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Administration seeks feedback on four-year college proposal

Administration seeks feedback on four-year college proposal

After deliberating for five months and outlining plans for a revamped residential college system in a 35-page report, the planning committee is now seeking feedback from students and faculty.With that in mind, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson, who co-chaired the Four-Year College Program Planning Committee, presented its plan and answered questions at USG and U-Council meetings over the past two days.Malkiel said the plan for new residential college system is still in its preliminary stage."We have put together a blueprint, but we have also left much work yet to be done," she said at the U-Council meeting yesterday.The report, which was released this weekend, explains the committee's intentions for expanding residential colleges to include upperclassmen ? to create more interaction for underclassmen with juniors and seniors, graduate students and faculty and to provide upperclassmen with more options for residential life, including enhanced academic advising."By integrating four years of undergraduate students and graduate students, we can take much better advantage of the human resources of this educational community," Malkiel said.Malkiel said the committee focused on ways to attract upperclassmen to living in the four-year dormitories and maintaining ties with their colleges."We cared enormously about creating more options than we already have, especially for juniors and seniors," she said.The University will encourage upperclassmen who no longer live in the colleges to stay involved by attending activities, eating meals in the dining halls and participating in intramurals.It also hopes that upperclassmen will continue relationships with deans and directors of studies.Under the plan, rising juniors and seniors can draw into any of the three four-year colleges, with preference given to students already living in the college.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Torricelli drops Senate bid, saying N.J. Democratic seat in jeopardy

Sen. Robert Torricelli ? his campaign dogged with attacks on his ethics and integrity since it began ? dropped out of the race for U.S.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Laptops convenient for students and thieves alike, statistics show

Of the 60 burglary incidents in 2001, 28 occurred in dormitories, according to Public Safety's recently released crime statistics report.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Renberg '86 expands political career as head of Ex-Im Bank

For Dan Renberg '86, it's not always easy to keep up with his Princeton classmates. Even after he was appointed to the board of directors of Export-Import Bank of the United States by Bill Clinton in 1999, his mother still wanted to know why Renberg had not been named 'Time' man of the year, like Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos '86."There's nothing quite like having the 'Time' man of the year in your class and having a Jewish mother," he said.Magazine cover or not, people all over the world recognize Renberg's name as the head of Ex-Im Bank, an independent government agency dedicated to bringing U.S.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Freshman ambitions spawn a series of runoffs with emphasis on class unity

Elections results for the Class of 2006 were announced yesterday evening, but four of the class's five seats have yet to be decided.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Sustained Dialogue marks five years of race discussion, growing interest

Sustained Dialogue's kick-off retreat this year drew students and faculty members of many backgrounds, cultures and races to Frist on Saturday morning.Since its inception five years ago, the group's goal has been to create dialogue on campus about race relations.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

OIT locks accounts; 36 passwords cracked

As the University's campaign to improve network security finishes its first phase today, technology officials said a University member has been referred for possible disciplinary action for cracking about 36 accounts.After warning undergraduates to change their passwords from their social security numbers for the past few weeks, OIT will lock the accounts of students who have not changed their passwords by this afternoon, said Steven Sather, OIT's support director.Most students have complied, however, with only 250 undergraduates not changing the e-mail, academic records or UNIX passwords from the default ? the last eight digits of the social security number.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

New rules, lack of donors compound blood shortage in local hospital banks

The blood shortage around the nation has worsened in recent months as a result of new federal restrictions on donor blood, created to prevent the transmission of mad cow disease, health officials said.The Princeton Medical Center has been forced to turn away about five to 10 donors per month because of the legislation, translating to an estimated 10-percent drop in donations, said Rao Andavolu, director of PMC's blood bank.The decrease in donations has neared 20 percent in New York and New Jersey.

