There seems to be such a dearth of problems to solve that we’ve taken to creating our own.
The intention of the Credit CARD Act is to protect the young consumers who have long been seen as a profitable market by the credit industry — but it does more to limit their ability to obtain and use credit responsibly than it helps.
How are you guys pretending to be environmentally conscious while really serving a Fascist system and being a handmaiden to the Man?
The idea that USG members have a conflict of interest when working with administrators is absurd.
An open invitation to Michelle Obama ’85 to speak at Class Day.
Two USG officers discuss their decisions.
Teaching is a good way to stay metaphorically young. That said, it is hardly news that teachers do get older while freshmen remain forever youthful, and various things over the course of this semester have made me consider how curious it can be to go from young to not-so-young while remaining at the same institution.
Last Thursday, The Daily Princetonian reported that the employment of Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, whose responsibilities include oversight of postgraduate fellowship advising, will be terminated this June. We see no reason, based on performance and a thorough knowledge of the system, that Ordiway should have been fired.
Whenever someone asks me why I think I was selected as a Rhodes Scholar, I give the same response: luck, declining standards and my advisers. Were it not, I believe, for the many hours I spent at 406 West College conferring with Dean Frank Ordiway ’81 on applying for major postgraduate fellowships, I wouldn’t have had a chance.
Last spring, the student body passed a referendum requiring that USG members not solicit or accept recommendations from high-level University administrators.
The internet represents a distinctly harsh brand of meritocracy.
Members of the faculty express dissapointment by Ordiway ’81’s dismissal.
In a lot of ways, though, the crisis over the cost of public higher education shouldn’t be surprising. Contrary to popular orthodoxy, it has much less to do with the recession and much more to do with the popular conception of public universities in the U.S. — a conception that may not be sustainable.
