January 2004 PRINCETON TORY

The MonsMonstrtrousous RRegimentegiment of Women

Laissez-faire feminism and moral abdication in Nassau Hall.

PLUS: Sabine Hérold, ROTC, The Rant, and more! Notes from the Publisher THE PRINCETON Hail and Farewell TORY As this issue of the Tory is the last that I will publish, I’ve decided January 2004 to go out swinging. Prediction time. Volume XXI - Issue I I am not optimistic about the future of the University. We students are witnessing the erosion, unchecked and accelerating since the sixties, Publisher Editor-in-Chief of every institution that makes Princeton Princeton. Before our children’s John Andrews ’05 Evan Baehr ’05 time, the only distinctions remaining will be statues cowering in niches and epitaphs furtively chiseled in archways. This University will be just Managing Editors Brad Heller ’05 Duncan Sahner ’06 another Brown, or, God help us, Yale. The conservative student movement is strong, and I’ve found the student body’s response to the Tory Web Manager Financial Manager Eric Czervionke ’05 Ira Leeds ’06 heartening. However, there is no democratic recourse against a self- perpetuating liberal elite that simply brushes aside, and unfairly, I believe, Graphics Editor not just student publications like the Tory but an enormous body of well- Deb Brundage ’03 reasoned dissent from some of the brightest and most seasoned academics and commentators in the country. The only bright side I can see is that Staff Writers the future will provide ample material for Tory articles. I find enormous hope, however, in the state of the nation as a John Ference ’04 Ward Benson ’07 whole. For example, a recent UC Berkeley study found teenagers to be Betsy Kennedy ’04 Nene Kalu ’07 C.R. Mrosovsky ’04 Stuart Lange ’07 significantly more conservative on issues concerning abortion and public Julie Toran ’05 Matt MacDonald ’07 religion. In Washington, the practically leaderless Democratic Party is in Powell Fraser ’06 Jennifer Mickel ’07 no small confusion. Abroad, events seem to be finally going our way. Stephen Lambe ’06 Eleanor Mulhern ’07 In the end, I think America will rescue the liberal universities. Jurgen Reinhoudt ’06 Ruben Pope ’07 After a century or so of “Princeton in the nation’s service,” the nation Paul Thompson ’06 Christian Sahner ’07 will, with luck, return the favor. Despite the Orange Bubble, of which the Triangle Club memorably sings, conservative America’s siege will Board of Trustees eventually compel the University to change, particularly when the almighty Peter Heinecke ’87 Anna Bray Duff ’92 dollar rears its head. David Daniels ’89 Brian Tvenstrup ’95 In the last dark age, the universities saved civilization by protecting Mark Banovich ’92 Wickham Schmidt ’99 its wisdom and its values from the surrounding turmoil. In this age, I Timothy Webster ’99 expect it will be the other way round: society will lead the academy, blind and stumbling, into the next age of light. 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CAMPUS Tory 6 Onward, Princeton Soldiers COVER STORY: ROTC teaches the Ivy League a lesson in Hooah! The Modern Mommy University Powell Fraser ’06 It’s Daddy time for the Tilghman administration. John Andrews ’05 NATIONAL PAGE 10 8 Knowing Your Place It’s Your Money Whither the feminist movement? Jennifer Mickel ’07 University funding, fall semester, given by the USG Projects Board to student publications:

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! In another one of Shirley Tilghman’s, “Did she really just Germany caused astonishment in a number of naïve say that?”-moments, the University President publicly countries by saying they would run deficits far in excess announced to the recent meeting of the Council of the of the permitted 3% in the foreseeable future. Meant to Princeton University Community that, “[Tenure-seeking protect the general stability of Europe’s common professors’] ability to conduct research and demonstrate currency, the Euro, the stability pact threatens violators excellence in scholarship is the most important thing we with severe consequences, stipulating the European will look at…. They must focus on that, first and Commission may fine violators billions of dollars (Euros, foremost.” To those students fooled by the Admissions excuse me). In this case, the European Commission did department’s claim that Princeton’s absense of nothing. Or wait—it said it disapproved. Of course, that professional schools, unique among the Ivy League, lent really impressed Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, itself to a greater focus on undergraduate education, the Europe’s dynamic duo. So much so that, far from being Tory expresses its sympathy. Some day, the University apologetic, German and French officials lashed out at will stop trying to imitate other schools and act like the anyone criticizing their policies. German Foreign Minister first-class educational institution it professes to be. Eichel said relations with one neighboring country had been “poisoned” after the country criticized German ! A weird red glow covered Robertson Hall for a week in deficits. More than anything, the refusal of Chirac and December. At first we naively guessed it was a Schroeder to abide by the treaty their countries are Christmas decoration, and then we thought the Commies signatories of showed all Europeans that, at a very had taken over Woody Woo—officially, that is. But it fundamental level, France and Germany will do as they turns out that the lighting commemorated “AIDS please when they wish. In a not-so-subtle way, Chirac Awareness Week,” courtesy of the WWS-sponsored and Schroeder are the real unilateralists—who would have Princeton AIDS Initiative. Don’t let the title fool you— thought? the Princeton AIDS Initiative, like the Trustees’ Alcohol Initiative, actually opposes the thing the initiative is ! The taxpayer-subsidized British Broadcasting Corporation named for. “And who wouldn’t be against AIDS?” you (BBC) has forbidden its reporters from referring to might ask. Good question. Is it really necessary to have Saddam Hussein as “former dictator.” Rather, they must an AIDS Awareness Week? Princeton was already aware call Saddam, who killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis of AIDS, even before Sesame Street introduced the HIV- and never won an honest election in his life, “the deposed positive Muppet® (perhaps MIV-positive?). Everyone former President,” thus putting him in the company of, already knew that AIDS is terrible and that nobody say, Richard Nixon. Now, the provisional government deserves it. However, intellectual honesty requires the awarded the BBC the contract to rebuild and ostensibly admissions that in many cases, AIDS victims were rehabilitate the deposed former President’s Information partners in their self-destruction, and that other diseases, Ministry. (Remember Mohammed “There are no juvenile leukemia for one, claim greater proportions of Americans in Baghdad” Saeed al-Sahaf?) Thanks to the innocent lives. We can’t help but wonder whether the provisional authority, Iraqi children will soon learn to spell high-risk behaviors commonly associated with AIDS jihad with the Teletubbies. helped make the cause trendy, since academia and HBO can romanticize only one disease at a time. Sadly, the ! Understandably frightened by the capture of the deposed numbers of horrible diseases and innocent victims in the former President, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has world exceed the numbers of weeks in the year and said he will give up his budding Weapons of Mass possible colors of ribbon. They also exceed, it seems, Destruction programs and authorize inspections to verify the attention span of the Wilson School. that he has done so. With the Iranian inspections concession and the Paris club forgiving Iraqi debt, the ! Talks on a European Constitution collapsed with a loud news from Tripoli marks yet another foreign policy bang in Italy this December. Champagne corks could be success for the Bush administration, and one for heard popping in the homes of freedom-loving Undersecretary of State John Bolton in particular. Europeans. Poland and Spain were adamant about Whereas Bolton already delivered vague suggestions for retaining the generous influence they secured in the Nice change to Libya early on in his term, these suggestions Treaty three years ago, while France and Germany were recently escalated into dire warnings. As early as 2002, unwilling to accept any change to the draft Constitution. speaking specifically about Libya, Bolton informed Power, not vague ideals, dominated this summit. Not too Gadhafi that “words are not enough” when it came to long before the Constitutional summit, France and Libyan disarmament. Gadhafi has apparently gotten the 4 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 message: America will not tolerate rogue states developing blacks, Jews, and gays and lesbians (well, okay, just one weapons of mass destruction. To ensure the UN doesn’t lesbian). They were definitely of the ‘anti-Bush’ fan club, screw this one up, the Bush Administration and Tony wearing pins with a red ‘X’ through the blue ‘W.’ They Blair’s government are sending their own inspectors to said that they were tired of hearing about the military and Libya to make sure it effectively disarms. Although the Christianity; they were diverse and wanted a leader that head of the UN inspectors “says he has seen four nuclear represented their diversity. They were disappointed, sites, CIA and British intelligence have concluded there are however, when Clark met every predicted stereotype of 11 sites,” according to the Associated Press. It’s a good the South: guns, fishing, hunting, the military, and thing Bush and Blair are sending their own inspectors: this religion. Nearly every group in attendance felt excluded job is far too important to be left to the UN. by the themes of his short talk. The Democrats have two problems in the South: first, the messages Dean and Clark ! Why is the United Nations trying to take control of the are selling are misrepresentations of their own beliefs; Internet? In December’s UN summit in Geneva on second, those who are excited by guns and God have been information technology, a coalition led by China and voting against the Democratic Presidential candidates since Russia and supported by our “ally,” Saudi Arabia, formally Wallace and Goldwater.” The South may well be the advanced what is sure to be a recurring proposal: battleground for the 2004 election. With Senator John transferring the domain-name-to-server matching protocol Breaux’s (D-LA) retirement leaving open five Senate seats, from California’s Internet Corporation for Assigned and with several impressive GOP gubernatorial victories, Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the United Nations’ Republicans stand ready to sweep the South. International Telecommunications Union (ITU). China and Russia also opposed a statement supporting “free ! The Welfare State is alive and well at Princeton. Consider expression” on the Internet. Go figure. The Internet has last