The “no fat talk” campaign has nothing to do with making fat people feel better, because, to put it bluntly, there aren’t that many fat people to console. Instead, it is intended to reduce the anxiety anorexics have from fear of being fat.
I am not entreating anyone to watch holiday specials on TV instead of writing a paper or to go make a gingerbread house with an exam happening the next morning. But we should make more of an effort to treat the holidays as a special time.
The everyday fat talk thrown around in the United States is not about health. There is a moral undertone to much of our discussion of obesity.
Before coming to Princeton, I was a public school teacher and union member for 10 years, the first two of which I was also a Teach for America corps member. During that time, I was often frustrated by what the schools, and the union, could not or would not do for children who needed more. But more often, I was proud to be part of a profession that I believe does a great deal for our nation and grateful for the protection and advocacy that the union provides.
To help students contemplating graduate school understand their options and the career paths for different disciplines, graduate placement statistics should be collected and published.
Sometime this spring semester will mark the 10th anniversary of the Princeton Justice Project, a student activist group dedicated to social justice that I was pleased to mentor as an attorney, Princeton alumnus and preceptor in politics courses with the word “law” in them. PJP was conceived after a class tour of Trenton State Prison, a maximum-security prison with housing units dating to pre-Civil War years. Students gamely walked the harshly lit corridors in tow with corrections officers (“don’t call them guards”). Among their comments that still ring in my ears are “They’re almost all black” and “They’re in for so long!”
Bob Durkee says that the working group on campus social and residential life has not reached an agreement on the campus pub, and Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin write that teachers' unions can improve the education system.
My anxieties over my relationship with my dogs became a mirror for my fear over losing my special relationship with my home.
In this week's PrinceCast, Opinion columnists David Mendelsohn '12 and Allen Paltrow-Krulwich '14 discuss their perspectives on feminism.
"Top Test Scores from Shanghai Stun Educators.” Stunned? Really?
Under the current ticketing system, every senior is given the same amount of tickets, regardless of how many of their friends and family are expected to attend. A more sensible system could make the graduation process easier for seniors and their families.
I will leave the debate over whether Goldman Sachs caused our recent recession to someone with more economics credentials than a B in ECO 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics. But from a social perspective, it is clear that investment banks have a huge impact on our lives by their ability to manipulate staggering amounts of wealth and to decide the fate of millions of people’s financial futures. Yet finance is not the only way to make an impact. We in the humanities (I came out as a philosophy major to my family over Thanksgiving) are constantly trying to convince ourselves and others of the utility of our study.
Students who feel embarrassed sharing their problems with their friends or don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves can find an audience with other Princetonians on PrincetonFML, maybe the same friends whom they can’t approach personally. There’s a certain catharsis that you can experience when you get to express your woes, and a vindication that you feel when others sympathize or empathize with you.
Laiyin Li and Justine Chiu comment on the Ivy League Asian American Conference, Benjamin Kalinsky defends "grade-grubbers," and Samuel Galson objects to TFI's rhetoric.
I’m sick of people complaining about the poor quality of opinion columns in The Daily Princetonian. They’re right, but nevertheless it irritates me.
