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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Professor of Sociology Alejandro Portes is the co-author of a widely reported study that finds children of immigrants have higher grades and steeply lower school dropout rates than other American children.
The London Independent reports on a paper by Jackson Eaton '99 that finds Gulf War forces got 'high' on a nerve drug, which may help explain controversial illnesses reported by veterans.
Obituaries of Arthur S. Link, editor of the 69-volume Papers of Woodrow Wilson.
Will warm weather cancel this year's Nude Olympics?
Associated Press
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
March 27, 1998; FridayOBITURARIES
Arthur S. Link
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Arthur S. Link, a former Princeton University historian and leading scholar on Woodrow Wilson, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 77.
Long before the advent of modern word processing, Link began editing the 69-volume ''Papers of Woodrow Wilson'' published between 1966 and 1994.
Link authored more than 30 books in all, including a five-volume biography of Wilson. He twice won the Bancroft Prize for the best book on American history.
The News and Observer
Copyright 1998 The News and Observer , Raleigh, N.C.
March 27, 1998 FridayHEADLINE: A.S. Link, historian of Wilson presidency
BYLINE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
GREENSBORO -- Dr. Arthur Stanley Link of Advance, the historian who was acknowledged as the nation's leading expert on the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and who was editor of the Wilson papers, died on Thursday at the Bermuda Village Health Center, after a prolonged illness. He was 77.
Link spent most of his career on the faculty of Princeton University, which he joined in 1945. From 1949 to 1960, he was a member of the faculty of Northwestern University. Returning to Princeton in 1960, he was Edwards Professor of American History from 1965 to 1976, and George Henry Davis professor of American history from 1976 to 1991. In 1992, he retired to Bermuda Village in Advance.
Regarded as the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, Link wrote more than 30 books, along with numerous articles and reviews. Author of a five-volume biography of Wilson, Link's crowning scholarly achievement was the editing of the 69-volume "Papers of Woodrow Wilson," published between 1966 and 1994.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
March 27, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: The Big Chair; James Johnson, Head of Brookings, Fannie Mae and the Kennedy Center, Is in the Catbird Seat
BYLINE: Lloyd Grove, Washington Post Staff Writer
"I'm not big on losing. Somebody may have mentioned that to you."
James Arthur Johnson is clearly a changed man. When he was a Democratic Party operative, he was very big on losing. From 1968 through 1984, he worked for no fewer than five failed presidential campaigns -- his last as chairman of the disastrous effort that ended in Walter Mondale's 49-state defeat to incumbent Ronald Reagan.
At which point Jim Johnson quit presidential politics. Out of the public eye, he pursued a quiet career in business.
Now, nearly 15 years later, the 54-year-old Johnson has won the Washington equivalent of the Triple Crown, crossing the finish line as one of the most powerful men in the United States.
As chairman of three preeminent institutions in the nation's capital -- the government-sponsored home mortgage behemoth known as Fannie Mae, the peerless think tank known as the Brookings Institution and the mammoth performing arts emporium known as the Kennedy Center -- he has positioned himself to exert enormous influence over the country's economic, intellectual and cultural lives.
Nothing if not precocious, Johnson took a leadership position in the liberal-activist National Student Association, traveled to Africa on a Ford Foundation grant and got his master's at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School before he was 26. He was so seamlessly successful that the abrupt end of his four-year marriage -- to a fellow Princetonian whose father worked for the Ford Foundation -- came as a shock.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
March 27, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Homecoming Queen: Noor's Princeton Reunion
BYLINE: Nora Boustany
Jordan's Queen Noor threw a private party here March 19 to celebrate the 25th reunion of her class of Princeton University, the first class to admit women. Earlier, Noor met first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and invited her to speak at the U.N. University International Leadership Academy, based in Amman, Jordan.
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 1998 Albuquerque Journal
March 26, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Activists To Demand Entry at LANL
BYLINE: Journal Staff Report
A Princeton physicist, a Catholic bishop and local nuclear-disarmament activists plan to demand entry today to top-secret nuclear weapons facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Not one expects to be let in, of course.
Lab officials will ask them to leave and perhaps arrest them for trespassing if they persevere.
But they hope the made-for-media confrontation will serve as a public remark on the latest boost in U.S. nuclear-weapons research at a time when the nation is demanding the destruction of Iraq's ability to make weapons of mass destruction.
Leading the self-styled "citizen verification team" will be Pakistani physicist Zia Mian, a Princeton University researcher on nuclear proliferation and a disarmament advocate, and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a veteran peace activist who has toured world hot spots, most recently Iraq. He spearheaded a recent letter from U.S. bishops condemning nuclear weapons.
Associated Press
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
March 26, 1998; ThursdayHEADLINE: Religion Today
BYLINE: DAVID BRIGGS
DATELINE: NEW YORK''Won't heaven be a boring place?'' ''Is Christianity the only true religion?'' ''Does 'God the Father' mean that God is male?''
Replacing rote exercises with conversation, two proposed catechisms for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) explore how ancient truths apply to contemporary culture.
Instead of hurling Reformation anathemas at other Christian churches, these brief recaps of Presbyterian teaching talk about being part of ''the holy catholic church'' and ponder whether salvation is available to non-Christians.
Interpreting masculine images of God without excluding women is also part of the proposed catechisms, which will be presented to the church's General Assembly in June. If approved, they will be sent to the denomination's 11,000 churches as study documents.
If they pass muster in the pews, they may become part of the church's authoritative Book of Confessions. But ''only if they enable the contemporary church to confess Jesus Christ today,'' said Richard Osmer, a professor of Christian education at Princeton University.
Osmer led a special committee, appointed by the General Assembly in 1994, to create a contemporary statement of church teachings.
The Houston Chronicle
Copyright 1998 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
March 26, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: South Texas law students back A&M; Name recognition will aid their careers
BYLINE: LYDIA LUM
Texas A&M University System regents could revise their affiliation with South Texas College of Law this week, but many students at the downtown Houston school hope they don't.
