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E-PrinceIn her first public address at Princeton since leaving in 2004, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann challenged universities to combat the underrepresentation of middle-class students on college campuses and to act in a “publicly defensible way.”
Gutmann, a former ...
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President Gutmann responded to a question about her university's $15 million investment in HEI Hotels & Resorts, but she forgot to mention the university's continued patronage of an HEI-owned hotel that is under boycott. Why doesn't the university honor the boycott?
- Penn student
Nobody cares about Penn.
- Princeton student
Nobody cares about the Ivy League.
It's ironic that public safety officers were called in to protect Gutmann from student questions about Penn and Princeton's unethical investment in HEI (and refusal to pressure HEI to change its policies) but no one is protecting HEI workers who are in actual physical danger from their working conditions and inability to unionize due to HEI scare tactics. It's even more ironic that Gutmann's lecture was essentially a complaint against issues of inequality. Good for those Penn and Princeton students who are making efforts to hold Gutmann and Tilghman's feet to the fire.
I do agree though about the issue of students from middle income families. I totally understand that admission is need-based but income does not necessarily equal available income and it seems unless your parents earn nothing at all, or lie about it, top schools are really expensive to be in.
I second Swarthmore Student.
then why are you reading the daily prince?
One of my parents teaches at Princeton.
The sad thing is, people care even less about Swarthmore.
"The data showed that students from the third and fourth family-income quintiles are underrepresented by 8.4 percent in each quintile. That number is “almost twice the underrepresentation of the two lowest quintiles combined,” she added."
Doesn't that imply that the 5th quintile isn't underrepresented at all? Why couldn't she just say that?