PrincetonUniversity
Communications Office
Stanhope Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Tel 609 258 3601, Fax 609 258 1301
Feedback
Princeton in the News
April 19, 2000
Previous page Next page Clippings archive Current news index
NOTE: Some items were published prior to April 14 but were not forwarded until after that date.
HIGHLIGHTS
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
April 19, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: BULLETIN BOARD
BYLINE: By ABBY GOODNOUGH, KATE ZERNIKE and LYNETTE HOLLOWAYPrinceton Adding Students
It is the biggest change in the student body since Princeton University began accepting women three decades ago. The institution's trustees approved a plan over the weekend that will expand the undergraduate student body by 500 students, or about 10 percent, to 5,100 students.
A group of trustees first proposed the expansion three years ago, saying it would allow Princeton to accept a more diverse population. Some faculty and students, however, protested it would dilute the experience of a close-knit campus that prides itself on interactions between professor and student.
In response, the trustees promised that the faculty would be increased 8 percent by the time of the student expansion, which will begin in 2004 and continue for four years.
NOTE: Other stories on the enrollment increase appear below.
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Apache Point sets distance record to quasar
DATELINE: SUNSPOT, N.M.A telescope in the mountains of southern New Mexico has found the most distant object ever seen by astronomers, a massive black hole devouring its surroundings billions of light-years away.
Astronomers discovered the quasar in March with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope at Apache Point and confirmed it last week with follow-up observations with the Keck Telescope in Hawaii.
The quasar apparently has a black hole at its heart a billion times more massive than the sun.
Black holes are so massive and dense that nothing, not even light, can escape the tug of their gravity. But as dust and gases spiral inside, their heat is so intense the quasar glows like a beacon.
Because the newly discovered quasar is so massive, it's also unusually bright, so scientists can see it at such a great distance.
Looking at such a distant object is like "looking back in time," said Princeton University astronomer Michael Strauss.
It took the light so long to reach Earth that astronomers see the object as it was early in the history of the universe. Light that scientists see now left the quasar when the universe was 1 billion years old, a fraction of its current 10 billion-year-plus age.
The discovery came as part of the Sloan's sky-mapping project. Expected to take five years, it should yield the most detailed map of the heavens ever attempted. …
AP Online
Copyright 2000 Associated Press
April 15, 2000; SaturdayHEADLINE: Grad Student Finds Oldest Quasar
BYLINE: WAYNE PARRY
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.A quasar that appears in telescopes as a red speck of dust in the constellation Sextans may be the oldest, most distant object ever glimpsed by humans.
The discovery by a Princeton University graduate student and three other scientists gives a better idea of what the universe was like in its infancy.
''Redshift 5.8 Quasar'' is 12 billion light years from Earth. The generally accepted age of the universe is 13 billion years, so that means the light left the quasar when the universe was just a billion years old.
''We're zooming in to the time when the galaxies were very young and the light first appeared in the universe after the Big Bang,'' said the Princeton astrophysics student, Xiaohui Fan, referring to the explosion generally thought to have resulted in the creation of the universe.
Other scientists were equally excited.
''Because it is so exceptionally luminous, it provides a wonderful opportunity to study the universe when the galaxies that we see today were young,'' said Robert Lupton a Princeton researcher and astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an international team of scientists trying to map out half of the northern sky.
The $80 million, five-year project is expected to collect data on hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and other celestial objects.
Fan and three other scientists made the discovery in April in Hawaii at the Keck Telescope, the world's largest, using data collected in March from a telescope at Apache Point, N.M.
The quasar, an emission of light from matter pouring into a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, surpassed the previous record-holder for the most distant known celestial object, a galaxy discovered last year by researchers in Hawaii and England.
NOTE: Versions of these two AP accounts appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. More news stories on the discovery are included in the digest below.
OTHER HEADLINES
Denver Westword
Copyright 2000 New Times Inc.
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Spies, Lies & Portable Tapes;
The feds were already suspicious of scientist Wen Ho Lee. Then they discovered he'd downloaded every secret in the nuclear arsenal.
BYLINE: Eileen WelsomeIn the early '90s, Los Alamos National Laboratory's computing system was in a state of transition. As public access to the Internet expanded, the weapons lab, which has some of the largest and fastest computers in the world, began putting up firewalls to protect its vast treasure trove of classified data. At one point all of the lab's information, classified and unclassified alike, was stored on a single network, with a system of software and hardware separating the secret data. By 1993 and 1994, the period in which Lee did most of his downloading, the lab's one network had already been broken into two pieces: a red partition, reserved for secret, restricted data, and a green partition, which contained open and unclassified information. A vast archival data-storage system, known as the Common File System, was accessible from both networks. Q-cleared scientists working in the red partition could go through a bank of switches to the green network and then connect with the world beyond. But for security reasons, it was not possible to go from the Internet to the green network and back up into the red partition. …
One of the items that helped investigators reconstruct the files was a notebook found in Lee's house during an April 10, 1999, search. In the notebook, written in Chinese and English, they found a description of the tapes he had made, the amount of data stored on them, his passwords and a step-by-step set of instructions on how to make the actual tapes. The FBI also found three letters in Lee's garage from Li Deyuan, a senior nuclear-weapons scientist at China's Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, and Zheng Shaotang, another senior official from the institute. The letters specifically asked Lee to send unclassified Los Alamos codes to them or to another institute member who was studying at Princeton University. Although at the time the DOE was actively encouraging its scientists to share these unclassified codes in order to create a spirit of cooperation, the letters bolstered the FBI's belief that Lee was engaged in suspicious activities. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Author Joyce Carol Oates fictionalizes life of Marilyn Monroe in 'Blonde'
BYLINE: By Jennifer WeinerAt first glance, author Joyce Carol Oates and actress Marilyn Monroe have little in common.
Not looks. Oates, with her attenuated runner's body, pale lips, dark curls, and wide dark eyes, is in stark contrast with Monroe's fleshy, fabled hourglass figure, the glossy lipsticked mouth, and toss of spun-sugar hair.
Not lives. Oates is the notably prolific, critically acclaimed author, with plays, novels and short-story collections to her credit as well as a National Book Award and a fistful of other honors.
Monroe? There were no Academy Awards. Her movies never won her the notice that her life as a sex symbol did. She married three times and died by overdose at the age of 36.
So what is it that ties these two women together?
"She's an actress creating characters. I'm a writer creating characters. ... Both Norma Jeane and I are quite misunderstood," said Oates on the occasion of the publication of her 40th book-length work of fiction, "Blonde," a fantasized life of Marilyn Monroe.
"I do feel very close to Norma Jeane." …
Sitting with her legs twined around each other in a light-filled, airy study at her house in the suburbs of Princeton, Oates offers a photograph of Monroe at 17 -- dark-haired, fresh-faced and beaming, curls tumbling over her shoulders and a locket around her neck, a pretty girl named Norma Jeane who, Oates observes, "has no idea what's coming."
Joyce Carol Oates
Born: June 16, 1938
Author: 40 novels and novellas; 25 books of short stories; eight poetry collections; five drama collections; nine volumes of essays and criticism; a libretto for the opera "Black Water"; and a children's book, "Come Meet Muffin."
Pseudonym: Rosamond Smith
Teacher: Creative writing, Princeton University
Honors: National Book Award, PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, F. Scott Fitzgerald Lifetime Achievement Award, others.
Publisher: With husband, Raymond J. Smith, of the Ontario Review, a literary magazine.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 2000 P.G. Publishing Co.
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: FEELING 'POPULAR';
QUAKER VALLEY GRAD LOOKS TO RETURN TO WB SERIES NEXT SEASONAs if dueling with Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, weren't tough enough, 1990 Quaker Valley High graduate Wentworth Miller III went up against vicious "Popular" diva Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels) during February sweeps, but this battle he survived.
Miller's Adam returns to "Popular" tonight (8 on WCWB) in an episode that features guest stars Delta Burke (as the fast-talking, Texas billionaire mother of another student) and Erik Estrada (as a cop who gets Zsa-Zsaed by Burke).
Although it's his final "Popular" guest appearance of the season, Miller said producers want his character to return. …
Miller, who graduated from Princeton University in 1995, made his TV debut in an early episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as a swim team captain who turns into a monster.
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Guy Gannett Communications, Inc.
April 20, 2000HEADLINE: A PRINCE AT PRINCETON;
Andrew Hanson, who was an all-stater at Greely High, is a record-setting hitter at Princeton.
BYLINE: TOM CHARD Staff WriterAndrew Hanson of Cumberland stood alongside first base last week in the last inning trying to soak it all in. Hanson had just had the greatest baseball game in Princeton's history. And naturally he didn't want it to end.
"The sun had come out and it was pretty warm. I wished the moment could have lasted forever," said Hanson.
Playing a weekend doubleheader against Columbia in New York City, Hanson started slowly but shifted into high gear.
In the finale of a four-game series, Hanson, a former all-stater at Greely, went 6 for 6, hitting for the cycle. He had two homers, two doubles, a triple and a single.
Hanson, a junior, set school records for total bases (16) and extra-base hits (five) in a game. His six hits, seven RBI and two home runs tied Princeton records. The school has a 136-year baseball history.
"Everything just came together. It was definitely the best game I ever had."
Princeton (15-14) beat Columbia 16-6 to cap a four-game sweep. The Tigers lead the Ivy League's Gehrig Division by a game. They play second-place Penn at home in doubleheaders Friday and Saturday. …
Sacramento Bee
Copyright 2000 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc.
April 20, 2000HEADLINE: Area graduate studies brown dwarf stars
BYLINE: Kimberly MordecaiFor most of us, stargazing is a passing pleasure, a chance to slow down and wax poetic about the immense universe in and around us.
For Alex McDaniel, however, it is a life's passion. Born in River Park, he is a young man with more than his head in the clouds.
McDaniel, a graduate of Jesuit High School, is in his senior year at Princeton University. He recently participated in an astronomical discovery that has wide implications in how the universe is viewed.
McDaniel was approached last month by his adviser, Jill Knapp, a professor in the astrophysics department at Princeton, regarding a trip to Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to study brown dwarf stars on a United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
Brown dwarfs, the subject of McDaniels' senior thesis, are cold, dark stars too small to initiate the nuclear reactions associated with stars, including the sun, that produce heat and light. Brown dwarfs can't be seen with an optical telescope, only with infrared light.
The best ground-based infrared telescopes in the world are on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, McDaniel said.
In the 1960s, brown dwarfs were first thought to be dark bodies floating freely in space. It was not until 1995, however, that astronomers confirmed their existence.
Brown dwarfs are curious celestial objects because they are neither planets nor stars, but share qualities of both. It is believed brown dwarfs form much as stars do by the gravitational collapse of dust and gas in an interstellar cloud but they have atmospheres reminiscent of gaseous planets, like Jupiter. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Badger Herald via U-Wire
April 20, 2000HEADLINE: Gladwell explains to U. Wisconsin how behavior is contagious
BYLINE: By Jason Gray, Badger Herald
SOURCE: U. Wisconsin
DATELINE: Madison, Wis.In his new book, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," Malcolm Gladwell argues attitudes, behaviors and ideas can spread in the same way viral epidemics do.
The book was released March 2 and it is continuing a steady climb up the New York Times Bestseller List, this week reaching No. 10.
Gladwell was in Madison Wednesday speaking to University of Wisconsin students on a variety of topics that radiated from themes in his book.
"People's personalities, or a person's behavior, is influenced by their situation a lot more than we think," Gladwell said. "This idea we have that people have very stable personalities is erroneous."
Gladwell gives evidence for such statements. In his book, he points to a study done by two Princeton University psychologists who decided to conduct a study inspired by the biblical story of the good samaritan. The psychologists used seminarians - people who would be considered generally sympathetic and giving - as subjects.
