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Professor Chester Rapkin crafted urban landscape, friendships

Professor Chester Rapkin crafted urban landscape, friendships

Reading aloud a letter sent from a former student living in Taiwan, Eva Rapkin set out to explain what made her late husband, professor emeritus Chester Rapkin, such a well-liked and respected teacher during his years at the University.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

Copyright law may prevent computer science team from publishing MP3 research

This past October, associate computer science professor Edward Felten and a team of researchers were able to remove digital watermarks from digital audio files ? new watermarking technology developed by the industry not in use yet, a feat that would make the people at Napster smile.However, Felten and his team may not even be able to publish their results."Nobody has suggested that it would be unethical or dangerous for us to publish our results," Felten said in an e-mail.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

Study finds low-income, minority students feel unprepared for college

A recent Institute for Higher Education Policy study of New England college students reported that more than half of the low-income and minority students surveyed felt academically unprepared upon entering college.However, University advisers who deal directly with minority students said yesterday that these sentiments are rare at Princeton and that difficulties stemming from lack of preparation were not unique to low-income or minority students."A lot of the problems imputed to minorities are actually not exclusive to minority students," sociology professor and freshman adviser Patricia Fernandez-Kelly said.The institute's report ? entitled "Getting Through College: Voices of Low-Income and Minority Students in New England" ? was based on surveys and interviews of 350 students enrolled in four-year colleges in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

Strong Words

I learned the power of words when I was five years old.As I eagerly waited to go to school, my carpool van was stopped.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

Smooth Sailing?

In recent months, virtually every financial news source as well as other media outlets have been dedicated to reporting the U.S.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

Blending food and friendship, co-ops offer members attractive alternatives to the 'Street'

Most Princetonians think of the first week of the spring semester as Bicker and sign-in week at the 'Street.' But it is also a time for campus food co-op groups to recruit new members.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

University students pitch-in to aid Indian earthquake victims

Throngs of rushing students and staff shake the foundations of Frist Campus Center as they hurry through every day.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

USG plans fee referendum; students to vote on $10 hike

The USG decided yesterday to put a referendum before undergraduates on whether to approve a $10 increase in student activities fees which will yield $40,000 for the student government.The fee hike consists of an immediate raise of three dollars and a seven dollar raise in the coming academic year.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

'Real World' to hold casting call in Princeton

Princeton's "The Real World" junkies will soon have a chance to live the drama of the popular MTV reality show.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Senior dead, two injured in Virginia auto collision

The vice president of Prospect Club was killed instantly and the president of the Wesley Foundation critically injured Friday morning when their car hurtled head-on into a truck one mile west of Clifton Forge, Va.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Radio personality Keillor named Baccalaureate speaker

Garrison Keillor, creator and host of the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," will be this year's Baccalaureate speaker.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Practicing politics his own way: Manfred Halpern remembered

Though chased down as a child by his peers in Nazi Germany, the late politics professor emeritus Manfred Halpern wrote in his notes that "he fantasized setting up an S.S.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Determining the effects of a possible New York quake

It's hard to see the big picture when the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet.But three Princeton researchers ? associate professor of civil and environmental engineering George Deodatis, associate professor of architecture Guy Nordenson and civil engineering graduate student Michael Tantala ? accomplished just that this past semester.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

University makes pledge to ensure gender equality in engineering, sciences

After years of internal studies about gender representation among their faculties, Princeton and eight other research universities officially recognized the current gender inequality in the engineering and the sciences by signing a pledge to work toward the full participation of women in those fields.Though a long-recognized issue, "It is important for us to commit ourselves," said Associate Provost Georgia Nugent.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

University student arrested

Editor's note appendedA University junior was arrested last week on charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property, according to Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Athletics department helps athletes score summer jobs

In December, the athletics department initiated a program to help varsity athletes find summer internships and employment after graduation."It's really in its preliminary stages," said assistant director of athletics Kedi Finkbeiner, who created the project.The main component of the program constitutes generating a book University athletes' resumes.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Committee submits proposals for organization of sixth residential college

The University may create as many as three four-year residential colleges, according to a report released this morning by the Sixth College Program Committee.The interim report of the committee, which includes students, faculty and administrators, outlines housing possibilities for the implementation of the Wythes Plan's additional 500 students and the construction of a sixth residential college.The proposal would transform the University's unique two-year college system and move toward the structure of colleges at Yale University.Incorporating upperclassmen into residential colleges may alter the level of student participation at the Prospect Avenue eating clubs.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Financial plan provides students with new options

Woodrow Wilson 1879 envisioned Princeton as an institution "in the nation's service." However, upon graduation, the burden of debt from four years of tuition payments can force students to weigh financial concerns at the expense of more idealistic pursuits.Many students said changes to the University's financial aid program will give Princetonians greater flexibility in their post-graduate plans and enable them to better serve the nation and the world.In light of the trustees' decision to remove the requirement that students receiving financial aid incur debt in order to pay for their educations, graduates "won't have as much pressure to make millions," Alia Poonawala '02 said.The burden of debt can deter students from doing the jobs they most want to do and are most passionate about.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

Seventy-six-year-old Bicker system has seen harder times

The year 1904 marked the birth of Bicker. Since then, the annual selection process has become so much a part of Princeton's social history that life without it has been long forgotten, and, until recently, a future without it has been unimaginable.Much has changed in the 76 years since Princeton's eating club system ? and its selection process ? provided an ideal social situation for the school's students.For Princeton's gentlemanly student body, the clubs offered a congenial atmosphere without the crudities purportedly offered by the banned fraternities.There was a day when Bicker was such a time-consuming process that it frequently threatened sophomore's academic survival.An "Upperclass Choice Committee" would have been unthinkable in those days: Upperclassmen could eat only at the clubs, and there was no alternative to Bicker.Since the turn of the century botht he clubs and the Bicker process itself have seen considerable change.New eating clubs have been built, some clubs have closed, and many have gone non-selective. Slow Change ComingThe clubs have had to change as the University changed.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

As Princeton's Number Two, Wright '62 makes a difference 'Within the Gate'

After his graduation from Princeton in 1962, University Vice President and Secretary Tom Wright thought working as an administrator at the University was the last thing that he would be doing."I never imagined coming back to Princeton to work," he explained.But when Wright was approached by newly-appointed University president William Bowen GS '56 in 1972 to fill a new administrative position, he found the offer very difficult to resist."It was just such an attractive opportunity at that time in my life," he added.For 10 years after his undergraduate tenure at the University, Wright had virtually no contact with Princeton, other than sending in his annual contributions.He spent some time at Cambridge University before attending Harvard Law School.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

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