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Thomas Buckley


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We know what has changed. How will future classes?

I am by no means the first student to complain about replacing the charm of meandering into Labyrinth on the first day of classes with navigating an e-commerce website, but I might be among the last. When the Class of 2027 graduates, so will the last class of students who remember Princeton before eCampus.

I am by no means the first student to complain about replacing the charm of meandering into Labyrinth on the first day of classes with navigating an e-commerce website, but I might be among the last. When the Class of 2027 graduates, so will the last class of students who remember Princeton before eCampus.


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Princeton, no more half-measures

Half-measures are never a satisfactory response to any issue, but they are especially dangerous for the University in our present times. The University must do better to live up to its responsibilities to its students and community. 

Half-measures are never a satisfactory response to any issue, but they are especially dangerous for the University in our present times. The University must do better to live up to its responsibilities to its students and community. 


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Princeton must take action to ensure what Epstein did at Harvard can’t happen here

Princeton’s guidelines for sponsored research impose no restrictions on funding sources besides requiring that its sources and purpose be disclosed, which fails to prevent the influence of donors like Epstein and thus to protect the integrity of its researchers. 

Princeton’s guidelines for sponsored research impose no restrictions on funding sources besides requiring that its sources and purpose be disclosed, which fails to prevent the influence of donors like Epstein and thus to protect the integrity of its researchers. 


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There’s a better way forward for students in crisis

If Princeton is serious about combating mental illness, it should follow the lead of Rutgers, Pitt, and others that provide students with an organized and comprehensive program of care that reinforces rather than untethers their supportive campus relationships.

If Princeton is serious about combating mental illness, it should follow the lead of Rutgers, Pitt, and others that provide students with an organized and comprehensive program of care that reinforces rather than untethers their supportive campus relationships.


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Reactions: Which alum would you nominate for the Woodrow Wilson award?

We asked our writers to reflect on which alumni are best upholding the informal motto “Princeton in the nation’s service,” and make a case for who deserves to win the Woodrow Wilson Award next year.

We asked our writers to reflect on which alumni are best upholding the informal motto “Princeton in the nation’s service,” and make a case for who deserves to win the Woodrow Wilson Award next year.


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Leave microeconomics alone!

Though an introductory microeconomics course like the one SPIA requires cannot hope to address diverse topics like law, healthcare, agriculture, and the environment, what ECO 100 succeeds in is that it provides the foundations for in-depth analysis of these complex, important, and policy-relevant problems.

Though an introductory microeconomics course like the one SPIA requires cannot hope to address diverse topics like law, healthcare, agriculture, and the environment, what ECO 100 succeeds in is that it provides the foundations for in-depth analysis of these complex, important, and policy-relevant problems.


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Give students a break from nuisance fees

“This charge is instead part of a genre of fees that are more of a nuisance than anything else. If they are intended to be punitive, they are too small to be an effective deterrent. However, raising them would come across as excessively cruel. Instead, the fees exist only to squeeze as much money out of the students using these services as possible.”

“This charge is instead part of a genre of fees that are more of a nuisance than anything else. If they are intended to be punitive, they are too small to be an effective deterrent. However, raising them would come across as excessively cruel. Instead, the fees exist only to squeeze as much money out of the students using these services as possible.”


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