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(04/11/16 7:43pm)
Last week, the University Board of Trustees announced its approval of the recommendations made in the Wilson Legacy Committee's report. These recommendations include retaining Wilson’s name at the Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson College, revising Princeton’s unofficial motto, diversifying campus art and establishing a potential graduate school pipeline program for underrepresented groups. The Board supports the aforementioned recommendations, commends the committee’s emphasis on student involvement through the process and encourages student involvement in continued discussions about Wilson.
(04/04/16 7:58pm)
Princeton University is entangled in a love affair with the status quo. Like someone who’s been in a bad relationship for decades, the University consistently pretends that it will leave. But we all know how this story ends, from countless novels and soap operas: nothing will change. Princeton will refuse to let go of this status quo lover, which — despite promises of stability, prestige and privilege — fails to offer real benefits and ultimately harms all those who have warned against this relationship.
(04/04/16 4:44pm)
At 9:30 Monday morning, an email from President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 reached the Princeton community announcing that the Trustees had come to a decision regarding Woodrow Wilson’s name. Within the hour, the Prince had published a story on the non-change (followed shortly thereafter by articles from the NY Times to BuzzFeed). As of this writing, the Prince’s Facebook post carrying this breaking news story had precisely one comment: “meh.”
(02/25/16 2:15pm)
Princeton has always had the ability to attract stirring speakers. In the past three years, I’ve listened to Toni Morrison, Arianna Huffington, Laverne Cox and the lateJustice Antonin Scalia just to name a few. While their ideologies and fields of study vary, all of these visitors have sparked important dialogue on the state of campus, national and global affairs.
(02/18/16 5:46pm)
Orange Key tours of Princeton’s campus best — and most frequently — present Princeton’s public narrative. A Presidents’ Day article on the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, tackled some of the challenges of this narrative, depicting a tour guide, Charlesa Redmond ’17, who has grappled not with what she has to say on her tours, but with what she has left unsaid.
(02/18/16 4:52pm)
Since the beginning of the academic year, the Princeton community has engaged in lively debate surrounding the name of the Wilson School, Princeton’s school of public and international affairs. Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, is a former president of the University, who went on to become Governor of New Jersey and the 28th President of the United States. He instituted long-lasting changes on campus, including the creation of additionalacademic departments and the precept system. However, he also left behind a troubling legacy on race relations, such as re-segregating the United States Civil Service; he also had a history of making racist statements. The Board commends students who have expressed their concerns on both sides of the issue. We recognize, however, that in the end, the Trustees of the University must decide whether to change the way the University honors Wilson’s legacy. In order for this decision to properly represent the diverse viewpoints of the Princeton community, the Board urges students to engage in discourse with the trustees and the administration through all available channels.
(12/07/15 11:45am)
The Black Justice League is demanding to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus institutions, and in doing so they are asking for a divisive legacy to be reconsidered. I believe this is a crucial issue — today’s Princeton is an institution that prides itself on bringing together people of all walks of life and all backgrounds. However, I argue that there are more pressing sources of divisiveness than Wilson’s name in today’s Princeton. Woodrow Wilson’s woes were relevant to Princeton of the early 20th century, the time he governed the University. Before we travel more than 100 years back in time, I believe we should be fixing the Princeton we live in today.
(12/07/15 11:02am)
As some Princeton students have called for the changing of the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs and Wilson college, others have argued that this would be an erasure. They have argued that in changing the name we would forget all the good Woodrow Wilson did, or forget that every legacy (especially his) is complicated. Frankly, I am worried that we would forget him altogether.
(12/03/15 3:26pm)
To the editor and President Eisgruber,
(12/02/15 6:47pm)
“The point of college is to be offended,” my friend said as we left our annual middle school reunion. His words took me by surprise, and we soon ended up in a conversation about rising tension on college campuses. It seemed to the two of us that recent student protests across the country were asking, tragically, for less exposure to controversial material.
(11/29/15 10:59pm)
The Black Justice League’s sit-in in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has reignited an important discussion on race and inclusion at the University. The BJL made three principal demands during the sit-in, most notably that the Wilson School and Wilson College be renamed. The Board believes that the University should not rename the Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson College. Additionally, we oppose mandatory cultural competency training for faculty and staff and cultural affinity housing. In place of the BJL’s proposal for a distribution requirement on the history and culture of marginalized groups, we propose a more general “global thought” distribution requirement.
(11/23/15 7:40pm)
I am pleased to hear that students finally decided it was time for Woodrow Wilson’s name to be expunged from our campus. Now that it has been conclusively shown that this President of the United States and of Princeton supported — as did most of his contemporaries, undoubtedly — segregation, any other contribution he had as a national and world leader becomes of course immediately irrelevant. To imagine that for all this time we thought our school of public policy was named after the man who, in the wake of the First World War, founded the League of Nations, supported global democracy (against many of his contemporaries), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, and supported women’s suffrage! These so-called contributions do nothing to efface his racism: and so he should be effaced from our campus and our collective memory.
(11/22/15 10:10pm)
To the Editor:
(11/18/15 7:00pm)
On Wednesday, the Black Justice League presented to the student body and the administration a list of three demands, designed to make Princeton more welcoming to black students. The first of these demands was to problematize the legacy of former University president Woodrow Wilson and remove his name from the Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson residential college, and to remove the mural of his face from Wilson dining hall. Problematizing his legacy is an important and worthwhile goal. However, removing his name and picture from Princeton’s campus, although well-intentioned, is short sighted and detrimental to real debate and discussion.
(10/21/15 6:30pm)
Recently students have initiated an important reexamination of the legacy of President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, as a white supremacist and questioned his place in the names of several of the University’s organizations, including Wilson College. The discussion of public figures and their flaws led me to think specifically about the other famous namesakes for residential colleges — Meg Whitman ’77 and John D. Rockefeller III ’29. Who are these individuals honored by the University, and what does this mean for our views on how to contribute to society?
(10/20/15 6:10pm)
We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed.
(10/11/15 6:10pm)
Woodrow Wilson is a saint of Princeton’s past. Woodrow Wilson is a villain and a bigot. These are not contradicting viewpoints — they are both true. How we deal with his century-old legacy has striking reflections in how we treat heroes and villains in the social media age, where saints and martyrs live and die in the 24-hour news cycle.
(09/28/15 10:13am)
On June 17, 2015 during a weekly Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, nine black civilians were massacred by a gunman whose intentions were to begin a race war. In images that surfaced after the shooting, it became apparent that the gunman was markedly influenced by the flags of the Confederacy and the South African apartheid state. This subsequently sparked a national debate on the legacy and symbolism of the Confederate flag, ultimately leading to its removal from the South Carolina State Legislation grounds.
(10/07/08 10:00pm)
How many Princeton students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
(04/02/08 10:00pm)
To many, it is clear that Princeton has not fully thrown off the robes of "the Old Princeton." For evidence, one needs look no further than the aptly titled blog "It Happened Here," which is located here and hosted by a student group of the same name, of which I am a member. The blog solicits accounts of marginalization of all sorts on campus - be it according to income, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion or anything else. Cloaked in the protection of anonymity, revealing stories of all sorts are coming in. For example, one athlete recounted an argument with a classmate over whether athletes at Princeton were inherently less intelligent. Another post noted that while Jew jokes are commonplace on campus, this does not make them all right or acceptable.