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Malkiel meets with students to discuss grading practices

Malkiel meets with students to discuss grading practices

Bringing the issue of grade inflation back to campus after it received national attention, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel met with student representatives for the first time since her grading report was issued.Sunday's USG meeting gave students the opportunity to discuss grade inflation, P/D/F reform and the possibility of more flexible finals with Malkiel.Because the Committee on Examinations and Standing does not include students, the grade inflation report was issued without the consultation of students.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Engineers investigate Jadwin floor after hoops fans shake bleachers

During the last three home basketball games, enthusiastic students and sellout crowds have rocked Jadwin ? literally.Following last week's Penn-Princeton game ? during which students jumped up and down in unison causing the court and ceiling to shake visibly ? the University called in an outside consultant to observe the floor during Friday's contest against Harvard.Director of Engineering Tom Nyquist called Allen Roth, vice president of Joseph B.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Campus cable coverage prevents live broadcast of basketball games

Although 1.2 million homes in the eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey area were privy to last week's home basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania, the few thousand students here on campus were awarded no such luck.Unlike last year, the University has divided this year's men's basketball television coverage between two competing cable companies, one that is much larger and caters to a regional audience and another that serves a very localized area.Comcast, which serves an expansive eastern cable area ? with the exception of University dorms ? has televised the men's home games against Monmouth, Manhattan, Yale and Penn, and they will also provide live coverage of next week's away-game versus the Philadelphia rival.RCN, the smaller provider that feeds all University cable, does not have as large a media exposure for the men's team as Comcast.According to Kurt Kehl, associate director of Athletics for Public Affairs, RCN was supposed to televise the Penn game, but did not due to technical errors."The Comcast broadcast was on satellite, but RCN failed to pull it off," he said.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Knight to resign as LGBA liaison

After serving less than one year as the Student Life office's liaison with the campus lesbian, gay and bisexual community, Stephen Knight said yesterday he will be resigning at the end of this week.Knight, who is an intern in the office, said he is leaving the University to take a position in New York City's family court system.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

Lander, Rosen receive accolades during celebration of Alumni Day

Alumni Day is often associated with lavish awards and flattering remarks on undergraduate life. However, this weekend's award winners were modest about their Princeton experiences."I have never been properly qualified for any job I have held," Dr. Eric Lander '78 said in his acceptance speech for this year's Woodrow Wilson Award.

NEWS | 02/23/1998

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

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