The tired admonition of youth voter participation is simply no longer valid, a feat our generation doesn’t get enough credit for. If there’s a trend out there that we really need to counter, it’s this belief that we aren’t active. I think the general electorate stands to gain a lot by better acknowledging the growing importance of youth voters.
While reality television has launched many a CNR, with the rise of social media, we move away from the traditional CNR pattern to the introduction of self-made CNRs. These self-mades jolt into the public eye without so much as a Celebutante Ball or wardrobe malfunction.
The way she saw it, loads of kids come into Princeton having done community service by volunteering throughout high school, but something happens during their time here, and, instead of graduating loads of kids into not-for-profit, volunteer-oriented jobs, we place them at consulting firms, banks or other corporate entities. This career trajectory was presented as a non sequitur for the once civically minded. She wanted to know: What was it that happened?
We at Princeton are a privileged bunch — we are expected to become leaders and to have the ability to create change. We ought to use this expectation to benefit the world and to hold ourselves to that higher standard, in earnest and in jest. Because there is no reason a Princeton woman should be less likely, or believe herself less capable, to run for an elected position than a Princeton man.
I’m struck by the constant rejection of, or even outright disdain for, any implication that financial or economic thinking is anything other than Devil worship, countered to the pure good of public service or simple love for a profession.
