Opinion

Editorial: Offer more current events courses

The Office of the Registrar’s add/drop deadline marks the time when students begin to reflect on their course load, thinking about what courses they should take in the future, and what they would have done differently if they could return to the first few weeks of September and re-enroll in classes.

Restricting the elite

Nobody is going to argue that Ivy League schools aren’t exclusive. We all feel a sense of pride being here, precisely because it’s such a challenge to get to this point.

Cartoon: Lawnparties

It’s okay to be unhappy

If I could sit my freshman self down at the dawn of my Princeton career, I’d have quite a few things to say.

Helping (in theory)

Taking the rush hour train across Midtown always seemed to show me the best of the city. The indescribable odors.

Cartoon: Hamlet's somniloquy (Princeton redux)

Keep misandry out of feminism

I am a feminist, so the first words I spoke at a recent town hall meeting on the new sexual assault procedures were in praise of the University’s speedy response to the new Title IX regulations.

Teaching how to learn

Coming into Princeton, I knew I wanted to get involved with community service. At the Activities Fair, I spent most of my time under the Pace Center for Civic Engagement tent.

How we view diversity at Princeton

The week we, the freshman class, marched through FitzRandolph Gate, we were bombarded with activities that initiated the four-year-long journey that will be our Princeton careers.

Accepting rejection

’Tis the season to be rejected. The acceptance emails and rowdy pickups have maxed out now as student organizations across campus take their pick of the deliciously talented cornucopia of applicants.

Finding meaning

You would think the author of an essay titled “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” would get a chilly reception in a room of Princeton students.

Cartoon: An inconvenient truth

Residential college advisers and reporting sexual misconduct

As the University faces an investigation for possible violations of federal law under Title IX, it has directed some of its attention to the role of residential college advisers in new policy changes.

A call for greater transparency in the Lakeside Graduate Housing Project

The University likes to say that it cares about its students’ welfare and concerns.

New precepts for precepts?

I found out what a precept was the day before classes were supposed to begin my freshman year. It was during a meeting with my academic adviser, finalizing courses, that the word first went into my ear.

Don't send your kid to BCG

Were you to stroll into Whig Hall last Thursday afternoon, you would have found a bevy of Princeton students debating with a former Yale professor.

Editorial: Career Services peer fellow program

Two weeks ago the University’s Office of Career Services organized the first-ever HireTigers Meetup, a development of the previous career fair recruitment model.

In defense of tourists

In a recent opinion post in The New York Times, Anna Altman continues a recent trend, though certainly not a new phenomenon, of decrying tourists and tourism in general.

Cartoon: Free will

Philanthropy in China

In 2007, Princeton alumnus Sir Gordon Wu ’58, the namesake of Wu Hall in Butler College, completed payments of $100 million that he pledged to the university in 1995, bringing his total lifetime donations to over $118 million.He gave this donation to support the School of Engineering and Applied Science, particularly to increase the number of endowed professorships, supporting renovations and construction, and to provide fellowships to graduate students.