Benjamin Woodard /February 11, 2023
On the evening of February 3, around three dozen students gathered to hear Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernández at the Princeton Progressive Law Society’s first event. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, and her remarks were titled, “Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias in […]
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/December 17, 2009
by Aaron Smargon ’11 Last month’s cancellation of Nonie Darwish’s November 18th talk, “Sharia Law and Perspectives on Israel,” brought to light how controversial a figure she is. The attention given to Darwish’s statements, however, has obscured some unpleasant truths about how student organizations operate on campus. The clubs in question—Tigers for Israel (TFI), the […]
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/December 17, 2009
When the Tory returned from a restful Thanksgiving Break with the folks (Think we’re conservative? You haven’t met Dad…), we were surprised to find campus littered with fliers promulgating myths and facts about feminism. We were inspired to compose a few of our own, which we hope to see posted on campus soon: Myth: Feminists […]
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/December 17, 2009
by Brandon McGinley ’10 The first thing I noticed when I returned to Princeton from my hometown of Pittsburgh after Thanksgiving – and perhaps it is a strange thing to notice – is that there are a lot more effeminate men in Princeton than in southwestern Pennsylvania. Now, this is not some sort of thinly-veiled […]
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/December 17, 2009
by Toni Alimi ’13 and Robert Marsland ’11 If one were to type the phrase “emergency contraception” into the Google search bar, one would expect to find among the first results Planned Parenthood, or some other “reproductive health” organization. It would come as quite a surprise, then, to learn that the very top result, ahead […]
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/December 17, 2009
by Brian Reiser ’13 How did Princeton differ from the other colleges at which you worked:Earlham, Swarthmore and Duke? Swarthmore and Earlham are much more social justice colleges, because of their history of Quakerism. Princeton students remind me in some ways of Swarthmore students, but I would say it was more the norm at Swarthmore […]
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/December 17, 2009
About one month ago, a woman by the name of Nonie Darwish was to speak at an event sponsored by both of the student organizations Tigers for Israel and Whig-Clio. Claiming she holds views particularly antagonistic towards Islamic fundamentalism, the leaders of the Muslim community and the cjl pressured both groups to drop their sponsorship, […]
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