They sent all of the seminarians on an errand. Half of them they told that they were running late, and the other half were told that they had a few extra minutes. The study was set up so that each subject would run into a person of need.
"The convictions of your heart and the actual contents of your thoughts are less important, in the end, in guiding your actions than the immediate context of your behavior," Gladwell said. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Lacrosse jockeying begins Princeton faces two tests; ACC tourney on tap
BYLINE: Eddie TimanusWhile the Atlantic Coast Conference holds its annual lacrosse tournaments this weekend at College Park, Md., there also will be a tournament atmosphere on the Princeton campus.
The No. 4 Princeton men (7-1) seek their 30th consecutive Ivy League victory Saturday against No. 7 Cornell (8-2), the last Ivy team to beat them in 1995. The winner will earn the league's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. But Princeton then must turn around and play second-ranked Syracuse on Sunday. The Orangemen
will face Pennsylvania on Saturday at Princeton's Class of 1952 Stadium before taking on the Tigers the following day.
"It's good for lacrosse, but not so great for my stomach," Tigers coach Bill Tierney says of the rare back-to-back schedule. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Rookie Halpern gives Capitals leadership, a scoring punch
BYLINE: Thom Loverro; THE WASHINGTON TIMESWashington Capitals rookie center Jeff Halpern continued to be the franchise's most pleasant surprise this season, saving the team from playoff elimination last night by scoring the game-winning goal with 7:05 left in the third period to provide a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins at MCI Center.
Halpern, who grew up in Potomac, was playing hockey for Princeton University at this time last year. Last night he played like a 10-year NHL veteran.
Throughout the season, the 23-year-old Halpern has played with the poise of a man 15 years his senior, and that was never more evident than when he broke the 2-2 tie last night. Halpern was doing the grunt work, skating in front of the net and battling Penguins for the puck after it bounced off Pittsburgh goalie Ron Tugnutt's stick to set him up for his second playoff goal. …
The Asian Banker Journal
Copyright 2000 T.A.B. International Pte Ltd.April 19, 2000
HEADLINE: Analysis
What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis.
By Joseph Stiglitz17 April, 2000 - On the Eve of the Annual Meeting of International Monetary Fund Joseph Stigliz, former chief economist and vice president of the World Bank contended that the IMF has become irrelevant.
This week's meeting of the International Monetary Fund will bring to Washington, D.C., many of the same demonstrators who trashed the World Trade Organization in Seattle last fall. They'll say the IMF is arrogant. They'll say the IMF doesn't really listen to the developing countries it is supposed to help. They'll say the IMF is secretive and insulated from democratic accountability. They'll say the IMF's economic "remedies" often make things worse--turning slowdowns into recessions and recessions into depressions.
And they'll have a point. I was chief economist at the World Bank from 1996 until last November, during the gravest global economic crisis in a half-century. I saw how the IMF, in tandem with the U.S. Treasury Department, responded. And I was appalled. …
It's not fair to say that IMF economists don't care about the citizens of developing nations. But the older men who staff the fund--and they are overwhelmingly older men--act as if they are shouldering Rudyard Kipling's white man's burden. IMF experts believe they are brighter, more educated, and less politically motivated than the economists in the countries they visit. In fact, the economic leaders from those countries are pretty good--in many cases brighter or better-educated than the IMF staff, which frequently consists of third-rank students from first-rate universities. (Trust me: I've taught at Oxford University, MIT, Stanford University, Yale University, and Princeton University, and the IMF almost never succeeded in recruiting any of the best students.) …
NOTE: This piece has also appeared in publications in London and Canberra, Australia.
Business Wire
Copyright 2000 Business Wire, Inc.
April 19, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: VoteHere.net Announces New Advisory Board Members
DATELINE: BELLEVUE, Wash., April 19, 2000VoteHere.net, the leading worldwide provider of secure Internet voting systems, has recently added three members to its Board of Advisors: Larry J. Sabato, Berry Schoenmakers and Wei Dai.
"VoteHere.net understands the importance of upholding election integrity," explains Jim Adler, President and CEO. "Our advisory board represents the topmost experts and scientists in the areas of privacy, verifiability, cryptography and political analysis. We look forward to drawing on their expertise to ensure our Internet voting system remains above the bar' when it comes to meeting the criteria for public sector elections."
Dr. Larry Sabato is an election analyst and professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. …
A former Rhodes scholar and Danforth fellow, Dr. Sabato holds a B.A. in government from the University of Virginia, completed graduate study in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and received his doctorate in politics from Oxford University. …
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
Copyright 2000 The Florida Times-Union
April 19, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: 2 athletes awarded sports-academic all-state honors
BYLINE: Matt Kirk, Sports writer
Two students from area high schools have been named to the 2000 Florida High School Activities Association Academic All-State Team. They are Sara Abrams from Fernandina Beach High School and Thomas Pauly Jr. from Episcopal.
Abrams is the valedictorian of her senior class of 272 and has maintained a 4.0 grade point average. She has earned varsity letters in both golf and soccer her junior and senior years. Abrams hopes to study pre-medicine at the University of Florida.
Pauly ranks fifth in his senior class of 120 with a 3.92 grade point average. He has received varsity letters in baseball and swimming and diving over his junior and senior years. Pauly plans to study pre-medicine at Princeton University. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 2000 The Hartford Courant Company
April 19, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: BOOK TRACES WORK THAT NAILED THEOREM
BYLINE: STEPHANIE REITZ; Courant Staff WriterFor more than 350 years, the world's most astute mathematicians tackled a seemingly simple equation.
All met with frustrating results.
Fermat's Last Theorem was finally laid to rest in 1993, when Professor Andrew Wiles of Princeton University proved that the equation is truly unsolvable.
Connecticut-based mathematician C.J. Mozzochi of Glastonbury was a witness to Wiles' work, and his account of the math world's reaction is being published by a prominent professional organization.
The American Mathematical Society has agreed to publish Mozzochi's book, "The Fermat Diary." It is in production now, and the first several thousand copies are expected to be finished and shipped around July. The book chronicles Wiles' lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem and other analyses done by prominent mathematicians nationwide. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
April 19, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Quick, Call the Astrophysicist: The Heavens Need Updating!
BYLINE: By JAMES GLANZYOU may be forgiven for mistaking the space show at the rebuilt Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a 10-billion-light-year roller-coaster ride. The curving, plunging trip through a simulated three-dimensional universe has much in common with that most elemental and mindless of entertainments -- and the final drop into the blaze of the Big Bang is a doozy.
Behind the fun, though, the 20-minute show reflects a sharp departure at planetariums nationally -- a shift from canned and dated presentations to ones with a thorough knowledge of current research.
The space show follows the same journey each time, like a movie, and is narrated by Tom Hanks. But it incorporates recent data and calculations on local stars, galactic structure, the Orion nebula in the Milky Way's outer regions, the distribution of galaxies around the Milky Way and the structure of the universe. Pulling those data together for the show would have been unthinkable without the help of the new astrophysics department at the American Museum of Natural History, which includes the glass-enclosed Rose Center for Earth and Space, where the spherical planetarium sits. …
"It would be suicide to build a place and not have the capacity to inform its contents -- daily, daily," said Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, who is an astronomer in the new department and a visiting professor at Princeton University. (He received his Ph.D. at Columbia.) "Without that, all you've made is a World's Fair pavilion. And you're flashy when you open and a year later it's dusty and tired." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 18, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Princeton exempts private clubs from smoking ban
BYLINE: By RICHARD BRAND
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.The Princeton Regional Health Commission voted on Tuesday to exempt private clubs from a proposed town-wide smoking ban, but the amendment may not apply to Princeton University's eating clubs because they could be considered public places.
Opponents to the eating club exemption say that a 1990 New Jersey Supreme Court decision requiring the eating clubs to go coed also renders them public places.
"I'm opposed to the exemption of the eating clubs as private clubs, because according to the Supreme Court decision in the Sally Frank case, they are not private clubs," commission member Laura Kahn said.
Frank, who graduated Princeton in 1980, sued three all-male eating clubs for not offering her membership. The clubs were forced to accept women after the ruling.
Despite the objection, the commission passed the exemption for private clubs, saying that the distinction between public and private could be sorted out later.
Princeton's 10 eating clubs are not run or owned by the university. Instead, members and alumni support the houses. Six of the clubs allow smoking, and they have hired a lawyer to fight the smoking ban. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
April 18, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: In theory, average investors are exposed to market with 401(k) plans
BYLINE: By Miriam HillLast week's bludgeoning of the stock market, which wiped out as much corporate value in one day as Brazil's economy produces in a year, only grazed most Americans.
With $1 trillion invested in 401(k) plans, average investors are, in theory, fully exposed to the market's ups and down. But much retirement money is socked away in stock funds that didn't soar to nosebleed highs _ and didn't experience last week's death spiral, either.
"The fact of the matter is that stocks on average have been fairly steady this year and mutual funds especially have helped," said Ed Rosenbaum, director of research for fund-tracker Lipper Inc.
"Now, don't get me wrong. This has been some ride, but investors in the larger funds have been protected from it." …
The big losers last week included some of the technology shares that drove stocks' early-year rally. Oracle Corp., National Semiconductor Corp., Nortel Networks Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest losers in the S&P 500, all dropped more than 24 percent for the week.
But even with such steep declines, many of those stocks remain richly valued, said Burton Malkiel, the Princeton University professor who wrote "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," which espouses the theory that stock prices are largely unpredictable.
"It still certainly does not look to me like all of a sudden these stocks are bargains," he said. "Sun Microsystems Inc. and some of these other companies are still selling at more than 100 times earnings." …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
April 18, 2000 TuesdayHEADLINE: JCU SEES BIG BOOST FROM GIFT;
SCIENCE, TECH CENTER AIDED BY $20 MILLION FROM THE DOLANSBYLINE: By ANGELA TOWNSEND; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
DATELINE: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTSWhen Cablevision Systems Corp. founder and chairman Charles F. Dolan and his wife, Helen, announced last month that they would give their alma mater a $20 million gift, John Carroll University entered the ranks of schools that have benefited from the mega-gifts of well-heeled alumni.
The Dolans' gift, pledged through the Dolan Family Foundation, is the largest single gift the university has ever received. It will be put toward the construction of John Carroll's $60 million, 190,000-square-foot science and technology center, to be named after the Dolans, and renovations to the Bohannon Science Center. …
Traditionally, 80 percent of gifts to a college or university come from only 20 percent of its donors, said Trish Jackson, vice president for education with the Washington, D.C.-based Council for Advancement and Support of Education, which represents a variety of higher-education personnel who bring in financial and other support to their institutions. "There's no question that larger gifts are playing more and more important a role for advancement and fund raising," she said. …
Consider the following historic gifts from individuals - $150 million to Stanford University, $100 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $55 million to Princeton University. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.
April 18, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON'S EATING CLUBS COULD BE EXEMPTED FROMSMOKING BAN
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: PRINCETONTo become a member of Princeton University's most exclusive eating clubs, students must pass a series of interviews, run naked down wood-paneled stairwells, and pay upwards of $5,000 a year for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beer.
So when the Princeton Regional Health Commission suggested this year that the eating clubs were public places and therefore subject to a proposed smoking ban, many students scoffed.
The clubs hired a lawyer and fought the ban, arguing that they should not be put on par with restaurants and bars. …
Their fight might be won today when the commission discusses an amendment that would exempt private clubs from the smoking ban. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Dartmouth via U-Wire
April 18, 2000HEADLINE: Ivies see boom year for application rates
BYLINE: By Alice Gomstyn, The Dartmouth
SOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.It has been a very good year for the Ivy League -- applications were up for most schools, and admissions rates were down almost across the board, although Dartmouth remained stuck in the middle of the pack with little change from last year.
Brown University experienced the biggest increase in applications, up 14 percent from last year. The University of Pennsylvania saw the next-biggest jump in applications flooding into the mailroom, up over 6 percent from 1999.
