Please keep in mind: Princeton has no problem whatsoever with being exclusive — admitting some students, and rejecting others. They would reject you and me, regardless of our abilities. Because, you know: Princeton.

Princeton Ends Latin, Greek Requirement for Classics Majors ‘To Address Systemic Racism’
Breitbart | 30 May 2021 | Ashley Oliver

Princeton University will no longer require students to take Latin or ancient Greek to earn a classics degree, a change that comes as part of a larger effort “to address systemic racism” on campus.

Princeton faculty approved the elimination of the Classic’s Department’s “classics track,” which required students to have an intermediate proficiency in one of the two languages before entering the track.

Classics professor Josh Billings, director for undergraduate studies, said faculty believe the change will improve the Classics Department because it will add “new perspectives” to it.

“Having people who come in who might not have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community,” Billings said.

The changes were given “new urgency” because of Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s call to “to address systemic racism.”

At first I thought this was the Babylon Bee, especially since Josh Billings was a humorist who was a contemporary of Mark Twain, and specialized in making very obviously stupid Princeton-like pronouncements.

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