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Lenahan questions basis for grade deflation

Lenahan questions basis for grade deflation

As if students needed another reason to dislike the University's grade deflation policy, USG president Alex Lenahan '07 is now suggesting that there may not have been inflated grades to begin with.In a 775-word email sent to students Wednesday night, Lenahan claimed that the academic caliber of students admitted during the 1990s rose at an even greater rate than that at which grades were inflated.To support this assertion, Lenahan referenced a 1998 article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) concerning the increase in so-called "academic 1's and 2's" accepted to the University between the classes of 1993 and 2002.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Me write pretty one day

Wei Ho '09 is coached by visiting Japanese research calligrapher Koji Kakinuma in 185 Nassau Thursday.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Einstein dies!

The following is a copy of an article written by R. W. Apple, Jr. '57 on Friday, April 18, 1955, the day Albert Einstein died.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

A man of The Times

Raymond W. Apple, Jr. '57, a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian who spent more than 40 years traveling the world as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times, died yesterday in Washington.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Vandals spraypaint campus Rutgers red

Two days after Whig Hall was tagged with graffiti, unknown vandals ? apparently Rutgers students ? returned Wednesday to finish the job, spray-painting Clio Hall, the Revolutionary War cannon and the two nearby tiger statues."Give us a f?kin' game, f?gots," was written in red on the stairs of Clio Hall, followed by a heart and the numbers "443 1869!" The top of the cannon was painted red, while the west and east tigers had "Rutgers" and the letters R and U written across their backs, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said.Public Safety discovered the damage at 5 a.m., and it was cleaned later in the morning.Individuals claiming responsibility for the vandalism made contact with The Daily Princetonian at 11:21 a.m.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Students say grading policy hurts academic life

Princeton's two-year-old grade deflation policy remains overwhelmingly unpopular among the student body, with nearly 75 percent of students believing it has had a negative effect on the University's academic environment and over a third saying it has influenced their course selections, according to the results of a USG survey being released today.Though most students indicated that the policy has not affected their choice of major, an even larger majority said they would prefer a revised system, one in which professors are encouraged to grade rigorously while imposing no quotas.A total of 2,183 students ? 657 from the Class of 2008, 653 from the Class of 2009, 535 from the Class of 2007 and 338 from the Class of 2006 ? responded to the 22-question survey, which was conducted by the USG this past summer between mid-June and late August.USG president Alex Lenahan '07 stressed that the survey is a necessary first step in spurring dialogue about the controversial policy.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

'Prince' Elects Apple Chairman, Motland Voted Business Manager

The following article originally appeared in The Daily Princetonian on Dec. 9, 1955: Raymond W.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Power outage darkens campus

A power outage covering most of the University and parts of the surrounding town thrust the campus into temporary darkness last night.A Public Safety official said that the outage was likely caused by inclement weather.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Iraq an unjust war, Walzer argues

Michael Walzer, renowned political theorist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, criticized America's involvement in Iraq as "unjust," arguing that the administration had lost its moral compass, at a discussion in Butler College last night.Walzer's speech, entitled "Can Any War Be Just?" was the second in a series of talks on "The Just Society" organized by the Pace Center.As opposed to the first Gulf War ? "a classic just war" ? Walzer said the current conflict was unjustified in that it has pitted the country "against a distant and speculative threat which may or may not materialize," and left the United States "living with the dangerous consequences of military occupation.""War is the business of killing," Walzer, who also edits the left-wing quarterly magazine Dissent, said.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Anti-war poet mixes politics with aesthetics

Adrienne Rich, a 77-year-old writer and feminist who made headlines in 1997 when she refused to accept an award from President Clinton, read from poems spanning her half-century career to a McCormick Hall audience yesterday."The victory carried like a corpse / from town to town / begins to crawl in the casket," Rich read, quoting from her 1971 poem "Letters: March 1969." Much of her poetry involves meditations on the Vietnam War and castigations of the Bush administration."There's a mainstream idea that you sacrifice aesthetics if you write about political positions," she said at a reception after the reading.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Top Secret Research Here Plays Prominent Part In Effort to Harness H-Bomb's Power for Peace

The following story originally appeared in The Daily Princetonian on Dec. 2, 1955:The existence at Princeton of top secret research into peacetime uses of atomic energy was confirmed yesterday by President Dodds.

