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Yale median GPA is 3.6, study finds

Yale median GPA is 3.6, study finds

While Princeton students continue to spar with administrators over the two-year-old grade deflation policy, Yale's student newspaper released a poll last week suggesting that the median GPA at the New Haven rival lies between 3.6 and 3.7.The unscientific survey, sent to 400 randomly selected members of the Class of 2006, garnered 201 responses.

NEWS | 10/10/2006

OA encourages 'outdoor spirituality'

A dinner discussion at the Center for Jewish Life yesterday kicked off a collaboration between Outdoor Action and the Office of Religious Life to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality.Outdoor Spirituality ? a program founded by Outdoor Action (OA) director Rick Curtis '79, Presbyterian minister Peter Hazelrigg and Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush ? aims to reach out to students who are not directly involved with religious groups on campus.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Foreign students face challenges

"Do you live in a hut?"It's a question that Yolisa Nalule '10 deals with on a regular basis.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Pick-a-Prof reveals grading histories

Students at 180 colleges and universities around the country now have the option of shopping for courses like they shop for the latest electronic devices.Pick-a-Prof ? pickaprof.com ? allows students to view professors' grading histories, write course reviews and evaluate professors' responsiveness.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Ranking aside, Harvard name reigns supreme

Which is the best college in America?Old Nassau may be number one in the hearts of Princetonians and in the U.S.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

'The failure of our policy'

At 11:36 a.m. Monday Seoul time ? 10:36 p.m. Sunday in New York ? the North Korean government reportedly detonated a small nuclear weapon in Hamgyong Province.

NEWS | 10/09/2006

Want a job? How about a Slinky?

Seniors ambled through Dillon Gym like kids in a candy store Friday, gathering loot from companies desperate to attract the best and brightest.More than 100 organizations ? ranging from investment banks to the CIA ? jostled for student attention at the General Interest Career Fair, offering not only pens and notepads but also Frisbees, t-shirts, Rubik's cubes, Nalgene bottles, Lindt chocolates, Slinkys, mouse pads, stress balls and playing cards, all emblazoned with corporate logos.As college seniors nationwide enjoy a boom in postgraduate employment, the knickknacks are an attempt by employers ? over 1,500 of whom are listed on Tiger Tracks ? to stand out and attract applicants who fit their recruiting profile.Last year, 68 percent of the Class of 2006 planned to enter the workplace, and only one quarter of them were still seeking a job at graduation.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Taking flak, Nassau Hall backs grading policy

Correction appendedAdministrators and a USG officer have challenged USG president Alex Lenahan '07's assertion that grade inflation may not have existed at the University.In an email sent to the student body last Wednesday, Lenahan cited a Princeton Alumni Weekly article reporting that each class's percentage of academic 1's and 2's ? the Admission Office's designation for the academically strongest applicants ? has been on the rise since 1993.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Rangel critiques welfare system

When Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.) took the podium in Dodds Auditorium on Friday afternoon it was to discuss welfare in America.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Class of '94 pals take on Google

Five years out of college, Steve Papa '94 and Peter Bell '94 wanted a beer can to remind them of Old Nassau.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

Doherty, Stansell '71 named Radcliffe Institute fellows

Though no longer exclusively a women's organization, the Radcliffe Institute ? formerly Harvard adjunct Radcliffe College ? still draws prominent female academics, including two this year from Princeton.German and art and archaeology professor Brigid Doherty and history professor Christine Stansell '71 are among the 50 recipients of this year's 2006-2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, which provides yearlong residencies to writers, artists, scientists and other scholars to pursue their work free from distraction.While at Radcliffe, Doherty plans to begin work on a book project entitled "Homesickness for Things," which will "provide new interpretations of the relations among persons, works of art and other objects in poetry and prose," according to her project description."I came to art history from a background that moved across disciplines from the beginning," Doherty said in an interview.

NEWS | 10/08/2006

A century old, still member owned

Every day dozens of students, parents, staff and tourists pass through the multilevel Princeton University Store.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Late meal still in limbo

The future of late meal remains unclear, even after dining services responded to student pressure by testing an earlier late dinner Wednesday and Thursday.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Home taping is killing meteorology

Not classy: Freshmen who, nearly a month into the semester, still have not grasped the subtle difference between "Reply" and "Reply All" when responding to course-wide emails.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

'Prison angel' urges kindness and belonging

An 80-year-old nun who gave up her life as a Beverly Hills socialite to take care of prisoners in Tijuana, Mexico, spoke on the virtues of belonging and kindness last night at the Frist Campus Center.Mother Antonia, whose real name is Mary Clarke, is a widowed divorcee who has made a prison cell her home for the past 30 years.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

Sunstein blends social theories

Governments should influence individuals' actions while preserving their freedom of choice, prominent legal scholar Cass Sunstein argued in a lecture last night.The talk, titled "Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron," focused on merging two seemingly contradictory ideologies: libertarianism, which holds that governments should grant people complete freedom of choice; and paternalism, which advocates centralized government commands.

NEWS | 10/05/2006

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

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