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More than half of voters say administrators ignore student opinion
Published: Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Students have mixed views of administrators’ performance, the results of the referendum included on the USG’s spring ballot show. The USG released the results yesterday after a one-day delay because of problems with the coding of the elections website.
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Good for Dean Dunne! By far my favorite among the whole-campus authority figures.
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Administrators argue that students give input, but they specifically choose students who will parrot their views to sit on committees with them.
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Well, the old adage is that you ignore student opinion because they'll be gone in 4 years and then nobody will remember how it "used to be". I saw this plenty of times during my tenure under this administration's beginning. I would LOVE for the focus of Princeton to return to undergraduate education instead of the "large research institution with a liberal arts feel" that the current President espouses. Princeton has always performed fabulous research, but I preferred the school when that part went as an unstated given (like the fact that professors are PhDs and you don't call them "Doctor So-and-so").
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And apparently, the longer you stay at Princeton, the more you come to hate the administration. A sad state of affairs, but true! The student doesn't take student voices into account, and their unreasonable and ridiculous policies (GRADE DEFLATION, awful PDF policy, ResCol aggressiveness, alcohol policy) make the Princeton experience worse and worse, along with less and less like the way Princeton should be, year after year. If they had simply asked a few students, we could have TOLD them how awful these would be, and maybe suggested ways to implement them that wouldn't ruin our time here. But they didn't ask, go along on their merry way, and now I'd rather tell Pre-frosh to go elsewhere.
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If Princeton's staff was polled you would probably see the same results. It's time for the administration to stop running a huge money-making corporation and refocus on educating!
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