True, intparent. In a kind of wink to f2…I was also acknowledging that GW has a special old place in almost everyone’s heart. Truthfully, I don’t know much about Woodrow Wilson at all.
Why stop there? We really should change the name of the capital and the state too.
No doubt he was one of the most racist progressives ever. Re-segregated the army, promoted segregated academic departments, and host of other ills. This has all been known forever, so this dust up is really about attention.
@warbrain “This campus owes us everything,” said one student. “We owe white people nothing. All of this is mine. My people built this place.”
Is it not obvious that the students are not thinking beyond their noses. Really, this is so short-sighted, as to be comical.
19--I believe the poster was referring to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/11/17/racial-insults-allegedly-fly-at-library-protest-by-dartmouth-naacp-chapter/
Are there any buildings in Harvard to rename?
@awcntdb : Wow. Didn’t know that. Will take some time and familiarize myself with Wilson. Thanks.
Professors need to increase assignments so these students have less free time…and maybe the schools need to start requiring some Deductive Logic classes.
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This kind of thinking is very sad.
So how many protesters are these in these cases? I.e. are these incidents small numbers of professional protesters making a lot of noise that no one else on campus really pays attention to or cares about, or is there actually significant festering discontent that they may be the tip of the iceberg of (though in the latter case, the most extreme protesters mostly attract bad press leading others to dismiss any more legitimate issues)?
@justonedad These kids must be in soft majors. My daughter is too busy doing physics p sets to pay attention to any of this.
I hope the library is not one of her favorite study haunts.
Video of protestors confronting President Eisgruber in his office. Seems like some good dialogue going on until Eisgruber attempts to speak at 1:58 and then things get a little heated:
“Good dialog” No its a very bad testimonial for Princeton admissions staff !
hahaha.
From the Washington Post… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/18/princeton-protesters-occupy-presidents-office-demand-racist-woodrow-wilsons-name-be-removed/
One of the demands at Princeton is that faculty and staff be required to take “cultural competency training.” In other words… Princeton’s faculty and staff, regardless of how liberal they are, are racists.
And THIS should be interesting…
*"At Princeton, the protest came on the same day university officials announced that the leaders of the residential colleges would change their traditional names, effective immediately, from “master” to “head of the college.”
Protesters at Yale have demanded a similar change, concerned that the term “master” has ugly connotations associated with slavery"*
So… the Master’s Degree? What becomes of that? How many people have Master’s Degree diplomas hanging on their office/home walls? Are they all “racists” now, too? Will colleges and universities have to go back and reissue all those Master’s Degree diplomas with a newer, more acceptible term? What about now defunct schools? How do those diplomas get replaced? What about schools (defunct or otherwise) whose records are less than accurate, and refuse to issue a new diploma to someone who’s rightly earned it? Conversely, what’s to stop scamsters from claiming a new diploma for a degree they’ve never earned? How far does the manufactured-outrage inanity go?
Hopefully, college will be a place to learn that personal experience is not the only road to understanding.
Not sure what the root of Master’s degree is, but possibly related to mastering a subject? Versus a job title for the head of colleges that does seem similar to the slaveholder title. I see their point in the job title.
The protesters chose Wilson because of his role in establishing the federal reserve system. He was part of a group that wanted to lay the foundation to ensure that wealth would ultimately be controlled by a select few. Of course the prior two sentences are a mixture of historical fact and complete fabrication, however I bet you could start a protest over it. This is how non-thinking this whole chain of events is becoming. ZOMG!!! That school yelled and got something!!! Let’s yell too!!!
There’s a bit of an update.
“University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that he had no plans to sign the document outlining the demands of student protesters occupying his office in Nassau Hall on Wednesday.”
Looks like these kids are serious. They plan to sit-in until their demands are met OR Thanksgiving break happens- whichever comes first.
I especially like the complaint that “The University has a tendency to throw money at things to silence us and to hold events to try to appease students, but it doesn’t directly meet our demands" along with a demand for a black cultural space. So should Princeton spend money on that space or not?
My preference would be for security to drag them out of his office. Second best option would be to move his stuff out and let them occupy it as long as they like. Giving in to sit ins (or even hunger strikes) just gives power to anarchy.