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Princeton Student Group: We Stand for Academic Freedom and Open Dialogue
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:04 pm
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Finally other students are standing up with reasoned thought. Read more of their letter in the link
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Editor’s Note: The Princeton Open Campus Coalition is a student group at Princeton University formed to push back against the recent wave of politically correct suppression of open academic discourse on campus. The following letter was originally published at the Coalition’s Facebook page.
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Dear President Eisgruber, We write on behalf of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition to request a meeting with you so that we may present our perspectives on the events of recent weeks. We are concerned mainly with the importance of preserving an intellectual culture in which all members of the Princeton community feel free to engage in civil discussion and to express their convictions without fear of being subjected to intimidation or abuse. Thanks to recent polls, surveys, and petitions, we have reason to believe that our concerns are shared by a majority of our fellow Princeton undergraduates.
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Academic discourse consists of reasoned arguments. We simply wish to present our own reasoned arguments and engage you and other senior administrators in dialogue. We will not occupy your office, and, though we respectfully request a minimum of an hour of your time, we will only stay for as long as you wish. We will conduct ourselves in the civil manner that is our hope to maintain and reinforce as the norm at Princeton. This dialogue is necessary because many students have shared with us that they are afraid to state publicly their opinions on recent events for fear of being vilified, slandered, and subjected to hatred, either by fellow students or faculty. Many who questioned the protest were labeled racist, and black students who expressed disagreement with the protesters were called “white sympathizers” and were told they were “not black.” We, the Princeton Open Campus Coalition, refuse to let our peers be intimidated or bullied into silence on these — or any — important matters. First, we wish to discuss with you the methods employed by protesters. Across the ideological spectrum on campus, many people found the invasion of your office and refusal to leave to be troubling. Admittedly, civil disobedience (and even law-breaking) can sometimes be justified. However, they cannot be justified when channels of advocacy, through fair procedures of decision-making, are fully open, as they are at our university. To adopt these tactics while such procedures for debate and reform are in place is to come dangerously close to the line dividing demonstration from intimidation. It is also a way of seeking an unfair advantage over people with different viewpoints who refuse to resort to such tactics for fear of damaging this institution that they love.
Finally other students are standing up with reasoned thought. Read more of their letter in the link
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:06 pm to Bourre
Free speech is racist, offensive and oppressive
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:15 pm to Cosmo
This has got to be fake. I can't believe there are rational people on an Ivy campus.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:17 pm to Bourre
I'm triggered you marginalizing racist a-hole
where's my safe space?
where's my safe space?
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:24 pm to Kafka
that group will be on double secret probation soon.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:27 pm to Bourre
Why don't all of these elitist pussies shut the frick up and go to school. Pampered fricks couldn't a fight a war if one broke out in their back yard.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:33 pm to Bourre
Damn that's some quality prose. Those Princeton kids are smart.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:40 pm to BamaScoop
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Why don't all of these elitist pussies shut the frick up and go to school. Pampered fricks couldn't a fight a war if one broke out in their back yard.
The thought that any of them have such things on their minds is hilarious.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:42 pm to Bourre
Finally students standing up for something and not putting up with safe space bullshite, etc.
LSU students FREEDOM OF SPEECH RALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN
LSU students FREEDOM OF SPEECH RALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 11/24/15 at 8:42 pm to Bourre
But wait! Some people on this board were saying this generation is screwed and we're all gonna die!!!
Posted on 11/24/15 at 9:25 pm to Bourre
Finally, some logic and truth. I love their methodical approach. Never used the word racist. Never referenced BLM or ALM. Didnt make any absurd request. Maybe a little long, but it sums up how a lot of people are feeling.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 9:29 pm to Bourre
Prayers for when they're ostracized and run off campus.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 9:34 pm to Bourre
quote:Like, is that a bad thing?
and black students who expressed disagreement with the protesters were called “white sympathizers” and were told they were “not black.
Posted on 11/25/15 at 10:33 am to jimbeam
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But wait! Some people on this board were saying this generation is screwed and we're all gonna die!!!
Just because a group of students wrote a well thought out statement to the Princeton president, doesn't mean this generation isn't doomed. What will show this generation isn't doomed is if the majority of millennials flock to this type of thinking
Posted on 11/25/15 at 10:39 am to Paddyshack
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Never used the word racist.
Perhaps not, but they did single out Wilson:
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his contemptible racism
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