semester’s University funding of student publications. flourished precisely because it is free of the stifling (See table on page 3.) Funding is assigned by the USG bureaucracy for which the UN is famous. There’s no Projects Board, and this magazine didn’t see a dime of it. practical way for the UN to enforce such a resolution, According to Projects Board Co-Chairman Rishi Jaitly ’04, short of creating a new global architecture or forcing a friendly and helpful guy, the Projects Board “will not ICANN to surrender the service. Even so, it’s nice to see grant money if the publication is able to cover its costs on our fellow First-Worlders like Germany and France agree its own.” Though they mean well, the USG and Dean of that the UN isn’t the best solution for everything. It Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne are subsidizing would be a shame to take the Internet away from incompetent leadership and lazy fundraising, providing a America, especially after Al Gore worked so hard to disincentive to hard-working student publications to boot. invent it. The State doesn’t stop there: funding also seems to depend on what you write. Says Jaitly, “We are most ! The Undergrad Student Government (USG) election was interested in them shaping the content of their free of substantive considerations, but maybe that’s not programming, i.e. the articles and substance of their such a bad thing. Be glad that you’re not a student at Bir publication.” If the Projects Board were a private-sector Zeit University in the West Bank: its USG presidential philanthropist, then fine. But it controls your student fees, runoff pitted a candidate from Hamas against one from and more absurdly, it thinks it’s working for your own Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, reports the AP. Instead good. Jaitly again: “We try to provide as much incentive of posting glamour photos on lampposts, their rallies as possible for publications to operate independently and consisted of blowing up model Israeli buses and not become directly dependent on the USG but at the same settlements. Instead of promising free photocopies or time must realize that this is precisely what our resources other pies in the sky, they posed challenges like, “Hamas are here for — to be taken advantage of for the benefit of activists in this University killed 135 Zionists. How many campus life.” Any veteran of Econ 305 can prove that the did Fatah activists from Bir Zeit kill?” Even Democratic consumer benefits more by keeping his lump sum than by presidential candidates’ petulant profanities seem civil in having the State spend it for him. Dean Dunne, why don’t comparison. Our student government might be full of you give us back our money, and we’ll spend it on the tools, but at least it’s not full of terrorists. publications we think are worthwhile? It’s called the free market. Why not give it a try sometime? ! The South has a word for Northerners who come down and meddle: carpetbaggers. First it was New York-born ! Farewell, The Progressive Review. We hardly knew ye, Howard Dean who wanted “to be the candidate for guys for ye published not. According to The Idealistic Nation’s with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” (We bet sponsor, the USG Projects Board Co-Chairman, “...it was they’ll get along well with a self-proclaimed in our and the student body’s interest to help out the only “metrosexual.”) Now, it’s Chicago-born Wesley Clark on progressive publication on campus.” [Emphasis ours.] his “True Grits Tour,” visiting eight cities in six key The Prog, 1982-2003. In Pace Requiescat. Southern states. Our man in Pensacola infiltrated Clark’s $1,000-per-plate dinner there and sent us the following ! The Program in Queer Studies? We’ll pass… report: “The crowd that gathered in Pensacola, Florida included most of the Democratic-friendly minority groups: -- Compiled by the Editors JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 5 CAMPUS ONWARD, PRINCETON SOLDIERS The Ivy League could use a little Hooah!

Powell Fraser ’06

Any prospective student taking the Orange-Key tour of Princeton gets a clear picture of Princeton’s military tradition. One of the major stops on the tour is always Nassau Hall, built before the Revolutionary War and battered by cannonballs of Alexander Hamilton’s artillery. Entering the foyer, one immediately sees the massive memorial wall chronicling the names of

Princetonians who gave the last full mea- Photography Courtesy of Princeton ROTC sure of devotion in service of their country in numerous conflicts. And throughout campus, bronze plaques outside dorm win- dows serve as memorials to fallen American servicemen. Finally, an inquisitive pre-frosh might discover from his or her tour guide that Princeton has an officially-recognized ROTC program …unlike Harvard, Yale, Co- lumbia, Dartmouth, and Stanford, who have all banned the ROTC from campus. It would a rigorous exercise regimen, and sworn an physical and academic record. Despite this seem, then, that Princeton is quite proud of oath to join the Army upon graduation. demanding requirement, however, most ca- its military heritage. During the week, they attend several hours dets remain involved in a myriad of other A student at Princeton, however, of military science classes where they study campus activities, from fellowship groups would gain a much clearer insight into the army doctrine and history. On certain Fri- to fraternities to varsity athletics to club state of military tradition on campus and day afternoons, they learn how to throw sports. The program seeks to stimulate “stu- conclude that it is waning. Little attention grenades, move under fire, and assemble dent-athlete-leaders,” and these cadets is drawn to these fragments of history scat- and disassemble their M16 rifles. And on a emerge from their four years as some of the tered across the campus. An Easter prayer few weekends each semester, the Princeton most well-rounded students in America. On in the University chapel by Dean Briedenthal cadets go to Fort Dix to conduct training a campus that values “diversity” so greatly, this past year called for divine protection of exercises. Operating in eight-man squads, one cannot find a program that better em- just about every at-risk party in the Middle the cadets practice executing ambushes, bodies diversity of experience. At a East – except for the American troops fight- assaulting a bunker, reconnoitering an en- university that claims to be “In The Nation’s ing in Iraq. Students are more likely to laud emy position, and clearing an area of Service,” and later, “In The Service Of All alums like Ralph Nader than Donald entrenched enemy combatants. Each cadet Nations,” one cannot find a clearer example Rumsfeld. Even the liberal Robinson family wears laser sensors on his torso and hel- of devotion. has begun to question whether Wilson met, and every M16 is mounted with a laser Still, the Tiger Battalion exists only School students are truly serving their na- that pulses when the weapon fires. Real on the edge of the Princeton universe. Un- tion upon graduating. On the fringe of the blanks are used so that cadets can become der the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel campus, however, sharing space in the Ar- accustomed to the rifle bucking in their Matthew McCarville, the program prides it- mory with the Princeton Federal Credit hands as they snipe at enemy troops or self on being “the most flexible program on Union, the McCarter Scene Shop, some wildly empty their magazine on full-auto. campus,” allowing its cadets a fantastic rusty lawnmowers, the Band, and the OA Cadets spend significant amounts of time amount of maneuvering room to accommo- climbing wall, stands the last bastion of in the military classroom and on these train- date other extracurricular activities. But Duty: Princeton’s Tiger Battalion, a program ing exercises. would this amount of flexibility really be to train future leaders for the U.S. Army. In exchange for their commitment, necessary if the University were to treat the By the end of their sophomore year, these cadets receive complete funding of ROTC a little differently? Tiger Battalion cadets in the Tiger Battalion have been on their Princeton education and a monthly sti- cadets receive no course credit from the numerous training exercises, participated in pend – provided they maintain an excellent University for the countless hours that they 6 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 CAMPUS

devote to military science classes, skills labs and his dogmatic devotion to flexibility pro- tag on a Princeton education, the amount of on Friday afternoons, or weekend-long train- vides the Army with excellent future leaders, help the Army can help eventually becomes ing exercises. At the same time, however, destined to be brilliant officers in the limited. Lower-income students, who look the Army continues to demand excellence nation’s service. to the ROTC for financial aid more substan- in Princeton academics, and if a cadet were Last year, Princeton graduated tial even than Princeton’s, lose out too. to deliver sub-standard performance in a three cadets into the U.S. Army. This year, Yet the spirit of the cadets in the Princeton class, he would risk jeopardizing the number will be closer to ten. The largest Tiger Battalion, known as “hooah” in the his scholarship and future Army career. class, the sophomores – or MS2’s, in Army- Army, is undampened by the obstacles sur- Athletics, upcoming tests, and even eating speak – boasts twenty cadets. The upward rounding them. When protestors took to club formals often trump ROTC events, and trend ends here, as the freshman class has Palmer Square to protest the war in Iraq last the program’s directors would not have it only ten enrollees. Most MS2’s attribute year, several ROTC cadets staged their own any other way. But would such compro- their surge in numbers to the impact that counter-rally with American flags and ban- mise be necessary if the University and the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had ners reminding the dissidents to “Support campus life in general were more accommo- on their senior year in high school. Still, Our Troops.” Perhaps a similar message dating of the ROTC, instead of the other this peak represents less than two percent needs to be sent to the administration. way around? of the freshman class. The trend is similar The nation’s need of Princeton is The truth of the matter is that the across the Ivy League: Harvard’s ROTC, not lessened, but changed: World War II Tiger Battalion is the most flexible program which must commute to MIT because it is relied upon superior American strength, on campus because it has to be. Given the forbidden to train on campus, added eigh- backed by civilian scientists and code state of campus, if the Army were to demand teen cadets, a record in recent years, last breakers, to defeat the Nazi juggernaut. The any further level of commitment, it would be fall. War on Terror requires superior military impossible for anyone to simultaneously be Col. McCarville remains unfazed