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May 18, 2000
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The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
May 17, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Princeton study shows black-white Internet divide remains wide among students
BYLINE: By RICHARD BRAND
DATELINE: PRINCETON , N.J.Although black school children are catching up with their white peers in using computers at school, white students are still far more likely to use a computer to access the Internet, according to a study by a Princeton University economist.
The study by Professor Alan B. Krueger, released Tuesday on the university's Web site, showed that only 14.8 percent of African-American students and 11.7 percent of Hispanic students used computers to access the Internet in school in 1997, while 20.5 percent of white students used the Internet.
"There is a lot of evidence that suggests that workers who are not skilled and able to use computer technology at work find it more difficult to find high-paying jobs," said Krueger.
"Minorities may lack access to computer skills, and that may hurt them in the job market," Krueger told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from California, where he is doing research for a year at Stanford University. "The jury is still out on whether technology actually helps learning," he added. …
Sports Illustrated
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
May 15, 2000HEADLINE: Student in Need of Career Counseling;
Will 6'11" Chris Young sign a baseball contract or stay at Princeton to play two sports?
BYLINE: Kelley KingEight major league baseball scouts buzzed in the shade behind the backstop of Princeton 's Clarke Field, where the Tigers were playing Penn on April 24. At the top of each inning the scouts, who worked for teams ranging from the Florida Marlins to the Seattle Mariners, would stop talking, amble up to the fence and aim their radar guns in the direction of the mound, whence Chris Young, a 6'11", 255-pound Princeton sophomore, was mowing down the Quakers. During the bottom half of the inning they bent their heads together to compare notes: good size, hits the corners, tops out around 90 mph, full command of fastball, changeup, slider. "He throws strikes, moves the ball well, and with his build, velocity will come," said Mariners scout Tom McNamara of the righthanded Young, whose 1.05 earned run average through Sunday, when Princeton clinched a spot in the NCAA playoffs, was the lowest among Division I pitchers with at least 40 innings pitched. "But draft order and signing bonuses aside, is this kid willing to give up two more years at this school to concentrate on baseball?"
Asking himself that same question was another spectator: Bill Carmody, coach of the Tigers' basketball team, of which Young is the co-captain. Carmody's attention was divided between the scouts, who were there to decide where they might pick Young (who will become a baseball-draft-eligible 21 years old later this month) in June, and his starting center, who was pitching aggravatingly well. "Chris might have some big decisions to make," said Carmody. "In basketball, too, he has all of the tools--a great feel for the game, a long-range shot, the ability to drive to the basket. There is no question he has a future in the NBA." Ryan Blake, the NBA's assistant director of scouting, believes that Young is a pro prospect. "There aren't too many big guys who can pass the ball and make the three-pointer," he says. "He definitely needs a couple more years of college basketball, but he has tremendous potential."
In this era of sports specialization, in which talented eight-year-olds are encouraged to streamline their athletic portfolios, Young's dilemma is rare. A two-sport All-Stater at Dallas's Highland Park High, Young had the option of playing basketball or baseball on an athletic scholarship at Oklahoma, Purdue, Texas or Vanderbilt. Instead he chose Princeton , where, for at least another few years, he would not have to decide between his two loves. Playing for an Ivy League school meant sacrificing scholarship dollars and paying the entire $35,000-a-year tab at Princeton , but Chris's parents, Charles, a real estate executive who was an offensive tackle at Texas Christian, and Lillie, a banking executive and former high school cheerleader who attended Ohio Wesleyan, supported the decision….
OTHER HEADLINES
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
May 18, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: NAMES IN THE NEWS
BYLINE: Mary KeaneGrads Commissioned
This month six graduates of Oxon Hill High School's Class of 1996 will receive commissions as officers in the military through the Reserve Officer Training Corps. … Yvette Wood, of Fort Washington, is graduating from Princeton University with a BA in English. She is scheduled to be commissioned in the Air Force as a manpower officer and will begin her career at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Tex.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company
May 17, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: REGION BRIEFS;
TELICA SECURES $50M IN 2D-ROUND FINANCING
BYLINE: BY BETH HEALY, GLOBE STAFFTelica Inc. raised $50 million in its second round of financing for its voice and data traffic-routing switches.
The Marlborough telecommunications equipment maker attracted the money from Wellesley's Bessemer Venture Partners and Nassau Capital, manager of Princeton University's endowment. Other firms in the round included its early investors, Boston-based Highland Capital Partners and Prism Venture Partners. Telica is unusual for a young company, Highland general partner Sean Dalton said, because it already has a working product that potential customers - the Baby Bells and other phone-service companies - are testing. John St. Amand, Telica's chief executive, said the company is focusing first on phone wires, but the technology can improve service over cable, DSL, and wireless systems.
Knight Ridder/Tribune
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
May 17, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: 1ST PERSON: Meet Tom Cruise
BYLINE: By Lily ChinMeet Tom Cruise
How else to describe the star power and presence of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known to movie audiences simply as Tom Cruise? Relentless positive, this actor and star endears himself to audiences, even when he plays a heel. …
Top Gun
During the 1980s, Cruise propelled himself to the top by endearing himself to audiences. In "Risky Business" (1983), he is unscrupulous yet finagles his way into Princeton University. In "Top Gun" (1986), he is reckless yet gracefully aces the Soviet enemy. In "The Color of Money" (1986), he is naive yet manipulates his manipulator. His role in "Cocktail" (1988) is a composite of earlier characters. Has any other actor so confidently and charismatically made casual amorality look like so much fun?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 2000 P.G. Publishing Co.
May 17, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: TRACK CHAMPION
BYLINE: COMPILED BY STEVE HECHTUpper St. Clair grad Rebecca Desman, a junior on the Princeton University women's track team, tied a school record with a mark of 5 feet, 10 inches in the high jump at the 22-team Princeton Invitational on May 6. …
TheStreet.com
Copyright 2000 TheStreet.com, Inc.
May 17, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: Tokyo Falls Prey to Foreign Selling
BYLINE: By Kaya Laterman, Japan Correspondent
DATELINE: May 17, 2000 12:10 PM ETTOKYO -- For the infamous army of equity salesmen at Nomura Securities, it probably hasn't been the easiest of years.
After getting notice that the firm was launching its biggest mutual fund project, daftly titled "Big Project-N," the 5700-plus sales force picked up the phones and advised clients to shed whatever shares they held individually or in other Nomura funds to reinvest in what is now called the Nomura Japan Equity Strategy Fund. The fund, which invests about 1.1 trillion yen ($10.2 billion) in both gross and value stocks, is now the largest mutual fund in Japan. Investors have rewarded Nomura by boosting shares over 50% in just five months.
This would all be pretty swell for the Nomura salesmen if they weren't so busy explaining to clients why the Nikkei 225 keeps hitting fresh six-month lows: The index is now 15.9% off its April high. The global tech blowout and the reshuffling of the Nikkei certainly didn't help, and now recent data from the Tokyo Stock Exchange show foreign investors, who poured more than 9 trillion yen into Japanese equities in 1999, sold 846 billion yen of securities in April alone.
Why did foreign investors, largely thought to help the Nikkei 225 index rally 37% last year, turn net sellers of Japanese securities last month for the first time since fall 1998? Was Japan's 1999 stock market rally a one-shot deal? Not so, say fund managers who run Japanese equity funds. Many remain quite bullish and even say now is the best time to buy shares, before a longer-term, sustainable rally begins later this year. …
Economic fundamentals haven't changed all that drastically in Japan since 1999. Personal consumption, which makes up about 60% of gross domestic product, continues to fall, but corporate investment, especially in information technology, is up. Gross domestic product was down for the past two quarters, sending Japan into a technical recession, but many companies -- like chipmakers -- are starting to show strong profits despite the weak domestic economy.
This runs contrary to a recent column in the New York Times by Paul Krugman, professor at Princeton University, who said that the Nikkei's recent plunge was a sure sign that that the "economic strategy of Japan's government is falling apart."
He is half right in the sense that it's safe to say everyone wants the Japanese government to move faster than it has in implementing sound economic policy. There are some major U.S. brokers, including Merrill Lynch, that say they aren't buying any more Japanese shares until they see proof of an economic rebound via data. However, that doesn't mean these long-term investors are going to sell all that they bought last year. And to say Japan's recent moves -- such as bank revitalization programs and accounting overhauls -- are not sound steps in building a foundation for a more viable economy is ridiculous. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The California Aggie
May 17, 2000HEADLINE: UC-Davis astronomer helps discover most distant space object
BYLINE: By David Beavers, The California Aggie
SOURCE: U. California-Davis
DATELINE: Davis, Calif.Our knowledge of the known universe is expanding in leaps and bounds with what seems like weekly discoveries of new and fascinating stellar objects.
UC-Davis professor and astronomer Robert Becker recently contributed to these findings when he helped detect the most distant matter ever observed by humans.
The object discovered was a quasar, an incredibly radiant, mysterious object with the mass and energy of an entire galaxy, hypothetically powered by a black hole.
The finding was made as part of an $80 million global astronomical collaboration dubbed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. …
The Sloan Sky Survey originally indicated the existence of the quasar - which was originally suspected to be a "red galaxy," according to Becker - in March, a discovery made by Princeton University graduate student and Sloan Sky Survey astronomer Xiaohui Fan.
