Word: princeton
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Penn swept Columbia and Cornell last weekend but split a doubleheader with Princeton on Tuesday. The Quakers' 1-0 loss to the Tigers in the first game ended its 19 game EIBL winning-streak...
THIS week, The New Republic carried a critique of the Princeton Review, a company that employs me to teach rich suburbanites how to beat the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The article asserts that the Princeton Review doesn't really improve students' qualifications for college but teaches them to "beat the test" without actually knowing the answers. The Princeton Review course, it says, allows wealthy students to exaggerate their qualifications for college, thereby gaining an advantage in admissions over equally talented students who can't afford...
This is all quite true. By teaching for the Princeton Review, I am effectively squelching opportunity and raising barriers to disadvantaged students. It's ethically dubious, but I need the cash...
Unfortunately, in the myriad conflicts between principles and money, there is no obvious place to draw the line. I still can't decide on which side my Princeton Review work falls. But if I ever save enough money, maybe I'll quit...
Senior Andrea Eror capitalized on Princeton's ball-handling problems to knot the score, 4-4, but the Tigers went on to score twice more in the second half and capture the contest...