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Determining the effects of a possible New York quake

Determining the effects of a possible New York quake

It's hard to see the big picture when the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet.But three Princeton researchers ? associate professor of civil and environmental engineering George Deodatis, associate professor of architecture Guy Nordenson and civil engineering graduate student Michael Tantala ? accomplished just that this past semester.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

University makes pledge to ensure gender equality in engineering, sciences

After years of internal studies about gender representation among their faculties, Princeton and eight other research universities officially recognized the current gender inequality in the engineering and the sciences by signing a pledge to work toward the full participation of women in those fields.Though a long-recognized issue, "It is important for us to commit ourselves," said Associate Provost Georgia Nugent.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

University student arrested

Editor's note appendedA University junior was arrested last week on charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property, according to Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Athletics department helps athletes score summer jobs

In December, the athletics department initiated a program to help varsity athletes find summer internships and employment after graduation."It's really in its preliminary stages," said assistant director of athletics Kedi Finkbeiner, who created the project.The main component of the program constitutes generating a book University athletes' resumes.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Committee submits proposals for organization of sixth residential college

The University may create as many as three four-year residential colleges, according to a report released this morning by the Sixth College Program Committee.The interim report of the committee, which includes students, faculty and administrators, outlines housing possibilities for the implementation of the Wythes Plan's additional 500 students and the construction of a sixth residential college.The proposal would transform the University's unique two-year college system and move toward the structure of colleges at Yale University.Incorporating upperclassmen into residential colleges may alter the level of student participation at the Prospect Avenue eating clubs.

NEWS | 02/06/2001

Financial plan provides students with new options

Woodrow Wilson 1879 envisioned Princeton as an institution "in the nation's service." However, upon graduation, the burden of debt from four years of tuition payments can force students to weigh financial concerns at the expense of more idealistic pursuits.Many students said changes to the University's financial aid program will give Princetonians greater flexibility in their post-graduate plans and enable them to better serve the nation and the world.In light of the trustees' decision to remove the requirement that students receiving financial aid incur debt in order to pay for their educations, graduates "won't have as much pressure to make millions," Alia Poonawala '02 said.The burden of debt can deter students from doing the jobs they most want to do and are most passionate about.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

Seventy-six-year-old Bicker system has seen harder times

The year 1904 marked the birth of Bicker. Since then, the annual selection process has become so much a part of Princeton's social history that life without it has been long forgotten, and, until recently, a future without it has been unimaginable.Much has changed in the 76 years since Princeton's eating club system ? and its selection process ? provided an ideal social situation for the school's students.For Princeton's gentlemanly student body, the clubs offered a congenial atmosphere without the crudities purportedly offered by the banned fraternities.There was a day when Bicker was such a time-consuming process that it frequently threatened sophomore's academic survival.An "Upperclass Choice Committee" would have been unthinkable in those days: Upperclassmen could eat only at the clubs, and there was no alternative to Bicker.Since the turn of the century botht he clubs and the Bicker process itself have seen considerable change.New eating clubs have been built, some clubs have closed, and many have gone non-selective. Slow Change ComingThe clubs have had to change as the University changed.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

As Princeton's Number Two, Wright '62 makes a difference 'Within the Gate'

After his graduation from Princeton in 1962, University Vice President and Secretary Tom Wright thought working as an administrator at the University was the last thing that he would be doing."I never imagined coming back to Princeton to work," he explained.But when Wright was approached by newly-appointed University president William Bowen GS '56 in 1972 to fill a new administrative position, he found the offer very difficult to resist."It was just such an attractive opportunity at that time in my life," he added.For 10 years after his undergraduate tenure at the University, Wright had virtually no contact with Princeton, other than sending in his annual contributions.He spent some time at Cambridge University before attending Harvard Law School.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

Gutmann makes list for Harvard president

While the Princeton presidential search committee marches on in its quest to find Princeton's 19th president, Harvard University has narrowed down the list in its own presidential search.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

