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Russian robber-baron potentially powerless in country he shaped

Russian robber-baron potentially powerless in country he shaped

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky ? who amassed what some experts believe to be a multi-billion-dollar fortune through murky business dealings and connections to Russian prime ministers and presidents ? is unsure of what the future under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds for him, he said yesterday.Putin, who remains largely a mysterious figure in the West, is widely expected to win the upcoming Russian presidential election March 26.Berezovsky, speaking through a translator during an address in Dodds Auditorium, said people have asked him, "Could it not happen that the next day [Putin] will not put you in jail?""I have no guarantee that will not take place," Berezovsky admitted."What I know about [Putin] is positive," Berezovsky said in an interview after the speech.

NEWS | 03/06/2000

After unparalleled success in college, three Princetonians try their hands at pro lacrosse

After unparalleled success in college, three Princetonians try their hands at pro lacrosse

For four years, Jon Hess '98, Jesse Hubbard '98 and Chris Massey '98 were Princeton lacrosse. The program took them in as freshmen, and they, in turn, took the program to new heights, in the process changing the face of the game.Two years after passing through Fitz Randolph Gate, the three have not lost their love for the game ? or the competitive drive that took them to the top of Princeton's record books.The inseparable trio did have to separate after winning its third straight national title as seniors.

NEWS | 03/06/2000

Dining services presents new meal plan, hours of operation for Frist Center

Dining services presents new meal plan, hours of operation for Frist Center

Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice gave a Microsoft PowerPoint demonstration at last night's USG meeting, detailing the new dining options and point plan that will be available with the opening of Frist Campus Center.Orefice said DDS will add more meal plans combining varying meal and point numbers, in which one point equals one dollar.

NEWS | 03/05/2000

Small, close-knit Baha'i community provides social support

Small, close-knit Baha'i community provides social support

Amanda Henck '02 spent 10 years learning about the Christian gospels at her Lutheran school in Hong Kong.Henck ? who, other than her siblings, was the only Baha'i at the predominantly Christian school ? said the school's environment was tolerant but not free from religious hostility."It was a very international school, but the most vocal people were the group of Pentecostal Christian youth," she explained.

NEWS | 03/05/2000

Future of sophomore workshops uncertain as student interest wanes

Future of sophomore workshops uncertain as student interest wanes

Sophomore workshops may be in their last year at Princeton, according to Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin, who initiated the program.When the first five workshops ? "designed especially for and available exclusively to" sophomores ? were offered in the residential colleges three years ago, they were enthusiastically received, Dobin said.But not only has interest in the program since dipped, students also now have a tendency to neglect or drop out of the not-for-credit workshops, he said."I know that in some colleges they've had problems all down the line, from finding faculty to . . . students not showing up when they say they will," said Germanic languages department chair Michael Jennings, who added that his own experience with the program has been entirely positive.Dobin said he believes time constraints hampered student interest in the workshops.

NEWS | 03/05/2000
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Different paths to Princeton . . . leave some feeling a step behind

Different paths to Princeton . . . leave some feeling a step behind

When the members of the Class of 2004 first set foot inside a Nassau classroom next September, in many ways they will all be on the same academic footing ? the same graduation requirements, the same standards of excellence, the same number of hours in each day.In another sense, however, these students will face staggered starting lines for their University education, based in part on the educational paths they took to get here.Alberto Puentes '00 said he felt completely under-prepared by his urban public high school for the rigors of the University.

NEWS | 03/05/2000

Department chairs question faculty redistribution plan

Department chairs question faculty redistribution plan

The chairs of the University's smaller departments are promising to cling to their faculty a little more tightly these days after a suggestion by Paul Wythes '55 that the University redistribute its faculty to accommodate his committee's proposed addition of 500 undergraduate students.Wythes said in an interview this week that as a faculty member of a smaller department retired or left the University, he would not necessarily be replaced.

NEWS | 03/02/2000

Denouncing D-Bar restrictions, grad students march on Nassau Hall

Denouncing D-Bar restrictions, grad students march on Nassau Hall

A throng of more than 50 graduate students filed into Nassau Hall yesterday afternoon to demand meetings with graduate school deans to discuss the restrictions recently implemented at the D-Bar.Last week, both graduate student D-Bar managers ? known as bar czars ? resigned their positions and closed the facility to protest the University's decision to limit D-Bar access to students living in the Graduate College and their guests.Before descending on Nassau Hall, graduate students gathered in McCosh 46 to discuss a proposal by the Graduate College House Committee and the graduate school administration to incrementally increase the number of graduate students with access to the D-Bar.House Committee chair Adrian Banner GS explained that the plan calls for raising the number of graduate students with access to the bar by 200 on April 16 and 100 on May 16.

NEWS | 03/02/2000

Tagliabue tackles challenges facing NFL

Tagliabue tackles challenges facing NFL

A black sedan with tinted windows and New York license plates slowed to a stop in front of the white pillars of Whig Hall yesterday, and the tall, thin frame of National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue emerged from the back seat.A cadre of casually dressed welcomers ? some sporting black Princeton Football jackets ? formed a semi-circle, ready to greet the guardian of the nation's most popular sport.Dressed in a dark business suit, Tagliabue warmly shook hands with the University's new head football coach Roger Hughes.About 30 minutes later, Tagliabue, who has served as commissioner of the NFL for the past decade, delivered a speech ? titled "The NFL: America's Sports Passion in Internet Time" ? to a packed Whig Hall Senate Chamber.In an interview prior to the speech, Tagliabue addressed the role of the Internet and other new communications technology in the NFL, as well as several other important issues facing the league."I think the biggest changes you'll see will come from the digital and Internet revolution," Tagliabue said.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

Princeton, Penn to share courses

Princeton, Penn to share courses

Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania are collaborating on a program that will allow students at one institution to take foreign language courses from the other via video conferencing technology, Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin said yesterday.The program ? slated to begin in September 2001 ? will enable a professor to teach students concurrently in his classroom and at the other school by using remote-activated video cameras and microphones, Dobin said.Princeton faculty and administrators proposed video-conferenced classes in response to concern that undergraduates are unable to take foreign language courses that the University does not offer, Dobin added."We have at Princeton been concerned for a while to provide instruction in lesser-taught languages like Hindi and Swahili," he said.The program will allow Princeton students to take Penn courses in Hindi and Swahili, and Penn students to take Near Eastern studies professor Erika Gilson's Turkish language classes.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

Graduate students speak out on tougher language standards

Graduate students speak out on tougher language standards

The University's recent plan to use a tougher test for evaluating graduate students' English language proficiency before allowing them to become TAs has drawn various reactions among those whom the standards will affect most ? graduate students.Many said they believe that stricter standards would be beneficial to both graduate and undergraduate students.Geng Wu, a third-year chemistry graduate student from China, said he believes the test would be advantageous to both the teacher and the students.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

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