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Faculty say enrollment expansion could help small departments, but hurt big ones

Faculty say enrollment expansion could help small departments, but hurt big ones

Some University professors are concerned that the Wythes committee's proposed 10 percent increase in the student body may lead to more work for faculty and a lower quality education for students.The committee believes that "the proposed increase in the number of undergraduates is expected to be roughly proportional to the increase in faculty size between now and the time by which the committee's proposal is fully implemented," according to a University statement on the Wythes report.But many members of the University's larger academic departments are concerned that their size and popularity will require a larger increase in faculty than the Wythes report calls for, economics professor Elizabeth Bogan said.History department chair Philip Nord said the proposed one-percent increase in faculty will not be sufficient for his department.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

From SAT mediocrity to the White House?

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley '65 graduated from the University magna cum laude, went on to become a Rhodes Scholar and was arguably the greatest basketball player ever in the Ivy League.But had he been applying for the Class of 2004, he probably would not have been greeted by Dean Hargadon with a letter exclaiming YES!Bradley scored a less-than-stellar 485 on the verbal SAT, according to an article by Geoff Kabaservice, a history professor at Yale.The article, posted online at Microsoft Network's Website Slate refers to a personal letter from former Princeton admissions director E.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

No blue food, but a talented touch for enlivening Princeton's cafeteria cuisine

In the midst of oversized refrigerators, towering shelves of spices and trays of raw ingredients, the edible creations of University catering chef Larry Frazer are born.An accomplished artist in his field, Frazer oversees food production for the Graduate College, designs his culinary masterpieces and paints his plates with exotic sauces while following one basic rule: no blue-colored foods."People don't like blue food," he noted, adding that he is not sure of the reason for this peculiar color bias.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Dartmouth professor alleges mass cheating

About 40 Dartmouth College students may be charged with cheating on a homework assignment in a computer science class taught by a visiting professor from North Carolina State University.Rex Dwyer ? who is teaching Dartmouth's computer science survey course, "The Concepts of Computing" ? announced to his class last Thursday that he believed students copied answers from an online answer key and used information given to them by teaching assistants to complete the assignment.Some students, whose names have not been released to Dartmouth's Judiciary Affairs Officer, allegedly downloaded the answer key from the course's Webpage ? on which Dwyer had forgotten to restore the security lock ? and then copied the key, Dwyer said in an interview yesterday."I imagine that, with so many people involved, it was not all done by individual speculation," he said, adding that he became suspicious that students had cheated after being notified by an anonymous source Feb.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Princeton is not even no. 4 in hook-up poll

The college applicant can easily find many college and university rankings that weigh academics, faculty-student ratios or money spent per student.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

New Website, www.plagiarism.org, offers professors help in identifying cheaters

Through the Website www.plagiarism.org, professors can now detect a plagiarized paper in seconds without reading one sentence.The site reads thousands of uploaded student papers per day, comparing them to 800 million Webpages and an additional database of 50,000 previously-reviewed papers.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Over e-mail, we can be anyone we want, even our best friend

This entirely true story starts out funny then ends up tragic. It's like a class where you go to the first lecture and laugh at the professor showing slides of some famous scientific calamity (a volcano spurting magma on villagers with Loony Toons T-shirts), or the Grand Canyon (the professor's family vacation). Then after missing most of the lectures, you take the final, and you fail (which in Princeton means you get a B, "ruining" your GPA). Now the story.Across the hall from me live two chaps whose roommate, Bob, spent fall semester in Spain.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Proposed health ordinance could filter out smoking in eating clubs

The public smoking ban recently proposed by the Princeton Regional Health Commission will extend to the Prospect Avenue eating clubs, according to Bill Hinshillwood, the commission's health officer."I don't know all the details of what the setups are at the eating clubs, but I would assume the dining rooms would be considered a public place," he said.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Penn, Wisconsin drop out of Fair Labor Association Association

Anti-sweatshop activists at universities nationwide scored limited victories this week when the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced they were withdrawing from the Fair Labor Association, a White House-backed labor monitoring organization.But so far, activists at Penn and Wisconsin have failed to achieve their main goal ? to get their schools to sign on to the Workers Rights Consortium, a monitoring group that some anti-sweatshop protesters view as more stringent than the FLA.Meanwhile, Princeton's anti-sweatshop activists are continuing their campaign to convince the University to join the WRC."The WRC is there to publicize the most information possible," said Brian White '00, a member of Students for Progressive Education and Action.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Gateway Country Store to open on Nassau Street next month

Gateway, Inc., a leading national retailer of personal computers, will be opening a store on Nassau Street next month in the building next to Talbot's Kids.The Gateway Country Store will serve as a showroom for Gateway's line of computer products.

