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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What I would say to the young women of Princeton

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What I would say to the young women of Princeton

(or any institution of higher education, for that matter ... and precisely what I said to my daughter as she headed off to college — not Princeton) BY PRISCILLA SMART SCHWARZENBACH Class of 1977 Go off to college determined to get the best darn education you can.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Why not?

BY NICOLE CLARKE Class of 2009 I was quite taken aback by the online response to Ms. Patton's letter.The public outcry seemed to tout every possible position from elitism to sexism to antifeminism to she-must-be-totally-crazy-ism.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Take it or leave it

BY LOLITA BUCKNER INNISS Class of 1983, Parent of a member of the Class of 2009 As a woman who attended Princeton and who holds deeply feminist views (and who, full disclosure, has been married for 30 years to the man she dated since freshman week), I have to say that while I disagree with most of Patton’s assertions, I don’t find them especially offensive.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Beyond Princeton

BY KUNLE DEMUREN Class of 2011 My issues with the letter by Susan Patton ’77 published in this paper last Friday would fill up many pages, but for this response, I will focus on just a few.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Advice for the young women of Princeton (and colleges everywhere)

BY HELEN COSTER Class of 1998 As a Princeton woman who’s been out of school for 15 years, I offer my own experience—and the experience of almost all of my female friends — as an argument for why you should ignore Susan Patton’s advice. At Princeton I spent four years taking classes I loved, juggling 10,000 activities and spending time with friends.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A paradox

BY FREDERIC M. SMITH Class of 1962 Susan Patton ’77 may find something to consider in the following paradox: My wife of 26 years went to Berkeley, but she has never failed to interest me every day of my life with her. Yours sincerely, Frederic M.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Marry her!

BY APRIL ALLISTON Professor of Comparative Literature Susan Patton’s letter of March 29 reminds me of a piece that preceded Anne-Marie Slaughter’s in The Atlantic by a few years: “Marry Him!

OPINION | 04/04/2013

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

NEWS: Drone flies at lunch talk on changing nature of privacy

By SARAH CEN Staff Writer Local attorney and privacy advocate Grayson Barber spoke about the increasing availability of drones to the government and general public as well as consequent changes in the nature of privacy at a luncheon held by the Center for Information Technology Policy on Thursday afternoon.

OPINION | 04/04/2013

CARTOON: T-Minus

BY WILLA CHEN Cartoonist

OPINION | 04/03/2013

OPINION: Letter to the Editor: Apr. 4, 2013

Has mental health become a parody? For the past month, photographs of students have been plastered all over campus, from light poles to residential colleges.

OPINION | 04/03/2013

On internet activism

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OPINION | 04/03/2013

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

Bursting the bubble: Craving affordable options off campus

Prianka Misra

Some days, when the numerous tasks that await me do not seem daunting enough — or other times, when they seem too intimidating — I take a break.

OPINION | 04/03/2013

Letter to the Editor: Has mental health become a parody?

For the past month, photographs of students have been plastered all over campus, from light poles to residential colleges.

OPINION | 04/03/2013

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

The educational guild

On the Wednesday before spring break, my dissertation adviser turned 80, an occasion I marked by sending him a card and a couple of recent articles.

OPINION | 04/02/2013

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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