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The Daily Princetonian

The 'Danse Macabre' Gets a Chorus Line

Most students and faculty agree that there is simply too much going on at Princeton, that the place is "overscheduled." For faculty the crunch hour is often 4:30 p.m., when on many days we must choose among a nonnegotiable department meeting, two "important" committee meetings and four special lectures or seminars that it would be a shame to miss, and probably rude as well.Overscheduling extends to weekends.

OPINION | 03/06/2005

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Larry Summers: Harvard's heretic at the stake

Our administration's response to President Summers' remarks on the question of a genetic factor affecting the proportion of women among elite science faculties reminds us that the liberalism of the liberal education has painfully sharp boundaries.Liberal academics will cling to genetic determinism when it serves their agenda to do so, as with the diktat that homosexuality is genetically determined.

OPINION | 03/02/2005