Friday, August 17, 2007
Important college rankings news
This is getting tedious:
Princeton holds the top spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the eighth straight year the private, New Jersey school has either tied or held the top slot outright.
More importantly, it remains true that neither of the major party nominees for president in 2004 went to Princeton.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Aug 17, 08:29:00 AM:
The "Tigerhawk for President" groundswell should begin any minute.
-David
By , at
Fri Aug 17, 08:41:00 AM:
Jack ... James Madison, Woodrow Wilson (and whichever other US Presidents graduated from Princeton) notwithstanding, "C" students run the world.
... and to my dismay, people cagey or swarmy enough to accumulate huge personal fortunes and "scratch my back" relationships to fund runs at the White House.
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Fri Aug 17, 10:36:00 AM:
Actually, it should make for an interesting P-Rade in three years when First Lady Michelle Robinson Obama comes back for her 25th with hubby and a gang of Secret Service agents and press in tow. I wonder if they'll have to suffer un-airconditioned rooms and student showers in Dodge-Osborne? ;-)
By Georg Felis, at
Fri Aug 17, 11:25:00 AM:
Or when President Brownback returns to Kansas State for his Landon Lecture. Honestly I think CC and I (and a lot of voters) know Obama and Brownback are not yet ready to run for President, but it might become reality sometime in the future. If both of them were to serve a couple terms as Governor and return to the Presidential Campaign, it would be a really interesting run. Brownback could work on his media skills and Obama could get introduced to the capitalist system that he seems so opposed to.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Fri Aug 17, 01:22:00 PM:
Um...President Brownback? Then again, we have a right wing theocratic state in Iran, too, so anything's possible. Perhaps Sam should learn that he's in the United States--in the 21st century--and not a "Christian" survivalist compound in Idaho. Maybe if he had a gay running mate--how about Dick Cheney's daughter's wife?--he might be ore mainstream. ;-)
As for the capitalist system, I just got finished watching that comedy "Thank You For Smoking." rent it sometime...
By , at
Fri Aug 17, 02:16:00 PM:
I'm sure I have agreed with something Mr. Chambers has uttered in the past, but I can't think of any such instance now. As such, I would like to echo the "Thank You For Smoking" recommendation. It's a fantastic film.
And TH - sometimes tedium is good. I was entering my sophomore year 9 years ago when we were last not #1 (we were #4 that year owing to a significant methodology shift that brought Caltech to #1) and I cannot say I've grown tired of seeing our name at the top yet.
If nothing else, it gives me further opportunity to taunt my [Harvard alumna] officemate.
By , at
Fri Aug 17, 03:03:00 PM:
Chris - They could stay at Drumthwacket, the Governor's mansion. Jon Corzine should still be there to host them.
The new Whitman College is air conditioned. I would think all 25th reunion classes will try to plant their headquarters there from now on. Unfortunately for the kids, the air conditioning will not be on during the school year.
By , at
Fri Aug 17, 07:50:00 PM:
I'm sick of the rankings undermining American competitiveness by incentivizing institutional behavior that privileges the privileged, undermines equality and fairness, and diverts schools'; priorities from educating students to fudging figures. Am I just ranting here? Maybe. But I try to back it up with some more meat in my op-ed on the Huffington Post today.
By , at
Sun Aug 19, 01:44:00 PM:
Or, in the ultimate nightmare future scenario, when First Daughter Catherine "Cate" Edwards '04 returns for her fifth reunion in 2009.
