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Hargadon reflects, Rapelye prepares to step in

Hargadon reflects, Rapelye prepares to step in

As Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon retires this year, his replacement, current Wellesley admission dean Janet Rapelye, faces many challenging new assignments.Perhaps the largest is that Princeton's admissions department handles nearly four times the number of applications as Wellesley, an all-female school.But Rapelye says she is looking forward to the new challenges, especially the University's plans to expand its class size as it implements the Wythes Plan, which calls for a 500-student increase in the student body over several years."I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to doing that ? what a dream for an admissions officer," she said.The administrative turnover comes at a crucial point in college admissions.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

Keeping unwanted visitors out: Protecting your 'H: drive' account

Students who save files to their "H: drive" may not be aware their documents could be visible to anyone with access to the University network.For students before the Class of 2006, all "H:" shared drives are set to let other students to view their contents by default.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

USG clarifies class government role, discusses LGBT concerns

The USG voted last night in its final meeting of the academic year to better define the role of class government officers.Other items on the agenda of the meeting included the seven-week athletic moratorium, the problem of homophobia on campus and the role of LGBTQ and suggestions regarding USG activities for next semester.Junior Class President Eli Goldsmith said revising the USG Constitution corrects inaccuracies, raises expectations for class governments and clarifies the difference between the role of class government and the USG Senate and U-Council.Class governments, whose duties had not been previously defined, are now explicitly expected to create "substantive, class-specific programs" and plan "social events designed to foster the unity of the class," the revision reads.Particularly in freshman elections, "a lot of people . . . have campaign platforms based on policy issues and that is not what class government is all about," Goldsmith said.The revision underscores that setting campus-wide policy has always been delegated to the USG Senate.

NEWS | 05/15/2003

Foreign study numbers, dorm improvements impact housing

Though Adam Rockman, coordinator of undergraduate housing, has said that no students are "left out in the cold" after room draw, some 117 wait-listed rising juniors wonder which dorm they will call home next year.Several factors, including dormitory renovations and fewer vacancies because of a drop in foreign study, will make housing tight for next year, and those wait listed students may receive a housing assignment as late as August.The wait list, Rockman said, is on the "higher side of average." However, in Rockman's six years at the University, the wait list has ranged from 90 to 130 students."In my time here, and as far back as anyone can remember, we have never not been able to offer a housing assignment to everyone," Rockman said.

NEWS | 05/13/2003

A Princeton Procrastinator's Toolkit

This article probably should have come out last week for Reading Period, but we delayed writing it ? like other news, our readers point out . . . Get it?

NEWS | 05/13/2003

University to forbid frosh parking, starting with '07

Beginning this fall with the Class of 2007, freshmen will no longer be granted campus parking permits resulting from space restraints."With consultation from the members of the Undergraduate Life Committee, it was decided that, effective this September, freshmen will not be permitted to bring cars on campus," said Laurel Harvey, director of the Office of Risk Management."Students with special needs, supported by medical documentation, may submit parking waiver requests to Maria Flores-Mills in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students," Harvey said.Freshmen who bring cars to campus will have to follow general guidelines for visitor parking.

NEWS | 05/13/2003

Weekly Wrap-up

Thumbs Up: Take home finalsYeah, baby, yeah. Thumbs Up: Matrix ReloadedI'm so psyched I've taken all of the red and green pills that I can get my hands on . . . and I don't feel so well anymore. Thumbs Up: Preceptor trainingMandatory training for first-time preceptors will start this fall. Thumbs Down: All-nightersI pulled my first Princeton all-nighter Monday night.

NEWS | 05/13/2003

Forum looks at controversy over Wilson School exhibit

Last night, the Wilson School hosted a discussion examining issues surrounding artistic expression in public spaces and respect for religious beliefs after several students and faculty members complained that an exhibition currently on display in the Bernstein Gallery of Robertson Hall's lower level is offensive to Catholics.The exhibition, titled "Ricanstructions," is a collection of works by Brooklyn artist Juan Sanchez.

NEWS | 05/13/2003

USG meets to take on moratorium

The USG will decide tonight how best to persuade University administrators to change the seven-week moratorium on athletic practices.With the backing of President Tilghman, athletes and coaches, the USG is optimistic that the University will lead an effort to amend the moratorium across the Ivy League.A recent proposal from members of the University suggests replacing the seven-week break from off-season athletic practices with a limit on the number of days and hours a team could practice per week.

NEWS | 05/13/2003

An institution growing from the inside

(This was the caption to a map of campus constrution in the print edition. The map could not be included in the online edition.)The Princeton campus ? serene when current seniors were freshmen ? has seen a burst over the last several years in construction projects.East Pyne, for instance, one of the renovation projects due to be finished before fall semester, will be the new home for over a dozen departments and programs.

NEWS | 05/11/2003

Campus Club will switch to Bicker system

Campus Club president Jonathan Chou '04 announced yesterday the club will abandon this year's semi-selective sign-in process in favor of Bicker.

