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Calvin Kenjiro Grover and Luke Grippo
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: More than a year ago, pro-Palestine protesters concluded a three week-long sit-in with an ominous message: “See you at Reunions.”
While the subsequent disruptions at that year’s Reunions and Commencement were far less dramatic than the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ they were, for Princeton, still substantial: blood-colored dye in the SPIA fountain, a loud walkout at a speech by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, and even an attempt to block the P-Rade.
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Faith in higher education continues to plummet, and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)—the nation’s leading organization representing faculty interests and a longstanding voice on academic freedom and university governance—has decided to train its guns on the growing movement to establish civic education centers at public universities. The AAUP’s objections amount to a single, unlovely demand: we get to decide what students learn, and nobody else gets a vote.
Six days after the report went online, the AAA fired back with a full-throated defense. “Anthropologists welcome rigorous critique of the discipline,” wrote its president, Carolyn M. Rouse. “What we cannot accept is a sweeping verdict about anthropology’s intellectual culture, scholarly practices, and professional norms built on selective evidence and issued without consultation.
Since faculty voted in may to proctor in-person exams, national news outlets and some alumni have decried the end of Princeton’s 133-year-old tradition of unsupervised testing, but students, faculty, and recent graduates say the conversation within the campus community has been mild.