NEWS | 02/17/2000

Commission considers public smoking ban

Local residents and business owners gathered Tuesday evening at Borough Hall to voice opinions on a proposal that would ban smoking in nearly all public buildings in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township.The Princeton Regional Health Commission, which proposed the ordinance, heard arguments both in support of and in opposition to the ban.

NEWS | 02/16/2000

Ellis '01 founds school for Kenyan children in low-income community

Five hundred twenty children from Nairobi, Kenya ? who previosuly had little choice but to stay at home because their parents could not afford a formal education for them ? are now spending their days learning math, Swahili, English and music, thanks to Ann Ellis '01.Ellis spent this intersession in Kenya putting the final touches on her school for the children, which opened Jan.

NEWS | 02/16/2000

And then there were six: Scouting campus for another college site

In the wake of the Wythes committee's proposed 10-percent increase in the size of the undergraduate student body, officials said the University has sufficient space and resources to accommodate the construction of a sixth residential college.University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62 said after having "several presentations presented to them," the Wythes committee ? chaired by Paul Wythes '55 ? determined that a sixth residential college would be necessary if the University were to approve the 500-student increase.According to the Wythes Committee Report, the University campus "has sufficient capacity on the existing campus side of Lake Carnegie to accommodate the required additional dormitory space and a new residential college, and adding such facilities in these locations would enhance the scale and setting of the campus."Vice President for Facilities Kathleen Mulligan agreed.

NEWS | 02/16/2000

Shapiro initiates arts review in response to students' request

Prompted in part by student concern over the availability of theater spaces and financial resources for the performing arts on campus, President Shapiro has initiated a comprehensive review of the arts at Princeton.Fifteen years ago, President emeritus William Bowen GS '58 devoted his annual report to examining the arts at the University.

NEWS | 02/16/2000

Borough Council promotes Davall to police captain

Princeton Borough Police Lt. Charles Davall will receive a promotion to captain this summer following the retirement of Captain Peter Hanley, the Princeton Borough Council decided last week."It's one of the things that you work towards in a career," Davall said.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

Health concerns at Princeton: Student group addresses eating disorders

Though it is impossible to gauge how many University students suffer from eating disorders, one campus group is striving to do what it can to educate and counsel peers about the dangers of the diseases.Courtney Weiner '01, an eating concerns peer educator, helped conduct a study during her freshman year and concluded that of the 500 students surveyed, 25 percent had a type of eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia.Weiner witnessed problems with eating disorders firsthand while attending an all-female high school.Now, as an eating concerns peer educator, she said she and other members of the group are working to "change the concept of women and body at the University."Weiner said she and the other peer educators attempt to better inform students about eating disorders by speaking to residential advising groups and by providing advice and counseling for friends of students who may suffer from the diseases."We're sort of the foot soldiers of the group, educating people in the most casual settings," she said.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

Stumble in the 'Jungle': Quakers outlast men's hoops

The heart was there, but it just wasn't enough.Despite a heroic second-half effort from hobbled senior forward Mason Rocca, the men's basketball team failed to contain a hot-shooting Penn team, losing 55-46 last night in front of 7,385 raucous fans at Jadwin Gym.As a result, the Tigers (13-9 overall) fall to 5-2 in the Ivy League, two games behind the first-place Quakers (14-7, 7-0 Ivy League) and must now rely on another Ivy League team to blemish Penn's record before gaining any hope of an NCAA Tournament berth."It puts us out of control and we have to hope Penn loses ? which is not likely," Rocca said.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

One student battles compulsive overeating

I suffer from a newly-named eating disorder, compulsive overeating, which is like bulimia, but you don't vomit.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

Literary world honors Said '57, Goldman '60

If there was any doubt that Princeton has a strong presence in New York's literary community, it was dispelled Monday night when two Princetonian authors were presented with prestigious literary awards.English professor Michael Goldman '60, GS '62 received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

University ready to grow with student body

The University may have proved itself Y2K-compliant, but if the board of trustees' proposed 10-percent increase in undergraduate enrollment is approved, Wythes compliance may be the campus's next obstacle.Most administrators said, however, that while more students would necessitate additional resources and University facilities, existing plans for campus growth would accommodate the needs of a larger student body."The electricity will go up, the heating will go up, cooling needs will go up, the need for city water will go up, all of these things will increase [with 500 additional students]," Director of Engineering Thomas Nyquist said.As it stands now, Nyquist said the University will be prepared to handle the increased demand on its resources.

NEWS | 02/15/2000

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