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McGraw '40 donates $5 million for teaching and learning center

McGraw '40 donates $5 million for teaching and learning center

Publisher Harold McGraw Jr. '40 donated $5 million to the new Teaching and Learning Center, the University announced Saturday.The Teaching and Learning Center will provide instruction and advice for professors and graduate student teachers, and will be housed in the new Campus Center.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Weekend occurrences include BB pellets, mooning

Months after the Sovereign Bank robbery and the apprehension of a flasher on campus, two incidents this past weekend demonstrated that the University is not yet crime-free.In the first incident, an unknown perpetrator fired BB pellets at several windows on the west side of Witherspoon Hall at 3:55 a.m.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Association provides open forum for discussion among freethinkers

Students still trying to find their niche among the multitude of campus organizations now have yet another option.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Alisharan, Lee win Pyne Honor Prize

Culminating diverse academic and extracurricular careers, psychology major Shalani Alisharan '98 and English major Julia Lee '98 received this year's M.

NEWS | 02/22/1998

Student group criticizes fan behavior at basketball games

Jon Garfunkel '98 could take the obscenities. He could take the catcalls. He could even take the incessant exhortations to "Sit down, you suck!"But when the student section behind the basket at the Princeton-Harvard basketball game was slapped with a technical foul for their raucous behavior on Friday, Garfunkel decided that something had to be done.The result was an ad hoc group, unofficially titled "Smart Fans," that encouraged students to clean up their act for the team's final home game Saturday night against Dartmouth.By putting up posters around campus, creating a Web page and simply urging people to show a little restraint, the group said it hoped to keep the team from getting penalized again for the fans' exuberance."People need to think for themselves, and not get sucked into mob mentality," Garfunkel said.

NEWS | 02/22/1998

Racial, religious minorities serve respective ethnic communities

Every Saturday afternoon, Rai Wilson '98 ventures beyond FitzRandolph Gate to another world. At the Clay Street Learning Center, a short walk down Witherspoon Street, Wilson tutors Tomai Young, an African-American 11-year-old, in the basics of reading, writing and math.As an African-American himself, Wilson said he has made a conscious decision to "find a place with black kids" and serve his own.Wilson is not the only one.

NEWS | 02/22/1998

Professors, residents assemble to protest possible Iraq bombing

More than 250 people carrying signs saying "If your enemy is hungry, feed him" and shouting "No more war and hate, it's time to negotiate," assembled in Palmer Square last night to voice their opposition to the use of military force in Iraq.During the interfaith candlelight vigil, 11 speakers, including Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies John Marks, addressed the protesters.

NEWS | 02/22/1998

College administrators announce RA, MAA selections for next year

The residential colleges have finalized the list of the 81 residential advisers and minority-affairs advisers and the 16 alternates.

NEWS | 02/19/1998

Ascher turns to long-term goals; USG to focus on town issues, finals

If USG president David Ascher '99 thought his first three weeks in office were hectic, then he had better not glance at his own longterm agenda.After responding to the administration's report on grade inflation, ensuring the USG Web calendar is running smoothly and rectifying a mistake in the USG budget that would have meant lower grants to student groups, Ascher said he hopes to settle down and attack the campus problems and policies he intended to address when elected."We spend a lot of time working on issues that won't affect current students," Ascher said.

NEWS | 02/19/1998

Lectures, awards highlight celebration of Alumni Day

Months of planning on the part of the Alumni Council will culminate tomorrow, as Alumni Day and Parents Program makes its annual appearance with featured speakers, ceremonies and receptions.Alumni Day activities will begin in the morning, featuring both University faculty members and outside academics.

NEWS | 02/19/1998

Decker, Sarles elevate heckling opposing teams to an art form

At first glance, Chris Decker '98 and Dan Sarles '98 look to be the jesters of Jadwin Gym. Their faces painted orange, their heads crowned with flowing Tiger wigs, the duo has taunted visiting basketball squads at nearly every home game for the past two years.Tuesday's Penn game was no different.

NEWS | 02/19/1998

Legislature awards bank heist 'heroes'

TRENTON ? The New Jersey General Assembly honored the heroes of last November's Sovereign Bank robbery in a ceremony on the floor of Assembly Chambers yesterday, during the state legislature's first voting session of the year.Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Princeton) and Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-Ewing) presented a ceremonial resolution to 91-year-old Lucius Wilmerding '27 "for his heroism and bravery" during the holdup.Wilmerding, a former constitutional scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, was driving to a party with a family friend when alleged bank robber Sandy Casiano hijacked his Ford Taurus."He was trying to make me go faster.

