The point of no return
Regarding 'Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, March 25 2008):
In his hard-hitting letter to the Editor, Alexander Hwang '11 correctly asserts that feminists at Princeton have a "burden to eliminate [porn's] threat to the inherent ...(back to the article)
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Hal, it is not like they call your name and you walk up to get your diploma... you just pick it up afterward. Receipt of your diploma isn't actually ceremonial.
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Tigrillo, surprisingly, graduation is different each year. Easy on the outrage. My graduation was so long, and so terribly boring that MANY classmates began making paper airplanes out of their programs and throwing them into the air. When Shirley's speech got to a "and finally" moment, all of the graduating seniors cheered, as did many parents and grand parents. All in all it was pretty embarassing, and I'm glad she got a new speech writer. I would not call my graduation "one of the shortest in the country." After witnessing four others, it was a LOT longer (and filled with boring buzz words which didn't concretely apply to any students in our class). When I picked up my diploma it was a quick process from the registrar's building, and not that integral to the whole experience. Picking them up from your department would be a vast improvement, and fun. The residential college thing is quite clearly an attempt to bolster their status and push the four year agenda. I think the four year agenda is stupid, but not surprisingly, the administration is going about it intelligently by putting the best upperclass rooms in the four year colleges. They're going to keep doing small things like this until they've gotten enough momentum to go to all four year residential colleges with meal plans. Look forward to the PAW photographer at your residential college when you get your diploma, the picture will run next to an article about how "unique" and "powerful" these new "communities" are to the "Princeton experience". I'm waiting with baited breath...
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Hal, what experience do you have with graduation? Princeton graduation has to be among the shortest graduations ceremonies in the country - about an hour long; short and sweet. It would be great if Shirley were to talk less and get everyone out of there even faster, but please refrain from making statements you know nothing about. And, yes, residential college graduations sound stupid and so yale.
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