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...Ultimately, Princeton and the University of Virginia did, while Yale, among many others...
...While Harvard’s efforts in response to these situations and Virginia Tech have focused on improving crisis response tactics, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton Katherine S. Newman says that universities like Harvard are very unlikely places to experience rampage shootings such as the one in Blacksburg. Her research on school violence has found that most of the reported instances of school shootings have occurred in “highly conformist” and isolated rural areas where there are few alternatives for students who feel isolated from the primary social groups. Because of Harvard?...
...eventual decampment of “Brother West,” as he styles himself, for Princeton was the fruit of Summers’ presidential advice that West lay off the spoken-word albums and Al Sharpton presidential bids, and return to the scholarly toils of his handsomely paid vocation. A not altogether unreasonable demand, it had seemed to me as a twelfth grader, when I first heard of it—though not to West, who fumed that Summers was the “Ariel Sharon of higher education...
...incoming HUL director, Robert C. Darnton ’60, who studies the history of books at Princeton, is on a lecture tour in Ireland and was unavailable to comment for this story. Cline says she feels that she and Darnton share “a commitment to bringing in additional monies, whether it’s through grants or gifts, so we can accelerate our agenda on certain fronts...
Since our announcement, Princeton and the University of Virginia have also eliminated their early admission programs. We immediately contacted them to see if they might wish to join us for recruiting activities in November and December. Both schools have enthusiastically agreed, and we believe that our combined efforts—which mirror our current spring and early fall joint travel trips to 120 cities along with Duke, Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford—will enable us to attract an even better and more diverse pool of applicants...