The discovery was then turned over to Becker, UC Berkeley professor Marc Davis and Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Richard White to study with the 10-meter Keck Telescope in Hawaii. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
May 17, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Consumer demand inflates grades
BYLINE: Samuel G. FreedmanOutside my office window, in the balmy, blossom-scented May air, a university campus is preparing for commencement exercises. The athletic field, only recently reduced to bald dirt by soccer and ultimate Frisbee, has been coated with sod. A dais now stands on the library steps, and folding chairs for the graduates are arrayed in neat rows all across the quadrangle.
After nearly a decade of teaching, I am as susceptible to sentimentality as any other professor. …
Yet my memories during graduation season turn to a different university -- no need to name it, suffice to say it is prestigious and elite -- and a more common system of grading. I can still see myself in a hallway, dimly lit by the autumn sun slanting through lead-glass windows, trying to persuade a sobbing sophomore not to drop my course. At the midterm point, when I was required to give each student a "predictive grade," I had put her down for a B/C. Now she wanted to bail out of class entirely rather than risk besmirching her transcript. The notion of actually trying to work
hard enough to raise her grade didn't figure into her panicked calculations.
I had been warned, I had to admit. A few days earlier, when I turned in my list of predictive grades to my department chair, she approached me with a kind of pitying look and gently informed me, "We don't give anything but As or Bs around here."
"But what if a student does C work?" I asked.
No, the chairman explained: The university believed that its course work was so rigorous, so superior to the level at competing schools, that its students should not be punished in the pursuit of graduate-school admissions and job offers by a C. When I persisted in my B/C, the offended pupil indeed dropped my class. …
I wish I could dismiss the incident as an aberration, as an anecdote masquerading as a trend, but the evidence tells otherwise. …
A self-study by Princeton University, released in 1998, revealed that As and Bs accounted for 83% of grades in the mid-1990s, a rise of 14% in a generation. The Scholastic Aptitude Test, an essential element for college admission, unilaterally "renormed" its scores higher in 1995. …
Samuel G. Freedman, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
May 16, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Stay-at-home moms receive support from MOMS Club
BYLINE: By JULIET GREER, Asbury Park Press
DATELINE: WALL, N.J.When Peggy Russo decided to quit her actuary job four years ago to stay at home with her newborn daughter, she didn't get the praise she expected from co-workers.
"A lot of people couldn't understand my choice to stay home when I have a degree," she said. "They said it seemed like a waste of a college education, and that I'd get bored at home."
Russo, 33, of Wall, has no second thoughts about staying at home with her children, now 4 and 2. But having lived in the area for less than a year, she was having trouble connecting with other women who'd made similar decisions. Then, she saw a flier at the library for a support group for women like her, and since then, she said, her days have been more active and fulfilling.
Russo joined an international group, the MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Club, which has more than 1,000 chapters worldwide and more than 50,000 members.
There are 49 chapters in New Jersey. Some of those groups are in Annandale, Bridgewater, Edison, Hackettstown, the Hopatcong area, Lawrenceville, Marlton, the Phillipsburg area, Somerset and the Winslow area. …
Women who stay at home are now the minority. In 1975, 47 percent of women with children under 18 had jobs, said Mary Bowler, an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. By 1999, that figure rose to 72 percent.
Sara Curran, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, said the working-mom trend has gone steadily upward, pushed by the women's movement and families' growing reliance on two paychecks. …
Business Wire
Copyright 2000 Business Wire, Inc.
May 16, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Envoy Networks, Inc. Raises $7 Million in First Round Financing to Revolutionize Broadband Wireless Communications
DATELINE: BILLERICA, Mass., May 16, 2000Experienced Team Combines Backgrounds in High Performance Digital Radio and Carrier Class IP Network Product Development
Envoy Networks, Inc., a startup founded by senior wireless industry executives from leading companies including Sun, Nortel, Texas Instruments, Natural Microsystems, Comverse and GTE, today announced it has raised $7 million in first round financing from leading venture capital firms: Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. The Envoy executive team brings together extensive experience in wireless communications, global positioning systems (GPS), voice processing and IP data networking to design, develop and market broadband wireless infrastructure equipment for third generation (3G) wireless services.
The Yankee Group, a leading industry research firm , estimates that U.S. wireless data market to grow from $1.8 billion in 1999 to over $13 billion by 2003. Another estimate from Ernst &Young predicts that the number of 3G mobile subscribers will climb to 60 million by 2005. Envoy's advanced patented technology will allow operators to meet this demand, maximize their revenue, and realize cost savings by lowering the cost of deploying broadband services. Today, most operators contend that the cost of deploying broadband services using current infrastructure is prohibitive. …
"Envoy strategy offers a clear path to make it the first company to introduce several advanced technologies that will revolutionize broadband wireless communications services", said Dr. H. Vincent Poor of Princeton University, a world-class expert in wireless communications. Dr. Poor also serves on Envoy's Board of Advisors. …
The Gazette (Montreal)
Copyright 2000 Southam Inc.
May 16, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: McGill to honour Richler, 13 others
Author Mordecai Richler, former La Presse publisher Roger D. Landry and popular-science journalist Jay Ingram are to receive honorary doctorates at McGill University's spring convocations.
The prolific Richler - whose work has garnered him numerous accolades, including two Governor-General's Awards and a Screenwriters' Guild of America Award - is to receive a doctor of literature at the June 9 convocation. …
Other honorary doctorate recipients: …
- Rosemary Grant and Peter Grant, biologists who have done ground-breaking research in their field and who now teach at Princeton University, will each be awarded a doctor of science.
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
Copyright 2000 The Indianapolis Star
May 16, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: A PUBLIC VERDICTAnnouncement seized attention throughout Indiana
BYLINE: BY STEPHEN BEAVEN STAFF WRITERFor a few moments Monday afternoon, there was a collective pause throughout Indiana, the sort of brief break in daily routines normally reserved for presidential assassinations or the latest trial of the century.
At bars, gyms and barbershops, even casual basketball fans were drawn to televisions, like moths to a flame. The Bob Knight Verdict was due at 3 p.m. For many, it was must-see TV.
So they watched live coverage of a crowded news conference in Indianapolis, where Indiana University President Myles Brand announced sanctions against Knight for a string of angry, sometimes violent outbursts.
News of the sanctions was leaked to the news media early in the day. Although some were preoccupied with more serious matters, such as life and death, a huge cross-section of Hoosiers tuned in. …
But Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard used some judicial restraint.
Shepard invited his staff into his office to watch the news conference on a tiny black-and-white television. After a few minutes, he returned to work signing documents and typing at his computer.
Asked his opinion, the graduate of Yale, Princeton and the University of Virginia said he didn't want to weigh in on the matter.
"There's no need to put my oars in the water," he said. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
Copyright 2000 The Morning Call, Inc.
May 16, 2000HEADLINE: POLAHA'S TOUGH ROAD ENDS WITH HALL OF FAME PICK
BYLINE: TERRY LARIMER; The Morning CallMike Polaha tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in 1985, he knew he'd had the best of care, but when he recovered and returned to the basketball court, his mind was as much of a problem as his knee was. Maybe more.
"It's a long, tough road back," Polaha recalled. "You don't know if you're going to make it or not."
His first test came immediately. Polaha and his Lehigh University teammates were opening the season by playing host to Harvard and the game went down to the wire.
"I was fouled with two seconds left and I made both to send the game Lehigh into overtime," he recalled. "Then I made a basket at the buzzer to win the game."
The running, 17- foot shot helped convince Polaha he was all the way back and he went on to have such an outstanding career that this past weekend he and four other Lehigh athletes were inducted into the school's Penske Lehigh Athletic Hall of Fame.
His Hall classmates were Liz Feeley, Class of 1987, Richard Gigon '52, Marty Horn '86 and Paul Short '34. …
Feeley, currently the head women's basketball coach at Princeton University, scored 1,275 points and had 571 rebounds, which are sixth- and eighth-best on Lehigh's all-time list.
In 1986 she set school records of 37 points in a game against Bucknell and 219 field goals in a season. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Dartmouth via U-Wire
May 16, 2000HEADLINE: The SATs: Admissions test for life?
BYLINE: By Alice Gomstyn, The Dartmouth
SOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.As if college entrance exams weren't already stressful enough for high school students, one theory says that your single SAT score may largely determine where you end up in life -- how much you get paid, whom you work for and who listens to your opinions.
"The SAT is the personnel office of American life. It's the thing that determines where you end up in life," Nick Lemann said.
Lemann, journalist and author of the "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy," -- a chronicle of the creation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and its effects on American society -- said he "wasn't that interested in the SAT per se," when he initially began researching his latest book.
"I was interested in the question of : is there a system in the United States that determines who winds up where? If there is one, let's take a look at it and identify it precisely, figure out where it came from, who invented it, [and] what they thought they were doing," Lemann, a staff writer at The New Yorker, told The Dartmouth Monday.
This system, Lemann found, is largely based on the SAT. …
This was not the original intent of the test's founders, according to Lemann.