Borough council may reconsider proposed underage drinking ordinance

The Princeton Borough Council may revisit a possible alcohol ordinance as a futher attempt to combat underage drinking at the 'Street' ? an ordinance that until recently was considered dead.Former N.J.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

Pay for play

When Napster ? the Internet music file-sharing community ? created a partnership with German media giant Bertelsmann last October, it appeared the end of free trading of MP3s over the Internet was imminent.Since then, however, the millions of registered Napster users ? including the thousands of dedicated members on the Princeton campus ? have continued to download MP3s with reckless abandon all year.But the source proved to be finite last week, when Bertelsmann announced that it plans to introduce a subscription service by early summer.Under this new subscription model, customers will be required to pay a fee for downloading music.

NEWS | 02/05/2001

University approves "no-loan" financial aid program

The University Board of Trustees last week approved a new financial aid plan that will eliminate the requirement for students to borrow funds from the University as part of their aid packages.Financial aid will be calculated with additional University grants in place of loans, saving the average financial aid student from accumulating between $15,000 to $20,000 in debt during his or her four-year tenure in college.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

A new board takes power at the 'Prince'

The Class of 2002 Managing Board assumes control of The Daily Princetonian today under the leadership of the 125th Editor-in-Chief Daniel Stephens '02, who pledged to take a less heavy-handed approach to managing the newspaper, while making renewed effort to hold his staff's proverbial hand.Managing editors Ben "It's gonna be good" Grossman '02 and Emily "Writers are already avoiding me" Johnson '02 will be putting their ears to the police scanner and taking their seats behind the partition at 48 University Place.Phil "Classified fact checker" Novack '02 and Rob "Novack security chief" Laset '02 will be bringing their own brand of journalism to the second year of the venerable institution of Page 3.Kate Criner '02 and Lee Williams '02 will serve as the editorial page editors.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

New funding gives fellowships to all first-year graduate students

New spending approved by the University Board of Trustees Jan. 27 will provide all first year Ph.D.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

Terrace, Charter lead sign-ins

As cow bells sounded through the night, and upperclassmen's chants echoed through quads and arches, the six sign-in eating clubs made their way around campus last night, picking up their new members.The first-round sign-in process ended last night, marked by many undergraduates gravitating toward one of two clubs ? Charter Club or Terrace Club.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

New financial aid policy may pressure other universities to follow

After the initial excitement of receiving Dean Fred Hargadon's "YES!" letter, an acceptance to Princeton University prompts many families to examine their finances and squeeze their wallets to find the needed tuition and costs of $33,613 a year.But the University Board of Trustees' approval of a bold, new financial aid plan on Jan.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

Two Dartmouth professors murdered

As the investigation into the murder of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop enters its second week, authorities in Hanover, N.H.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

A true reflection of the Garden State: The D&R Canal

The Delaware & Raritan Canal, accompanied by its sibling towpath, plods through the New Jersey hinterlands at a slow, determined pace that evokes its working-class origins.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

Clubs reportedly cutting widely in early sessions

With four days of Bicker gone, rumors are flyng around Commons faster than some of the waiters.Essentially, in the all the tension, the sophomores' main question is quote, "Where am I going to get a bid?"Despite the rumors, however, the only people who really know what is going on are the members of the sophomore Bicker committee, and they are as usual keeping all information close to their vests.Michael E.

NEWS | 02/04/2001

Crash course?

When Beth Lowenstein was accepted by the Teach for America program to teach special education in Baltimore's inner city, she expected her new job to be the beginning of a career in teaching.But Lowenstein, a 1993 graduate of Connecticut College, soon found herself juggling myriad tasks and responsibilities that would have easily overwhelmed a veteran educator.Alone, teaching a special education class at an unfamiliar school, Lowenstein scrambled to keep up."I was definitely struggling.

NEWS | 01/21/2001

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