Some at the private law school have been jubilant about the alliance, saying the name of a nationally ranked university boosts the value of their diplomas.
South Texas has a reputation for producing top-notch lawyers. But some out-of-state law firms as recently as last year still refused job interviews to South Texas students because they were unfamiliar with the 75-year-old law school.
"The attitude is, if they haven't heard of the school, then it must be bad," said third-year student Corey Mills. "Perception is everything."
Some students planning to graduate in May already have changed their resumes to read, "Texas A&M University law center." Those students cite a U.S. News & World Report survey in the 1980s as an example of how important perception is in the legal field.
In that survey, Princeton University was ranked as having one of the top law schools in the country. But the Ivy League school doesn't even have a law program.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 26, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
SARTORIUS, JOHN M.
SARTORIUS-John M. Of Quogue, New York, formerly of Tenafly, New Jersey, died on March 23, 1998 after a long illness in his 78th year. He is survived by his devoted wife Nancy, four sons, John, Jr., Peter, David and Scott, a sister Beverly VanderPoel, a brother Robert Sartorius. He was predeceased by his first wife, Frances Cauchois Sartorius in 1973. Mr. Sartorius graduated from the Hill School and Princeton University Class of 1942.
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1998 The Columbus Dispatch
March 25, 1998, WednesdayEDITORIAL
HEADLINE: IMMIGRANT SUCCESS; WHY SANJAY CAN READ BETTER THAN JOHNNYAmerican society took a left jab when international test scores showed pupils in many other nations are far more advanced than their U.S. counterparts.
Now comes a right cross: Children of immigrants to the United States do better than the ''hometown'' kids, too.
A four-year-study led by sociologists Ruben Rumbaut of Michigan State University and Alejandro Portes of Princeton University began in 1992 with interviews of 5,200 eighth- and ninth-graders in San Diego and Miami. The researchers tracked down 82 percent of that group for second interviews in 1995 and 1996.
The pupils surveyed were predominantly Hispanic, Asian and black. Those with parents from China, India, Japan and South Korea averaged A's and B's. Those with parents from Latin America and Haiti performed poorest, with averages close to C. Those findings reflect the international test results, but the study, purported to be the largest of its kind, provided what may be even more meaningful data in terms of sociology.
A majority of the pupils said that they had experienced discrimination, but a larger majority said they believe the United States is the best country in the world in which to live. These children also overwhelmingly prefer English to their parents' native languages, providing new grist for the constantly grinding debate over bilingual education.
The Detroit News
Copyright 1998 The Detroit News, Inc
March 25, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Women's hockey scores a power play: Ice lures all ages as interest soars across the state
BYLINE: By Steve Rosoff / Special to The Detroit News
At about 4 feet high, Courtney Lord of Brighton may be the tiniest player on the Cougars. But bigger girls don't keep the 8-year-old from the puck.
"I like to go after them anyway," she says with an impish grin.
"She's a pistol," says her assistant coach, Missy Bemis, "not easily intimidated."
Courtney and thousands like her are proof that hockey isn't just a male sport anymore. As hockey has drawn legions of new fans in recent years, girls and young women have picked up pads, pucks and pluck.
And two recent events -- the Red Wings Stanley Cup victory last year and the gold medal success of the U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team in February -- have turned what was already a boom in Michigan into an explosion.
Women's hockey has scored remarkable growth since 1987, according to Barbara Issel, registrar for District Six (Michigan) for USA Hockey and the wife of Lou Issel. Back then, girls who wanted to develop hockey skills had to join a boys' team, if they could find one to accept them.
All that changed with the formation of the Michigan Capitals, the state's first girls' travel team.
Lou Issel, whose daughter, Kathy, played for the Capitals before going to Princeton University, where she set several school hockey records, remembers that first year as a Bad News Bears experience: Losing was the norm.
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 1998 Guy Gannett Communications, Inc.
March 25, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: RICHARD H. SMITH; GOLFER, CO-FOUNDED PIERSON AND SMITH
DATELINE: ROCKLAND
Richard H. Smith, 77, of Rockland and Brewers Bay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Tortola.
A son of F. Richard and Ruth Brown Smith, he attended King School, the Loomis Chafee School and graduated from Princeton University in 1942.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
March 24, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Tigers finally have arrived: After 98-year wait, Princeton has skated into the NCAAs
BYLINE: By Kevin Paul Dupont, Globe Staff
DATELINE: LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
Three days, three games, and three victories later, Toot Cahoon's voice box was in splinters. Princeton's head hockey coach stood at the podium here Saturday night, his Tigers the champs of the ECAC playoffs, and his tired, hoarse voice made him sound like a man whose club had waited nearly a century for a day like this.
In fact, the Tigers had waited only 98 years. Their reward: their first trip to the NCAA playoffs.
"I thought our first few shifts told the story that we came to play," said the gravelly voiced Cahoon after a goal 48 seconds into the second overtime gave Princeton a 5-4 victory over Clarkson at Olympic Arena. "There was very little coaching. All the motivation for our players came from within; they're the ones who developed the concept of winning the championship and not just being at the championship."
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 1998 The Cincinnati Enquirer
March 24, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Obituaries
BYLINE: JENNIFER BURGEL
Louis Pechstein was attorney for Celotex
Louis A. Pechstein, a retired attorney for Celotex Corp., died March 14 at St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa, Fla., after a brief illness. He was 81.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Pechstein grew up in Cincinnati and attended Hughes High School. He was a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and a captain in the Army from 1942-46.
The Evening Post
Copyright 1998 Wellington Newspapers Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
March 24, 1998HEADLINE: Wizards chosen to produce magic
BYLINE: McCONNELL Lynn
Wellington's Wizards will be running the boards of the national men's basketball league this season.
Club organisers have decided on the name after casting around for suitable replacements since the Wellington Saints and Hutt Valley Lakers amalgamated last season.
With Gareth Rapson taking over the coaching, and a change in direction with a concentration on local talent, the name is seen as appropriate in launching a new era for the sport in New Zealand.
