Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber: a Professor on Life at the University Under His Leadership
Rufo: Conversely, how are white and Jewish men on the faculty responding?
Professor: Largely by being quiet and afraid. A scientific department had displayed photographs of all the previous department chairs for the last 70 years all white men, many of them Jewish. One day, all the pictures disappeared. The administration had removed them from the wall because someone found it objectionable that all these white men should be staring down at them. And yet, a number of those men were key in bringing black students to Princeton in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. But none of that history matters: it s just a bunch of whites faces, so they removed all the photographs, and no one objected no one.
Rufo: And how do you hope that this conflict between Trump and Princeton will resolve?
Professor: I want this university severely punished for its unlawful behavior. I want discovery; I want all the emails to come out that will make it very evident that this university was engaged in illegal discrimination. I want President Eisgruber subpoenaed before Congress to have to account for not only anti-Semitism, but for DEI and for the systemic racism arguments that he s made. I want him to be publicly put on the stand. That s what ultimately will deeply embarrass this university.
The anonymous professor may get his wish.
Christopher Rufo.