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After five years teaching in the Princeton mathematics department, Arlie Petters was paralyzed by the question many professors face when approaching their final year before tenure review: Should he leave the institution in which he had invested almost eight years of work for a guaranteed tenured position at another school?

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Run-offs abound, as four USG positions remain up for grabs

Run-offs abound, as four USG positions remain up for grabs

Candidates for USG president and three other contested offices will be returning to the campaign trail today for runoffs, the USG announced last night.Joe Kochan '02 and David Tukey '02 will compete for the USG's presidential office, while Rolando Amaya '03 and Brigitte Anderson '02 will square off for the number-two spot.West Owens '03 will compete with Melissa Kemp '02 for the job of social chair.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Environmental Protection Agency cites Brown for infractions

As part of an ongoing effort to uncover environmental infractions at colleges and universities, the Environmental Protection Agency cited Brown University for 15 violations in a release last week.The EPA may fine Brown as much as $500,000 for storing hazardous chemicals without a permit, failing to sufficiently train people using the materials, having an inadequate contingency plan for an oil spill and labeling containers improperly, according to Mark Nickel, director of news services at Brown.Brown was also cited for an oil spill that took place several years ago."We have over 300 laboratories," Nickel said.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Former University President Bowen receives Louisville education award

Former University President William Bowen has been selected to receive the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.Bowen will share the award ? and its $200,000 prize ? with Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University.The two were selected after the release of their book, "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences on Considering Race in College and University Admissions."Rather than adding more opinion to the controversial issue, Bowen and Bok wrote the book to add fact to the debate, "replacing argument by anecdote with evidence," Bowen said in an interview yesterday.Bowen will be donating his share to Morehouse College in honor of Henry Drewry, former director of Princeton's Teacher Preparation Program and founder of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program."Henry has devoted his life to advancing the cause of equal opportunity," Bowen said.Bowen, working with James Schulman, obtained the data used in the book by gathering information from 28 "academically selective" colleges, including Princeton.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Braving the mall melee

Ray Naylor, with his hands between his knees, sat on a bench in the middle of a winter wonderland.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Santa Claus might not be coming to town, but the Class of '01 is

During the next few weeks, Santa Claus will be making a list of Christmas gifts and checking it twice.And like his counterpart in the North Pole, Class of 2001 president Justin Browne has been compiling his own wish list, gathering names of elementary students from lower-income families as part of a senior class service project ? the Princeton Giving Tree.Now Browne is seeking University students, faculty and staff to donate gifts for the children on that list.Two gift requests from each of 103 area elementary school students can be found on a Website designed for the Class of 2001.The Website also includes instructions for donors on where to deliver the gift, and it automatically sends an e-mail thanking the donor for participating after he or she selects a name.Browne said he got the idea for the Princeton Giving Tree project during the summer while he was brainstorming about service activities the senior class could take on."I see a need on campus for a project like this," Browne said.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

ICC votes down 100 percent pledge

December 8, 1961 ? The Interclub Committee has voted to drop the guarantee of 100 percent in Bicker, ICC Chairman W.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

University repairs water main without disruption to service

A leak in a University water main near Patton Hall was repaired yesterday without disruption to University water service or threat to water quality, according to campus officials.The leak occurred in a 10-inch, cast iron water main that runs perpendicular to Elm Drive, according Michael Kaas, technical trades manager of the University Department of Grounds and Building Maintenance.University personnel first became aware of the leak when water seeped into the basement of Patton earlier this week, Kaas said.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

Authorities arrest man suspected of criminal trespassing in Forbes

In Forbes College yesterday, Public Safety officers arrested a man who authorities believe may have been removing items from students' rooms, Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said.According to Weiser, Princeton Township Police was detaining the man yesterday.

