![]() ![]() No wonder Spitzer and his friends want to revise history. After a year of Eliot Spitzer running student government, the ALF swept to electoral victory, dealing a humiliating rebuke to self-important would-be pols. "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAMPUS REVOLUTIONARIES? (PRINCETON STYLE, SORT OF)": On campus, he was a leader of the ever powerful Antarctica Liberation Front, the group that 18 years ago pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in USG election history by taking most of the top spots and, in one of the group's first official acts, declared war on The Hun School (reports were unsubstantiated that the ALF demanded a recount upon winning the election).Īnother ALF platform plank was to annex all the spaces between the yellow lines on highways. Google turns up a brief reminscience in our class notes: The descriptive facts are absurdly off-especially that self-serving line about "hard-partying frat boys." The Antarctica Liberation Front, whose then-dadaist slogan was Jihad (it's not so funny today), was a satirical party of-I say this in the most flattering and self-identifying way-nerds: brilliant, quirky, funny, intellectual guys who make Eliot Spitzer look like a frat boy. (Unlike many schools, Princeton had low student fees, so the student government didn't control a huge money pot.) The general point is correct: Only resume-polishing student-council weenies like Eliot Spitzer thought being president of the student body was a big deal. 'Even without Jihad, the slate would have been pretty thin." 'It wasn't an office that I recall many people fighting for,' one of Spitzer's fellow-students said. ![]() Candidates for office included a 'Jihad Party,' made up of hard-partying frat boys who wore towels and face masks. "Princeton at the start of the nineteen-eighties was hardly a hotbed of political activism. It's the first of these facts that is relevant to a shocking (to me) misstatement of history in Cassidy's profile: I didn't like Eliot Spitzer when he was using his eating club connections to get good coverage in The Daily Princetonian, and I don't like him now. ![]() So if you know anyone who could benefit from reading this book, both parents and teenagers, consider sending it to them as a gift, because College Daze will probably be the most important-and most referenced-book a college student will ever own.This week's New Yorker brings a John Cassidy profile of crusading NY attorney general Eliot Spitzer. Yes, College Daze is going to upset a lot of helicopter parents out there who think their teenagers are, and always will be, little angels, even when they enter college.Īnd they might actually be little angels, but at college they’re going to be exposed to a lot of young adults who aren’t, and they need to be ready for it. ![]() This is that guide.Ĭollege Daze was written solely for the purpose of helping students avoid the most common perils and pitfalls of college life, a brutally pragmatic guide that will teach you everything that every other college student, myself included, had to learn the hard way, from avoiding venereal diseases to dealing with a*****e landlords, evil sorority sisters, student loan counselors, and campus cops.Īnd if you’re a parent of teenagers who are headed to college, hope for the best while preparing for the worst by reading this book. What college students need is a guide that will tell them exactly what problems to expect and the best ways to deal with them a guide that will help keep them on track, prevent them from making common yet serious mistakes, and see them through right up to graduation day. They drop out because their new life away from home-a life free from parental authority and rife with addictive distractions-is suddenly too much for them to handle. Think about it: College students don't drop out because their classes are too difficult. ![]()
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