WE DEMAND the university administration publicly acknowledge the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson and how he impacted campus policy and culture,” the students’ demands say. “We also demand that steps be made to rename Wilson residential college, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, and any other building named after him. Furthermore, we would like the mural of Wilson to be removed from Wilcox Dining Hall.”
mass hypnosis - its like night of the living dead.
“This campus owes us everything,” said one student. “We owe white people nothing. All of this is mine. My people built this place.”
Princeton…Yale…Dartmouth…all in chaos. Harvard still quiet. As an alum, I feel smug, yet at the same time apprehensive.
Princeton dropped the title of master for its residential colleges.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S44/78/51S96/index.xml?section=topstories
I don’t think there’s an elite (or not so elite, even) college out there that hasn’t been having some kind of major demonstration/protest this or last week.
That system was just put in place in the '80s? Did no one think it was anachronistic at that time?
I like that the heads of the colleges have said that the updated title reflects how they live and work in the residential system; how they interact, and perceive their role, with the students.
But the '80s, really?
There are 4,000 other colleges in the US that the students could have applied to. I’m not sure why they choose Princeton given their animus towards Wilson.
Well, the HLS students aren’t so far screaming at professors on the quad like at Yale or shoving white girls up against the wall and calling them sluts like at Dartmouth.
Still apprehensive though.
^ it seems few colleges, especially the older ones, are free of racist symbols, buildings named for racists, etc. If that’s a criteria for not applying somewhere, I don’t think many options are left.
(Similar to the presence of these kinds of protests being a reason not to apply to these schools, which has been suggested on some forums this week…)
Wilson transformed Princeton from basically a country club for the elite country club set to a world class institution of learning. Perhaps the students should think about how bad it could have been if Wilson had not become the president of Princeton.
It is ridiculous to apply the current moral standard to historical figures.
Yeah but the protestors’ people “built this place.”
It’s so nonsensical it’s ineffable. It’s not even a big issue at all; the media propagates it since people enjoy watching it. Are there not more substantial problems to focus on? Plus they’re racist towards white people - ironic. Why do they get mad at people who had nothing to do with events and people from 100 years ago, just because they’re white?
Is the curriculum not hard enough these days or something? Students seem to have an awful lot of spare time.
The cynical, but most likely accurate answer:
Because it did not matter then. But, riding the bandwagon for attention is exciting I bet and getting attention matters to them now. I guarantee you than none of those students applied to Princeton thinking “I hate Wilson.” They applied thinking “I love Princeton, and I had a great tour.”
This is really becoming a sheeple parade. I should start a fantasy pool of which college is next.
George Washington also owned slaves. So GWU may be the next target.
The monument may need to be renamed.
Doubtful, f2000sa. That name has been used, re-used, added to without much fanfare.
There wasn’t fanfare about Wilson, either. It is a logical next step in the protesters’ progression. Not that logic is at the fore here…
Where did this happen? Who got mad at who for being white?