In his April 11 op-ed, Nicholas Wu mischaracterizes the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s determination that Princeton’s speech codes threaten students’ expressive rights.
Last Monday, the University announced that it would discontinue its sprint football program. Having existed on campus for 82 years, sprint football is an alternative version of football for players weighing under 172 pounds with a minimum of five-percent body fat.
Following in the footsteps of dozens of other major publications over the past year or two, Aeon Magazine has just published a critique of student protesters on campuses nationwide.
Let’s talk about overcommitment. It goes a little like this: you’ve promised your energy, talent and/or leadership to at least one, if not six, extracurriculars — in addition to a full course load.
Academic integrity is a bedrock value of Princeton University — and something that should be held to a very high standard.
An important, yet often forgotten, historical site in the United States is just around the corner from the University, beyond the Graduate College: the Princeton Battlefield.
Princeton University has a branding problem.
This weekend, hundreds of Jewish alumni will gather on campus to celebrate 100 years of Jewish life at Princeton, with panels on topics ranging from Philosophy of Religion and Modern Jewish Thought to Israeli-American Relations.
We all understand that Princeton is an obscenely wealthy institution, steeped in the kind of riches that go back centuries, but after almost three years here, I still don’t understand what rights we as students have to access that money.Recently, columnist Marni Morse ’17 wrote an article suggesting that the University should subsidize student train tickets to New York.
On March 21, President Obama became the first sitting U.S.
Last week, the University Board of Trustees announced its approval of the recommendations made in the Wilson Legacy Committee's report. These recommendations include retaining Wilson’s name at the Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson College, revising Princeton’s unofficial motto, diversifying campus art and establishing a potential graduate school pipeline program for underrepresented groups.
I had thought that the debate about free speech on campus had settled after the protests concluded last fall, but I was proven wrong by the flyer incident in late March.
Princeton University is not like Columbia. We do not have a core curriculum, and all distribution areas cover a large number of classes, creating a good ecosystem of competition. Freshman writing seminars are the exception to this rule, and their quality suffers as a result.
*This piece is satirical. It’s always puzzled me whycommencement speeches are given at graduation.
