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PRINCO boosts endowment as IPOs, emerging markets roar

PRINCO boosts endowment as IPOs, emerging markets roar

Princeton University Investment Company, which handles more than $6 billion of the University's endowment, earned an average investment rate of return of 21.7 percent during the 1999 fiscal year, according to PRINCO president Andrew Golden.The results represented the fifth best returns of any university among a group of more than 400 schools, Golden said."We were very fortunate that every part of our portfolio did well," he noted.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Television station zooms in on German students at Princeton

You may already have seen them. On Saturday, they might have witnessed you getting your groove on at the freshman semi-formal.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Bradley campaign bets on Washington, and loses

Bill Bradley '65 came up short in his drive for a win in the Washington Democratic primary yesterday, despite intense campaigning in the last week.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Grad students will face tougher test of English proficiency to be TAs

Beginning this summer, University graduate students seeking to become preceptors or teaching assistants will be tested for English proficiency as part of a Graduate College training program, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Graduate College David Redman said yesterday.Though student complaints about language barriers between undergraduates and their graduate student instructors have contributed to the move toward tighter procedures, the initiative is part of a national trend of universities developing English-proficiency programs for international students, according to Jacqueline Mintz, director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.In the revamped system ? which is being coordinated by the McGraw center ? all graduate students who are not native English speakers or have not earned their undergraduate degrees at a U.S.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Harmon '78 accepts position at Wesleyan

After 12 years as the University's director of communications, Justin Harmon '78 will leave May 1 to accept a position overseeing communications-related activities at Wesleyan University.As the campus's outlet to the media, Harmon supervises the University's core publications ? such as the Princeton Weekly Bulletin ? and serves as its principal spokesman.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Lessons on life and law for one student who interned with an alum

During fall break I had the opportunity to intern at Latham and Watkins, a Washington, D.C. law firm.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Separated by a Generation, United by a Common Passion

When Constance Foster '00 came back from summer break for junior year, she found she had a new knack for annoying her friends."I wouldn't shut up about this awesome summer job I had," explained Foster, who had spent 10 weeks interning at the nonprofit Quebec Labrador Foundation, based in Ipswich, Mass.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Trustees discuss sweatshop labor policies, Wythes report

The Executive Committee of the University Board of Trustees met Friday during Alumni Day weekend festivities.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Forbes College temporarily restricts access to kitchen

The Forbes College staff began restricting access to the Main Inn kitchen last week following repeated physical abuse of the room by unknown students.The act has prompted complaints from Forbes residents over their limited access to the facility.Forbes College Administrator Alison Cook said students had been warned after the custodial staff had found the kitchen in a disorderly state, but after a group left the facility especially dirty approximately one week ago, the staff locked the entrance."It was the third or fourth incident in that kitchen in recent days," Cook said.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Cover girl commutes to campus

As Princeton students scramble to secure the best jobs possible beyond the gates, Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri '01 is able to take a less pragmatic approach toward her time here.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Bosworth, Sommers receive Pyne prizes

Two extraordinary seniors shared the stage at the Alumni Association Luncheon and Awards Ceremony at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday.President Shapiro awarded the M.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Words of Wythes-dom: The man behind the report

For the first time since his committee released its report, Paul Wythes '55 spent the weekend visiting the campus he believes should house 500 more students.He met with some of the University's leaders, including members of the Alumni Council Executive Committee, the Governing Board of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and the USG.Before returning home yesterday morning, Wythes ? who is a founding general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture-capital firm in Palo Alto, Calif.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Student colloquium addresses bioethics

Who should make decisions for individuals who are incapable of making their own? How should health care providers determine when a patient is incompetent?

NEWS | 02/27/2000

The Professor Heads Home

After half a century in any career, most people would want a break. But not University professor emeritus Victor Brombert."It went by very fast," Brombert said in an interview Friday.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Sally Frank '80, who ten years ago forced the last three all-male eating clubs to go co-ed, will speak today

When Sally Frank '80 attended the University during the late 1970s, she joined student activists who fought against everything from South African apartheid to the absence of locks on women's bathrooms in the dorms.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

After changing name, Agape maintains role as religious outlet

It took the Agape Christian Fellowship six years to get the name its members wanted."We had gotten feedback that there was a problem with the name," said Carrie Guyton '00, the group's vice president, explaining why the evangelical group formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ elected to switch its name last year.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Paul Breitman steps in as director as Frist Campus Center preps for future

Paul Breitman, a Rutgers University dean for 18 years, became Princeton's first Frist Campus Center director in January.Breitman served in several positions during his time at Rutgers, including his most recent role as the director of the three student centers there.

NEWS | 02/25/2000

The 'Street' still strong: Sophomores flock to Bicker, sign-ins

The busiest week on Prospect Avenue ended Feb. 5 with 932 students ? more than 80 percent of the sophomore class ? joining eating clubs through Bicker and sign-ins, according to ICC Advisor Marty Crotty '98.Ivy Club had the highest selectivity rate, accepting only 64 of the 145 students who bickered.

NEWS | 02/25/2000

Martin '89 takes helm after Harayda's short stint

The Princeton Alumni Weekly saw a wealth of changes this past fall, welcoming two editors-in-chief and transferring administrative responsibility for the publication to the University's Alumni Council.After only four issues at the helm of the PAW, Janice Harayda left her position as editor-in-chief of the publication in early November, University and magazine officials said Nov.

NEWS | 02/25/2000

Wythes committee proposes rise in enrollment, sixth residential college

The Wythes committee's proposed 10-percent increase in the size of the student body has raised questions this semester over whether the University's residential housing and projected faculty growth will be able to accommodate 500 additional students.President Shapiro said in interviews this week that he believes faculty size may need to grow more quickly than outlined in the Wythes Committee Report to prevent the proposed larger student body from adversely affecting the quality of education at the University.Shapiro, who is a member of the Wythes committee, said significant faculty growth is already needed in many of the University's academic departments.

NEWS | 02/25/2000

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