NEWS | 09/30/2002

Cap, Ivy accept new fall Bicker members

The Ivy and Cap and Gown clubs admitted 27 students during fall Bicker sessions, held this past week.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

Good times, good tunes mark annual JazzFeast

A mother danced with her toddler-age daughter bouncing on her hip, and it did not take long before the little girl's brother was also on his feet, laughing and hopping up and down in time to the New Orleans-style piece played by the New Legacy Jazz Band.The Palmer Square green was covered with people of all ages, out to enjoy the weather, delicious food and music of JazzFeast 2002.If the many children in attendance were not dancing or tumbling on the grass, they were munching on the caramel apples sold by the Camber's Cafe food booth or sitting with their families on picnic blankets.Most of them held red balloons, which combined with the green grass and trees to create a mosaic of color.There were not enough lawn chairs to go around.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

Nationwide Starbucks protest draws high school students to Nassau Street

A group of about 10 students from Montgomery High School gathered outside the Starbucks on Nassau Street Saturday to protest the store's use of genetically-engineered products in food and beverages.The students also protested the coffee chain's refusal to brew Fair Trade coffee or provide a living wage for their coffee producers.The students were part of a nationwide protest against Starbucks organized by the Organic Consumers Association ? a group that promotes the selling of organic products ? that ran from Sept.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

University, USG take steps to address campus disabilities issues

Theri Pickens '05 always gets the best parking spots on campus ? right in front of Frist Campus Center and McCosh Hall.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

LGBT hosts rest stop in bicycle race for three AIDS charities

The sun was shining and a light wind was blowing when the first rider turned off Washington onto the long driveway on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center at 9:05 a.m.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

NES professor Lewis advises U.S. military action against Iraq

NEW YORK ? Bernard Lewis, a noted Princeton scholar on the Middle East, said that prolonging an attack on Iraq would only make matters more dangerous for the United States."There is greater danger in inaction," he said Saturday at the New Yorker magazine festival.Lewis said Saddam Hussein is more dangerous now than he was five years ago and more dangerous than he was in the Persian Gulf war, referring to Iraq's attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.In response to whether the United States should go it alone and attack Iraq with or without an international coalition of support, Lewis said the United Nations was an inadequate organization."I don't share your respect for the UN," he said.

NEWS | 09/29/2002

Princeton students miss out on Kopp '89's quickly growing Teach for America program

Wendy Kopp '89's senior thesis project, Teach for America, is enjoying its highest success rate in its 12-year history ? but that success has not reached close to home.TFA, a national corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teaching in urban and rural public schools, received a record-setting 14,000 applications this year for its team of teachers, but only 22 came from the University.

NEWS | 09/26/2002

Thermostat mercury theft in Spelman bewilders officials

Mercury was stolen from six thermostats in building six of Spelman Hall this summer, in what University officials have described as an unsolved act of vandalism."In six of the eight suites in one entry of Spelman, when our tradesmen were going to adjust thermostats, the units did not click on," said Bill Traubel, director of grounds and building maintenance.

NEWS | 09/26/2002

Non-violence advocate stirs attendees with comments on Israel

Mubarak Awad, founder and director of Nonviolence International, set out last night to speak about adopting nonviolent strategies for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

NEWS | 09/26/2002

The dismal science of ticket prices

Expect to pay more for tickets for Dave Matthews concerts in the near future, predicted Alan Krueger, the world's first and foremost professor of Rockonomics, the study of the economics of ticket prices at a lecture Monday sponsored by the Wilson School.Krueger, who holds a joint appointment in the economics department and the Wilson School, noted a trend of rising ticket prices in recent years at a lecture "Rockonomics: The Economics of Ticket Pricing."Incorrectly priced tickets, new technology, more intricate and eccentric stage sets and pyrotechnics all contribute to elevating production costs, which in turn lead to higher ticket prices, explained Krueger, the Bendheim professor of economics.He analyzed the reasons for the discrepancy between the actual and the market price of tickets, why some bands charged more than others, and the reasons behind the recent price growth trend.The availability of free music over the Internet has led to a decline in record sales, which in turn has forced bands to raise ticket prices, he said.If correct, this would help to account for the price growth from 1996 to 2001 of pop and rock concert tickets by 74 percent while with less heavily pirated music, such as jazz and blues, the ticket prices grew only by 24 percent for the same period of time, Krueger explained.For music concerts, ticket prices, on average, increased by 62 percent while the cost of living rose by nearly 13 percent over the last six years.Krueger explained that if the demand to hear the best is higher, then the rewards for the best should also rise ? and higher band recognition has usually meant higher ticket prices.The increased demand for name bands has come as the price of consumer audio equipment has fallen by a third over the last two decades, making people more knowledgeable about bands playing.

NEWS | 09/26/2002

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