2008 Woodie Awards
The Student Bill of Rights here at Princeton passed. Was this perhaps due to the tone of faint praise the Daily Princetonian editorial board took in telling students not to vote for it?
The editorial board’s convention-bound logic on this matter, as on the LGBT center, has been rather gutless.
Newark Mayoral elections have interested me for a while, even before I came to New Jersey. It might be because of the disintegration of the city over the years, or just because of Roth’s books, but NPR covers the 2002 election story a bit here. I find it fascinating how they called the 2002 race (maybe in an earlier broadcast) a classic case of machine politics still at work.
Something they said here really struck me, and reminded me of an earlier post on PPN about intelligent minority students (primarily black, hispanic) being told they are “acting white” when they succeed. Here, the incumbent Sharpe James in one of his speeches in the race 4 years ago implied that Cory Booker wasn’t “black” enough, although he had lived in a housing project for I think over a year in order to figure out how people in Newark actually lived.
If I remember correctly, Sharpe in that election was backed pretty strongly by the police department and other community organizations, and he won. This year, he’s not running, but Booker doesn’t have it easy. An article in the New York Times Friday talked about Booker voting for a land deal in 2001 that he’s now actively denouncing as part of his campaign. There are some quotes from Obama, which I think are very interesting, about people needing to make an issue since he’s not really facing anyone in the election. It’s an interesting case. I don’t know where I stand on this, since I think this kind of clear contradiction may point to a bigger issue, but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on this one. I don’t think Booker would have overlooked or forgotten this issue when he was planning for the 2006 race.
The Daily Princetonian has sided with Asheesh on this one.
The Nebraska legislature recently passed a law to segregate the Omaha school district into three seperate districts based on race, one that is mostly white, one mostly black, and the third mostly Hispanic. You can see the article here. One might have thought the New York Times was pulling a line from The Onion with this article, but unfortunately, unlike The Onion, it is true and very serious.
For the mostly white population that make up the suburbia surrounding Omaha, where most students in schools are minorities, and the minorities who live within the city to oppose forced integration is understandable. No one likes busing. But to choose the opposite extreme, of creating racially divided districts to preserve in stone the differences, is morally indefensible. Nebraska’s legislature may have taken one backward step in passing the law, but should it be implemented, then it will be one giant backward leap for mankind.
US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, re: Iraq:
“American taxpayers expect their money to be spent properly. We are not going to invest the resources of the American people into forces run by people who are sectarian,” he said at a rare news conference.
Though the Washington Monthly may find this reasonable, I never understood statements like this. Do you have to be an atheist to be non-sectarian? How do you define that anyways? I just don’t get it. If we held those standards to the U.S., which states would lose federal funding?
Just wanted to point out that Asheesh Siddique along with Juliann Vikse, the publisher for the Princeton Tory, appeared on the front page of the Prince today–two profiles of two very interesting people.
The Winter Olympics are inequitable? I know what you mean. I have never skied before either.
Even though I could afford to, I suppose.
All I have is this outrageous photo, but not its location or context. I know its real, though.
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