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Just yesterday, The New York Times released an article detailing such growing discontent as the debate rages on campus. Recently, The Daily Princetonian editorialized against the deflation policy, while Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Dean of the College, wrote back in its defense. This is serious stuff, you guys. If Princeton students continue to be graded harshly, they might not be hired at Goldman Sachs. Quelle horreur...
...early as 1973, economic theorist Burton G. Malkiel ’53 attacked so-called “chartists” who try to profit from technical analysis...
...Princeton continues to trim the fat off of its slightly plump grade distribution, we hope Harvard is wise enough to avoid the same diet. Last Monday, Princeton Dean of the College Nancy W. Malkiel announced that the college was halfway toward its final goal of systematically reducing the number of A’s doled out by professors. The percentage of A-range grades issued by Princeton’s faculty fell from last year’s 46 percent to the current 40.9 percent, less than 6 percent shy of meeting the long-term goal of 35 percent...
...impressed by the seriousness with which members of the faculty have taken on the challenge of bringing grades under better control,” said Malkiel, on behalf of the Grading Committee, in the press release. “After so many years of steady grade inflation, we have actually been able to move the needle in the other direction, in a remarkably short period of time...
...Malkiel was unavailable for further comment yesterday...