“What if access to the arts was no longer left to chance?” That was the bold provocation that began a widely circulated appeal for Venture Forward during my freshman year. It was moving. The appeal was all about Trenton Arts at Princeton — the innovative program that radically extended Princeton’s resources towards Trenton students with dreams.
I was never personally involved in this initiative, so all I can say is what I see: These students were used. Their quotes were circulated, their faces publicized, their dreams linked to “Donate” pages. Then, once there was little else to extract from them, they were discarded.
“What if access to the arts was no longer left to chance?” That was the bold provocation that began a widely circulated appeal for Venture Forward during my freshman year. It was moving. The appeal was all about Trenton Arts at Princeton — the innovative program that radically extended Princeton’s resources towards Trenton students with dreams.
I was never personally involved in this initiative, so all I can say is what I see: These students were used. Their quotes were circulated, their faces publicized, their dreams linked to “Donate” pages. Then, once there was little else to extract from them, they were discarded.