February 23, 1998 | Volume 87,
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250 to 300 undergraduates enroll in Classics Dept courses each semester Perennially
relevant The study of Classics at Princeton is as
old as the institution. In 1748, college president Aaron
Burr declared, "None may expect to be admitted into College
but such as being examined by the President and Tutors shall
be found able to render Virgil and Tully's Orations into
English; and to turn English into true and grammatical
Latin; and to be so well acquainted with the Greek as to
render any part of the four Evangelists in that language
into Latin or English; and to give the grammatical connexion
of the words." |
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Graduate students examine Can "the system"
be fixed? For four decades, polls have tracked a
steady decline in the public's confidence in both the
election process and the leaders it produces. In many recent
elections, voter turnout has failed to reach 50 percent.
Parents have told pollsters they do not want their children
to be president. |
Champions. The women's squash team won the
national championship and the Howe Cup when they beat
Harvard 8-1 on February 15. Their season record was 8-0, 6-0
Ivy. |
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Celebration The Opening Ceremony for Black History
Month, held February 6 at the Third World Center, included
presentations by Essence magazine writer Joan Morgan and
dramatist Gary Edison, as well as recognition of Unsung
Heroes (right) Ralph Piper of the Counseling Center (l),
graduate student James Wilson (History), Daphne Moore
(Student Employment), Brenda Joyce (Counseling Center), Beth
Morgan (Dean of Student Life Office), Sue Ann Steffey Morrow
(Religious Life and Chapel), Hattie Black (African American
Studies), Lottie Rhodes (Dining Services) and Mychel Namphy
(English) (honored but not pictured were Vilma Codner of
Undergraduate Financial Aid, Sara Miller of the Third World
Center and Angela Taylor of Athletics); program presider
Charandle Jordan '99 is behind Moore. |
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Renaissance scholar, computer buff works on "all matters concerning the undergraduate curriculum" Associate Dean
Dobin Hank Dobin was an associate professor of
English, teaching Shakespeare at the University of Maryland,
College Park, when he noticed in the Chronicle of Higher
Education that Princeton University needed an associate
dean of the college. |
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Firestone Library exhibit presents "panorama of primary sources" at Princeton "The Search for Latin America" The exhibition "The Search for Latin
America: Sources at Princeton" is on display in the Main
Gallery of Firestone Library through April 13. It presents a
panorama of primary sources held by the library's Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections, as well as Manuel
Alvarez Bravo photographs and pre-Columbian objects from the
Art Museum, some of which have never been publicly
shown. |
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Obituary M. Joyce Mix, 68, administrative
assistant to the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, died on
February 6.
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Five members of the Student Volunteers
Council traveled to Siguatepeque, Honduras over intersession
to work with Habitat for Humanity. Building homes and
international relations were ... |
Princeton Weekly Bulletin Editor: Sally
Freedman
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