Harvard and Brown Universities saw their rate of admission drop to an all-time low of 10.9 percent and just over 15 percent respectively. …
Princeton University experienced a notably larger decrease in applicants, with 8 percent fewer students applying this year. Princeton's acceptance rate also rose slightly, from 11.4 percent in 1999 to the current rate of 12.2 percent. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
April 18, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton's Stramandi seeks spot on U.S. national diving team
BYLINE: By Patrick King, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Princeton's Danielle Stramandi just smiles -- and with the slightest embarrassment -- explains some of the awards she has earned so far this year.
There are a lot. A 10-meter platform diver in the Ivy League is a rare thing. But her accomplishments have most certainly not come solely because she is the only diver to compete in that competition at Princeton -- quite the contrary, in fact.
The sophomore has overcome all odds to prove her merit at the national level. Even though athletic scholarships for diving were thrown at her by five colleges during her senior year of high school, Stramandi opted to attend Princeton and go for an Ivy League education.
And she's proven that she can juggle the heavy workload while still training and competing against anyone. At NCAAs in Indianapolis on March 18, she placed 13th -- the only non-scholarship diver to finish in the top 16.
"I wanted a school where I'd be challenged," Stramandi says. "[The challenge] makes every victory just that much sweeter." …
The Village Voice
Copyright 2000 VV Publishing Corporation
April 18, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: SAVAGE ART
BYLINE: Jyoti ThottamUnloved but unmoved, America Under the Palms has hung on the south wall of Princeton's Palmer Square Post Office for more than 60 years. The 1939 painting by Karl Free depicts a stylized encounter between white settlers and Native Americans: Three white men surrounded by the symbols of learning stand erect, as angels herald their approach and two dark natives cower in the corner. Commissioned as a New Deal public arts project, it went largely unnoticed until 1998, when a few Princeton students condemned it as racist.
"This is the only painting in the post office," says Karthick Ramakrishnan, a graduate student in political science. "It has a kind of monopoly on the public space."
He led more than a year of letter writing, protests, and public testimony, culminating in a March decision by the borough of Princeton's Human Services Commission to recommend adding a second, more contemporary piece of art to the building. But the original image remains, planted in that muddy territory where public art meets public sensitivity.
More than 10 feet wide and about as tall, America Under the Palms looms over one end of the narrow post office. The colors have faded, but its style, an ornate mishmash with neoclassical pretensions, shines through. On the left, three solemn men in frock coats and stockings stand surrounded by a globe, books, and classical busts. Under a palm tree in the center are two symbols of America, a blue-robed recumbent Columbia and a bald eagle, with Princeton's Nassau Hall in the distance. …
Ramakrishnan says he found the reference to "inglorious rest" particularly galling, implying "that the Native Americans were too lazy to really make something of the land."
He wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian, a campus newspaper, in October 1998, generating a flurry of retorts in the Princeton and Trenton papers. "Maybe I missed something, but those were books being carried by the settlers, not guns," Neil Brown, a resident of Robbinsville, New Jersey, wrote in the town daily, the Princeton Packet. "The Enlightenment philosophy of Europe believed in reason, tolerance, individualism, and skepticism as its defining tenets. The spread of this belief system is the basis of our existence and growth as a nation. Dare I say, it's what might have attracted your family to migrate here."
It was this idea, that the painting somehow truly represented what it meant to be American, that drew Micah Treuer, president of Princeton's Native American students association, into the campaign. The artist himself eventually became an arbiter of the American aesthetic. America Under the Palms was the last federal commission Karl Free did before becoming a curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
April 18, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: CIA Sends Agents to Schools--to Teach; Business, Library Majors Sign Up as Classes Spread
BYLINE: Valerie Strauss; Vernon Loeb , Washington Post Staff WritersA smartly dressed man named Joe whose parents don't know what he does for a living riveted a University of Maryland class last week with tales about U.S. government secrets. Joe, the guest lecturer in a course called "Legal Issues in Managing Information," works for the CIA. So does the course's instructor, whose full name can be published. …
Ann Prentice, dean of U-Md.'s College of Library and Information Systems, said the school sought out Lee Strickland, the CIA official teaching the graduate course on legal issues, for the practical experience he could bring to information management.
Strickland is part of the CIA's Officers in Residence program, in which employees take two-year leaves to teach. The teachers are selected by the agency, then approved by the university.
Nine universities currently participate. And more than 30, including Harvard and Princeton universities, have done so since the program began in 1985. Lloyd D. Salvetti, the CIA official in charge of teacher placements, says more schools want to participate than he has agents to send. A few universities have turned down the arrangement, he said, declining to name them. …
U.S. Newswire
Copyright 2000 U.S. Newswire, Inc.
April 17, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Aspen Insitute Names New Trustees
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 17Ann McLaughlin, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute, has announced the appointment of three new trustees to the Board.
The new trustees are Andrea Cunningham, Jack D. Furst, and Timothy K. Krauskopf. The appointment of the new trustees was confirmed this past weekend at the annual meeting of the Aspen Institute board. The meeting
took place in concert with the second of five regional events celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Aspen Institute. …
Andrea (Andy) Cunningham, 43, is founder and chief executive officer of Cunningham Communication, Inc., a marketing and strategic communication consulting firm serving high-technology companies including Cisco,
Motorola, Hewlett-Packard and Pitney Bowes. Cunningham sits on the following boards: Divine InterVentures, Inc., The International Computing Museum, Specialized Bicycle Components, the Nueva School, the Young
Presidents Organization Pacific Regional Board and 1185 Design. She is a member of the Committee of 200, and sits on the advisory boards of the Foundation for Student Communication at Princeton University and the Journal of Integrated Marketing Communication at Northwestern University….
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society
April 17, 2000, MondayBYLINE: Robert Kilborn, Judy Nichols, and Stephanie Cook
A Princeton University student and three scientists discovered a quasar that may be the oldest and most-distant object yet glimpsed by humans. It will help give scientists a better idea of what the universe was like in its infancy, they said. Appearing in telescopes as a red speck of dust in the constellation Sextans, "Redshift 5.8 Quasar" is 12 billion light years from Earth. The age of the universe is calculated at 13 billion years, meaning light left the quasar when the universe was a billion years old.
National Post
(formerly The Financial Post)
April 17, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: It's an ugly bear but Goldilocks will survive
BYLINE: Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is soon to take up a new post as professor of economics at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.Investors buy because others are buying, sell because others are selling. When stock prices are rising, it's called 'momentum investing;' when they are falling, it's called 'panic.' And panic, which had been building all week, broke out in full on Friday.
One of the biggest losers in the final sell-off was Tiffany's: the price of the jeweller's shares abruptly fell 13%, apparently because investors feared that it was especially vulnerable to a market decline. And they may well be right. …
But will the turmoil in the stock markets spill over, not just into jewellery, but into the real economy generally? Is this the end of the 'Goldilocks economy'?
It's happened before. Never mind 1929 -- that stock slump occurred in an environment of institutional weakness and sheer policy stupidity that I think (I hope) no longer exists. We aren't going to raise interest rates to peg the dollar to gold, or allow banks to tumble like dominoes. The example to worry about is Japan in the '90s -- an economic juggernaut that stumbled badly after the burst of a financial bubble, and even a decade later has by no means regained its former vigour. …
New Jersey Law Journal
Copyright 2000 American Lawyer Newspapers Group, Inc.
April 17, 2000HEADLINE: Texan and Newark Lawyer Gear Up For Joint Monitoring of State Police
BYLINE: CHARLES TOUTANTBefore starting to supervise reforms in the New Jersey State Police, two monitors named to carry out a federal consent decree must work out how they'll divide the task between them.
James Ginger, of San Antonio, and Alberto Rivas, of Newark, were appointed March 29 by U.S. District Judge Mary Little Cooper, who's overseeing the enforcement of the consent decree that averted a federal lawsuit over racial profiling in traffic stops.
The decree required the State Police to adopt measures for documentation and review of traffic stop statistics, supervisory review of trooper conduct patterns, trooper training and regular public reports on traffic stop statistics. …
Rivas has the virtue of being local. A graduate of Princeton University and Rutgers Law School-Newark, he served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Newark from 1985 to 1996. From 1994 to 1996, he was deputy chief of the criminal division, prosecuting drug and organized-crime cases.
Rivas started his law career as a clerk for U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson. "I think it's an excellent appointment," Thompson says. "He's a splendid lawyer, very hardworking and conscientious, wonderful personality. He gets along very, very well with everybody." …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
April 17, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton trustees approve plan to increase student body size
BYLINE: By Bill Beaver, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.In a landmark vote Saturday, the Princeton University Board of Trustees unanimously approved the Wythes committee's recommendation to increase the size of the undergraduate student body by 500 students -- finalizing a decision that prompted almost three years of deliberation and elicited considerable campus debate.
The increase will be phased in over four years, beginning in 2003 or 2004, once the necessary facilities and living spaces have been constructed, committee chair Paul Wythes '55 said.
"[The trustees] were very receptive," Wythes said of his committee's proposal. "The resolution approved not just the student body increase, but the report in its totality." …
The trustees did revise several sections of the report to address points raised by students and faculty during the past two months, Wythes said. One significant amendment to the original report is that the administration will be required to work in conjunction with the faculty to implement the student body size increase. In the original document, the administration had sole power over implementing the student body growth. …
The trustees also altered the section of the report pertaining to the graduate school, Wright said. Under the revised resolution, a department may alter the number of graduate students it accepts based on the number of undergraduates the department serves. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun Company
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: At Home in Milan; Italy: A visitor to the city of Verdi discovers memories of her Baltimore youth - an a new daughter
BYLINE: Alice SteinbachEditor's note: In this excerpt from her new book, "Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman," Baltimore Alice Steinbach describes her first visit to Milan, Italy. As is her custom while traveling, she wrote postcards to herself and sent them home as reminders of her expereinces abroad.
Dear Alice,
Milan seems like home to me. It's one of the big surprises of my trip. Today, sitting in the sun in the Piazza la Scala, an elderly man asked if he could sit next to me. I nodded. The man, who looked down on his luck, opened a magazine of crossword puzzles, which he completed by copying the answers from the back of the book. Later when he saw me consulting a map, he asked in near-perfect English: "May I be of help to you?" It's a friendly -- and surprising -- town.
Love, Alice
An hour after arriving at the hotel in Milan I had unpacked and was ready to hit the streets. I needed a destination and had picked Milan's most famous attraction: the Duomo, a huge wedding cake of a cathedral, with 135 spires and over 3, 100 statues. I marked on the map the location of my hotel; then the loca-tion of the Duomo. I drew a red arrow between the two. Maybe I'd get there and maybe I wouldn't; that was beside the point. What mattered was that when I stepped out of my hotel I knew which way to turn. Once I did that, the flow of the city would carry me along. Perhaps even to the Duomo.
Outside, the rain had stopped and the sun was struggling to break through the clouds. The busy street that ran past the hotel was not very inviting; its gray buildings, mostly offices with a few banks and dreary coffee shops scattered between, depressed me. But I continued to walk, turning one corner and then another and then another. At the last turn I found the Milan that spoke my name. …
About this excerpt
This story is from Alice Steinbach's just-released book, "Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman" (Random House, $24.95). Steinbach is a former Sun feature writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1985. … She was recently a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. Steinbach still lives in Baltimore and is researching her next book. …
The Boston Herald
Copyright 2000 Boston Herald Inc.
April 16, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: SCHOOLS: TRACK: BOYS; Gloucester races for triple crown
BYLINE: By Rich ThompsonGloucester High is going for a triple crown in track.
