist as a cause of our collective problem of loneliness; rather, it should serve a model for more spaces on campus to solve that issue.

OPINION | 01/13/2019

R. Kelly’s predation, the enduring violence against black women, and Princeton’s de facto complicity

R. Kelly’s predation, the enduring violence against black women, and Princeton’s de facto complicity

Samuel Aftel

Needless to say, the white power structure in this country has often been profoundly eager to criminalize and incarcerate black men – except, curiously, when black men have been credibly accused of harming black women. Such white moral indifference is partly why Kelly has escaped scrutiny for his misconduct for so long.

OPINION | 01/10/2019

We should all go to art museums

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We should all go to art museums

Anika Yardi

Authenticity is the key. Museums offer a way to bring to life the history and culture we learn in our classrooms, painting a picture of something that seems so far away and remote on the pages of textbooks.

OPINION | 01/10/2019

I support the Tigertones Men’s March

Anonymous

I wholeheartedly support the Tones’ effort to push back against our female supremacist culture’s dehumanization of the red-blooded American male.

OPINION | 01/08/2019

A more honorable honor code

A more honorable honor code

Braden Flax

Cheating and dissent should be greeted with mandatory transport to Yale University; only favorites will be embraced by the comparatively warm, protectively soothing arms of a swift death.

OPINION | 01/08/2019

A call to expand sexual assault programming

A call to expand sexual assault programming

Morgan Lucey

What they don’t tell you in the trainings is that the processing that has to occur in order to truly heal goes far beyond the moment at which the sexual assault is reported.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom

Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom

Jon Ort

By entangling scholarship with Google’s sponsorship, the University has failed to protect its professors from plausible ethical dilemmas.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

The moral hypocrisy of a punitive Honor Code

The moral hypocrisy of a punitive Honor Code

Samuel Aftel

If the principal reason for the Honor Code is deterrence, you have to take “Honor” out of it.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

Rejection: The hardest part of winter

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Rejection: The hardest part of winter

Rachel Kennedy

Understanding rejection as a part of the course rather than a roadblock is a helpful mindset to keep at the University. There are so many people who seem to get it all, and it’s easy to internalize that or take it all too personally.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

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