While no contract has yet been signed, it is the worst-kept secret in New Zealand that Dickel will be joining the side as soon as he has completed examinations at the University of Las Vegas, where he helped the side reach the prestigious NCAA play-offs. The side was eliminated by Princeton in its first play-off game.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 24, 1998, TuesdayNAME: Stephen W. Hawking
HEADLINE: Scientist at Work: Stephen W. Hawking; Sailing A Wheelchair To the End Of Time
BYLINE: By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
DATELINE: PASADENA, Calif.
OUT of a crumpled, voiceless body in a wheelchair, the mind of Stephen W. Hawking soars and summons expression by pressing a finger and thumb to a small control box in his lap. Slowly, one word or letter at a time, sentences appear on the lower half of a compact computer screen attached to the chair. He is forming an answer to a question about the consuming quest of some of the world's most brilliant scientists, himself very much included, to find a "theory of everything" to explain all phenomena in space-time, especially the first split second of cosmic creation in the Big Bang.
Such a theory would unify the two pillars of 20th-century physics, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and the quantum theory. Relativity is a theory of gravity dealing with the macroworlds of stars and planets; quantum theory describes the strange microscopic properties of elementary matter. To understand the early universe, when everything was unimaginably small and densely packed, one needs a combined quantum theory of gravity, the long-dreamed-of theory of everything.
Lately, Dr. Hawking has been saying that success may be in sight. Why the optimism? Will quantum gravity be a Hawking theory?
Another of his major insights was that black holes are not entirely black. These places were thought of as black because their gravitational attraction is so powerful that it consumes surrounding matter and does not permit the escape of any light. But while trying to disprove an idea of Jacob Bekenstein, then at Princeton University, Dr. Hawking wound up confirming and improving on it by describing how through quantum mechanics black holes emit fleeting particles in the region of their outer boundary.
Star Tribune
Copyright 1998 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
March 24, 1998HEADLINE: Pick a word, float an idea in Visual Thesaurus; Inventive, imaginative, ingenious software helps computer users find the exact word they seek.
SOURCE: New York Times
Marc Tinkler is terrible at free association.
Awful. Atrocious. Dreadful. Lousy.
Ask the normally articulate Tinkler to furnish the first word linked in his mind to the adjective "creative" and the 24-year-old New Yorker lapses into a sustained silence. "I'm really bad at this," he finally admits. "I'm a structured thinker, you know."
Fortunately, Tinkler's mental abilities are well-suited for developing computer applications for the World Wide Web. One of them, the entrancing Visual Thesaurus, can even supply a solution to his verbal quandary.
At the core of the Visual Thesaurus is WordNet, a Princeton University database of 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases organized according to psycholinguistic principles into sets of synonyms.
The Java-powered program can be directed to emphasize certain parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Users also can disable the auto-navigate feature and select their own synonyms, diving into the database as if it were a conventional reference volume.
The Tampa Tribune
Copyright 1998 The Tribune Co. Publishes The Tampa Tribune
March 24, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Next year's tickets:
BYLINE: Tribune staff, wires
Bradley airs it out: Bill Bradley will be a special contributor to CBS Sports' coverage of this weekend's Final Four, the network said.
Bradley, 54, who also contributes to the "CBS Evening News," played on the Princeton University team that reached the 1965 Final Four.
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 1998 The Austin American-Statesman
March 23, 1998EDITORIAL
HEADLINE: Nothing like success; Advances of black artists belie claims of
BYLINE: Glenn McNatt
I was intrigued by reports that black theater professionals met at Dartmouth College this month to continue the debate sparked by playwright August Wilson's 1996 call for a separate black theater. Wilson's idea strikes me as a little muddled, but it is interesting nevertheless.
Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "The Piano Lesson'' and other plays, shocked the theater establishment two years ago when he delivered an address at Princeton University denouncing what he called cultural imperialists who seek to propagate their ideas about the world as the only valid ideas, and who see blacks as woefully deficient not only in arts and letters but in the abundant gifts of humanity.''
That's certainly a mouthful. And there's some truth to it. But it's also the sort of polemical, over-the-top rhetoric that gives the game away. The evidence of Wilson's own career is the best argument against his cultural conspiracy theory.
Copley News Service
Copyright 1998 Copley News Service
March 23, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: There's a new way
BYLINE: Charlyn Fargo
The Springfield High School Class of '58 reunion the Web, making it easier for classmates to communicate.
The link from the Springfield High School Web page was constructed by alumnus Bill Howarth, a professor of English at Princeton University.
Subjects that can be accessed include a reunion letter to classmates, a reservation sheet and information sheet to be completed and sent in, a list of class members who haven't been located with a plea to help find them, a list of classmates attending the reunion activities, a link to ''life in Springfield'' with places of interest to explore and a ''memory lane'' link.
The address is http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools.springfield/index.html.
Cox News Service
Copyright 1998 Cox News Service
March 23, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: CULTURES CLASH AT DUKE AS STUDENTS PROTEST CHANGES
By BOB DART
DURHAM, N.C. With flames casting shadows that dance like blue devils on Gothic walls, a cultural clash has ignited quite literally at Duke University.
In scenes reminiscent of campus turbulence of the 1960s, defiant students at the South's premier academic institution have set fires, chanted ''Burn Nan Burn'' and obscenities about university President Nan Keohane, and taunted police in riot gear who arrested more than 20 of them this month.
Unlike the '60s demonstrators who demanded drastic changes, however, Duke students are protesting to preserve the status quo at their picturesque private university.
They look back at when keggers ruled, when benches could be burned to celebrate athletic triumphs, when all parts of the student population mixed socially and when the rituals of revelry were as accepted as academic excellence.
Traditionalist students ''don't want to lose the Duke experience,'' said Lino Marrero, a senior from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the outgoing president of Duke student government. ''The perception is that they want to make us into the Harvard of the South. We'd rather just stay the Duke of the South.''