The SAT, invented by Princeton University professor Carl Brigham in 1926, was based on an intelligence test administered to American soldiers during World War I. …
In the mid-twentieth century, the first president of ETS, Henry Chauncey, an assistant dean at Harvard College, and James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard, had a vision -- they expected that the SAT would "generate a leadership in the country with very high academic skills to run a slightly different type of America," Lemann said. …
Federal News Service
Copyright 2000 Federal News Service, Inc.
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER BRIEFING WITH U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE CHARLENE BARSHEFSKY
TOPIC: PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA
MODERATOR: CHARLES SILVER, DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER
LOCATION: THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.(pickup mid-way through questions)
Q The National Labor Committee, last week, released a report called, "Made in China: The Role of U.S. Companies in Denying Human and Worker Rights." And they document many -- it was Charles Kernaghan who is head of it; went over to China with human rights activists, and they document many labor abuses. One example is that a factory in Qin Shi, making goods for Kathie Lee at Wal-Mart, and it says they found a thousand workers were being held under conditions of indentured servitude, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, with only one day off a month, while earning an average of three cents an hour. They held a press conference here last week to announce it, and a number of members of Congress called for investigations of these companies in its report before a vote is taken.
Do you think that -- have you seen this report?
AMB. BARSHEFSKY: No.
Q And do you think there should be such an investigation of these companies before a vote is taken?
AMB. BARSHEFSKY: I have not seen the report. I would direct your attention to the very interesting report that just came out of Princeton University which finds something, I suspect, slightly different, and that is that foreign businesses that set up in China pretty routinely pay higher wages than Chinese businesses, and have a system of grievance procedures, frequently taken advantage of by employees in a very positive way. The report further found that Chinese businesses who compete with foreign businesses for skilled labor also have wage rates affected by having to increase wage rates and improve working conditions since they're drawing on the same labor pool; obviously a little competition can go a long way.
I've not seen the report. But certainly I don't quite see how a vote against PNTR is going to improve any particular situation mentioned in the report, whatever the situation. Clearly, greater contact with the West, clearly, the bringing by Western companies of better working conditions, of higher wages, is a net positive thing for China. …
THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Copyright 2000 Star-Telegram Newspaper, Inc.
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Pick of Ivy League crop is Poly student's reward
Teen cites working-class parents for success
BYLINE: Michelle Melendez; Star-Telegram Staff WriterFORT WORTH - Not many students can say they turned down a education at Yale University. Even fewer have turned down Yale, Harvard, Princeton , Brown, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania - all Ivy League schools.
With $1 million in scholarship offers, Pedro Hernandez of Fort Worth's Polytechnic High School is taking proffered funds to attend Dartmouth College - the Ivy League school where his older sister Karina is a junior. …
The Jerusalem PostCopyright 2000 The Jerusalem Post
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Genetic symposium opens in Jerusalem
BYLINE: Judy SiegelA symposium featuring some of the world's top experts on issues involving genetics and genetic engineering opens this morning at the Wise Auditorium, at the Edmond Safra campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram.
The English-language symposium, called "Genetics and Its Impact on Society," is intended for the general public and is one of the events being held to mark the university's 75th anniversary.
The speakers will explore how new genetic discoveries impact on medicine, agriculture and society. Prof. Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University and bioethics expert, will speak about ethical aspects of biological manipulation; …
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 2000 M2 Communications Ltd.
May 15, 2000HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary - President Clinton names Barry E. Carter as Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development
President Clinton today announced the nomination of Barry E. Carter as Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Mr. Barry E. Carter, of Washington, D.C., is a professor of law at Georgetown University, where he also serves as the Director of the new Program on International Business and Economic Law.
Prior to that, he was the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Carter also served as the U.S. Vice Chair to Secretary of Defense William Perry on bilateral defense conversion committees with Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus and as U.S. chair of the committee with Uzbekistan.
Mr. Carter received a B.A. from Stanford University, a M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: MEDIA; A Long-Distance Look at Life in Turkey
BYLINE: By DOUGLAS FRANTZOne of Turkey's most influential political cartoonists lives in a most unlikely place: the affluent New York suburb of Scarsdale.
From a converted bedroom in his family's comfortable two-story home, Salih Memecan, the cartoonist for Sabah, one of Turkey's largest newspapers, sends forth a stream of daily cartoons that use deft humor to skewer the politicians and politics of his native country seven time zones away.
Mr. Memecan moved here 18 months ago. Rather than leaving him stranded and out of touch with Turkish affairs, as friends in Istanbul had feared, he said the distance has given him better insight into the economic and political transformations sweeping Turkey as the country struggles toward a stable free-market democracy. …
Erika Gilson, a professor of Turkish at Princeton University, uses Mr. Memecan's cartoons to teach basic Turkish to her students and, for advanced students, to stimulate discussion of social and political issues in Turkey. "He is very observant and perceptive," she said. "However, compared to some others, his political cartoons, even though they hit their mark, are somewhat gentle. One has the feeling that he is not out to destroy, but rather to show the irony, frailty or improbability of a situation."
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.
May 15, 2000, MondayMAINE MILESTONES
HEADLINE: Lamontagne is shining in track
DATELINE: From staff reportsANDREW HANSON of Cumberland, a junior baseball player at Princeton University, was named to the GTE Academic All-America District II first team. Hanson is batting .371 with a team-high five home runs for the Ivy League champion Tigers, who earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. He has a 3.24 grade-point average as a psychology major.
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corporation Announces First Quarter Financial Results
DATELINE: EWING, N.J., May 15Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: PANL; PHLX: PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today its unaudited results of operations for the first quarter, ending March 31, 2000.
Universal Display had a net loss of $1,803,249 (or $.0.12 per share) for the quarter ended March 31, 2000, compared to a loss of $593,866 (or $0.06 per share) for the same period in 1999. The increase in the net loss was primarily due to the commencement of operations at the Company's new, 11,000 sq. ft. Technology Transfer and Pilot Line facility. …
UDC has been developing Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) technology with Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC) since 1994. The partnership is committed to the innovative research and commercialization of this proprietary OLED technology for applications such as flat panel displays, lasers, and light generating devices.
The Company's OLED technology centers around four important technology platforms: TOLEDs (Transparent Organic Light Emitting Devices), which can be up to 85% transparent when not energized, can be used to create vision area displays on windshields, cockpits, helmets and eyeglasses, and can also be integrated with standard silicon semiconductors. FOLEDs (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Devices) can be built on flexible plastic and unbreakable and/or conformable surfaces and provide lighter weight and more durable performance. SOLEDs, the third technology platform, are being developed for high-resolution displays. UDC and it's research partners are also working on a fourth technology platform, focusing on a family of high efficiency organic materials using electrophosphorence as the light emitting mechanism. …
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 2000 The Providence Journal Company
May 15, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Cybertalk - Search for tomorrow - Providence firm melds 2 technologies to improve Internet inquiries
BYLINE: TIM BARMANNSearching for something on the Web can be frustrating. Too often, search engines turn up no hits, or they come back with page after page of unrelated junk.
"Search stinks," is how Jeffrey M. Stibel puts it. He is the 26-year-old founder and chief executive officer of Simpli.com, a small, Providence-based Internet startup.
Stibel's company, now about a year old, is trying to make searching the Internet more fruitful. The company has developed technology it hopes to license to search engines and Web portal sites.
What's interesting about the firm's work is that it has used old-school academic thinking to develop cutting-edge technology. Simpli.com applies some long-established principles of cognitive science and linguistics to help improve Internet searches.
What could cognitive science, the study of how the brain works, and linguistics, the study of human language, have to do with finding something on the Web? …
The fundamental problem with search engines, he says, is not that they are bad. It's that people and computers communicate in completely different ways. …
One of the company's scientific advisers is George A. Miller, a researcher in psychology and linguistics who headed a 15-year old project at Princeton University to build WordNet, a database of words and relationships between those words. Simpli.com based its knowledge base on WordNet. …
Roll Call
Copyright 2000 Roll Call, Inc.
May 15, 2000HEADLINE: House Democrats Count on Southern Challengers
Georgia
8th district
Incumbent: Saxby Chambliss (R)
3rd term (62 percent)
Outlook: Likely RepublicanFormer Macon Mayor Jim Marshall (D) has been slow to get up to speed in his House bid, a fact that has drawn some early criticism of his campaign. But Democrats now say Marshall's effort is picking up momentum since he retired as mayor of the district's largest city in December.
Marshall's story is impressive and the 8th ranks among the nation's most Democratic districts currently held by a Republican. Of the 34 statewide and federal elections held in the 8th between 1990 and 1998, Democratic candidates carried the district in 31 of them, according to the National Committee for an Effective Congress.
A professor at the Mercer University School of Law, Marshall quit school at Princeton University in 1968, volunteered in Vietnam as an Army Ranger and returned home a decorated veteran. He later graduated from Princeton . …
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Copyright 2000 Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc.
May 15, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: Colleges, universities reap rewards of hot U.S. economy
BYLINE: Cynthia Koury; TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
DATELINE: WORCESTER- The recent $10 million gift to the College of the Holy Cross is the largest in the school's history.
Ten million dollars is nothing to sneeze at,'' said Jeff Ourvan, a spokesman for the Council for Aid to Education, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that tracks private giving. That is a major gift by any standard.''
