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Freshman Issue, 2003 Freshman Issue September 2003 PRINCETON TORY Special Report: Professors and Politics plus The Issues 2003-04 and THE RANT THE PRINCETON Notes from the Publisher Microwave-Safe Plato TORY Mongers of the intellectual crisis, eat your hearts out: September 2003 This summer in Washington, where I worked at a conservative Volume XX - Issue IV think tank, I left the barbershop where I had trimmed up before the Tory Publisher Editor-in-Chief went on camera. (Tory editors, past and present, will appear alongside John Andrews ’05 Evan Baehr ’05 William F. Buckley and Justice Antonin Scalia in a celebration of the fifti- Managing Editors eth anniversary of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.) Brad Heller ’05 Duncan Sahner ’06 Newly shorn and sauntering back to the train, I paused in a small, musty, second-hand bookshop. While browsing I found, gathering dust Web Manager Financial Manager and a bit of mildew, a 1937 edition of the Harvard Classics, Dr. Charles Eric Czervionke ’05 Ira Leeds ’06 Eliot’s “Five-Foot Shelf of Books.” The fifty-two volume set was priced, Graphics Editor and seemed to have been for many years, at fifty dollars. What a bargain! Deb Brundage ’03 Happily, I paid the full price. I returned after the taping, wheeling a large suitcase to collect the set. Pete Hegseth ’03, Publisher Emeritus The Classics cleaned up quite handsomely, making a wonderful Brad Simmons ’03, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus addition to my library. Sometime in my second-hand book-buying past, I Staff Writers learned that a good way to kill mildew spores is to heat the book in a microwave, and then give it a good dusting. The metaphor is felicitous: Jennifer Carter ’03 C.R. Mrosovsky ’04 The classics are undervalued at Princeton, as in that bookstore. Ryan Feeney ’03 Arvin Bahl ’05 They lie mouldering and neglected. Within their crumbling pages languish Nat Hoopes ’03 Julie Toran ’05 truth, nobility, friendship, love, beauty, contemplation, and freedom. Daniel Mark ’03 Powell Fraser ’06 A revival of these concepts, clasically understood, would benefit Nathaniel Norman ’03 Stephen Lambe ’06 the University intrinsically, and would also bring coherence to the campus Matt O’Brien ’03 Jurgen Reinhoudt ’06 debate. No more questions of individual life-style, but of virtue. No more John Ference ’04 Paul Thompson ’06 questions of political correctness, but of moral rectitude. None of iden- Betsy Kennedy ’04 Paul White ’06 tity politics, but of justice. Board of Trustees Alas, the contemporary Princetonian and his intellectual birth- right suffer seperately and silently. As in the bookstore, there is hope Peter Heinecke ’87 Anna Bray Duff ’92 here. I fervently hope that in this academic year, our focused energies David Daniels ’89 Brian Tvenstrup ’95 will, like microwave radiation, bring warmth and freshness to the great Mark Banovich ’92 Wickham Schmidt ’99 ideas of old. Timothy Webster ’99 Dr. Eliot, Harvard conservative and Eliot House’s namesake, The Princeton Tory is a journal of conservative chaired the famous Committee of Ten, which recognized the intrinsic and moderate political thought written, edited and produced by Princeton University students and deliv- value of education. It recommended that high schools not simply ‘prep’ ered free of charge to all Princeton students and fac- students for future studies, but teach them the liberal arts purely for their ulty. The Princeton Tory is a publication of The edification. Eliot and his committee wanted to make the liberal arts acces- Princeton Tory, Inc. Opinions expressed herein are sible to everyone, particularly to those who would not attend college. those of the authors and not necessarily those of the editors, trustees, Princeton University, or the Likewise, Eliot created the Harvard Classics for the benefit of the Princeton Tory, Inc. common, practical man. After all, there are only five feet on the shelf, The Princeton Tory accepts letters to the editor. just as there are only four years till a degree. Quite like a Princeton Direct correspondence to: P.O. Box 1499, Princeton, education, in fact, the shelf is intended for everyday use NJ 08542; or by e-mail: [email protected]. Adver- tisement rates for The Princeton Tory are: $75 for a and pleasure (perhaps with just a smidgen of ostentation). quarter page, $150 for a half page, $250 for a full Because an education requires more than a mere page, and $350 for the back cover. Donations to The degree, it’s time to dust off the classics. Princeton Tory are fully tax-deductible. Please mail donations to: P.O. Box 1499, Princeton, NJ 08542. The Princeton Tory is a member of the Colle- John Andrews giate Network. The Princeton Tory gives special thanks [email protected] to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Princeton Alumni Viewpoints. The Princeton Tory, Inc. is a non-profit corpo- Letters to the Editors: ration registered in New Jersey. No part of this publi- cation should be construed to promote any pending [email protected] legislation or to support any candidate for office. No part of this publication may be reproduced without P.O. Box 1499, Princeton, New Jersey 08542 express written consent of the Publisher. Copyright © 2003, The Princeton Tory, Inc. The editors welcome, and will print, letters on any topic. 