Opinion

Extra(neous)-curriculars

Extracurricular refers to the things that are “outside of the curriculum,” not things intended to be a curriculum of their own. They support and add valuable content and experience to our academic pursuits, but academics remains the necessary center of education.

Recalling the deep memories

Shen Yun’s performance began with the creation of the world by a divine being, deeply moving my heart and reminding me of the precious memories and values that should be treasured.

Don't call me Shirley

Bitterness about a loss in a tiff on social matters should not cloud out a reasonable appreciation of what Tilghman has contributed to the undergraduate experience.

Drilling it in

Regulation might never be able to remove the risk from the dangerous enterprise of offshore drilling. The only path to true energy independence and greater national security is to decrease American energy consumption and to invest in homegrown renewable energy.

Editorial: Improve study abroad

It is implausible that, at least in the short term, the quantity of Princeton-run study abroad programs during the semester will substantially increase. In the meantime, though, OIP and, in particular, the University’s academic departments ought to do a better job of integrating study-abroad opportunities into their curricula.

PDF Bums?

The books are still for sale, listed in their thousands and their 10 thousands on the big book sites on the Internet, where shopping is perfectly efficient and as free from pleasure as it is free of odor. But they’re too expensive to collect casually, as a student could in the old days. Sadder still, the shops where late we used to roam and hunt have disappeared.

Cartoon: Friendships

Editorial: Changing the election process

The University must take a more active role in informing students and making the process of voting easier and thus more appealing to busy Princeton students.

Risky business

Cannon needs to build itself more slowly. It needs to grow a positive culture in which sophomores want to invest themselves, to create a thriving club. Scavenging for paying bodies is a bad strategy; instead, Cannon’s members must figure out what they want for the club and build up to that goal.

Defining sexual assault

We need to move away from the objectification of sex as something to attain and toward a norm of seeking enthusiastic consent — when one’s sexual partner not only doesn’t say no, but says yes.

Cartoon: Independent work

The Orange Balloon

The measuring stick of the minutiae we use to evaluate our problems takes our attention from the greater issues we seek to solve.

How to pack the house

It’s pretty easy to “sell out” when selling doesn’t require buying.

Be honest with me when you lie, Shirley

I want the University to tell us that the real motivation behind this shift is that they just have it in for Greek life.

Cartoon: Connect the dots

Editorial: A call for more gender-neutral housing

As we have argued in the past, a gender-neutral option should be extended to all upperclassman housing.

Cartoon: That kid in lecture

How I Met Your Mother: Princeton Edition

Lights up on Wu Dining Hall at dinnertime. Four friends sit around a table. It’s Saturday evening and dark outside...

Over before it began

I am skeptical that there is much that can be said universally about sexual ethics. Many claim that sex has the natural purpose of procreation, and thus all non-procreative sex is unacceptable. Yet cancer, rape and war certainly seem more natural parts of the human experience than marriage for love or disease control, if we look to history.

What I know now

Take a foreign language. Study what you love, but figure out what you want to do with yourself at the end of four years and be prepared to do it. Fiercely guard your free time. Sleep. Eat. Exercise. Soak up every minute of this beautiful campus and the people here.