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Faculty seek alternate opportunities

Faculty seek alternate opportunities

Between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2001, 18 faculty members, including five full professors, will have submitted their resignations.Provost Jeremiah Ostriker said this turnover is normal."The only way to prevent other universities from luring away our faculty is to have faculty that no one wants.

NEWS | 02/22/2001

Racing Through Campus

For students who find themselves gazing enviously upon University workers scooting around in golf carts on cold, snowy February afternoons, Mark Holveck '01 has an answer: Build your own motorized bike."When I was little, I wished I could do it, and so now I finally did," he remarked.For Holveck, an investment of about $300 and 300 hours has translated to a gasoline-powered, 45 m.p.h., two-wheeled riding machine.Using the gasoline engine from an electric generator, Holveck modified his mountain bike so that the engine, throttled by a grip shifter mechanism on his handlebars, directs its power to the pedal sprockets.

NEWS | 02/22/2001

University welcomes Scalia amidst student protests

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia comes to the University to speak this afternoon, he will not be well received by every member of the community.

NEWS | 02/22/2001

French Club Prospects

Work on the headquarters of the French Club, which is to be situated in the eastern wing of the Brokaw Memorial Building, is progressing rapidly, and it is announced that the room will be ready for the reception of furniture by March 1.

NEWS | 02/22/2001

Preller, a life of selflessness

Throughout his lifetime, professor emeritus Victor Preller '53 delighted in sharing his academic wisdom and spiritual guidance with others.In 1959, when Preller was a graduate student in religion at the University, the department's founder described him in a recommendation letter as "willing to spend any amount of time with a man who needs help."During his tenure as master of the graduate college, Preller invited his graduate students to the master's suite for one-on-one discussions accompanied by several pots of tea and a selection of classical music.Later in his life, even while battling cancer and emphysema, Preller continued to serve as a spiritual adviser and friend to his parishioners at All Saints' Church in Princeton, where he served as an Episcopal minister."He viewed everyone with remarkable tolerance and was extremely understanding," said history professor Peter Brown, who attended Preller's Eucharist services at All Saints' Church.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

Dispensing a good dose of music and fun

Founded in 1998, the student musical group Klez Dispensers is hosting "Klezmerpalooza" this weekend, in which several other klezmer bands will play.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

As good as it gets

Fries and a chocolate shake.An evening/early morning at Towson Diner was never complete without this dynamic duo.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

University of California president gives SAT a failing grade

University of California president Richard Atkinson made a speech Sunday in which he proposed to end the use of SAT scores as admission criteria for the state university system he oversees.Atkinson's proposal must be approved by the faculty senate and the university system's governing board of regents before it could be implemented.If the proposal passes, it may have a far-reaching impact, as UC is one of the largest and most prestigious state university systems in the country.Contending that overemphasis on the SAT is compromising America's educational system, Atkinson recommended an alternative practice under which admissions would be based primarily on students' course work and tests that relate more concretely to the subject matter studied, such as the SAT II subject tests."In America, students should be judged on what they have accomplished during four years of high school, taking into account their opportunities," Atkinson said in his speech.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

Students evaluate 4-year residential college proposal

Independent students, often lost in the shuffle of Spelman and Two Dickinson room draw, may soon have alternative housing and dining options.Though its effect on eating club membership is uncertain, the proposed four-year residential college ? which will not likely be implemented for several years ? will provide independents with the opportunity for a residential college living experience during their upper-class years.Some students greet the proposal as a needed change to the current two-year college system.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

Falk, U.N. team report on Israeli-Palestinian relations

In his cluttered corner office in the Wilson School, professor Richard Falk hangs a large black-and-white poster of a giraffe.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

PPPL launches new educational Website

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ? a government-funded University research effort to turn particle fusion into a harnessable source of energy ? has created a Website to explain plasma physics in laymen's terms.The site, called the Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience, is geared toward the general public, according to PPPL Science Education Program lead scientist Andrew Zwicker.Designed to be comprehensible to students at the middle school level, teh Website has been used by college students and even physicists for research purposes.The site was created by a team that includes University physicists.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

University to donate money for new ambulance to Princeton rescue squad

The University recently pledged $155,000 to the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad ? a group that provides emergency services for Princeton Borough and Township.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

Finding an allegory for net privacy issues

As the "e-volution" spirals into its golden age, net privacy is increasingly a salient concern for computer scientists and civil rights experts.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

Researchers question Gutenberg's role in developing printing press

Scholars everywhere owe their livelihood to the invention that is commonly attributed to Johann Gutenberg.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

Campus engulfed by construction

Princeton students may soon graduate with certificates in construction.The campus has been infiltrated with construction projects that are rebuilding, revamping, refurbishing and recreating the historic campus.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

Scholars wire USSR to support authors

A group of more than 100 professors from Princeton, Rutgers and the Institute for Advanced for Advanced Study signed a petition last week that was sent to Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin requesting revocation of the sentences given Soviet authors Andrei D.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

McCurry '76 speaks on politics, Internet

While journalists and reporters crammed the White House briefing room, firing questions and scribbling notes, Michael McCurry '76 stood behind the podium "facing about a billion cameras the day the Lewinsky story broke," he said.On the receiving end of the fusillade of clamoring media, this was only one day, though undoubtedly one of the most memorable, in McCurry's three-year tenure as President Clinton's press secretary from 1995-98."Scandals were easy," McCurry candidly said, recalling the Lewinsky events via e-mail.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

Property stolen at eating clubs

Five students reported Sunday that their property was stolen while at Quadrangle Club and Tower Club last weekend, according to Borough Police Capt.

NEWS | 02/20/2001

University ranks 21st in National Merit study

Though U.S. News and World Report still has the University at the top of its list, another national publication has Princeton far from first.In its Feb.

NEWS | 02/19/2001

Van Citters '69 recalls his contributions to Spitzer's famous idea

When Wayne Van Citters '69 was about to walk out of FitzRandolph Gate at the end of the last all-male academic year in Princeton's history, the looming Vietnam War and all of the social turmoil it caused threatened to suffocate the post-graduate academic ambitions of many of the students in his class.

NEWS | 02/19/2001

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