thinking: specialists in language, in psycho- a Princeton student and a Cadet in the Army about the future of the country. Repeat- logical warfare, in intelligence. In short, it ROTC. One wonders whether the same de- edly, he petitions the Army for more money needs well-educated minds from elite uni- mands were placed on the servicemen whose for scholarships for his cadets, hoping to versities, so it is a shame that most of the names we find on stars spangling the cam- send more Princetonians into the armed ser- Ivy League has kicked the ROTC out. The pus. Luckily for the Army, Col. McCarville vice of the nation. Since the University lack of welcome didn’t deter Air Force ROTC recognizes the value of the Princeton expe- insists on providing funding only in cases cadet Robbie Berschinski, a Yalie hoping to rience, both academic and extracurricular, of “need,” however, the federal government become an intelligence officer but forced to must pick up the exorbitant tab for four years commute to UConn to train. Berschinski Powell Fraser ’06 is of Princeton for every Princetonian officer maintained an impeccable GPA and an Iron a Politics major from they wish to acquire. Again, the adminis- Man Triathlon physique to earn the Air Atlanta. The com- tration here at Princeton seems unwilling to Force ROTC’s Cadet of the Year Award in modore of the Sailing be “in the nation’s service” when that ser- 2001. Ivy students have much to offer their Team, he spent the vice coincides with the military. Students country if permitted to do so. summer writing for not eligible for financial aide can thus seek CNN.com. Army scholarships, but due to the high price Continued, SOLDIERS, on page 14 JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 7 NATIONAL KNOWING YOUR PLACE Feminists, flogging a dead stallion. tation of the term) claim to be oppressed prepared to blame any unhappiness that Jennifer Mickel ’07 by? Why not just declare victory and move she may ever know on man, his nature and on? Lacking logical exigencies, liberal femi- his instincts. She is also being conditioned Look around: Nobody is oppress- nists try to maintain fervor by adopting the to feel guilty if she wants the traditional ing women. We can vote, propose marriage, most controversial position possible, latch- life of her mother or grandmother. file for divorce, and own property just as ing on to increasingly extremist movements The mere fact that there are more well as any man. Women now actually out- and imagining new windmills at which to tilt. male executives, such as CEOs, does not number men in white-collar positions. The Princeton’s “Women’s Center,” indicate an enslavement of an entire sex. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that where you can find the 76-cent statistic and What it means is that someone has to put women compose 50.6 percent of the 48 mil- many more deliberately misleading numbers dinner on the table, someone has to take lion employees in management, professional worth debunking, is a far cry from the initial the kids to school, and someone has to keep and related occupations. campaigns for women’s suffrage. It is not a the house clean. Could men do it? Yes. Of course, feminists counter that bastion to defend women’s rights, “equal- Can women hold successful careers? Yes. women are systematically underpaid, es- ize” their role, or support their efforts for The difference in roles is caused not by dis- tablishing Equal Pay Day needed advancement. It is a liberal crimination, but by choice. And choice, proportionally through the year to pro- agenda promoting homosexuality, pro- despite the feminist’s “pro-choice” rheto- test the injustice of “women making 76 miscuity, and a false sense of ric, is the one thing she cannot abide. cents on the male dollar.” It turns out entitlement presented as fact to an in- According to feminists, working that once you make a common-sense ad- doctrinated group where disagreement for equality necessitates an effort on the justment for factors like education, age, and equals gender disloyalty. And then part of women to behave like men. work experience, women make 98 cents on there’s OWL, the Organization of There is no pressure on men to be- the male dollar. (Maybe the National Com- Women Leaders. Their website have like women, since today’s mittee on Pay Equity figured people would states, “As long as at least one half feminists seem to assert that their be too busy at Christmas to observe Equal of the undergraduate population is roles are inferior and encourage Pay Day.) This two-cent wage gap is, as the female, there will be an undeniable need women to reject them. This rejection is Independent Women’s Forum reported, the for an organization such as OWL to address counterproductive to attaining “equality,” product of choice: the issues and concerns facing Princeton because someone must fill that role, and over- The average wage gap is not the women.” If that is true, then why is there no whelmingly the one to do so will a woman, if result of discrimination, but of the choices Organization of Men Leaders? (Maybe they for no other reason than that she is the one women make with regard to education and would have the grammatical sense to call it who bears children. As long as full-service work and family. Women, 80 percent of “Organization of Male Leaders.”) The mis- motherhood is discouraged, women will whom bear children at some point in their sion statement includes, “We are dedicated never attain the “equality” that feminists lives, often choose career tracks that al- to embracing the diversity [buzz!], trans- want; their natural instincts are belittled by low them greater flexibility, or educational forming the perceptions, and challenging the members of their own sex. Paradoxically, fields that result in lower earnings af- conventions of women’s roles in our cam- today’s feminists scorn this role, making ter graduation. pus, community, and world.” The very women feel guilty for rejecting the corpo- The report goes on to statement implies the undesirability of rate lifestyle. (See New York Times note that when men and women women’s conventional roles. This Magazine, 10/25/03: “The Opt-Out Revo- do choose similar careers, their viewpoint is rampant on college cam- lution” by Lisa Belkin.) salaries are equal, quoting a puses across America. Jacob van Ultimately, feminists aren’t really BusinessWeek report that they earn the Flossen writes in Return of the Gods: sure what they want. Chanting “girl power,” same starting salaries in fields such as fi- The tragedy may be cumulative. they rely on their femininity to protect them nance, marketing, and consulting. What the The pretty and popular coed, on a major from any counterattack. If men and women NCPE really wants is equal pay for different University campus, may choose to ignore are truly equal, then why, in many a movie, kinds of labor, an ominous agenda. the pseudo-intellectual harpies. The sub- does a woman punch a man in the face only Thus, the feminist movement is liminal message will still do damage. In to have him stare after her, disoriented? Is well past its prime. Having achieved all le- the absence of direct refutation—and few he not capable of blocking the punch and gitimate goals, there is little cause left for it on any faculty will even challenge the femi- then breaking her jaw? Feminists should to rally around. Except for the ambiguous nists—many of their values will be taken really be angry that he didn’t block her “society” or, more bluntly, “men,” who do for granted. But even if all are totally re- punch and then sock her left eye, since that feminists (using the modern, radical conno- jected, the young woman is being subtly is how a male would likely respond to an- 8 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 NATIONAL other male. But we do not expect a man to oned as a revolutionary. The majority of other occupations, and to do so at the ex- react to a woman in the same way; it would girls don’t play football because it doesn’t pense of their family relationships if need be unfair, since his greater skill is an accepted appeal to them and they aren’t suited for it. be. Feminists seem to claim that love, in its fact. Here, the sexes are clearly filling their Are they therefore slaves to male society? deepest sense, is impossible, or at least im- own separate niches. No, they are self-aware and intelligent. The practical, because no person can love Feminists fight for an equivalent same is true for men who stay home to raise another more than himself or herself, war- number of women’s sports, but allow physi- children, even though for the majority a ranting sacrifices made on the other’s behalf. cally accommodating differences between career is more realistic and necessary for a This woman-for-themselves scheme creates the two, as in baseball and softball. There personal satisfaction. Neither do these men a woman who is more loyal to the cause of is a continued focus among both men and capitulate to “the system.” It is an honest advancing women at the expense of every- women on male athletic competition. Why? assessment of need and desire. On a very one else, than to children, husband, or For women, sports are the game and noth- simple level, generally it is ingrained in the family. Who will fill the void? And what, ing more. They have no innate need to nature of men to be “macho,” behave in other than increased income, does any fam- showcase physical prowess. For men, the ways to earn a wife, and then provide ily gain from a two-career household? game is also, on a deeper level, about prov- for her. Similarly, the male character- Nothing. ing his ability to head a household, which istics generally revered by women There is no longer a miraculous interests women, as potential wives, as well (money, power, strong physique, in- “other” to support the American fam- as men, as competitors. telligence, athletic prowess) are those ily. We observe its disintegration by Nationwide, American behavior that show the strength suiting him to be such staggering statistics as 43% divorce rejects the feminists’ claims that negation a provider. Flossen writes: rate and 70% of black children born to un- of sexual differences and interchangeable For centuries, outside labor was wed mothers. Instead of progress, we social roles are the means to American the curse of the peasant wife whose family faceproblems in the way in which we Ameri- “equality.” Pay attention to music; few struggled to survive. It was the bitter har- cans are fulfilling our roles. It indicates a songs are devoid of romance or sexual ref- vest of other women whose husbands were selfish unwillingness to work and sacrifice erence. Who has ever gone to the Street disabled. It was seldom, if ever, the choice for the good of the unit in favor of following without hearing a single rap song? I keep of the affluent and successful; who could the whims of individual fancy—an idea pro- waiting for the feminist boycott of rap; more usually appreciate—even if they couldn’t mulgated by feminists, then adopted by men than any other genre, advances the notion