Grade Deflation Examined at Princeton, Frat Emails Made Public at Dartmouth

The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight.

Princeton is notorious for its grade deflation policy, but that may be up for a change—Princeton’s president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, has convened a faculty committee to review the policy, the Daily Princetonian reports. Students won’t sit on the committee, according to the Prince. (Apparently, reviewing a policy governing how students are graded doesn’t require students doing the reviewing.)

Perhaps, if this policy review eventually results in the elimination of the grade deflation policy, Harvard won’t be the subject of so many grade inflation jokes. Or we probably still will.

At Yale, a residential college laundry room has been terrorized by a so-called “poopetrator” who—you guessed it—has been pooping on people’s laundry. As of almost a week ago, the individual (or individuals, we suppose, though we’ll be even more disgusted if this turns out to be a group crime, because, well, gross) responsible for this disgusting series of events hadn’t yet been caught, according to the Yale Daily News.

Dartmouth Greek life again came under scrutiny when Gawker published a piece detailing email correspondences among members of the school’s Beta Alpha Omega fraternity. The conversations Gawker published covered the frat’s initiation rituals, pledge information, and the chapter president’s response to the possibility that a sexual assault suspect may have attended a party at the frat.

Beta, apparently, made the mistake of making their Google group public. If only they had learned from the Isis.