Zooming behind: We can do better
Arjun JagjivanIf an infrastructure for online education already exists, we should use it.
If an infrastructure for online education already exists, we should use it.
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.
When what you eat is your only sense of control, the chaos of pandemic is life-threatening.
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.
We’re thrilled to announce a new vision for our publication.
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.
We should resist the impulse of going back to business as usual and embrace a growing movement to build a better society.
We must do some searching self-examination about what this moment in the history of the fight against racism asks of us.
If we admire the city’s glamour, it’s only right that we study its underlying issues as well.
Let’s replace Bicker culture with service culture.
It is unfair for partial-aid families to continue to have the same financial burden placed on them for this inherently less valuable semester.
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.
Our policies, however, protect Professor Katz’s freedom to say what he did, just as they protected the Black Justice League’s.
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.
Even as the administration drags its feet in giving us answers or solving already apparent problems, we as students should still hold true to the principles of our motto: “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity.”
It’s bad faith to treat Joshua Katz as a pariah, a racist, a Trump surrogate, and so on because one doesn’t want to engage with his objections.
I don’t see why an author’s skin color should play any role in evaluating an argument. People, arguments, viewpoints, and listserv posts should be judged by their content, not by their color.
Science alone cannot combat this pandemic without substantial help from the humanities and a well-blended combination of both in an individual’s education equips them with lifelong tools to respond in the time of a crisis.
Antiracism is not about replacing or rewriting history. It is about the intellectual sincerity of learning different aspects of history. Princeton is not being asked to erase its curriculum, it is being beseeched to complete it.