Focus on Princeton’s Contributions Outside Athletics
The 25 Best Athletes? How about something in line with the University’s mission? The Best University Presidents? The 25 most important historical contributors? Our legacy to English fiction? The scientific contributions the faculty has made to our knowledge?
This “celebration” of athletes is an affront to our institutional purpose. It condemns us to comparison with other colleges and universities whose academic values are reduced to 30 second halftime assertions on television. We are bigger, better, and more valuable than that.
The 25 Best Athletes? How about something in line with the University’s mission? The Best University Presidents? The 25 most important historical contributors? Our legacy to English fiction? The scientific contributions the faculty has made to our knowledge?
This “celebration” of athletes is an affront to our institutional purpose. It condemns us to comparison with other colleges and universities whose academic values are reduced to 30 second halftime assertions on television. We are bigger, better, and more valuable than that.