Opinion

If we must continue to cling so helplessly to naming as a tradition, we should defuse the ticking time bomb of eponymic memorialization by normalizing public scrutiny — not as behavior deemed oppositional to naming practices, but as a welcomed endeavor.

OPINION | 08/02/2020

Resetting sexual misconduct to the (Title) IX’s

Resetting sexual misconduct to the (Title) IX’s

Maisie McPherson

Making sure that Princeton’s Title IX system keeps survivors’ best interests at heart is necessary.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Petition of the concerned Black alumni of Princeton

Petition of the concerned Black alumni of Princeton

Guest Contributors

We urge the University to establish a center that is dedicated to the eradication and remediation of the effects of systemic racism.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Charity for the rich: Princeton must revise its pandemic financial aid decision

Charity for the rich: Princeton must revise its pandemic financial aid decision

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

This Board vigorously opposes Princeton’s refusal to change expected family contributions, all the while reducing tuition.

OPINION | 07/30/2020

Good trouble: John Lewis and the urgency of today

Good trouble: John Lewis and the urgency of today

Julia Chaffers

We must carry on without John Lewis, but if we ever hope to make this nation’s promise true, we must carry his legacy within us: disrupt the status quo, follow your conscience with morality as your north star regardless of popular sentiment, and never give up the pursuit of what is right.

OPINION | 07/29/2020

No, publishing racist research is not progress: Why we need to reshape our understanding of academic freedom

Shannon Chaffers

Professors who actually believe in racial equality should embrace a committee of experts on the workings of racism who will alert them that they are perpetuating racist ideas in their research.

OPINION | 07/28/2020

Zooming behind: We can do better

Zooming behind: We can do better

Arjun Jagjivan

If an infrastructure for online education already exists, we should use it.

OPINION | 07/28/2020

Chinese Americans in the era of the “China virus”

Matthew Wilson

It is absolutely possible for Princeton to uphold core academic principles such as freedom of speech and diversity of thought and values antithetical to the Chinese Communist Party, while also defending its students from misdirected race-based attacks and discrimination.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

Out of control: COVID-19 and disordered eating

Out of control: COVID-19 and disordered eating

Emma Treadway

When what you eat is your only sense of control, the chaos of pandemic is life-threatening.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

Racist research must be named, but often allowed

Racist research must be named, but often allowed

Elizabeth Harman

Even when some of us have figured out the right answers, we need those who disagree to put forward their best arguments so that we can try to communicate and make progress together.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

As our new website goes live, we’re transforming, too

As our new website goes live, we’re transforming, too

Jon Ort, Ivy Truong, Benjamin Ball, Elizabeth Parker, and Cy Watsky

We’re thrilled to announce a new vision for our publication.

OPINION | 07/27/2020

Saving our democracy: calls for reform to USG

Rows of tiered wooden seats with desks in front of tall windows.

Saving our democracy: calls for reform to USG

Sajiwan Naicker

USG’s low voter turnout rate leaves me with no choice but to declare it as an illegitimate government formed by a minority of students to speak on behalf of a supposed majority.

OPINION | 07/26/2020

After the storm passes, a new Princeton

After the storm passes, a new Princeton

Anna Hiltner

We should resist the impulse of going back to business as usual and embrace a growing movement to build a better society.

OPINION | 07/26/2020

Our move: let’s take the faculty letter forward

Our move: let’s take the faculty letter forward

Brooke Holmes

We must do some searching self-examination about what this moment in the history of the fight against racism asks of us.

OPINION | 07/23/2020

Beyond Princeton’s getaway: prioritizing New York’s segregation problem

Beyond Princeton’s getaway: prioritizing New York’s segregation problem

Won-Jae Chang

If we admire the city’s glamour, it’s only right that we study its underlying issues as well.

OPINION | 07/23/2020

In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity: a call to embrace our motto this fall

In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity: a call to embrace our motto this fall

Hannah Reynolds

Let’s replace Bicker culture with service culture.

OPINION | 07/22/2020

Why Princeton should make fall 2020 discounts apply to expected family contribution

Guest Contributor

It is unfair for partial-aid families to continue to have the same financial burden placed on them for this inherently less valuable semester.

OPINION | 07/21/2020

Back on campus: how the sweet turned to bitter

Claudia Frykberg

Princeton will no doubt one day go back to the way it was, but until then, we have to be grateful for the small things and stop lamenting what we had, so that sooner rather than later, we can have it back again.

OPINION | 07/21/2020

Why mutual respect makes free speech better

Why mutual respect makes free speech better

Christopher L. Eisgruber

Our policies, however, protect Professor Katz’s freedom to say what he did, just as they protected the Black Justice League’s.

OPINION | 07/20/2020

A Princeton alumni statement of support for the rights of Professor Joshua T. Katz

A Princeton alumni statement of support for the rights of Professor Joshua T. Katz

Guest Contributors

Regardless of whether the particular conclusions he draws are correct or not, or whether his chosen language is hyperbolic, he has made a worthwhile contribution that other members of the University community should engage with rather than condemn.

OPINION | 07/20/2020

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