Opinion

A plea for activism

By Matt Beienburg Following recent events, the rightful outrage from our community — including the recent student demonstration in the University Chapel — appropriately galvanizes us to confront racial injustice and shame those who spew hate. That racism should be condemned could not be more true, and it is precisely what is true that we must always challenge ourselves to uphold.

Editorial: Create a Hindu prayer space

Last week, The Daily Princetonian reported on an initiative by Princeton Hindu Satsangam and a number of both Hindu and non-Hindu students to advocate for the creation of a Hindu prayer space on campus.

#modernlove: Acknowledging the importance of Tiger Admirers

My mother told me that she thinks my generation is not serious about love. This was after we had gone to college.

Cartoon: April showers

Why I’m choosing never to see my admissions records

As was widely reported in January, students this year have for the first time figured out en masse how to view their supposedly-confidential admission records, thanks to a loophole in Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act discovered by several students at Stanford.

Why body image campaigns get it wrong

Every once in a while, my Facebook feed becomes flooded with pictures of students holding up signs or changing their profile pictures as part of the newest campaign to encourage acceptance of one’s body.

Editorial: Campus Rec, step up to the plate

Club sports are an integral part of university life for many students. At the University, the more visible varsity sports teams, which accommodate only a small fraction of the student body, are complemented by the large number of club sports.

Reconsidering political correctness

When it came time a few weeks ago for administrators at Kean University to pick a commencement speaker, I imagine that Common seemed like a safe choice.

Cartoon: It all balances out

Princeton’s laboratory animal research program

ByPablo G. Debenedetti Two articles published recently in The Daily Princetonian, “U.

Let’s talk about kale

Kale is beloved by hipsters and foodies across the country, making it one of the most stereotyped vegetables on the planet.

Argumentum ad yikyakum

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” — Oscar Wilde In high school, I was a big fan of anonymity.

Cartoon: Happens every time

Food security and poverty tourism

I cannot recall the last time I read a positive column about Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow’s greatest flaw in the public eye has been her inability to relate with others, more so thanatypicalHollywood celebrity.

Disinvestment is an empty moral gesture

By Uwe Reinhardt It is always to be welcomed when students give written or spoken expression to their moral sentiments on issues outside the University’s comfortable cocoon and debate these sentiments in a manner that befits a great university. At the same time, it is less heartening when these expressions lead to facile and morally empty policy recommendations for the operation of the University at large. From the viewpoint of an economist, for example, having the University’s investment arm, PRINCO, rid itself of the stock certificates on a set of companies whose role in Israel and the West Bank is deplored by the advocates of disinvestment strikes me as such an empty gesture. One certainly can debate this issue from a strictly partisan basis, favoring one side or the other, as different factions on this campus have amply done. One can also debate whether it is reasonable to force upon the University community a general policy on which that community is as sharply divided as it is on this issue.

Opaque transparency: What we (don’t) know about Princeton’s animal experimentation

ByCourtney Buoncore '18 and Gwyndolyn Goldfeder '18 Most Princeton students operate under the assumption that our campus promotes intellectual and moral integrity, as well as academic transparency.

Boycotting Big Sean

When I first saw the Lawnparties announcement video, my initial reaction was, “What a tasteless and offensive early April fools joke.” When I found out that the man rapping about a “little stupid-ass bitch” would, in fact, be the headlining act in May, I was not shocked or horrified.

The growing inefficacy of photo campaigns

This year multiple photo campaigns were launched and executed by a variety of different groups. Just this semester, we have had the USG Body Image campaign, the SHARE Consent campaign, the Hidden Minority photo campaign and more.

Cartoon: Recovery from a trip to New York

Editorial: Vote "No" on divestment

From noon today through noon on Wednesday, voting will take place in the Spring USG Elections.