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Italy Spring Semester 1996
Students will select a minimum of 12 hours:
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ECON 489/: Economics of the Eur. Comm.
BUAD 489 Prof. Pier Luigi Sacco
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MGMT 489 Prof. Pier Luigi Sacco
ARTS 350: Arts and Civilization*
Prof. Paolo Barrucchieri
ANTH 201: Introduction to Anthropology
Dr. Sylvia Grider
ANTH 205: Peoples and Cultures of the World
Dr. Sylvia Grider
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Dr. David Rosen
PSYC 306: Abnormal Psychology
Dr. David Rosen
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MATHEMATICS CONTEST
Annual Freshmen and Sophomore
MATHEMATICS CONTEST
TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1995
7:30 P.M.-9:30 P.M.
Room 317 Milner Hall
It is intended to award at least six prizes:
1. $150 for paper judged to be the best overall
2. $125 for second best
3. $100 for third best
4. $80 for fourth
5. $60 for fifth
6. $50 for sixth
Contest problems will cover topics up through Math 151
(Engineering Calculus I) for Freshmen, and through Math
251 (Engineering Calculus II) for Sophomore contestants.
For purpose of this contest, freshmen are first-year
undergraduate students, and sophomores are
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Adventures in Acjuielaivd By Greg
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Weather
Today
Decreasing clouds with a high
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near 10 mph.
Tonight
Increasing clouds with isolated
showers and a low near 63. SE
winds near 10 mph.
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Wednesday
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scattered showers. SE winds 15-
20 mph. High near 81.
Wednesday Night
Numerous showers and
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Thursday
Scattered showers and
thunderstorms. High near 80.
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Rankings
scrutinized after
report that
colleges inflate
scores, figures
WASHINGTON (AP) - For
years, American colleges have
railed against magazine rankings
of their campuses as oversimpli
fied “short cuts” that gloss over
the complex, subtle nature of
learning. .
Now there are contentions
that some of the schools, under
pressure to attract students,
are fibbing about the figures
they send each year for the
rankings done by U.S. News &
World Report, Money magazine
and others.
The rankings have come under
closer scrutiny since an Aprils
Wall Street Journal article re
ported discrepancies in data sent
for the rankings and information
sent to debt-rating agencies.
The dispute over the rankings
has underscored the importance
of marketing to the nation’s 3,000
colleges and universities.
“It’s a buyer’s market,” says
Lee Stetson, dean of admissions
at the University of Pennsylva
nia, whose school was not men
tioned in the Journal article.
“And the amount of publicity you
get helps determine the students
you get.”
A spokesman for New York
University — which was men
tioned in the Journal article —
said questions asked by the sur
veys can be interpreted in differ
ent ways, which results in vary
ing answers.
For example, the Journal re
ported that NYU, in responding
to the U.S. News survey, exclud
ed the SAT scores of about 100
poor students in a special state-
sponsored program. But NYU’s
Virgil Renzulli said Monday the
U.S. News survey asked for SAT
scores for students entering
school in the fall. The 100 exclud
ed students began classes in the
summer.
Among other discrepancies re
ported by the Journal:
— New College of the Uni
versity of South Florida, in
Sarasota, reported its fresh
man class average SAT score
as 1296. But that score was ob
tained by cutting off the bot
tom-scoring six percent of stu
dents, raising the average 40
points. Admissions director
David Anderson told the news
paper the practice, since
stopped, was part of the
school’s marketing strategy.
Anderson refused to comment
to The Associated Press, refer
ring questions to another col
lege official, who did not return
phone calls.
— Northeastern University in
Boston and several other schools
excluded international and reme
dial students’ SAT scores, even
though surveys specifically said
not to. Northeastern’s provost,
Michael Baer, said the practice
gave potential students a more
accurate reflection of what their
peer group would be.
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