Selecting performers for a college music festival can be a thankless job. Musical tastes vary, and students crave a big name. Last spring, Princeton University’s student government, which organizes the college’s Lawnparties festivals, was seen on campus as having come up short on star power. So this year, it hired the rapper Big Sean, whose most recent album topped the Billboard charts. But now it faces criticism of a different sort, from students who say the rapper’s lyrics are misogynistic and not the ideal choice while Princeton and other colleges have been trying to combat sexual misconduct. “For so many reasons, we should not be inviting him at this time,” said Rebecca Basaldua, 21, a senior from Edinburg, Tex., who started a petition calling for the rapper’s invitation to be rescinded.

April 27, 2015 ・ From The New York Times