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Rising faculty salaries outpace inflation

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

Cindy Drakeman '02 to head ICC

At last night's Inter-Club Council meeting, former Tower Club and ICC president Dan Winn '01 traded the reigns of the ICC with new Tower president Cindy Drakeman '02.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

University receives $1.9 million for arts and culture electronic archive

The University received a $1.9 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to create the nation's first electronic data archive on arts and culture.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

University shines spotlight on performance space

Representatives from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Provost met last week to hear the results of the Arts Review ordered by President Shapiro last spring.The review was a response to the Performing Arts Council's status report released in February 2000.Claudia Chouinard, an outside consultant from Results Group International, presented the status report."I believe the conclusions the consultant reached and the information she gathered will serve as the guidelines for the University's policies towards improving the performing arts for at least the next 10 years," Adam Friedman '01 ? recent winner of the Pyne Prize and a participant in the campus arts community ? said in an e-mail.Because the review was done by a third party, the University will have the chance to look at an unbiased evaluation of the status of arts on campus, Friedman said.He said two of Chouinard's principal recommendations were the formation of a separate office for the performing arts similar to the model used at Harvard University, and major adjustments to the policies governing Richardson Auditorium.Harvard's system is much more centralized than Princeton's and offers more assistance to performing arts groups.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

CIA professionals convene to analyze U.S. Cold War intelligence procedures

As former and current high ranking members of the intelligence community filled McCosh 50 for a conference this weekend, alumni and CIA professionals sifted through newly declassified materials.The conference was an opportunity for academics and the CIA to analyze the agency's ability to predict events in the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991."On the whole, I wanted to give a portrayal of the picture of the Soviet Union in the period and it's collapse," said keynote speaker and panelist James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and director of Central Intelligence.

NEWS | 03/11/2001

Napster to filter out songs identified as copyrighted

The latest Napster ruling may have been music to the record industry's ears, but it may be a painful cacophony to the approximately 57 million registered Napster users worldwide.Earlier this week, nearly a year after Metallica filed suit against Napster, the file-sharing service began filtering out copyrighted files from its library of songs.Titles and artists' names passed over the music-sharing network are now being screened through a list of copyrighted works.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Opening up a new window at Starbucks

The Princeton Starbucks, located at 100 Nassau Street, provides a welcome haven for coffee-craving students and late night study sessions.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Senior's chemistry research published in science journal Nature

As Joanna Slusky '01 spends her time trying to publish a year's amount of research between a thesis' black binding, a thinner, glossier publication with a nationally-recognized name hit news stands this week also baring her name.Slusky ? a chemistry major ? is the primary author of a paper published yesterday in the science journal Nature.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

18 years of studying and growing up together

Khalila Thomas '01 and Charlie Hammel '01 don't see each other so frequently anymore. Thomas, who is a chemical engineering major, spends most of her time at the E-Quad, while Hammel, a history concentrator with a certificate in medieval studies, slaves away in Firestone.But the two seniors know each other fairly well.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Conference to analyze Cold War Russia

The upper echelon of the United States intelligence community will mine through more than 18,000 pages of recently declassified material in a series of panel and lecture discussions in McCosh 50 this weekend.The conference, "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991," begins this morning.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Chu speaks on value of U.S. education

Before Tsu-Kai Chu began his speech yesterday in McCosh 46, each member of the small audience took a few seconds to introduce themselves.Among the audience were members of the University community, including graduate members of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars ? which organized the lecture ? a few undergraduates and professor Perry Link of the East Asian Studies department.This diverse group had come to hear Chu deliver a speech entitled "150 Years of Chinese Students in America" ? an examination of the history of Chinese students studying in America.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

GSG holds first popular elections

After an extensive petitioning campaign, the Graduate Student Government kicked off its first student-wide popular election yesterday.Though gaining approval from the GSG for a popular election has been a long process, a handful of concerned students are finally seeing their goal realized.Prior to this year, GSG officers were selected by an assembly consisting of representatives from each academic department, said former GSG assembly member Jason Brownlee."This kind of system is not truly representative because students serving as representatives have been able to serve without any regular accountability in the form of a school-wide election," Brownlee said.Last August, Brownlee ? with the help of current GSG Chair Lauren Hale and other GSG members ? obtained about 200 signatures on a petition for student body-wide GSG elections.The GSG assembly adopted the petition into its bylaws, with the stipulation that at least 10 percent of the graduate student body must vote in order for the new system to be implemented permanently, Hale said.Matt Fouse, running unopposed for GSG Chair, commented on the importance of a high level of participation in the election.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

Browsing for 'good genes' and a perfect Ivy match

A good Ivy League man is hard to find. Thankfully, the Web gurus at www.GoodGenes.com are making the task a little easier.Good Genes, Inc. ? the self-acclaimed "introduction service for the Ivy League et al" according to one of the Website's eye-catching graphics ? is dedicated to helping alumni and faculty of prominent universities, including Princeton, who are tired of looking for companionship at the shallow end of the gene pool.As with other match-making sites, members of Good- Genes.com are privileged to a number of opportunities to seek and discover members of the opposite sex.

NEWS | 03/08/2001

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