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 Later in the 1930s, apparently deciding Princeton's reputation wasn't quite racist enough, the university's freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>
-Princeton's support both for the Confederacy and Nazism represented the culmination of the school's affiliates shooting themselves in the face, sometimes literally.<ref>"Basil Gildersleeve [Princeton Class of 1849] taught all winter, then jumped into the saddle for summers with the [Confederate] cavalry. In September 1864 he was shot through the thigh in the Valley of Virginia, giving him a lifelong limp: 'I lost my pocket Homer, I lost my pistol, I lost one of my horses, and finally, I came near losing my life.' This was not Gildersleeve’s first wound; as a student he had shot himself in the face while frog-hunting in Scudder’s Swamp in Princeton." http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml?page=2&</ref>
+Princeton's support both for the Confederacy and Nazism represented the culmination of a long tradition of the school's affiliates shooting themselves in the face, sometimes literally.<ref>"Basil Gildersleeve [Princeton Class of 1849] taught all winter, then jumped into the saddle for summers with the [Confederate] cavalry. In September 1864 he was shot through the thigh in the Valley of Virginia, giving him a lifelong limp: 'I lost my pocket Homer, I lost my pistol, I lost one of my horses, and finally, I came near losing my life.' This was not Gildersleeve’s first wound; as a student he had shot himself in the face while frog-hunting in Scudder’s Swamp in Princeton." http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml?page=2&</ref>
 In 1970, Bob Dylan accepted an honorary degree from Princeton, but the experience repulsed him so much that he wrote a song imagining that season's cicada boom was actually a plague of locusts descending on the school.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/93/38I91/index.xml?section=topstories, http://folkmusic.about.com/od/bobdylan/a/Bob-Dylan-PhD.htm</ref> Later, playwright [[Tony Kushner]] ridiculed Princeton during his 2004 [[Class Day]] address. Admittedly, that wasn't exactly very hard to do.

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 During the 19th century, Princeton was known as the Ivy of choice for slaveowning southern families and, later, Confederate veterans' sons. A Princeton alumni magazine article acknowledges this fact by claiming the university was, during the civil war, "in the Confederacy's service".<ref>[http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml Princeton in the Confederacy’s service], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 23 March 2011.</ref> Princeton affiliates were involved in the design of the Confederate flag and seal, and more Princeton alumni died fighting for the Confederacy than for the Union.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Alumni of both Princeton and the war would go on to be active in the KKK.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Woodrow Wilson, who imposed forced segregation on the federal government and dragged the U.S. into the pointless slaughter of the First World War, first came to power as president of Princeton from 1908-1910. As late as 1935, the school newspaper described the university as "the northernmost outpost of southern culture". During the heyday of Jim Crow, this was even less a compliment than it sounds today.
-In the 1930s, Princeton freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>
+Later in the 1930s, apparently deciding Princeton's reputation wasn't quite racist enough, the university's freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>
 Princeton's support both for the Confederacy and Nazism represented the culmination of the school's affiliates shooting themselves in the face, sometimes literally.<ref>"Basil Gildersleeve [Princeton Class of 1849] taught all winter, then jumped into the saddle for summers with the [Confederate] cavalry. In September 1864 he was shot through the thigh in the Valley of Virginia, giving him a lifelong limp: 'I lost my pocket Homer, I lost my pistol, I lost one of my horses, and finally, I came near losing my life.' This was not Gildersleeve’s first wound; as a student he had shot himself in the face while frog-hunting in Scudder’s Swamp in Princeton." http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml?page=2&</ref>

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 * A strong emphasis on undergraduate education
 * Upper-level [http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar-slideshow#slide=23 douchiness]
-* Historical support for Hitler, the Confederacy, and the KKK (see below)
+* Historical support for white supremacist causes from Hitler to the Confederacy to the KKK (see below)
 *"Kids who know the difference between this season and last season's J.Press catalogs, and will bore you with the details."<ref>http://www.observer.com/2010/slideshow/125504/princeton-university</ref>

