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October 4, 2000
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The Gazette, October 2, 2000Harold Shapiro steps down from a richer Princeton
Harold Shapiro has announced that he will resign next summer, after serving 13 years as president of Princeton University.
Having recently completed a $1.1-billion fundraising campaign for the university, the Montreal native - whose twin brother, Bernard Shapiro, is principal and vice- chancellor of McGill University - said he feels he is ''leaving Princeton at the top of its game.''
After taking a short sabbatical, Shapiro, 65, plans to return to full-time teaching and research at Princeton in economics, bioethics and public affairs. ...
Insight on the News, October 2, 2000Winning Colleges
SUMMARY: In a time of rampant political correctness on university campuses, finds 30 excellent colleges that still offer students a well-rounded education, where professors are committed to teaching and traditional values are not suppressed.
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Thor Halvorssen, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Inc. ... tells Insight that it's "not a tragedy to send our children to PC campuses that still offer good educations" as long as students are forewarned and prepared. And Princeton University, which "on paper looks as politically correct as many of the Ivies," in practice "seems to treat its students with more respect than the other Ivy League campuses do. Its faculty remains first-rate." ...
The San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2000Top Universities Join E-Learning Experiment
Stanford producing courses
Stanford has joined with three other prestigious universities -- Oxford, Yale and Princeton -- in a $12 million distance-learning venture to produce online arts and science courses intended for their combined half-million alumni.
The venture, University Alliance for Life-Long Learning, plans to offer, among other things, noncredit undergraduate-level courses, interactive seminars, multimedia programs, live and taped coverage of campus speakers, exhibitions and topical Web sites with links to research sources. ...
Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2000LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP
SEVERAL NEW BOOKS HELP US SEE THE PATHS THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS--AND FAILURE--IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Beyond policy proposals and polls, maneuvering and money, speechifying and shenanigans, every presidential campaign is a referendum on leadership. As Election Day approaches, candidates surviving the bloodying nominating gauntlet ask voters to reconsider the meaning of leadership--as it has been practiced in the past and its possible conduct in the future. ...
In "The Presidential Difference," Princeton University scholar Fred I. Greenstein focuses on the six Democrats and five Republicans who've occupied the Oval Office since Franklin Roosevelt took charge in 1933. With methodical presentation of facts and judicious analysis, Greenstein probes each president by offering a biographical sketch and evaluative assessment.
Six qualities stand out in this book's survey of presidential performance--"public communication," "organizational capacity," "political skill," "vision," "cognitive style" and "emotional intelligence"--and Greenstein treats all 11 presidents in relation to each trait. ...
Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2000WITH 'GATSBY,' LYRIC OPERA SHOWS ITS AMERICAN SPIRIT
It has been widely remarked that we are living in a watershed period for new American opera. Perhaps nothing better reflects the coming of age of the art form than the increased sharing of new works by American opera companies. ...
Monday night at the Civic Opera House, Lyric Opera will present the Chicago premiere of John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby," based on the classic Jazz Age novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
Harbison's fascination with Fitzgerald and his 1925 novel about romantic illusion and self-delusion -- one of the most widely read of 20th Century American literary works -- dates to his youth. Harbison grew up in Princeton and attended Princeton University, as did Fitzgerald. Both men succumbed to the lure of the popular song styles and jazz of the '20s. ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 1, 2000Uncertainties surround impact of abortion pill
Supporters say use won't cause increase in abortions, but skeptics wonder
Washington -- The Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill RU-486 could make the procedure more accessible than ever to millions of women in communities with no abortion provider, supporters of the drug say.
At the same time, however, these advocates make a seemingly contradictory claim: Despite wider availability, RU-486 will not prompt any increase in the number of abortions. ...
In predicting what will happen in the United States as the drug comes into use, the most compelling clues come from Europe, where more than half a million women have used it in the last decade. ...
"You can't just paste the experience of Europe onto the United States," said James Trussell, a Princeton University economist who focuses on reproductive health.
