Open letter to protesters at Princeton
Dear Princeton Student Protesters:
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Dear Princeton Student Protesters:
Dear Students,
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.
To the Editor:
To Beni Snow, who authored a recent piece defending the Christakises, and anyone else who conflates racism and a culture of anti-Blackness with “freedom of speech.”
I write to solicit nominations for the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded on Alumni Day, Saturday, February 20, 2016.
I’m writing this column to propose that the salary of President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 be lowered to $538,667, or precisely $1 above the 1 percent income line for New Jersey in 2012 . His current salary, according to Princeton’s 2013 financial report, is about $750,000, although it’s hard to tell exactly, as he’s not yet listed as President in that report. It’s likely more than that now, assuming Eisgruber’s salary follows the trend of President Emerita Shirley Tilghman’s salary, which climbed while she was in office.
Almost everyone is told, when we apply to Princeton, that this University distinguishes itself in large part because of its undergraduate focus. Yes, the argument went, Harvard and Yale might have bigger names and they certainly have more money, but that doesn't matter. If you go to those universities, you will be a second-class citizen, a mere serf compared to the graduate and the postdoctoral students. Princeton, on the other hand, will treat you as a priority.
As I read “On arming the bubble,” published in The Daily Princetonian on Oct. 19 by senior columnist Sarah Sakha, my heart rate quickened. Although well intentioned, her reservations about arming Department of Public Safety officers in case of an active shooter on campus are deeply misguided. In light of several recent tragedies, it seems like everyone has an opinion about school shootings based on their biases towards guns, mental health, police militarization, etc.
We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed.
I met a lot of cool people while rushing St. A’s. And not just cool in the stylish sense; I met genuinely thoughtful and engaging and unconventional people. Which is exactly why it’s a shame that St. A’s is what it is.
by Marie-Elise Goetzke '17
Jan T. Gross, professor of history at the University, has always been a controversial person in Poland. Some would say this is because he confronts Poles with unpleasant facts of the Polish history. Other scholars, however, do not regard him as a historian at all, but rather an opportunistic performer who uses secondary historical sources and lacks professional methods of analysis.
National Hispanic Heritage Month, a tradition started in 1988, is celebrated from September 15 to October 15. As a young Latino, this was something I never celebrated at home or at school; I didn’t even know it existed until halfway through my Princeton career. Lately, however, I finally find myself paying attention. As more and more students of color enter our country’s classrooms and public debate about Latinos in the United States grows increasingly vitriolic, we have an opportunity to use this moment to celebrate the contributions of people of color and advocate for their communities’ needs. It’s crucial that we do.
By Duncan Hosie
You’ve probably been walking the past several weeks looking around at our spectacular campus — wonderful buildings and spaces that delineate endeavors and aspirations of a multitude of disciplines and communities — and no doubt have been pinching yourself. Yes, you earned being here, but being smart enough to get in means you’re smart enough to figure out that it is also an extraordinary privilege.
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.
I would like to share a letter that I recently wrote to Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse, the director of the University’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) office, regarding “The Way You Move,” a freshman orientation core event. I would be very interested in students’ opinions and responses.
By Zach Horton
To the Editor: