I remember the discussion of the etymology of "buttload" here a few months ago.
Perhaps we need to do something like that for "value"? m PS Am I correct that an Imperial buttload is larger than an American buttload? ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:45 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: Princeton Review "Best Value" list Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote: > Also interesting that Swarthmore in PA made the list. It is a top > rated liberal arts college (so no question about the quality) but it > costs $43500 a year (tuition plus room/board) to attend. I wonder how > they define "value" when it appears that few other expensive and high > ranked liberal arts colleges made the list. Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc. are on the list as well. I believe they are using an obscure Anglo-Saxon meaning of the term "value" which equates roughly to our modern "random". :-) Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 ========================== > Marc Carter wrote: > >> I'm wondering how the US Military Academy makes the list. I'm not >> sure ponying up 6 years of getting shot at (given the current >> political >> climate) in exchange for 4 years of college makes it a "best value." >> >> (I'm not bashing the military here; I say this as the son of a career >> soldier and the brother of a career soldier.) >> >> m >> >> >> ------ >> "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering >> what it cares about." >> -- >> Margaret Wheatley >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ken Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, >> April 25, 2007 7:41 PM >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> Subject: [tips] Princeton Review "Best Value" list >> >> >> Here is a link to the list of 165 schools that Princeton Review calls >> a "Best Value." >> >> http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/articles/bestvalue08s >> tat >> elist.asp >> >> It seems like an odd collection of schools. Only one school from the >> entire state of NJ made the list while GA can claim 8. And when was >> The Evergreen State College moved to Virginia? >> >> Ken >> >> DISCLAIMER: This is not a trick to get you to read the list for NC >> schools ;-) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu >> Appalachian State University >> Boone, NC 28608 >> USA >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription go to: >> http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&la >> ng= >> english >> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription go to: >> http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&la >> ng=english >> >> >> > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
