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Do Princeton students spend too few hours in class and lecture each day?

Do Princeton students spend too few hours in class and lecture each day?

On a recent "60 Minutes" episode, Andy Rooney voiced a complaint about what he sees as the meager amount of time that college students spend in class.Rooney pointed to the limited number of hours per week devoted to lectures and seminars and the presence of long weekends in many students schedules ? specifically the absence of Friday classes.

NEWS | 04/07/2002

LGBT community strives to overcome barriers throughout its 30-year history

In the Pride Alliance archives in Mudd Library, amid serious letters, meeting minutes and Pride rally posters, there is a Hallmark card.It is probably there by accident ? a short, friendly, handwritten note from one member of the organization to another.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

A year later, passing on wisdom about the beauty of the future

"So, if I told you a year ago that you'd be here, driving away from Philly International Airport in Nina's Corsica, with me, Ediz and Jessica Jones, me going to Haverford, you at Princeton ? what are the chances that you would have believed me?"That was Tolga.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

Cap and Compass helps prepare seniors for future employment

As members of the Class of 2002 rush to finish their theses and wait for job responses from companies, they must also prepare to face the "real world" beyond the gates of the University campus.Cap and Compass, a small Connecticut-based company, aims to prepare college students for the transition from the classroom and dormitories to the workplace and independent living.According to Cap and Compass ? founded in 2000 by two recent graduates of Duke University ? 73 percent of students do not feel prepared for the transition from college to life as a young professional.The statistic is based on responses to a questionnaire given to college students attending the company's seminars, which discuss important skills needed for various job fields and within everyday working life.Cap and Compass has created five humorous seminars to be conducted on college campuses at the request of students, alumni or campus career services representatives.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

Students discouraged from studying abroad in Israeli universities

Amid the escalating violence in the Middle East, American universities have been increasingly hesitant to send students to Israel for study abroad.The Office of the President at the University of California decided to suspend all its study abroad programs to Israel until the situation improves, said Hanan Eisenman, a UC spokesman.The decision places the UC system in the same position as the University of Washington and the University of Colorado, both of which have already suspended their own study abroad programs to Israel.Princeton University is also discouraging students from studying abroad in Israel, despite differences in the way its study abroad programs are set up.The UC system will strongly encourage the 27 students that are studying in Israel to return to the United States, Eisenman said.After next Thursday, students will no longer receive credit from the university but will have to be reapproved for credit as international students."In light of the escalating violence [in Israel], the safe and prudent thing to do was to suspend the program and call those students home that were studying there," Eisenman said.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

Singer to rally for farm animal rights

A group of leading animal rights activists will gather in Trenton on Sunday for the Factory Farming Forum and Rally.The conference will feature various speakers, including bioethics professor Peter Singer of the University Center for Human Values.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

OWL discusses body, self image with local middle school girls

A group of University students brought girl power to the John Witherspoon School yesterday ? without the Spice Girls.As part of a pilot program they call Girls Empowerment, a group of OWL members invited girls in grades six through eight to take part in an after-school workshop discussing body image and self-esteem issues.Twelve girls participated in the hour-long workshop, which consisted of three stations.

NEWS | 04/04/2002

Community remembers 9/11 victims with daffodil garden on battlefield

Community volunteers and several local garden clubs dedicated a bed of nearly 7,000 yellow daffodils at Princeton Battlefield State Park last Saturday to all victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Barbara Gallup, a member of The Garden Club of Princeton, with the group's president, Milly King, developed the original idea for the memorial last fall "We felt the need to do something, and a garden would certainly be an appropriate thing," King said.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Majority of Ivies see rise in applications

The University was among several Ivy League schools to see a marked increase in applications for admission this year, Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon said, as decision letters were mailed to prospective members of the Class of 2006 yesterday.Application numbers were also higher at Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth Universities, but dipped at Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.Officials at Brown University declined to release their admissions figures.More than 14,500 students applied to the University this year, a 1.4-percent increase from the 14,287 applications for the Class of 2005.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

