Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Towards an inclusive free speech

Letter to the Editor: Towards an inclusive free speech

Guest Contributor

Just before Princeton students returned to campus this year, an open letter signed by 16 Ivy League professors appeared online, calling on inbound college first-years to “think for yourself.” Though the call to think critically and maintain an open mind is benign on its surface, the letter is in reality a thinly veiled call to resistance against progressive campus activism.

OPINION | 09/14/2017

Ordinary courage in an extraordinary situation

Daehee Lee

Han Yeol became a hero because he felt that he had a duty to his fellow countrymen and nation. His fortitude, however, is hard to come by. Even now in Princeton, where the threats of police brutality and unjust arrests are low, many students hesitate to criticize what they believe the government is doing wrong.

OPINION | 09/14/2017

On the boundaries of religious freedom

Hayley Siegel

While we may safely agree that Feinstein overstepped constitutional boundaries, we can also acknowledge that the root of her concerns about the separation of church and state has yet to fully be fully addressed within our current legal system.

OPINION | 09/14/2017

A disaster waiting to happen

Liam O'Connor

The only way to provide equal opportunity for low-income Americans is to adopt an identity-blind meritocracy where society fights the causes of poverty. Feel-good policies like affirmative action don’t work.

OPINION | 09/13/2017

Cierra tu Boca and Open Your Mind: An Open Invitation to Princeton’s Latinx Heritage Month

Guest Contributor

I hope the conservative students at Princeton join us for the many events planned for Latinx Heritage Month.

OPINION | 09/12/2017

Letter from the Editor: The Editorial Board

Sarah Sakha

This fall, the ‘Prince’ will revise its process for publishing unsigned editorials, which accompany the bylined columns, guest contributions, and letters on our Opinion pages.

OPINION | 09/12/2017

Letter from the Editors: Protect our students

Daily Princetonian Staff

Trump may end DACA as early as Sept. 1. We urge Trump not to end DACA without a suitable, compassionate, and permanent replacement and the University to bring DACA students back to campus before the Sept. 5 deadline imposed by the group of attorneys general who have threatened to sue the Trump administration. Let’s live up to our motto — “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”

OPINION | 09/01/2017

A commitment to dialogue: Rejecting false moral equivalence

Guest Contributor

We encourage all students, faculty, and other community members to think for themselves, seek the truth, and approach every issue, regardless of emotional charge, with an open mind, respectful attitude, and confidence that they can speak freely without false charges of bigotry based on inaccurate moral equivalences.

OPINION | 08/31/2017

Letter to the Editor: Free speech

Guest Contributor

I am honored to join fourteen distinguished colleagues at three of the world’s foremost institutions of higher learning in encouraging the young people joining us on campus this year to think for themselves, and to speak their minds.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Campus lockdown

Guest Contributor

On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Princeton Campus was placed on lockdown for ten minutes while officials investigated reports of an armed person.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Student advocacy is a game-changer

Guest Contributor

As a single student, you may feel frustrated that you cannot impact world affairs, or that even if you really tried to, the time commitment would take away from your future career.

OPINION | 08/30/2017

Letter to the Editor: Inclusiveness through diversity

Guest Contributor

Inclusiveness through Diversity, No it’s not an oxymoron, at least not at residential dining at Princeton University.

OPINION | 08/29/2017

In defense of the real woman

Hayley Siegel

James Cameron’s criticism of the recent Wonder Woman film as objectifying an icon rather than celebrating feminism is perfectly valid.

OPINION | 08/29/2017

A commitment to activism: Solidarity and coalition-building for the upcoming year and onward

Guest Contributor

The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have made the presence of neo-Nazism and white nationalism in the United States undeniable.

OPINION | 08/28/2017

Affirmative action's inconvenient history

Liam O'Connor

During the 1960 presidential campaign, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge stated that a black man would be appointed to the cabinet if his running mate, Richard M.

OPINION | 08/28/2017

A letter from the Muslim Students Association to the Class of 2021

Guest Contributor

To the Muslim students of the Class of 2021: Assalamu ‘alaykum! Welcome to Princeton University, home of the exciting next chapter of your lives!

OPINION | 08/25/2017

Letter to the Editor: Standing in solidarity with Charlottesville

Guest Contributor

To the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville Community: In the spirit of diversity and justice, members of the Princeton University Class of 2021 stand in solidarity with the students, family, and community members who were affected by the tragic events that occurred in Charlottesville on August 11th and 12th.

OPINION | 08/24/2017

Now is not the time for complicity

Mason Cox

If I told you Nazis were marching down the street, chanting “Blood and Soil,” waving the infamous black with red swastika flag, you’d think I was giving a history report.

OPINION | 08/19/2017

Reaffirming affirmative action

Ryan Born

I defend the University’s affirmative action policies by placing them in their definitional and historical context. Opponents of affirmative action call it racist, like my fellow columnist Hayley Siegel. Yet arguments like these do not properly understand affirmative action, its importance, nor its context at the University.

OPINION | 08/16/2017

Defining a "fair shake"

Hayley Siegel

President Eisgruber explained that Princeton does consider race in admissions, but that every applicant is nonetheless given “a fair shake.” A truly fair shake would level out the differences in performance resulting from an applicant’s socioeconomic background.

OPINION | 08/16/2017

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