Posted on 05/24/2004 8:23:47 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PRINCETON BOROUGH - To the Princeton University Store, a surge in shoplifting arrests during the past few months is the result of a business move: a new, cutting-edge surveillance camera system.
To the police, the dozen arrests they've made at the campus shop are the product of good investigative work by highly motivated security officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Newsday posted a similar piece that was rewritten by the AP, but that article had some interesting details edited out.
What else should one expect when the university is engaged full-time in training good little leftists who know instinctively that rules don't apply to them?
Doesn't that just say it all.
You wouldn't find this at Yale! </sarcasm>
"I was on probation already and this on top of that, my housing (is in jeopardy) and they're talking about suspending me."
But the burning question is - will they offer FISTING 101 this fall?
And even if they didn't arrive at Princeton with that instinct, they'll get taught by Princeton 'ethics' professor Peter Singer that traditional notions of good and evil are just ... not nuanced enough for elitist sophisticates.
You can't fault the students for practicing their skills as future political leaders of this country.
This article says more about the state of this nation than hundreds of others published by "reputable" journals.
Cochran said he was not shoplifting, but putting items he intended to buy in a crate and mistakenly left the store with the crate. He said the magazines were clip art for the campus magazine BAMN! he publishes and that the university reimburses him for costs.
"I had no incentive to steal these magazines," Cochran said. He plans to fight the charges. But what really upset Cochran, he said, was that during his arrest the police found a fake Ohio driver's license in his wallet.
He was charged with possession of a fictitious driver's license, a felony. "I was on probation already and this on top of that, my housing (is in jeopardy) and they're talking about suspending me."
Ladies and gentlemen: the Democratic nominee for the office of the presidency, in 2024.
Each sentence is a judgement on today's society. There is a month's worth of commentary here.
Check out these:
"Nobody wants to think that a Princeton University student, a future secretary of state . . . would dare to commit a shoplifting."
`I didn't know,' the `I'm sorry - I used poor judgment' responses"
"You don't get it, what did your parents teach you? We're talking about a value system here. Thou shall not steal."
"They are young adults, the top 1 percent of the U.S. population, academically and sociologically."
"Most of the cases, he said, have yet to be decided because many have retained lawyers"
"What troubles me is that some of the students feel that they are so privileged, that they have the privilege (to steal)."
That's exactly what these thieves are counting on.
But after a reporter read a double-digit list of students arrested recently, Margolin was a bit stunned. "I have definitely not heard anything about this," he said.
Later, Margolin said: "I think Princeton students are, for as smart as they are and as talented as they are, normal kids. . . . I guess some people make mistakes."
Arrogant little elitist, isn't he?
Sadly, people on both ends of the economic spectrum who have things handed to them all their lives have a sense of entitlement. Those who have to work know the value of "things".
"What troubles me is that some of the students feel that they are so privileged, that they have the privilege (to steal)."
You could probably add to that: 'Earning something and paying for it is for 'little people'. And It's just a little bit of 'stuff' - 'everyone does it', what's the big deal?
Pretty scary that these kid's are considered to be in the top 1 percent.
Notice that "I made poor choices" garbage that should excuse anything they do. Kids are taught that line in kindergarten now instead of learning that what they did was WRONG and should be punished.
Maybe they should try the, "I'm sorry if I offended anyone" so-called apology. That seems to be the norm these days.
Princeton students, Citron said, are not 14-year-olds acting out. "They are young adults, the top 1 percent of the U.S. population, academically and sociologically."
They do have good grades; they are lacking in morals or class.
The arrests, Citron said, have him asking, "You don't get it, what did your parents teach you? We're talking about a value system here. Thou shall not steal."
Words to live by. Where have I heard those before?
Nobody wants to have a young person tarred with a criminal conviction for a mistake, Citron said. "But I am seeing too many `mistakes' and I wonder how to stop it," Citron said. "It's a pattern."
Here's a novel idea: start holding students accountable for their actions.
Later, Margolin said: "I think Princeton students are, for as smart as they are and as talented as they are, normal kids. . . . I guess some people make mistakes."
"What troubles me is that some of the students feel that they are so privileged, that they have the privilege (to steal)."
I wonder where they could have gotten this notion.
Steve McQueen! Pick up the white phone!
I go to this store frequently. Its physical layout is extremely insecure. I'm not surprised there's a lot of shoplifting, though I'd expect it to be mostly "townies" -- the story just says 10 Princeton students were caught shoplifting, it doesn't say how many others were caught shoplifting.
With undergraduate tuition at Princeton hovering around $30, 000 a year, there some question of who's stealing from whom.
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