The Way Princeton Behaves
The strange case of Antonio Calvo, the Princeton lecturer who slashed himself to death last April, is the subject of long front-page article in the July 1 Chronicle of Higher Education. After his...
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Shirley Tilghman, who has just announced that she will step down as president of Princeton at the end of the academic year, was chosen as the successor to former president Harold Shapiro in part...
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The conventional meritocratic recipe for success is simple enough: study hard in school, get good grades, be involved in one’s community, find an appropriate college, apply for jobs in your field of...
View ArticleWhy Not Use Endowments to Lower Tuition Costs?
Connecticut is going through the motions of trying to tax Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment to help relieve the state’s $266 million shortfall. That effort will fail, but public opinion is starting to...
View ArticleWill Princeton Change Its Name?
Elle Woods, the sexy Harvard Law School student from la-la land in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde, got a taste of what has become a daily diet of politically corrected speech. In that movie, Enid, the...
View ArticlePrinceton’s Women’s Center Is Biased and Deficient: Student Edit Board
Women’s centers on U.S. campuses are not often the subjects of controversy, but the Center at Princeton University is right now. The editorial board of the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian...
View ArticlePrinceton Takes a Stand for Free Speech on Campus
Much of the news regarding free speech on campus is enough to make anyone despair. Year after year more people and ideas are muzzled. But some very heartening news of late comes from Princeton. Due...
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How Princeton Eviscerated Its Free Speech Rule and Covered It Up
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics on March 5, 2022, and is republished here with permission. In July 2020, a Princeton University professor, Joshua Katz, wrote...
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