This weekend, hundreds of high school seniors, with maps in hand and Princeton sweatshirts displaying early pride, will descend upon campus. They visit to check out the school and compare our university to the handful of other topnotch institutions to which they likely were accepted. It is a time for the school to put on its best face; we need to show them that, YES!, Princeton is the school for them.
The administration is well aware of the competition it faces from other schools in convincing this crop of young geniuses to matriculate. With this in mind, University officials and the USG have planned a spectacular weekend for students. Friday night, Third Eye Blind will perform in the USG's Spring Concert — most conveniently planned to coincide with the prospective students' visits. Then, Saturday is Communiversity — the annual, day-long carnival intended to promote good relations with our neighbors beyond the gate. Add these major activities to the list of others the University has lined up, and pre-frosh will certainly have a busy, interesting and fun-filled time here at Princeton.
However, the real Princeton — for better or worse — will be hard to find this weekend. For upperclassmen, the truth may set in just as the third inquisitive pre-frosh asks, almost secretively, "So, what are the eating clubs like?" So, here is the truth: Pre-frosh weekend is fun, but it hardly resembles the reality of social life at Princeton. After all, most eating clubs will be closed all weekend and room parties — widely regarded as the forum for the campus' heaviest, most unsafe drinking — may be the only "social" environment these high school students see.
The disparity between the University's representation of Princeton and the reality of life here is significant. It leaves the Opinion Board wondering whose interests are being served by all this propaganda — the administration's, or those of the pre-frosh who will encounter a far different social scene should they choose to enroll here next fall? — The Daily Princetonian Opinion Board
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