And yet the amount is dwarfed by some of the contributions to institutions of higher education over the last year. …
The sums involved can be huge.
Among the largest gifts to colleges and universities in 1999 were $150 million to Stanford University, $100 million to MIT, $75 million to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, $60 million to the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and $55 million to Princeton University.
The rise was fueled by several factors, such as increasingly sophisticated fund-raising techniques, an explosion in personal wealth and the overall healthy state of the economy, Mr. Ourvan said. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
May 14, 2000, SundayBYLINE: By The Associated Press
FRESHMAN REPORT CARD: Rush Holt, D-PenningtonHighlights:
Helped write legislation reviving grants to states to purchase parkland.
Named to National Commission on Math and Science Teaching in the 21st Century.
Argued successfully for $700 million boost in annual funding for National Science Foundation. …Top Sources of Contributions:
Goldman, Sachs & Co. ($23,000); Princeton University ($19,750); Moveon.org ($12,376)(Source: Center for Responsive Politics)
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Playing Politics;
NCAA entering flag flap is only latest meeting of sports, social issues
BYLINE: Mark Schlabach, StaffOn March 20, 1980, Craig Masback was standing near the starting line of a race in San Francisco with aspirations of representing the United States in the 1980 Olympics.
Before Masback stepped to the line, a television reporter approached. Masback, one of the world's best middle-distance runners, can't forget what he was asked.
"President Carter has just announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics," the reporter said. "He says it's a matter of national security. Do you support your president?"
Masback, who in 1979 had the sixth-fastest time in the world in 1,500 meters, knew his Olympic dream was over.
"I would contend that it's impossible to say no to that question," said Masback, chief executive officer of USA Track & Field. "No American could say no to that."
Throughout history, athletes often have been forced to choose sides in the sports-politics debate. And sporting events often have been the pawns of those political struggles.
That collision soon could reach Georgia. The South Carolina Legislature voted last week to remove the Confederate battle flag from the dome of the statehouse, deterring a threat by the NCAA to remove all NCAA-sponsored events from the state. Now, many believe the NAACP and other civil rights organizations will turn their attention to Georgia, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag on its state flag.
"You can expect a long, hot summer," said South Carolina Rep. John Scott, a black Democrat from Columbia.
With Atlanta scheduled to host several national sporting events, including this summer's major league baseball All-Star Game and the 2002 NCAA men's basketball Final Four, Georgia's flag debate could make South Carolina's look like a blip on the radar screen. High-profile events create leverage; sports becomes the battlefield. …
The boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games, set in motion by President Jimmy Carter in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, still evokes bitterness among many athletes who feel they were victims of a sports-politics war.
"I believe an opportunity was wrongfully taken from a group of people, and it can never be returned," said Anita DeFrantz, a member of the 1980 U.S. women's rowing team. "It was the athletes' right to decide, and that decision was taken away by very powerful political forces. People worked their entire lives (to participate in the Olympics). It's something that you believe in and you make life-changing decisions to work for it. And then someone says you can't go. You can't give that back." …
DeFrantz, who in 1980 was a 27-year-old attorney at Princeton University, was among the most outspoken critics of Carter's decision. She and 18 other athletes sued the USOC for the right to participate in the Games, but they lost their bid in a U.S. district court in June 1980. …
The Boston Globe
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: NORTH WEEKLY / SPORTS; CAHOON POPULAR CHOICE AT UMASS
BYLINE: By Bob Monahan, Globe StaffDon "Toot" Cahoon, who led Marblehead High School to hockey greatness 30 years ago, has a pair of Jacks going for him as he goes into his new deal as hockey coach at the University of Massachusetts.
They are Jack Kelley and Jack Parker. Kelley was Cahoon's coach at Boston University, and Cahoon was an assistant under Parker at BU. Both Jacks are expecting big things from Cahoon in Amherst. Cahoon resigned as coach at Princeton University before taking the UMass job. …
The New York Times
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: The Way We Live Now:
Salient Facts: Quasars; Brightness Visible
BYLINE: By Jeff GreenwaldRED BAITING
Quasars (quasistellar objects), first observed in 1963, are celestial objects lying far beyond the Milky Way. To us, the most distant look like intense points of infrared radiation. This is because space is scattered with hydrogen atoms (about two per cubic meter) that absorb blue light, and if you filter the blue from visible white light, red is what's left. On its multibillion-light-year journey to earth, quasar light loses so much blue that only infrared remains. At the heart of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a highly sensitive camera, developed at Princeton University and attached to a 2.5-meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Using the same technology as digital cameras (charge-coupled devices instead of film), the camera records electromagnetic light, some of which the eye can't see, including ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. On clear, moonless nights, the CCD's record the panorama of stars that pass by as the earth rotates. The resulting "images" are actually streams of data that flow into a computer at five megabytes per second. Powerful programs then crunch the numbers, cataloging the thousands of galaxies, nebulae and stars from each night's scan. Objects with strong infrared readings are earmarked: these may be distant quasars.
The New York Times
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Getting Back to the Land in Summer Gallery Shows
BYLINE: By WILLIAM ZIMMERTHE idea of a big backyard is well understood in the New Jersey art world. An artist can be local all over the state.
Names and styles get around, at least in part, owing to the practice of rotating the fine arts and crafts biennials among the state's major museums. Along with this boosterism is a sense of community responsibility.
This aspect of sharing is emphasized this summer at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey in Somerville. "Preserving the Garden: Saving New Jersey Landscape" is an exhibition with the not very romantic theme of environmental protection. It was conceived in response to the state's recent commitment to preserve a million acres of open space. …
The Princeton University Art Gallery is also emphasizing environmental and preservation themes, along with a sense of landscape that surrounds.
A Boston photographer, Barbara Bosworth, achieves a sense of sweeping expanse by exposing three or four large negatives on a single sheet of photographic paper. Her major subjects can be seen as opposites: hunters, and on the other hand, trees that have been identified as the largest of their species by the American Forestry Association. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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May 14, 2000HEADLINE: RECOVERING FROM A LOSS OF FACE
BYLINE: JAMES AHEARNWHEN Merrill Lynch proposed building a huge office complex in a cornfield in rural Hopewell, environmentalists complained that the project would violate the official State Plan.
They were right.
The State Plan seeks to curb sprawl by redirecting development from rural areas to cities and to smaller, established towns. The Merrill Lynch project would not comply with the plan. But with hundreds of well-paying jobs at stake, the Whitman administration assented to the project, even providing a grant from the state Economic Development
Authority. The complex is now under construction.
Recently a controversy arose over another project in Mercer County.
This one was in Hamilton Township, a 195,000-square-foot office building planned for a four-acre farm field. The developer was none other than the state government. …
The story doesn't end there. Four years ago the state Department of Environmental Protection, which issues permits for sewers, tried to link its permit rules to the State Plan. This was the enforcement hammer sought by environmentalists who thought that without one, the plan would be pretty much as Pat O'Keefe has described it, so many words on paper.
O'Keefe and his association sued the department. A judge ruled in favor of the agency but said the State Plan should be regarded as general guidance, not a template for where sewers should be allowed and where not. Since then the department has been developing new regulations for sewers and septic systems, but it has been chary about linking these rules to the State Plan, fearing another lawsuit.
Not to worry, said a suddenly energized Christie Whitman. In a speech at Princeton University last month, she said that control of sewer lines was essential to implementation of the State Plan. She said that henceforward anyone proposing a major sewer would have to submit a comprehensive environmental assessment. She predicted there would be a huge fight over this requirement and she promised,"I'll lead it." …
The Times-Picayune
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May 14, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: PARK SERVICE CONFRONTS THE WHYS OF THE CIVIL WAR;
ON BATTLEFIELDS, NEW >UNDERSTANDING SOUGHT
BYLINE: By Delia M. Rios Newhouse News ServiceDATELINE: WASHINGTON
President Woodrow Wilson, speaking at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the epic battle that repulsed Gen. Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North, invoked the spirit of brotherhood and healing. The Civil War, Wilson declared, had become "a quarrel forgotten."
He could say this to the aged veterans of the Blue and the Gray because, by mutual consent, the war's bitter arguments were set aside on the fighting ground itself. Instead, on fields from Shiloh to Antietam, the soldiers' sacrifice was lauded, in narratives driven by military strategies and tactics. The practice allowed both sides pride in the struggle, and embraced reunion.
But there was a price.
Even now, Americans walking the fields, hills and woods of the nation's Civil War battlefields learn very little there about why these men put their lives on the line. There is profound complexity behind the question, one the National Park Service is just beginning to confront.
By 2011, when the country marks the sesquicentennial of the war's outbreak in 1861, the 28 battlefields that the park service manages will reflect the best historical thinking of the moment.
That means coming to terms with the political, social and economic disputes that set the North and South against one another, and acknowledging the painful history of slavery. …
The war and all the issues it raises are very much still contested territory, so much so that Keith Poulter, publisher of the Civil War history magazine North & South, described the park service as "entering upon a political minefield." After all, the war's very name is in dispute: Is it the Civil War or the War Between the States?
