I was greatly disappointed by President Eisgruber’s musings on the causes of cheating on the President’s Page. He looked only to external forces (income inequality, technology, academic pressure) for possible causes of increased cheating, never considering the weak moral fiber of the cheating students as the problem to be addressed. He seems to think that if our students can’t stand up to the temptations of the world, the world is at fault.
It is a sad day for Princeton when its president worries more about how the world makes it hard for our students to live honorably than he does about how we are failing to instill in them honor and character strong enough to change the world, rather than bending to it. Dei sub numine viget? What god would that be?