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EVERYONE MUST KNOW THIS – OVERNIGHT:  We alert you to the latest trendy class available, for those who require the very best in cocktail-party conversation.  From College Fix:   Princeton University is offering a course this spring semester called “Nuclear Princeton: An Indigenous Approach to Science and the Environment,” which seeks to connect nuclear science to settler colonialism.  “How do we grapple with the lasting, unintended impacts of conducting science, engineering, and medicine in ‘the nation’s service and service of humanity?’” the course description says, with reference to Princeton’s motto. “What lessons can we learn from the University’s past to conduct morally sound research and generate culturally inclusive knowledge?”  Students will learn about the Ivy League university’s history with nuclear science and how it relates to the perspective of Native Americans.  “Course readings touch on interdisciplinary topics: the university’s past and present engagements with nuclear science, engineering, the nuclear arms race, and anti-nuclear movements, along with Indigenous perspectives on land, sovereignty, and indigeneity,” the syllabus states.  I gotta be there.  I mean, you get a class like this once in a lifetime.  So I'm not a Princeton student.  So what?  I can try to audit the class as an oppressed person.  I'll get on a list.

January 31, 2022