James McPherson, the Princeton University historian whose "Battle Cry of Freedom" won the Pulitzer Prize, says that while it must be done, interpretation of the war will be divisive, just as the war was.
The single most divisive issue, all intuitively know, will be slavery.
There are two essential conflicts at work in how the war is chronicled.
The first is that distinctive interpretations of liberty, freedom and democracy motivated the Union and Confederate causes. As McPherson said, "Soldiers on both sides thought they were fighting to vindicate the legacy of the American Revolution." …
Ventura County Star (Ventura County, Ca.)
Copyright 2000 Ventura County Star
May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: The family's changing face
NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE: Many factors contribute to shift away from Norman Rockwell's America
BYLINE: Kim Lamb Gregory
Staff writerSingle mom Kathleen Wilson, 38, chats with several other adults relaxing in lawn chairs at a grassy Ventura park. Her two teen-age sons stand and drink soda while squealing packs of children armed with squirt guns chase one another around coolers.
Wilson's fiance, Jim Barnes, 38, sits nearby, talking with his son and daughter, who have different mothers as the result of Barnes' two previous marriages.
Barnes' mom, Marilyn Hanley Barnes Fink, 63, sits beside her second husband of 18 years, Ray Fink, 72, who also is on his second marriage. …
According to a 1998 survey released late last year, nontraditional families like this one are becoming the norm in America. …
Research compiled by Focus on the Family indicates that kids raised by single parents, who often are single mothers, tend not to do well in school.
Reno points to a report published in the American Sociological Review and written by sociologists Nan Marie Astone, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University, and Sara McLanahan, Ph.D., of Princeton University.
It says, in part: "Growing up in a single-parent family has negative consequences for a student's grade-point average, school attendance and (other) indicators of educational attainment."
Rather than shake our heads at the rising number of single parents, Pomeroy believes we, as a society, need to respond to the rising needs of single parents. …
"We can say, 'Oh, it's bad to get divorced,' or we can say we value all of our human beings, and give them equal liberties," said Pomeroy. "We need to ask, 'What can we do to help them work in an economy where they must work?' In the 1940s, when the government needed women to work, they had federally funded day care. It was repealed in 1946."
The Washington Post
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: The Trouble With Tenure; While professors still crave it, many believe the lifetime appointment is dying -- and not for the reasons you think
BYLINE: Valerie StraussWhen Charles Glass became an assistant professor at at Howard University last fall, the 28-year-old civil engineer thought he was on a job track that would, if the academic gods were willing, lead to the coveted goal of tenure, a guarantee of a lifetime job. With a strong work ethic and a sparkling resume, Glass figured that in anywhere from four to six years, he would do enough impressive research, teaching and community service to persuade his peers to confer upon him the rights and responsibilities of a full tenured professor.
He could have been earning a six-figure salary working as an engineer; after all, he knew, a young African American with a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and a master's and a doctorate from the University of Colorado generally has his pick of jobs. But academia is where he wanted to be and, having grown up in Silver Spring, Howard seemed a perfect choice.
Shortly after arriving on campus last August, however, Glass learned from the head of the Faculty Senate that he had entered an institution in which tenure is an iffy proposition. It's not that professors can't win it; they can and they do. It's just that there's no guarantee tenure will be meaningful in the way it was conceived early in the 1900s. Seven years ago, Howard's Board of Trustees placed a provision in the faculty handbook that allows the trustees to remove tenured professors "when, in the board's judgment, the interests of the university require it." That meant trustees could get rid of a tenured professor whenever they felt like it -- which meant tenure effectively was abolished. …
For those who fail to win tenure, life can become complicated. They often must leave the institution where they were working, and sometimes find that the rejection makes it even harder for them to gain it elsewhere. Many join the growing pool of part-time professors, called adjuncts, or itinerant scholars, who cobble together course loads at various schools to eke out a living. Some leave the profession altogether; one woman who was denied tenure at Princeton University, for example, is now attending Stanford Law School. …
The Washington Post
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May 14, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: In Shell Game, Rowers Pull Together; On Olympic Quest, Motley Crew Gets Push From All Sides
BYLINE: Amy Shipley , Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: PRINCETON , N.J.In the heart of the posh Princeton community, just down the street from the Princeton University gates, a Roman Catholic priest has opened the doors of an old mansion once frequented by Albert Einstein to about a dozen elite male rowers, many of whom will represent the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
The gregarious Father Tom Mullelly, called "FT" for short, provides free lodging, fellowship dinners on Thursday nights and rides in his white Ford station wagon (nicknamed "the Popemobile") for his not necessarily religious--let alone Catholic--tenants, who sleep on beds, futons, couches and in various corners of the eight-bedroom house now owned by the Catholic diocese.
One is a musician from the District--George Washington University graduate Aquil Abdullah--who is on course to become the first African American to win a place on the U.S. men's Olympic rowing team. Another is a former lumberjack from Wisconsin who for years leaped out of helicopters fighting forest fires. Another, the son of a well-known toothbrush designer, grew up in Cincinnati and attended a non-elite rowing school in Ohio. All were lured to Princeton by men's national team coach Mike Teti.
Their situation provides a glimpse at the diversity that has gradually infused elite American rowing in recent years, and the uncommon generosity that has helped the program thrive. The U.S. men's team, which has several bases across the country but is rooted most strongly in Princeton , never has been further from the exclusive, highbrow image often associated with the sport, once considered the domain of Ivy Leaguers, prep schoolers--and white athletes. …
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
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May 13, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: SERVICE NOTES
BLOWING ROCK - Air Force 1st Lt. Eli C. Tate participated in Joint Task Force Operation Atlas Response, previously named Operation Silent Promise, in southern Africa.
The relief operation airlifted and airdropped tons of much needed cargo, equipment and supplies such as food, water, clothing, blankets, medicine, and materials for temporary shelters.
Tate is a pilot with the 37th Airlift Squadron. He is the son of J. Knox Tate of Chapel Hill and Suzanne Bullock of Blowing Rock. The lieutenant is a 1997 graduate of Princeton University.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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May 13, 2000, Saturday, Home EditionHEADLINE: AmenCorner; News and notes of interest to the religious, spiritual and volunteer communities of metro Atlanta
BYLINE: Staff
RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM: Progressive causes favoredA new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that religious groups, led by mainline Protestant denominations, are more interested in progressive causes than conservative issues favored by the religious right.
A survey of 5,603 adults found that most people think churches should take the lead in advocating racial reconciliation, environmental protection and advocacy for the poor --- all issues that have been central to the mainline message for decades.
While the 1990s saw the rise of conservative evangelicals, the study found the causes advocated by mainline groups are the issues the public cares the most about.
''The perception that religious groups are really only interested in conservative issues is not true,'' said Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow, who led the study. ''They are not only focused on abortion or prayer in schools. Progressive issues do seem to be of enormous (importance) to people. ''
Only 40 percent of the respondents said clergy should advocate political issues from the pulpit, and there was little support for organized political lobbying --- such as through the Christian Coalition --- or for religious leaders seeking elected office.
The Gazette (Montreal)
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May 13, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: And the winner is - capitalism: Academic measures system's global advance
BYLINE: MICHAEL TAUBEThe Challenge of Global Capitalism
The World Economy in the 21st Century
By Robert Gilpin
Princeton University Press, 373 pp, $46.50For the most part, our society has accepted that global capitalism and economic globalization will always be with us. The promotion of the capitalist work ethic and solid free-market principles have inspired many Canadians to remain motivated in the workplace, and to accept free trade as a boon to our economy. In other words, global capitalism has been a proven economic benefit.
But there are still some people who argue that an economic system can be reversed or adjusted, if necessary. And while these concerns over global capitalism primarily come from the political left, there has been a mild tremor even on the political right. Why? They fear that local communities have lost much of their influence in the age of the global market. They sense that individual interests are of the utmost importance in society. And they perceive that our political institutions have apparently crumbled due to globalization.
Robert Gilpin, the Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, recognizes some of these concerns. He is of the belief that ''an open and integrated global economy is neither as extensive and inexorable nor as irreversible as many assume.'' In his new book, The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century, he tries to address and resolve a few of these concerns. Gilpin's central argument is that global capitalism and economic globalization must rest on a secure political foundation, one that has been severely weakened since the collapse of the Soviet Union. To make the global economy work, however, it is up to the U.S. and other major powers to rebuild this foundation. …
The Challenge of Global Capitalism also discusses a number of growing problems in the global economy. In one sense, there has been heightened tension between trade liberalization and trade protectionism. The critics of free-trade principles have successfully argued their case because ''the political process tends to favour special interests that desire protection.'' In other words, protectionists such as Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan have been able to sway millions of Americans by simple fear tactics, such as the potential loss of American jobs to new immigrants and the need for fair trade regulations. …
National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY (1:00 PM ET)
May 13, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: PROFESSOR ELAINE FANTHAM, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, TALKS ABOUT THE HISTORIC ACCURACY OF THE MOVIE "GLADIATOR"
ANCHORS: SUSAN STAMBERGSUSAN STAMBERG, host:
The cinematic spectacle "Gladiator" opened this past weekend. It's a bloody tale of revenge in which a father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, seeks to deny his son the throne and bestow it on another, in this case, Russell Crowe, who plays a hunky warrior named Maximus, but the son, Commodus, will not hear of it. And the whole mess gets hashed out on the floor of the Coliseum. It is Rome, 180 AD. …
STAMBERG: "Gladiator" is bringing in the crowds all right, including Princeton University classics Professor Elaine Fantham. Professor Fantham joins us on the line from her office. …
Prof. FANTHAM: And I must say, you know, that if I had been Marcus Aurelius or, in fact, just myself, I would have preferred Russell Crowe.
