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Activism on Princeton's campus is sorely lacking — and we need your help

Activism on Princeton's campus is sorely lacking — and we need your help

Claire Wayner

And consider this article an exhortation. If you were expecting a robust political activism scene here as I was, given the prowess of the Woodrow Wilson School, think again. It’s up to us — including you, Class of 2023 — to change that.

OPINION | 07/23/2019

What the administration should be doing to help international students

What the administration should be doing to help international students

Guest Contributor

International students should not have to bear a major financial burden because of the University’s mistake, and the administration should act to rectify it.

OPINION | 06/14/2019

Outdated work authorization policies leave international students with canceled Internships, financial burden

International undergraduate students write a letter to President Eisgruber on behalf of all international students affected by the Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorization processing delays.

OPINION | 06/03/2019

The missing perpetrator: An open letter to President Eisgruber

Guest Contributor

Reforming Princeton's Title IX process will take more than oversight and town hall meetings.

OPINION | 06/02/2019

We can’t speak freely: Open Expression Monitors suppress campus free speech

Daily Princetonian Editorial Board

By positioning administrators, who are not tasked to listen to protesters’ 2019 demands, but rather to monitor and restrict their lawful behavior, in close physical proximity to demonstrators, the University stifles the type of unfettered, unsettling free speech it claims to champion.

OPINION | 05/31/2019

A musical Catch-22

A musical Catch-22

Siyang Liu

Under the new system, essentially only music majors, certificate students, and members of faculty-led ensembles are guaranteed financial aid.

OPINION | 05/18/2019

The McCosh Infirmary Redesign: are we incorporating student feedback in the right way?

Gabe Lipkowitz

I do not object to the general idea of incorporating undergraduate feedback into the redesign of McCosh. But we clearly need a more insightful and productive methodology.

OPINION | 05/12/2019

Confront, don't ignore, the far right

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Confront, don't ignore, the far right

Benjamin Gelman

It is essential to push back and appeal for our government to respond to the more serious national security threat: white nationalism. But how can we do so if we ourselves know little about this danger?

OPINION | 05/12/2019

Disrespect is not an ‘honor’

Disrespect is not an ‘honor’

Braden Flax

May there not be, as Michaela Daniel ’21 says, “one more moment of peace” until these grievances are meaningfully redressed in a manner that treats students as the centrality of campus life, and expands justice outward from our university, constituting the “service of humanity.”

OPINION | 05/09/2019

Scholarly work should be more relevant

Scholarly work should be more relevant

Emma Treadway

What is the use of spending years contributing to an ever-growing mountain of scholarly work if it will never be read or used in actual policy? Perhaps one step would be to include more experts in policy-making and in the decision-making of government officials.

OPINION | 05/09/2019

Why is athletics so special?

Why is athletics so special?

Liam O'Connor

What makes athletics so special — more than any other extracurricular activity — that it deserves special admissions procedures?

OPINION | 05/07/2019

Stop giving out free t-shirts

Stop giving out free t-shirts

Claire Wayner

To minimize this reckless disposal and waste, Princeton needs to stop giving out free shirts or at least place severe limits and regulations on the trade.

OPINION | 05/07/2019

A few thoughts on “racism” towards white people

Jae-Kyung Sim

But independent of the differing levels of impacts of our orientations — which are, arguably, still difficult to articulate — it does not change the fact that we are still attributing hateful, arbitrary stereotypes on an entire group of people.

OPINION | 05/05/2019

Prep schools hit a homerun in athletics

Liam O'Connor

The benefits that the school gives to its students in admissions — whether they be athletic recruitment, legacy status, or development applicants — perpetuates social hierarchies.

OPINION | 05/05/2019

Room draw reform petition

Room draw reform petition

Guest Contributor

The scope of systematic unfairness in both the 2018 and 2019 Room Draws — although inadvertent — is nevertheless extremely concerning.

OPINION | 05/03/2019

Not all tragedies are equal

Not all tragedies are equal

Katie Goldman

Within the last three weeks, two events shocked society. In Sri Lanka, bombings killed hundreds of innocent citizens on Easter Sunday; in France, a fire destroyed part of the Notre-Dame Cathedral. To me, one of these events is clearly more devastating than the other.

OPINION | 05/02/2019

Bathroom: The Worst Part of Dorm Life

Bathroom: The Worst Part of Dorm Life

Hunter Campbell

Ultimately, if we want there to be any kind of change to conduct in our bathrooms, we will have to speak to either the rambunctious defilers of our common spacers themselves, or we will need to be willing to pick up the phone and contact University administrators who can act.

OPINION | 05/01/2019

My new perspective on prison abolition

My new perspective on prison abolition

Julia Chaffers

Often in the movement for criminal justice reform the question is, “How do we reduce mass incarceration?” What if we asked, “How do we eliminate incarceration altogether?”

OPINION | 05/01/2019

Trashing our campus has gone too far

Trashing our campus has gone too far

Hunter Campbell

When our facilities workers are intensely disrespected, and when innocent students are put in harm’s way by people so inconsiderate that they cannot pick up their own trash, there have to be consequences.

OPINION | 05/01/2019

The value of guest speakers

The value of guest speakers

Shannon Chaffers

The administration should strongly encourage, and professors should make efforts to, bring in at least one guest speaker per semester.

OPINION | 04/30/2019

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