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 Princeton subsequently graduated [[Aaron Burr]], who was so upset at the inferior quality of his education that he killed Hamilton in a jealous fit of rage. This was one of many reasons that the [[Philolexian Society]] declared war on Princeton in [[1987]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/legacy_content/content/archives/war/ Declaration of War on the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton]</ref>
-During the 19th century, Princeton was known as the Ivy of choice for slaveowning southern families and, later, Confederate veterans' sons. A Princeton alumni magazine article acknowledges this fact by claiming the university was, during the civil war, "in the Confederacy's service".<ref>[http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml Princeton in the Confederacy’s service], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 23 March 2011.</ref> Alumni of both Princeton and the war would go on to be active in the KKK.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Woodrow Wilson, who imposed forced segregation on the federal government and dragged the U.S. into the pointless slaughter of the First World War, first came to power as president of Princeton from 1908-1910.
+During the 19th century, Princeton was known as the Ivy of choice for slaveowning southern families and, later, Confederate veterans' sons. A Princeton alumni magazine article acknowledges this fact by claiming the university was, during the civil war, "in the Confederacy's service".<ref>[http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml Princeton in the Confederacy’s service], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 23 March 2011.</ref> Princeton affiliates were involved in the design of the Confederate flag and seal, and more Princeton alumni died fighting for the Confederacy than for the Union.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Alumni of both Princeton and the war would go on to be active in the KKK.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Woodrow Wilson, who imposed forced segregation on the federal government and dragged the U.S. into the pointless slaughter of the First World War, first came to power as president of Princeton from 1908-1910. As late as 1935, the school newspaper described the university as "the northernmost outpost of southern culture". During the heyday of Jim Crow, this was even less a compliment than it sounds today.
 In the 1930s, Princeton freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>

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 * A strong emphasis on undergraduate education
 * Upper-level [http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar-slideshow#slide=23 douchiness]
-* Historical support for Hitler and even more for the Confederacy (see below)
+* Historical support for Hitler, the Confederacy, and the KKK (see below)
 *"Kids who know the difference between this season and last season's J.Press catalogs, and will bore you with the details."<ref>http://www.observer.com/2010/slideshow/125504/princeton-university</ref>

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	In the 1930s, Princeton freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>		In the 1930s, Princeton freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>
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		+	Princeton's support both for the Confederacy and Nazism represented the culmination of the school's affiliates shooting themselves in the face, sometimes literally.<ref>"Basil Gildersleeve [Princeton Class of 1849] taught all winter, then jumped into the saddle for summers with the [Confederate] cavalry. In September 1864 he was shot through the thigh in the Valley of Virginia, giving him a lifelong limp: 'I lost my pocket Homer, I lost my pistol, I lost one of my horses, and finally, I came near losing my life.' This was not Gildersleeve’s first wound; as a student he had shot himself in the face while frog-hunting in Scudder’s Swamp in Princeton." http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml?page=2&</ref>

	In 1970, Bob Dylan accepted an honorary degree from Princeton, but the experience repulsed him so much that he wrote a song imagining that season's cicada boom was actually a plague of locusts descending on the school.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/93/38I91/index.xml?section=topstories, http://folkmusic.about.com/od/bobdylan/a/Bob-Dylan-PhD.htm</ref> Later, playwright [[Tony Kushner]] ridiculed Princeton during his 2004 [[Class Day]] address. Admittedly, that wasn't exactly very hard to do.		In 1970, Bob Dylan accepted an honorary degree from Princeton, but the experience repulsed him so much that he wrote a song imagining that season's cicada boom was actually a plague of locusts descending on the school.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/93/38I91/index.xml?section=topstories, http://folkmusic.about.com/od/bobdylan/a/Bob-Dylan-PhD.htm</ref> Later, playwright [[Tony Kushner]] ridiculed Princeton during his 2004 [[Class Day]] address. Admittedly, that wasn't exactly very hard to do.

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 Princeton subsequently graduated [[Aaron Burr]], who was so upset at the inferior quality of his education that he killed Hamilton in a jealous fit of rage. This was one of many reasons that the [[Philolexian Society]] declared war on Princeton in [[1987]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/legacy_content/content/archives/war/ Declaration of War on the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton]</ref>
-During the 19th century, Princeton was known as the Ivy of choice for slaveowning southern families and, later, Confederate veterans' sons. Woodrow Wilson, who imposed forced segregation on the federal government and dragged the U.S. into the pointless slaughter of the First World War, first came to power as president of Princeton from 1908-1910.
+During the 19th century, Princeton was known as the Ivy of choice for slaveowning southern families and, later, Confederate veterans' sons.<ref>[http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2011/03/23/pages/4092/index.xml Princeton in the Confederacy’s service], Princeton Alumni Weekly, 23 March 2011.</ref> Woodrow Wilson, who imposed forced segregation on the federal government and dragged the U.S. into the pointless slaughter of the First World War, first came to power as president of Princeton from 1908-1910.
 In the 1930s, Princeton freshmen voted Hitler "greatest living person alive". This may have been forgivable if they hadn't done so again, in November 1939 - after Hitler had already invaded Poland and after Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Their choice might have also made even a little more sense if Princeton students hadn't voted Hitler superior to both Einstein and Gandhi.<ref>http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E12F63F5A11728DDDA10A94D9415B898FF1D3</ref>

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-'''Princeton University''' is the Anti-Columbia. Think of it as the [[Ivy League]] Anti-Christ. They stand for everything we hate:
+'''Princeton University''' is the Anti-Columbia. Think of it as the [[Ivy League]] Anti-Christ.
 * [[New Jersey]] (There's a reason we call Princeton the deodorant<ref>it isn't quite strong enough</ref> in the armpit of America)