Opinion

When the best of the best are not the best

After a little time and too much wallowing to the mind-numbing sounds of dubstep, the sting of rejection has worn off, and we have since let our bitter resentments go. The truth is we’ve all moved on to other things. Our rejections nudged us and pushed us and forced us towards new possibilities.

Unhelpful advice

It seems that there are enough advisers per student to take care of every social and academic aspect of our lives. And yet, one semester into my college career, I have difficulty identifying ways my advisers have benefited me in concrete terms.

A different kind of service

The way she saw it, loads of kids come into Princeton having done community service by volunteering throughout high school, but something happens during their time here, and, instead of graduating loads of kids into not-for-profit, volunteer-oriented jobs, we place them at consulting firms, banks or other corporate entities. This career trajectory was presented as a non sequitur for the once civically minded. She wanted to know: What was it that happened?

Cartoon: To smell the roses

Editorial: The tradition of the Ball

We believe that pessimism about the Orange and Black Ball, at least at this stage, is unwarranted, and we support the class governments’ decision to hold the ball

Midterm class evaluations

If students could give preceptors and professors midterm evaluations, the second half of the semester could be better for both the students and the teachers.

Cartoon: Decision

Being happy at Princeton

What we don’t understand is that being happy isn’t like being a good student; emotions aren’t graded. If they were, the only way to get an A would be admitting to others and, more importantly, to ourselves when all we want to do is cry.

The Orange and Black Ball

A ball. There are very few things that inspire such a romantic notion in a girl’s mind as a ball, especially a girl who grew up watching Cinderella and who until age 8 would leave single shoes in parks, classrooms and hotels so that “Prince Charming could find her.” So when the idea of an all-school ball was presented in a random class government meeting last winter, I was sold.

Cartoon: Fall break

Not another wristband

My red bracelet traveled a long way before Grillo tied the strings around my wrist. The bracelets are handmade by Nepalese women and girls at a safe house near the Indian border. The safe house is a temporary home for girls either rescued from sex traffickers or girls who have nowhere else to turn. The bracelets are distributed in the United States by the Red Threads Movement, a student-run charity affiliated with Eternal Threads, a Texas-based non-profit that supports impoverished women throughout the world by selling their products in the United States.

Just occupation

So when is civil disobedience justified? “One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty,” said King. “I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

Editorial: Jachera for mayor

We endorse Jill Jachera for Princeton Borough mayor.

Give me your undivided attention

Put aside your laptop and your phone to spend a bit of quality time with the people right around you.

Cartoon: White Halloween

Class on wheels

Spending an extended amount of time with your classmates and professors should be an essential part of any academic course at Princeton.

All the good things and the bad things

Although defining which kind of sex is immoral is for many people easy (i.e., they see all or most consensual sex as not immoral, as Toni Alimi mentions), what is not easy and indeed requires an ethical framework and an ethical discussion is defining which kind of sex is positively moral, i.e., which kind should be had.

Orange and black and red all over

Three weeks from now, the Orange and Black Ball will make its highly anticipated return after 40 years of dormancy.

Cartoon: That awkward moment

This isn't civil disobedience

Brazen violation of perfectly just laws fueled by inchoate anger isn’t civil disobedience. It’s anarchy. And it shouldn’t be tolerated, much less encouraged by figures such as Professor West.