Having already won the Division 1 State cross-country title and the State Indoor track championship, the Fishermen are looking to capture three crowns in one school year. Gloucester has the horses and hopes to win the All-State outdoor title this season. …
The feature performer on the Gloucester team is Tristan Colangelo, who will attend Princeton University in the fall.
Colangelo is one of the finest distance runners the state has ever produced. …
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 2000 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: 'LEANERS' CRUCIAL VOTERS
SUBHEAD: Candidates reach out to independents
BYLINE: Ken McCall DAYTON DAILY NEWSRetired construction worker Arthur Bohanan, 72, calls himself a political independent, but he's never voted for a Republican.
Jim Murlin, a 28-year-old factory worker at Delphi Automotive, calls himself an independent, but the only Democrat he ever voted for is longtime U.S. Rep. Tony Hall of Dayton.
Pete Papadis, meanwhile, a 40-year-old systems analyst for NCR, qualifies as a "true independent." He said he doesn't lean toward either major party and his voting behavior alternates between them.
Often depicted as a disaffected, monolithic force ready to topple America's two-party system, political analysts say independents - as Murlin, Bohanan and Papadis illustrate - are a fragmented group with a wide variety of political philosophies.
Most lean toward a major party and tend to vote that way, polls show.
But at the same time, they express ambivalence about the parties. And this presents a challenge for candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush, who are reaching out to these voters in their race for the presidency.
Last week's campaigning in Ohio demonstrates the importance independents hold for the candidates. …
A study by Larry Bartels, a political scientist at Princeton University, found true independents have been decreasing for almost 25 years on a national level - from 16 percent in 1976 to only 9 percent in 1996.
He argues that the conventional wisdom predicting the demise of political parties is "both exaggerated and outdated."
The relationship between people's party affiliation and their vote did decline in the late 1960s and early '70s, Bartels said, but it rose steadily between 1972 and 1996, increasing an average of 10 percent every presidential election.
In 1996, in fact, more people voted true to their party leanings than in any presidential election over last 50 years, said Bartels, who has found a similar trend in voting for congressional candidates starting in 1978.
"The American political system," Bartels said, "has slipped with remarkably little fanfare into an era of increasingly vibrant partisanship in the electorate." …
The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.)
Copyright 2000 The Durham Herald Co.
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Playback
"She's an administrator, a rule enforcer, a discipliner and a student life coordinator. But she acts like a momma."
The Rev. William Willimon, dean of Duke Chapel, on Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson, who is leaving to become vice president for campus life at Princeton University.
The London Free Press
Copyright 2000 Sun Media Corporation
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: REDSHIFT QUASAR MAY BE OLDEST OBJECT EVER SEEN
BYLINE: FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.A quasar that appears in telescopes as a red speck of dust in the constellation Sextans may be the oldest, most distant object ever glimpsed by humans.
The discovery by a Princeton University graduate student and three other scientists gives a better idea of what the universe was like in its infancy. Redshift 5.8 Quasar is 12 billion light years from Earth. The generally accepted age of the universe is 13 billion years, so that means the light left the quasar when the universe was just a billion years old.
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: C.I.A. Tried, With Little Success, to Use U.S. Press in Coup
BYLINE: By JAMES RISEN
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 15Central Intelligence Agency officials plotting the 1953 coup in Iran hoped to plant articles in American newspapers saying Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's return resulted from a homegrown revolt against a Communist-leaning government, internal agency documents show.
Those hopes were largely disappointed. The C.I.A.'s history of the coup says that its operatives had only limited success in manipulating American reporters and that none of the Americans covering the coup worked for the agency.
An analysis of the press coverage shows that American journalists filed straightforward, factual dispatches that prominently mentioned the role of Iran's Communists in street violence leading up to the coup. Western correspondents in Iran and Washington never reported that some of the unrest had been stage-managed by C.I.A. agents posing as Communists. And they gave little emphasis to accurate contemporaneous reports in Iranian newspapers and on the Moscow radio asserting that Western powers were secretly arranging the shah's return to power. …
Kennett Love, the New York Times reporter in Tehran during the coup, wrote about the royal decrees in the newspaper the next day, without mentioning how he had seen them. In an interview, he said he had agreed to the embassy official's ground rules that he not report the American role in arranging the trip.
Mr. Love said he did not know at the time that the official worked for the C.I.A.
After the coup succeeded, Mr. Love did in one article briefly refer to Iranian press reports of American involvement, and The New York Times also published an article from Moscow reporting Soviet charges that the United States was behind the coup. But neither The Times nor other American news organizations appear to have examined such charges seriously.
In a 1960 paper he wrote while studying at Princeton University, Mr. Love explained that he "was responsible, in an impromptu sort of way, for speeding the final victory of the royalists." …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: PLUS: ROWING -- CHILDS CUP Princeton Dominates On Its Course
BYLINE: By NORMAN HILDES-HEIMPrinceton University played host to four separate regattas yesterday on its rain-flattened 2,000-meter Lake Carnegie course, winning both the men's and women's heavyweight races, and losing the men's and women's lightweight events.
For the seventh consecutive year, the Princeton men's varsity heavyweights defeated Pennsylvania and Columbia in the Childs Cup, intercollegiate rowing's oldest cup event, dating from 1879. The Tigers won by seven-tenths of a second, after Penn had drawn even with Princeton with 200 meters left in the race.
Princeton's time of 5 minutes 44.8 seconds was achieved without the benefit of any tailwind.
In a preview of the national championships for lightweight women, Princeton relinquished its No. 1 ranking, losing the varsity race by 1.98 seconds to second-ranked Wisconsin, which now moves up to No. 1. Villanova, currently ranked third nationally, came in third, seven-tenths of a second behind Princeton and 23.86 seconds ahead of the fourth-ranked Brown crew.
Princeton's open-weight women defeated Radcliffe, Cornell and the University of Miami, winning the varsity race by 4.1 seconds and the junior varsity contest by 12.2 seconds over Cornell. …
Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA.)
Copyright 2000 Capital City Press
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: More religions
If you are interested in religions and want to get a nice overview of the different belief systems around the world, DK Publishing offers a nice reference in its Illustrated Dictionary of Religions ($24.95) by Philip Wilkinson.
This coffee-table-sized book is richly illustrated and has chapters on each major religion: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism and Buddhism.
The major figures, festivals and beliefs of each religion are treated. New and ancient religions are examined as well, and there is an overview of what religion is and how it is used. The illustrations are great, and this clearly written book is perfect for secondary school students. Chang to readThe English department will host the final event of its Readers and Writers series at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 16, in the Design Building Auditorium at LSU. The evening will include a reading by an award-winning author as well as a departmental awards presentation.
Lan Samantha Chang will read a selection from her prize-winning novel Hunger. Besides winning the prestigious Southern Review Fiction Award, the novel also won the Bay Area Book Award, a California Book Award silver medal and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the PEN/Hemingway Literature Prize.
Chang is an Alfred Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University. Born and raised in Appleton, Wis., she received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1993. She has taught fiction at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
April 16, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Power and Privilege
BYLINE: E.J. Dionne Jr.We Americans have a very mixed attitude toward the notion of elites. By tradition, we are anti-elitist. But we have always had an elite, one that can be cracked by accruing great wealth, or education, or political power. Often, the best way to join the powers that be is to bash them.
Sen. John McCain masterfully reintroduced us to the art of pummeling elites during his presidential campaign. He regularly denounced the Republican Establishment, criticized various state Republican "machines" and of course condemned the power of money in politics. In doing so, he was drawing on some of American political history's most evocative images.
Each generation finds new terms of abuse for the elite. Michael Kazin, a Georgetown University historian, notes that after the Revolutionary War, the most popular form of attack was on monarchy and aristocracy, appropriate given the independence struggle at the time. Later, it was common to condemn presidents for behaving like kings and to attack their supporters as mere courtiers, a slur still.
But as monarchy receded and democracy and capitalism advanced, anti-elite terms came to have more to do with wealth. Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University historian of the Jacksonian era, notes that attacks on "the money power" were popular in the pre-Civil War period, though slavery opponents later identified slave owners, called "the slave power," as the real enemy. Another Jacksonian coinage was "the mushroom aristocracy," a reference to "people of privilege who came out of nowhere like fungi," says Prof. Wilentz. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Princeton to increase enrollment by 500
BYLINE: By RICHARD BRAND
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Princeton University on Saturday agreed to boost student enrollment by 500, the first significant increase in the size of the student body since women were admitted in 1969.
The university's Board of Trustees formally approved the increase to individual classes by 125 students, a 10 percent rise, over the next seven years. They cited the school's expanded curriculum, a need to accommodate more international students, and a desire to increase student participation in non-sports activities.
While the plan will make it easier to be accepted to the university, applicants will still have their work cut out for them. Last week, Princeton offered admission to 12.2 percent of applicants for the class of 2004.
University spokesman Justin Harmon said the plan would increase the number of students involved in arts and academic programs at Princeton, where 29 percent of students are on varsity teams and 23 percent play club and intramural sports.
"Relative to our competitors, we have a fairly small class, and that will still be the case as it has been one of the hallmarks of the Princeton experience," Harmon said. "One disadvantage to a relatively small class size is that when you are fielding as many athletic teams as we are, you are in some sense constraining the admissions process."
International applicants will be among those to benefit from the enrollment increase, Harmon said.
The plan calls for the construction of additional dormitories, including a sixth residential college. Fundraising for the construction is already underway, although Harmon said the cost has not been determined. …
There are currently 4,600 undergraduates at Princeton, 1,150 per class.
The Des Moines Register
Copyright 2000 The Des Moines Register, Inc.
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Metro Record
SOURCE: StaffFamily Policy Center receives $29,800 grant
The Center for Health Care Strategies has awarded the Des Moines Child and Family Policy Center a $29,800 grant.
The money will be used to develop a child welfare financing and delivery system in the state. The Center for Health Care Strategies is a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
The Irish Times
Copyright 2000 The Irish Times
April 15, 2000HEADLINE: Light from farthest quasar makes 12bn year journey
BYLINE: By DICK AHLSTROM, Science EditorIt's not quite on the edge of the universe but it does rank as the most distant object yet discovered by astronomers.
A specialised telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, recorded the object, a quasar, last month. It is now known to be farther away than any other astral body yet found and is so far away that the pinpoint of light we see today left its distant source perhaps 11 or 12 billion years ago.
Such discoveries excite the world's astronomers because they can provide information about the universe when it was young. The new found quasar was formed a mere one billion years after the Big Bang which marked the birth of the universe.
It is so far away that it has taken all the time since then to reach us. We see it as it was all those aeons ago even though the original object is probably long since dead and gone.
"Because it is so exceptionally luminous, it provides a wonderful opportunity to study the universe when the galaxies that we see today were young, or perhaps before they had even been born," stated Dr Robert Lupton of Princeton University.
Quasars are unusual objects which are star-like but not stars. They are compact, luminous objects thought to be powered by spectacularly powerful black holes as massive as and with the gravitational pull of a billion suns.
The quasar was spotted as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a joint project operated by astronomers in the US, Japan and Germany and funded by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. This uses a special-purpose telescope with a 2.5 metre diameter mirror that points towards the stars and records the presence of anything it can find through a single "pinhole" of the sky. …
The National Journal
Copyright 2000 The National Journal, Inc.
April 15, 2000HEADLINE: The '80s vs. the '90s
BYLINE: Carl M. CannonHIGHLIGHT:
Which decade did you like better, the '80s or the '90s? Your answer may say a lot about which presidential candidate you'll support.
Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, emulating the President they are seeking to replace, speak dutifully about what they want America to be in the 21st century. This is considered smart politics, given an axiom of modern campaigns that says a candidate must always look forward and never backward. But the economic life of this country is so exceptional right now that the old rules of politics don't necessarily apply. Both candidates are looking back. It's not that the 2000 election isn't about the future. It's that the future is now. …
In such a climate, it is not easy for a presidential candidate to explain how he would improve on close to zero real
unemployment, a stock market that keeps going up like a helium balloon, and a vibrant economy characterized by low inflation, rising wages, and high productivity. Thus, the subliminal question of the current campaign becomes: How did we get to such a good place? …
Julian Wolpert, an expert on charity and philanthropy at Princeton University, has concluded that well-off Americans feel less of a connection to the poor than they once did. "They assume the prosperity is being shared by (the rest of) the population," Wolpert says. Members of the burgeoning upper middle class live in gated communities. They drive $30,000 SUVs. And as they rake in more money from the roaring economy and the climbing Dow, they assume that everyone is prospering-or they don't care. …
New Scientist
Copyright 2000 New Scientist IPC Magazines Ltd
April 15, 2000HEADLINE: Weathering the storm
BYLINE: Philip CohenAN OLD genetic trick could allow biologists to explore what Leland Hartwell says is emerging as an important evolutionary property of organisms - the ability to accumulate a huge amount of genetic variation.
Natural populations, including humans, contain lots of genetic variation. This includes obvious differences, such as height, as well as hidden ones. The ability of human cells to repair DNA damage, for example, varies as much as a hundredfold between individuals. What's remarkable, says Hartwell, a geneticist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, is that such tremendous variation isn't harmful.
Hartwell and Stanislas Leibler of Princeton University think that cells contain "biological circuits" of molecules that buffer the potentially harmful effects of genetic variation. When one part of a circuit changes by mutation, another part can balance the effect - a property that Leibler dubbed robustness. "It permits the accumulation of variation by limiting its impact on expression," says Hartwell.
He proposes a way to find these robust circuits by turning a familiar genetic phenomenon on its head. Certain pairs of genes are innocuous when one mutates, but when both mutate they kill the cell. Geneticists frequently use such combinations when hunting for proteins that interact with each other. They begin with a mutation in one gene and hunt for mutations in another that will kill a cell.
Hartwell realised that these lethal combinations are a form of robustness. If mutations in gene A don't become apparent until gene B is mutated, and vice versa, each is buffering defects in the other. His lab recently found an example while looking for lethal genes that compensate for deletion of a yeast gene MEC1. This gene encodes a protein that helps to halt chromosome replication when DNA is damaged. The deletion isn't deadly by itself.
Most of the genes they found were involved in synthesising nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. Hartwell believes these genes might form a circuit that balances the availability of nucleotides when DNA replication is interrupted. A cell that tries to replicate in the absence of nucleotides - because they aren't being created fast enough - is certain to die.
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Copyright 2000 The Straits Times Press Limited
April 15, 2000HEADLINE: The hidden gems on a page
BYLINE: Ranald TottenTHE FOOTNOTE: A CURIOUS HISTORY By Anthony Grafton Harvard University Press/235 pages/$25.99
YOU may be excused for thinking that an entire book dedicated to the footnote sounds about as exciting as a history of the pimple. But you'd be underestimating the book's author and his brisk and playful writing skills.
Anthony Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton University, has produced a splendid treasure of a book, one that will appeal -- surprisingly -- to a variety of tastes.
The book is a lively, investigative text, a scholarly work on an overlooked aspect of intellectual and cultural history written not for fellow academics but for the inquisitive dabbler.
Grafton's title is a bit misleading, for this is not a general account of footnotes but the story of their development in a specific scholarly discipline; namely, history.
And though his own 423 footnotes provide the appearance of formal, stuffy education (are we really going to check to see whether they are accurate?), Grafton is really goading us to challenge our unreflective relationship to his subject.
The author explains that the footnote's pivotal role is "the only guarantee we have that statements about the past derive from identifiable sources".
But even this has puzzled historians, many of whom believe, rightly so, that footnotes interfere with the flow of the narrative (it is reported here that Noel Coward once observed that "having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love"). …
The Times (London)
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Limited
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Most distant quasar found
BYLINE: Nigel HawkesASTRONOMERS have found the most distant object ever seen, a reddish dot in the sky 12 billion light years away.
The object is a quasar, the bright heart of a distant galaxy which emitted the light the astronomers are seeing when the universe was less than a billion years old.
The discovery was made by astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an $80 million (Pounds 50million), five-year survey of the sky being made by an international consortium using a telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico.
The survey is designed to distinguish efficiently between distant quasars, which are rare, and reddish-coloured stars, which are commoner and much closer. It does so by examining 20,000 objects in every square degree of sky, and sorting quasars from stars by the spectrum of light they emit.
The distance of the object can be worked out from its red shift: the degree to which the light it emits is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum. The greater the shift, the farther away the object.
In this case, the red shift is 5.8, beating, though not by much, the previous record-holder, a galaxy of red shift 5.7. So efficient is the survey at finding these faraway objects that they expect yet more distant ones to be turned up within weeks.
The new quasar, which is in the constellation Sextans, is likely now to be the subject of study by other telescopes. "Because it is so exceptionally luminous, it provides a wonderful opportunity to study the universe when the galaxies that we see today were young," Dr Robert Lupton, an SDSS astronomer from Princeton University, said, "or perhaps before they were even born." …
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
Copyright 2000 Landmark Communications, Inc.
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: TV COMMENTATOR CHALLENGES HIP-HOP CONFERENCE'S YOUTHS
BYLINE: BY VERONICA BUTTS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NORFOLKIt's time for the hip-hop movement to start moving, Tavis Smiley declared at a Norfolk State University assembly on Friday.
''We can hip hop all day, wear the clothes, buy the music,'' he preached. ''But what are you all doing about the future of our communities?''
Smiley, an author and political commentator featured on CNN, Black Entertainment Television and the Tom Joyner Morning Show on radio, was the featured speaker at ''Empowering the Hip Hop Nation,'' a two-day conference that began Thursday at the college. …
In terms of studying the genre, NSU isn't the first.
Princeton University, the University of California at Los Angeles, Howard University, New York University and even neighboring Regent University are among many colleges that have tackled the topic at similar conferences. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: A cappella group blends voices young and old
BYLINE: Christian Toto; THE WASHINGTON TIMESAt first blush, the members of Augmented 8 could not have any less in common. During a recent practice, one singer juggled a squirming infant while a fresh-faced crooner to his left appeared young enough to rush a fraternity. Another singer, a septuagenarian with a ready grin, leaned on his decades of experience to keep his harmonies true.
Then their voices aligned in deference to an irresistible melody, and it looked as though a crowbar would be needed to separate them.
Augmented 8 has been singing a cappella at stops along the East Coast for the past 50 years, with proceeds always earmarked for charity. The current 15-member lineup will celebrate the group's golden anniversary by performing in the ninth annual "SOS: Sing Out for Shelter," a benefit concert tomorrow at the Warner Theatre to raise funds for Washington-area homeless shelters.
The members of Augmented 8, who range in age from 26 to 77, share more in common than just their mellifluous voices. The majority were intellectually weaned in Ivy League environments, where their love for close harmonies was nurtured and turned into a lifelong affair. …
"In a group like this, there's a fellowship that transcends the music . . . analogous to a sports team," says Michael Wyatt of McLean, first tenor and a 1967 Princeton graduate. "We got into this as a hobby, and it took off from there. Most of us haven't had any formal vocal training." …
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
April 14, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Telescope Sets Distance Record
BYLINE: John Fleck Journal Staff Writer* View from instrument near Alamogordo stretches back to first billion years of creation
A New Mexico telescope has discovered the most distant object yet seen by astronomers, a massive black hole devouring its surroundings billions of light-years away.
Astronomers discovered the "quasar," as the object is called, in March with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope at Apache Point, and confirmed it last week with follow-up observations using the massive Keck Telescope in Hawaii.
The discovery came as part of the Sloan's massive sky-mapping project, expected to take five years and yield the most detailed map of the heavens ever attempted.
Finding the most distant object is like setting the land speed record, said University of Chicago astronomer Michael Turner, scientific spokesman for the Sloan project.
More important than bragging rights, however, is the window it provides on the very early universe.
It took the light so long to reach Earth that the astronomers are seeing the object as it was early in the history of the universe.
"You're looking back in time," said Princeton University astronomer Michael Strauss.
The light scientists see now left the quasar when the universe was just 1 billion years old, a fraction of its current 10 billion-plus-year age.
While this is the most distant object found by the Sloan project, it is not the only far-off quasar found. In the past 18 months, the project has doubled the number of distant quasars known to science. …
AP Online
Copyright 2000 Associated Press
April 14, 2000; FridayHEADLINE: Adviser: Take Warheads Off Alert
BYLINE: EDITH M. LEDERER
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONSPresident Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin should act now to take thousands of nuclear warheads slated for elimination under the START II treaty off ''hair-trigger'' alert, a former Clinton security adviser says.
''That would be the smartest thing we can do all around as a first step,'' said Frank von Hippel, a nuclear physicist at Princeton University who served as an assistant director for national security in the Clinton White House in 1993-94.
Despite the end of the Cold War, von Hippel said, both Russia and the United States keep thousands of nuclear warheads on ''hair-trigger'' in the event of nuclear war.
In an interview Friday, hours after Russia's parliament approved the long-delayed treaty, Von Hippel recalled that before START I was ratified in 1991, President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed to stand down all the weapons that were going to be eliminated under the treaty in 2001.
''Having negotiated it, and having figured out that they could do it in 10 years, they said, well why not now reduce the risk,'' he said.
START II would halve U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to 3,000-3,500 warheads each by the end of 2007. A new treaty, START III, which is being discussed, envisages cuts to 1,500-2,500 warheads. …
Chicago Sun-Times
Copyright 2000 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
April 14, 2000, FRIDAYHEADLINE: Stellar discovery ;
Quasar most distant object ever observed
BYLINE: BY ART GOLABUniversity of Chicago and Fermilab astronomers announced Thursday the discovery of the most distant object ever observed in the universe, a quasar so far away that light emitted from it started its journey to Earth 13 billion years ago.
The find was made by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an $80 million project that aims to digitally map one-quarter of the sky to gain clues about the basic structure of the universe.
Over the next five years, the survey will determine the exact locations of the 100,000 brightest quasars and the million brightest galaxies.
The data will let scientists "chart the birth and formation of galaxies, explore structure on the largest scales and better understand black holes," said James Gunn of Princeton University, a partner in the survey.
University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael S. Turner, one of the survey's chief scientists, said it was begun because "we saw a vision for a new way of doing astronomy. In the past, astronomers looked at a small patch of sky and studied a few objects."
The Sloan Survey does just the opposite, and Turner said it may change the way astronomy is done.
"When someone wants to look at the sky, instead of going to a telescope, they'll go to their computer," he said.
Planned since 1989, the survey was financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Energy Department, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and a group of universities headed by the U. of C. …
Data from the camera is processed daily by massive computers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. They analyze and record the distance and location of each celestial object found. The information is posted on the Internet, for 200 scientists across the world to study.
One of those scientists, a Princeton graduate student named Xiaohui Fan, spotted the quasar announced Thursday.
The quasar found by the survey looks like a red star. But it's actually a galaxy in the early stage of development, scientists said. The bright light it produced is the result of matter falling into a black hole at a high rate.
Daily Record
Copyright 2000 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd.
April 14, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: GOODBYE NORMA JEAN, BUT CANDLE BURNS ON;
SHE REMAINS THE ULTIMATE SEX GODDESS, BUT MARILYN MONROE'S FANS ARE FURIOUS OVER A NEW BOOK THEY CLAIM IS SHAMEFUL AND EXPLOITATIVE
BYLINE: Vicky SpavinFEMALE superstars are created every other minute ... but one has outlasted them all.
Thirty-eight years after she died in mysterious circumstances in her Hollywood home, interest in Marilyn Monroe couldn't be any more intense.
And as the countdown to the anniversary of what would have been her 75th birthday begins, the world is about to experience Marilyn-mania.