Geographically, Duke is divided into two campuses, both scenic. The original East Campus is reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia Georgian architecture and brick buildings surrounding a large central lawn. Until 1924, this was the campus of Trinity College.
That year, James B. Duke donated $21 million from the family's tobacco fortune and construction began on the main West Campus. It looks a bit like Princeton University, with Gothic stone spires and arches. In honor of its benefactors, the name of the enlarged university was changed to Duke, although the liberal arts college is still called Trinity.
Health Line
Copyright 1998 American Political Network, Inc.
March 23, 1998HEADLINE: QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Maybe people aren't happier. But they're healthier."
-- Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt, on the growing predominance of managed care.
International Herald Tribune
Copyright 1998 International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
March 23, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: In a Startling Reversal, Monkeys Are Said to Create New Brain Cells
BYLINE: By Gina Kolata; New York Times Service
DATELINE: NEW YORK
For years, neurobiologists clung to a fundamental truth: once animals, or people, reach adulthood, they may lose brain cells but they can never grow new ones. There were a couple of exceptions - in birds and rats - but the thought was that these were peculiarities of nature and not evidence of a general principle.
But now, in experiments that experts call amazing, that dogma has been overturned. Scientists have found that monkeys are constantly making new brain cells in the hippocampus, an area of the brain used for forming long- term memories. Experts say they fully expect that humans are no different and that they, too, make new brain cells in adult life. That raises the glimmer of a possibility of eventually treating degenerative disorders like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease and injuries like those resulting from stroke or trauma by prompting the brain to grow replacement cells.
The new study was by Dr. Elizabeth Gould of Princeton University, Dr. Bruce S. McEwen of Rockefeller University in New York and their colleagues. ''It means that there is a new mechanism for changing the organization of the adult brain,'' said Dr. William Greenough, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who studies learning and memory in rats. Dr. Fred Gage, a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego, said the implications were ''fabulously interesting.'' The investigators, working with marmoset monkeys, added two tracer chemicals to the animals' brains: one that labeled cells that were dividing, the process that gives rise to new cells, and one that labeled mature nerve cells. Cells that were born during adult life and that grew into mature brain cells would be marked by both chemicals.
With this method, the researchers looked for, and found, new cells in the animals' hippocampi. Dr. Gould estimated that thousands of such cells were being made each day. She said she suspected other cells were dying to make room for new ones, but her study did not count numbers of dying cells The hppocampus was particularly intriguing for another reason, Dr. Gould said.
The Ottawa Citizen
Copyright 1998 Southam Inc.
March 23, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Campus activism erupts from McGill president's office: Bernard Shapiro encourages creative dissent to Quebec's plan to cut McGill's budget by 25 per cent over four years. Doug Sweet reports.
BYLINE: DOUG SWEET; CITIZEN SPECIAL
DATELINE: MONTREAL
Under the stern gaze of legendary principal J. William Dawson, whose portrait hangs on the richly panelled walls of a room inside McGill University's most recognizable building, the radicals gathered to take on the establishment.
Today's campus radicals, many of whom would cringe at the label, are different from their '60s counterparts. Posters and slogans have been superseded by spreadsheets and accounting models. This is, after all, the '90s.
The campus activism of 20 or 30 years ago erupted from the bottom, but the increasingly-vigorous dissent and debate around McGill's venerable downtown campus this winter has been encouraged in large measure from the top down, by the university's principal Bernard Shapiro.
Mr. Shapiro, 62, is a restaurant owner's son who grew up in the city's affluent Hampstead suburb with a twin brother, Harold, who is today president of Princeton University.
But it is not a happy place these days, thanks to the all-too-familiar litany of budget cuts which will total 25 per cent of its operating budget over four years. Last year, the school lost $11.5 million in Quebec government funding. This year, it was $11.4 million.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1998 The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 23, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Just ask Checchi now; he's prepared
SERIES: INSIDE POLITICS
BYLINE: DANA WILKIE; DANA WILKIE covers Washington for Copley News Service.
Al Checchi, you may recall, is the man who 11 months ago could not remember when he cast a ballot, or why he had not voted on some of California's most contentious and nationally watched ballot measures.
A year can do a lot for the wealthy airline tycoon who would be governor.
The guy who claims a Midas-like ability to change "everything I've ever touched" today is a model of preparation. Take the question he has heard a dozen times before: Why should business success alone qualify him to lead the most diverse and populated state in the country?
There was a time when the former Northwest Airlines executive talked vaguely of leadership and experience, decision-making and his Harvard M.B.A.
Today, he argues with the unbroken logic of the well-prepped. He draws meticulous parallels between his accomplishments and the duties of California's chief executive. He drops the names of men who brought to high office almost nothing in the way of government know-how and were successful leaders regardless.
And if we want to get retro, he says, look at Woodrow Wilson. America's 28th president went from Princeton University president straight into the New Jersey governor's office.
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Copyright 1998 Telegram & Gazette, Worchester, Mass.
March 23, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: TELEGRAM & GAZETTE GIRLS' BASKETBALL ALL-STARS
Lauren Rigney, Marlboro High, Senior: Alternating between guard and forward, Rigney averaged 20 ppg for the 12-9 Panthers this year and finished her illustrious career by scoring more than 1,000 points. She has also lettered in track and soccer at Marlboro and is a student coordinator in the schools Peer Mediation program. She will attend Princeton University in the fall and play basketball.
The Buffalo News
Copyright 1998 The Buffalo News
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: IMMIGRANTS' CHILDREN GET HIGHER GRADES, STUDY SAYS
BYLINE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK
A multiyear survey that is the largest ever of the children of immigrants -- who now account for almost one in five American children -found that they have higher grades and steeply lower school dropout rates than other American children.
The survey reported in Saturday's New York Times also said the children also overwhelmingly prefer English to their parents' native tongues.
The research team -- led by Professor Ruben Rumbaut, a sociologist at Michigan State University, and Professor Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Princeton University -- interviewed 5,200 youngsters in Southern California and South Florida in 1992 when the youths were in the eighth or ninth grades and then tracked down 82 percent of them for a second interview in 1995 and 1996 when most of them were high school seniors.
