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Princeton, Penn to share courses

Princeton, Penn to share courses

Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania are collaborating on a program that will allow students at one institution to take foreign language courses from the other via video conferencing technology, Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin said yesterday.The program ? slated to begin in September 2001 ? will enable a professor to teach students concurrently in his classroom and at the other school by using remote-activated video cameras and microphones, Dobin said.Princeton faculty and administrators proposed video-conferenced classes in response to concern that undergraduates are unable to take foreign language courses that the University does not offer, Dobin added."We have at Princeton been concerned for a while to provide instruction in lesser-taught languages like Hindi and Swahili," he said.The program will allow Princeton students to take Penn courses in Hindi and Swahili, and Penn students to take Near Eastern studies professor Erika Gilson's Turkish language classes.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

Tagliabue tackles challenges facing NFL

A black sedan with tinted windows and New York license plates slowed to a stop in front of the white pillars of Whig Hall yesterday, and the tall, thin frame of National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue emerged from the back seat.A cadre of casually dressed welcomers ? some sporting black Princeton Football jackets ? formed a semi-circle, ready to greet the guardian of the nation's most popular sport.Dressed in a dark business suit, Tagliabue warmly shook hands with the University's new head football coach Roger Hughes.About 30 minutes later, Tagliabue, who has served as commissioner of the NFL for the past decade, delivered a speech ? titled "The NFL: America's Sports Passion in Internet Time" ? to a packed Whig Hall Senate Chamber.In an interview prior to the speech, Tagliabue addressed the role of the Internet and other new communications technology in the NFL, as well as several other important issues facing the league."I think the biggest changes you'll see will come from the digital and Internet revolution," Tagliabue said.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

Alain Kornhauser, a University professor, predicts computer-operated cars are just down the road

The daily commute to and from work, tedious errands and long drives will soon be more enjoyable, according to Alain Kornhauser GS '69, '71, an operations research and financial engineering professor.Kornhauser ? who serves as co-director of the Transportation Information and Decision Engineering Center, an organization that develops and researches systems for automated travel and conducts research for the technology ? predicts that cars of the future will have more "intelligence," increasing driver and passenger safety, comfort and convenience.These cars will have information systems that provide road maps, report traffic conditions and may even suggest driving routes, noted Kornhauser, who is also the founder of ALK Associates, a transportation technology firm.Thus, for all those drivers who are easily frustrated on the road, avoiding traffic jams and finding shorter paths will becomes simpler tasks ? even if the driver is already traveling."In terms of knowing what the traffic is ahead, [the technology] could suggest the right way to go, extending the vision on the road ahead," Kornhauser explained.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Grand jury indicts Pentchev '01 on multiple charges of computer fraud

Peter Pentchev '01 is facing charges for allegedly hacking into the computer systems of a Palo Alto e-commerce company and stealing nearly 2,000 credit card numbers, according to Debbie Husnik, a spokeswoman from the U.S.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

PRINCO boosts endowment as IPOs, emerging markets roar

Princeton University Investment Company, which handles more than $6 billion of the University's endowment, earned an average investment rate of return of 21.7 percent during the 1999 fiscal year, according to PRINCO president Andrew Golden.The results represented the fifth best returns of any university among a group of more than 400 schools, Golden said."We were very fortunate that every part of our portfolio did well," he noted.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Television station zooms in on German students at Princeton

You may already have seen them. On Saturday, they might have witnessed you getting your groove on at the freshman semi-formal.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Bradley campaign bets on Washington, and loses

Bill Bradley '65 came up short in his drive for a win in the Washington Democratic primary yesterday, despite intense campaigning in the last week.

NEWS | 02/29/2000

Separated by a Generation, United by a Common Passion

When Constance Foster '00 came back from summer break for junior year, she found she had a new knack for annoying her friends."I wouldn't shut up about this awesome summer job I had," explained Foster, who had spent 10 weeks interning at the nonprofit Quebec Labrador Foundation, based in Ipswich, Mass.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Grad students will face tougher test of English proficiency to be TAs

Beginning this summer, University graduate students seeking to become preceptors or teaching assistants will be tested for English proficiency as part of a Graduate College training program, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Graduate College David Redman said yesterday.Though student complaints about language barriers between undergraduates and their graduate student instructors have contributed to the move toward tighter procedures, the initiative is part of a national trend of universities developing English-proficiency programs for international students, according to Jacqueline Mintz, director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.In the revamped system ? which is being coordinated by the McGraw center ? all graduate students who are not native English speakers or have not earned their undergraduate degrees at a U.S.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Harmon '78 accepts position at Wesleyan

After 12 years as the University's director of communications, Justin Harmon '78 will leave May 1 to accept a position overseeing communications-related activities at Wesleyan University.As the campus's outlet to the media, Harmon supervises the University's core publications ? such as the Princeton Weekly Bulletin ? and serves as its principal spokesman.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Lessons on life and law for one student who interned with an alum

During fall break I had the opportunity to intern at Latham and Watkins, a Washington, D.C. law firm.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Trustees discuss sweatshop labor policies, Wythes report

The Executive Committee of the University Board of Trustees met Friday during Alumni Day weekend festivities.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Forbes College temporarily restricts access to kitchen

The Forbes College staff began restricting access to the Main Inn kitchen last week following repeated physical abuse of the room by unknown students.The act has prompted complaints from Forbes residents over their limited access to the facility.Forbes College Administrator Alison Cook said students had been warned after the custodial staff had found the kitchen in a disorderly state, but after a group left the facility especially dirty approximately one week ago, the staff locked the entrance."It was the third or fourth incident in that kitchen in recent days," Cook said.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Cover girl commutes to campus

As Princeton students scramble to secure the best jobs possible beyond the gates, Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri '01 is able to take a less pragmatic approach toward her time here.

NEWS | 02/28/2000

Bosworth, Sommers receive Pyne prizes

Two extraordinary seniors shared the stage at the Alumni Association Luncheon and Awards Ceremony at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday.President Shapiro awarded the M.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Words of Wythes-dom: The man behind the report

For the first time since his committee released its report, Paul Wythes '55 spent the weekend visiting the campus he believes should house 500 more students.He met with some of the University's leaders, including members of the Alumni Council Executive Committee, the Governing Board of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and the USG.Before returning home yesterday morning, Wythes ? who is a founding general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture-capital firm in Palo Alto, Calif.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Student colloquium addresses bioethics

Who should make decisions for individuals who are incapable of making their own? How should health care providers determine when a patient is incompetent?

NEWS | 02/27/2000

The Professor Heads Home

After half a century in any career, most people would want a break. But not University professor emeritus Victor Brombert."It went by very fast," Brombert said in an interview Friday.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

Sally Frank '80, who ten years ago forced the last three all-male eating clubs to go co-ed, will speak today

When Sally Frank '80 attended the University during the late 1970s, she joined student activists who fought against everything from South African apartheid to the absence of locks on women's bathrooms in the dorms.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

After changing name, Agape maintains role as religious outlet

It took the Agape Christian Fellowship six years to get the name its members wanted."We had gotten feedback that there was a problem with the name," said Carrie Guyton '00, the group's vice president, explaining why the evangelical group formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ elected to switch its name last year.

NEWS | 02/27/2000

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