always enunciate—the rationale’ of the (biologically predisposed toward variety- of woman as chattel. Watch TRL, check the values for which we speak. Men who could seeking) to work toward everyone’s Billboard charts—rap songs are consis- afford to keep their wives at home did so. disadvantage. If rowers in boats ignore the tently at the top, making the producers Most women sought or hoped for men, coxswains to row as they please, they crash millions. They can’t reach that level who could protect them from that facet into each other. Working with individual of success with a solely male fan base. of life, where a woman had to sell her efforts toward the same purpose is the Women are supporting them. Femi- service. proven route for success. Who can dis- nists are out of sync with what America The reason why males and females agree with “teamwork works?” wants; they lack women’s popular support form an attraction goes beyond the physi- Feminism does not help women on this point. Obviously, women are secure cal act of reproduction. We are born with qua women; it attacks them. Its endless and happy with their status and do not view certain innate characteristics. These char- rhetoric about equality seeks to eliminate these songs as threatening. acteristics do not, however, make men and all femininity from our culture. It denies It is evident in nature, it is evident women competing interest groups whose woman’s importance, and assaults her very in childhood toy preference, it is evident in needs are fundamentally at odds with one essence by calling her natural instincts ille- romantic relationships— women and men another. There need be no competition, no gitimate. Buying into the concept that are overwhelmingly different. Different in challenge of power, no classification of in- women’s roles are lesser, necessitating some what they value, different in how they view ferior or superior. The two have sort of “breakout,” feminists are themselves life, different in what they need to feel suc- characteristics complementary to each other living their lives by the patriarchal scorecard. cessful and important. It is detrimental to and, in coming together, create a unit that is Thus, feminists in effect perpetuate the belittle what our anatomy shows us is quite a whole. That is why denying each the op- thinking that they claim to defy, which only an obvious difference. portunity to fulfill their roles with pride is reinforces the concept that at the root of Every time a woman plays football disastrous to the stability of society. humanity lies the dual male-female relation- or a man baby-sits is not cause for some Feminists seem to thrive on the ship, supported by the balance of celebration of our liberation. The renegade selfish, “me first” mentality. Do what you differences possessed by each. should not be prevented from doing what want, when you want, with whomever you Feminism has indeed outlived its he wants, but neither should he be champi- want, just to prove that you can, and with exigency. Males and females are comple- no regard to how it might affect others who mentary in their difference. Feminists, if Jennifer Mickel ’07 is rely on you. Their dogma scorns the idea of they truly want to advocate their gender, from Monroe, Louisiana. giving up “I” for “We,” an integral transi- should stop recruiting women to be pseudo- She is a member of But- tion to a successful marriage. Thus, males and instead celebrate femininity and ler College and feminists are dually responsible for the de- motherhood. Otherwise, they are system- secretary of the Ivy cline of the American family: they encourage atically sowing self-destruction—not just Council. women to ignore their social duties and seek for women, but for American society. JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 9 COVER STORY THE MODERN MOMMY UNIVERSITY Your mom does, in fact, work here. What do I mean by “the Mommy John Andrews ’05 University”? Let me be clear that with it and with the “monstrous regiment,” I intend The father is always a Republican no slight to mothers or female students or towards his son, and his mother’s always a administrators. I simply adapt an existing Democrat. ideological distinction from pop politics. -- Robert Frost Chris Matthews (now host of MSNBC’s Hardball) popularized the term “Mommy Scotch Reformer John Knox pub- Party,” as National Review’s Jonah lished The First Blast of the Trumpet Against Goldberg notes, in the ’80s. Goldberg elabo- the Monstrous Regiment of Women in 1558. rates: In it, he attacked the reigns of Catholic Dad protects you and sets stan- queens Mary of Guise and daughter Mary dards of conduct. Mommy forgives and Stuart through the proposition that “Woman nurtures. For decades we wanted a Repub- in authority is traitress and rebel against lican president and a Democratic Congress God.” His predictions of the demise of Mary, because we like a President who can send Queen of Scots proved accurate, although people to their rooms without dinner and predicting the untimely death of a monarch we like a Congress which will sneak us des- was a pretty safe bet in those days; Mary sert when nobody’s looking. was captured shortly thereafter and even- Clinton won in the feel-good ’90s, tually beheaded. Knox missed the mark the theory goes, because Clinton was able completely, though, on her Protestant suc- to project (initially) a toughness greater than cessor Elizabeth I, who led Britannia to Bush. Deep down, however, Goldberg says, unprecedented military and cultural great- “He is such a self-indulgent sissy one won- ness. ders why he isn’t pock-marked from years The Presbyterian church has come of locker-room rattails.” Clinton’s dalliance a long way in the intervening centuries, as and petulant reaction to impeachment dis- The feminist Mommy University: “ has its scion, Princeton University. The fi- pelled any aura of manly responsibility. ery Reformer from Saint Andrews would As proved by Clinton’s defenders lican fools around, it’s news. Andrew probably tug his long beard in despair with during impeachment, the Mommy Party Sullivan and the Log Cabin Republicans are both hands, were he alive to learn that in cares less about standards of conduct than anomalous precisely because the Daddy the seat of John Witherspoon reigned a about “being nice.” As Jesse Jackson Party holds a stricter standard of sexual mo- very “traitress and rebel against God,” not guided Clinton through his soul-searching res and “family values.” to mention one from a former French colony. and pain-feeling as the Lewinski story ex- In 2000, Bush won the male vote Women can indeed govern effec- ploded, he was busy fathering a daughter, by 11%, and Gore won the female vote by tively, as proven by Elizabeth’s reign. After and not with his wife. When Bill squirted a the same margin, according to USA Today. all, Knox never wrote the originally planned few on national TV, Democrats cried too, Then came 9-11, when “soccer moms” be- Second and Third Blast of the Trumpet. and Newt became the real ogre. came “security moms.” As the theory goes, Where Knox failed in attacking a doctrine I don’t mean to claim that the Re- the Daddy Party recaptured Congress be- (the authority of Roman Catholicism) via the publican party is the paragon of virtue. cause the American electorate needed moral fitness to rule of the females who es- Immoral Republicans abound, even though disciplinarians much more than they wanted poused it, I would like to take an opposite back when segregationist Strom Thurmond snuck dessert (which, sadly, they now get approach: I criticize University policy, and fathered a mixed-race daughter with a house plenty of from Daddy). in doing so, trace its manifest flaws to what servant, he had not yet left the Democratic What does all of this have to do I call “The Mommy University.” Party. The difference is that when a Repub- with President Tilghman? We’re getting 10 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 COVER STORY there: It is often said that Princeton has West which Solzhenitsyn diagnoses in A dignity, individuality, and freedom of each abandoned in loco parentis; that is to say, World Split Apart. member. At the same time, we strive to be a it has abandoned the duty of parenting the This magazine has already criticized place where individuals and groups learn child which its parents entrust to Princeton. several maternalistic policies of the Tilghman with and from each other. We aim to foster I contend that Princeton has abandoned administration. Perhaps chief among them a sense of shared experience and common only in loco patris. After all, we still have a is affirmative action, specifically Tilghman’s purpose, along with a collective responsi- mother, incarnate as the residential college, amicus brief in support of U. Michigan’s bility for each other’s well-being and for who sneaks us desserts at late-night study now-unconstitutional 20-point system. The the well-being of the university as a whole. breaks and knits us nice warm sweatshirts system is Mommy-like because it ignores Unlike Dad, Mom’s not going to that say “Rocky” on the back and “College” fundamental standards of fairness in order try to make you a better individual. Instead on the front. Mommy will also counsel you to create warm, fuzzy diversity. Another of individual rights and responsibilities, when you feel sad, tutor you when your maternalistic and previously discussed Mom appeals to “collective responsibility” grades are bad, and cleanse you of the ho- policy is the athletics moratorium, which and “respect” for the “dignity... of each mophobia and racism you picked up in your tells you not what you are allowed to do member.” (This sort of contention is famil- barbarous and possibly Southern upbring- (that’s Daddy’s job) but how much of it is iar to readers of Ayn Rand, who argues that good for you (the domain of the nurturing rights are inherently individual in nature, and mother). Here, I’d like to talk about previ- nobody is entitled to your respect.) ously underexposed issues. Which brings us to that fourth and Take the issue of free speech at troublesome proviso, “Respect for others.” Princeton. Daddy cares more about what I mentioned it in passing to a well-known you do than what you say, and here do in- author and professor, who expostulated, cludes what courts generally consider “Respect for others! What the hell does unprotected speech: fighting words, slan- that mean?” I put the question more po- der, obscenity, and so forth. Mommy, litely to Dr. Bryant-Davis, who admitted that however, worries about someone’s feelings the Social Honor Code had no precise stan- getting hurt. “If you can’t say anything dard for “respect for others.” She contended, nice, don’t say anything at all,” as however, that since the term appeared al- Thumper’s mother instructs him in Bambi. ready in Rights, Rules, & Responsibilities, Where does Princeton stand? my dispute was with that document and not Thema Bryant-Davis, not coinci- hers per se, an interesting variant on the dentally a Tilghman appointee, spearheads Nuremberg defense. the effort to make