One has to ask, what exactly is Pro-Choice Vox celebrating? Is it Planned Parenthood’s racist roots? Or perhaps the idea that the world is 130 years further in eliminating society’s undesired? Or is it the fact that we can now have as much sex as we choose with as many partners as we choose while disregarding both the ethical and social consequences?
I am currently training to become a high school mathematics teacher through Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation, and it is increasingly clear to me that whatever Princeton professors think they are doing in lecture halls, it is not teaching.
Over the past few months, the USG’s strategy on grade deflation has been newly defined by collaboration — rather than confrontation — with the administration.
There is no one season for letters of recommendation.
It’s not easy to be openly gay in America, even if you don’t want to get married.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?