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Princeton?s new President: A personal perspective

Princeton?s new President: A personal perspective

As a first-semester freshman, I knew our incoming president, Christopher Eisgruber, not as the provost of the University, but as "professor." I took his freshman seminar, FRS 139: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, a class about constitutional interpretation theory and the role of the Supreme Court.

OPINION | 04/21/2013

The co-teaching company

There are many reasons why I like to teach. I take pleasure in the company of college-age students, for one thing because their ways allow me to relive my own undergraduate years, which were mostly terrific.

OPINION | 04/21/2013

Hopes for Eisgruber?s Presidency

Yesterday the Princeton community learned that the University?s search for a president had culminated in the selection of University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ?83.

OPINION | 04/21/2013

Letter to the Editor: April 19, 2013

Regarding ?Support group PINS offers discussion forum for kinky sex and BDSM? (Tuesday, April 16, 2013):While the new BDSM group doesn?t sound particularly menacing, it is nonetheless ridiculous.

OPINION | 04/18/2013

The decline of self control

As the current youth of America, Generation Y, the Millenial Generation, we face a whole multitude of first world problems that didn?t exist just a decade ago.

OPINION | 04/18/2013

Age of the activist, the speed of our times

In his April 8 column, ?On internet slacktivism,? Benjamin Dinovelli criticized Internet activism as ?fleeting? and more likely to be ineffective than change-making.

OPINION | 04/18/2013

Editorial: Improving sexual health

On April 2, Princeton?s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education program hosted focus groups to discuss a new online orientation program about sexual assault issues for incoming freshmen.

OPINION | 04/18/2013

United we struggle: The beauty of being busy

My weary roommate shut her laptop with a peremptory clap at 4:30 a.m. ?I?m done,? she said.

OPINION | 04/17/2013

Dear Prefrosh

First, let me sincerely echo your parents, teachers, administrators and friends in giving you a big congratulations on getting into Princeton!

OPINION | 04/17/2013

Come to Princeton (or Don?t)

Most of March of my senior year of high school consisted of waiting: waiting for weeks to go by until college admissions, days to go by until I had an idea of what college?s apparel to order in bulk, minutes to go by until the online portal would let me click ?View Decision.? Time seemed to move like an IV drip: infuriatingly and tantalizingly slow.

OPINION | 04/17/2013

Columnist Conversations: Does the Honor Code Need Revision?

By THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN OPINION STAFF Recently, the Editorial Board suggested that the punishment for taking extra time on exams is too severe and that the punishment should be reduced to a zero on the exam and academic probation.Are there other aspects of the Honor Code that could use revision? Kinnari: The biggest problem seems to be that we don’t know the Honor Code well enough.

OPINION | 04/17/2013

The struggles of reading for pleasure

Senior alert: The following contains idyllic depictions of life after handing in a senior thesis. If you are in one of those departments with tragically late due dates, you have been warned.A week or so ago, I was talking to a history major and an English major about what we were going to do after we handed in our theses.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

Inciting violence

?You are a terrorist.? The line lingers at the end of DAM?s impassioned rap; angry, hurt but also dangerously violent.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

Trivializing tragedy

It is 10:02 p.m. on April 15, 2013. Right now, across the country, dozens are huddled in front of their television sets or staring at open browser tabs of CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and their Twitter feeds, feverishly devouring updates on the situation in Boston.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

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