NOTE: Associated Press versions of this story also appeared in Newsday and The Orlando Sentinel, among other newspapers.
The Bulletin
Copyright 1998 The Bulletin Bend, Ore.
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Cade
Richard and Sheree (Hale) Cade are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary this week.
The Cades met at a Bible study while attending UCLA, and were married March 24, 1973, in Bel Air, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Calif., Mr. Cade graduated from Princeton University in 1970 and from UCLA Medical School in 1974. He works at Bend Memorial Clinic. His wife was born in Bakersfield, Calif., and graduated in 1973 from UCLA School of Nursing. She works as a homemaker.
Chicago Sun-Times
Copyright 1998 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
March 22, 1998, SUNDAYHEADLINE: Black schools bolstered by remarkable gestures
BYLINE: Mary A. Mitchell
Chicagoan Ethel Speed, 93, did a remarkable thing recently: She took out her checkbook and gave $25,000 to a historically black boarding school in Piney Woods, Miss.
Her check will pay for at least 10 impoverished students to receive the best education that money can buy. Her largesse will help send these students to the Piney Woods Country Life School, a school so successful that it has gained national recognition.
The Piney Woods Country Life School was born in 1909 when Laurence Jones, who had traveled from Iowa to Mississippi, sat down on a stump and taught illiterate and impoverished youngsters.
Today, about 300 students from some 25 states and several foreign countries are educated on Piney Woods' 500-acre farm. The curriculum combines strict discipline, Christian teaching and chores with classroom instruction. More than 98 percent of Piney Woods' graduates go on to attend colleges, including Princeton, the University of Chicago, Smith, Harvard, Vassar, Tufts and Amherst.
The Houston Chronicle
Copyright 1998 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: If Banks' books are his offspring, his latest is hardly the family runt
SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
BYLINE: LAURA LIPPMAN
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
PRINCETON, N.J. - Russell Banks' real estate agent has just bought one of his books.
"Hamilton Stark," she tells the novelist. "Was it your first?"
"Not my first," Banks says, then pauses. "My third. My second? No, my third, I'm pretty sure."
The effect is that of a fond father with so many children he can no longer remember their birth order. "Hamilton Stark" is one in a brood of nine novels, four short-story collections and three volumes of poetry written over 30-some years. It is the third - Banks has gotten that right. He just needed a moment.
So many books, at once so different and yet alike. Stories of immigrants and America, fathers and sons. Books set in his childhood home of New Hampshire, others in Florida and Jamaica. Books so small and distilled that they can be read in a single sitting. Books so grim that the violent characters seem to stalk the reader long past the final chapters.
And now, after years of delays, there are movies based on the books. Last year's "The Sweet Hereafter" won an award at Cannes and has been nominated for two Oscars. Director Paul Schrader has just finished "Affliction," once thought not worthy of film because of its harrowing violence. Agnieszka Holland will direct Banks' own script of "Continental Drift," with Banks as one of the producers.
Banks' life is further complicated by his decision to scale back life at Princeton University, after 16 years of teaching creative writing there. He is putting his house on the market and looking for a condo so he can stay in touch with friends in the area.
The Independent
Copyright 1998 Newspaper Publishing PLC, London
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Gulf forces got 'high' on nerve drug; The controversial sickness syndrome sufferered by veterans may stem from misuse of an untested antidote, reports Patrick Cockburn
BYLINE: Patrick Cockburn
IN A NEW twist to the mystery of why so many British and US troops fell ill after the Gulf war, evidence is emerging that some Americans overdosed on a powerful, untested drug used as an antidote to chemical weapons because it made them high.
The drug is pyridostygmine bromide, known as PB, which the Pentagon distributed to 600,000 US soldiers in 1991 to counteract the nerve agents tabun and soman if they were used by Iraq. PB has long been suspected as a possible cause of the illnesses affecting veterans, which have become known as Gulf war syndrome.
The Pentagon said last week that it would not use PB in future unless it had intelligence reports that nerve agents were being used against US troops. But Jackson Eaton, writing about Gulf war syndrome at Princeton University, has found evidence that some US troops had taken far more than the prescribed number of three PB pills a day. He quotes Major Franklin Moreno, who commanded a Ranger company in the war, as saying: "It turned out that the pill gave you a head rush when you took it the first few times. And soldiers started to overdose on PB. We had one soldier who took 21 PB tablets in a day."
Major Moreno said that when he took the drug, "everything went wavy". After a week he told his men to stop taking the tablets. "It was crazy," he said. "Here we were in a go-to-war situation, and we had soldiers who were getting high off this drug." A fortnight later General Barry McCaffrey, commanding the 24th Mechanised Division, ordered his men to cease taking the pills.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: VIEWS; A Time-Lapse Portrait of Princeton and Its Inhabitants
BYLINE: By DIANE NOTTLE
WHEN a Civil War veteran named Royal Hill Rose opened his photography studio in Princeton in 1873, the medium was just emerging from its infancy. But it grew up considerably in the 78 years and three generations that the studio remained in the Rose family. By the time the studio closed in 1951, photography was a part of daily life.
Four years ago, the Firestone Library at Princeton University gave the Historical Society of Princeton more than 10,000 glass-plate and film negatives from the Rose Studio, which it had been storing for more than 40 years. Staff members and volunteers have cleaned, catalogued and registered the collection, and now the public can have its first glimpse in "Practical Photographers: The Rose Family Studio," an exhibition opening Tuesday.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: EARNING IT;
Royal Blue Collars
BYLINE: By PETER PASSELL
FOR a quarter-century, the message from the job market has been loud and clear. Avoid traditional blue-collar work. Go to college. Scramble for a foothold in the service industry elite, where unions and seniority mean little and adaptability is the most prized talent. If you are really ambitious and prepared to risk your life savings, start your own business.
