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Nine students will participate in Havana task force next spring
Published: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Nine Wilson School students will have the rare opportunity to study abroad in Havana, Cuba, next semester, with the launch of the Wilson School’s first task force in Cuba.
“It’s a unique experience in that very few of ...
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This is an embarassment to Princeton. A university that prides itself on intellectual diversity will hold classes in one of the most repressive places in the world? Terrible
t’s a unique experience in that very few of our students have had the opportunity to live in a communist country,”
SERIOUSLY?!?!? Only Princeton Professors would find it an "opportunity" to live in a communist country! I promise you the people that live there do not find it an opportunity!!!! Dispicable!
LOL! 10 and pton11 seem precisely the kind of people who need to turn off Hannity, get out of their intellectual diaper, and see the world.
@10 and @pton11...
Whatever your views are about the nation, its not as though they're going there to advise the Castro regime...they're there to study the nation and the effect of American policies. Its a learning experience and a fantastic one at that.
@pton11, No, you're just plain wrong and thats obviously not what the professors mean. I'm sure many individuals living in third world slums would prefer to live in America but that does not mean that it is not a tremendous opportunity if one is allowed to go there, live there and study there if that is their interest.
Plus, our policies towards Cuba are a bit outdated no?
@fellow classmate;@'08:LOL is right. In the 1930s "exchange" and study programs in totalitarian Germany mainly served to enhance the prestige of the regime. Take off your blinders.
The same persons who above have condemed this educational opportunity, totally ignore our current foreign policies toward China and Vietnam. I have been to Cuba numerous times on humanitarian missions and traveled to all areas of this beautiful island nation. The average Cuban will tell you,as did the Cuban bloger, Yoani Sanchez, that the best way to change Cuba is not to isolate it but flood it with U.S. citizens and U.S. trade. Marxists professor whom I have gotten to know will tell you that the U.S. Embargo hurts, but lifting it would hurt far more as it keeps U.S. citizens and U.S. influence at bay!!!!!
@alum, are you seriously comparing present-day Cuba to Nazi Germany? Lord have mercy...
present day Cuba is very much comparable to Nazi Germany. As former Cuban citizen I have lived firsthand the hardships of the regime. alum's comment is very much on the money: open your blinders! The moment these students step foot on Cuban soil there will be a government agent directing their every move, they will be lead only at what the Cuban government wants them too see, their opinions will not be individually formulated but constructed and engineered by the image that will be presented to them. It is a pointless trip, if anything I would say its counterproductive, one that even an idealist would think twice about.
@2011, that's funny. I have spoken to quite a few people who lived in Cuba and are highly critical of the regime, yet even they would find the Nazi Germany comparison ridiculous and hyperbolic.
"they will be lead only at what the Cuban government wants them too see, their opinions will not be individually formulated but constructed and engineered by the image that will be presented to them. It is a pointless trip, if anything I would say its counterproductive, one that even an idealist would think twice about."
Do you have the same aversion toward study abroad programs in similarly totalitarian regimes that the U.S. has better relations with (i.e. China, Egypt)? If not, then perhaps you should cut back on the fear-mongering and hysterics. This Havana program sounds like a really cool and exciting opportunity.