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The Daily Princetonian

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

The Daily Princetonian

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

The Daily Princetonian

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

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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

The Daily Princetonian

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

The Daily Princetonian

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

The Daily Princetonian

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