In response to: Princeton Considers Removing Statue of John Witherspoon
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
This is insane. At this rate, a hundred years from now, President Eisgruber’s name will be expunged from the list of former presidents of the University because of something for which he was quoted in 2023. All these deeds or espousing of racial theories are being taken totally out of context from the times during which the “offenders” lived. How soon will there be a serious debate regarding the renaming of the Washington or Jefferson memorials because they honor slaveholders? Enough is enough. Disband your committee now … before every building on campus has to be renamed.