As discussed here, here, and here, Princeton was one of the first schools to abandon, with much hand-wringing, a racially exclusive program. Now, according to an article today in Newark Star Ledger, it is reviving that program, with what appears to be primarily a cosmetic change.
Princeton University will restart its popular summer institute to prepare minority students for public service careers, though the program will no longer exclude white candidates, school officials said yesterday.
The Ivy League school made headlines last year when it abruptly pulled the plug on the Junior Summer Institute amid worries that the university could be sued by anti-affirmative action groups because the prestigious program was open only to minority students.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I read this announcement to mean that in the future whites will not be excluded from enrolling in a program whose purpose remains preparing minority students for careers in public service. Will the few whites be regarded as mere tokens? I wonder if white graduates of this program will be able to apply for positions later on as honorary minorities.
Aside from the incongruity of admitting whites (if they do) to a program whose purpose remains training minorities, what strikes me as both interesting and increasingly typical is the easy and uncritical was the term “diverse” is now used as simply a synonym for black, or possibly black and Hispanic. Thus, according to Princeton spokeswoman Patricia Allen,
While the program will continue its mission to increase leadership opportunities for future policy leaders from diverse backgrounds, the institute will no longer be race exclusive.
And it’s not just Ms. Allen.
Though the program will no longer be open solely to minority students, Princeton officials said they hope the summer institute will continue to help bring a diverse group of students into a field that is traditionally dominated by white students.
Even though the program will no longer be open only to minorities, Princeton hopes it will still be diverse! And not just “diverse,” but “culturally aware.”
“The program will continue to attract talented students who are culturally aware and committed to public service in our rapidly changing world,” Allen said.
I wonder what Princeton means by “cultural awareness,” and how it tests for it.
“Cultural Awareness” means race-consciousness, and not just any and every such awareness, but an anti-caucasian and collectivistic one. It means an anti-white rasse-seele(race-soul). If it is this way, that just shows how racialized and materialistic these schools are. If their priorities and assumptions are of this kind, which resembles a 1930’s movement, mustn’t their objectives be similarly destructive? They have the dominant and the diversity defined in terms of each other, and in mainly racial terms. The diversity is all that tends to lose out to the dominant, and the dominant is that which tends to exclude the diversity, from a share of the resources otherwise available.
Whew,
Does anyone really believes what the school where Gabriel Grossmann and Martha Tienda go to says? Princeton is getting flak for this ” introduction to college life ” exercise for prospective black and Latino students ? Really , Princeton does everything out of pure self – interest just like any other private school , be it Bryn Mawr or Stanford. Do you honestly believe that it accepted the 3 daughters of Malcolm X
to Princeton because the school loves blacks? No certainly not, the school feels that it should have a certain percentage of blacks in its entering class because it does not want to be accused of being racist. In its eyes, it was simply unthinkable to deny admission to the daughters of Malcolm X, an icon of American history.That rationale is the same with regards to the admission of white alumni legacy preferences at Princeton. In the eyes of Princeton they are necessary for the financial survival of the school. Either way, the rationale is based on pure greed and self interest.
“Do you honestly believe that it accepted the 3 daughters of Malcolm X
to Princeton because the school loves blacks? No certainly not, the school feels that it should have a certain percentage of blacks in its entering class because it does not want to be accused of being racist. In its eyes, it was simply unthinkable to deny admission to the daughters of Malcolm X, an icon of American history…”
Oh please, it’s called Cultural Marxism! ‘Malcolm X’ was just a tool of the ruling elite, to destroy white values and culture. The blacks are being used as a lethal virus.