But don't try telling that to Lynn Hummel, a former bank clerk who tripled her earnings by becoming a longshoreman in Los Angeles. Or to Eugene Vasser, who says he makes "substantially more than $100,000 a year" working for a welding equipment maker in Cleveland that pays according to individual productivity. Or to Herman Aguirre, a Colombian immigrant who worked his way up from janitor to master jewelry maker in a New York City loft factory and now commands a six-figure income.
This handful of redwoods, of course, should not be mistaken for the forest.
Nonetheless, in the right jobs and under the right circumstances, "there's still a pot of gold for blue-collar workers at the end of an increasingly slender rainbow," said Daniel Hamermesh, an economist at the University of Texas.
This route to high-paying work -- an apprenticeship in a demanding craft -- is still open. But just barely. Efforts to integrate high school curriculums with local job demands have yet to have much impact. Unions that run apprenticeship programs, mainly in construction trades, are losing ground. And -- probably most important -- corporations are not motivated to invest heavily in worker training if the skills are portable.
"Employers won't train people who have a high probability of not being there next year," explained Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton University.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Princeton's Nude Run Is Undone by Weather
BYLINE: By The New York Times
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J., March 21
In ancient Rome, naked young men ran in circles around Palatine Hill as part of a fertility ritual. Nowadays at Princeton University, the first snowfall of the year brings the Nude Olympics, in which naked young people of both sexes run around the university's Holder courtyard for no clearly discernible reason.
But this winter in central New Jersey has been impossibly, maddeningly balmy, and the sophomore class has yet to do its collective strip. With the arrival of spring on Friday, the sophomores are losing hope.
Ian Shapira, a sophomore from Louisville, Ky., bemoaned his class's diminishing chance of making the annual midnight run.
"It's one of those things you look forward to," he said. "It's mythic. You watch it on CNN during high school, then you come here, and the weather's been just too damn good."
The News and Observer
Copyright 1998 The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
March 22, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: Death Notices (Part 2)
EDWARD F. HAYES
COLUMBUS, OHIO - Edward F. Hayes, 56, of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly Friday, March 20, 1998 at his residence. He was the vice president for research at The Ohio State University and president of The Ohio State University Research Foundation.
After a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, he joined the faculty at Rice University in Houston, TX as an assistant professor in 1968, and was named full professor of chemistry in 1973.
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Copyright 1998 Sentinel Communications Co.
March 22, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: NEWS FROM YOU
BYLINE: By Mary Jo Lloyd, Sentinel Correspondent
POLISH FREEDOM
FORMER DELAND resident Robert Hutchings, assistant dean for academic affairs of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, was recently awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in a ceremony at the
Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C.
The medal was presented by Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, who recognized Hutchings for his contribution to Poland's freedom and democracy during his service as director for European affairs with the National Security Council, 1989 to 1992, and special adviser to the secretary of state and ambassador-at-large for east European assistance in 1992 and 1993.
Hutchings attended DeLand Junior High School and graduated from DeLand High School. He is the son of Ruth Hutchings of DeLand.
Portland Press Herald
Copyright 1998 Guy Gannett Communications, Inc.
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: MINIMUM WAGE AT A MAXIMUM?;
BYLINE: LOUIS UCHITELLE New York Times News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
The Democrats on Thursday formally introduced President Clinton's plan to increase the minimum wage, drawing praise from unions but raising concerns even among supporters that the proposed new level, $6.15 an hour, might cost jobs.
With a ceremonial flourish, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the principal congressional proponent of a higher minimum wage, introduced a bill to raise the minimum by 20 percent. That could be high enough, economists say, so that employers might decide to automate or to hire fewer but more skilled and more expensive workers.
Such an acknowledgment of a potential job loss is central to the debate over whether Congress should raise the minimum wage again, so soon after the last increase, in 1996. In 1996, most labor economists insisted that the higher minimum wage would not cost any jobs. The argument carried the day, and turned out to be true.
Now several of those same economists say $6.15 an hour may be close to some ''tipping point'' at which two or three minimum-wage workers in a group of 100 may have trouble keeping a job or finding one. But such potential difficulties, the same economists say, are far outweighed by the financial gains for the 97 or 98 who get the raise and keep their jobs.
Bernstein argues that closing the gap is all to the good, because it would reduce the wage inequality that is now such a national issue and would ''insure that low-wage workers get a fairer share of the economic growth.''
But other economists wonder whether the higher minimum would squeeze some unskilled Americans out of jobs, or make their search for jobs harder and longer. That question came up in the 1970s but has never been resolved. Two labor economists in particular have drawn attention to this concern: Alan Krueger of Princeton University and David Card of the University of California at Berkeley.
They had been big advocates of raising the minimum in 1996, and they favor the bill introduced Thursday, on the ground that the pluses far outweigh the minuses.
In a study several years ago centered on Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Krueger and Card had found that lifting the minimum, far from causing job loss, actually increased the employment of minimum wage-workers. That study played a featured role in passage of the 1996 bill.
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1998 The Seattle Times Company
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: NEW TO READ: MILLHAUSER'S BRILLIANT LITTLE KINGDOMS'
BYLINE: MICHAEL UPCHURCH
Paperbacks
"Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media," by Elaine Showalter (Columbia University Press, $14.95). A Princeton University professor skeptically investigates alien abduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, satanic ritual abuse, recovered memory, Gulf War syndrome and multiple personality disorder. With a new preface for the paperback edition, examining the often acrimonious controversy the book stirred.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 1998 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: T.S. ELIOT'S LETTERS INSPIRE A NOVEL
BYLINE: Martha Baker; Special To The Post-Dispatch
'The Archivist'
A novel by Martha Cooley
Published by Little, Brown and Co., 328 pages, $22.95The fires in "The Archivist" are banked. The archivist himself has them under control; likewise, the novelist, Martha Cooley, controls the ignition of "The Archivist." This is Cooley's first novel, which makes its maturity, its complexity, its gravity all the more remarkable. "The Archivist" builds from a fact into a novel of intricate fiction.
