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March 8, 2000
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HIGHLIGHTS• Peter Singer settles in, and Princeton looks deeper
• Many Princeton alumni take uncharitable view
• By the numbers: families grow closer as they pull apart
OTHER HEADLINES• Online education leaders from around the world to meet in Washington
• Fatherhood matters
• The White House office of the press secretary - raising the minimum wage: an overdue pay raise for america's working families
• The 2000 campaign: the quest; his early promise vanished, Bradley plans to quit today
• Second straight trip to NCAA tourney could bring a smile to
• Singer explains his views on life, death; * at lehigh university, the author says line 'isn't sharp' regarding killing.
• A better Ford; atlee junior on cruise control
• Quake nudges Indiana
• NJ: Florio says labor treatment should be considered in trade deals.
• The philadelphia Inquirer loose change column
• Blair recalls Bradley; going to the hole
• New computers better at judging intensity of hurricanes
• FDA rips into penn gene study, refuses to lift ban
• Avon takes breast cancer fight personally ceo andrea jung leads company's fundraising efforts
• Florio adds foreign trade to senate campaign arsenal, close to corzine position
• Design your own baby? scientists say picking genes will be possible
• An eye for treasure
• Neuvis names Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel to board of directors
• Not politically correct: stossel tells it like it is
• American topics
• These bureaucrats have got class contact with students helping policy-makers keep ideas fresh, relevant
• Prominent 20th century sculptor leaves her mark on US postage stamps
• Political battle lines being drawn overredistricting
• Plainsboro, NJ, fusion energy researchers get boost from gas price hike
• Princeton students gather to address alleged racial discrimination
• Original dissent; Keith Whittington makes the case for constitutional law
• Expert: finding fair jurors takes work
• AIA at the BMA; critic's choice: architecture
• Just a spoonful of sugar ...
• Build baby your way
• College notebook white expands range at Princeton
• In the region/New Jersey; along Rt. 1 near Princeton, the market is booming
• Music for concert planners, a chicken and egg riddle
• Years before the headline "who cares if you listen?" appeared
• Jersey footlights; theater program on school violence
• Sunday focus / campaign 2000's tolerance tug of war
• How much do you know about our presidents?
• On campus
• Son's lust for family fortune behind death plot, police say
• My beautiful Internet lover turned out to be a 20-stone pensioner of 65... who had a dead body in her freezer
• For the Waltons, life is a ball; four sons inherited a gift for the game from dad
• Higher ed campuses size up well; year of growth, inauguration highlight change
• Senate OKs fire safety measure; colleges would have to publicize records
• Police say money missing from dead man's accounts
• Investigators piecing together bizarre case of frozen roommate
• Human trials: officials call for monitoring changes
• Bradley finds he has to play catch-up ball
• Frozen man's money missing
• New Jersey residents puzzle over listing of unclaimed assets
• Students stage sweatshop protests at colleges nationwide
• Near Eastern studies at Princeton receives grant from federal government
• Ivy Ieague students unite in refusing to work for Coke, GM, BP Amoco
OBITUARIES• Richard J. Biunno, 54
• David L. Melemed, 43
• Robert Brown, 75
• Leslie E. Mason, 38, was an architect, designer
• John N. Irwin II lawyer and diplomat, was ambassador to france
HIGHLIGHTS
The New York Times
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Peter Singer Settles In, And Princeton Looks Deeper; Furor Over the Philosopher Fades Though Some Discomfort Lingers
BYLINE: By DEBRA GALANT
DATELINE: PRINCETONPETER SINGER was discussing his career one day recently when a spider suddenly began crawling across his neat desk. Another person might have smashed it or swept it away almost reflexively.
But then again, this was the Dr. Singer who literally wrote the book on the rights of non-humans, "Animal Liberation," in which he argued that every sentient creature deserves equal consideration for the opportunity to continue living, without suffering.
"Sentient?" a visitor asked.
"Maybe," Dr. Singer responded, lifting the spider with a stack of papers and depositing it ever so carefully outside his window. "Spiders I would give the benefit of the doubt."
It has been almost two years since Princeton University announced that it had lured the philosopher from Australia, and six months since he arrived on campus amid cameras and microphones and a swarm of protesters representing advocates for the disabled and foes of abortion.
The furor has largely subsided, though Dr. Singer's controversial beliefs have aroused enough potential enemies that the university provided him with a scanner to check suspicious-looking mail. Through it all, Dr. Singer has managed to settle in, giving lectures, attending lunches and dinners and -- between e-mails -- considering humanity's larger questions: life, death and free trade. …
It is hard to imagine, in a society so absorbed with the lives of athletes and movie stars, that the arrival of the former director of the Center of Human Bioethics at Monash University in Australia would attract so much attention. But that is exactly what happened, and has continued to create a public relations nightmare for his new employer. It would seem that Josef Mengele rather than Dr. Singer -- the grandson of Holocaust victims himself -- was being described by the shrieking headlines: "Philosophy of Death" (The Washington Post), "The Dangerous Philosopher" (The New Yorker), "Singer's Final Solution" (U.S. News & World Report) and "Dangerous Words" (Princeton Alumni Weekly). …
The New York Times
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March 5, 2000, SundayNOTE: Sidebar to story above
HEADLINE: Many Princeton Alumni Take Uncharitable View
BYLINE: By ANNE RUDERMAN
DATELINE: PRINCETONWHEN Princeton University hired Peter Singer as a tenured professor, some alumni thought it was, if not the end of the world, then close to it.
"Nothing I have seen or heard epitomizes the decline of Western civilization so much as the hiring of Peter Singer to teach in the University Center for Human Values," William T. Galey, a graduate of the class of 1938 from Falmouth, Me., wrote in a letter to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Similarly, Francis S. Pagnanelli, class of '90 from Bloomfield, wrote: "The appointment of Peter Singer makes me ashamed and astonished at my once-beloved university. If he is so certain of the equality of chimpanzees with human beings, then why doesn't he teach at the local zoo?"
Indeed, a number of graduates vowed to put their money where their mouth was. That was no small threat, considering that U.S. News & World Report recently reported that Princeton alumni donate more to their alma mater than any other group of college graduates. …
Despite the initial outcry, many alumni have grown more accepting of Dr. Singer as they have been introduced to him through public lectures and published interviews. In addition, he is scheduled to participate in a bioethics panel during class reunions in May and will probably begin lecturing on the road next year.
"A lot of the controversy derives from statements out of context," said a university spokesman, Justin Harmon. "Once we've established that he's a fully qualified scholar, people calm down. People who are familiar with him, even if they disagree, recognize the validity of his work."
Apart from the university's efforts, the alumni themselves have increasingly refused to join the anti-Singer crusade, taking time to study the philosopher's work and discovering that his views are not as radical as they originally thought. …
The New York Times
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March 8, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: By the Numbers: Families Grow Closer as They Pull Apart
BYLINE: By MARGARET L. USDANSKY; Margaret L. Usdansky, who covered demographics for USA Today, is a doctoral student in sociology at Princeton University.NEVER before have Americans had so many options when it comes to family life. Not only when to have children but whether to have them; whether to get married or just live together; whether to divorce -- all lie within the realm of everyday choice.
But these options have created a paradox. On the one hand, more Americans are sidestepping family living altogether. The proportions of Americans remaining childless (almost 1 in 5) or living alone (a quarter of all households) have never been higher.
On the other hand, families are closer than most Americans suppose: intergenerational ties are intact and growing stronger.
Young adults, for example, are quite likely to live with their parents. Today, 1 in 5 men and 1 in 8 women in their late 20's do, and by some estimates the odds of returning home after leaving have doubled since the 1920's. Older adults are likely to live near their children, if not with them.
"There is not much family isolation," said Prof. Beth Soldo, a University of Pennsylvania demographer who studies aging. "Contact is regular. It's consistent."
A growing body of research suggests that these seemingly contradictory trends -- more family fragmentation, closer family ties -- are going hand in hand, as if increasing individualism had reinforced the value of kinship. …
OTHER HEADLINES
Business Wire
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March 9, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Online Education Leaders From Around the World to Meet in Washington, D.C, March 20-21 for Second Annual Blackboard Summit; Blackboard's Summit 2000
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 9, 2000More than 350 of the world's opinion leaders and experts in the use of the Internet to expand the power of education will meet in Washington, D.C., March 20-21, to discuss ways that higher education institutions can ramp up their efforts to adopt online learning quickly, efficiently and economically.
Blackboard Summit 2000 -- "Realizing the Vision: Scaling Online Education from the Classroom to the Institution," will bring together educators, industry experts and policymakers - some from as far away as Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and The Netherlands as well as Canada. Topics will include: the overall impact of the Internet on education, integrating online and campus learning, e-commerce in education, and course marketing.
Speakers will include Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), a member of both the House Education Committee and the Congressional Web-based Education Commission; Arthur Levine, president and professor of education of Teachers College at Columbia University; and Scott Jaschik, editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. …
Among the scores of institutions represented at the event will be: The American University, Arizona State University, Boston University, Dartmouth, Florida State University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Maricopa Community College District and Dallas County Community College District (two of the nation's largest systems), Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, Princeton, the University of Illinois and the University of Tennessee.
