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Watching the baby boomers in action: Do students think?
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2008
As I see our students walk across campus, many of them transported worlds away by an iPod plugged into their ears, I wonder what they are thinking about the world their parents' generation, the famous Baby Boomers, is concocting for ...(back to the article)
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Princeton gives us Bernanke. Yesterday Bernanke equated mortgage backed paper to be the equivalent of US Treasuries. Maybe what America needs is less of Princeton, and more "Main Street" common sense.
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many of us have attended protests. personally, i led a group of high school students back in the day to a few iraq war protests. what i discovered was that if i went to an iraq war protest i was often subjected to a number of disjointed speeches about american imperialism and anti-semitic speeches about how suicide bombers had legit. reasons to murder innocent jews in israel. this is why i now choose not to attend protests, but instead read the news, discuss with my friends and colleagues, campaign for progressive candidates and vote for progressive candidates. activism comes in many flavors, uwe. and protesting can be really bitter.
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i agree that the issues at hand in reinhardt's article are important... but then why not just start real conversation about it? why is he not rising up in protest and leading instead of insulting students?? (those students who are supposed to solve all of these problems; though our intelligence is swept away because we are brainless music listening zombies) why not write a real editorial and use your words as protest and communicate with us without dismissing us? i agree with "satire?" in that, his generation had so much to do with this as well, and here he is passing the buck to us with a sugar coating of skepticism. inspire instead of alienate. he is a professor and his duty is to educate and challenge, but certainly not to underestimate our intelligence and day to day concerns. we must all grow up in this broken world together, and we need unity and support to fix it. having faith in the youth and inspiring a need for change within them would take a real teacher and leader. so frankly, if we are going to have professionalism and change in academia let's be productive and start a real discourse, not a "DO STUDENTS THINK?" questionare.
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Wow, how disappointing that the posters just don't get this article. What Uwe is really asking is if you realize just how terribly mismanaged this country is and how badly you will be hurt by this in the future why aren't you rising up in protest? Why aren't there protests all across the US? Are the elite Princeton students just unaware or too apathetic to do something about the coming mess that they will inherit?
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uwe has obviously never talked to a princeton student if he is making such blatantly wrong conclusions. besides, if he sits at the back row of any random lecture he will see that 50% of the people are reading the news. i really can't believe he wrote this awful article
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i think--um, i hope--that this is uwe doing satire... if not, uwe, let's have a bit of a reality check here: old people (re: you and our parents) have the same responsibility (if not more) than young people for getting us into the war and allowing corporate greed to take over.
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wow. reinhardt was my favorite lecturer..until i read this article. i'm really disappointed
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I wish I could think about those things, trouble is I had trouble getting beyond your insulting assumptions about our lifestyle. Provocation is not the road to intellectual dialogue.
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Angry much, Uwe?
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Wow- glad you are creepily watching us all walk around from a distance Uwe! Because you'd be shocked to know that there is quite a bit of intelligent conversation that is happening about just these very things on campus everyday. I'm sorry your holier-than-thou self-impressed attitude has contaminated the pages of the Prince. I mean boy, are you right, you're obviously the only concerned person on this campus and no one has a single real thought. Especially those of us who like MUSIC (one of the most political and socially important mediums of communication to the youth generation out there). Get some better writers Prince- who have their rambling egos in check and a clue about our student body.
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