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Faculty members remember late colleague

Faculty members remember late colleague

University administrators and professors honored late emeritus anthropology professor David Wendell Crabb and approved committee election results yesterday during a faculty meeting.Professor James Boon, anthropology department chair, read a memorial resolution about Crabb, who died last year.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Faculty members remember late colleague

University administrators and professors honored late emeritus anthropology professor David Wendell Crabb and approved committee election results yesterday during a faculty meeting.Professor James Boon, anthropology department chair, read a memorial resolution about Crabb, who died last year.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Crime around campus

Unknown location, March 29, 10:13 a.m.A University staff member reported receiving a harassing telephone call on his cell phone.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

University opts not to 'Turnitin'

As jobs and graduate school admission become increasingly competitive prospects, campuses nationwide are confronting a rising tide of cheating among undergraduates.A study released last year by Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity revealed that 70 percent of college students admit to some form of cheating, while a widely-cited survey by Who's Who Among American High School Students determined that 80 percent of college-bound students cheat.To tackle this issue, universities have turned to anti-plagiarism software.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Piano Woman

Carolyn Wu '08 performs her solo recital Monday night in Taplin Auditorium. Wu played works by Schumann, Mozart and Ravel on the piano and pieces by Franck and de Sarasate on the violin.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Harvard boosts aid program

Just days after Stanford eliminated parental contributions for families that make less than $45,000 annually, Harvard has raised the financial aid bar yet again.The university announced Thursday that it no longer requires parental contributions to tuition for families with incomes under $60,000.The announcement builds on Harvard's 2004 financial aid initiative, which eliminated parental contribution for families making under $40,000 per year.Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Penn are engaged in a cold war of financial aid offers, with each university raising the income level for which they eliminate parental contribution.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Harvard boosts aid program

Just days after Stanford eliminated parental contributions for families that make less than $45,000 annually, Harvard has raised the financial aid bar yet again.The university announced Thursday that it no longer requires parental contributions to tuition for families with incomes under $60,000.The announcement builds on Harvard's 2004 financial aid initiative, which eliminated parental contribution for families making under $40,000 per year.Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Penn are engaged in a cold war of financial aid offers, with each university raising the income level for which they eliminate parental contribution.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Bell GS '64 addresses U.S.-NGO relationship

Peter Bell GS '64, former president of CARE USA, an antipoverty NGO, discussed the shifting relationship between the U.S.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Campus pub set to open next week

Almost six years after the last campus bar for undergraduate students closed, a new University-operated pub is on the horizon.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Crime around campus

Unknown location, March 29, 10:13 a.m.A University staff member reported receiving a harassing telephone call on his cell phone.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Campus pub set to open next week

Almost six years after the last campus bar for undergraduate students closed, a new University-operated pub is on the horizon.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

The Israeli election: An American's view

JERUSALEM, March 31 ? The driver of bus number 32 was voting for Likud and its chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

University opts not to 'Turnitin'

As jobs and graduate school admission become increasingly competitive prospects, campuses nationwide are confronting a rising tide of cheating among undergraduates.A study released last year by Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity revealed that 70 percent of college students admit to some form of cheating, while a widely-cited survey by Who's Who Among American High School Students determined that 80 percent of college-bound students cheat.To tackle this issue, universities have turned to anti-plagiarism software.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Bell GS '64 addresses U.S.-NGO relationship

Peter Bell GS '64, former president of CARE USA, an antipoverty NGO, discussed the shifting relationship between the U.S.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

The Israeli election: An American's view

JERUSALEM, March 31 ? The driver of bus number 32 was voting for Likud and its chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Piano Woman

Carolyn Wu '08 performs her solo recital Monday night in Taplin Auditorium. Wu played works by Schumann, Mozart and Ravel on the piano and pieces by Franck and de Sarasate on the violin.

NEWS | 04/03/2006

Firms design dining makeover

Three firms have been chosen to redesign the interior of the campus dining halls as part of the University's effort to enhance the residential college experience before the opening of four-year colleges.Michael Graves & Associates, Sheila Bridges Design and Mesher Shing will redesign the dining halls in Butler-Wilson, Whitman and Rockefeller-Mathey, respectively.

NEWS | 04/02/2006

The Weather Guy: Your anti-drug

Weather pals, saying the conditions this past week were anything short of outstanding is like saying beef jerky is not delicious ? sure, you can say it, but it is well beyond your powers to add or detract from its inherent untruth.Unfortunately, just in time for April, that warm weather is going to be banished to the Island of Misfit Toys, where it can keep yesterday's lost hour company.Actually, I've always thought the time change provides a creative opportunity for standing up a date: just tell the target of your diss, "Sure, I'll go out with you!

NEWS | 04/02/2006

University second best for Latinos, magazine says

Princeton was rated the second-best university for Latinos in the March 2006 issue of Hispanic Magazine, though many students said that the actual presence of Hispanics on campus is much weaker than the rankings indicate.The magazine's annual ranking of the top 25 colleges and universities for Latinos places Princeton a notch below Harvard, which received the number one ranking, but above Amherst and Yale, which came in third and fourth, respectively.In February, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ranked the University third in attracting African-American students and professors.The percentage enrollment of Latino students, the percentage of Hispanic faculty and the Hispanic cultural opportunities on campus were among the factors taken into account.

NEWS | 04/02/2006

Spring break in Mexico, minus MTV

For the people of Medellin, Mexico, we redefined the phrase "los spring breakers." Instead of sipping on piña coladas at the trendiest five-star hotel, 10 Princeton students donned work gloves over spring break and laid hundreds of bricks to construct a kindergarten.We traveled to the town of 4,000 as part of the Cruz Blanca Initiative (CBI), a nonprofit group of Princeton students founded seven years ago and dedicated to promoting self-sustainable development and facilitating cross-cultural exchange in the state of Veracruz.On our first day, we approached a vacant dirt site that would become a school.

NEWS | 04/02/2006

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