Opinion

Talking to a freshman friend before I headed off to Bicker, he lifted his coffee in salute as if I were a soldier entering battle and encouraged me to be myself ? only wittier, smarter and more fun.He was joking, but his point was spot-on: Whether in classes or around the dinner table, I often feel as though I need to be a shinier version of myself in order to compete with my peers.

OPINION | 02/26/2013

Pitfalls of diplomacy

Pitfalls of diplomacy

Ye Eun Charlotte Chun

When New York Times columnist David Brooks accused Princetonians of being “organization kids,” he claimed that our easy acceptance of authority and eagerness to please had fostered a passive environment in which the greater community protested more on behalf of campus issues than the students themselves.

OPINION | 02/26/2013

Producing leaders of character

Several months ago, I stumbled upon an insightful column in the Yale Daily News, ?Leadership without virtue,? by Bijan Aboutorabi.

OPINION | 02/26/2013

Responsible criticism

There are few people who are lucky enough to write for The New York Times, let alone get paid to test-drive Tesla?s new Model S around the East Coast and write about it.

OPINION | 02/26/2013

Why so serious?

Last week, Dave Kurz wrote about finding truths, ?absolute and bound up with goodness,? and using them to decide how to live our lives.

OPINION | 02/25/2013

The time to speak up

Not too long ago, one of my closest friends at Princeton was going through an emotionally rough time.

OPINION | 02/25/2013

Examining divestment

Divestment is once again in the news ? and not just at Princeton. Recent proposals by Princeton faculty and students to have the University sell its investments in gun companies and major fossil-fuel producers mirror similar efforts across the country.

OPINION | 02/25/2013

Crossing the aisle

The University of Pennsylvania College Republicans recently promoted an Ivy League-wide effort to advocate support for a statement in favor of gay marriage.

OPINION | 02/24/2013

Unknown unknowns

During a press briefing in 2002, Donald Rumsfeld (Class of 1954 ? a fact I would assume is not often brought up during Orange Key tours) spoke more like a professor of epistemology than a secretary of defense when he ruminated on the subject of ?unknown unknowns.? According to Rumsfeld, there are ?known knowns,? things we know we know, and ?known unknowns,? things we know we don?t know, but also ?unknown unknowns,? things we don?t know we don?t know.

OPINION | 02/24/2013

Editorial: Online lectures

This semester, a large Princeton course will integrate online lectures for the first time. Students in COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures will experience some of their lectures through Coursera, the platform through which the University offers several free online courses.

OPINION | 02/24/2013

A response to: "Studying the melting pot"

It seems especially relevant, at the close of Black History Month, to return to the question ?Why do race studies matter??In some ways, this is a legitimate question.

OPINION | 02/21/2013

Editorial: Course evaluations

According to the Academic Life Total Assessment Survey, students cite the Office of the Registrar/SCORE course evaluations as one of their most important resources when making course choices.

OPINION | 02/21/2013

Ready, set, draw

One of the greatest fears for incoming freshmen centers on the roommate assignments we received months before setting foot on Princeton?s campus.

OPINION | 02/21/2013

Views from outside the club

No matter how many times I visit Princeton, as I step off the Dinky I?m always struck by the dazzling, vertiginous onslaught of orange and black draped around everyone?s necks and seemingly sewn into everyone?s hearts.

OPINION | 02/20/2013

Seeking truth

Truth is, I think, inherently linked to good: Everything that is good stems from institutions, ideas or innovations rooted in truth.

OPINION | 02/20/2013

Penis parables

This Monday afternoon, joined by a handful of my fellow Terrans, I enjoyed the hilarity that was an offering titled ?The Penis Parables: A Response to ?The Vagina Monologues.? ? Generally inoffensive and completely hysterical, the Penis Parables detailed the discomforts of premature ejaculation and boxer-brief underwear.However, at the risk of sounding like a male apologist, I could not help but wonder what a true Penis Parables at Princeton would look like.

OPINION | 02/20/2013

Studying the melting pot

My first encounter with Princeton?s American Studies program came while I was standing outside a classroom in Frist one afternoon last week, waiting for the previous class to end.

OPINION | 02/19/2013

Town and gown

At the end of January, a Princeton resident named David Keddie submitted a letter to the editor of Planet Princeton titled ?Princeton Needs More Apartment Buildings.? Planet Princeton operates somewhere between a newsletter and a blog and describes itself as the ?central place on the Internet where [Princeton residents] can share news, events and community concerns.? Keddie?s letter received 88 ?likes? and 82 comments on Facebook, which, according to my browsing through other such letters to the editor, is about four times the average amount in either category.The letter made a simple claim: Keddie believes there is an unmet demand for increased housing in the Princeton Borough area.

OPINION | 02/19/2013

Why women hate women

On December 12, 2012, Katy Perry won Billboard?s Woman of the Year award. In her acceptance speech, she thanked whomever she needed to thank and was charming while flipping her electric blue hair and then, suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, she said, ?I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the power of women.?Two weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between two girls sipping their matching double-shot macchiatos on Nassau Street: ?No, but like, this girl was like a crazy feminazi bitch.

OPINION | 02/19/2013

What's your number?

Lately there has been a lot of talk about love and lust in the Orange Bubble. While I hadn?t yet been inclined to join the discussion, reading a quasi-spin-off by fellow columnist Tehila Wenger on the normality of the word ?slut? got me intrigued.

OPINION | 02/18/2013

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