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The Daily Princetonian

Princeton graduate students appear less likely to unionize than peers

The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that graduate students who are paid to teach or perform research at private colleges and universities have the right to unionize.While this ruling gives graduate students at Princeton the legal right to form a union, there is not as much interest in exercising that right here as at some peer institutions.Graduate students at New York University and Yale have been particularly active in the fight to secure unionization rights.Last spring, 1,500 NYU graduate students voted to form a union ? a move that was supported by a regional labor board decision.

NEWS | 11/14/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Panel considers underground site for Borough power plant

Princeton Future ? the panel of University and community leaders planning to revitalize the downtown area ? has been meeting for the past few months trying to nail down its plans.They recently received an estimate that the cost of moving the PSE&G power station ? currently located next to the public library in the Borough ? underground will cost about $2.7 million, panel co-chair Sheldon Sturges said.Robert Geddes ? the panel's co-chair and former dean of the University's school of architecture ? and the rest of the panel had expected the cost of moving the station underground to be about $15 million.

NEWS | 11/14/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Living close, looking from afar

Look for the fingerprints to either side of a dedication plate bearing a name. Search for the footprints in the grass that frames a cement walkway.Members of the John-Witherspoon Community and their ancestors have left an indelible mark on the University campus.

NEWS | 11/14/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Review spurred proposed switch to writing class

Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said yesterday that the writing-intensive seminars proposed as a requirement for all students beginning with the Class of 2005 are the culmination of reviews of the University's writing program conducted during the last two years."An internal committee of faculty and administrators undertook a review of our writing program," Malkiel said.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

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The 'Saturday Night' massacre that launched a career

"It was incontestably the worst year in the show's history." So Doug McGrath '80 describes his first months in the entertainment industry as a writer for Saturday Night Live, a job he landed just three months after graduating from Princeton in what would seem to be an auspicious start.Unbeknownst to McGrath at the time, he joined the SNL payroll at one of the most tumultuous periods in the show's history.Only one year after being hired, McGrath, along with the rest of the writing staff, was fired.Some might deem this a not-so-promising beginning for a man who has subsequently written or co-written more than four feature films, as well as become an experienced actor and director. It's 9 a.m.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Freshmen Deny Dylan Wrote Song

(From page 4 of the November 13, 1963 edition of The Daily Princetonian.)November 13, 1963 ? If Bob Dylan sings "Blowing in the Wind" at his midnight concert Saturday, two loud hisses may accompany the applause.The noise, if any, will come from Stephen A.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

The Daily Princetonian

Sunshine votes

With the result of one of the closest American presidential elections in history hinging on the state of Florida, some University students who hail from the Sunshine State are kicking themselves over and over again for not exercising their constitutional right to vote."I didn't, and I feel like a complete idiot for doing that," said Devon Keefe '01, who calls Orange County, Fla., home."I just kind of flaked and didn't get my absentee ballot," she said.

NEWS | 11/09/2000