The frenzy began this week with the publication of Blonde, a 738-page fictionalised account of Marilyn's troubled life and loves, written by Joyce Carol Oates.
But it will be added to with a long list of plays, websites, memorabilia and statues as the hype grows. …
Princeton University humanities professor Oates received a whopping $1.25million advance for her book, and a forthcoming spin-off mini-series and play. …
The Scotsman
Copyright 2000 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
April 14, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: TWO SCOTS BROADCASTERS TO BE HONOURED BY THEIR UNIVERSITY
BYLINE: Andrew WalkerTWO Scottish broadcasters, Sheena McDonald and Kirsty Wark, are to receive honorary doctorates from Edinburgh University, of which both are graduates. …
International figures who will be honoured by Edinburgh University include Frank Gehry, who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Professor Bernard Shapiro, the principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, and his twin brother, Professor Harold Shapiro, the president of Princeton University. …
The Times (London)
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Limited
April 14, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: University news
Edinburgh UniversityThe following are to receive Honorary Degrees:
Professor Bernard Shapiro, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, and his twin brother Professor Harold Shapiro, President of Princeton University, who will each receive a Doctor honoris causa. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
April 14, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton students question $100,000 campaign to reduce binge drinking
BYLINE: By Dana Pasternak, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.The Trustee Initiative on Alcohol Abuse at Princeton University has become a key part of campus life this year, bringing with it an aggressive and well-funded campaign to reduce binge drinking at Princeton.
But despite a hefty grant from the trustees to fund non-alcoholic social events and escalated penalties to deter underage drinking on campus, some remain skeptical about whether the initiative's goal of eradicating alcohol abuse on campus was realistic.
"The initiative technically is trying to limit drinking -- and it is not. In that sense it has to be somewhat of a failure," Mathey College RA Henley Holmes '00 said. "I'm not really sure they're ever going to affect the drinking patterns of the average Princeton student." …
The Trustee Initiative Grant Committee already has distributed about three-quarters of the $100,000 earmarked for non-alcoholic activities such as the Stewart performance. Most of that money has been put toward planning evening events for Thursdays and Saturdays -- which the administration has determined to be the largest drinking nights on campus. …
Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan said student criticism of initiative-funded events demonstrates a lack of understanding of the project's goals. "If we evaluate the success of these events on the basis of a handful of individuals who might have come intoxicated, we're missing the point in a big way," Deignan said. "At least they weren't doing that while they were at these events." …
Africa News
Copyright 2000 Africa News Service, Inc.
April 13, 2000HEADLINE: Eritrea;
President Isaias Afwerki's Address At Princeton University
BYLINE: Embassy of Eritrea (Washington, DC)Washington - Address of H.E. Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea on "The Challenges of Development and Conflict in the Horn of Africa" at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 10 April 2000
Mr. Chairman Distinguished Guests:
Let me first thank Mr. Jeffrey Herbst and Mr. Robert Tignor for the honour accorded to me to address this gathering on issues that are of paramount interest to my people and the people of the Horn of Africa region. May I also take the occasion to thank all those in the African Studies Programme, and particularly Prof. Ephrem Isaac, who have made this possible.
Mr. Chairman, It may sound surreal to talk about prospects of development in the Horn of Africa when the bleak image projected from the region daily is that of perennial conflict. The grim facts are:
* Millions of people in Ethiopia are today threatened by famine more severe than the disasters of 1974 and 1984/85;
* Ethiopia and Eritrea remain locked in the biggest war in the continent with the authorities in Addis Abeba rejecting the OAU peace plan;
* Somalia has been entangled in an intractable internal conflict for the last ten years and is portrayed by the outside world as a "failed State";
* In spite of some positive developments in the recent months, the Sudan remains enmeshed in a civil war partly spawned by fundamentalism;
* Djibouti's apparent stability remains precarious due to persistent problems of equitable participation and governance that are vital for fostering national cohesion and harmony.
These turbulent developments, daunting as they may be, should not, however, dampen our optimism. They should not make us loose hope and underrate the prospects and potentialities of the region. …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun Company
April 13, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Deciding president's legal fate; Prosecutor: While most Americans may believe Clinton's legal travails are behind him, the man who succeeded Kenneth Starr is actively considering an indictment.
BYLINE: Susan Baer
SUN NATIONAL STAFFWASHINGTON -- It wasn't that long ago that Robert W. Ray, pushing 40 and winding up his work in the controversial and unsuccessful prosecution of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, was contemplating his next career move.
Before he knew it, before he even had the chance to alert his friends, he was holding in his hands the awesome, many would say unenviable, power to prosecute the president.
While most of the world has moved on, believing the Whitewater-to-Lewinsky scandal anthology was mercifully closed after President Clinton was impeached and then acquitted by Congress, Ray, the career prosecutor tapped last fall to succeed independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, is still deciding the president's legal fate.
Ray doesn't see his job as mopping up for Starr, quietly closing down an office that has spent more than $50 million investigating Clinton.
In recent interviews, he has made it clear that he is actively considering bringing an indictment against the president on the Lewinsky matter once Clinton leaves office in January. …
The eldest son of a former cloistered Carmelite nun and a retired Army colonel, he was a Roman Catholic and longtime Democrat who changed his registration to independent to avoid the appearance of partisanship. As a student at Princeton University he was an ardent admirer of the late President John F. Kennedy, but in two unsuccessful bids for the school board in Brooklyn, N.Y., he aligned himself with social conservatives. …
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 2000 Times Mirror Company
April 13, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: SCIENCE FILE / AN EXPLORATION OF ISSUES AND TRENDS AFFECTING SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND THE ENVIRONMENT;
MIND OVER MATTER;
EARTH DAY 'TOUR THROUGH TIME' TO BE SCULPTED ON BEACH
BYLINE: K.C. COLEDoes anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?
People rushing to catch planes care, of course, as do students frantically filling in answers to questions on timed tests.
In a broader sense, people who celebrated the millennium this year cared a great deal, too. A heated controversy continues, in fact, over whether the millennium arrived at the first tick of the clock in 2000, or whether we will have to wait until 2001--which is 2000 years after the "official" birth of Jesus.
But arguing over a single year still reflects an extremely parochial perspective. Time, after all, has been around a lot longer than planes, people, the Earth, the sun and even matter. …
"We must be able to answer the question 'What is time?' as simply and clearly as we answer the question 'What is heat?' " said physicist Alexander Polyakov of Princeton University. While the physicists work out the answers, Hardman is getting ready to take his time tour of the first 12 billion years to the beaches of Japan. "We are the first people to know what time it is," he says. "We think that's worth celebrating."
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Copyright 2000 The News and Observer
April 13, 2000 ThursdayHEADLINE: Neely diligent, judicious
BYLINE: LYNN BONNER, STAFF WRITERIn July 1998, Rep. Chuck Neely's House Judiciary Committee had a big assignment - craft a massive overhaul of juvenile justice laws that would keep some teenagers in custody longer, build more detention centers and add more beds to training schools.
To this task, Neely, a Republican elected to the House four years earlier, brought his lawyer's eye for detail. He had the committee go through the novel-length bill page by page.
He used a parliamentarian's instinct for even-handedness. In an arena where the minority party often feels pushed aside, Neely invited suggestions from everyone and won the respect of Democrats on the committee. …
He was on the board of St. Timothy's-Hale School, a private school, from 1990 to 1999, when his only child, daughter Amanda, graduated. She is now a freshman at Princeton University. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Brown Daily Herald via U-Wire
April 13, 2000HEADLINE: Most Ivies experience decline in acceptance rates
BYLINE: By Katherine Boas, Brown Daily Herald
SOURCE: Brown U.
DATELINE: Providence, R.I.The class of 2004 set records in admission offices across the Ivy League, but no school except the University of Pennsylvania saw changes quite as drastic as Brown University.
With 2,541 acceptances from a record-breaking pool of 16,801 applications, Brown's 15.1 percent acceptance rate is the University's lowest, down 10.8 percent from last year.
"The admit rate is just absolutely tied to the number of applications," said Director of College Admission Michael Goldberger.
The only Ivy League school with a more dramatic decrease in its acceptance rate is the University of Pennsylvania, where the large influx of applications for the class of 2004 caused the acceptance rate to drop 17.2 percent to 22 percent of its 18,815 applicants. …
Princeton's class of 2004 represents 12.2 percent of its 13,654 applicants, down from 10.8 percent of the 14,874 applicants for the class of 2003. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
April 13, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Making them sweat Students step up pressure to hold colleges accountable for apparel
BYLINE: Mary Beth MarkleinNobody could have predicted two years ago that college students would get so worked up over the T-shirts and baseball caps that bear school logos.
But intertwining causes -- consumer awareness, labor rights, social justice -- did more than strike a nerve. A lively activist movement that roiled out of the students' concerns shows no sign of letting up. It has spread to campuses nationwide and this weekend strides into the streets of the nation's capital. Led by the group United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), students at more than 175 campuses are putting pressure on their colleges to help wipe out
garment-making sweatshops by forcing companies the schools work with to overhaul their practices. The crusade represents the biggest surge of campus activism since anti-apartheid protests in the 1980s, longtime activists say. …
On one side of the monitoring debate is the Fair Labor Association (FLA), created by the Clinton administration. Its members include U.S. corporations, non-profit human rights organizations and 135 universities. On a key point of difference -- whether corporations should be involved -- the FLA argues that companies have access to factories and an interest in cleaning them up. University representation on the board is small, but most schools "thought you needed to address more than just collegiate apparel companies," Princeton University vice president Robert Durkee says.
On the other side is the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), created by United Students Against Sweatshops. Its members include 44 colleges and universities (some also FLA members), and its advisory council includes leaders of labor unions and human rights groups in the USA, Asia, Central America and Africa. Supporters say that corporations are part of the problem and that local worker organizations should have a voice in the solution. …
Roanoke Times & World News
Copyright 2000 The Roanoke Times & World News
April 8, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: THE GOSPEL OF MARK TO BE PERFORMED; 'THIS GOSPEL WAS WRITTEN TO BE HEARD'
BYLINE: MARY LOU BRUTON THE ROANOKE TIMESDon't bring your Bible with you to Blacksburg Presbyterian Church on Thursday night. Don't try to follow along in the text of the Gospel of Mark, either.
When actor and seminary graduate Frank Runyeon brings his acclaimed performance of "AFRAID!: The Gospel of Mark" to Blacksburg at 7 p.m. Thursday, it will be presented in a way that emphasizes the original Greek in which it was written, and the audience will hear the story as it was intended to be heard.
"Give yourself the treat of getting to hear it," said Elizabeth Strothers Malbon, New Testament professor at Virginia Tech. "We can join in the long tradition of being listeners. This gospel was written to be heard." …
Runyeon developed his book of Mark interpretation after working for 14 years on television, in theater and film. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in religion and earned a master of arts degree with honors at the General Theological Seminary in New York. "AFRAID!," named for the last word in the text of Mark, is Runyeon's own translation of the original Greek. …
Association for Computing Machinery
Communications of the ACM
Copyright 2000 Association for Computing MachineryApril, 2000
HEADLINE: ACM fellows
The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The new inductees are listed. …
The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves.
LARRY L. PETERSON, Princeton University
Campaigns & Elections
Copyright 2000 Campaigns & Elections, Inc.
April, 2000HEADLINE: The Outstanding Eight
BYLINE: BY JAMES A. THURBER; Professor James Thurber is director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the Campaign Management Institute at American University in Washington, DC.
HIGHLIGHT: Pioneers of campaign consulting -- and how they ushered in a new industry
OVER THE COURSE OF THE last 18 years, American University's Campaign Management Institute (CMI) has taught over a thousand students about the strategies and tools of campaigning. As part of the CMI training and education mission, scholars and practitioners have studied professional campaign consultants. In the spirit of celebrating excellence in campaigning, CMI has established a special award to honor consultants who have made a major and lasting positive contribution to the electoral process.