The fact: St. Louisan T.S. Eliot secretly wrote more than 1,000 letters to Emily Hale in the '30s and '40s. (He met her in Boston when he acted in a show in the Cambridge house of an aunt; he played the part of Mr. Woodhouse in a scene from Austen's "Emma," which Eleanor Hinckley, a cousin, had scripted. Her friend Emily played Mrs. Elton. Eliot was said to have fallen in love with her.) Hale bequeathed his letters to her to Princeton University - much against his wishes - on condition they remain sequestered until 2019. Few facts need to be known about Eliot; Cooley deftly insinuates the poet's life and lines into those of her characters.
Star Tribune
Copyright 1998 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
March 22, 1998, Metro EditionHEADLINE: Planning is needed for students, parents to get financial aid; Formulas cover who gets help; often savviest - not neediest - receive it
SOURCE: New York Times
Consultants say almost all parents can obtain college financial aid -- if they know how.
"Most aid will not go to those who are the neediest but to those who are the savviest about applying for it," said Kalman Chany, a New York City consultant and author of "Paying For College Without Going Broke" (Random House, 1997, $18).
Most accountants and consultants advise parents, for instance, to set up college funds in the parents' name, not the child's, despite the lower tax rate paid on children's investment income.
That is because the formula used by the federal government to calculate a family's ability to pay requires parents to contribute no more than 5.65 percent a year of their assets; students, on the other hand, are expected to contribute 35 percent.
More controversial is whether parents should pay down a mortgage instead of trying to amass a college nest egg. The federal formula does not count home equity as an asset, so some experts argue that families can use their homes to shelter income.
In dispensing aid beyond federal programs, most colleges still factor in home equity as they evaluate need. But that may be starting to change. Threatened with a loss to less-expensive institutions of students from middle-income families, Princeton University announced in January that it would no longer count as an asset the home equity of students whose families earn less than $90,000 a year.
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1998 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: West lets China off the hook on rights
BYLINE: BY STEPHEN HANDELMAN TORONTO STAR
DATELINE: NEW YORK
THERE ARE at least 90,000 lawyers in China.
That may not sound impressive for a country of 1.2 billion people, but just 10 years ago there were about 31,000.
Such facts provide ammunition to those who say China is changing faster than most Western critics give it credit for.
Most of the new lawyers are involved in the emerging private commercial sector. Nevertheless, they are having an impact on other areas of Chinese society.
"A new social contract seems to have emerged," Pei Minxin, of Princeton University, wrote recently in the journal Foreign Affairs.
"(Its) essence is the redefinition of the scope of the state's power and of citizens' freedom."
Pei, the source of the figure on lawyers, believes Western attention to Chinese human rights violations misses the larger story.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
March 22, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: SCIENCE ON THE ETHICAL FRONTIER: Engineering the Unborn; The Code of Cross-Generation Cures
BYLINE: Rick Weiss, Washington Post Staff Writer
In 1990, a 4-year-old Ohio girl with an inherited immune system disease sat quietly in a small room at the National Institutes of Health and became the first patient to receive a radical new treatment called human gene therapy.
The experimental procedure, in which millions of copies of a gene that the girl lacked were infused into her blood, stirred excitement but also controversy. It was, after all, the most blatant tampering of the human genetic code ever attempted, and scientists gained permission to conduct the test only after assuring regulators that the genetic change would not be passed on to any children the girl might have.
Now, researchers are considering a much more contentious kind of gene therapy that could, for the first time, cross that generation barrier. The goal is to genetically reprogram patients' "germline" cells -- their sperm or egg cells. The technique could allow patients to prune unwanted genes from their family trees forever, and alter the genetic makeup of their unborn descendants.
"All of the reasons people have given for saying [germline gene therapy] is wrong are either irrational or religious-based," said Lee Silver, a Princeton University molecular biologist. "Some people say we should not go against nature, but that's illogical because every time we cure a disease or prevent a disease we go against nature."
Silver and others dismiss the argument that germline engineering breaks new ground by allowing people to "design" their children. "People choose a mate, either consciously or subconsciously, based on their genes," through their preferences for partners who are fat or thin or blonde or brunette, Silver said. "So we choose the genes we're going to put into our children right from the start."
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1998 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
March 21, 1998 SaturdayHEADLINE: UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX NAMES NEW PRESIDENT
DATELINE: PHOENIX
J. Jorge Klor de Alva has been named the new president of the University of Phoenix.
A former professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, Klor de Alva has been a board member of the University of Phoenix and its parent company, the Apollo Group Inc., since 1991. He had been working as Apollo's vice president of business development.
Klor de Alva replaces longtime President William H. Gibbs. Gibbs will continue to serve on the Apollo Group's board of directors.
The University of Phoenix has more than 42,000 students in 12 states and Puerto Rico.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 1998 The Cincinnati Enquirer
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: It's about time public schools get recognized
BYLINE: KRISTA RAMSEY
The words public schools bring a thousand thoughts to my mind. Not one has to do with statistics, money or state legislatures. Every one has to do with people.
I am at Wyoming High School's National Honor Society induction, talking with students who are considering Stanford and Princeton universities and Williams College. One plans to be a doctor, another an engineer, the third a teacher.
I am smiling outside the media center at Stewart Elementary in Sharonville, as kindergartners hover over computers, talking about "icons" and "booting things up."
I listen in at Aiken High School, where 12th-graders hear the finer points of going off to college - how to handle time, class loads, even credit cards. Advice comes from previous Aiken graduates, on holiday breaks, who are off to colleges scattered across the country.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Among Young Of Immigrants, Outlook Rises
BYLINE: By CELIA W. DUGGER
A multiyear survey that is the largest ever of the children of immigrants -- who now account for almost 1 in 5 American children -- found that they overwhelmingly prefer English to their parents' native tongues and have higher grades and steeply lower school dropout rates than other American children.
While a majority of those surveyed, adolescents who were of predominantly Hispanic, Asian and black descent, said they had personally experienced discrimination, an even larger majority of them said they still believed that the United States was the best country in the world to live in.
