FlyBy takes you on a quick spin around our Ivy-Plus friends...
Princeton just became more like Harry Potter
Or it just became more stalker-ish. Now you can track exactly where your friends are using a Marauder's Map, otherwise known as TigerFinder. As said in the post...this could get a bit out of hand. While its not hooked up to those iPhones just yet, there are at least a few choice details that can be revealed from your location...such as:
- How "going out" just meant sitting on invisible in the Dhall
- Your unhealthy daily obsession with Lamont Cafe
- Where you actually were during that section...including where you sent the "i was asleep" email an hour later
- What room your ex is living in this year
Yale Freaks Out About Swine Flu
You would think that swine flu has gotten old by now, with Mexico finally letting people into the streets again and the United States easing up on precautions. But apparently Yale has gotten so worked up about swine flu that they've canceled both their summer course and internship program in Mexico, leaving 19 Bulldogs without summer plans. In this economy, good luck finding another internship in May...during finals.
More elite campus news, after the jump.
Stanford Students "Have Rice at Dinner"
A clever headline by The Stanford Daily News. Kind of. When former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice dined with students at Stanford, they said they had a positive experience speaking with her--though several students also protested outside on the lawn, arguing that she should be prosecuted for "war crimes" such as "authorizing torture and waging aggressive war in Iraq."
At least, however, these Cardinals were nicer than that 4th grader.
Budget cuts hit UChicago's "Social Sciences nad Humanities" the most
Besides the expert copy-editing at the Chicago Maroon, things aren't looking too good at UChicago. Each of the three divisions have taken a 25% budget cut, which has hit the smaller humanities departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class by 25-30%. At least that will mean they will graduate fewer unemployed Ph.D.s?
Do the humanities have value later in life?
Over a quarter (26%) of Daily Pennsylvanian readers say, "No."