The season of exams is here. From all at The Insider, we wish you a happy exam week. It has been a great year and we’d like to especially thank our readers for contributing and helping make the Insider a success for the third academic year in a row. Posting will be slowed as usual during...
Category: Culture
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Cornell Hockey Legend Loses Seat as Tories Win Big in Canada
Big Red hockey legend and Hall of Famer Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden ’69 has lost his previously considered safe House of Commons seat in Toronto. The loss comes as Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper wins the majority government he was asking for and Dryden’s Liberal Party, led by Harvard carpetbagger Michael Ignatieff, falls to a...
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Have Exams Gotten Harder?
Most definitely, if you look at this recent posting of all Harvard Law exams from 1871 to 1998. If you’re going to law school next year, check out the difference between the 1871 and 1995 examinations. Sorry, 2011s, I think the Cornell class of ’71 (1871) had it a bit easier. Original post from VC.
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Where Fun Goes to Thrive?
For years the University of Chicago has been called “Where fun goes to die,” but now the school with elite education and absolutely no student life seems to be spicing things up. The students of the University present to us: UChicagoHookups.com! I was unable to find any information about the sexual activity rate at UChicago,...
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Part 2: Partisan Debate on The Diplomacist
Check out the second installment of the new Partisan Response feature on the Diplomacist- this week’s article is titled “Why India May Hate Republicans.” Here’s Review staff writer Michael Alan ’14’s response: There’s no question that weather conditions in individual regions are affecting rising food prices, however any connection between protests over food prices and...
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Partisan Debate on The Diplomacist
Today the Diplomacist blog debuted a new feature, Partisan Response, which provides contrasting partisan commentary on international affairs issues from the Review and Progressive. Here’s Executive Editor Joe Bonica’s response to the article titled “The Reality of Cuba’s Reforms”: Though President Raúl Castro has acted on behalf of his Fidel brother to “liberalize” the economy...
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Scrivens Close to NHL Start
Last year’s standout senior goalie Ben Scrivens backed up Toronto starter James Reimer on Saturday night against Ottawa. Scrivens’ quick ascent up the Toronto depth chart- helped along the way by an injury to J-S Giguere and poor play by Jonas Gustavsson- makes him the second Big Red alumnus to get a call up this year....
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Random Thoughts / Diminished Posting
There’s some strange things goin on right now on which I’d like to briefly opine. I must also add that while I’ll be continuing to write for Insider, my presence on this blog will likely diminish over the course of the next few months as I personally have to re-evaluate my time commitments and priorities. My...
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And You Thought Cornell Had A Grade Inflation Problem
A couple of weeks ago the Columbia Spectator reported on a leaked university document that revealed that at least 1 in 12 Columbia undergrads earned at least a 4.0 last semester: The spreadsheet listed 482 students in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science who earned perfect grade point averages. Whether the...
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“Statistically Impossible Lack of Diversity”
That’s how UVA Professor Jonathan Haidt described the grand total of 3 self-identified conservatives at a 1,000 person social psychology conference. From the NYT article: “This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” Dr. Haidt concluded, noting polls showing that 40 percent of Americans are conservative and 20 percent are liberal. In his speech and in...