The Campaign Management Institute's award for "Outstanding Contribution to Campaign Consulting" will be given to honor eight individuals on May 8, 2000 at a special occasion in Washington, DC. The award complements the annual and lifetime consultant awards given by the American Association of Political Consultants (see list p. 39).
The awardees were selected through a rigorous two-year process of study and evaluation. Initial nominees for the award were received from a national survey of 505 campaign consultants conducted during the spring of 1999 by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. for CMI. A selection committee consisting of practitioners in the field of campaign management, campaign journalists and academics developed criteria and standards.
The criteria included but were not limited to: making a lasting contribution to the democratic process through work as a consultant; advancing the profession of campaign consulting through innovation and creativity; conducting ethical campaigns; setting standards for others to follow; mentoring and helping new consultants to carry on their work; and showing concern for the consequences of campaigns on governing and public attitudes about our democratic process. The award and the research for its selection is supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. …
John Deardourff and Doug Bailey
JOHN DEARDOURFF MANAGED his first political campaign, a congressional race in Rochester, NY, in 1960. As co-founder of Bailey, Deardourff & Associates, he participated in over 75 winning statewide races in election cycles since the founding of the firm in 1967. Deardourff has also introduced numerous students to the worlds of politics and campaigning through his lectures on government and politics at colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Texas. Deardourff continues his involvement as director of the League of Conservation Voters and as the national co-chair of Voters For Choice. He is also a director of Children's Defense Fund and the National Environmental Trust.
Government Executive
Copyright 2000 National Journal
April 2000HEADLINE: WHO'S PREPARED TO GOVERN?
Which presidential candidate is best able to manage government?
BYLINE: DICK KIRSCHTENNow that the field has narrowed in this year's presidential primaries, it appears most likely that a two-term Vice President with prior experience in Congress will face off in November against either a two-term governor of a large state or a candidate with extensive experience in the Senate. Which background provides the best preparation for forming an administration capable of managing the federal government?
For government executives who dedicate their professional careers to public service, this is no small question. Which major candidate has had the best on-the-job training to lead from the Oval Office? Do the records of past presidents offer any clues?
As luck would have it, noted presidential scholar Fred I. Greenstein of Princeton University addresses that question in his book, The Presidential Difference, which is to be released in April. Greenstein examines the leadership styles and accomplishments of the 11 presidents who served during the final two-thirds of the 20th century. Four came to the job as former governors and five as vice presidents who had served in Congress. Of the remaining two, one came to the White House directly from the Senate and the other rose to power on the strength of his record as a senior Army general.
Greenstein rates the modern presidents on a half-dozen attributes ranging from "cognitive style" to "emotional intelligence." But the trait that seems to get the least attention during the campaign process, he said in an interview with Government Executive, is managerial skill. "Organizational capacity is the ignored underbelly of the presidency," he says. …
Institutional Investor
Copyright 2000 Institutional Investor, Inc.
April, 2000HEADLINE: Lovable losses
BYLINE: By Jeffrey Kutler; Jeffrey Kutler is Global Technology and Banking Editor at Institutional Investor.Can the Amazon.com story be told in all its money-losing glory if Jeff Bezos, the company founder, refuses to talk? Robert Spector thinks so, and in Amazon.com: Get Big Fast, he makes his case.
Spector, a Seattle journalist whose previous book described another home-town retailing phenomenon, Nordstrom, deserves five Amazonian stars for his effort and perhaps one fewer for execution. Spector fell back on one conversation he had with the e-commerce entrepreneur in 1998 as well as on interviews with several longtime associates and advisers of Bezos'. As he states in his preface, "I'm looking forward to Jeff Bezos' memoir somewhere down the road."
The story of this intriguing, fast-changing Internet enterprise is almost impossible to escape, unfolding, as it does, in the daily business press. The sheer pace of events is problem enough for a book treatment. A breathless final chapter includes the 1999 earnings report and Bezos' anointment as Time magazine's Man of the Year. But another quarter has gone by, and it is almost a year since the annual shareholders' meeting that is the book's opening scene. …
Portrayed in some quarters as a new breed of corporate manager, Bezos emerges from Spector's pages as an entrepreneur with a rather conventional business outlook and a strong personal drive. After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Bezos steeped himself in financial technology. He spent two years at Fitel, a New York company that developed a precursor of today's online trading networks, and a like period at Bankers Trust Co.'s global fiduciary services group. Those stints only whetted Bezos' appetite for something bigger and ultimately nonfinancial. Spector says that as early as 1990 Bezos had his eye on "second-phase automation" -- not just computerizing old business practices but fundamentally transforming them, as many believe the Internet is now doing. …
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Copyright 2000 Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.
April 2000HEADLINE: Go For The Ivy?
BYLINE: Melynda Dovel WilcoxWorking hard at school is a better guarantee of future earnings than attending a brand-name college.
It's that time of year when nervous high school seniors weigh their college correspondence--fat or thin?--and parents weigh their options--elite private or more affordable public? In the long run, it may not make much difference in terms of economic success.
Students who attend more selective colleges do not earn more than students who are accepted--or rejected--by comparable schools but choose to attend less-selective colleges, according to a recent study by Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale, a researcher at the Mellon Foundation.
Krueger and Dale examined the incomes in 1995 and 1996 of a large sample of college students in the mid '70s who applied to a set of schools with comparable average SAT scores. It turns out that the standing (as measured by the average SAT score) of schools that reject a student is a better predictor of that student's economic success than the standing of the school a student winds up attending.
It's a phenomenon the researchers dub the "Spielberg effect," after Steven Spielberg, perhaps the most successful movie director of all time. Spielberg applied to USC and UCLA, both of which have famous film schools and both of which rejected him. He ended up at California State University, Long Beach.
"Students shouldn't feel that their chances of being successful are diminished if they don't go to Harvard or Princeton," says Krueger. "You can receive a good education at any school and ultimately do well as long as you work hard."
That's not to say that college choice doesn't matter. While individual effort is more important than having talented classmates, the study also showed that schools that spend more money per student tend to produce graduates who earn more later on. But it's students from lower-income families who have the most to gain from attending an elite college.
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2000 The Austin American-Statesman
March 24, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Seesaw of public polls tips to Gore; Bush is strong on education but
BYLINE: From staff and wire reportsORLANDO, Fla. -- Increasing numbers of voters think George W. Bush has an acid tongue and is arrogant, while Vice President Al Gore's image is improving, gaining him ground among independents and men, a new poll out Thursday shows.
The Pew Research Center poll also found that for the first time in a nationwide survey, the Texas governor trails Gore -- 49 percent to 43 percent.
For his part, Gore is still viewed by many as boring, but his public image is improving as Bush's declines. Last September, 20 percent of respondents used a positive word to describe Gore; now, that figure is up to 26 percent. Meanwhile, one-word positive descriptions of Bush fell from 34 percent to 29 percent -- which is still better than Gore. …
'Wise guy' Bush
Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University, said Bush risks being labeled "a non gravitas wise guy -- that is something he has got to put some effort into working on or walking away from" if he is to win in November. …
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2000 The Austin American-Statesman
March 24, 2000, FridaySECTION: Editorial
HEADLINE: Quell a killerOnce a year, the United Nations asks us to celebrate the miracle we haven't yet made happen: eradication of tuberculosis as a major world killer.
Today is the 118th anniversary of the day Robert Koch announced in Berlin the discovery of the bacillus that causes tuberculosis, the deadly wasting disease once known as consumption. That means it's World Stop TB Day for 2000.
The disease is, unfortunately, a long way from stopped, even though effective, low-cost treatment exists. About 2 million people still die from TB each year. It is primarily a disease of poor countries but has reasserted itself in pockets of this country. Increased foreign travel, immigration and pockets of poverty have contributed to TB's spread. …
In Congress, a proposal to sharply increase U.S. investment in international TB control, by Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, awaits action. Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate for president, and his fellow Princeton University graduates in the Class of 1955 have made TB control their cause. The U.S. and international relief agencies have tried to increase awareness of the disease, which infects one-third of the world's people. …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 24, 2000HEADLINE: Academic-Technology Group Enters Fray Over What Makes a 'Wired' Campus
BYLINE: FLORENCE OLSENEducause, the academic-technology consortium, has produced an online guidebook to help prospective students and their parents evaluate information technology on college campuses. College officials, including some who have criticized the "most wired" survey of college campuses conducted by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, say the new guidebook raises useful points.
Educause posted the "Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus" on its Web site this month (http://www.educause.edu/consumerguide).
"On campus tours, parents ask questions that are quite often naive," says Brian L. Hawkins, president of the consortium. They will ask, "Are the dorms wired?" But they don't ask about something he considers more important, which is whether students can gain access to library databases from their wired dorms. …
Ira H. Fuchs, vice president for information technology and computing at Princeton University, agrees that information technology is only one in a long list of factors that students must consider in choosing a college. Princeton is among at least 11 institutions that declined to participate in this year's annual survey by Yahoo! Internet Life because of what they consider to be flaws in the methodology and ranking system used by Ziff-Davis Inc., which publishes the magazine. But, Mr. Fuchs says, the Educause guide "is at least a serious attempt at satisfying a need of families to learn something about information technology at colleges and universities, and for that reason, it's a good thing." …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 24, 2000HEADLINE: A New Push for ABD's to Cross the Finish Line
BYLINE: COURTNEY LEATHERMANTechnically, A.B.D. stands for "all but dissertation." But for anyone who has languished in that purgatory, it might as well stand for "all but dead."
A.B.D. is the uneasy period in between finishing your course work and finally being handed your doctoral degree. For many, it looms like an extended judgment day -- one that can last for years -- before the hoped-for ascension to Ph.D.
Writing the dissertation has always been hard. Some observers think that in recent years, the limbo has become harder yet.
That's partly because of the academic job market in the humanities and the social sciences: Too many Ph.D.'s and too few tenure-track posts has meant that departments are far less likely to consider someone who doesn't have the degree.
At the same time, getting the degree has gotten more complicated. With more women and more academic couples in the Ph.D. pool, family matters often distract students from dissertation matters. …
The truth is, most who make it to the A.B.D. stage do, in fact, finish. In their 1992 book, In Pursuit of the Ph.D. (Princeton University Press), William G. Bowen, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Neil L. Rudenstine, president of Harvard University, reported that in many doctoral programs, only half of the entering students finished. But those who made it to A.B.D. status had an 80-percent chance of finishing. …
Inside Energy /with Federal Lands
Copyright 2000 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
March 20, 2000HEADLINE: DOMENICI PLANS TO SEEK ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR NUCLEAR CITIES PROGRAM
In an effort to develop closer ties with Russia's formerly closed nuclear weapons cities, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., last week said he will introduce legislation this year to increase funding in FY-01 and beyond for DOE's controversial Nuclear Cities Initiative.
In a speech at Princeton University Tuesday, Domenici's science adviser, Pete Lyons, said the senator wants more funding for NCI because of his concerns for nuclear weapons researchers in Russia. NCI, which started in 1998, seeks to develop non-defense industries in areas where Russia once secretly designed and built nuclear weapons.
DOE is asking Congress for $17.5 million in FY-01 for NCI, a $10-million increase from current funding. But Domenici said the FY-01 figure is insufficient. ''The current program scope, progress and funding are not consistent with the scale of the threats to us,'' Lyons, who was reading a speech written for Domenici, said.
Lyons did not specify how much more money Domenici thinks DOE should receive for NCI. But he said DOE should expand NCI beyond commercialization activities to include new research collaborations between Russian defense facilities and U.S. government agencies. ''Such research, for example, might focus on remediation of environmental concerns, or improved technologies for detection of ... weapons of mass destruction,'' Lyons said. …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 17, 2000HEADLINE: American Academics Urge Iran to Protect the Rights of Students and Professors
BYLINE: BURTON BOLLAGProminent American academics have published an open letter calling on Iranian authorities to ensure that those responsible for a bloody attack on a student dormitory last July be held responsible, and that Iranian students be protected from such violence.
