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This past year, 40 transfer students were accepted from a pool of over 1,100 applicants—a significant decrease designed to counteract a growing freshman class...
...pressure on ambitious high school seniors to perform intensifies, administrators and students alike opine about the so-called “burn out” effect. Still recuperating from an overly stressful year, many incoming freshmen are ill-equipped to participate in university life. Princeton aims to counteract this phenomenon with its proposed “bridge year” program: an initiative enabling newly admitted students to pursue a year of international public service before delving into the pressures of campus life. Admission to the program would be on a fully need-blind basis, with financial aid offered...
...chummy even with New York Times stars like Maureen Dowd, and uses Adam Nagourney as a frequent punchline. But the campaign is, at least for now, at war, sending its supporters out to the television networks to spin the story back on the Times. "We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today," wrote campaign manager Rick Davis sent in an email fundraising solicitation. The Republican Party followed suit. "The New York Times has proven once again that the liberal mainstream media will do whatever...
...added that joining Teach for America would be “an experiment” but that she would take the experience seriously to gain training in education. Philip G. Parham ’09, one of the organizers of the event, said that the event was meant to counteract the fact that at Harvard there is “a lot of focus on law, medicine, i-banking, and consulting.” Last year, a Crimson survey found that 58 percent of Harvard men and 43 percent of women entering the workforce went into the financial sector. Dhaval...
...Sentencing Commission changed its sentencing guidelines to close the gap between the punishments given to users of each drug. We applaud these two decisions, as they not only empower judges to ensure that penalties are appropriately suited to the particular circumstances of each individual crime but also help to counteract the injustice of punishing users of one drug much more harshly than those who consume another very similar one. Although much of the attention given to the court’s ruling has focused on the particulars of drug sentencing, one of its most important dimensions is its affirmation...