The United States is undergoing its gravest domestic crisis in 160 years. Princeton hardly distinguished itself as a champion of the American Republic in the Civil War, with more of its students serving in the Confederate Army in defense of slavery than under the Union flag of liberty. The University administration was feckless, even discouraging student displays of patriotic support of the North.
Please join me in urging President Eisgruber and the University as a whole not to follow the craven path of Columbia but to stand firm against the Trump Administration’s repugnant assaults on free speech, scholarly independence, intellectual integrity, and the cause of equity. Now is the time to spend down, if necessary, some of Princeton’s enormous endowment and go on a “war footing” against the crude pressure tactics of the White House. Let’s emerge from this great and momentous crisis with far more to be proud of than Princeton did from the Civil War.
The United States is undergoing its gravest domestic crisis in 160 years. Princeton hardly distinguished itself as a champion of the American Republic in the Civil War, with more of its students serving in the Confederate Army in defense of slavery than under the Union flag of liberty. The University administration was feckless, even discouraging student displays of patriotic support of the North.
Please join me in urging President Eisgruber and the University as a whole not to follow the craven path of Columbia but to stand firm against the Trump Administration’s repugnant assaults on free speech, scholarly independence, intellectual integrity, and the cause of equity. Now is the time to spend down, if necessary, some of Princeton’s enormous endowment and go on a “war footing” against the crude pressure tactics of the White House. Let’s emerge from this great and momentous crisis with far more to be proud of than Princeton did from the Civil War.