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To: AnAmericanMother
I just throw the alumni magazine in the trash -- it's become so radical that it isn't worth reading. Every article is extremely slanted from a far left perspective, and the letters to the editor are insane -- frothing, spittle-flinging conservative-bashing, to the point of attacking the few conservative letter-writers personally.

If liberals have infiltrated the alumni magazine, that's about as bad as you can get.

19 posted on 02/25/2010 6:47:41 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
It was a deliberate move on the part of the university.

For years and years, the alumni magazine was published by the alumni association. A few years ago, the university took the magazine away from the alumni association and put it in the hands of a new group (that's run by the university).

They said at the time it was for financial reasons, but the sharp left turn of the magazine miraculously coincided with the takeover.

My daughter was wait-listed at Princeton, and I could have gotten her in by calling home every favor I had with everybody I know. But she is a conservative Catholic girl, and she was lukewarm about going to the place - her thumbnail analysis was "too big, too liberal, too secular". She wound up going to Davidson College, an excellent small Presbyterian school in North Carolina. She has absolutely loved it, made lots of good friends, and graduates this year in Biology with a minor in Religion.

I think Davidson is a lot like Princeton used to be -- she says many of the profs are liberal, but they encourage differing points of view. In fact, she got kudos from both faculty and students for standing up for the conservative Catholic viewpoint in religion classes . . . .

Time magazine did a cover story on a kid who was admitted to Princeton but decided to go to Davidson instead. Naturally that magazine was very much in evidence around campus during Parents' Weekend. They probably bought the entire press run (nobody else seems to be much interested in Time these days).

21 posted on 02/25/2010 7:01:55 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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