STAMBERG: You bet. So you liked Crowe. But tell us what it is about these gladiators--now how come they fascinate us as much as they did the ancient Romans?
Prof. FANTHAM: Well, I'm inclined to think it was something to do with the fact that by the time the gladiatorial gangs became a really popular activity Romans from Rome no longer fought in the legions. They were not regarded as good fighting material. Of course, there were plenty of Roman citizens fighting in the wars, and that's why we have that perfectly splendid battle at the beginning of the movie. …
Prof. FANTHAM: But the people in Rome, the ones who thronged--well, who would throng Coliseum once it was erected, around 80, didn't get to fight themselves, and they probably needed this to carry it through.
STAMBERG: Huh. Much like football today, eh?
Prof. FANTHAM: Yes. …
The National Journal
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May 13, 2000HEADLINE: Hill People for May 13, 2000
BYLINE: Piper FoggSenate
Joshua D. Pollack has quite a bit in common with his new boss: Both are Democrats from Maryland, and both are graduates of Princeton University. The boss is Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, D-Md., and Pollack, 23, is a fledgling legislative correspondent primed to make the most of his Capitol Hill experience. Before he landed his new job, Pollack spent almost a year as a communications associate at the Appleseed Foundation, a nonprofit that sets up public interest law centers around the country. He handled communications strategies for the foundation's national headquarters in Washington, which acts as an umbrella office for 17 branches. "I did publicity for the foundation and wrote their
newsletters, brochures-all their written communications-and worked on their Web site," Pollack said. He got his first taste of politics during college when he interned in the office of Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., and at Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a Democratic polling firm.
New Scientist
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May 13, 2000HEADLINE: Lost and found
BYLINE: Marcus Chown
HIGHLIGHT: The Universe's missing hydrogen has turned up at lastONLY about half the hydrogen gas in the early Universe ended up in galaxies like our own - the rest went missing. Now astronomers claim they've found it. "A substantial amount of it appears to be in superhot clouds hiding in intergalactic space," says Todd Tripp of Princeton University in New Jersey.
Astronomers suspected that a huge amount of hydrogen had gone missing because deuterium - heavy hydrogen - was once abundant in interstellar space. The deuterium is thought to have been forged in the first few minutes after the big bang, but it is easily converted into helium if there is a lot of hydrogen about. "The scarcity of deuterium (today) tells us that when it was born there was about twice as much hydrogen around as we see today tied up in galaxies and galaxy clusters," says Tripp.
One explanation for the disappearance of the hydrogen was that it became so hot its atoms lost their electrons. Since atoms can't emit or absorb light without electrons, the hydrogen effectively became invisible. According to theorists, this could have happened if some hydrogen was "shock-heated" to over 100 000 degrees C as clouds of the gas collided at incredible speeds. "The stuff that remained cool congealed into galaxies," says Tripp. "The stuff that was hot was simply too hot to be held together by gravity and got left out." …
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
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May 13, 2000 SaturdayHEADLINE: Bringing careers to successful close
BYLINE: AL MYATT, STAFF WRITERThey come at batters from contrasting angles, but closers Cory Scott of East Carolina and Derrick DePriest of North Carolina have success in common. …
DePriest's career took off after he went to a sidearm delivery as a sophomore. He led the nation last year with a 1.71 earned run average and is even lower this year, at 1.33, heading into the start of a three-game home series with Florida State Friday night. DePriest is second nationally in ERA (Princeton sophomore Chris Young has an 1.05 ERA) and has 12 saves and a 2-3 record. …
Agence France Presse
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May 12, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: UN in Sierra Leone needs more soldiers, not tougher mandate: diplomats
BYLINE: Robert HollowayDATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, May 11
Diplomats and UN officials Thursday downplayed the merit of giving the embattled UN force in Sierra Leone a tougher mandate, while the Security Council scheduled an emergency session for the evening.
"I don't think that the mandate has yet been exhausted, if only because of the authorised strength of personnel," Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Sergei Lavrov said.
The Security Council, which refined the tasks of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in February, fixed the size of the force at 11,100 troops, but so far slightly fewer than 9,000 soldiers have been deployed.
They include about 500 who have been put out of action by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), either because they have been captured, surrounded or have gone missing.
Fred Eckhard, spokesman for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, recalled that the council had given UNAMSIL the authority to use deadly force if necessary to defend itself, the people and the government of Sierra Leone. …
To date, just over 24,000 people have disarmed, UN officials say, including almost 5,000 RUF fighters.
(Jeff) Herbst, a specialist in UN peacekeeping at Princeton University, told AFP he believes the Sierra Leone mission is "unsalvageable."
"What is happening in Sierra Leone is extraordinarily dangerous," he said in a telephone interview. "It could be another nail in the coffin of peacekeeping." …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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May 12, 2000College
ACC: Named Maryland's Keith Unikel to the All-Conference golf team.
Ivy League: Named Princeton M Josh Sims (Severn) Player of the Year and first-team All-Conference. Also named to the first-team was Princeton 's Ryan Mollett (Boys' Latin). Princeton M Chris Berrier (St. Paul's) and D Damien Davis (Gilman) received honorable mention. …
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
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May 12, 2000 FridayHEADLINE: Duke scholar to head Methodist seminary
Russell E. Richey, professor of church history at Duke University Divinity School, has been named dean of Emory University's Candler School of Theology. …
He is a native of Asheville, and holds a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University, a bachelor of divinity from
Union Theological Seminary, and master's and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. …
PR Newswire
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May 12, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Universal Display & Luxell Announce Enhanced Contrast Displays, Package Organic Elelctroluminescence With Low Reflective Layer
DATELINE: EWING, N.J., May 12
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: PANL; PHLX: PNL), developer of an innovative flat panel display technology based on organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), and Luxell Technologies (CDNX: LUX) are announcing the integration of UDC's OLED technology with Luxell's low reflective "black layer" materials, described in a joint scientific paper, it was announced today. It is anticipated that this integrated OLED/black layer design can be used to produce electronic displays that have high contrast, high legibility, even in bright sunlight. Further, the displays should have longer life, be lighter because of reduced thickness and be less expensive to make and assemble.
The joint presentation, entitled "Contrast Enhancement of OLED Displays," will be given before the SID '00, the Annual Symposium of the Society For Information Display to be held in Long Beach, Calif., May 14-19. …
About UDC:
UDC has been developing OLED technology with Princeton University and The University of Southern California (USC) since 1994. This partnership is committed to the innovative research and commercialization of this proprietary OLED technology for applications such as flat panel displays, lasers and light generating devices. UDC is located in a new 11,000 sq. ft. facility, just 20 minutes away from one of its research partners, Princeton University, and includes a pilot production line along with the technology development and transfer functions, including a 2,500 sq. ft. clean room. UDC is located in Ewing, N.J., USA, and its common shares are traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol PANL and on the Philadelphia Exchange under PNL.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 2000 The San Diego Union-Tribune
May 12, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Campaign shenanigans worrisome for Fox
BYLINE: DAVID GADDIS SMITHAlthough poll after reputable poll showed most people thought Vicente Fox won last month's debate of presidential candidates by a sizable margin, there were two fake polls showing the ruling party nominee had won.
When I heard about these polls, I thought that surely no self-respecting newspaper or TV station would run them. After all, the media has come a long way in Mexico in recent years.
But the day after the debate, there in El Sol de Tijuana -- and presumably in the rest of the newspapers in the Organizacion Editorial Mexicana chain run by pro-government media tycoon Mario Vazquez Rana -- was a headline saying Francisco Labastida was the winner. The story was written by one of the chain's reporters.
In another debate-related shenanigan, the Chiapas state governor telephoned a government minister and ordered him to get the state's media to report that Labastida had won the debate. …
Mexico expert Wayne Cornelius of the University of California San Diego put it this way: "The real question is whether the party-government apparatus will pull out all the stops over the next two months to steal the election, by large-scale vote-buying, massive use of government personnel for campaign purposes, and other types of pre-election abuses that the IFE can't police effectively." …
Cornelius, founding director of UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and now head of its Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, said Mexicans still fear change.
"The Mexican electorate is predominantly conservative and risk-averse," Cornelius said in a talk at Princeton University last year. "Surveys show that PRI supporters are more conservative in their policy preferences than are supporters of the National Action Party, which is supposed to be the main 'conservative' opposition party in Mexico."
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 2000 Star Tribune
May 12, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: 'U' leaders warn that salary gap will hurt quality; Faculty compensation has fallen behind other leading schools, regents are told.
BYLINE: Duchesne Paul Drew; Staff WriterThe University of Minnesota will have to improve salary and benefit packages for faculty members if it hopes to attract and keep the best and brightest in the world of academia, according to a report administrators and professors presented Thursday to the Board of Regents.