entering freshman sign a The ambiguity surrounding “re- Social Honor Code. In a telephone inter- spect for others” in the Social Honor Code view, Dr. Bryant-Davis (the coordinator of is damning. The fact that this crackpot Princeton’s sexual harassment and assault scheme, now pending approval by William counseling center) explained the Social Robinson ’04’s Undergraduate Life Commit- Honor Code to me. Upon matriculation, stu- tee, originated as the pipe dream of students dents must sign a statement to the effect and administrators in Terrace Club, of all that they are aware of and understand Uni- places, should give us further pause. versity policy, as recorded in Rights, Rules, The speech code makes perfect & Responsibilities, concerning “sexual as- sense, however, in the matrix of the Mommy Traitress and rebel against God.” sault, sexual harassment, racial harassment, University, because fairness to individuals and respect for others.” simply doesn’t count anymore. Selective ing. Thus, the alma mater (literally, nurtur- Set aside the first three prohibi- application is no longer discouraged; indeed, ing mother) is alive and well. So well that tions when strictly interpreted, even though it is mandated, because whoever gets to one suspects she may have consumed the one might naively suppose that students judge “the well-being of the University as a pater in the fashion of the black widow spi- would already know they’re not supposed whole” (one guess who that person is) must der. to do these thing. Daddy wouldn’t approve also decide whether any particular instance Should Princeton cut back on ma- of sexual or racial harassment or assault. He of speech detracts from this collective well- ternal freebies (say, subsidies of certain might condemn it as “unchristian” or “be- being, or whether it is politisch richtig. campus publications and “peer education” neath a gentleman,” and he might invoke Thus, in the Mommy University, programs), cut student fees instead, and ideas like honor and duty. Like those of individual rights and responsibilities are dis- focus more on actually (perish the thought) Jesus of Nazareth and Marcus Aurelius, his carded in favor of centralized, collectivist, teaching? Undoubtedly. However, let’s fo- enjoinder would appeal to the individual, and arbitrarily enforced “senses,” to use the cus on the Mommy University’s moral lest he do wrong and corrupt himself. The Statement of Diversity’s term. Not coinci- deficiencies, not material excesses. Perhaps Mommy, however, would oppose the act on dentally, the entire Statement lacks a single the turgidity of the latter is meant to com- collective grounds, as reflected in mention of any right or rights. pensate for the corruption of the former; Princeton’s “Statement on Diversity and Indeed, it’s no surprise that when both conditions are certainly symptoms of Community,” which reads, in part: Princeton created its sex-crimes counseling the same malaise, the malaise of the modern As a community, we respect the center, it named it SHARE instead of, say, JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 11 COVER STORY Princeton University’s Not Indulging Sexual sions and untold hours of indoctrination appointed nine out of the thirteen Academic Harassment (PUNISH). Share. How nice. in acceptable attitudes and forms of behav- Officers of the University. Five of these How motherly. ior. appointments have been women, and four These remarks are by no means a Mandatory diversity training and of those women have replaced men. These comprehensive criticism of the Social Honor hours of indoctrination. Sound familiar, five appointments are arguably the most vis- Code, only an exploration of its relation to freshmen? This administration is less than ible and influential in the Regiment: Provost the Mommy University. More information a degree’s separation from the radical, sexu- and Deans of Admissions, WWS, Engineer- on speech codes can be obtained from the ally promiscuous “Third Wave Feminism” ing School, and of Students. Elsewhere, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Educa- that seeks to “reclaim” once-pejorative terms same result: One Nassau Hall is composed tion (FIRE) or Students for Academic like “slut” (see Manifesta by Baumgardner of seven women only. Tilghman can deny Freedom. and Richards) and “hooters.” The reclama- that gender is a factor in her appointments Let’s now turn the tables on tion of “hooters,” replete with close-fitting until blue in the face, but students aren’t SHARE, questioning the University’s em- custom T-shirts, was outlined in an opinion buying it, as a recent Daily Princetonian brace of sexual liberation. While some civil column by OWL’s then-president Nancy poll confirms. Her administration is so rife libertarians may be dizzied by the transition Ippolito in 2002. In 2003, OWL president with X chromosomes that a Prince editorial to seeming contradiction, readers of Jess Brondo conceived, then aborted, a praised her for “gender-based affirmative Solzhenitsyn will understand the move. masturbation workshop under the auspices action” in her appointments. Students “The Joys and Toys of Gay Sex.” of CAKE, which dissenting OWL members would be more likely to believe her if she “Sex on a Saturday Night.” “Let’s Talk denounced as “an obscene and professedly didn’t keep skirting the question; in a zero- About Sex.” This University provides more pornographic organization.” OWL and sum game, the only difference between instruction in sex than in the works of James SHARE sponsored a performance of the saying that more women are needed and say- Joyce. Noting that the former is relatively feminist Bible, the Vagina Monologues of ing that women should receive preferential straightforward (or so I’ve heard) and the Eve Ensler, in which Tilghman herself acted. treatment is whether the administration will latter somewhat more complex and, well, aca- President Shirley Tilghman and Provost act on this need. It makes no sense to end- demic, we may be forgiven for wondering Amy Gutmann have participated in at least lessly repeat the first and vehemently deny why this incongruity exists. After all, Dad’s one major OWL conference as well. the second. advice is simple: don’t, or be prepared for Let me be clear that the gender of the consequences. Let’s ask Mommy. Tilghman or her appointees does not estab- Mommy wants you to “follow your lish the Mommy University. If a man treated heart.” Because Mommy is steeped in iden- another group, say men, with the same iden- tity politics, what you do is determined by tity politics, he could still be connected who you are, not the other way round as (albeit confusingly) to Mommy principles. Daddy would have it. Mommy uses nice Women are not categorically bound by words like “affirmation,” words which once Mommy ideology; they are and have been related to individuals and their beliefs, to some of the greatest contributors to this justify all sorts of behaviors, and in this case, magazine. Women are linked to the Mommy to indulge concupiscence. For another ex- Party or University only in the sense in which ample, Princeton’s religious leadership uses the theory was based on typical household the same term to justify a Christian about- dynamics. It is with Tilghman’s policy, and face on sodomy. (See Breidenthal, emphatically not with her gender, that I take Christian Households.) issue. Mommy’s efforts seem to have In the Guidebook for Department backfired. The adverse effects of adminis- Chairs, which is classified “University Con- trative sexual liberalization are well fidential,” the first two sections under the documented. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, pro- This same enthronement of iden- first chapter, “Faculty Appointments and fessor of history and director of the women’s tity politics is responsible for the Promotions,” are titled “Statement on Di- studies program at Emory University, made proliferation of ethnic and gender studies versity and Community” and “Affirmative the following remarks in a paper presented programs. A “queer studies component” Action.” (Nice to see that Tilghman has to the James Madison Program: has recently been established by her priorities straight.) The first begins: The greater social and sexual free- Princeton’s acting director of women’s stud- In making any appointments, dom enjoyed by college students today ies, Christine Stansell ’71. Identity politics, chairs of departments should keep in mind appears to result in more instances of “ac- not academic merit, has established these the University’s general statement on di- quaintance” rape and even “domestic” departments. Mommy must affirm identi- versity and community... violence than occurred when they were sub- ties, particularly those she perceives as When Tilghman makes statements ject to more supervision and regulation. “historically marginalized,” by rewarding like “I would like to think we could begin to The unfortunate by-products of their in- claimants with certificates in the study of attract more students with green hair,” or creased freedom have included a veritable themselves. when she suggests that the federal govern- explosion of student-life bureaucracies, Other politics aside, it’s clear that ment (American, not Canadian) should deny which, instead of imposing parietal rules, Tilghman’s identity politics affect her ad- funding to scientific research panels with impose mandatory diversity training ses- ministrative appointments. Tilghman has no female presenters while at the same time 12 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 COVER STORY commissioning a study on why, exactly, definition. We enter these grounds with actually hinders the education of the per- there are so few women in scientific re- some idea of whom we ought to become, sonage, because, believing that she knows search, you know that basic Daddy the part we ought to play. We leave with better than the order, she sneaks you des- principles of fairness have met some idea of who we actually are. In the sert, affirmation, condoms, or whatever else defenestration. You realize that as a meantime, we vacillate between the two she feels you need, subverting order. Princeton student, you are seen not as an states. I have seen my fellow students rise To cultivate justice, courage, wis- individual but as an identity: woman, His- to this eminence, this virtue, and I have wit- dom, and moderation, the University must panic, punk rocker. You see that this nessed tragedy. I have watched classmates exert the same voluntary self-restraint, not designation, in which you are assessed not become their own caricatures, and I have only to allow her children to flourish on their on your own merits but on your demographic known comedy. own, but to set an example of how to flour- contribution to the “community,” is not di- In leaving the University, we climb ish. Princeton’s rich history of such versity but collectivism. Fifty years after to the second stage (literally, graduation). education for liberty is one upon which it God and Man at Yale, nothing has changed. The cause of this step was once called