Word: columbia
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Meanwhile, Princeton's men move up to No. 8 in the national polls by defeating two teams--Columbia and Cornell--that are worse with respect to men's basketball than Yale and Brown are to women's. Princeton is definitely a great team, but does anyone really believe they are the eighth best team in the country...
...Crimson will have its hands full with some of the toughest competition the Ivy League has ever produced. This field includes two Olympic finalists, versatile Christina Teuscher from Columbia and Backstroke specialist Nikki Dryden from Brown...
...Princeton, between 1992 and 1997, 43.4 percent of all grades were in the A range, compared with just over 30 percent in the period from 1973 to 1977. And according to a study by Arthur Levine of Columbia Teachers' College, cited in the New York Times, the A- jumped from a mere 7 percent of all grades at four-year colleges nationwide in 1969 to 26 percent of all grades in 1994. Nor is this trend limited to colleges. According to the College Board, in 1972, 28 percent of all students taking the SAT reported having...
...solutions" for grade inflation are generally bandied about by these doomsdayers. The first option, already adopted by Dartmouth and Columbia, is to include the percentage of As in a given class and enrollment figures on all transcripts. But adding more numbers is not the answer. What if a class of 30 happens to enroll 20 students who work very hard and turn out very strong work? Transcript readers who see that two-thirds of those in the class received As would then wrongly discredit those grades. The only good that might come out of this proposal is that Harvard might...
Three days after Canadian Ross Rebagliati took snowboarding's first-ever gold medal in the giant slalom, the I.O.C. asked him to give it back. The 26-year-old from British Columbia had tested positive for marijuana (a urine level of 17.8 nanograms per milliliter, exceeding the 15.0 limit set by snowboarding's Olympic governing body, the International Ski Federation), and after a 3-to-2 vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board recommended he be stripped of his prize. Rebagliati admitted to having smoked in the past, but he asserted that he had not sparked up since April 1997, claiming...