2 · THE PRINCETON TORY SEPTEMBER 2003 THE PRINCETON TORY September 2003 www.princetontory.com 5 Freshman Writing Contest: $100 Cash Prize! Book ‘im, Danno. Public Nuisance. THE ISSUES: AN OVERVIEW 4 What’s Important and Why, in the New Academic Year. The Editors offer talking points for a pivotal year: ¾ Intellectual Life ¾ Race and Educational Policy ¾ Faith on Campus ¾ Athletics and Voluntary Activity ¾ Feminism and Family Values THE RANT 6 The Tory comments on: ¾ Summer Boondoggles ¾ The Ombudsperson ¾ Shirley Tilghman, Doctor of Tautology ¾ The Pornography Studies Department TONIGHT, ON NBC: LAW AND ORDER IV: and much more... When Princeton Professors Prevent D.C. Police From Fighting Violent Crime by Forcing THE ISSUES 2003-04: ARTICLES OF INTEREST Them to Waste Their Time on Silly Publicity Stunts and Throw Them in Jail for Nine Hours. 8 The Professor as Partisan 10:30 PM EST. The editors inquire and report the faculty’s campaign contributions. A New Report from the Tory Editors 10 Shirley Strikes Out The administration has ulterior motives for the moratorium. Jenn Carter ’03 12 ganked! Derek Bok’s diversity rationale is self-defeating. John Andrews ’05 14 God and Politics How liberals discredit the religious right with identity politics. Brad Simmons ’03 16 Killing Feminism The OWL keeps reminding Princetonians how irrelevant it is. Daniel Mark ’03 More at: www.PrincetonTory.com 18 Conservative Thinkers: A Photo Essay SEPTEMBER 2003 THE PRINCETON TORY · 3 THE PRINCETON TORY WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2007 WHAT’S IMPORTANT THIS YEAR, AND WHY Conservative Talking Points for the Campus Debate Intellectual Life In April 2001, the Atlantic Monthly published “The Organization Kid” by David Brooks. Brooks, smug in U. Chicago snobbery, interviewed a group of Princeton undergrads and con- ture from Hell.” The Tory has even The ad hoc Varsity Student-Ath- cluded that they were all tools: giving called for the resignations of several “au- lete Advisory Committee effectively mo- undue deference to authority and failing thority figures” on campus. Surpris- bilized alumni opposition to the morato- to engage in anything but mindless ac- ingly, the Tory didn’t feature in the At- rium. VSAAC questioned why athletes, tivity once outside of the classroom or lantic. On the contrary, Brooks assumes but not other voluntary associations like their “structured, resume-building extra- that any “angry revolutionaries” would groups of amateur musicians, would be curricular activities.” He bemoaned the come from the left, perhaps because he, regulated. They noted that although lack of “angry revolutionaries, despon- like Tilghman, has equated “conserva- Tilghman promised the moratorium dent slackers, or dark cynics.” tive” with “tool.” would be assessed in a year’s time, she Brooks’ survey was problem- “The Organization Kid” should admittedly had no system for measur- atic. To begin his project, he went to provide a warning to those who would ing its effect, since any rise or fall in the professors to solicit names of “a few allow themselves to be intimidated by the athlete GPA’s could be used to justify dozen articulate students.” (How’s that label of “anti-intellectual.” People who further restrictions. for undue deference to authority?) Did tell you that you’re not intellectual enough This summer, President Brooks seriously think that he would get generally have their own plans for what, Tilghman reduced the moratorium, elimi- any “despondent slackers” from profes- exactly, you ought to be thinking. (See nating the contiguous-week provision. sors’ recommendations? “The Professor as Partisan,” p. 8.) This year will tell how this revision will The “dark cynics” in the Tory, affect athletes and whether the VSAAC however, responded with the skepticism Athletics will accept the compromise or continue and disdain one might expect from in- to fight the moratorium on principle. tellectuals. Jenn Carter, in “The Intellectualism and athleticism Princeton Non-Experience,” blamed the are, in the Ivy League’s amateur tradi- Faith lack of student engagement on the ex- tion, intertwined. As George Will writes, cesses of relativism and multiculturalism “Greek philosophers considered sport a Originally founded for the edu- in the University’s curriculum. Eric religious and civic - in a word, moral - cation of ministers and statesmen, Wang blamed the administration for its undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally Princeton has been downright hostile adulterous wooing of Harvard’s African- serious because mankind’s noblest aim towards traditional religious groups in American Studies department, shifting is the loving contemplation of worthy recent years.
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