To begin with, abortion in France is a government-sanctioned service offered by the national health system, and it is widely available throughout the country, Trussell said. French women do not face the hurdle of having to search for a clinic. And abortion is not a highly charged political issue, so no women are scared away from clinics by the prospect of pickets. ...
The New York Times, October 1, 2000ON CAMPUS
A New Campus Center A Little Off-Center
It's a class thing, some students say. Then there is the distance.
The newest addition to the Princeton University campus stands camouflaged behind a cement facade -- all five levels, 185,000 square feet, all $48 million worth. ...
Designed by the architect Robert Venturi of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, who received his undergraduate degree here in 1947 and a master's in fine arts in 1950, the center is a melding of the historic Palmer Hall -- where Einstein frequently worked -- with a modern addition that features a solid face of windows to the south and a detached facade to the north. ...
St. Petersburg Times, October 1, 2000What to make of Ralph Nader
He has made his name as a consumer advocate, but as a candidate he is struggling to get people's attention.
MINNEAPOLIS - As a crusader for consumers, Ralph Nader has been hailed as an American hero. He revolutionized auto safety and prodded Congress to pass laws for cleaner air and water. That beep-beep-beep when a truck backs up, the sound that may have saved your toddler's life? They call it the Nader Bell. ...
Ralph Nader earned his bookish reputation at Princeton University. In a 1972 biography, Nader: the People's Lawyer, a college roommate described him as "the kind of guy who would go to the bathroom and come back telling you all about the new book he finished reading while on the john." ...
At news conferences, Nader dodges questions about his chances of winning in November but makes it clear that his real goal is to establish the Green Party, primarily known for its stance on environmental issues, as a potent force for the future.
"We're building a political party," he tells reporters in Flint. "After the election, we'll emerge with a major third party that will be a strong watchdog."
The Green Party could be his last and biggest legacy - if he can just find a way to get people to hear him.
The Commercial Appeal, September 30, 2000IMPACT OF PILL ON U.S. CAN'T BE PREDICTED, ANALYSTS SAY
WILL THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS FALL AS IT HAS IN EUROPE?
The Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill RU486 could make the procedure more accessible than ever to millions of women in communities with no abortion provider, supporters of the drug say. ...
In predicting what will happen in the United States as the drug starts being used, the most compelling clues come from Europe, where more than 500,000 women have used it during the last decade. ...
But Winikoff and others also noted that there are big differences between the United States, where abortion is a volatile political issue, and most of Europe, where government plays a far larger role in delivering health care. "You can't just paste the experience of Europe onto the United States," said James Trussell, a Princeton University economist who focuses on reproductive health. ...
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Princeton University will launch a distance-learning program in a joint venture with Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities to serve their combined 500,000 alumni.
Each university will spend $3 million on the program.
The nonprofit University Alliance for Life-Long Learning is scheduled to offer courses and other products in late 2001.
Its noncredit offerings will include online courses, interactive seminars, multimedia programs, live and taped coverage of campus speakers and exhibitions.
Princeton officials said the group plans to offer such courses to a wider audience seeking personal enrichment in the future. ...
Financial Times, September 29, 2000NATIONAL NEWS
Elite universities form internet alliance LIFELONG LEARNING OXFORD JOINS US COLLEGES TO PROVIDE ONLINE COURSES FOR ALUMNI:
Virtual college to be created jointly by Oxford, Princeton, Yale and Stanford to compete in the $50-bil online education sector
Oxford University will today announce a deal with Princeton, Stanford and Yale to set up an elite virtual college providing internet courses for half a million alumni. ...
Academic staff will be encouraged to work with their peers at the four universities to design online courses and explore how the internet can be used to teach. ...
Each of the four univer-sities will provide $3m in start-up funds and the alliance expects to be able to make the first courses available by the end of 2001. ...