a should rely, though not exclusively, as a bet- We could go on and on about the vocation (from the Latin, “calling”). Yet ter model than the status quo. effect of collectivism on student life, about such a calling implies a higher order than Frankly, this administration knows the expansion of the aforementioned resi- our own, an order in which we are invited to no such self-restraint. It has scrawled dential college system to four years, about take part. In the humanist University, where Princeton’s signature on divisive measures the crackdown on voluntary associations man is the measure of all, man knows no passing current as “social justice,” another like Prospect Avenue and fraternities and other order. Man in his supreme judgement collectivist notion, and it has filled every sororities, about the planned expansion of fixes the curriculum, enshrines “Queer Stud- open space with suffocating platitudes. the non-athletic student body or about ram- ies” alongside Philosophy, Music, Knox was wrong, but in a way, he was right. pant grade inflation in certain programs. Mathematics, and Theology (now relegated “Woman in authority” is not necessarily Neither have we explored the alternative to Religion). “traitress and rebel against God,” but the theory in which Mommy does not pursue Yes, this transition is impossible impious usurpers who now govern its own misguided ideas of what is right for without freedom to rise and freedom to fall. Princeton, who now muster our Monstrous the University, but instead seeks to methodi- But it is also impossible without what Regiment of Women, know no authority, be cally destroy the intellectual vigor of Solzhenitsyn described as “the voluntary it human, natural or divine. Princeton. I think, however, the points are nurturing of freely accepted and serene self- Mommy may work here, but respectively made and moot. Instead, I’d restraint.” Without this voluntary Mommy doesn’t work here. The molly- like to close with a proposed solution. self-restraint, individualist society degen- coddles of Princeton sorely need an Fitzgerald characterized his erates into a radical humanism or materialism exemplary vision, or what Russell Kirk called Princeton years as “the education of a per- as engrossing as those chronicled by “the moral imagination,” and Princeton des- sonage.” A personage, not just a person. Edmund Burke or Whittaker Chambers. Like perately needs an administration capable of The OED supplies two general meanings for Solzhenitsyn, we observe a decline in civic providing more Daddy time. the word; a personage could be an imitation courage and instead, a predominance of of a person, such as one given by an actor comfort-obsessed and legalistic lives, minds John Andrews ’05 is an Operations Re- or painter, or it could be a person of great fixed on bread and circuses and oblivious search and Financial Engineering major eminence. to the rise of Empire. Without this sense of from Oliver Springs, Tennessee. Now in re- I think that the education of a per- higher order, graduation is impossible. tirement, he plans to read Gibbon’s Decline sonage is a journey from the first to second Mommy, in the name of “self-actualization,” and Fall of the Roman Empire. The Joys and Toys of Conservative Thought princetontory.com

JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 13 CAMPUS SOLDIERS, continued from page 7: for the homosexual under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the original motives for ban- The attacks of September 11, 2001 ning ROTC were motives not of sparked a rise in student support of ROTC egalitarianism but of elitism, as Yale’s but not a rise in administrative support. At Conservative Party leader Justin first, it seemed as if change was coming to Zaremby notes in a recent YDN opinion the Ivy League, as Harvard President Larry column. Faculty resented that military Summers spoke concernedly of the “post- instructors claimed the title “Professor.” Vietnam cleavage between coastal elites and Administrators feared the dilution of certain mainstream values.” their own power in the era of anti-au- In reality, Summers has conceded thoritarian revolt, disliking the idea of nothing voluntarily to the military. Harvard students answering to higher alle- did, however, lose a court battle to keep mili- giances. And maybe, just maybe, they tary recruiters out of its law school, and it were a little jealous of the cadets’ Hooah! may be eventually forced to reinstate ROTC. The U.S. military and the The Solomon Amendment, created by “coastal elite” academic institutions of Gingrich’s 104th Congress, withholds fed- our country have been at odds with eral funding from universities which deny each other since the Vietnam War cost or in effect prevent the ROTC’s and military the lives of thousands of soldiers. recruiters’ access to campus. Perhaps this Today’s army, though, is a different one amendment could restore ROTC to other – one where volunteers are the ones who elite universities, since the commutes im- serve and protect the nation’s interests. posed upon Harvard and Yale cadets do, in Gone are the days of the draft, when effect, prevent more from joining the ROTC. teenagers fled to the universities and only more likely to be indoctrinated by the Left In half-hearted protest of “don’t ask, don’t then began to protest the manner in which than at West Point. tell,” Harvard and Yale are doing the United their compatriots were being led into battle. Ivy League ROTC programs face States a great disservice. The Cadets of the Tiger Battalion have done the double challenge of training to fight the Yale’s Professor of History Donald precisely the opposite: while receiving the nation’s enemies and of fighting discrimi- Kagan agrees. According to the Yale Daily best education in the country, they also nation in the radical establishment. Rising News, Kagan told attendees of a panel dis- choose to be leaders in the Army. And now to this challenge, the programs produce out- cussion on ROTC, “the entire episode of that the American Army has become a force standing leaders. The Tiger Battalion removing the ROTC program is a blot on for peace and freedom in places like Kosovo, remains the embodiment of Princeton “in the Yale’s record. The time has come for the Yale Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan, how can the nation’s service, and in the service of all faculty and administration to remove that liberals of yesteryear object to embracing nations.” Maybe it’s time the Ivy League disgrace.” the ROTC? Indeed, they should be thrilled presidents gave a little something back to Despite the administration’s pro- that America’s future generals are receiving the soldiers who protect their freedom to fessed concern for the Vietnam draftee or an Ivy League education, where they are far criticize the war from the sidelines.

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14 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 INTERNATIONAL MADEMOISELLE THATCHER What America should learn from a French college student.

Margaret Thatcher have had simi- Jurgen Reinhoudt ’06 lar courage and success in dealing with strikers who break Despite all the socialist tinkering the law. in Brussels at the European Commission, The need for reform on there are many hopeful signs that indicate the continent is perhaps stron- the European zeitgeist is finally changing: gest in France, which faces a socialism is more and more openly ques- looming tsunami of retirees. By tioned as a viable economic philosophy. 2020, the ratio of pensioners to Although you won’t read about it in Herr workers will approach 1 to 1. Un- Doktorprofessor Krugman’s columns in the less drastically reformed, the Times, Europe’s younger generation has current pay-as-you-go retirement been hard-hit by welfare state economics system is a recipe for complete and rigid and inflexible labor regulations. economic meltdown. While Paul It consequently sees a need for reform, not Krugman defends the American just as far as labor market rules are con- “Social Security” system sans cerned, but with regard to the role of cesse, the French realize that re- government in general. form is needed. In 1995, Sabine Hérold, an attractive, intel- then-Prime Minister Alain Juppé, ligent and highly articulate 21-year-old who saw the clouds of demo- student at France’s highly prestigious Sci- graphic crisis gather, proposed ences-Po university, embodies Europe’s Liberty’s Heartthrob: to increase the retirement age of new generation. Not afraid to offend liberal 21-year-old Sabine Hérold leads a Paris rally. workers employed by the na- orthodoxy or to take on the Grande Dame tional railroad company SNCF of France’s most militant labor unions, they would not — indeed, could not — win from 50 to 65. The reaction of unions to Arlette Laguiller, in televised debates, she against Mrs. Thatcher that they returned to Juppé’s proposal was filled with more fury is leading the charge for small government work in submission. After having broken than the reaction of OWL-head Katherine and entrepreneurship in a country long the power of labor unions, the Iron Lady Reilly to the passage of the partial-birth abor- held hostage by socialist economic poli- was able to fully push through her free-mar- tion ban. cies. The country that has formed such ket agenda, which has resulted in low rates The CGT (Confédération Générale towering intellectual giants as Robert of unemployment and the emergence of du Travail) union in particular was outraged. Jacques Turgot, Frédéric Bastiat and Jean- London as Europe’s financial capital. To- One of the last unions in the developed Baptiste Say, free-marketers pur sang, has day, Great Britain’s unemployment rate of world with a real Marxist worldview, it led produced a lady who can change the course 5.3% is about half that of France, Germany, the charge against Juppé. The French “si- of French history just as Margaret Thatcher Italy, and Spain. Few other countries have lent majority” soon developed a growing changed the course of British history. known leaders with similar determination. sense of irritation, but there was no over- Margaret Thatcher led Britain from No major country in Europe except whelming public sentiment against the 1979-1990. Britain prospered as a result of the UK went through the 1980s in the same strikers, although hotel owners, restaurant her conservative economic policies, which way the United States did, that is, with tax owners and small business owners of all earned her the moniker “Iron Lady” in a cuts and deregulation. The need for reforms kinds were hard-hit by the strikes. The gov- Soviet newspaper. Sabine Herold was in countries that have failed to reduce eco- ernment eventually caved, pulling back its dubbed “Mademoiselle Thatcher” by the nomic regulations and taxes has certainly proposed reforms. British Sunday Telegraph as a result of her not gone away; if anything, the need for Less than a year later, in 1996, leadership in criticizing strikers. economic freedom in those countries has truckers went on strike to gain the right to The original Margaret Thatcher