Opinion

Editorial: Setting school standards

Many schools are unable to meet national standards because of insufficient resources, crowded classes and teachers with poor credentials. It is hardly progress if the nation’s poorest schools are held up to a new set of standards but still find it impossible to meet them.

Serving up independence

What it means - or should mean - to go independent.

Getting back at Nassau Hall

If we really want to effect change, we should circulate a petition wherein people pledged not to donate any money to Annual Giving (AG) until some policy — grade deflation, alcohol, whatever — is suitably amended. While I believe that, if executed well, this would have more impact than a million surveys, I do not think that this is without complications.

Illustration: Cartoons and controversy

Why I drew the cartoon: The 'Muhammad Affair' in retrospect

The "cartoon affair" is the central barometer of values in our time, particularly regarding free speech. It is important, therefore, that we all understand what is at stake. It is for this reason that I spoke at Princeton yesterday and why I write here.

Dissent: Join in

By endorsing the program, Princeton would both signal its gratitude for veterans’ laudable service and avoid sending messages to veterans and the wider public that will reflect negatively upon Princeton.

Cartoon: Got Swine?

Editorial: Tying a Yellow Ribbon around Princeton?

We commend the University’s decision to not join in the Yellow Ribbon program, because it remains true to the principle of need-based aid.

Keeping morality in Princeton, but out of the classroom

This is what college has taught me: to be humble in my ethical beliefs ... And when you’ve critically engaged with radically different ethical beliefs, you may change your mind. But after humbling myself a bit and considering Anscombe’s and related arguments, I’m more convinced than ever that the universe doesn’t care where we put our penises.

Reversing the brain drain

I don’t know how it is for the rest of the world, but going home to India typically involves a simultaneously heartwarming and exhausting number of family gatherings.

Precept procrastination problems

I know that I’m not alone, so I feel comfortable in admitting that I have a problem. It’s not what you’re thinking. But thanks?

Cartoon: Princeton on a bike

University hits a 'home' run

Butler, once the ugly duckling of dorm life, is officially the University’s newest swan. But for all its pizzazz and the obvious cosmetic improvement from the old Butler quad, the University made several errors in judgment in the process.

The talkative American

I made the unfortunate mistake of listing “Syria” as last on my list of countries visited, so the immigration official spent extra time perusing my passport, and he finally asked me, in a low voice, “You didn’t receive any ‘training’ while you were in Syria, did you?  Like, ‘military’ training?”

Cartoon: Size matters

Editorial: Escaping McCosh 50

Seminars usually demand a greater depth of understanding and require more hours of work from students than do lecture courses. As a result, they are often among the most rewarding classes undergraduates take at Princeton and environments in which the highest-quality learning occurs.

Glib global gobbledygook

Our media environment is immensely rich: global in coverage and swift to respond to real or apparent crises. But our individual media are mostly thin … When a real debate erupts, active participants’ knowledge of the globe is often as flat and inauthentic as the cuisine in “global” restaurants.

A more civil library recall

Before you know it, your days are spent plotting your anonymous campaign of terror, just to spite the person who wanted to read the same book as you, at the same time as you.

Copy rites

What good is it if a dean in ODUS abstains from using unethical plagiarism detection software if professors use it? Currently, the University lacks any consistent policy on plagiarism detection software.

Editorial: Leaving the Third World behind

Its new building is a chance for the Carl A. Fields Center to move into a more visible place in campus life - and to remedy the fact that few students know what the Center does and fewer still have been there.