Posts by The Princeton Tory

by Sohaib Sultan On Thursday, March 24th, 2010 I endured an hour of distortion against one of the world’s great faiths—Islam. The Princeton Tory and Whig-Clio along with an outside organization by the name of CAMERA sponsored a lecture by Ms. Nonie Darwish entitled “Human, Women’s, and Minority Rights Under Islamic Law.” Darwish claimed that…

by Aaron Smargon We are all familiar with the “Orange Bubble,” that intellectuality of political apathy that surrounds our campus and shields us from outside worries. To some degree, this protection—reinforced by the administration and faculty—is a necessity. For without it, how could we individually muster the callousness to devote hours of our days to…

by Will Herlands and Sam Norton Princeton prides itself on hosting a faculty whose members possess varied experiences and viewpoints. In pursuit of intellectual diversity, the University often hires professors with provocative ideas – Peter Singer, among others, comes to mind. However, two nominations made this spring stretch the bounds of credulity. On February 24,…

by Raffi Grinberg On March 24th, Nonie Darwish spoke in the Whig Senate Chamber, at a lecture co-sponsored by the Princeton Tory, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.  This was not the first time she was supposed to speak in the Senate Chamber.  Earlier this year,…

by Toni Alimi Last month, an article in the Daily Princetonian was published celebrating the rather remarkable achievement of Westerly Road Church’s Senior Pastor Matt Ristuccia, who has now been with the church for 25 years. This article was met with a host of criticism. What particularly drew the ire of the critics were the…

by Audrey Pollnow In 2008, 18 forcible sex offenses were reported on Princeton’s main campus.  Given that 17 of those sex offenses occurred in a residential facility, the majority were almost certainly instances of date rape.[1] Given how large a problem this is, Princeton demonstrates an appropriate attitude of concern in choosing to address the…

Brotherhood The Tory congratulates the Daily Princetonian et al. for hazing the hell out of the fraternity system. *** Michelle (Again) Much flak has been given to First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 for her decision not to attend her 25th Princeton reunion. But we ought to be rational and consider her modus operandi: when Barack…