Grade deflation that stays true to its word, the return of the Westboro Baptists, and a few more scintillating tidbits from around the Ancient Eight (and some other schools too).

Ever get annoyed when your friends at Princeton try to convince you that they work twice as hard for half the grade? Well, apparently, the school’s grade deflation policy—which has long served as a mark of unique academic intensity among Princetonians, not to mention a chief source of that smugness we all know and love—isn’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. In fact, it seems like it’s taken Princeton students six years to realize that their special grading policy translates into lower GPAs. Who would have thought?

Just yesterday, The New York Times released an article detailing such growing discontent as the debate rages on campus. Recently, The Daily Princetonian editorialized against the deflation policy, while Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Dean of the College, wrote back in its defense. This is serious stuff, you guys. If Princeton students continue to be graded harshly, they might not be hired at Goldman Sachs. Quelle horreur!

Remember when the Westboro Baptists paid Cambridge a visit last spring? Well, they're  back in action—only this time on the West Coast. Just as at Harvard, students at Stanford banded together yesterday to drown out the cries of the Westboro protestors denouncing gays, Jews, and just about everything else under the sun. Here are some choice photos from The Stanford Review of the event, which looked as though it succeded in uniting the Stanford community more than anything else.

Yale Law School’s Daniel J. Freed, author of the 1964 hit Bail in the United States and a highly influential figure in the field of sentencing, died Sunday in New York.

Also, Yale has just made a Web site that gives viewers information about the federal grants that Yale faculty have received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to an article on Yale’s main Web site, those grants amount to approximately $121 million since last February.