<p>Take a look at the comments section of this article in the daily pennsylvanian!</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Penn drops to eighth on U.S. News rankings](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/09/penn-drops-to-eighth-on-u-s-news-rankings]The”>Penn drops to eighth on U.S. News rankings | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>I see that the ■■■■■ is back posing as a “prospective” student from either Cornell or Penn trying to flame the torches…the same individual who can’t “believe” Chicago ranks higher than Stanford or MIT…</p>
<p>Eh, there are a few jealous people out there. It’s to be expected. I’m more surprised and impressed by the people on that website who are aware that this is very similar to some of Penn’s moves historically.</p>
<p>Gravitas, I was clearly being sarcastic when I made that comment. That is why I put in the exclamation marks and the emoticon. I’m no ■■■■■, neither am I a Penn partisan.</p>
<p>gravitas, are you familiar with former presidential candidate John Kerry’s favorite word?</p>
<p>This historian at Harvard and the Hoover Institution, correctly, points to Stanford as a sign of the Decline of Western Civilization. On CC you have a bunch of dumb teenagers worried about a school’s prestige, but anyone who cares about education is pretty shocked by the state of the supposed ‘top’ schools:</p>
<p>[Niall</a> Ferguson: why the West is now in decline - Telegraph](<a href=“Niall Ferguson: why the West is now in decline”>Niall Ferguson: why the West is now in decline)</p>