Princeton’s studious protestersON AMERICAN college campuses, money talks. That empowers two very different groups: today’s fee-paying students, and graduates of yesteryear, whose affections (and wallets) are sought by their alma maters with an ardour that might make Casanova blush. Pity university chiefs, then, as a wave of campus protests breaks out involving the past. From the Ivy League to the great public universities of the South and Midwest, student demonstrators have called for the renaming of buildings and academic departments, the removal of artworks and even the scrapping of sports team mascots that celebrate controversial aspects of history. The loudest opposition often involves alumni.
As befits an academy that has sent former students to Congress at every election since 1789, grandees have had much to say about a row at Princeton. That was sparked when students demand the renaming of the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, as well as a residential college named for the 28th president, who ran Princeton before entering the White House. Protesters cited Wilson’s white...Continue reading
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