intensified. There is one major obstacle retire at age 55, after 25 years of work. They successfully broke the near-absolute power standing in the way of economic revitaliza- blocked major French traffic routes by park- wielded by labor unions in the United King- tion in Europe: the power of labor unions. ing their trucks sideways and diagonally on dom, most notably by simply refusing to While Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking highways, bringing the economy to a vir- satisfy the demands of striking coal min- air traffic controllers after they refused to tual standstill. Stores and supermarkets ran ers. The miners went on strike for a year in return to work 48 hours after beginning the out of essentials. The government caved in 1984-1985. It was only when they realized illegal strike, few European leaders except again and gave strikers what they wanted: JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 15 INTERNATIONAL ’95 and ’96 constitutes a gross, cold-hearted French government for its lack of spine in abuse of power. Unions severely violated dealing with strikers. Less than a month the rights of those Frenchmen who wanted later, Hérold addressed dozens of thousands to commute to work and caused a number of cheering Parisians in the sun with a simi- of them to be fired on the ground of absen- lar small-government message as she teeism. Ms. Sabine Hérold rightly calls focused on the need for more economic obstructionist strikers “reactionary ego- dynamism in France and the need for a dif- tists.” In any case, the back of the ferent approach toward radical labor unions, Juppé-government was broken in 1995, and which she referred to as “the real mafias.” no substantial free-market reforms would be The crowd was ecstatic. Lady Thatcher (left) led Britain from 1979- implemented. The British Sunday Telegraph 90. Britain prospered as a result of her Come 2003, Prime Minister Jean- promptly hailed Hérold as “Mademoiselle conservative economic policies. Sabine Pierre Raffarin, walking on eggshells, Thatcher”, and when she visited Great Brit- Hérold was dubbed “Mademoiselle proposed a few months back that govern- ain, she extensively praised Margaret Thatcher” by the British Sunday Telegraph ment workers would from now on have to Thatcher’s economic policies. Hérold is cur- for her leadership against strikes. work 40 years in order to be eligible for full rently leading the free-market institute the right to retire at age 55. This gave the pensions, compared to 37 years currently. Liberté J’écris ton Nom (“Liberty I write average trucker 25 years in retirement (give Once again, striking workers caused great your name,” www.libertie-cherie.com), which or take a few) to do nothing and live like a hardship to ordinary Frenchmen. This time, is doing excellent work in the area of pen- tick off young French taxpayers. however, the “silent majority” was not sym- sion reform and inoculating France’s silent The strikes of 1995 and 1996 were pathetic, all the more so because Frenchmen majority from the economic distortions of not the first times my family and I had seen in the private sector already have to work the likes of Krugman, who favor pay-as- major strikes in France; when we first moved 40 years before being eligible for a full pen- you-go pension schemes. Pay-as-you-go to France and flew in to Charles de Gaulle sion. 70% of the public now recognizes the pyramid constructions are looming disas- International Airport, garbage collectors had need to reduce the royal retirement pack- ters, not only in France, but in the United gone on strike. The airport was littered with ages of public servants. While Raffarin and States as well. garbage and was consequently smelly. The Chirac were not particularly angry in public, Oddly, while France is gasping for 1995 and 1996 strikes were different from one young French college student decided economic air and trying to institute more the garbage collector strike: in ’95 and again to make her frustration with communist free-market policies, the United States is in ’96, strikers not only refused to do work unions publicly known. heading in the opposite direction. In the themselves, but also prevented millions of Sabine Hérold delivered a sponta- past two years, Congress has lost all con- their fellow Frenchmen from going to work neous, impassioned speech in front of the trol over spending; federal spending on by preventing them from using public trans- city hall of Rheims, northeast of Paris. Al- social programs has risen 16%, to more than portation and by blocking traffic arteries. most immediately, a crowd of 2,000 members $1700 billion per year. The budget of the The way in which strikers para- of the “silent majority” appeared around the federal department of education, a depart- lyzed the economy and destroyed an untold charming young French lady and cheered ment which did not exist before 1979, has number of jobs over a three-week period in her on as she blasted the strikers and the surged 65% under President Bush, to $57 Photography by Brad Friedman ’05

Marx vs. McDonald’s: CGT strikers shut down Paris’s favorite chain restaurant. 16 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 INTERNATIONAL We could sure use some privatization in the United States. Social Security’s rate of return on payroll taxes is astonishingly low (about 2 percent) and declining. Workers deserve better. How would the stock market help? According to the CATO Institute, “even the worst 20-year period, from 1929 through 1948, which in- cludes the stock market crash of ’29 and the Great Depression, had a positive real rate of return of 3.36 percent,” still 68% higher than the paltry 2% return of Social Security. Since 1926, of course, the average real rate of re- turn on the stock market has been 7.56 percent, nearly 200% higher than that of the government-run social security system. It should come as no surprise that low-income workers would be among the How angry will you be when Social Security collapses? biggest winners if social security were to be billion. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former lion. Dealing with this $9500 billion privatized: a 28-year-old earning $13,500 a navy pilot, put it well when he said: “Con- “whoopsie” will require a drastic cut in ben- year would get just $815 per month from gress is now spending money like a drunken efits or a dramatic tax increase. None of the Social Security but would receive $2,292 if sailor and I’ve never known a sailor, drunk two solutions would work: forcing retirees he invested in a mixed fund that earned a or sober, with the imagination that this Con- to live on substandard benefits while they 5.75 percent return. Those who are com- gress has.” The cost of the recent “$400 have diligently paid their contributions all passionate will support full Social Security billion” Medicare bill only adds to the prob- their lives is simply wrong, while massively privatization, or, at the very least, private lems: its cost is likely to exceed $1 trillion for increasing taxes would be economic suicide. retirement accounts. The Washington Post the decade after 2010 alone, which will re- A different solution is needed. recently reported President Bush will make quire either a massive tax increase or a severe Let’s look abroad for different so- private retirement accounts one of the ma- increase in the national debt as baby lutions. When the Chilean Social Security jor themes of his re-election campaign. boomers begin to retire. According to Mr. system was privatized, every Chilean was While Krugman endlessly defends a sys- Krugman, runaway spending is not to blame given a choice between staying in the pay- tem “created by a Prussian chancellor in the for anything; instead, those evil, evil tax as-you-go system and using a private 19th century” (in the words of Piñera), and cuts are the scourge of mankind. All free- retirement account. 90% chose to enroll in as he writes about the risks “of any private marketers are waiting for an admission from the system of private retirement accounts, investment” in the Times, the only “risk” to Krugman that the tax cuts are at least some- while 10% chose to stay in the pay-as-you- workers that comes from privatization seems what to thank for the 8.2% growth rate in go system that we have here in the United to be that some won’t know what to do with the third quarter of 2003, but don’t hold your States. According to José Piñera, the former their newfound wealth once they retire. breath. Chilean Minister of Labor, as far as the pri- Thanks to the vision and courage Europe has shown the United vate retirement account system is of young leaders such as Mademoiselle States what not to do as it currently tries to concerned, “the Chilean system is run com- Hérold and the impressive free-market poli- find a way out of its economic morass. Of pletely by private companies,” with “15 cies of countries as diverse as Ireland, course, just as France faces a crisis as soon mutual funds competing for workers’ sav- Russia, Estonia and Slovakia, there are good as 2020, when the ratio of workers to pen- ings.” reasons to be optimistic on the subject of a sioners will approach 1 to 1, the United European turnaround in the medium-to-long States faces an equally horrifying monster run, provided the European Commission can in its current “Social Security” system. control its greed and does not dramatically Much like French baby boomers, boost spending at the European level. The American baby boomers will start to retire United States should not have to face en masse in the next few decades, demand- Europe’s economic troubles before it decides ing generous benefits. The unfunded to implement necessary reforms. We should liability of the American “Social Security” take our cue from Europeans and see just system is about $9.5 trillion, or $9500 bil- how painful reforms are when they are de- layed for too long. By optimistic Jurgen Reinhoudt ’06 is a calculations, the Federal Government is Politics Major from Gurnee, scheduled to absorb nearly half of US GDP Illinois. Jurgen lived in Paris Entitlement, entitlement on the wall… some by 2040. We need reform now. Mieux vaut from 1993 to ’98 and will re- would let taxpayers pay it all! US prévenir que guérir. turn this summer as an intern taxpayers face the same crisis as French at a free-market think-tank. taxpayers, but later. JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 17 THE LAST WORD SHOOTING AT PRINCETON Reflections on Club Sports and Gun Control

