Posted on 02/25/2010 6:05:36 AM PST by opentalk
For years and years, the alumni magazine was published by the alumni association. A few years ago, the university took the magazine away from the alumni association and put it in the hands of a new group (that's run by the university).
They said at the time it was for financial reasons, but the sharp left turn of the magazine miraculously coincided with the takeover.
My daughter was wait-listed at Princeton, and I could have gotten her in by calling home every favor I had with everybody I know. But she is a conservative Catholic girl, and she was lukewarm about going to the place - her thumbnail analysis was "too big, too liberal, too secular". She wound up going to Davidson College, an excellent small Presbyterian school in North Carolina. She has absolutely loved it, made lots of good friends, and graduates this year in Biology with a minor in Religion.
I think Davidson is a lot like Princeton used to be -- she says many of the profs are liberal, but they encourage differing points of view. In fact, she got kudos from both faculty and students for standing up for the conservative Catholic viewpoint in religion classes . . . .
Time magazine did a cover story on a kid who was admitted to Princeton but decided to go to Davidson instead. Naturally that magazine was very much in evidence around campus during Parents' Weekend. They probably bought the entire press run (nobody else seems to be much interested in Time these days).
Wonder how much tax funding they receive every year. Including grants. After this administration I will never look at these schools the same, or the people who attend them.
Good for your daughter! Best regards...
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Great thread BUMP!
I'm relieved to learn that she and five friends are NOT going to Panama City or Daytona for spring break . . . they got some sort of a deal at Disney World and will be riding roller coasters and hobnobbing with the Princesses all week.
There was also a huge lawsuit involving the diversion of the Woody Woo endowment funds to the general university coffers . . . recently settled without any admission of liability on the school's part. But throwing stuff into the general fund seems to be a liberal habit.
I wish I were going South for a Spring Break....
Right now I’m in the middle of a blizzard.
We were supposed to get a little snow and freezing rain on the front end of this storm, but it missed us completely.
I can remember Arlen Specter defending stinky Ira Einhart with Dupont money when I was between the nuts (waltnut and chestnut?) at Penn
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My cousin went to Penn.
Well, most of the faculty of Princeton are probably truthers. He’s just joining some of his fellow truther pals.
My daughter will be looking to attend graduate school in a couple of years. This nails down my decision. Screw the communist enablers, Princeton, and Van Jones.
As long as the majority of universities continue to hire these anti-American, marxist, communists we as conservative need to take the extra effort to send our children to universities that are not infested with this human debris.
These are not like public schools. We have a choice albeit limited but conservative universities are out there.
If any conservative has a child heading to college, take the extra time and spend your money wisely. There is no need to take your hard earned money and hand it over to those who want to do nothing but turn your children into good little communists.
Princeton has lots of 9/11 truther sympathizers.....nothing new here....they are looking out for their own.
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The Reece Committee learned that the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, were, with tax-exempt dollars, funding leftist propaganda operations, aimed at changing America through the brain, not the battlefield. Patriotism, national sovereignty, individual responsibility, and Christian beliefs were belittled while the concepts of a one world government, socialism, collectivism and humanism were deemed essential for peace in the modern age.
This was a long time ago, but interesting that Tim Geithner's dad and Obamas Mother are said to have both worked at the Ford Foundation. Which was also pushing the agenda.
Its called ‘Priceton of the South’. A beautiful campus, was on the ‘list’, but alas, mine fell for Columbia. eh. everything always works out, you know. “It’s in da Bible!”-Rev. Wright,
He was there a long time ago - but while he was there two students were murdered on the street.
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