Showing posts with label Princeton University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Princeton University. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2015

Improve "race relations"? Deport Sharpton!

January 23, 2015 Cleveland.com , Princeton University 0 Comments
Princeton Prize In Race Relations Contest seeking Greater Cleveland Applicants

Roxanne Washington, Jan. 21, 2015, Cleveland.com

Every year, Princeton sponsors a contest that recognizes high school students (grades 9 to 12) who are working for change. The contest is called the Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The winner from Greater Cleveland and 24 other regions across the country receives a $1,000 prize and an all-expenses paid trip to Princeton University in the spring for a symposium.

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Bogus study is STILL cited by leftists

September 05, 2014 Alan Krueger , Carrie L. Lukas 0 Comments
Krueger’s Faulty Minimum-Wage Study
Alan Krueger
By Carrie L. Lukas, Aug. 30, 2014, Nationalreview.com

After President Obama tapped Princeton University professor Alan Krueger to chair the Council of Economic Advisors, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein wrote that Krueger “is arguably the leading labor economist in the country” and “known for bringing a near-superhuman rigor” to the subject.

One wonders how any economist would earn a “near-superhuman” superlative for their research. One can particularly wonder in the case of Professor Krueger, who is known for his 1990s academic research that attempted to prove that employee wages were not subject to the laws of supply and demand.

In 1993, Krueger and David Card published a study that examined employment statistics of fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania following the Garden State’s minimum wage hike. The authors reported that employment at fast-food chains in New Jersey increased by 13 percent compared to restaurants across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. Clinton administration Labor secretary Robert Reich, Senator Kerry, Senator Kennedy, and other luminaries of the Left pointed to the study’s findings to call for raising the minimum wage.

But analysis by independent researchers revealed the Krueger-Card report, which was based on a phone survey in which fast food restaurant managers and assistant managers were asked about their staff size, to be deeply flawed. The Employment Policy Institute analyzed the phone survey results against actual payroll data from the restaurants and concluded that “the data set used in the New Jersey study bears no relation to numbers drawn from payroll records of the restaurants the New Jersey study claims to cover.”

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

College Speaker Calls Students Immature, Arrogant -- Somebody had to say it

May 18, 2014 Academia , Haverford College 0 Comments
William G. Bowen
By Associated Press, May 18, 2014, News.Yahoo.com

HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP) — A commencement speaker on Sunday blasted college students as "immature" and "arrogant" for protesting another speaker who then decided to withdraw.

William Bowen, former president of Princeton University, used his commencement speech at Haverford College outside Philadelphia to criticize students who campaigned against Robert Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

Birgeneau is among several commencement speakers who canceled their appearances this spring amid student protests.

More than 40 students and three professors had protested Birgeneau's invitation to speak, objecting to his handling of a 2011 incident at Berkeley in which police used force at a student protest during the Occupy movement. The group wanted Birgeneau to apologize, support payments for victims and write a letter to Haverford students explaining his position on the events and "what you learned from them."

Birgeneau, who was also supposed to receive an honorary degree from Haverford, refused those demands and others in a terse email.

Bowen chastised students in his speech for driving Birgeneau away, The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1sHYBcW ) reported.

"I am disappointed that those who wanted to criticize Birgeneau's handling of events at Berkeley chose to send him such an intemperate list of 'demands,'" Bowen said Sunday. "In my view, they should have encouraged him to come and engage in a genuine discussion, not to come, tail between his legs, to respond to an indictment that a self-chosen jury had reached without hearing counterarguments."

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