Donor Interference - Princeton was on NPR the other day, but not for a good reason. It seems that a wealthy benefactor wants a very hefty chunk of our endowment (over $500 million) back. As this WaPo explainer relates, the Robertson family that underwrote the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Woody Woo in local parlance) says the institution isn't doing enough to send its graduates into government service. Since this was the stated purpose of their 1961 gift, the Robertsons think they have the right to get their money back and have sued. The school retorts that public service is broader than the federal bureaucracy: "Given a choice between stamping passports at some U.S. consulate and, say, working for an international agency establishing health clinics in Tajikistan, most students would hop an airplane to central Asia." Eh, we politics majors always thought the WWS'ers were tools anyway, but the plaintiffs sound like spoiled rich kids to me. Can't we all just get along?