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A Columbia Professor Takes the University to Task Over Rankings
Columbia mentioned that 82.5 p.c of undergraduate lessons enrolled fewer than 20 college students, the next proportion than another faculty within the prime 100. He created a spreadsheet of lessons with beneath 20 college students, excluding some like lab and dialogue sections and noncredit programs, and located that the share of core programs — Columbia’s famed normal schooling programs — with fewer than 20 college students was 45 p.c. In engineering and pure sciences, under 50 p.c of lessons had fewer than 20 college students. “This makes it inconceivable for the general worth to get anyplace close to the determine of 82.5 p.c claimed by Columbia,” he mentioned.
Columbia was No. 18 in 1988. Dr. Thaddeus says that climbing to No. 2 was outstanding. Was it?
He speculated that Columbia might have benefited from the overall enchancment within the high quality of life in New York Metropolis since 1988, when the college ranked No. 18. However he concluded that indicators like declining crime would have solely an oblique impact on the educational high quality of an establishment, and in any case, should not the metrics utilized by U.S. Information.
His conclusion? “A number of of the important thing figures supporting Columbia’s excessive rating are inaccurate, doubtful or extremely deceptive.”
Columbia felt he had oversimplified its rise within the rankings. The march to No. 2 from No. 18 was not a gradual and regular one over 34 years, they mentioned. Columbia jumped 10 locations in only one yr, to No. 8 in 1989 from No. 18 the yr earlier than. This was as a result of U.S. Information modified its standards, Columbia officers mentioned.
Extra just lately, earlier than it attained the No. 2 spot in a tie with Harvard and M.I.T., it had been bouncing across the prime 5 locations for a decade, usually tied with different faculties.
How vital are these rankings, anyway? What sort of a distinction does it make if a college is, say, No. 10 versus No. 2?
I don’t assume it makes a lot distinction to a college’s potential to draw analysis grants, for instance, however it most likely makes a distinction in its potential to draw bold college students and cost excessive tuition. We stay in a society the place standing is paramount, and plenty of college students imagine, maybe rightly, that attending probably the most prestigious college they will get into will assist them land the most effective job they will get.
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Adams’s Former Chief Adviser and Her Son Charged With Corruption
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, and her son, Glenn D. Martin II, were charged with taking $100,000 in bribes from two businessmen in a quid-pro-quo scheme.
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We allege that Ingrid Lewis-Martin engaged in a long-running bribery, money laundering and conspiracy scheme by using her position and authority as the chief adviser of — chief adviser to the New York City mayor, the second-highest position in city government — to illegally influence city decisions in exchange for in excess of $100,000 in cash and other benefits for herself and her son, Glenn Martin II. We allege that real estate developers and business owners Raizada “Pinky” Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi paid for access and influence to the tune more than $100,000. Lewis-Martin acted as an on-call consultant for Vaid and Dwivedi, serving at their pleasure to resolve whatever issues they had with D.O.B. on their construction projects, and she did so without regard for security considerations and with utter and complete disregard for D.O.B.’s expertise and the public servants who work there.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE,
Defendant.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ss.:
Original
AUSAS: Dominic A. Gentile,
Jun Xiang, Alexandra Messiter
24 MAG 4375
SEALED COMPLAINT
Violations of
18 U.S.C. §§ 2261A, 2261(b), 924(j), and
924(c)
COUNTY OF OFFENSE:
NEW YORK
GARY W. COBB, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a Special Agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and charges as follows:
COUNT ONE
(Stalking – Travel in Interstate Commerce)
1. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, traveled in interstate commerce with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place
under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, and in the
course of, and as a result of, such travel engaged in conduct that placed that person in reasonable
fear of the death of, and serious bodily injury to, that person, and in the course of engaging in such
conduct caused the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE, traveled from Georgia to New York,
New York for the purpose of stalking and killing Brian Thompson, and while in New York,
MANGIONE stalked and then shot and killed Thompson in the vicinity of West 54th Street and
Sixth Avenue.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2261A(1)(A) and 2261(b)(1).)
COUNT TWO
(Stalking – Use of Interstate Facilities)
2. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place under surveillance with intent
to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, used an electronic communication service and
electronic communication system of interstate commerce, and a facility of interstate or foreign
commerce, to engage in a course of conduct that placed that person in reasonable fear of the death
of and serious bodily injury to that person, and in the course of engaging in such conduct caused
the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE used a cellphone, interstate wires, interstate
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Luigi Mangione Is Charged With Murder
The first-degree murder charge branded him a terrorist over the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.
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We are here to announce that Luigi Mangione, the defendant, is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism for the brazen, targeted and premeditated shooting of Brian Thompson, who, as was as you know, was the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare. This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. It occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city, threatening the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and businesspeople just starting out on their day.
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