12.14.2003
Mass Media: UMass Boston Prof Pans Princeton
Those who picked up the paper edition this week will be happy to know that there are apostrophes this time. Whatever it was, the printer promised to fix it and apparently he did.
This is the last issue of the semester, and we're slated to return on January 28.
Top Story: "A UMass professor has said grade inflation is out of control at posh Ivy League school Princeton. Dr. Ruth A. Miller, a graduate of Princeton, says that grade inflation is a 'huge problem' at the venerable New Jersey institution, and internal reports from the school back her up..."
Duck Season blogger Nick, who I took Legislative Process 318 with this semester, breaks down the Mass Media's last issue, commenting on the Princeton article:
SEE ALSO: My article on a meeting the UMB chancellor had with the College of Community and Public Service faculty members a week or so ago. CPCS recently made the news in a Sunday Boston Globe article in the Education section, and the controversial resignation of their dean.
The article on students aged sixty and over losing their fee waiver got hacked to bits in copy, 'cause of space constraints. I went about one hundred and fifty words over, with testimony from several students I met with in the McCormack Hall cafetaria last week.
After a two-week hiatus, (Student) Senate Notes returns, with the resignation of the senate president and a look at the senate's performance over the semester.
News Briefs covers the havoc on the school's accidental snow day last Monday, and more on the campus shutdowns that aren't happening.
MORE: Staff editorial on the $750 fee increase, just in time for the holidays.
In the letters to the editor, a student senator writes in two fairly silly letters. One about the whole MassPIRG waivable fee that's been sucking up the student senate's oxygen this semester, and the other on gay marriage.
He's right about one thing, though: "I really think that the debate over the waivable fee has gone on too long."
This is the last issue of the semester, and we're slated to return on January 28.
Top Story: "A UMass professor has said grade inflation is out of control at posh Ivy League school Princeton. Dr. Ruth A. Miller, a graduate of Princeton, says that grade inflation is a 'huge problem' at the venerable New Jersey institution, and internal reports from the school back her up..."
Duck Season blogger Nick, who I took Legislative Process 318 with this semester, breaks down the Mass Media's last issue, commenting on the Princeton article:
"This is a generalization, but it's been my experience that Ivy Leaguers suffer from Type A personalities of the worst kind, and the sky-high cost of tuition only fuels their inability to accept less than 100% success in the classroom. For most of these people an Ivy League education is the culmination of the first 18 years of their life, years spent preparing for acceptance into these institutions by building a diverse background of interests through spending hours in band practice, sports practice, volunteering, studying, mastering a foreign language, working a part time job, earning leadership positions in school clubs and student government, etc. etc...."And I see we both caught the same quote as odd.
SEE ALSO: My article on a meeting the UMB chancellor had with the College of Community and Public Service faculty members a week or so ago. CPCS recently made the news in a Sunday Boston Globe article in the Education section, and the controversial resignation of their dean.
The article on students aged sixty and over losing their fee waiver got hacked to bits in copy, 'cause of space constraints. I went about one hundred and fifty words over, with testimony from several students I met with in the McCormack Hall cafetaria last week.
After a two-week hiatus, (Student) Senate Notes returns, with the resignation of the senate president and a look at the senate's performance over the semester.
News Briefs covers the havoc on the school's accidental snow day last Monday, and more on the campus shutdowns that aren't happening.
MORE: Staff editorial on the $750 fee increase, just in time for the holidays.
In the letters to the editor, a student senator writes in two fairly silly letters. One about the whole MassPIRG waivable fee that's been sucking up the student senate's oxygen this semester, and the other on gay marriage.
He's right about one thing, though: "I really think that the debate over the waivable fee has gone on too long."
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