Opinion

Take the lead from late days

The use of late days is not particularly intuitive, so it is greatly overshadowed on campus by the individual extension or standard penalty-for-lateness formula, but it does the best job of balancing flexibility and accountability with minimal additional costs.

Cartoon: How Prince comments are made

Early to bed

Wrapping up nights out at midnight — rather than 4 a.m.— would substantially raise the productivity level of students the next morning.

Cartoon: Extensions

Make speech heard

Any policy inquiry must include all parties affected in order to maintain accuracy. Just as academia must listen to those called terrorists to evaluate the government’s policies, so too must we allow those deemed guiltiest by our courts to speak when evaluating our justice system. Thus, the claim that inviting a speaker to campus is an act of uncritical endorsement rings hollow.

You are what you eat

In the past few years, food has additionally become an in vogue issue — think Michael Pollan, “Fast Food Nation” or the even more recent “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” a prime-time television show. The food movement has grown beyond concerns of organic versus nonorganic foods; we now have slow food, local food, artisanal food, free range, grass fed — the tags go on and on.

Of the nation, for its children

But for all of Princeton’s contributions to education reform, I’d like to see the University do more to meet public education’s most fundamental challenge: finding 1.6 million great teachers in the next decade as the baby boom bubble of teachers retires.

Editorial: On the Title IX investigation

Given that the Committee on Discipline hears only one or two cases of sexual assault every year, however, it seems that changing the standard of review would not be wholly effective in solving the problem. Attempts to improve the disciplinary process must also focus on reforming campus culture so that more victims of sexual assault feel comfortable reporting it to appropriate campus authorities.

An ethos of saving

If we choose to save and invest now, the debt-related budget cuts to come will not hit us so hard and we will be better able to cope with the taming of American entitlement infrastructure.

Cartoon: Post Newman's Day

Present and future reading

Go read. You have twenty months.

Cartoon: Weight of the world

Ad astra

The United States should renew its commitment to the exploration of the solar system and resolve to put a man (or a woman) on Mars by the end of this decade.

The Big G and me

We tend to deny to ourselves that for the most part, we are pretty crummy believers; we are only willing to accept the parts of our faith we are think others will accept, and not ourselves.

Editorial: Charging at the U-Store

Allowing students to charge their U-Store purchases to their student accounts will help both the student body and the U-Store itself.

Cartoon: House party

The attention deficit

Given our isolation on this campus from the rest of the world, it’s much easier for us to embrace our overextension and simply avoid dealing with issues external to our campus — to go that day without reading The New York Times, to skip that public lecture about the Arab revolutions and catch a mid-afternoon nap after spending a late night on a problem set.

The 'social scene'

You’ve got to ask yourself, how important is a social scene? Most students tend to meet their friends through extracurriculars, classes or residential groups. People are meeting all over campus for all sorts of reasons, and all of it is social. Just because you don’t call something social doesn’t mean that it isn’t, and just because you call something social doesn’t mean that it is.

Letter to the Editor: April 21, 2011

Rohit Gawande criticizes the USG Senate's decision to bar Aparajita Das '12 from running for Class of 2012 social chair.

In justice, intention matters

The current system seems to purposely remove intent from the equation because such a removal is necessary for the function of a binary system: a violation occurred or it did not, and punishment is assessed accordingly. Instead, there must be a differentiation of types of violations so that intent can matter in disciplinary hearings.