When compared to its peers among the nation's top 30 research institutions, the Twin Cities campus ranks 25th in salary and 20th in total compensation for full professors. While the university's salary and compensation rankings have risen slightly over the past three years, there is a growing gap between the university and the nation's top schools, according to a survey by the American Association of University Professors. …
Institution Average salary, full professor, 1999-2000
3. Princeton University 120,000
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Copyright 2000 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: FORMER JUDGE TO REVIEW POLICIES OF S.F. EXAMINER
BYLINE: SETH ROSENFELD SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCOThe Hearst Corp. yesterday appointed a former federal judge to review the editorial policies of the San Francisco Examiner as a result of testimony by the paper's former publisher that he offered Mayor Willie Brown favorable editorial treatment in exchange for the mayor's support of Hearst's plan to buy the San Francisco Chronicle.
Charles Renfrew of San Francisco will lead the "internal review" and will set the scope and duration of the inquiry, Hearst spokeswoman Debra Shriver said in a statement.
Renfrew was a U.S. district judge in Northern California from 1972 to 1980. From 1980 to 1981 he was a deputy U.S. attorney general. In 1983 he became a vice president of Chevron Corp., in charge of legal affairs, and in 1984 he became a Chevron director. …
Renfrew, 71, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan Law School, spent almost two decades as an associate and partner at the Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro law firm in San Francisco. He was nominated to the federal bench by Republican President Richard Nixon. …
Agence France Presse
Copyright 2000 Agence France Presse
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: African conflicts embarrass UN Security Council
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, May 11Members of a UN Security Council mission to Africa's biggest flashpoints returned to New York on Thursday, with much of the continent on the brink of war.
The conflicts could prove embarrassing for the mission leader, Richard Holbrooke, who championed the cause of Africa almost from the moment he took up his appointment as US ambassador to the United Nations in September.
Before leaving Addis Ababa late Wednesday, Holbrooke said Ethiopia and its neighbour Eritrea were "very close to a resumption of hostilities."
New fighting would "immediately constitute the largest war on the continent," he said.
The delegation, made up of seven ambassadors accredited to the UN, had hoped to persuade the two sides to resume discussions on an Organisation of African Unity peace plan after proximity talks broke down in Algiers late last week.
The failure of the mission to the Horn of Africa coincided with a new stage in the crisis in Sierra Leone, where rebels are holding 500 UN peacekeeping troops hostage. …
(Jeff) Herbst, a specialist in UN peacekeeping at Princeton University, said he doubted that much could be achieved in DRCongo, particularly after the debacle in Sierra Leone.
"Most people have discounted the possibility of sending a peacekeeping force to DRC," he said in a telephone interview.
"But what is happening in Sierra Leone is extraordinarily dangerous. It could be another nail in the coffin of peacekeeping." …
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 2000 Asbury Park Press, Inc.
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: KEEPING THE FAITH
Seminar tackles stereotypes held on Islam
BY: DEBORAH MOHAMMED/Staff Writer
IN an effort to increase cultural awareness, William Blair, acting consultant for the Princeton University history department and a member of the United Methodist Church here, began a six-part seminar last fall on the religion of Islam at the church's invitation.Blair explored many aspects of Islam, especially its history, with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire, which Blair has studied extensively.
"In our present state of mind, Islam and Muslims do not have a very complimentary image," said Barbara Spencer, the church's adult-education coordinator. "The image painted by the media is that of the radical fringe of Islam. People need to understand the religion, the people and its history more. The chasm created by different incidents needs to be bridged. Not all Muslims are angry terrorists."
"Islam and Politics" was the topic of Blair's fifth and next-to-last seminar, held April 30, which explored "alternatives for seeing Islam as incompatible with democracy." …
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2000 The Austin American-Statesman
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Sun City residents create pool of computer knowledge in club
BYLINE: Charlotte MooreSUN CITY -- Back when Peter Roll graduated from Yale University in 1954, computers were menacing giants that filled entire offices. That was "several generations of computer technology ago," he says with a chuckle .
Over time, Roll noted in awe that the smaller computers got, the more power they managed to possess. As a faculty member at Princeton University and later at the University of Minnesota, Roll became an expert on computers and education, from using technology for scholastic research to heading a staff that oversaw university computing activities. Now a resident of Del Webb's Sun City Texas retirement community in Georgetown, Roll uses his career's worth of technical knowledge to help keep his neighbors wired to a computerized world. In 1997, Roll sat at picnic tables with Sun City executives and residents to plan a computer club. Three years later, the fast-growing club has 700 members and a new computer laboratory. …
The San Francisco Examiner
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Highly regarded ex-judge to probe Examiner ethics;Charles B. Renfrew to investigate publisher's offer to favor Mayor Brown
BYLINE: Peter Hartlaub
SOURCE: OF THE EXAMINER STAFFCharles B. Renfrew's resume is heavy reading.
It goes on for three pages, single-spaced, small type, documenting a 50-year professional career with highlights that include a federal judgeship, an appointment as the U.S. deputy attorney general and an executive post at Chevron.
In his newest assignment in his hometown of San Francisco, the former Army artillery man will head an internal review of the editorial policies of The Examiner.
Renfrew's appointment by Hearst Corp. on Wednesday came nine days after Publisher Timothy O. White testified that he offered Mayor Willie Brown favorable treatment in the Examiner's pages in exchange for Brown's support of Hearst's plan to buy the Chronicle. …
Renfrew was in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1948 and the Army from 1952 to 1953, finding time to get an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in between. He got his law degree in 1956 from University of Michigan. …
The Union Leader (Manchester NH)
Copyright 2000 Union Leader Corp.
May 11, 2000 ThursdayHEADLINE: UNH's Farkas doesn't make cut
Orsi Farkas, senior center on the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team, missed the cut with the WNBA's Detroit Shock after trying out with the team last month.
Farkas competed for a roster spot in the WNBA at the Shock's free agent camp in late April. She was one of just 30 players invited to the camp and was evaluated as one of the top three prospects. The Shock invited just the top prospect back to its preseason camp, however.
Farkas still has limited other avenues of opportunity to join a WNBA team before the 2000 season begins in late June.
Farkas' alternative plan to a WNBA career is to use her NCAA postgraduate scholarship to study towards a master's degree in public policy at Princeton University. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
May 11, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: USA TODAY's All-USA High School Academic Teams
The 20 students pictured -- scientists and screenwriters, poets and pianists -- make up the 2000 All-USA High School Academic First Team (Cover Story, 1D). They were chosen to represent all outstanding high school students. (Unweighted grade-point averages are on a scale in which 4.0 is all A's.)
H. Pettus Randall, 17
Central High School, Tuscaloosa, Ala.* GPA: 4.0
* Achievements: Founder, president, Read and Lead Foundation, a literacy mentoring program that expanded internationally; international president, Key Club; president, youth in government and Spanish clubs; Eagle Scout; governor, Boys State; Boys Nation; captain, tennis team; head page, U.S. Senate; public service and oratorical awards.
* "He has consistently given of himself to community service endeavors that would boggle the minds of most philanthropists."
-- Tonya Mills, counselor
* School: Princeton University
* Parents: Pettus and Cathy Randall
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 2000 Asbury Park Press, Inc.
May 10, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Professor says this drawing has the magic numbers
BYLINE: JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS; STAFF WRITER
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY professor John Morgan is usually bearish on lotteries.For the most part, said Morgan, who studies how states spend the lottery money they raise, a lottery ticket is a lousy investment unless players care about what programs their money helps finance.
But not yesterday. Not with the chance of winning last night's Big Game drawing of $350 million.
"You don't have to be crazy to buy a lottery ticket right now, because the payout is so high," he said. "Even if you didn't give a whit about education, and you were a perfectly rational person, it would actually make sense this time to go out and buy a ticket."
As Morgan sees it, buying a $1 lottery ticket is only worth it when the jackpot is higher than the odds against winning it.
With the Big Game, the chance of a given number combination winning is one in 76,273,360 (the total of possible combinations). So, statistically speaking, only if the jackpot is more than $76,273,360 would buying a ticket be worth it, Morgan said. …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 2000 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
May 10, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: FIRST CANDIDATE FOR CHANCELLOR VISITS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT ROLLA TODAY
BYLINE: Susan C. Thomson; Of The Post-DispatchThe first of three announced candidates for chancellor at the University of Missouri at Rolla is to arrive on campus today to meet with students, faculty and staff. …
Lawrence A. Kennedy, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of mechanical and chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the third candidate. His campus visit will be May 22 and 23. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and astronautical sciences from Northwestern University. His resume includes previous jobs at Ohio State University, Princeton University, State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Michigan and the University of California at San Diego. …
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Copyright 2000 Institute on Religion and Public Life
May 1, 2000HEADLINE: IMPERFECT CONCEPTIONS: MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND EUGENICS IN CHINA; Review; book review
BYLINE: Smith, Wesley J.IMPERFECT CONCEPTIONS: MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND EUGENICS IN CHINA. By FRANK DIKOTTER. Columbia University Press. 288 pp. $27.50.
The evil of eugenics, practiced tragically and widely in the United States, England, and Germany earlier in the century, remains a driving force in the People's Republic of China.