curred to me that shooting is actually very The people who use guns for com- Brad Heller ’05 therapeutic. It may be hard to believe that pletely unreasonable purposes like firing guns is relaxing, but there is no doubt committing crime generally prefer to obtain When someone learns that I am a that this activity is a big stress reliever. The unregistered firearms through illicit chan- proud member of the Rifle Team, a club sport idea that competitive shooting is an un- nels, thereby circumventing the primary here at Princeton, the most common re- healthy sport that breeds violence among point where gun control is enforced in the sponse by far is “oh…I didn’t know we had our nation’s youth is false. Being raised first place. The center of debate on gun a rifle team”. Then, a moment of awkward among responsible gun owners (although I control issues should therefore focus on silence ensues only to be followed by a slew was not) and being taught respect for fire- preventing future criminals from obtaining of questions about where the team shoots, arms is the key to gun safety. It’s heartening weapons, not the law-abiding citizens who what we shoot at, and if I’m a member of the to hear from a gun control supporter like by definition pose no threat to society. Pro NRA. But of course, there is also the occa- Jon Byers ’05 that even though he was gun control advocates are incorrect in be- sional interlocutor who is actually amused “quite surprised” to hear that Princeton has lieving that more gun control laws are the and even excited to learn that shooting a rifle team, he does not object to marksmen key to a safer world. Instead, the aim of sports are alive and well here at Princeton. or sportsmen owning guns. Jon Walsh ’05 legislators and law enforcement agencies After one too many dirty looks, though, I believes that although “the sport does teach nationwide should be to prevent the spread decided that it is now time to set the record familiarity with what can be a deadly weapon, of arms to individuals with a record of vio- straight and explore the many misconcep- an understanding of firearms mechanically lent offenses. This means targeting illegal tions underlying the phobia of firearms. and an appreciation of their safe handling is arms dealers, not forcing responsible gun Let us start with an anecdote from very worthwhile knowledge both to the in- owners to obtain trigger locks. my experience with the Princeton Rifle Team. dividual and to society.” To make an analogy, the selling and I had never fired a gun before my first trip to Walsh keenly notes that Ameri- possession of cocaine is felonious in every the armory, and I wasn’t sure what to ex- cans depend on “emotion-laden Hollywood state in the union. However, there are thou- pect. When I first met Coach Joe Sundra, a images as their chief source of information sands of individuals nationwide who are in military man of the Vietnam era, he took his on the subject” in lieu of personal experi- the business of the narcotics trade. Is this time in explaining how to safely carry the ence with guns. Meanwhile, tragedies like because the law has inadequately outlawed weapon before showing me how to load and the sniper shootings in the Washington DC this practice, or because the laws are being shoot it. It felt like he was talking for hours, area this past summer or the Columbine in- poorly enforced? The drug dealers are for all I could think about was wrapping my cident where a pair of students fired on their knowingly breaking the law, which is the left hand around the cold steel of the barrel teachers and classmates outside a Colorado same thing that criminals do when they carry and my right finger around the trigger. high school paint an inaccurate picture of concealed weapons in a state in which it is Finally, after showing me how to the kinds of dangers guns pose to the pub- clearly illegal. Making it harder for an ordi- adopt the basic prone position, I loaded the lic. In the hands of the .22 with a round, locked the bolt, and took a deranged, a car can be an look through the sights. My heart was beat- instrument of death, yet ing faster and faster as I anticipated the placing a loaded gun in bang. I heard the explosion next to my ear the possession of a re- and felt the soft push of the rifle against my sponsible adult is shoulder. I got the shot off and smiled. It relatively safe. Why was an exciting and intense experience that should we distrust our fel- I continue to enjoy every time I shoot. low Americans if they Any marksman will tell you, how- should choose to maintain ever, that anxiety only hurts performance. firearms for perfectly rea- Shooting is a sport that requires a great deal sonable uses like hunting of composure, and deep breathing exercises or personal defense? and careful attention to body placement Would you be afraid of a between shots is requisite for precision. 21-year old rape victim There are no angry shooters on the firing who carries a concealed line because tension has a huge impact on pistol for her own protec- accuracy. tion? I surely wouldn’t, In fact, after a few practices, it oc- but a serial rapist will be. 18 · THE PRINCETON TORY JANUARY 2004 THE LAST WORD nary person to purchase a gun has no ef- control in 1996 might only have effected no armed defense from law-abiding citizens. fect on the crook who will obtain one through crime deleteriously in Texas. However, these It would be interesting to further investi- the black market anyway. numbers are misleading. gate if Washington DC is suffering from its Still, many people are convinced Consider the rate of pedestrian prohibition of firearms as much as states that putting more guns on the streets is a deaths per annum in New York, a figure prob- like Texas profit from their regulated prolif- bad idea. Although it seems ably far greater than the national average as eration. counterintuitive at best that more guns well. This difference is not due to one single One last interesting statistic is the could result in less violence, the facts do reason. Demographics like population den- fact that juvenile violent crime in Texas support this theory. The State of Texas has sity and unquantifiable factors like bad dropped 44 percent since 1996, more than served as a model in this argument because, drivers would distort this statistic. Even a double the drop in adult violent crime. It under the leadership of George W. Bush, significant drop in the rate of killed pedes- seems to me that this was as much a result carrying licenses became legal statewide on trians in New York would still probably leave of better education as it was of the fear that January 1, 1996. According to statistics pro- a higher than average rate. The same effect underage criminals had of potentially armed vided by the National Rifle Association’s has served to obfuscate the legitimate victims. Former Governor Bush supported Fact Files, only 2 of the nearly 215,000 per- progress that has been made in reducing the teaching of morals and values in the mit holders in the state committed murder in crime in Texas because absolute rates classroom while urging the use of “tough the first four years of the program. The most instead of rate changes love” to deal with difficult juveniles. staggering evidence comes from the FBI’s are be- i n g Building the characters of troubled teens Uniform Crime Reports which undeniably through well-funded community based show a statewide decline in murder rates to programs also had a positive effect on the their lowest levels since the 1950s and a re- state’s youth. These actions formed the duction of violent crime to 1970 levels. In foundation of Bush’s plan to stop juve- the very short period of 1995 to 1997, a be- niles from committing crimes before it was fore and after look at the effect of the carry too late. Indeed, the institution of juvenile license, murder rates declined by 25 percent boot camps is just one reason why fewer state-wide. The President of the Dallas Po- youngsters chose to commit violent crime. lice Association, Glenn White, originally It is no coincidence that personal opposed the carry license when it was insti- responsibity and the promise that bad de- tuted because he feared a dramatic increase cisions bring disastrous consequences in violent crime. In 2000, White said continue to be the primary rules of the that “all the horror stories I thought range. Respecting the power of the would come to pass didn’t happen…I rifle and understanding the impor- think it’s worked out well, and that says tance of keeping the gun secure are good things about the citizens who instructive lessons in responsibly have permits. I’m a convert.” for all maturing adolescents in an Although the evidence pre- armed society. sented above is persuasive, especially Target shooting is a pacific sport considering White’s change of heart, skep- where ordinary people use the awesome tics say that the drop in crime is not a result compared. As discussed before, violent power of the firearm as a measure of skill. of the relaxed gun laws but instead indica- crime dropped more in Texas than in states The intrigue of owning and shooting guns tive of a national trend. As expected, the that do not have carry permits, suggesting is hardly as macabre as Michael Moore’s half-truths of leftist rhetoric break down yet the possibility that carry permits deter Bowling for Columbine would have you again. In the period from 1995 to 1997, the would-be criminals. Indeed, the FBI reports believe. Rather, the expansion of the carry average drop in murder rates in the states that 784 fewer people were murdered in 2000 license into more states and a compassion- that do not have carry laws was 16 percent, compared to 1994 in Texas, the second larg- ate conservative approach to juvenile which is hardly as significant as the 25 per- est state in the country. The total number offenders will induce Texas-sized reductions cent drop observed in Texas. Additionally, of murder victims in Virginia (a carry license in crime. Such reforms also help to stimulate the gun control supporters indicate that state that ranks 12th in population) in 2000 a healthy dose of discourse about safety as Texas has a higher-than-average murder rate was 401. more and more people understand what it to begin with. Sane Guns is one politically Still, Sane Guns does show that the means to own and shoot guns. Supporting unaffiliated organization that provides sta- rate of robberies in Texas is below the na- competitive shooting sports is the first step tistics on its website, www.saneguns.org. tional average as of 1999. This corroborates towards this worthy goal. Their data show that the rates of aggravated the long-standing theory that an armed citi- assaults, grand larcenies and murders in zenry deters theft. It has also been Brad Heller ’05 is a Texas are higher than the national average independently suggested that the high rate Molecular Biology despite their recent state-wide decline. The of violent crime in the Washington, D.C. major from Long FBI’s statistics also show that the murder area (a city in which civilian-owned guns Island, New York. He rate in Texas is 21 percent higher than the are banned) is due to criminals in Maryland is pursuing a national average. At first glance, these facts and Virginia who find it safer to commit the certificate in seem to indicate that the relaxation of gun same crimes in a city where they need fear Neuroscience. JANUARY 2004 THE PRINCETON TORY · 19 The Tory Spring Lecture Series presents Professor Bradley Birzer Department of History, Hillsdale College Author, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth (2003)

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