Opinion

Misplaced pride

Princeton’s attempts to make me a crazed devotee of Butler are off-putting and confusing in their intensity and irrationality. In doing so, Princeton is asking me to bypass one of the most important parts of college: the discovery of who I am and what I believe in.

The neglected South Asian program

So while Princeton prides itself in its commitment to providing students a transnational perspective (recall “in the service of all nations”) it must be wondered how merited the self-congratulation is considering the dearth of South Asian offerings.

Cartoon: Princeton: Where no one feels unique

It can't be taught

Steve Jobs was more than a skilled professional. Though he was indeed a great CEO, we remember him today not as a tech executive but as a culture-shaper.

Occupying Wall Street

I decided to attend Occupy Wall Street, the social justice campout that began in the financial district over three weeks ago, mostly out of curiosity. I first read about OWS in August when the Facebook event was sent around. The cynic in me didn’t take it seriously, this overly self-aware attempt to ride the wave of a more genuine Arab revolutionary spirit.

Editorial: Add a new co-op

Co-ops offer benefits that are unmatched by other aspects of the University community. They offer students a middle ground between eating club and residential college meal plans, and going independent. Co-ops can offer the social community, events and the common amenities of an eating club for students who simply prefer to avoid the social atmosphere of the Street.

Cartoon: Consumer Preference Theory

Here's to the crazy ones

From everything I’ve seen here in my two years and some odd months at Princeton, our greatest unconscious collective longing is to be the next Steve Jobs. It’s this little secret voice inside all of us that influences us to push harder and do more in every aspect of our lives.

Cartoon: Rainbow coffee

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