Indeed, in 1995 national legislation firmly installed eugenics as official government policy. What does this mean? In a dry but disturbing book aimed at fellow academics, Frank Dikotter describes the legitimization in China of all the evils long associated with the eugenics movement: forced sterilizations of the "unfit," eugenic late-term abortions, forced abortion under the "one-child" policy, and the public promotion of the odious concept that babies born with disabilities have "zero value lives" and whose killings are to be encouraged for the good of the family and the country. After reading Imperfect Conceptions, I was left to wonder how our government can possibly promote China's entrance into the World Trade Organization when its public policies are so eerily similar to those engaged in by Germany sixty years ago. But then I remembered: we are the country in which Princeton University appointed Peter Singer to a tenured ethics professorship despite the fact that he approves of killing disabled infants and advocates a brand of "utilitarian" philosophy that generously accommodates the ambitions of the eugenics project. If Singer ever gets tired of Princeton , he might find a warm welcome in the PRC.
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 2000 The Baltimore Sun Company
April 30, 2000HEADLINE: To bleed or not to bleed? ;It's a question often faced by directors of violent productions like "Macbeth': Just how much blood should be spilled before an audience?
BYLINE: Arthur Hirsch
SOURCE: Sun StaffThat damned spot. It's there in "Macbeth" whether it's there or not, hence the questions for any director who takes on the play: How much blood is too much or not enough?
It's one thing to say that this William Shakespeare tragedy is thematically steeped in blood -- that the stuff metaphorically drips from the walls, bubbles from the witches' caldron, and darkens the skies over Dunsinane and the souls of its treacherous protagonists. It's another to actually deal with the red goo onstage.
At Center Stage, where " Macbeth" has been running since March 24, they go through about a cup of fake blood per show -- about two gallons already, with another week of shows to go. Director Tim Vasen says it could have been worse. …
When Vasen did "Gum," he felt the blood was necessary for dramatic impact. When he directed Georg Buchner's French Revolution tragedy, "Danton's Death," at Princeton University, he felt that seven deaths by guillotine would be a bit much. Rather than have blood and heads flying all over the stage and spectators fleeing to rest rooms, he represented the beheadings by having the victims doused with buckets of water. …
Nation's Restaurant News
Copyright 2000 Lebhar-Friedman, Inc.
April 24, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: NEWS DIGESTS
Princeton University imports Ethiopian cuisinePrinceton , N.J. -- Students at Princeton University got a chance to sample the cuisine of Ethiopia, when the Dining Services staff served menu items from Makeda, an Ethiopian restaurant in New Brunswick, N.J.
Dining Services director Stuart Orefice explained that Makeda's presence on campus was part of the university's "Garden State Series" visiting chef program.
Students were offered a number of Makeda's menu items, which included tibs wat, sauteed beef in a spicy stew; and beg wat, lamb marinated in red wine and Berber sauce. Students also feasted on kefta, Moroccan-style meatballs; and mesir azefah, a salad of green lentils, chopped onions and jalapeo peppers in a dressing of ginger, white pepper, lemon and mustard seed.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 14, 2000LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
HEADLINE: Admissions Counselors for Hire
To the Editor:
Bill Paul decries the role of private counselors because of their unfair influence in the application process ("Another Roadblock for Equal Access to College: the 'Counselor Advantage,'" Opinion, March 10). In the name of equalizing access to higher education, he urges colleges to discourage and even punish applicants' use of these professionals. . . . Why should equalizing access equate to dumbing down the counseling process to the lowest common denominator -- the overworked public-school counselor with too many students and too little time? …
Minority students avail themselves regularly of this assistance. For example, an applicant who never used Accepted.com's fee-based services recently thanked Accepted.com for the advice offered on its Web site. He believes it helped him gain acceptance to top M.B.A. programs and provided him with a great shot at a fellowship as well. …
Are the colleges really opposed to students using the advantages money can buy? If so, how can Princeton University, whose admissions dean was particularly pained by the influence of money, charge over $100,000 for a four-year degree? Presumably, the students and their parents are paying for a superior education and the lifelong advantages that it will provide. If not, they are spending a lot of money for nothing. …
Linda Abraham
President
Accepted.com
Los Angeles
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 7, 2000HEADLINE: Peter Singer's Controversial Views Have Brought Philosophy Out of the Ivory Tower
To the Editor:
Isn't it an example of prejudicial journalism to assert that among the "crowd of . . . protesters" who greeted Peter Singer at Princeton University were "a group of disabled-rights activists called Not Dead Yet. Some belonged to a group called the Roman Catholic Church"? While it is probable that many Catholics would agree with disabled-rights activists in opposing some of Dr. Singer's views, the church as a "group" (i.e., the hierarchy collectively, or the billion people who belong to the church) has not, to my knowledge, seen fit to pronounce on Dr. Singer's views. To single out Roman Catholics as a particular group of protesters against Dr. Singer's views (were there no protesters who belonged to a "group" called Protestants or Jews?) is invidious.
Jeffrey von Arx
Dean Fordham College at Rose Hill
Fordham University
Bronx, N.Y.
OBITUARIES
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
May 18, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
DAILEY, LOUIS B.DAILEY-Louis B. Died peacefully at home, age 96. of New York City and Brookfield, NH on May 17. A prominent New York lawyer in private practice, lifetime activist for world peace, nationally ranked tennis player, blueberry farmer. Graduate of Princeton University '23, Columbia Law School '27. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
May 17, 2000HEADLINE: Alfred Morse Osgood, 86; Partner in D.C. Law Firm
Alfred Morse Osgood, 86, a Washington lawyer who was a specialist in excise taxes while a partner in the firm of Lee, Toomey & Kent, died of congestive heart failure April 29 at a medical center in Rockport, Maine.
Mr. Osgood, who lived in Maine for the past two years, was a former Chevy Chase resident who retired in the late 1970s after more than 25 years with Lee, Toomey & Kent in Washington.
He was a native of Illinois and a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard University law school. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.
May 10, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Alfred Morse Osgood, 86
DATELINE: LINCOLNVILLEAlfred Morse Osgood, 86, formerly of Chevy Chase, Md., died at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport on April 29, 2000, of heart failure.
He was born in Wilmette, Ill., a son of Roy C. and Anne Hudson Osgood, and also lived in Kenilworth, Ill. An attorney, he graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University in 1937 and Harvard Law School. A lifelong Exeter booster, he remained Class of 1933 fund-raising agent until his death. …
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 2000 Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.
May 16, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Joseph G. Shuman, 89
Joseph G. Shuman, 89, formerly of Bluff Road, Yarmouth, died Saturday at a Portland nursing home.
Born in Quincy, Mass., a son of Lewis and Sophie Gordon Shuman, he graduated from Quincy High School and M.I.T., doing his graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati and Princeton University.
Mr. Shuman was a chemical engineer for Tuck Tape Co. and also worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. …
Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)
Copyright 2000 Wilmington Star-News, Inc.
May 13, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: FUNERALS & OBITUARIES
JOHN D. MILLERJohn D. Miller, husband of Frances Miller, resident of Wilmington from 1994 to 1999 died May 5 in Baltimore, Md., from complications related to recurring treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 64.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Princeton University and Michigan Law School. …
The Denver Post
Copyright 2000 The Denver Post Corporation
May 11, 2000 ThursdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Harold Godfrey Young
Real-estate agent, 62Harold Godfrey Young of Golden, a commercial real-estate agent, died Friday. He was 62.
No services were held. Interment was in Crown Hill Cemetery.
He was born June 3, 1931, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. On Dec. 21, 1957, he married Carol Dechant in Denver.
He earned a degree in geology from Princeton University. …
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 2000 The Cincinnati Enquirer
May 10, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Obituaries; Andrew DeMar, 66, was a P&G senior manager; He served as national president of Children's Int'l Summer; Villages
BYLINE: Rebecca Billman
SOURCE: The Cincinnati EnquirerAndrew R. DeMar, retired senior manager for Procter & Gamble, died Sunday from leukemia at Jewish Hospital. The Hyde Park resident was 66.
Mr. DeMar was born in Irvington, N.J., and grew up in Union, N.J. He graduated from Union High School in 1952.
In 1956, he graduated from Princeton University, married Geraldine "Gerry" Potter, joined the Air Force Reserves and accepted employment with P&G. During his 43 years there, Mr. DeMar held various positions, including copy supervisor, senior commercial production supervisor and senior visualization manager. He retired in 1999. …
The Buffalo News
Copyright 2000 The Buffalo News
May 5, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: ANTHONY SCOTT, OWNED CLOTHING STORES
Anthony Scott, former owner of Scott Del Children's Wear, died Wednesday (May 3, 2000) in his West Seneca home after a long illness. He was 78.
Born in Buffalo as Anthony Scaccia, he changed his name to Scott before attending the University of Buffalo. He later took an accelerated course on Italy at Princeton University, knowledge that would later serve him during World War II.
He joined the U.S. Army and served at Fort Eustis, Va.; Camp Kilmer, N.J.; and in Europe during World War II. He eventually became an interpreter for 250 former Italian prisoners of war who were working for the U.S. Army. …
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