Regarding 'Proposal to curb grade inflation' (April 8):Since starting as an analyst at a bulge-bracket investment bank, I've become involved in the undergraduate recruiting process for summer interns and full-time hires.
All right, Class of '08, feel free to throw out the Penn memorabilia you were keeping around just in case Princeton rejected you.
The work going into next week's "Take Back the Night" event proves that many Princeton students and staff members are anything but passive when it comes to confronting the issue of sexual assault on campus.But the University's continued failure to guarantee that student victims of sexual assault have ready access to a "rape kit" ? the specialized equipment and health services necessary for collecting physical evidence after an assault ? shows a lesser degree of resolve.We do not take lightly the cost of maintaining a rape kit capacity, which requires $30,000 of equipment and 24-hour availability of trained personnel.
Few issues get readers riled up like the Street and alcohol. Cullen Newton's column two weeks ago and a graduate student's letter set off a letters and columnist war that has only just now died down.I wasn't surpised that an argument over the Street produced such strong responses.
With two Yalies and a Princetonian duking it out for the White House this year, the nature of an Ivy-League education could arguably be considered a matter of national importance and security with significant geopolitical implications.
Regarding 'Contentious Hargadon deanship colors admissions' past and future' (April 5):This lengthy article does not raise the question of the importance of Alumni School Committee nonacademic evaluation.
Dick Seaberg, according to The Wall Street Journal, is a 70 year-old antiabortion Republican who lives near Los Angeles in one of California's most conservative districts.
No one who knows me would consider me a coward. I'm not afraid to speak my mind, to bullies or to my betters.
Regarding 'Old argument, old ploy' (Katherine Reilly, April 2):Reilly calls "absurd" the Students for Academic Freedom's (SAF) investigation of the faculty on the suspicion that professors might be biased against conservative students.
When one senior asks another when his friend must turn in his thesis, he often phrases the question as "when are you due." The reference to pregnancy is done jokingly, but is quite revealing.
"Crap. I left my iPod in Frist." A girl in my a cappella group did a forehead smack as she realized she had forgotten her treasured, not to mention extremely expensive, gizmo in the student center on her way to rehearsal."Damn it.
The ensuing controversy over the University's denial of assistant professor of history Drew Isenberg's bid for tenure suggests that it is time for a thoughtful examination and reconsideration of the University's tenure process and policy.The current tenure process, though, rests behind a cloak of mystery, keeping both students and, much more importantly, the junior faculty who are most directly affected by it in the dark.
The modern American university is asked to carry out a strange amalgam of functions which, by any reasonable standard of organizational design, ought rightly to be performed by separate institutions.
Evan Baehr has a point. There is too little intellectual diversity in academia, even at Princeton.In too many classes, little of the fierce intellectual give and take that characterizes a rigorous academic climate exists.
If, Virginia, you believed what you read in the 'Prince,' you'd think the undergrads here were animals.On March 26, Cullen Newton praised Prospect Avenue's safety record.
Regarding 'If you have court vision, is college really necessary?' (April 5):Call me idealistic, but I think Thad Hartmann is dead wrong.This university is the gift of thousands and thousands of people who donated their working lives, their creative energy and, yes, their money, to make it all possible.
It's Friday, my deadline day, and I haven't so much as begun to think about a topic for this column.
Regarding 'An election, sort of' (April 2):Your editorial is based on a misconception of the role of Young Alumni Trustees.
It's safe to assume the next Young Alumni Trustee won't be a waffler. The candidates are sending a clear message: They don't want to campaign for one of the most important positions a student can run for.Students campaign for academic chair, U-councilor, even social chair of a residential college.
Housing shortage! Not enough beds for everyone on campus! Later draw groups must split up to accommodate everyone!It's room draw time, when the stakes are high, and the losses ever so real.
