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Published October 4, 2022 8:51pm EDT

NYU fires chemistry professor after students sign petition complaining that his class is too difficult

The professor reportedly said his students lost focus during the pandemic

Maitland Jones Jr., a chemistry professor at New York University who also taught for four decades at Princeton, was fired in August after undergraduate students circulated a petition complaining that his course was too difficult.

Dozens of the college students, many of them aspiring doctors, signed on to the petition in the spring.

"We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class," the petition read, according to the New York Times.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyu-fires-chemistry-professor-students-sign-petition-complaining-class-difficult

The College Admissions Scam: A Sleazy Side-Effect Of Our Elite College Mania

Michael T. NietzelSenior Contributor

I am a former university president who writes about higher education.

Mar 13, 2019,06:34am EDT

Higher education was rocked Tuesday by the federal indictment of almost 50 people including administrators, coaches and dozens of parents for their roles in offering and taking bribes to gain the fraudulent admission of students to elite colleges such as Stanford, Yale and Georgetown.

While the magnitude of criminality – bribes, tax evasion, fraud, and document falsification – was unprecedented, the apparent motive behind the parents' actions involves an obsession well-known to college admission officials: the desperate desire to have their son or daughter admitted to one of the nation’s elite colleges.

Admission to a top-shelf college has become the Holy Grail for many families who have bought into the notion that their children’s success in life will be all but guaranteed by graduating from an elite institution. Conversely, the failure to make it into an elite school is viewed with dread. Attending a “second-tier” college is feared as a failure that will predestinate a second-rate education, followed by a third-rate career.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2019/03/13/the-college-admissions-scam-a-sleazy-side-effect-of-our-elite-college-mania/?sh=753e849e2645

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The Cleveland Elementary School shooting (also known as the Stockton schoolyard shooting and the Cleveland School massacre) occurred on January 17, 1989, at Cleveland Elementary School at 20 East Fulton Street in Stockton, California, United States. The gunman, Patrick Purdy, who had an extended criminal history, shot and killed five schoolchildren and wounded 32 others. As first responders arrived at the scene, Purdy committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His victims were predominantly Southeast Asian refugees.

The attack was the U.S. non-college school shooting with the highest number of fatalities and injuries until the Columbine High School massacre, and of all U.S. school shootings in the 1980s, it had the largest number of victims.

All of those who died and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants, who had come with their families to the U.S. as refugees.[5] Purdy committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol.[1][6] He had carved the words "freedom", "victory", "Earthman", and "Hezbollah" on his rifle, and his flak jacket was inscribed with "PLO", "Libya", and "Death to the Great Satin" [sic].[7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(Stockton)

On July 16, 2014, an armed bank robbery resulted in the four perpetrators taking three hostages and leading members of the Stockton Police Department (SPD) on an hour long high speed pursuit. Over the course of the car chase, one suspect fired over 100 rounds from an AK-47s at police disabling 14 police vehicles including a Lenco BearCat and more than 30 officers shot over 600 rounds into the getaway vehicle. Two perpetrators were killed, two hostages were injured, one hostage was killed by police ammunition, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Stockton_bank_robbery

Cops: Calif. bank robbery hostage was killed by police

August 11, 2014 / 5:37 PM / CBS/AP

STOCKTON, Calif. - The hostage who died during a bank robbery and chase in Stockton, Calif., last month was killed by police, not the suspects, authorities said Monday.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-california-bank-robbery-hostage-was-killed-by-police/