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DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Schools
gain little ground
in most recent
rankings
KIRA ROSOFF
By
U.S. News and world Report
The Chronicle
a^an^incii
U.S. News and World Report released its 2004 uate
of America’s best grad-
rankings
and for the second
schools,
in
year
a
How Duke fared
Duke received mixed results.
row
The School of Law, after
falling
out of
the top 10 last year, stayed put at No. 12, while
the
slipped
of
School
Fuqua
No.
to
spot
a
School of Law
Business
tied with
7,
the
Haas School of Business at the Universiat
ty of California good
Medicine,
falling
Berkeley. There
however,
news,
which
for
rose
a
the
spot
two
spots
last year.
are
very
surprised
“We school’s
Dean
year,”
did
ranking of
not
the
The Chronicle.
in the In
that
a
School
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m
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News
departure
complete
coverage,
-
Enqincerinq
scor-
.
previous
al business programs. Duke sat at No. 8
years, 8 schools, 4
are
in
points this
their individual ranking is
both manageln ent and
business, No.
in
realize that and
influence
continue to
feel
is
do
appropriate
that
improve
the
Along Fuqua,
with
the
the
magazine also ranked
Dean
Breeden could
Douglas
The School of Medicine tied with the
we
ued
quail-
ranking
.
of
University
rad
Johns ton
overall
M.B.A.
marketing
not be reached for comment,
U.S.
that
international
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and No 4 for
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per-
perceptions.
everything
to
she
meaningless, I
important
are
rankings
We
section.
special
Pratt School of law school
tyofthe law school.
Coach Gail Goestenkors and the women’s basketball team receive well wishes from fans before
Slursinq
not reflected
sent to the
any yeai Nonetheless,
ceptions
see
School of
gotten
Bartlett addressed the
that
wrote.
for the Final Four in Atlanta. For
has
program
this
their
is
closely bunched (within
year),
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Pro cess
JANE HETHERINGTON/THE
the law
improve
rankings.”
community
so
Business
and it is frusmany ways,
so
that
trating
“The
of
to No. 4 after
Katharine Bartlett wrote in
better in
Euqua School of
was
School
Pennsylvania, but continHarvard
University,
the
Hopkins Universi ty and Washing-
University in St. Louis
lor
sever-
See U.S. NEWS
on
page 6
Black students Book: grade inflation exists at Duke discuss incident
Thursday night
recent
in
Joshua Jean-Baptiste,
with which
negative light
they
a
dozen
Bryan Center,
people
well
as
as
attended the
the
topics that they hoped students will address campus race
discussion
we
can
a
campus
thing
in
light
we
having
have
a
a
of
Psi
Kappa Alpha
es
and
During
the
recently published
articles
did not offer
the DSG a
less
most
which
ence,
tends
to
give
When son
description of the
a
a
IllSidC
The
Nicholas
Sciences
hopes
to
saw
on
jre
he
School
of
the
Environment
applicant
and
Earth
numbers this year, but
increase class sizes in years
to
come.
See page 3
A fire
in
the
See page 3
they
exists
believes,
which
manipulate
take in order to maxi-
grade point
students
overall
The
also
a
averages.
enrolling
in
By
courses
grading professors, proportion
of
high
he
continues,
from the
professors,
problem,
comes
of whom give out high grades to
grades
nrollments and
conducted
0 0.
approach, rather
suggesting
teacher ratings
by their students. Johnson provides data
a
strong correlation
between the average
yield clearer results. was
underground
tunnel
caused the evacuation of residents
ing.
Eng-
grades awarded increases.
page 9
consistent
and
middle range of the
with leniently
he writes.
mathematical
holistic one, would
grading
Psychology,
science
Johnson
their
pra*
“When evaluating grade inflation, it See REACTION
jes ;e
synthesizing the data for his book,
believed that
than
process.
students
■e
soc;
economics,
and biol-
severe
•ontinuum.
from
and
the
crisis,
leniently
stringent grading
to this rule is
with the natural sciences,
president. They said
complete
mpied
as
that humanities
grade
severe
•olicy political
teaches at the \
highest grades
courses
ploy the
students addressed three of
Chronicle articles written about
the altercation involving the
gathered
exception
discussion, the
least
conducts
concludes
into
hile drama, music and literature
classes in the sciences and mathem,'
meeting organizer.
the
now
impor-
difficult to compile
Chemistry, mathematics, physics
1998-1999 academic year
award the
some-
fraternity
well
Undergraduate!
ences
to say
as
more
study from which I could draw conclusions.”
at Duke
survey
Johnson, who
of his present situation,” said junior Nate
Jenkins president
a
in
data from the Duke
versity of Michigan,
black student gov-
responsibility
grading trends
historical research
statistics
ernment president...
professor
is also very
to have the most
Evaluating Teaching
in further
regarding the incident and
take pride in
statistics
Johnson
quantitatively,”
qualitatively
tant but would have been
se-
Johnson’s book systemat
details
during the
list of
relations.
“If
Duke
data I had
any
at data
book to be released April 18.
using
in the
meeting
a
cally
said the situation has
which they formulated
during
Former
colleges?
Education,
been portrayed. About
crisis at Duke and at other
Titled Grade Inflation: A Crisis
the implications of the
controversy surrounding Duke Student Govern-
ment President
a
analyze
said. “Looking
Valen Johnson thinks so—and will reveal his evidence
The leaders of several black student organizations to discuss
grade inflation
lective
FOSTER
The Chronicle
met
tant to
The Chronicle
Is
By JACQUELINE
CHARLIE MEHL
By
very
of
See GRADE INFLATION
impor-
Jarvis
dormitory
early Thursday
morn-
The Center for
Systems neering
seeks
on
Biological Inspired to
explore
page 7
Materials and Material
integration
of traditional
engi-
methods with those of natural sciences. See page 5