The San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2000Kiss the Bosom Of the Free Market
Dr. Elaine Showalter, an English professor at Princeton University, was browsing in a used-book stall in Paris in the early 1990s when she came upon an astonishing find: an Old West romance, replete with whorehouses, lesbian affairs and attempted rapes, written by Lynne Cheney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Dick Cheney. ...
U.S. Newswire, September 28, 2000National Health Association Applauds FDA Decision on Mifepristone
The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP), an education association for health care providers, praises the FDA's approval of Mifepristone for medical abortion. ARHP applauds the FDA's announcement that effectively safeguards the rights and privacy of health care providers and the women they serve, while providing important access to a proven safe and effective abortion method. ...
"This is a great day for American women and a huge victory," says James Trussell, PhD, ARHP board member and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. "This approval also helps ensure the safety and well-being of women who can now avoid the harassment and clinic violence that plagues many abortion facilities." ...
Gannett News Service, September 28, 2000House-Senate panel sets aside $414.3 million for N.J. projects
WASHINGTON A key congressional panel has agreed to allocate millions for water projects in New Jersey, including dredging of New York and Philadelphia harbors, flood control along the Passaic and Raritan rivers, and beach-replenishment projects along the Jersey shore. ...
According to the agreement, New Jersey would receive about $ 429.3 million, the bulk of which would go for a fusion research program at Princeton University. ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 28IMMEDIATE TREATMENT COULD KEEP HIV IN CHECK
SEPARATE REPORT URGES RENEWED; PREVENTION EFFORTS
Some people who start taking anti-viral therapy soon after they're infected with human immunodeficiency virus can eventually stop taking the drugs and keep the virus in check with their own immune systems for an extended time, new research shows.
The research is published today in the journal Nature, and joins a call issued yesterday for stronger efforts to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. ...
The report from the Institute of Medicine, meanwhile, noted that while the spread of AIDS among gay men has declined over the past 15 years, it has increased among women, minorities and adolescents. The institute is an arm of the sciences academy.
The current tracking system collects data on AIDS but does not provide a detailed picture of infections by HIV. Years can pass between infection and development of AIDS.
"By focusing mainly on AIDS cases, where diagnosis lags behind HIV infection ... today's surveillance system looks at the past rather than to the future and tracks where the epidemic has been rather than where it is going," said James Trussell, associate dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-chair of the study committee. ...
The Associated Press, September 27, 2000Better tracking, battling complacency urged in fighting AIDS
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While the spread of AIDS among gay men has declined over the last 15 years, there has been an increase among women, minorities and adolescents, according to the report released Wednesday by the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. ...
The current tracking system collects data on AIDS but does not provide a detailed picture of infections by the HIV virus that causes the disease. Years can pass between infection and development of AIDS.
"By focusing mainly on AIDS cases, where diagnosis lags behind HIV infection ... today's surveillance system looks at the past rather than to the future and tracks where the epidemic has been rather than where it is going," said James Trussell, associate dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-chair of the study committee. ...
The New York Times, September 27, 2000THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE'S WIFE
Bold Themes in a Lynne Cheney Novel
Elaine Showalter, an English professor at Princeton University, was browsing a used-book stall in Paris in the early 1990's when she came upon an astonishing find: an Old West romance, replete with whorehouses, lesbian affairs and attempted rapes, written by an author whose name was all too familiar to academics in the humanities.
Dr. Showalter had stumbled across an old and obscure novel by Lynne Cheney, who until recently was known mainly for her tenure as the conservative chair of the National Endowment of the Humanities and as a crusader against American educational decline, multiculturalism and relativism. These days, she is best known for being married to the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Dick Cheney. ...
Scripps Howard News Service, September 27Panel urges improved strategies to combat HIV and AIDS
A better disease tracking system and more responsive, cost-effective interventions are needed to cut the rate of new cases of human immunodeficiency virus, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday. ...
