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Faculty, administrators react to proposed enrollment increase

Faculty, administrators react to proposed enrollment increase

Since the release of the Wythes Committee Report by the University Board of Trustees last week, administrators and faculty members have had an opportunity to examine the committee's proposal and assess its recommendations.Many expressed concern that an increase in the size of the student body could adversely affect the quality of education at the University."In general, I'm skeptical of adding 500 students," economics professor Elizabeth Bogan said.

NEWS | 02/09/2000

In the end, choosing your major is a minor worry

It happens right about this time for most sophomores ? the gradual dawning of understanding about the awful and awesome choices that are involved with being at Princeton.

NEWS | 02/09/2000

Students enjoy features of campus center classrooms

Students attending spring semester classes in the Frist Campus Center last Monday found themselves in a building replete with both historical artifacts and state-of-the-art technology.Frist 302, an upstairs lecture hall, features rows of old-fashioned chairs that had been in Palmer Hall since its opening.

NEWS | 02/09/2000

Students look for the courses that will suit them best

"My schedule is a lot better from last semester. There are less tedious courses, more seminars and upper level courses, more personal contact with professors.

NEWS | 02/09/2000

Princetonians launch Internet businesses

While most University students are busy buying books and starting classes, a couple of their peers are busy meeting with venture capitalists and earning six-figure salaries.

NEWS | 02/08/2000

Proposed road to offer access to NJ Turnpike

Government officials are studying a proposed road that would provide Princeton residents with direct access to the New Jersey Turnpike.The road ? to be designated Route 92 ? would spur from the turnpike at exit 8A near Jamesburg and connect with U.S.

NEWS | 02/08/2000

Four years later, Forbes '70 fails to repeat 1996 Delaware primary win

Steve Forbes '70 took third place in the Delaware Republican presidential primary yesterday, despite campaigning hard in the nation's first state.

NEWS | 02/08/2000

Library Webpage lends helping hand for research

Independent research at the University is about to get a little easier with the launch of a new Webpage designed to make the library more user-friendly.

NEWS | 02/08/2000

Engineers construct 'Innovation'

It often seems that the offices of campus publications are dominated by social science and humanities majors, with a notable absence of engineers and science concentrators.But several science majors and engineers are seeking to change that, carving a niche for themselves in the campus journalism community with a magazine dedicated to science and technology.Yorell Manon-Matos '00 noticed that the University lacked a science journal from the moment he arrived on campus as a freshman."I wanted to learn more about science, but there was nowhere to go," he said.

NEWS | 02/08/2000

From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Y2K: The life of Steven J. Hirsch '17, Princeton's oldest alum

When the clock reached midnight Jan. 1, most people in the world were excited to say they had lived in two centuries.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

Winter weather causes damage

A 12-inch, 15-pound stone fell from the northwest side of Edwards Hall on Friday, nearly striking a building services employee who was shoveling snow outside the dorm, according to Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser."[The custodian] heard a rumbling and looked up and saw a stone falling off the roof," Weiser said.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

University plans to expand online course program for alumni

As the Internet becomes an increasingly crucial medium for disseminating information, the University has begun to offer special online courses to alumni, according to associate provost Georgia Nugent '73.The University has sponsored three Web-based courses thus far, and yesterday announced a new mini-course pertaining to Nelson Mandela, associate director of the Alumni Council Doug Blair '71 said.The effort has been driven by a desire to add an educational dimension to the alumni's relationship with the University.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

Promises partially kept?

Four years after students occupied Nassau Hall to protest what they saw as a weak commitment to Asian-American and Latino studies, the University has fulfilled one of its chief promises to the protesters by hiring Grace Hong, a specialist in Asian-American studies.Hong taught in the English department at the University of California at San Diego, which she described as "quite different from Princeton.""I'm hoping to add some permanent courses, to think more in the long term," Hong said of her new position.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

Police arrest Colts running back Elias '94

Indianapolis Colts running back and former Princeton football player Keith Elias '94 was arrested at a bar in Seaside Heights, N.J., early Sunday morning, according to police.Detective Sgt.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

A chronicler of presidents now finds herself in the spotlight

Americans came to recognize the Long Island accent of Doris Kearns Goodwin this year when television networks turned to her expertise during President Clinton's impeachment trial and following John Kennedy, Jr.'s death.Goodwin, who will speak today in McCosh 50, is one of the best-known historians specializing in the 20th century and the presidency.

NEWS | 02/07/2000

Eating clubs draw high numbers, breathing new life into Colonial

The busiest week on Prospect Avenue ended Saturday with 932 students ? more than 80 percent of the sophomore class ? joining eating clubs through Bicker and sign-ins, according to ICC Advisor Marty Crotty '98.Ivy Club had the highest selectivity rate, accepting only 64 of the 145 students who bickered.

NEWS | 02/06/2000

Stein '03 copes with hearing impairment during his first year at the University

A typical student's morning begins with the buzzing of an alarm clock or the blaring of a radio, but for Michael Stein '03, no alarm sounds at the appointed wakeup time.

NEWS | 02/06/2000

Two sexual orientations . . . one room

Before freshmen meet their roommates on that fateful day in September, they anxiously wonder whether their roommate will become a best friend or just be some other student who sleeps in the top bunk.One of the issues that can arise between roommates, especially freshman year, is the issue of homosexuality.Christl Denecke '00, an Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender peer educator, was placed with a lesbian roommate freshman year.

NEWS | 02/06/2000

University provides security for e-mail, Internet technology

With the importance of online resources and electronic communication on the rise in courses at Princeton, the need for heightened Internet security has prompted the University to seek additional means to authenticate a user's identity.The University was the first institution to be issued a digital certificate from the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking in mid-December.

NEWS | 02/06/2000

No, it didn't bother me

On my first trip home freshman year, discussion among my friends centered around our new life at school: courses, activities and for those of us who had moved away from home, dorm life.When I was quizzed on this subject, however, there was usually a hint of uneasiness in the interrogator's voice."So how do you like your roommate?""I like her a lot.

NEWS | 02/06/2000

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