Princeton's Financial Aid Office: Subsidizing Jet-Set Arsonists While Rome Burns

It’s no surprise to me that the increasingly despotic Tilghman junta has ignored my letters and continued its mad and arguably treasonous policy of admitting foreign students in wartime. But this new scheme to give them 400 dollars (hatched, as usual without consulting anyone outside the nomenklatura) came like a bolt from the blue.

The money is intended to allow international students on financial aid to either go home or to pay for food if they remain on campus. I wondered for a moment whether this might not be a clever ploy to get a substantial number of foreigners out of the country, giving the administration an opportunity to quickly and quietly engineer insurmountable bureaucratic obstacles to their re-entry, but such stealth and courage is clearly beyond the West College clowns.

No, the sad and simple truth is that, in these perilous times, the administration is funding the free passage of just that class of aliens who are most likely to be infected with the insanity of the over-educated and the ingrained resentment of the radicalized poor. And atheism. These are precisely the impassioned mediocrities who are happy to be agitators in radical movements of various kinds.

To crown the comedy, Mirela Hristova (a notorious Slav) , the head of the International Students Association at Princeton, claims that the 400 dollars per person is ‘inadequate’ for those who want to go home, and so the University should give graded sums based on how far away the student lives. They are not satisfied until everybody gets exactly what he wants.

Now, the United Nations has probably by now declared a universal human right to go home for Christmas, but I was raised with the understanding that you can’t always get what you want, and not always as easily as some other people can. Life is not fair. Confrontation of that bedrock fact should be part of the education that Princeton offers its students. Furthermore, suffering builds character and inspires art and reflection. Has the University not considered the possibility that by preventing a measure of hardship among the international students they may be stunting their growth and forestalling artistic depressions which may enrich world literature immeasurably? The question is well worth pondering.