Though each of the candidates possesses unique strengths, the Editorial Board endorses Jackson for president and Mancenon for vice president.
We push our insecurity down and prop ourselves under the mantra that “Harvard sucks” when really it sucks that Harvard doesn’t suck. It sucks that Harvard pulls more applicants and posts a higher yield rate. It sucks that Harvard says “Princeton doesn’t matter.” It sucks that Harvard undergrads don’t have to deal with grade deflation. It sucks that the Harvard name carries more prestige. It sucks.
Attending Princeton is a big opportunity for all Princeton students. Though some find that their four years at Princeton are the happiest of their lives, Princeton is a very stressful place. The challenges of Princeton are part of what makes Princeton so great, but they also can be very taxing on Princeton students. Some Princeton students can become depressed or discouraged and find it difficult to cope. Though Princeton has a wide variety of resources for supporting mental health and well-being on campus, students do not adequately take advantage of these opportunities, nor does the campus culture support taking advantage these opportunities.
University tiesRegarding ?Forum highlights local disapproval? (Monday, November 12, 2012)I was disappointed to read in The Daily Princetonian about a recent meeting in which town representatives spoke of the apparent lack on the part of the University in having active communication and showing interest in the local community.
At that moment I felt very American. These were the values I, too, stood for. I wasn’t able to vote for Obama, but I stood by him in that moment. I believe that the choices we make, not the identities we are born with, shape who we are and determine our value to the world. That day, I chose to be American.
In encouraging Princeton students to take time out of their evenings to enjoy a restaurant meal with friends, the USG is sponsoring a cultural shift — if only for one week.
Yes, while you all were busy rehashing the definition of a hookup and explaining to each other what DFMO stands for, I was busy scavenging this campus for brains. I figured this would be the place to look, since this is a campus full of quality brains. But my journey has not been easy. Allow me to explain.
Animal mistreatment is a very bad thing. There are few people out there in this world who would openly claim to be in favor of torturing animals. But the thing is, PETA isn’t synonymous with animal rights. I would make the argument that PETA is more synonymous with “band of crazed lunatics” or “Psychos Eviscerating Truth Again” than anything else.
On Sept. 9, 2012, University President Shirley Tilghman greeted 1,357 new freshmen at the opening exercises. Tilghman glibly entitled her talk “Occupying Princeton” and admitted she co-opted the phrase from the Occupy movement. Tilghman informed the freshmen their “admission to Princeton is a privilege” and also proclaimed they had “become part of the 1 percent.” She included the usual empty rhetoric concerning “making the world a better place” and “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of all nations.”
I rarely find staffing decisions to be of any interest, but this one breaks the mold for me. UBS intends to fill his vacancy with a computer. In doing so, they will join Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Barclays in using highly developed software programs in lieu of highly fallible, and expensive, human traders.
Stewart and Colbert, through banter and parody, lay bear the typical ridiculousness and gaffes of American politics. But what took me a while to realize, perhaps because I didn’t want to become so disillusioned so early in life, is that in their banter and parodies were larger truths about our politicians.
The Petraeus affair is just the latest example of a current event we don’t know much about, yet many of us have already formed our opinions on various aspects of the story and related political issues. Instead, we should take a step back and wait for news stories to unfold further before passing judgment.
I am normally an optimistic person, but when I left the voting booth last week, I felt frustrated and cynical. The presidential campaign had been particularly divisive. Granted, I’m only 21, so not only is my experience limited, but this was also the first presidential election in which I was both old enough to vote and, after three years of college spent away from home, divided from parents and some close friends and family on a variety of issues. Nonetheless, I found several scenes we witnessed throughout this campaign especially disturbing.
To Canadians and many around the world, the American election is one of America’s greatest entertainment exports. Mitt Romney’s binders, Sarah Palin’s ignorance and Joe Biden’s foul mouth are great comedy. The tragedy is that these people are successfully vying to be the most powerful people in the world. It’s a tragi-comedic epic.
Whenever I come home from Princeton on a break, I get the same barrage of questions that I’m sure all college students face — about classes, friends, extracurriculars. But the question that I get most often — both from adult relatives and friends at other colleges — is more specific to Princeton. “Have you joined an eating club yet?” “What even are they, anyway?” “Is that like a special club for people who like eating?”