NEWS | 10/04/2006

Home street home

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 2 ? In the deep night, when office workers have gone home and the subway rhythm lulls, the homeless emerge to reclaim the city streets.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

University installs new supercomputers

A yearlong effort to broaden the University's research infrastructure recently culminated in the implementation of three new supercomputers, placing the University at the forefront of computing research.Last fall, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, the engineering school and the genomics institute collaborated in a movement to sustain the research already taking place at Princeton and to encourage younger scholars to explore new scientific and computational frontiers.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Crime rate drops, well below peers'

Crime at Princeton declined in 2005, with fewer reported incidents of liquor law violations, burglary and aggravated assault than in 2004, according to the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) annual Campus Security Report.Though the figures for on-campus motor vehicle theft and sexual assault rose slightly, crime on campus overall remains far less of a problem at Princeton than at Yale or Harvard.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Chemical society honors two professors

The American Chemical Society (ACS) will honor University professors Emily Carter and William Russel this spring with awards for their career-long contributions to computer-based chemical research and colloid research, respectively.Carter will receive the 2007 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Panelists define a 'just society'

Three University professors and a visiting fellow elucidated the various definitions of social justice in a panel last night in Dodds Auditorium, sharing their visions for a more just future society.The event was the first of six in this October's Civic Awareness and Action Series.

NEWS | 10/03/2006

Rivals tag Whig Hall with graffiti

Correction appendedWhig Hall was vandalized with graffiti Sunday night in an apparent attempt by Rutgers students to revive the school's once-contentious rivalry with Princeton.Public Safety officers discovered the writing on the western wall of the 113-year-old home to the University's debating society around midnight during a routine campus patrol.Scribbled in bright red spray paint, the message read, "WE WANT A GAME 1869 RUTGERS BB2," a reference to Rutgers' victory over Princeton in the first-ever intercollegiate football game.Facilities department workers cleaned the graffiti late Monday afternoon.University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt '96 said that Public Safety spotted the marks on Whig Hall before noticing students on Cannon Green in front of the building.The students, who Cliatt identified as Princetonians, were near the Revolutionary War cannon that has baited the Rutgers-Princeton rivalry for more than 150 years.Cliatt said the officers "encountered students respraying the cannon black ... to cover over the red sprayed there by Rutgers." The students said they had not witnessed anyone defacing Whig Hall or the cannon, and Public Safety could find no other witnesses.She added that Public Safety's investigation is ongoing, though the incident is "very straightforward," with no known witnesses.Whig Hall is home to the Whig-Cliosophic Society, an umbrella organization for student political groups including Princeton Model Congress and the International Relations Council.Whig-Clio computing coordinator George Lan '09 said he notified other society officers after spying the graffiti on his way to class from his dorm room in Blair Hall.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Roosevelt Institute plans for new year

The University chapter of the Roosevelt Institution has carved out a unique place for itself among the many political organizations already established at the University.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Princeton ranks in top 20 for gay-friendliness

Correction appendedGay? Fine by Princeton.Or at least according to national newsmagazine The Advocate, which recently ranked the University as one of the top 20 campuses in the nation for supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.The University of Pennsylvania was the only other Ivy League school to appear in the top 20, with Harvard notably absent from the top 100.The list is featured in "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students," a 389-page book that rates colleges based on 20 criteria ? including the strength of LGBT and allied student organizations, LGBT social activities and educational events and whether the campus police are trained on LGBT sensitivity ? that make up their "Gay Point Average," or GPA.Princeton garnered a GPA of 19 out of a possible 20 points, in large part because of the gay and lesbian programming offered by the University's new LGBT Center."There was a part of me that really believed we would make [the top 20]," Debbie Bazarsky, director of the LGBT Center, said.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

Student brings renowned orators to hip hop symposium

Cold calling a former editor-in-chief of The Source, begging hip-hop artist Talib Kweli to set aside rehearsal time and dealing with Jay-Z's cancellation are just some of the challenges Michael Rudoy '07 has faced in organizing the first ever hip-hop symposium at Princeton.The symposium, which takes place Friday at 2 p.m.

NEWS | 10/02/2006

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