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Yale plans to reduce incoming class sizes

Yale plans to reduce incoming class sizes

In a move that could potentially change the face of the Ivy League, Yale University officials announced earlier this week plans to decrease the size of the school's student body.The Yale admissions office said it intends to take 100 fewer students during the next two years.And the size reductions appear to have already taken effect.

NEWS | 11/14/2000

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

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

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

Graduate students appeal for affordable dental benefits

One year ago, a group of University graduate students began pushing for across-the-board dental benefits for faculty, staff and graduate students.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

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

Students strengthen town ties with new Habitat-Princeton project

Habitat-Princeton is primed to drop the hammer and begin renovations on a new house in Princeton Township sometime in the next few months.The house ? a 2,800 square-foot duplex ? is located at 52 Leigh Ave in the Township.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

Through changes upon changes, a community clings to its character

Albert Hinds, at 98 one of the oldest members of the Princeton community, sat leisurely with his arms resting on a small dining room table, eyes fixed in an astute and contemplative gaze.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

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

2000 Expected at 'Prince'-Tiger Prom Featuring Soft Lights and Sweet Music

November 14, 1947 ? Tonight from 9:30 to 2, The Daily Princetonian and the Princeton Tiger will play host to nearly 1000 couples at the annual 'Prince'-Tiger Dance, the only formal prom of the Fall and the first to be held in the new Dillon Gymnasium.Soft lights and sweet music will be the order of the evening.

NEWS | 11/13/2000

Malkiel and USG weigh new writing requirement

Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel at a USG meeting last night proposed requiring that all freshmen ? beginning with the Class of 2005 ? take a writing-intensive seminar, increasing the number of classes required for A.B.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

Downloading music may turn sour with decisions by Napster and Scour

University students who have grown accustomed to downloading free music from the Internet have suffered two significant setbacks during the past few weeks.The first came during an Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

Florida recount continues; Holt clings to lead in N.J.

Election officials in the four Democrat-leaning counties undergoing manual recounts in Florida go to court today seeking to push back a deadline tomorrow for all counties to submit their vote tallies.The deadline was set yesterday by Florida Secretary of State Jim Smith.In addition, members of the Republican campaign will appear before U.S.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

Handicapped accessible?

E-mails aren't really a problem. Neither is getting to and from class, thanks to Carley, her "compact" black labrador and the generosity of several students.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

That side of paradise

Walk away from Palmer Square, head west on Nassau and make a right where the small green street sign says John.

NEWS | 11/12/2000

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

Whitman orders NJDOT to re-examine effects of bypass

Just when area residents thought plans for the Millstone Bypass were heading in one direction, Gov.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

Sen. McCarthy leads panel in tribute to Adlai Stevenson '21

While the nation's political attention focused on the still-undecided presidential election, a group of prominent scholars and political scientists reflected yesterday on one of America's past political giants ? Adlai Stevenson '21.The panel discussion, held in Dodds Auditorium, featured former Sen.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

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

72 hours, and the wait continues

Three days out, and still no word.The presidential race remained on pause early this morning awaiting the final results of the recount in Florida.

NEWS | 11/09/2000

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