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Take a US Foreign Service member, his two buddies from Princeton, a yacht, and a contest to have sex with the most women. The result: the most sexist, racist, and frankly disturbing email chain we've read in a long time. More »
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Above the Law wouldn't reveal the name of the Harvard Law School student who made waves with her racist email. But people talk, and they name names. Turns out, Stephanie Grace has a history of interest in race. More »
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This week in victim-blaming, a Princeton student explains why it's a drunk girl's fault if she gets raped. Luckily, students and non-students alike are on hand to rebut her. More »
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So this ridiculously expensive Ivy League university of which I'm sure you've heard is offering a class in model memoirs. More »
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• American journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria today and reunited with her parents after being released from prison in Iran. Her jail term was reduced to a two-year suspended sentence. • More »
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While a senior at Princeton University, Michelle Obama wrote her thesis on "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." That thesis was, for months, the subject of speculation until the campaign released it in February, after which it was lambasted by many on the right (I'm only going to link to one article because the rest are even more nauseating in their ignorance) for being an example of Michelle's supposed reverse racism blah blah blah. The Boston Globe this weekend has a long piece about Michelle's collegiate experience in which she was one of 94 black students in a class of 1,141. Most of the students, by all accounts, felt pretty marginalized and she described the experience thusly: "I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong." Naturally, to some on the right (who have never once been in the minority), this means she some sort of activist type out for black separatism or whatever those types of crazy people think about people who write about feeling marginalized when they, you know, probably are. Anyway, but this is always how it begins, right? If you can't make voters dislike the candidate, make sure they know he's got a smart wife, it means he's obviously pussy-whipped. More »
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Michelle Obama's senior thesis from Princeton has been the subject of more speculation than...uh... those secret Enron Cheney energy task force papers and Tyra and Scarlett Johansson's noses and Hillary Clinton's sealed White House papers combined. Because it's about race and could provide valuable insight into Michelle's 20-year-old mind, by which I mean valuable evidence that she has some sort of chip on her 20-year-old shoulder that causes her to hate America to this very adult day. So anyway, everyone's been dyyyying to read this thesis since some journalist discovered it had been mysteriously put on hold from the Princeton Library until November 5, 2008. Then today the crafty team at Politico obtained it by asking the Obama campaign! Apparently it discussed "problems which face these black officials who must persuade the white community that they are above issues of race and that they are representing all people and not just black people." Funny thing about that! More »
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From a Newsweek essay by Princeton writing professor Evan Thomas on "assessing how boys and girls influence each other": "After Dartmouth went coed in the '70s, said [a] dean, she had hoped that the women would civilize the men. Instead, the opposite happened: the men made ruffians of the women...The women [in my writing class at Princeton] are strong and confident and often outperform the boys. They are as career-minded and focused as their male peers. But there are some shadows. Not a few of them seem sad about a social system that prizes the one-night hookup and downplays (and indeed has pretty well eliminated) courtship. There is probably less heedless college sex than parents fear, and we should be thankful for the confidence and toughness that many girls show. Still, it's too bad that the boys have not progressed as far as the girls. The Dartmouth dean was right: the girls could have a civilizing effect on the boys. But I don't think it will happen until the girls insist on it—that the boys treat them with more respect." Thoughts? [Newsweek] More »
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