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Range of sources provides finances for campus construction

Range of sources provides finances for campus construction

Seldom has there been so much discussion about campus construction. The University Board of Trustees on April 13 selected Porphyrios Associates ? run by architecture school alumnus Demetri Porphyrios GS '80 ? and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott to design Whitman College.Shortly after, undergraduates and graduates were making presentations of their designs for the University's sixth residential college at the Prospects2 competition held in the architecture school.Aside from these brief spurs of excitement, campus construction ? building new structures and renovating old ones ? is an on-going process.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

Harvard committee considers radical grading system changes

A report recommending Harvard College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday.After months of debate and discussion among the faculty, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) drafted the report based on the reviews of grading practices that each department had submitted in February.The recommendations ? which include possibly eliminating honors tracks in concentrations and adding statistical information to student transcripts ? will likely be discussed by the entire Faculty at a meeting in May.Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen called the proposal a "draft" last night.The recommendations include reducing the current 15-point grading scale to an eight-point scale, with equal numerical differences between each grade.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

Online voting errors complicate elections

The spring USG elections were complicated by two errors on the voting website this weekend that temporarily omitted a candidate's statement and picture and left some candidates off the ballot.For a short period after voting began early Friday morning, the online ballot did not allow students to vote for Milo Adams '04 for social chair of his class or for Aaron Bianco '05, a candidate hoping to be elected to the U-Council."We stopped the voting after a little more than an hour," USG president Nina Langsam '03 said.Soon afterward, Langsam sent a campus-wide e-mail that notified students who had voted between midnight and 1:30 a.m.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

New Jersey legislators gather to discuss trust in government, other key issues

At a gathering of New Jersey legislators Friday in Dodds Auditorium, participants gave a positive report of the level of public trust in government.Organized by the University's community and state affairs office, the annual meeting is a chance for local politicians to interact, cement ties with the University and compare notes on an important theme in public service.This year's event ? titled "In Government We Trust?" ? provided ample opportunities for those assembled to showcase their rhetorical skills.Reed Gusciora, a Democrat who represents Princeton's district in the state assembly, quoted Winston Churchill's observation that "democracy is the worst institution, except for all the others."Gusciora said when Democrats were in the minority, they found it easy to criticize the waste and inefficiency Republicans allowed.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

Campus EarthWeek activities raise environmental awareness

Although today is officially Earth Day, campus organizations began activities and events to increase student awareness of environmental issues more than a week ago with the University celebration of EarthWeek.EarthWeek began last weekend with a conference called "Approaches to Environment-alism," co-sponsored by Princeton Environmental Action and the Princeton Conservation Society, which held several lectures and discussions about the environment and conservationism."We have more events, and a greater variety of events, than we have in years past," said S.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

Student arrested for stealing injured person's golf cart

A University student was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing a golf cart issued to an injured student, according to a Princeton Borough Police Department press release.Marcus Ford-Bey '04 was caught driving a Textron E-Z-GO electric-powered golf cart at 2 a.m.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

USG Spring comedy show elicits varying reactions among students

More than 1,000 people crowded into Dillon Gym on Thursday for a comedy show sponsored by the USG.

NEWS | 04/21/2002

IAS among investors stuck in muddled Enron partnership

Many institutions and individual investors did not expect their investments in the once-stable energy company Enron to disappear.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

West caps mass exodus of Harvard professors out of Cambridge

Cornel West. K. Anthony Appiah. Carol Gilligan. Jeffrey Sachs.All are defecting to other institutions in what appears to be a mass departure by Harvard's star professors.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Economics professor Bernanke meets Bush for possible appointment to Fed

Economics department chair and professor Ben Bernanke met Wednesday with President Bush at the White House, Bernake confirmed yesterday.The meeting indicates that he is a top candidate for one of the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.Reuters has reported Bernanke and Federal Reserve staffer Donald Kohn are the front-runners for the positions.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Allen GS '88 named new architecture dean

Stan Allen GS '88, a practicing architect and faculty member at Columbia University, has been selected as the new dean of the architecture school, the University announced yesterday.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Going to the top

University students demonstrate in front of Nassau Hall yesterday. The protest, calling for divestment, began in front of the Frist Campus Center.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

When help is not enough, students fail to look within

In September 1987, Laurence Myers '89 slit his wrists and stabbed himself in the abdomen and chest.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Families seek answers to Flight 93 crash, encounter media scrum

Some sought answers, some sought closure, some sought a story.About 70 relatives of those aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed Sept.

NEWS | 04/18/2002

Families of victims to hear 9/11 flight tapes

In a reversal of its original position, the FBI will allow families of the Flight 93 victims to listen to the salvaged cockpit voice recording in a Princeton hotel today.The flight crashed in Shanksville, Pa.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

USG candidate forum draws 21 students for U-Council seats

Issues ranging from precept reform to the accessibility of career services were raised at last night's USG candidates' forum.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Ultimate gamble: Riding horses competitively is like rolling dice

My life in the world of competitive horseback riding ? English hunters, jumpers and equitation ? up to my 18th year had been a lot like a lottery.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Mohr and Morgan ready to 'take off the roof' at show tonight in Dillon

In anticipation of tonight's comedy show, the 'Prince' caught up with Tracy Morgan and Jay Mohr.Mohr called on his cell phone in the middle of walking his dog, Shirley, on the sands of California's Seal Beach where he and his wife, model and actress Nicole Chamberlain, rent a home they call their "decompression chamber."The day before, Morgan's agent patched him through on a conference call from New York City.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

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