I just received the January 2026 PAW. In the piece about alumni who live in small towns, you wrote the following about Yolandra Gomez ’88: “After graduation with a degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, she went home and started job hunting.”
That statement isn’t just deceptive, it’s a lie. In 1988 it was called the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, or simply Woody Woo to those of us who majored in other subjects. The trustees didn't remove Wilson’s name from the school until 2020.
You could have written, “After graduation with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs (as it was called then), she went home and started job hunting.” But you didn’t.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen PAW pretend that the institution was never called the Wilson school. Why is erasing the fact that Wilson was the president of the University so important that PAW lies about the past?
I just received the January 2026 PAW. In the piece about alumni who live in small towns, you wrote the following about Yolandra Gomez ’88: “After graduation with a degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, she went home and started job hunting.”
That statement isn’t just deceptive, it’s a lie. In 1988 it was called the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, or simply Woody Woo to those of us who majored in other subjects. The trustees didn't remove Wilson’s name from the school until 2020.
You could have written, “After graduation with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs (as it was called then), she went home and started job hunting.” But you didn’t.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen PAW pretend that the institution was never called the Wilson school. Why is erasing the fact that Wilson was the president of the University so important that PAW lies about the past?