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Christopher Eisgruber’s Moronic Inferno

JL;DR SUMMARY Princeton University's President Christopher Eisgruber's new book, while arguing in favor of academia's role in protecting free speech, is critiqued for its self-congratulatory tone and apparent neglect of significant issues on campuses. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Free SpeechPrinceton UniversityHigher EducationCampus PoliticsRacial IssuesChristopher EisgruberJoshua KatzUniversity AdministrationAcademic GovernanceLorgia García Peña

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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"But Garca Pea, who appears to have suffered no professional consequences, spoke in a polite tone, modulated her voice with apparent humility, and conformed to the measured, if craven, idiom that prevails in academia. In other words, she delivered her remarks with what her intended victimPrinceton University President Christopher L. Eisgrubermight call terms of respect."
California, United States
"It certainly has brought us a depressingly long way from University of California President Clark Kerrs 1958 reduction of a university presidents major challenges to sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Eisgruber ironically lauds Kerrwho was eventually fired by then state governor Ronald Reaganas a free-speech hero, leaving out both that tellingly modest quote and Kerrs later reflection that his approach to free speech during the turbulent 1960s had amounted to a series of blunders for which he had no excuse."

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