Opinion

Editorial: Rush ban success!!*

Editorial: Rush ban success!!*

As predicted by the University, social exclusivity within the freshman class has vanished almost entirely. Without the extensive social engineering imposed by fraternities and sororities, freshmen have finally been able to become equally close with each and every member of their residential college.

OPINION | 01/10/2013

Sucks to be an athlete*

Daily Princetonian Staff

Male student athletes face limited romantic prospects as well. They are often forced to exclusively hook up with the shallowest — admittedly, also the hottest — girls on Princeton’s campus. A plain, sensitive, intellectual girl would never dream of hooking up with a varsity athlete. So goes the discrimination.

OPINION | 01/10/2013

Princeton girls are SO hot*

LET’S GET SOME HOT BABES IN HERE ALREADY. JIMMINY FREAKING CRICKET.

OPINION | 01/10/2013

The art of political protest

Spencer Shen

Protest is certainly a good thing, but those who decide to protest should make an attempt to appear rational and reasonable. The civil rights movement succeeded in part because its supporters protested not only without being violent but also without being smart-asses about it.

OPINION | 01/08/2013

Resolutions

Making resolutions has become so engrained in our celebration of the New Year that it has begun to feel more like an obligatory ritual than a true setting of goals and plan for achievement. A change in our attitude toward making resolutions might help us solve an array of the problems we face, from household kitchen tables to the floor of Congress.

OPINION | 01/08/2013

Struggs

Strugg. Strugg life. “All aboard the struggle bus!” If you’re an upperclassman, I am pretty much certain that you’ve heard these terms from a friend who has just been hit with a tidal wave of papers, problem sets and independent research.

OPINION | 01/06/2013

What Princeton women want

Princeton is educating future doctors, lawyers, bankers and politicians. But it is also educating future mothers and fathers, Little League coaches and PTA members. We need to prepare ourselves for the latter positions as well as the former.

OPINION | 01/06/2013

Editorial: Time off

The Board recommends that the University accommodate students seeking to spend only a semester away from campus.

OPINION | 01/06/2013

Dear Santa

Dear Santa: For Christmas, I’d really like some solitude, long beautiful hours to stretch empty before me whenever and however I want.

OPINION | 12/13/2012

Editorial: Legitimate judicial philosophy, unnecessary rhetoric

Productive discourse requires recognition of the strongest arguments on all sides of an issue. We believe there are merits to gay rights advocates’ position and Scalia’s position on state legislatures’ democratic rights.

OPINION | 12/13/2012

We're keeping anonymity

As one anonymous commenter wrote in response to Tilghman’s letter, “A few nasty comments here and there is an infinitesimally small price to pay for truly free, unabridged speech.” We agree.

OPINION | 12/13/2012

Editorial: Opposing discrimination

Now that bigoted American narrative is applied to LGBT equality, specifically same-sex marriage. Thus the media and others are generally fair in recognizing and condemning Scalia’s thinly veiled discrimination

OPINION | 12/13/2012

The great garden state

But it’s not for our gardens or wilderness that I love this great state. I love New Jersey for its eccentricity. The examples of New Jersey’s more questionable and decidedly bizarre state actions — seriously, who makes a law against pumping your own gas? — are rife, but two in particular impress and amuse me to no end.

OPINION | 12/12/2012

On Tiger Compliments

Tiger Compliments gives us a forum to identify and prioritize what we value in each other, rather than what society values in us. It reminds us that what we value in each other should be the driving factor in our sense of self-worth. Given the overwhelming positive response to the Facebook page, it seems time for a paradigm shift. Hopefully, Tiger Compliments is just the beginning.

OPINION | 12/12/2012

The process behind the product

When I chose to try to do something ambitious, I signed up to fail. This failure has been uncomfortable, sure. But so is stagnation, and if I hadn’t chosen the former, I would be arrogant, scared and stunted. I can’t imagine myself as a person without the ‘Prince,’ and I suspect that for many other student leaders, their failure has defined them as well. No matter the product, it’s difficult to achieve anything without the process leaving at least a little bit of an indent.

OPINION | 12/12/2012

Letter to the Editor: December 13th, 2012

Has the University’s largesse silenced those who might otherwise say that this plan offends sensibility as well as good sense? Bottom line: We know what’s right. Can we now look the other way as Princeton University trades our in-town, historic train station for better access to its parking garage?

OPINION | 12/12/2012

Fair schedules

Princeton University has one of the strangest academic calendars. Like, ever.

OPINION | 12/11/2012

Facebook overhaul you didn't hear about

Facebook is still a business, and it exists to sell a product. When that product is our personal information, we should be even more wary of how that business is conducted.

OPINION | 12/11/2012

Letters to the Editor: December 12th, 2012

Regarding “Scalia defends gay rights position” (Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012) and “Editorial: Self-scheduled exams” (Monday, Dec. 10, 2012)

OPINION | 12/11/2012

Suggestions from a tired creative writing student

So as these bleary-eyed writing students beg the clock to move more quickly toward 10 a.m., I can’t help but wonder how many will end up disappointed with their section. And how many of those will end up loving their class all the same? There may be quite a bit in a name. But there may be just as much in a professor not so well known, but just as impressive.

OPINION | 12/10/2012

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