NEWS | 12/07/2000

With a presidential mandate, Wilmerding preserves the past

Since the days of the Carter Administration, John Wilmerding has played a key role on the veritable dream team of art and architecture experts charged with preserving one of the nation's most well-known landmarks.Wilmerding, a Princeton art history professor and an expert on American art, was asked to join the Committee for the Preservation of the White House while he was working at the National Gallery of Art in the late 1970s.Since then, he has been reappointed by each succeeding presidential administration, serving as one of the committee's specialists on visual art.In addition to Wilmerding, a slew of well-known interior decorators, historians, curators, collectors and philanthropists sit on the committee.During his time on the committee, Wilmerding has advised White House curators and helped plan several major restoration projects.Betty Monkman, the White House curator since 1997, said Wilmerding has made extremely positive contributions."He's got a very astute eye and a lot of common sense.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Faculty rejects amendment to weaken ULC resolution

December 7, 1982 ? The faculty yesterday handed supporters of the Women's Center a defeat by rejecting, 59-44, an amendment designed to dilute an Undergraduate Life Committee resolution concerning the proper status of centers.But the faculty tabled the actual resolution, which calls for all participating members to have "fair and reasonable access to the Center's financial and other resources," until the next monthly faculty meeting Jan.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Authorities investigate criminal mischief, burglary on Olden

Borough Police is investigating incidents of criminal mischief and burglary in two Olden St. buildings owned by the University.According to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser, police responded Tuesday morning to reports of damage in several rental units within the buildings.University maintenance personnel who discovered the damage observed several white males, believed to be between 16 and 18 years old, exiting the building.Authorities are still looking for those individuals.Inside the buildings, police discovered broken windows and holes in the walls.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

University trustees appoint professors

The board of trustees scored additional academic talent for the University last month, adding six new tenured professors to the faculty.The new professors are Christopher Eisgruber '83 in public affairs, Brian Kernighan GS '69 in computer science, Chiara Nappi in physics, Angel Loureiro in Romance languages and literature, Carol Greenhouse in anthropology and Colin Palmer, the Dodge Professor of History.The University actively recruited the new professors using recommendations from academic departments as well as advertisements in academic journals.Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor said some of the new faculty members were more difficult to recruit than others.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Preferable to Princeton

At age 13, Johnetta Pressley ? now a member of the Georgetown University Class of 2003, though she was accepted to Princeton ? paid little or no attention to diversity when she applied to high school.A black student, she had been going to a middle school that was half-black and half-white, so when she began thinking about high schools, Pressley never imagined race or ethnicity to be an issue.And it wasn't ? at least not on the surface."You had to take the time to notice it," Pressley said during an interview conducted via e-mail.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

This stop on the journey

Jesus Lemus '01 was the first person Adam Lieber '01 met at Princeton. The two were freshman-year roommates and when Lieber strolled into their quad in September 1997, Lemus was already there waiting."It was nice to meet another Californian," Lieber recalled.But the soon-to-be friends had grown up in two different Californias.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Rash of thefts in Forbes spurs investigation

University Public Safety is patrolling Forbes College more aggressively following a string of five laptop thefts that occurred Monday."We're trying to spend as much time as we can there," Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Housing demand exceeds supply in Graduate College

Amid the graduate school's celebrations commemorating its centennial this year, some graduate students in need of University-provided housing are trapped playing a game of musical chairs.And no one ? either in the graduate student government or in the graduate school administration ? knows how many will be left standing next fall.Because of an unexpected increase in demand for on-campus housing during the past few years, the University was unable to provide rooms for 114 graduate students when they came to campus this fall, according to assistant director of graduate housing Patricia McArdle.Graduate Student Government president Lauren Hale explained that many graduate students did not know they did not have University housing until they arrived on campus.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Outside, looking in

Charged with representing the voice of the student body, they have been visiting residential adviser groups, dining halls and eating clubs to learn what other students want in the University's next president.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Feminine atheist to speak at Whig

December 6, 1960 ? Atheist-philosopher-author Ayn Rand will address Whig-Clio tomorrow at 8 p.m.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Minority marrow drive takes a shot at finding donors for patients in need

More than 3,000 minority patients in the United States are currently in need of a bone marrow donation, according to Moazzam Kahan, the director of donator recruitment for the South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters.But the odds are not stacked in their favor.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

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