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Shirley Tilghman named 19th University president

The Daily Princetonian

Shirley Tilghman named 19th University president

Shirley Tilghman was named the 19th president of Princeton University by the board of trustees in a special meeting held May 5 in Nassau Hall.Tilghman is the first woman to hold the University's highest office and the first president not to hold a degree from Princeton in more than a century."It is a deep honor and privilege to be able to serve the University I love so much," Tilghman said during a press conference following the annoucement in the Nassau Hall Faculty Room, where she was elected by acclamation less than an hour earlier.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

University revises writing program for Class of 2005

The Daily Princetonian

University revises writing program for Class of 2005

Kerry Walk jokes that her new favorite color is orange. Walk, former assistant director of the writing program at Harvard University, is surrounded by it since she took her new post as director of Princeton's writing program last semester.Beginning this fall, freshmen ? and sophomores who have not yet completed the existing writing requirement ? will be required to take one course through the new writing program, which Walk will head, to fulfill the University's new writing requirement.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

Wisdom wielders

The Daily Princetonian

Wisdom wielders

Princeton boasts a large and high-powered faculty worthy of its reputation as one of the best in the nation.These famous scholars, unlike their research-oriented counterparts at other Ivy League schools, often teach undergraduate courses ? maybe even yours. Nobel PrizesIn the past few years, Princeton has consistently produced Nobel Prize winners in various departments.Electrical Engineering professor Daniel Tsui won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for his discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.Molecular biology professor Eric Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1995 with two other researchers for their work on fruit fly genetics.In 1994, senior research mathematician John Nash shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two research teammates for their work on game theory.Creative writing professor Toni Morrison, physics professor Joseph Taylor and researcher Russell Hulse, who works at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, all won Nobels in 1993.Morrison, who also won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved," coordinates the Princeton Atelier, a program that gives undergraduates the chance to collaborate with famous professionals in the creative world such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Physics professor Val Fitch won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for his discoveries about high-energy subatomic particles.

NEWS | 07/15/2001
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Lockhart Hall to open as graduate housing in fall

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Lockhart Hall to open as graduate housing in fall

In the wake of an increased graduate school admissions rate and rising real estate prices in Princeton, the University has slated Lockhart dormitory for unmarried graduate student housing for next year, according to Assistant Director of Housing for Graduate Housing Patricia McArdle.Lockhart ? located between the University Store and 48 University Place ? originally was scheduled for renovations next year, along with Dod Hall.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

Shapiro, PriCom pledge to raise wages after workers' rights campaign

The Daily Princetonian

Shapiro, PriCom pledge to raise wages after workers' rights campaign

President Shapiro announced the allocation of nearly $400,000 ? the remaining balance of the President's discretionary fund for the 2000-2001 year ? to increase selected University staff salaries in one his final acts as president in May.The announcement was made during the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on May 1 and supplemented a PriCom recommendation to provide up to $1.5 million to further increase salaries next year."I think that the findings of the Priorities Committee are pressing and important," Shapiro said.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

Even God rested on the seventh day, but you will not, or so it may seem

The Daily Princetonian

Even God rested on the seventh day, but you will not, or so it may seem

Never in the course of human events have so few caused so many so much pain.The nicely embossed brochures the University sends you tell all about the fascinating activities and extracurricular programs available at Princeton.They leave out one important fact, however: Unless your name happens to be Houdini, you will be hard-pressed to sample even a few of them.If you have any intention at all of getting something resembling an education for your $120,000, you are going to be very busy for the next four years with your work alone.Never fear, however, because there are a variety of tactics available for dealing with course chagrin, paper paralysis and homework hysteria.There is, of course, the most obvious and initially painless option: sloth.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

Sixth residential college location set

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Sixth residential college location set

This past April, the University Board of Trustees approved the tennis courts south of Dillon Gymnasium as the site for the construction of a sixth residential college, according to Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62.The trustees also accepted in full the Final Report of the Sixth Residential College Program Committee, which calls for 100 upperclassmen to be housed in the new residential college and 100 in each of two other existing colleges."The trustees have approved the final report, but the planning work is not finished," Wright said.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

University accepts 11.7 percent of applicants

The Daily Princetonian

University accepts 11.7 percent of applicants

The University accepted 1,675 of the 14,287 applicants for places in the Class of 2005 ? an 11.7 percent acceptance rate, slightly lower than the 12.2 percent rate for the previous freshman class, according to Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon.Hargadon added that the University saw a higher-than-expected yield, with 1,198 initially accepting offers of admission versus the University's target of 1,165.Of the admitted applicants, just under 50 percent are men and just over 49 percent are women, Hargadon said....Students of color make up 35 percent of the acceptances and 8 percent of the 1,675 high schoolers are international students, he added....Those offered admission include students from all 50 states and 51 countries.Thirty-four percent of the Class of 2005 was admitted in the Early Decision process in December.

NEWS | 07/15/2001

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