Don't kill due process
Correction: The Dean of Faculty determined the punishment for Professor Verdú, not a panel, as was previously written in the column. The 'Prince' regrets this error.
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Correction: The Dean of Faculty determined the punishment for Professor Verdú, not a panel, as was previously written in the column. The 'Prince' regrets this error.
Princeton is inextricably linked to the military and its veterans. University alumni have long played leading roles in military affairs, from the dedication of "Armistice Day" by President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, to David Petraeus' GS '85 '87 ascension to generalship.
Eight years ago, the U.S. economy was in freefall with no end in sight. The stock market crashed to its lowest point since 1997. Unemployment skyrocketed to 7.2 percent as 2.6 million more Americans lost their jobs. Foreclosures were up by 225 percent as banks took back people's homes. No one had seen a crisis like it since the Great Depression.
On October 3, columnist Beni Snow's article titled "Crime at Princeton" made the bizarre claim that "our legal safety is lacking" from underage drinking laws. His article continues to explain how the laws aren't productive. At the end, he calls on President Eisgruber to advocate for lowering the minimum drinking age to 18 by saying that, "The current system is not stable."
Affirmative action is under assault. In the 48 years since President Richard Nixon instituted its present form of racial preferences, lower-tier colleges have abandoned it, the Supreme Court has rolled back its policies, and voters in eight states have banned the use of race in admissions for public colleges.
During the 1960 presidential campaign, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge stated that a black man would be appointed to the cabinet if his running mate, Richard M. Nixon, won the election. Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy rebuffed that he would hire the best-qualified people to government jobs regardless of their race.
This is the fourth column in a series about alcohol and the college experience.
On February 2, Timothy Piazza — a sophomore at Pennsylvania State University — went to "pledge night" for the fraternity Beta Theta Pi. Throughout the night, fraternity brothers encouraged him to drink beer and vodka far past the safe limit for alcohol consumption. After he fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head on a metal handrail, the brothers laid Piazza on a couch. The fraternity did not call the ambulance until the next morning. Piazza died on February 4.
This is the second article in a series about alcohol and the college experience.
This is the first article in a series about alcohol and the college experience.
In the aftermath of the Black Justice League’s protests last spring, the University has undertaken several initiatives to satisfy their demands. One of these initiatives was started at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Sept. 26, 2016 when it launched the Committee on Naming. The Committee is charged with “naming buildings or other spaces not already named for historical figures or donors to recognize individuals who would bring a more diverse presence to the campus.”
Businessman Martin Shkreli appears to have reached an all-time low in life. After increasing the price of a life-saving AIDS medication by more than 5,000 percent in 2015, insulting a Congressional committee, and being arrested by the FBI for fraud, the multimillionaire is pursuing a new hobby of trolling frivolous collegiate meme pages on Facebook.
Last week, I defended the legacy of John C. Calhoun after Yale renamed its Calhoun College. But the two-term vice president from South Carolina is only the latest target in a larger war waged on college campuses. From Columbia University to Georgetown University, from Clemson University to Winthrop University, and even right here at Princeton, students are protesting men on the “wrong” side of history — thereby threatening our historical empathy and, in turn, our education.
This week, Yale University succumbed to the latest in activist hysteria without fully appreciating American history when it decided to change the name of Calhoun College. This change came about as a result of protests by students who detested the residential college's namesake Senator for his ardent support of slavery. Yale's Board of Trustees should have left the name unchanged. I believe that Calhoun's legacy is worth preserving for posterity so that they may evaluate the successes and shortcomings of the country's past leaders.
Fog blanketed Princeton's campus like a mask as I hustled toward Prospect Avenue. Earlier in the day, I had received a mysterious email from St. Archibald’s League, which proclaimed the group to be “Princeton’s newest, coolest, and most exclusive club” and invited me to its “admission events” at 5 Prospect Ave. — a humorously sophisticated way of indicating Campus Club.
I am against the sanctuary campus movement. My opinion is not bigoted; I believe that Princeton should be a safe haven for all students to receive an education regardless of their immigration status. However, I also believe that making Princeton a “sanctuary campus” would do more harm than good and would not actually protect undocumented immigrants. Instead, I urge students to challenge Trump’s policies by becoming engaged with the government rather than by creating a title that nominally declares Princeton to be above the law.
On a mild night this past September, I remember watching stars as they pierced through the retreating clouds. Beneath my feet, the sidewalk was still wet from the recent rain. Everything was picturesque — until I noticed the sprinklers were watering the grass, only a few hours after a thunderstorm.