The lead researchers on the study describe these findings as reassuring indications that the children of immigrants are unlikely to form a new multi-ethnic underclass, as some experts fear, cut off from the mainstream by academic failure and an inability to speak English.
But the researchers also say it is still an open question how well these young people will do in college and the job market, a caution shared by other experts. The researchers said the survey brought into sharp relief the extraordinary diversity of the children of immigrants, not only by national origin, but also by social class. It reaches from the young of Chinese and Indian couples from highly educated, upper-middle-class backgrounds to Mexicans and Dominicans from the humblest origins.
"What can certainly be predicted now is that the destinies of these youth will diverge," said Prof. Ruben G. Rumbaut, a sociologist at Michigan State University. "Some will go up, and some will go down."
The research team, led by Professor Rumbaut and Prof. Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Princeton University, first interviewed 5,200 youngsters in Southern California and South Florida in 1992 when the youths were in the eighth or ninth grades and tracked down 82 percent of them for a second interview in 1995 and 1996 when most were high school seniors.
NOTE: Versions of this story appeared in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Chattanooga Free Press, the Des Moines Register, the Wilmington Morning Star (N.C.), the Commercial Appeal (Memphis), the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and other newspapers.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Scientists Brace for Changes In Path of Human Evolution
BYLINE: By GINA KOLATA
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, March 20
For years, molecular biologists and geneticists have trod gingerly around the most explosive topic of the new reproductive biology: purposely making genetic changes in people that would persist for generation after generation.
There were so many technological roadblocks to the process, called germline genetic engineering, that most scientists viewed it almost as science fiction. But now, as researchers rush past these roadblocks, a group of eminent molecular biologists and geneticists met here today on the leafy campus of the University of California at Los Angeles to confront the issue. Their goal was to discuss how, why and when germline engineering should proceed.
The scientists, leaders in the fields, were meeting on their own, with no government or other mandate to issue guidelines or regulations and, in fact, no wish to restrict their work. But they said it was time for science to confront its growing powers to shape human biology.
The public and even many scientists are unaware of how close science is to making germline engineering a reality, said Dr. Michael Rose, who studies the genetics of aging at the University of California at Irvine and was a speaker at the meeting.
What is most amazing, said Dr. Lee Silver, a molecular geneticist at Princeton University and editor in chief of the journal Mammalian Genome, is that germline engineering, for a variety of technical reasons, should actually be easier than the more limited genetic engineering that scientists have tried thus far.
TULSA WORLD
Copyright 1998 The Tulsa World
March 21, 1998HEADLINE: BIA Official, Pawnees to Be Honored
PAWNEE -- A top Bureau of Indian Affairs official and Pawnee tribal members will be honored Sunday with a Skidi war dance.
Kevin Gover, 42, the assistant interior secretary for Indian affairs, also will meet with tribal leaders during a daylong ceremony at the Pawnee Tribal Roundhouse.
Previously, he was with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Gover served on the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies and the Southwestern Association for Indian Art.
He received his bachelor of arts degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University and his law degree from the University of New Mexico.
The Union Leader
Copyright 1998 Union Leader Corp. (Manchester, NH)
March 21, 1998 SaturdayHEADLINE: Fisher Wins Kazmaier Award
DURHAM -- While she and the rest of the Wildcats were hoping to prove themselves to be the No. 1 team in the nation, the University of New Hampshire's Brandy Fisher yesterday became the first winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The equivalent of men's college hockey's Hobey Baker Award, the Kazmaier honor, presented by the USA Hockey Federation, goes to the top player in the women's college game.
The award is named for Patty Kazmaier, wh earned numerous All-Ivy League and ECAC honors as a Princeton University defender from 1981-86. Kazmaier died in 1990 after battling a rare blood disease.
The Vancouver Sun
Copyright 1998 Pacific Press Ltd.
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: B.C. schools mimic Ivy League in name game
BYLINE: STEWART BELL; VANCOUVER SUN
Some English language schools that cater to foreign students have been cashing in on the reputations of famous universities by adopting their well-known names.
Burnaby alone has two "Princetons" -- the Canadian Princeton International College on Willingdon Avenue and Princeton West College on Sussex Avenue.
Justin Harmon, spokesman for the real Princeton University, said the marketing tactic is obvious: schools are choosing names that associate them with Ivy League schools, whose names are widely-recognized in Asia.
The Vancouver Sun
Copyright 1998 Pacific Press Ltd.
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: The soft option: A survey of recent paperbacks
BYLINE: VANCOUVER SUN
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media by Elaine Showalter (Columbia University Press, 244 pp., $14.95). The professor of Humanities and English at Princeton University analyses what social scientists call emotional conations or mass psychogenic illnesses. Easy marks are alien abduction and satanic ritual abuse. She invites controversy when she includes Gulf War syndrome, recovered memories of sexual abuse and chronic fatigue syndrome. "Muscular, probably inflammatory, and elegantly expressed," wrote Kirkus Reviews.
The Virginian-Pilot
Copyright 1998 Landmark Communications, Inc., Norfolk, Va.
March 21, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: OSCAR'S TIES TO VIRGINIA
BYLINE: BY MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITERTHE 70TH presentation of the Academy Awards may seem like faraway glitz and glamour, but the statuettes touch closer to home than you may think. Virginia natives playing Virginia roles have often been in the Oscar running - and occasionally in the winner's circle.
Norfolk's own Margaret Sullavan, one of the biggest stars of the 1940s and one of the most beloved sassy dames in movie history, was nominated for best actress in 1938 for ''Three Comrades.'' The comrades were Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young - and they were all in love with Sullavan. She was one of the finalists for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in ''Gone With the Wind'' after a national poll found the public favored her for the part. Sullavan began her acting career at the Little Theater of Norfolk. The daughter of a well-to-do family, she studied dance and drama in Norfolk from childhood. She made her professional debut at Princeton with the University Players in a company that included Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Fonda became her first husband. She chose him over Stewart, who also proposed.