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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Baseless assertions

BY H. CAROL BERNSTEIN Parent of a member of the Class of 2016 As an advanced-degreed executive officer of a publicly-traded technology company who has 28 years of experience in both for profit and academic institutions focused on science and technology (and Princeton parent of a male student), Susan Patton's March 29, 2013 Letter to the Editor appears wholly inconsistent with my personal experience as a wife, mother, friend and professional, as well as mentor and sponsor to various men and women throughout my career and 20-plus-year marriage. Moreover, her regressive beliefs, which appear to be based on little more than her own unhappy circumstances, detract from the important responsibilities those of us who are more senior in our careers and lives have to those younger men and women in our personal and professional communities of various academic and socioeconomic backgrounds who look to us for some guidance, assistance and example with regard to career development, "balance", leadership and social responsibility. Compatibility and success — whether in the personal or professional realm — are borne of many things but generally arise from and are sustained by common values; superficial measures such as equating mutual attendance at certain academic institutions with a priori "intellectual equality", or other of the snobbish inanities proffered by Patton, serve as false proxies for them. Furthermore, Patton's baseless assertions regarding the issues with which current college and newly post-college age women and men are supposedly concerned, and ignorance of the broad dissemination and availability of, and discussion related to, information regarding such issues (including the active debates of the past year alone engendered by thoughtful views of various individuals such as Anne-Marie Slaughter and Sheryl Sandberg like the very one in which Patton "participated"), make me question her supposed qualifications as a "human resources consultant and executive coach", or at least why any entity or individual who has read her letter would ever consider hiring her for anything even remotely related thereto. H.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

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Dear Ms. Princeton ’77

When I first applied to Princeton, I never would have thought that it would be illustrated as prime grounds for husband-hunting, but according to President of the Class of 1977 Susan Patton, we would be missing out if we didn?t treat Princeton as such.

OPINION | 04/03/2013

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Great expectations

Events of the past week have caused me to reflect quite a bit on what going to Princeton means. The reality of the Class of 2017 prompted me to think back over my four years and what Princeton means to me.

OPINION | 04/02/2013

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Anthropomorphized mediocrity

Mediocrity is an old, bitter foe. For years my greatest fear has been to take mediocrity as my companion, one that would forever hold me back from the longed-for Land of Greatness. All this time I have fantasized about drawing out my sword and defeating Mediocrity in one swift, fatal battle.

OPINION | 04/02/2013

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OPINION: Anthropomorphized mediocrity

BY ZEERAK AHMED Columnist Mediocrity is an old, bitter foe. For years my greatest fear has been to take mediocrity as my companion, one that would forever hold me back from the longed-for Land of Greatness. All this time I have fantasized about drawing out my sword and defeating Mediocrity in one swift, fatal battle.

OPINION | 04/02/2013