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Having spent my undergraduate years at Stanford and now starting my graduate studies at Harvard, I have arguably been exposed to some of the brightest minds of my generation. Since freshman year, I have been continually disappointed at a profound lack of intellectualism in most students. The game of “who can name the most philosophers in two minutes” does not count as intellectualism. The disturbing behavior I have observed is the unwillingness of students to form coherent and logical arguments...
...Pavilion, just like its counterparts at Duke, UConn and Stanford, became more than a court on Friday—it transformed into a roiling cauldron of smoke and fire...
It’s all too easy to accept the status quo and cynically conclude that the American electorate just can’t do any better. But a recent book by Yale professor Bruce Ackerman and Stanford professor James Fishkin repudiates what conservatives like to call the soft bigotry of low expectations and proposes a radically innovative solution—a new national holiday they call Deliberation Day (which also happens to be the title of their book). Held two weeks before the presidential election, Deliberation Day would bring Americans together at thousands of sites across the country...
...Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities,” the study was released as a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Harvard tops the new list—as well as the U.S. News list—followed by Yale, Stanford, CalTech...
Dragging our dejected blue balls into October, we were again tempted by The Indy’s Oct. 7 cover, which boldly queried, “Is Stanford the New Harvard?” Funny story, actually—turns out the answer...