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Letter from the editor: Amid COVID-19 crisis, the ‘Prince’ carries on
How we navigate those far-reaching implications is a story worth telling. In the coming weeks, our staff will seek to render visible students’ experiences, from the consequential to the lighthearted.
Letter from the Editor: Your story, our responsibility
At the University, where the annual rotation of students makes it difficult to appreciate, much less achieve, lasting change, the ‘Prince’ empowers us to chart this institution’s past, present, and future. In the coming year, we welcome the challenge and opportunity of telling that story.
The promise — and peril — of serving the nation
Public service calls us to do something less soaring than Rumsfeld’s station, but all the more meaningful for its humility. Serving the nation means harnessing the privilege of our Princeton education — not for power or profit, but to the benefit of our fellow Americans.
What 1973 tells us about Amy Wax’s visit tomorrow
Forty-six years ago, students wrestled with a similar, though far more incendiary, quandary after Whig-Clio agreed to host a debate between Roy Innis, then-director of the national Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and William Shockley, a eugenicist who believed that race determined intelligence and a 1956 Nobel laureate in physics.
DISPATCH | Argentina's terror, near at hand
cultureManaging Editor Jon Ort ’21 grapples with the horrific crimes of Argentina’s military junta at ESMA, the regime’s largest torture and detention site.
DISPATCH | Horseplay at the Hipódromo
cultureManaging Editor Jon Ort ’21 finds himself taking in a brand new world of horse racing at the Hipódromo outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Liberian labor: confronting Firestone's historical complexity
If the University wishes to make good on its words, it must examine Firestone’s enduring presence on our campus.
Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom
By entangling scholarship with Google’s sponsorship, the University has failed to protect its professors from plausible ethical dilemmas.
Protecting birds: A lofty argument
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.
In moments of trial, are we ready to act?
My blood ran cold as I watched the man smash his fist into his victim’s face. The other man crumpled to the floor, but the assailant continued to strike. I was terrified. This was neither a scene from an action movie nor a training simulation. It was real-life violence, unfolding before my eyes.