Nora Sirbaugh, professor of music, described her relationship with Stephen Peet, her late longtime accompanist and collaborator, as a “musical marriage.” In the program notes for her faculty recital Saturday night, she mentioned that after their last recital together, Peet said the two had never performed anything by Johannes Brahms together.

An article that appeared in The Signal last week, “Apartments to be completed August 2009,” mentioned that the College planned to replace the sliding doors in Brower Student Center with revolving doors. William Rudeau, director of Construction, said the new doors will help save on energy costs by reducing heat loss.

Come early May, students may find their late-night schedules busier than they had hoped, thanks to a new final exam schedule. Because the new schedule shortens the exam period from five days to four, exam days will last from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

During the Fall semester, the final exam schedule had six reading days and five exam days, which lasted from 8 a.

The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 grant to support a proposed program intended to increase interest in the computer sciences.

The program will involve rising eighth graders from Fisher Middle School in Ewing, who will be introduced to computer science through interactive journalism.

Seven College students joined between 60 and 75 protesters in Trenton on Friday to protest against a number of Trenton issues, including Mayor Douglas H. Palmer’s absenteeism and the city’s crime rate and poor school system, according to missingmayor.com, an anti-Palmer Web site.

Last Wednesday, the student groups of the College could be found at tables lined up along the sidewalk from the Alumni Grove to Brower Student Center. Despite the heat, representatives of each group manned their respective tables from noon until 3 p.m. as part of the mass recruitment drive known as the Student Organization Activities Fair.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s “Use of Force Policy” allows the use of pepper spray “to protect (an officer), or a third party from unlawful force.” Campus Police officers, who follow these guidelines like all sworn New Jersey police officers, used this allowance in pepper spraying an allegedly drunken Jonathan Waltz, sophomore open options science major, in Campus Police headquarters on Sunday, Sept.

The College this summer hired David Conner for the position of assistant director for fraternity and sorority programs, a position held last year by Pamela Mirabelli.

Conner will be working closely with the Greek community in his new role.

“Working with individual chapters, councils, student leaders, advisors and alumni, we will together assess current levels of achievement and success while devising methods for continual improvement,” Conner said in an e-mail interview.

Students returning to the College this week expecting to see a restored Lake Ceva instead saw a lake overgrown with weeds.

The lake was drained to a depth of two feet last November in order to rebuild the dam located between Lake Ceva and Lake Sylva. The construction was ordered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) because the dam had become damaged over the years.

Students from Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts and as far as California are part of a group of 83 freshmen comprising the largest number of out-of-state students the College has admitted since it began tracking the statistic in the fall of 2000.

The College offered the class of 2011 a significantly smaller amount of scholarship money than it was able to offer previous classes due to the loss of the Outstanding Scholar Recruitment Program (OSRP) in 2006.

As the year draws to a close and the Class of 2007 gets set to announce its gift to the College at graduation, the College is still awaiting the centerpiece of last year’s Senior Class gift – three new clocks for Brower Student Center.

The clocks were to replace those mounted above each entrance to the building and in the food court.

Two Campus Police officers were on vehicle patrol near the Green Lane entrance to the College at 1:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, when they spotted a vehicle parked in the roadway. They saw a woman sitting in the passenger’s side backseat with the door open and her head outside, vomiting.

Maj. Tim Connors of the Center for Policing Terrorism presented a lecture in Forcina Hall on Tuesday, April 17, on his work and the increasing role of local public safety departments in the fight against terrorism.

He illustrated the importance of regular public safety workers with examples, including that of Ahmed Rassan, an Algerian trained in Afghanistan, who plotted to detonate a car bomb in the Los Angeles International Airport.