NEWS | 02/19/1998

Companies use aggressive tactics to bolster employee recruitment

Capping off a vigorous college recruiting season that has included ski trips to Utah and dinners at Lahiere's, consulting and investment banking firms find themselves brokering some of their most competitive recruiting deals ever, offering graduating seniors an unusually high average of $40,000 to $45,000 salaries and luring them in with gifts like Cheerios basketballs and "Lost World" water bottles.Recruiting tactics have changed since last year when Charles Valentine '97 was applying for jobs.

NEWS | 02/18/1998

Memorial committee honors Ambroziak design

Princeton students leave their mark in many places besides the University. Brian Ambroziak, a graduate student in architecture, was selected as a finalist to design a monument in the nation's capital.Two summers ago, Ambroziak vied with more than 500 other designers for the chance to fill what he called "one of the most important sites left in Washington that hasn't been fully developed."The competition to design a commemorative monument for the nation's World War II effort was open to all United States citizens, professionals, student designers and others. 500 entriesSix finalists were selected from 500 original entries, and Ambroziak was the only student among these final competitors.Each finalist then chose a team of about 30 other designers or consultants to help refine the original submission.

NEWS | 02/18/1998

Universities denounce purchase of term papers from online sites

The Internet may bring new dimensions to education, but some universities are concerned that students will use the Web to cheat.Boston University recently filed a lawsuit against eight online term paper companies in response to reports that their students are purchasing independent work via the Internet.Term paper agency advertisements appear in publications such as Playboy and Rolling Stone and can be accessed from sites like Term Paper Warehouse and Term Papers 911.

NEWS | 02/18/1998

Boston University accuses Princeton of 'buying' students

The University stepped up financial aid awards on Jan. 14 and both Yale and Stanford followed suit with increases of their own.

NEWS | 02/18/1998

Freshmen attempt to revitalize campus NAACP chapter

College activism is not dead.In contrast to recent criticism that the era of social movements has come and gone, students began to reinitiate Princeton's chapter of the NAACP during a Tuesday meeting in the Third World Center.In an effort to "energize the campus with new activism," University chapter president Misha Charles '01 and secretary Martha Pitts '01 said they are seeking to reestablish an active National Association for the Advancement of Colored People membership at the University.

NEWS | 02/18/1998

Abel Bagel returns to original spot, decreases capacity, business hours

Within the week, students will have to head to a slightly different location to enjoy their Abel bagels.The bagel bakery is moving one store over in the Witherspoon Street building where it currently resides, according to owner Alfie Kahn.Having served the Princeton area for 14 years, the bagel shop will reoccupy its smaller, original location, Kahn said.

NEWS | 02/17/1998

Student committee to evaluate academic performance

The USG Senate officially endorsed the creation of the student-run Committee on Examinations and Standing, one that parallels the faculty version of the same committee.The faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing is the only committee that does not include student participation, mainly because the "vast majority (of work) involves looking at student academic records," Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said.The primary goal of the student committee will be to include students in general academic discussions that the faculty committee may have, USG academics chair Todd Rich '00 said.The two committees will have to meet at least once every year, according to "Rules and Procedures of the Faculty of Princeton University.""Whenever the Undergraduate Student Government shall establish a committee parallel to a Faculty committee, the parallel committees shall at least once a year meet in joint session," the bylaw reads.In forming the committee, the USG wanted to "ensure that students will be able to meet along with the faculty members and ensure that a student voice is heard in all substantive discussion," Rich said. 'Substantive issues'USG members agree that students should not review student records or violate the privacy of other students, Rich said.

NEWS | 02/17/1998

USG, faculty react to grade inflation

In the week since a faculty committee issued a report both documenting and criticizing a meteoric rise in grade inflation over the last two dozen years, reactions have run the gamut.With the USG lining up on one side as stalwart defenders of a trend towards higher grades, and the report's authors ? the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing ? lining up on the other as critics of grading standards gone awry, the lines have been drawn for a wide-ranging discussion about what the importance of grades.And everyone has an opinion.The USG's responded to the committee's findings in a memo issued yesterday."Apart from the desire to differentiate artificially between Princeton students, the report offers no compelling reason to explain why grades need to be re-centered," wrote USG president David Ascher '99 and academics chair Todd Rich '00.

NEWS | 02/17/1998

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