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University faculty, officials reflect on school shootings

University faculty, officials reflect on school shootings

When David Freund, a professor in Princeton's history department, was watching TV coverage of last week's shooting at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., he said he was just as concerned with the questions the reporters asked as he was with the answers their teary-eyed student interviewees gave."They asked a lot of questions like 'How does this make you feel?' [and] 'What does this make you think?' " he said.The national media covers shootings at suburban schools as human interest stories, said Freund.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Remembering Wallace Hayes

Mechanical engineering professor Wallace Hayes' high school nickname was "The Professor." Once, after winning a spelling bee, he was asked, as a joke, to spell 'professor.'He managed to spell it incorrectly.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Death masks: What lurks in Firestone

If you find yourself deathly afraid of entering Firestone Library, there may be a good reason.Among the rows of carrels and books of Firestone Library hide a collection of death masks ? plaster molds made of people's faces soon after their deaths.

NEWS | 03/15/2001

Study finds MIT, Harvard have highest rates of student suicide

In a recent Boston Globe study, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was cited as having the highest suicide rate out of 12 universities surveyed during the past decade.The survey compared the number of undergraduate suicides per 100,000 students on the 12 different campuses since 1990.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Interpreting one's real self: The genre left out

The further I am along in my school career, the more I begin to question whether the integration of academic and personal life will ever happen for me.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Recent grads develop revolutionary software

When Conor Madigan '00 and Matthew Moskewicz '00 began working on electrical engineering professor Sharad Malik's research team last year, they did not expect to develop technology that would make companies like Intel drool.But that is exactly what these recent graduates ? then seniors ? did when they designed software that examines computer chips in just hours when competing software takes months."I am hugely proud of them," Malik said.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Two juniors honored by USA Today

Two University juniors, Lillian Pierce and Erez Lieberman, were recently named by USA Today to its All-USA College Academic First and Second Teams, respectively.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

A late arrival to the USG, Anderson '02 assesses her goals for year

After a tight race last December, Brigitte Anderson '02 became USG vice president. Since then, despite her previous inexperience in the USG, she has worked on such projects as WROC and addressing minority and gender issues on campus.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Nassau Street Garden Theater set to re-open by June 2001 class reunions

The much-awaited completion of the Nassua Street Garden Theater renovation project is nearing. Both University and construction officials said they are committed to opening the remodeled complex by June 1, in time for the beginning of Reunions.The Garden Theater, which is owned by the University and was originally constructed in 1919 to house the University Triangle Club, was converted into a movie theater when Triangle moved to McCarter Theatre in the late 1920s.During the years following its original conversion, however, the theater suffered significant deterioration.

NEWS | 03/14/2001

Graduate students elect new officers

When the Web-based polls closed yesterday at 5 p.m., the Graduate Student Government had a new group of leaders for the 2001-02 session.

NEWS | 03/13/2001

After 45 years, Edith's Lingerie set to close

From behind the center counter of a store that sells primary-colored house coats and silk bras alongside black boxers patterned with bright red lips, Anne Zuckerman stood with a customer discussing the woman's options for undergarments as though it were an art, and her personal concerns as though they were her primary responsibility.After having catered to the Princeton community for 45 years, Edith's Lingerie, 170 Nassau Street, will close in August.

NEWS | 03/13/2001

When too much hurts: Repetitive stress injuries

During writing-intensive weeks such as midterm period, students often spend hours at their computers, fixed in their chairs, eyes steady at the screen, hands plucking at tiny key pads.

NEWS | 03/13/2001

Rising faculty salaries outpace inflation

If some professors seem to be in high spirits these days, it may not be because of their students' exceptional work this semester.According to an annual survey released last month by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, the average salaries for faculty outpaced inflation last year for the seventh straight year.University faculty members were no exception.Princeton faculty members' salaries are also following the current trend ? the longest upswing in the survey's history.The national survey reported a 4.8 percent rise in median faculty income for 2000-01, a decrease from the 5.0 percent growth reported increase for the 1999-2000 academic year.

NEWS | 03/13/2001

Presidential search proceeds on schedule

While Harvard University announced its 27th president on Sunday, Princeton's presidential search is proceeding on schedule, University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62 told the Council of the Princeton University Community yesterday."After an exhaustive search process in which the committee sought advice from members of the University community," Wright said, "the committee is now in the process of narrowing down and is proceeding in a confidential manner.""The committee is still proceeding on schedule and expects it can achieve its objective and announce [a recommendation] in the spring," Wright added.Wright stressed that confidentiality continues to be an integral part of the University's search.

NEWS | 03/12/2001

Study correlates class size with African-American test scores

University Economics professor Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore GS have just completed a study that has Hillary Clinton calling.The study, released this month, reports that smaller class sizes can significantly improve the academic performance of African-American students.

NEWS | 03/12/2001

Unearthing a world of fictional espionage

Answering the phone at her Colorado home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, novelist Francine Mathews '85 seemed relaxed after feeding her two sons ? ages six and two ? and putting them to bed.Admitting she felt a little tired after a long day, Mathews began to recollect her memories of Princeton."The year I edited the 'Prince,' I realized I was a writer ? which I hadn't understood before," Mathews said.

NEWS | 03/12/2001

Stamping out the Flaws

Undergraduates received an e-mail yesterday in which University Mail Services acknowledged the widely held student perception that mail is not being delivered quickly and efficiently.University Associate Treasurer John Yuncza has been working with Mail Services to address this perception.

NEWS | 03/12/2001

Wanted: Department chair must be exceptional leader and have penchant for paperwork

The position, as one professor wryly remarked, tends to go to the person in the department who "moves the slowest." A colleague speculated as to why one might accept the job at all; his only explanation is that it is "for the good of the University."Yet these professors are not describing a position usually labeled as tiresome and unrewarding.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

Freshman class scores strikes with '04 United project

Before they met Friday night at a bowling event with five RA groups from Wilson and Rockefeller colleges sponsored by the freshman class, Melanie Velo-Simpson '04 had never met Justin Palmen '04, simply because they live across campus.The event was part of '04 United, a project designed to unite the freshman class by providing situations where different RA groups from different colleges meet each other in social settings."At the bowling alley, we had a fun Rocky-Wilson rivalry going," Rocky RA Zach Pincus-Roth '02 said.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

Harvard appoints Summers

After an exhaustive nine-month search that included the evaluation of approximately 500 candidates, Harvard University announced yesterday former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers as the university's 27th president.The Harvard University Board of Overseers approved the search committee's recommendation yesterday afternoon during special meeting."I am honored by the opportunity to return to Harvard, at such an exciting time in the life of the university," Summers said in a press release.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

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