NEWS | 05/11/2003

Altmann elected to Academy of Sciences

For her study of the relationships between behavior and other biological processes in natural populations, ecology and evolutionary biology professor Jeanne Altmann earned election to the National Academy of Sciences this year, dubbed by The New York Times "an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize."One of 72 inductees selected this year by fellow scientists, Altmann brings the total number of members affiliated with the University to 60.

NEWS | 05/11/2003

Dean announces training of preceptors

More than a year after the U-Council's initial proposal for precept reform, the University has finally reached a decision to introduce mandatory training for all first-time preceptors this fall.

NEWS | 05/11/2003

Doyle, international relations scholar, to leave for Columbia U.

In the midst of the Wilson School's renewed efforts to recruit high profile international studies scholars, current international relations professor Michael Doyle has announced he will be leaving the University in June.Doyle will be heading for Columbia University where he has accepted a joint appointment at Columbia Law School and School of Public and International Affairs."I have been very pleased to have taught at Princeton, beginning in 1977, and will miss many colleagues and friends, but I am also eager to undertake new challenges at Columbia," Doyle said in an email."He very much wanted a tenured appointment in a law school," Anne Marie Slaughter, dean of the Wilson School, said in an email.Doyle's move comes at a time when the University is looking toward a renewed focus on international studies in both the Wilson School and the rest of the University."It is certainly a blow; Professor Doyle is an eminent scholar and celebrated practitioner with important UN experience," Slaughter said in an email.

NEWS | 05/11/2003

Peng uses website to take donations

Since Dan Peng '05 was saddled with a $15,000 settlement and lawyers' fees from his skirmish with the Recording Industry Association of America, he has been thinking creatively about how to pay the sum ? and he is now using the website that originally got him in trouble to dig himself out of debt.Peng has now made wake.princeton.edu ? the site that formerly enabled file sharing ? a virtual space for taking donations."I got a lot of emails from people that were just offering to help out and asking if there was some way they could donate," Peng said.

NEWS | 05/08/2003

Will GS '68 discusses the state of American politics in society today

Columnist and television commentator George F. Will GS '68 spoke last night in McCosh 10 about American politics and society, saying that many Americans forget that many current problems are rooted in American culture and have been faced before.Will, who has a twice-weekly column syndicated in roughly 500 newspapers and has appeared on ABC's "This Week" for the last 21 years, began his lecture by comparing baseball and politics."Baseball . . . is a game where small increments over a long season make the difference," he said, suggesting this is equivalent to a conservative outlook in politics.Will praised the conduct of America's war on terrorism and the recent conflict in Iraq."We have acted with amazing speed in responding to 9/11," he said.He said that U.S.

NEWS | 05/08/2003

Sinkler, beloved athletic trainer, dies at 86

Robert Sinkler, beloved community member and University athletic trainer for 36 years, died last week in his home in Princeton, according to Town Topics.Sinkler was given the Princeton University Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton in 1997 and who was an honarary member of the Classes of 1938, 1962 and 1978.In 1999, he recieved the All-American Football Foundation's Top Athletic Trainer Award.In the Class of 1962's July 1999 class notes, the class cited as reason for honoring Sinkler, "the support and good will Bobby extended to countless undergraduates during his long career as a sports trainer for the university."He received an award from the Friends of Princeton University Hockey in 1981, Town Topics said.Outside of the University, Sinkler was an instrumental and vibrant member of the Princeton community.He was Director of the Princeton Recreation Deparment and a Little League Coach.He served on both the New Jersey Recreation Advisory Committee and the Township Recreation Committee, and ran for a spot on the Princeton Township Committee in 1954, Town Topics said.The memorial service will be held at 2 p.m.

NEWS | 05/08/2003

Gates to use time off from Harvard as scholar at IAS

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famous Harvard University Afro-American studies chair who in December declined a longstanding offer to join the Princeton faculty, will spend next year at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study.Princeton Provost Amy Gutmann said she didn't know whether Gates planned to teach at Princeton during his time in the area but noted that "typically a sabbatical and time at the institute are intended to allow a scholar to focus on his or her scholarship."The announcement by Harvard President Lawrence Summers in December that Gates had decided to remain in Cambridge ended what became a highly public campaign by Princeton to hire away Harvard's "dream team" of African-American professors, including Gates, Cornel West GS '80 and K.

NEWS | 05/08/2003

Genomics institute opens to bridge science community

Approaching the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory from Washington Road, one is met with a long, uniform facade of pale concrete.

NEWS | 05/08/2003

Student hackers breach security of Blackboard IDs

Two students from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama sparked controversy over the security of campus ID cards and the rights of hackers when their attempt to publicize how they had compromised the security of the Blackboard Transaction System was stopped by a suit brought by Blackboard, Inc.Blackboard, known by students for hosting the University's course websites, also operates student ID cards at approximately 223 universities across the nation, including Princeton.

NEWS | 05/06/2003

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