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Today, April 16, the first of the Ivy League spring weekend events begins. Down in Philadelphia, Penn’s Spring Fling will feature performances by Snoop Dogg, Kid Cudi, and Shwayze at Franklin Field. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, some teachers have even moved assignments due today until Monday, just so their students can go partake in the fun. Harvard professors: we can haz the same for Yardfest...
...Next weekend, on April 24, students at Columbia will celebrate Bacchanal, their annual spring concert. Three star performers—Ghostface Killah, glam rockers of Montreal, and Wiz Khalifa—will team up on the campus’s Low Plaza in Morningside Heights to kick off the party. According to The Columbia Spectator, budget restrictions have not hampered plans for fun: this year, three artists are somehow performing instead of the usual two. Also, the event is slated for an evening start instead of its usual afternoon beginning...
MGMT will also be performing at Brown’s Spring Weekend, the annual celebration of the nearly completed academic year. This year’s festivities—to be held April 23-25—mark the 50th anniversary of Spring Weekend. Other performers include Snoop Dogg, Major Lazer, the Black Keys, and Wale...
At Dartmouth, another “Green Key Weekend” looms. The usual plan of attack for the three-day weekend includes a block party at Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and a lawn party at Alpha Delta. There used to be chariot races (just like in Ben-Hur!), but those were banned in the mid-1980s...
...Last weekend, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson announced a bold plan to revamp 12 underperforming schools, provoking sharp public resistance from the Boston Teachers Union. The most controversial measures include calling for teachers to work dozens of extra hours without compensation, rescinding layoff and seniority benefits, and linking annual pay raises to job performance. Although we believe that Johnson’s proposal that teachers work extra hours without increased pay is counterproductive, agreeing to union demands to scrap all the reform measures entirely will not improve the quality of teaching in the schools. BPS should instead focus...