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...capacity to maturely deliberate issues of great importance to students—namely, the proposed termbill hike that would raise the current optional fee of $35 to a compulsory (and revised figure of) $75. To be fair, the decorum at last night’s meeting returned to normal. But before the student body votes on the fee hike in a referendum later this semester, the council should consider whether its recent behavior imparts confidence in its ability to handle a boost in its budget...
Establishment of normal distribution curves for grades at institutions like Princeton or Harvard is simply a silly response to the noise over this subject (News, “Princeton Will Consider Cap On High Grades,” April 9). The proposed solution at Princeton is to limit the number of A-range grades to an arbitrary percentage. The premise for this cap is that there is indeed a problem of grade inflation. Is there really a problem? If so, what are the objective conditions that identify the problem, more substantively than just a reaction to the grade charts...
Though the team remains nicked up from top to bottom as virtually the entire roster tends to nagging injuries, the Crimson court pairings made a slight move towards returning to normal, as junior co-captains Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman reclaimed their No. 1 doubles spot after a month-long hiatus. Lingman also returned to singles play on Saturday for the first time since March...
...range photo, light streams through the elegant windows of the chamber in which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meets periodically, though this is no normal Faculty gathering. We cannot see who presides over the forty or so radical students packing a corner of the room they have taken by force, but it is certainly not a dean. They wait eagerly and a little uneasily as several raise their hands, one standing tall, in a meeting Carlson now compares to the Paris Commune, “reinventing history from the moment...
...must be very careful not to incentivize that which should be a normal part of life at a university,” Bravman says...