Wrapping Up

Thanks to everyone who has helped out this past year and semester. Since January we've postered for Valentine's Day, hosted study breaks and two sessions of "Ask an Anscomber Anything", and enjoyed two Anscombe seminar series, with Dr. Matthew O'Brien and with Professor Christopher Tollefsen. Thanks to GE, Monday Morning Links is now back. (One of our next projects will be improving the blog in earnest - if you're interested in writing please email me: apollnow@princeton.edu).

We will not be holding regular club meetings for the rest of the semester--the officers will meet to plan for next year, and other than that we will meet as a club only if something comes up. So there will be no meeting on Friday; however, two upcoming events which may be of interest:

TONIGHT (May 2): "Demographic Winter," a film screening hosted by Princeton Pro-Life in the Frist West TV Lounge at 9pm.

June 1, 4:30pm - Pro-Life, Pro-Family Reception. Featuring free food and sympathetic alumni, professors, students, and community members, this event will be on the Friday of reunions in Butler 1915 room.

I hope you all finish up your semester victoriously. It has been a pleasure working with you this year.

Monday Morning Links

Pre-Frosh Debrief

After a couple of busy weeks, we have finished welcoming the pre-frosh. We met a number of fresh faces at both of the activities fairs, and hosted two delicious open houses (with Bent Spoon cupcakes). Pre-frosh who are interested in Anscombe or have questions about Princeton can email me: apollnow@princeton.edu.

Welcome Pre-Frosh!

This Friday the Anscombe Society is hosting a study break (a "chastitea," in fact) to welcome prospective Princeton students. The event will be from 8:00pm-9:00pm in the 1915 room of Butler. (The room is on the north side of the building, separated from the rest of it by an arch.) Join us!
Tomorrow at 4:30pm in Murray-Dodge 22 we will be hosting an informal dinner discussion. All are welcome, and Anscombe members will answer questions on behalf of themselves (rather than the club). The Facebook link can be found here.
Alas, in the busyness of school we've rather neglected the blog. A few articles of note:

Today in the Daily Princetonian there was a charming article about all the places on campus to find condoms. Barely worthy of comment.

Yesterday their Editorial Board also ran an editorial on expanding gender neutral housing. A reply is in the works.

Last week I also published an op-ed arguing that it's proper to discuss sex normatively in the public sphere.

Monday Morning Links will return very soon.
Since I'm not a utilitarian, this doesn't do much to undermine utilitarianism for me. Still, there is something fitting about it. From the article:

"Dr Bartels and Dr Pizarro... found a strong link between utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas (push the fat guy off the bridge) and personalities that were psychopathic, Machiavellian or tended to view life as meaningless. Utilitarians, this suggests, may add to the sum of human happiness, but they are not very happy people themselves."

The Anscombe Society starts back up today. This Fall we are hosting an ongoing discussion about sexual ethics on campus. It starts this afternoon (Friday, September 16) at 4:30pm. The first discussion will be on Sex on a Saturday Night and the extent to which we should discuss values in the public sphere.

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