The national picture of HIV and AIDS lags far behind reality, the committee found, because of the way the government measures cases. "By focusing mainly on AIDS cases, where diagnosis lags behind HIV infection by about 10 years without treatment and even longer with treatment, today's surveillance system looks at the past rather than the future and tracks where the epidemic has been, rather than where it is going," said James Trussell, an economist and associate dean at Princeton University, and co-chair of the panel. ...
Newhouse News Service, September 26, 2000Princeton President to Step Down Next Summer
Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro announced Tuesday that he will step down as head of the university next summer but will return to teach and conduct research after taking a sabbatical.
"I informed the board (of trustees) this afternoon that this would be my last year as president of Princeton University, " Shapiro said at a press conference.
"We accept with real regret the reality of there being a change," said Robert H. Rawson Jr., chairman of the trustee board's executive committee. ...
St. Petersburg Times, September 26, 2000VOTING FROM THE HEART
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Some economists, such as Princeton's Uwe Reinhardt, question whether private plans can operate more cheaply than Medicare, which can dictate payments to doctors and hospitals. Early HMO savings came mainly from negotiated discounts with providers, he says. Today, providers complain that their margins have been cut to the bone and are resisting further discounts. ...
The Independent, September 24, 2000THE DAY THE FIGHT OVER EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS GOT PERSONAL
LIKE CLINTON sitting down to dinner with Castro, two of the world's leading experts - and opponents - on animal experiments came face to face for the first time in London yesterday in a bitter clash on the rights and wrongs of vivisection.
Amid tight security, the pair - Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Peter Singer - attacked one another in a highly charged debate on animal research as part of an international conference on bioethics. ...
Professor Singer, who began his remarks by deploring the physical attacks on Professor Blakemore and his family, denounced "speciesism" - the drawing of a line between ourselves and other primates which is similar to racism. ...
THE KANSAS CITY STAR, September 24, 2000Coen mutiny
Love their films or hate them, the unpredictable Coen brothers never make 'ordinary movies'
M. Emmet Walsh remembers Joel and Ethan Coen as crazy kids with a dream: to turn their lifelong passion for movies into a lasting career. ...
Some of their films - such as "Raising Arizona" (1987), "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1993) and "The Big Lebowski" (1997) - are lighthearted romps. In contrast, "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "Barton Fink" (1991) and "Fargo" are more ambiguous in tone and temperament. ...
The Coens both had good educations: Joel studied film at New York University and at the University of Texas at Austin, and Ethan studied philosophy at Princeton University. ...
The Gazette, September 23, 2000When germs talk
Microbes wait until there are enough of them to attack. Now, scientists are trying to interfere with their communications system
A new front is opening in the eternal war between germs and humans. ...
In a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J., said E. coli and salmonella bacteria wait until their numbers reach a critical mass before they start to release the poisonous toxins that have sickened or killed hundreds of people who ate contaminated food. ...
Scientists call this bacterial communication system ''quorum sensing.'' That's because it works a bit like a quorum in human society, where it takes a certain number of people to get a meeting going. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT, September 23DIVORCE LESS HARMFUL TO CHILDREN THAN LIVING WITH FIGHTING PARENTS
Divorce researcher Judith S. Wallerstein is packing such a punch with her new book, "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce," because she says, with passion, what so many people wouldn'tsay for so long: Divorce is a big deal for children. ...
Because children's standard of living often declines with their parents' divorce, they often miss out on resources like better schools. The economic impact is so great that sociologist Sara McLanahan of Princeton University estimates its impact accounts for as much as half of these children's adjustment problems. ...
Knoxville News-Sentinel, September 18, 2000Affirmative action still not understood
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Among the most common misperceptions regarding affirmative action is the use of race as a factor in college admissions. According to William Bowen and Derek Bok, former presidents of Princeton University and Harvard University, respectively, and authors of "The Shape of the River," only 20 percent to 30 percent of all four-year colleges in the country use race as a factor in admissions.
These are the schools that are considered the elite. The rest of the schools do not have enough applicants to afford the luxury. Their book is the most comprehensive study ever done on affirmative action in higher education. ...
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