Princeton University this year forced incoming freshmen to endure an hourlong video in which the vaunted Ivy League school unloads a heavy dose of liberal white guilt, under the guise of promoting “anti-racism.”
The video purports to inform students about how “systemic racism” has affected Princeton, both in the past and the present.
Yet two Princeton professors were courageous enough to publicly denounce the video. Writing in the New York Post earlier this month, John Londregan, professor of politics and international affairs, and Sergiu Klainerman, a math professor, decried its “tendentious slant.”
“As members of the class of 2025 arrive on campus, they receive a mandatory injection not of a vaccine against COVID, but of indoctrination,” the professors wrote. That comes through an “official video freshmen are required to watch [that] presents an utterly one-sided and negative picture of Princeton’s history.”
Yet while so vocal and in-their-face about the embedded and intractable racism that has afflicted the famous New Jersey school during its 275-year history, Princeton officials, according to the conservative website The College Fix, remain strangely silent about an alleged incident of actual racism.
Back in June, a noose was supposedly found at an on-campus construction site.
University administrators whirled into full condemnation mode.
As The Fix reported at the time, Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun issued a campus-wide email that said, “Princeton vehemently deplores this appalling act of hate — the University has zero-tolerance for racist and harmful actions such as this. Such actions do not represent the bedrock values shared across our community.”
The Fix has recently attempted to follow up on the noose incident. And – surprise, surprise – campus officials are now reluctant to talk about it.
As The Fix reported on Thursday, “Princeton University officials have ignored numerous requests for comment in the past three weeks about a noose found on campus in June.”
That includes snubbing requests for photos of the noose, copies of any incident report and any updates on the investigation, the website noted.
The Fix’s efforts to obtain more information included contacting Calhoun directly, the university’s Department of Public Safety, its Communications Office, and leaders of its Office of Religious Life, which in June had organized a rally against “symbols of white supremacist violence and hatred.”
The Fix also noted that the campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, has not done any follow-up articles, nor could the website find any publicly available statements from university staff since the incident was reported.
The silence is telling.
One suspects that in this age, when no stone is left unturned to find racism – literally, as in the example of the University of Wisconsin, which recently removed a “racist” boulder – Princeton officials would trumpet this case and committee very public acts of self-flagellation as atonement if the noose was real.
Yet the unwillingness by Princeton to discuss the “noose” suggests The Fix could add this episode to the nearly 60 phony “hate crimes” it has documented on college campuses since 2012.
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