Opinion

USG cares about making good policy. We need you to care, too.

In a climate of political uncertainty, it is now more important than ever for students to be engaged with university policymaking — and USG is the most direct avenue to engage with administrative decision makers. While USG’s social events — including Lawnparties — are important, especially in times of stress and division, we also represent you. We don’t just plan parties.

In a climate of political uncertainty, it is now more important than ever for students to be engaged with university policymaking — and USG is the most direct avenue to engage with administrative decision makers. While USG’s social events — including Lawnparties — are important, especially in times of stress and division, we also represent you. We don’t just plan parties.

Princeton’s meat eaters should embrace the reducetarian solution

As the reducetarian maxim describes, small measures, when taken on a campus-wide scale, can yield tremendous results.

As the reducetarian maxim describes, small measures, when taken on a campus-wide scale, can yield tremendous results.

In a moment of budgetary crisis, don’t waste funds on ChatGPT Plus

Social responsibility extends beyond the Orange Bubble. While generative AI will be part of our future one way or another, its excessive use is also wasteful, and Princeton students have a responsibility to use our privilege to be conscientious and informed critical thinkers — which means being mindful of AI’s environmental impact and resisting the temptation to overuse it.

Social responsibility extends beyond the Orange Bubble. While generative AI will be part of our future one way or another, its excessive use is also wasteful, and Princeton students have a responsibility to use our privilege to be conscientious and informed critical thinkers — which means being mindful of AI’s environmental impact and resisting the temptation to overuse it.

On dining, don’t Harvard our Princeton

We urge the University to stop imposing its vision of an idealized dining experience on students who are already happy. If it keeps going down this path, then its Harvard-like centralization of dining will asphyxiate these great institutions, and we will quickly find that its one-size-fits-all solution is actually one-size-fits-no-one.

If you’re going to save anything from budget cuts, save climate research

By devoting itself to saving GFDL’s research once again, with both financial and political capital, the University has the opportunity to truly Stand Up for Princeton — and more importantly, lifesaving research. If Princeton wants to save lives and money and world-class climate research.

"By devoting itself to saving GFDL’s research once again, with both financial and political capital, the University has the opportunity to truly Stand Up for Princeton — and more importantly, lifesaving research. If Princeton wants to save lives and money and world-class climate research."

Letter from the Editor: Why we have signed an amicus brief in Stanford Daily v. Rubio

It is rare for the ‘Prince’ to take such a step, and we have not done so lightly. We believe this brief, filed by the Student Press Law Center, persuasively conveys the extraordinary challenges that student newspapers across the country have faced since January — and that the brief benefits from the support of a diversity of student media organizations, including our own.

It is rare for the ‘Prince’ to take such a step, and we have not done so lightly. We believe this brief, filed by the Student Press Law Center, persuasively conveys the extraordinary challenges that student newspapers across the country have faced since January — and that the brief benefits from the support of a diversity of student media organizations, including our own.

Class Council can’t fix Late Meal

Ambition and enthusiasm can easily transform modest responsibilities into a stage for self-promotion, and in the end, it is those they represent — us, the first-year class — that suffer. 

Ambition and enthusiasm can easily transform modest responsibilities into a stage for self-promotion, and in the end, it is those they represent — us, the first-year class — that suffer. 

Princeton should provide universal access to ChatGPT Plus

If the University acknowledges the near-universal usage of ChatGPT among students, it can become an equitable learning tool, better acquainting all of us with the potential for advanced AI to enhance our learning.

If the University acknowledges the near-universal usage of ChatGPT among students, it can become an equitable learning tool, better acquainting all of us with the potential for advanced AI to enhance our learning.

USG failed to sit at the dining table

Where was the Undergraduate Student Government?

Where was the Undergraduate Student Government?

Reactions: What first years care (and don’t care) about at Princeton

The ‘Prince’ recently published its Class of 2029 Frosh Survey, featuring data on everything from the incoming class’s familiarity with AI Models to its knowledge of prominent Princeton alumni to its past sexual experiences. Here, five of our Opinion editors identify and tackle key takeaways about Princeton’s newest class. 

The ‘Prince’ recently published its Class of 2029 Frosh Survey, featuring data on everything from the incoming class’s familiarity with AI Models to its knowledge of prominent Princeton alumni to its past sexual experiences. Here, five of our Opinion editors identify and tackle key takeaways about Princeton’s newest class. 

Independent dining brought me community, not isolation

Nostalgia has its place, yet adulthood means accepting that our experiences don’t have to be replicated. The world moves on. But I will pause. For the budding chefs, the quirky palates, the ones who find peace and meaning in preparing food alone or in small gatherings, I mourn the loss of home-cooked meals by the people who appreciate them most.

Nostalgia has its place, yet adulthood means accepting that our experiences don’t have to be replicated. The world moves on. But I will pause. For the budding chefs, the quirky palates, the ones who find peace and meaning in preparing food alone or in small gatherings, I mourn the loss of home-cooked meals by the people who appreciate them most.

Reactions: What would you change about first year orientation?

By the way, Fizz is not real life

If someone claiming that something is happening in real life cannot point to anything that has actually happened in real life and is instead forced to substantiate that claim with anonymous posts from a social media app, it is probable — likely, even — that nothing of the sort is happening in real life at all.

If someone claiming that something is happening in real life cannot point to anything that has actually happened in real life and is instead forced to substantiate that claim with anonymous posts from a social media app, it is probable — likely, even — that nothing of the sort is happening in real life at all.

Princeton must practice the democracy that it preaches

“If the University is truly committed to the aim of resisting anti-democratic efforts nationally, it must begin by ensuring that an institutional, non-performative democracy exists at the University in the first place: it must make CPUC a decision-making body that votes on student referenda.”

“If the University is truly committed to the aim of resisting anti-democratic efforts nationally, it must begin by ensuring that an institutional, non-performative democracy exists at the University in the first place: it must make CPUC a decision-making body that votes on student referenda.”

Eisgruber eats at Olives. Why can’t I?

I’m sure that when the responsible University administrators see Eisgruber walking from Nassau Hall to Olives, they do not think, “what a pitiable, isolated person who is struggling with food access.” If only they would apply the same respect to our decisions and ability to care for ourselves, too.

I’m sure that when the responsible University administrators see Eisgruber walking from Nassau Hall to Olives, they do not think, “what a pitiable, isolated person who is struggling with food access.” If only they would apply the same respect to our decisions and ability to care for ourselves, too.

If violence is never the answer, Princeton should not be complicit in genocide

Our opposition to violence can’t be conditional: the stakes are nothing less than human life.

Our opposition to violence can’t be conditional: the stakes are nothing less than human life.

Referendum sponsors, poll the University before you poll us

In the best form of student government, USG members should be our trusted delegates to negotiate with the University, coming out with a proposal that both the administration and students might agree on.

Princetonians for Free Speech defends free speech for all

Other than speech that is unprotected by First Amendment law, PFS is committed to defending the widest possible freedom of speech and open discourse for everyone, no matter how unpopular or offensive the point of view.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reminds us of the transformative value of hard work

In a world rife with convenient distractions, both online and offline, Jackson’s life and message reminds us that true progress demands sustained focus and resilience.

In a world rife with convenient distractions, both online and offline, Jackson’s life and message reminds us that true progress demands sustained focus and resilience.

Students want to ask speakers questions. Let them.

Why bring great speakers to campus if we cannot question them? If speakers want to have difficult conversations, they should expect students to want to engage.

Why bring great speakers to campus if we cannot question them? If speakers want to have difficult conversations, they should expect students to want to engage.