"Our success as a civilization depends on our ability to protect and promote the welfare of students and faculty," the letter says. Turning to Iran, the letter continues: "We believe that threats of violence and the use of force against students and scholars constitute a grave hazard to a remarkable civilization that has produced some of the world's finest poets, theologians, scientists, and artists."
The letter was published in the March 23 issue of The New York Review of Books, and appears on a Web site (http://www.blueinitiative.com). …
It is addressed to Iran's moderate president, Mohammad Khatami. The letter was signed by dozens of leading American scholars, including Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University; Natalie Zemon Davis of Princeton University; Daniel Dennett of Tufts University; Robert Pinsky of Boston University; Edward Said of Columbia University; and Cornel West of Harvard University.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 17, 2000HEADLINE: Duke U. Withdraws Licenses to Some Apparel Manufacturers
BYLINE: NINA WILLDORFDuke University last week withdrew rights to manufacture apparel bearing the university's logo from 28 companies, because the companies would not disclose the locations of their factories.
After a sit-in by a Duke student group, Students Against Sweatshops, in January 1999, all 409 companies that produce campus apparel for Duke were required to disclose their factories' locations by this January as part of a code of conduct agreed upon by administrators and students. A monitoring organization can then make inspections of the factories to determine whether or not they are sweatshops. Collegiate Licensing Company, a licensing agent that handles the university's contracts, sent reminders to the manufacturers at the end of November.
Duke officials declined to name the uncooperative companies, but said they had contributed 8 percent of the university's annual royalty revenue from the clothing.
Duke is a member of the Fair Labor Association, an organization established to develop a code of conduct for the production of campus apparel. The association includes industry leaders, colleges, and human-rights groups.
"We gave our licensees abundant time to comply with our request to provide addresses for their manufacturing facilities, and we're pleased that the overwhelming majority did," said James E. Wilkerson, the head of operations for Duke's stores and licensing activities.
According to Robert K. Durkee, who sits on the board of the fair-labor group and is vice president for public affairs at Princeton University, Duke may be the first college to take such action, though many others may follow suit.
He said Princeton had given its apparel manufacturers until the end of this month to disclose the locations of their factories. …
Policy Review
Copyright 2000 The Heritage Foundation
April, 2000 / May, 2000SECTION: BOOKS
HEADLINE: Richard Rorty, Liberal Absolutist
BYLINE: By DAMON LINKER; Damon Linker is visiting assistant professor at Brigham Young University.RICHARD RORTY. Philosophy and Social Hope. PENGUIN BOOKS. 288 PAGES. $13.95.
WHEN ARISTOTLE asserted that "man is a political animal," he meant many things. But above all he wished to draw our attention to the fact that man alone possesses the capacity to (in his words) perceive "good and evil, the just and unjust, and other similar qualities." And indeed, human history seems to support Aristotle in his suggestion that certain moral categories are coeval with political -- that is, human -- life. What we mean by such terms as good and evil, just and unjust might change considerably from time to time and place to place, but their use is unavoidable. …
For this reason, philosophers throughout the history of the West have considered it to be obvious that politics is an activity that is inseparable from the question of truth in moral matters.
That is, until Richard Rorty. In a series of books beginning with Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty has attained an astonishing degree of notoriety for a philosophy professor by consistently opposing what he calls "Platonism," or the view that our ideas about the world correspond to some fundamental reality that exists independently of those ideas. As he writes in Philosophy and Social Hope -- his most accessible collection of essays to date -- "we have to give up on the idea that there are unconditional, transcultural moral obligations rooted in an unchanging, ahistorical human nature." Rejecting virtually the entire tradition of Western philosophy as little more than a series of dogmatic attempts to reach an imaginary timeless truth, Rorty wonders "why philosophers . . . [are] still arguing inconclusively, tramping round and round the same dialectical circles" when they could choose, like himself, to become "pragmatists" instead. …
Now it is certainly tempting to dismiss Rorty's project of transforming the greatest representatives of European nihilism into liberal Democrats. And indeed, Rorty has been accused of many things over the years -- from relativism and irresponsibility to opportunism and complacency -- by critics on the right and far left, as he recounts in the charming autobiographical essay with which he opens his latest book. But we would be mistaken to ignore Rorty and his political position. For his work is arguably of great importance, and not merely because he is very smart and writes clever, self-deprecating essays that are widely read. Rorty's work is worthy of attention primarily because it is so much a product of its time -- our time -- a time in which the liberalism of earlier generations has been subject to severe and sustained criticism on empirical, moral, religious, and even aesthetic grounds. …
IN MANY WAYS, Rorty's political views are as banal as they come -- nothing other than unreconstructed McGovernism. As he writes, "what matters" for a pragmatist like himself is "devising ways of diminishing human suffering and increasing human equality, increasing the ability of all children to start life with an equal chance of happiness." …
And yet, what makes Rorty's political views so surprising is not their unabashed sentimentality or the fact that, published years after a Democratic president announced that the "era of big government is over," they are an anachronistic echo of a bygone age. Rather, what's astonishing about Rorty's political positions is that he offers no defense of them whatsoever -- and that this principled refusal to appeal to principle actually emboldens him to advocate the subversion of all views of goodness and justice that compete with the liberal cause. In this, he resembles Peter Singer, the controversial Princeton University "ethicist" whose absolutist utilitarianism leads him to run roughshod over common sense moral opinions and intuitions by condoning infanticide at the same time that he defends animal rights. In Rorty's case, all non-liberal views must be rejected if they do not contribute to realizing "greater human happiness" for the species as a whole. And since "the benefits of modern astronomy and space travel" clearly outweigh those of, say, Christian fundamentalism, we must learn to "slough off" the latter as useless "baggage" that will only slow down the march of progress. …
Time
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
Spring, 2000HEADLINE: How To Prevent A Meltdown; Answers to global warming are in the wind
BYLINE: Michael D. Lemonick, With reporting by Richard Woodbury/Golden and Regine Wosnitza/StuttgartAfter decades of rancorous debate, only a handful of the most doctrinaire die-hards still dispute the idea that human activity is heating up the planet. all the signs seem to point that way: storms have become more intense and weather patterns more erratic; the past decade has been by far the hottest on record; and the rise in temperature has been greatest in polar regions and around cities. These facts dovetail ominously well with the theory that carbon dioxide (CO 2), released by burning coal, oil and gasoline for heat, electricity and transportation, is trapping excess energy from the sun. Global warming is real--and will probably get worse.
The only way to slow it down, almost every scientist agrees, is to restructure the way we produce energy. Such stopgap measures as insulation, carpooling and energy-efficient light bulbs are all useful ways to begin curbing the burning of carbon-rich fossil fuels. But in the long run, as the world's population continues to increase and living standards rise, these measures will not be enough.
That's why experiments now going on in laboratories around the world are so important. At a research center outside Stuttgart, Germany, engineers at DaimlerChrysler have created a high-performance car whose tail pipe emits nothing but water vapor. In a giant wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, engineers are set to analyze air turbulence in order to make superefficient wind-power turbines. In Japan scientists are perfecting paper-thin solar cells that will be cheap to produce and could turn every house into its own electricity supplier. These ventures, along with many others, are beginning to draw the outlines of a world in which energy use keeps rising and, though fossil fuels remain an important power source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere actually begin to drop. …
Wind has the edge. It's fast catching up with oil and gas in cost efficiency with the help of experiments such as the one at Ames Research Center. By comparing what they learn from the wind tunnel's smooth airflow with data from the turbulent breezes at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's test range near Golden, Colorado, engineers expect to build a new generation of superefficient wind turbines with blades well over 200 ft. (60 m) across.
Efficiency doesn't help when the wind isn't blowing; you need to store energy generated during gales for use when the air is still. The best way to do that, says Robert Williams, of Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, is to use the excess to compress air and force it into subterranean aquifers, caves or salt domes.
Then, when the wind dies, the compressed air can be pulled out to help drive the turbines. "The technology was originally developed in the 1960s," says Williams, "to let nuclear power plants store excess electricity during off-peak hours." Now it could permit countries rich in wind resources--including China, the U.S., Denmark and Germany--to take advantage of a free, unlimited and nearly pollution-less source of electricity. …
OBITUARIES
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 2000 Newsday, Inc.
April 17, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES / JOHN PAUL BLEWETT, 89, INNOVATIVE BROOKHAVEN PHYSICIST
BYLINE: By Valerie Burgher. STAFF WRITERPhysicist John Paul Blewett, who developed some of Brookhaven National Laboratory's most innovative research machines, died at the University Hospital of North Carolina in Chapel Hill April 7 after a sudden attack of pancreatitis. He was 89.
Blewett began his 32-year career at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1946 and is credited with bringing particle accelerators-tools allowing scientists to study subatomic matter-to the lab.
Blewett was born in Toronto, the son of Clara Woodsworth Blewett, a college dean, and George John Blewett, a professor of moral philosophy. He earned his bachelor's degree in math and physics and his master's degree in physics from the University of Toronto. He went on to Princeton University where he received his physics Ph.D. in 1936. …
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 2000 The Cincinnati Enquirer
April 15, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Obituaries; Dr. W.R. Tucker followed father into medical field; UC graduate dead at 70
BYLINE: Rebecca Billman
SOURCE: The Cincinnati EnquirerDr. Wilson Randolph Tucker was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at 18. He not only went on to become a doctor, but researched the disease under the nationally acclaimed Dr. Harvey Knowles at Cincinnati General Hospital.
Dr. Tucker, son of Dr. David Tucker, former assistant director of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, died Tuesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The Chicago resident was 70.
Educated at Culver Military Academy and Princeton University, Dr. Tucker graduated from the UC College of Medicine in 1955. He completed his residency at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, where he held a two-year fellowship with the American Diabetes Association. …
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Richmond Times Dispatch
April 20, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: PAID DEATH NOTICES
CANN John Pearce Cann Jr., 89, died April 19, 2000. A native of Newark, Del., he graduated from Tower Hill School and the University of Delaware. He spent his career at the E. I. Dupont de Nemours Company, where he was instrumental in the development of Tyvek. …
Memorial contributions may be made to the Jesse Albert Barrett Memorial Scholarship c/o Gift Records, Princeton University, P. O. Box 5357, Princeton, N.J. 08543. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
April 18, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Deaths Elsewhere
Gerald Garvey
Professor, Federal OfficialGerald Garvey, 64, a Princeton University political science professor who was executive director of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Cabinet Task Force on Indian Policy, died of cancer April 9 at a hospital in Princeton, N.J.
He had taught at Princeton since 1968 and was the author of 11 books.
Mr. Garvey was a former Air Force captain and a member of the Air Force Academy's first graduating class, in 1959. During the 1960s, he was special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for defense analysis and director of planning and special projects for the Federal Power Commission. …
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
April 14, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: English, John Jr.
SCHENECTADY -- John English Jr., 83, formerly of Belridge Road, Niskayuna, died Monday at Kingsway Manor Assisted Living. Born in Schenectady, he was a lifelong resident. Mr. English graduated from the Albany Academy in 1934 and Princeton University, class of 1938, with an engineering degree. …
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
April 13, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Herzog, Lester W. Jr.
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Lester W. Herzog, Jr., formerly of Loudonville, died at his home in Saratoga Springs, NY, Sunday, April 9, 2000. …
Lester was born in Albany on May 18, 1912, attended Albany Academy and joined the National Commercial Bank and Trust Company a few weeks after graduating from Princeton University. He retired from banking in 1977 as chairman of the board and CEO. …
top