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E-PrinceWhen he arrives on campus to teach next fall, former White House adviser Van Jones will be greeted by students and faculty generally supportive of his appointment.
While some voiced concerns when the University announced last week that Jones will ...
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"Most" back Jones' hiring? LOL "Most"? Based on what? Your extensive cross-section of roughly 5 students and professors? Hahaha. I know you've only been here a short time Wonpyo Yun, but unfortunately for you, when you're looking for a job following graduation in 3.5 years, employers are going to dig stuff this up.
And as for quotes like this......“The real outrage is why, at the Woodrow Wilson School, one of the best public policy schools in the country, there’s such a lack of people of color on the faculty...”
It's two thousand and freaking ten! 2010! It's Princeton University! Have we not reached the point where we can hire the most qualified candidates, and hope that the racial and cultural distribution is reasonable? And if it isn't, we can make some slight adjustments to address the issue. There are plenty of qualified Hispanic, African-American and Asian candidates. Van Jones is in no way one of them -- no PhD, unacceptable past, forced to resign from Obama administration, and the rest of his list -- and it's ridiculous to suggest the University had to frantically hire him to address the lack of diversity in WWS. It's laughable.
It's a publicity stunt. Nothing more. But it is pretty entertaining to watch all the far lefties desperately try to defend it.
More info on Van Jones' work:
http://princetonsurge.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/...
Most people agree that jobs should go to the people that will perform them most effectively. But I for one applaud the courage of a politcs professor who openly advocates racist policies. That sort of thing is expected from joke departments like sociology and ones that end in studies, but in a respectable dept like politics? A truly outstanding achievement, brava.
Scam, scam, scam! 'Diversity', 'Green', 'Equality',...
Van Jones is an unqualified scam artist who is touting the same false pretenses of going green and providing new jobs. In this case, going green means bankrupting society, which is exactly what is currently happening through the economy. The new jobs are government jobs. (Look at how far we have come with the stimulus.) Racial equality today means, affirmative action, hate crime laws, and racial preference. Merit and hard work doesn't matter anymore. It's all the same mainstream rhetoric as always! The only difference is that he gets away with it for having dark skin! Oh, hopeless America...
Professor for WWS should not be hired because of affirmative action.
Van Jones should not be hired!
"shocked about racial homogeneity..." How typical for a racist to make this about race!
Anyway, I find this article hilarious because all it tries to do is qualify the move.
"We, your overlords, will hire this violent person to teach nonsensical doctrine."
"We, the customers, protest."
"We, your overlords, say, 'Too bad!' since we are subsidized by your taxes. Mwahaha!"
Next hire for Princeton will be the Economics Department Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Bernard Madoff. His specialty? Investment Management.
Princeton should just pick up all of the Obama administration's sloppy seconds while we're at it. Is Tom Daschle busy next year? I'm sure Tim Geithner won't be there much longer -- can we make room for him?
Also: "the University aims to assemble a faculty 'representing a broad range of perspectives ... to exchange ideas,' Cliatt added."
I'm wondering why there's an ellipsis right after "perspectives" -- I think what Cliatt really said was that the University wants to represent a "broad range of perspectives on the radical left." I'm still waiting to hear examples of the "plenty of controversial professors at Princeton" on the other "side of the aisle," as Cliatt and Bordewich protest there to be.
Fantastic job with the polling done for this article; I was legitimately worried that the co-president of the college democrats and one of the most liberal, race-obsessing professors at Princeton might actually oppose this appointment, but you've addressed my fears. Right.