Opinion

Summer internships and development aid: Why are you in Africa?

Summer internships and development aid: Why are you in Africa?

Guest Contributor

The deep pockets of development aid organizations guarantee great comfort for employees, while at the same time allowing them to fulfill their altruistic aspirations. As a result, few people question the real impact of this aid in poor societies and often overlook its profound detriments.

OPINION | 08/20/2018

When less is more: Why ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is too Asian for its own good

Hayley Siegel

In lauding “Crazy Rich Asians” as the Holy Grail for Asians in film, we have set the bar too low. By confining its stars to playing people who are, for the most part, just a summation of their racial identities, the film leaves behind a gap in Asian representation that has yet to be bridged.

OPINION | 08/18/2018

Closing the (loop)hole

Samuel Parsons

It disappoints me to see that a fellow Princetonian would fail to empathize with his international peers, or at least to see the nonsense behind the U.S. government’s attempts at “improving” its immigration system.

OPINION | 08/14/2018

The (loop)hole in his argument

Guest Contributor

Managing editor and migrant student Sam Parsons recently offered his perspective on the state of America’s immigration system. In what quickly morphs from an insightful remark on the often untold vocational difficulties faced by international students to a partisan diatribe, Parsons lurches into a clumsy yet familiar attack on Trump and his not-so-recent failure to pass immigration reform.

OPINION | 08/14/2018

Defending Princeton’s 12 percent: The unseen side of the anti-immigration movement

Defending Princeton’s 12 percent: The unseen side of the anti-immigration movement

Samuel Parsons

While we have had our attention focused on the southern border, the Trump administration and Republican Party have launched waves of attacks on America’s mainstream legal immigration channels.

OPINION | 08/13/2018

A call to change the pre-med curriculum

Morgan Lucey

As comprehensive as pre-medical requirements are in some areas, they are lacking in others, ones that are critical to an effective career in medicine.

OPINION | 08/12/2018

Protecting birds: A lofty argument

Protecting birds: A lofty argument

Jon Ort

Without Neotropical migratory birds, ecosystems across the Americas would unravel. By eating millions of locusts, ants, and mosquitoes every year, migratory birds act as an important natural control on insect populations. Many species of plant depend upon migratory birds to pollinate or disperse their seeds. Ecologists often consider migratory birds to be “indicator species,” because the size and success of their populations reflect wider trends about the health of the ecosystems they inhabit.

OPINION | 08/04/2018

Is the Earth flat?

Liam O'Connor

... Flat Earth arguments are scientifically false, and their proponents’ overwhelming skepticism is unjustified.

OPINION | 07/31/2018

Letter from the Editor: Journalists at Princeton Are You

Marcia Brown

Journalists at Princeton are neuroscientists, pre-med students, philosophers, sociologists, mathematicians, artists, computer scientists, pre-law students, athletes, musicians, poets, and writers. In other words, journalists at Princeton are you.

OPINION | 07/24/2018

Donald Trump: our misogynist in chief

Donald Trump: our misogynist in chief

Samuel Aftel

Donald Trump’s conduct is abhorrent, but by electing him as the leader of our country, we proved our complicity in — and our approval of — such abhorrence. Worse, by continuing to support the president in substantial numbers, we have allowed him to disgrace American life even more.

OPINION | 07/08/2018

Don’t abolish ICE

Liam O'Connor

ICE does a lot of excellent work that goes unnoticed. It shouldn’t be dismantled for political purposes.

OPINION | 07/08/2018

A core challenge of higher education

Louis René Beres

Even in our very finest universities, the last or residual claims of literature, art, music, history, and philosophy have often been supplanted by professional or job training.

OPINION | 06/26/2018

The unhealable neo-fascist scars of Trump’s family separation terror

Samuel Aftel

Migrants have not been intentionally slaughtered by the U.S. government, but the state-sanctioned family separation and incarceration of migrant families as well as the racist dehumanization of migrants is terrifyingly similar to the institutional and ideological framework of the Holocaust.

OPINION | 06/24/2018

Wake up to the barbarism of our country’s immigrant family separation policy

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Wake up to the barbarism of our country’s immigrant family separation policy

Samuel Aftel

Wake up, Princetonians. Wake up, America. Wake up to the state terror that is happening every single day in the United States.

OPINION | 06/17/2018

Graduation: a time to reflect on the past and future of University architecture

Graduation: a time to reflect on the past and future of University architecture

Gabe Lipkowitz

If the University can connect the new and old campuses with innovative and effective pedestrian pathways, then it will alleviate the potential issue of inaccessibility. Likewise, if its new designs can successfully relate to historic structures in clear and explicit ways, then they will evolve with time to become extensions of our campus, rather than merely additions to it.

OPINION | 06/04/2018

Stop asking broke college graduates for money

Stop asking broke college graduates for money

Liam O'Connor

In general, there is nothing wrong with asking alumni for donations. After all, the University is a charitable organization that provides a world-class education and conducts groundbreaking research. But it’s simply bad optics to ask seniors and the youngest alumni for their support. They just finished four grueling years of rigorous academic study. And they paid for it. Literally.

OPINION | 06/04/2018

Donate to save history

Liam O'Connor

Battlefields strengthen our shared national identity. They remind us of our ancestors’ struggles to secure this country’s freedom and establish a democratic government. Once preserved, they will forever be dynamic classrooms for future generations. Unlike museums and their “look but don’t touch” policies, visitors can walk around battlefields to experience what soldiers felt, and reenactments bring history alive from dusty textbooks.

OPINION | 05/31/2018

Me, too

Guest Contributor

I did not write this piece to suggest that women are weak, or need protecting. With Reunions around the corner, I wrote this piece for two reasons: For one, it is crucial that we emphasize the importance of communication in all of our sexual and even non-sexual relationships in order to create a safe environment for everyone. But most importantly, some of the questions men have frequently asked over the course of the #MeToo movement have been the following: What can we do? How can we be better allies? Accepting that we have been part of the problem — and influencing others to be better through our candid self-reflections — seems like a pretty good start.

OPINION | 05/31/2018

God and man at Princeton

Liam O'Connor

Although I think that creationist science is doubtful at best, I won’t deny that the theological and philosophical arguments in this debate — about truth and its presence in Scripture — remain unresolved. I also can’t exclude the possibility that new evidence in the future could lead to radically different conclusions about creation than what is currently believed.

OPINION | 05/13/2018

Reflecting on the class government election

Guest Contributor

How do we get more people to pay attention about the work being done by class governments? I think it goes back to my previous claim that we need to diversify our ideas and expand on the issues we address. When class government is defined by study breaks and gears, it’s hard to get people to think that an election would have any impact on their lives. When we bring more changes to class government’s role at a fundamental level, I have faith that students will be less apathetic.

OPINION | 05/13/2018

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