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Finding work is harder for blacks
Professor of Sociology Marta Tienda finds plenty
of food for thought in the relationships among
minority status, education, fertility, poverty and
unemployment.
Like many others, she has
found limitations in the data used to sort out
these links. But in her forthcoming book, "Color
and Opportunity: Welfare, Work and the Urban
Underclass," Tienda tries to break through those
limitations to show that when the effects of one's
background and place of residence are stripped
away, race matters. [>>more]
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Trustees set new goal of $900 million
The board of trustees voted on October 24 to
raise the goal of the Anniversary Campaign for
Princeton from $750 million to $900 million, with
additional funds targeted for financial aid and new
scholarly programs in the humanities and life
sciences.
The single greatest need to be
addressed by the increased goal is scholarship
funding. The campaign will seek to endow
permanently Princeton's new financial aid policies,
which make it significantly more affordable for low
and middle income students to attend the
University. [>>more]
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Professors join tenured faculty
At their meeting on October 24, the trustees
named six people to the tenured faculty: professors
Yacine Ait-Sahalia in Economics, Jeanne
Altmann in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Roberto Car in Chemistry and the Princeton
Materials Institute, Fritz Graf in Classics
and H. Mete Soner in Civil Engineering and
Operations Research and Applied and Computational
Mathematics; and Sanjeev Arora in Computer
Science, who will become associate professor on
February 1, 1999. [>mmore]
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Academic achievers
Seventy-two students have received the
President's Award for Academic Achievement. At the
award dinner in Prospect House on October 21, each
winner received a boxed set of The Iliad and The
Odyssey, translated by Marks Professor of
Comparative Literature Robert Fagles [>>more]
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Women, Judaism: mind, body, voices
"Celebrating Women and Judaism: Mind, Body,
Voices" is the title of a multifaceted program
cosponsored by the Jewish Studies and Women's
Studies programs on November 13 through 17.
"We want to take advantage of
the new scholarship on the subjects of Jewish women
and Jewish identity and to celebrate the creativity
of Jewish women artists," says Women's Studies
director Deborah Nord, professor of English. "So
many important feminist literary critics, who
pioneered the field in the 1970s, have begun to
write about their own Jewishness, about their
individual pasts, and about Jewish literature and
culture. Froma Zeitlin, a classicist, has been
teaching a course at Princeton on the Holocaust for
a number of years now, and I, a specialist in
19th-century British literature and culture, have
begun to teach a course on American Jewish writers.
So in our own teaching we reflect the 'turn' to
Jewish studies. We are delighted to collaborate on
this weekend of events." [>>more]
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Athletics
Cross country. The men's team finished
first at the Heptagonals on October 30, with
Michael Spence '00 taking second place. (1-0
overall, 0-0 Ivy)
Field hockey. The Tigers defeated North
Carolina 4-3 on October 31 and Duke 2-0 on November
2. (14-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy)
Football. The Tigers beat Columbia 20-0 on
October 31. (4-3 overall, 3-1 Ivy)
Volleyball. The team outplayed Columbia 3-0
on October 30 and Cornell on October 31. (15-10
overall, 5-2 Ivy)
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