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Though recent decades have seen a rise in college students' GPAs, their seemingly improved academic performance is not attributed to higher intelligence, but to grade inflation that is becoming more prominent across colleges and universities, The Atlantic reported. A study by the Department of Economics at the University of North Texas found various factors that account for the recent inflations.


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Though the punishments imposed are hardly earth-shattering, to punish members who are not earnestly believed to be wrongdoers for the sake of public relations would be a reprehensible act of scapegoating.








Entrepreneur Magazine named Wharton junior Aaron Goldstein Top College Entrepreneur of 2014 after he developed FeverSmart, a device that monitors temperature and sends cellphone alerts when a fever spikes. Goldstein came up with the idea for the device after his freshman-year roommate, fellow Wharton junior Colin Hill, had to keep his temperature constantly monitored while being treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.