UPenn creation of privacy office prompts University to consider following suit

The appointment of a chief privacy officer at the University of Pennsylvania has generated questions over whether Princeton and other universities should also create a centralized office for privacy concerns.Penn appointed Lauren Barnett Steinfeld as its chief privacy officer on Jan.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Hackwell '02 wins Keasbey Scholarship for English study

Leaving regional job offers behind, Paul Hackwell '02 will head to Oxford University next year to study English on a Keasbey Scholarship.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

College Democrats consider launching liberal campus magazine this semester

The Princeton College Democrats will be starting a new liberal publication later this year."The publication is intended to be a voice for democratic issues which are not necessarily voiced on campus," said Clint Wallace '04, communications director for the College Democrats.The organization hopes to publish one or two issues this academic year to develop a platform for next year's issues.However, the publication is still only in the formative phase of development.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Sept. 11 prompts revisions of fire safety and evacuation rules

An e-mail sent to all upperclass students on Tuesday announced new fire and evacuation procedures that require all students to gather at an emergency assembly point.The introduction of the emergency assembly point is the only difference from the existing system.Despite the strong allusion in the e-mail to the events of 9/11, manager of inspections for the University Housing Department Ken Paulaski, who sent out the e-mail, said this revision of the fire procedure is a normal occurrence.In the wake of the events of 9/11, the fire safety committee ? co-chaired by Garth Walters of University Environmental Health and Safety and Bob Gregory of University Public Safety ? reviewed and amended campus evacuation procedures."It's something that's been in the works, but 9/11 brought it to the forefront," Paulaski said.The e-mail was issued recently rather than earlier, closer to Sept.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Volunteer Perlman '05 aids school in South Africa

A spirit of volunteerism runs through Jacqui Perlman '05's roots. Her grandfather, the late Les Dishy, worked with Nelson Mandela and served as the mayor of Johannesburg.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Sept. 11 election helper campaigns for people to 'get busy living'

On Sept. 11, I was campaigning for Brad Hoylman, District One candidate for New York City Council, when the terrorist attacks occurred.My day had started by catching the 5:43 a.m.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Two University juniors win Truman Scholarships

Two University students, Daniel Pastor '03 and Rebecca Gifford '03, have been named Truman Scholars, the University announced Tuesday.The Harry S.

NEWS | 04/03/2002

Four-year roommates discover friendship in luck of the draw

When they first met, Jesse Liebman '03 thought his roommate Tyler Crain '03 was just another high school quarterback from Atlanta, Ga.

NEWS | 04/02/2002

Environmental groups work to 'green' the campus

The Princeton tiger treasures his home. But his home is changing, as the Earth's natural resources are drained by its human population.To address this problem, Princeton's environmentalists say they hope to help save the world's resources, or at least to put the University on the right track."The entire world isn't functioning in a way that can continue sustainably," President of the Princeton Conservation Society Brooke Kelsey Jack '03 said.Though global warming may be debatable, she said, the limits of natural resources ? from trees to petroleum ? are not.Princeton Environmental Action President Bradley Kennedy '05 agreed.Kennedy said she brought back the concept of tree-free paper ? paper made from recycled materials ? from a college environmental conference that she recently attended, titled "Greening of the Ivies.""All the Ivies get together to decide on a few issues that they're all going to focus on," Kennedy said. Kennedy and PEA have been working with administrators to convince departments to purchase more tree-free paper and paper made from sustainably harvested sources.

NEWS | 04/02/2002

USG minority panel promotes student discussions of race issues on campus

Last night's USG Minority Issues forum brought together 10 panelists for a discussion on racial self-segregation.A crowd of approximately 100 students and several administrators filled the area in front of the display wall, with audience members trickling in throughout the course of the discussion. Diverse audienceThe Frist Campus Center was chosen for its accessibility and ability to draw passersby, said organizers Sam Todd '04 and Olivier Kamanda '03.The audience, of which more than half belonged to minority groups, was active in the debate and often expressed loud disapprovals of panelists' opinions.

NEWS | 04/02/2002

Tension, resentment, violence: What will it take to find peace?

Last week saw an unprecedented flare up in violence in Israel. With several Palestinian bombings, the Israeli military surrounded the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah.

NEWS | 04/02/2002

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