The American Prospect
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March 13, 2000HEADLINE: FATHERHOOD MATTERS
BYLINE: BY ERIC BRYANT RHODESOn the campaign trail, Vice President Al Gore recently gave a speech with the following central claim: "Promoting responsible fatherhood is the critical next phase of welfare reform and one of the most important things we can do to reduce child poverty." Five years ago, the question of how important fathers are to the well-being of their children was scarcely on the public agenda. That's changed. The fact that a leading candidate for the presidency delivered a policy speech on the issue is one indication of how much momentum the fatherhood movement has gained. …
Interest in fatherhood issues has been bipartisan and wide-ranging. The emergence of the Promise Keepers, an evangelical Christian men's group that draws thousands of men to its rallies in stadiums and sports arenas, is one expression of the religious right's recent emphasis on encouraging men to be better husbands and fathers. Within the social policy research community, the publication in 1994 of Sara McLanahan (Princeton) and Gary Sandefur's book Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps provoked scholars to re-examine the benefit a child receives from having a father present. McLanahan and Sandefur argued persuasively that "growing up with only one biological parent frequently deprives children of important economic, parental, and community resources, and that these deprivations ultimately undermine their chances of future success." …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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March 9, 2000HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary - Raising the minimum wage: an overdue pay raise for America's working families
Today, President Clinton will call on Congress to pass clean, straightforward legislation to raise the minimum wage by $1 - from $5.15 to $6.15 - in two equal steps. The President will say that working families deserve a raise which would restore the value of the minimum wage to its level in 1982. He will also reiterate his opposition to legislation that holds this increase hostage to provisions that delay this overdue pay raise - costing a full-time minimum wage worker more than $900 over two years - and jeopardize our ability to strengthen Social Security and Medicare and pay down the debt by 2013 for future generations. The President will also release a report by the National Economic Council which shows that raising the minimum wage is good for American workers and good for the American economy. …
Economic Studies Find No Negative Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment. Numerous careful economic studies, including ones by David Card and Alan Krueger of Princeton University, have found that increasing the minimum wage has no negative effect on employment.
Recent research has even suggested that higher wages can increase employment, because they increase employers' ability to attract, retain, and motive workers. And they benefit workers by increasing the reward to work. …
The New York Times
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March 9, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE QUEST; His Early Promise Vanished, Bradley Plans to Quit Today
BYLINE: By JAMES DAO and NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFMagic was in the air as Bill Bradley returned to his hometown last September. Pundits and pollsters swooned, Vice President Al Gore's campaign was in disarray, and Mr. Bradley began his own presidential race with a speech as lofty as his plays as a high school basketball star in that very same gymnasium.
And then, of course, Mr. Bradley crashed back to earth. As one looks back to understand the collapse of his presidential bid, perhaps the most telling moment came not during Mr. Bradley's thoughtful speech that day in Crystal City, Mo., but rather in his encounter with Rita Thuesen.
Mrs. Thuesen, a slim, brown-haired woman who was Mr. Bradley's second-grade music teacher, went before the television cameras to describe the seed of a president in her old runny-nosed pupil. Then, as the crowd brimmed with emotion, she walked over to where Mr. Bradley and his wife, Ernestine, were sitting. If ever in the history of politics there was a hugging time, this was it. …
Eventually, Mr. Bradley's wife prodded him and he gave his teacher an awkward hug. But that emotional reserve, that profound detachment -- even shyness -- never left him, and his campaign faltered in part because he often failed to establish an emotional bond with voters. …
One of Mr. Bradley's mistakes, apparently unchallenged by his close aides, was the decision to devote huge resources to the Iowa caucuses. The caucuses have always treated insurgents poorly, and Mr. Gore had a huge advantage because of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. endorsement and the resulting wave of labor organizers working for him. …
Instead of changing plans and skipping Iowa, as John McCain did on the Republican side, Mr. Bradley slogged on. It was an approach that friends say had carried him through life. Each time he got in trouble, he buckled down and worked harder. That technique rescued him when he first arrived at Princeton University and found himself at sea academically, and it worked again when he first joined the New York Knicks and initially played poorly.
"He had his own view of how things were going to go, and I'd never seen him so confident as at the start," recalled an old friend. "He was so high on his expectations, and then he didn't act well when a couple of things went wrong. As a young man, he had a tendency to get moody when his performance wasn't perfect. In his early career in the pro's, he was like that." …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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March 8, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: SECOND STRAIGHT TRIP TO NCAA TOURNEY COULD BRING A SMILE TO EHLERS' FACE; THE PLAYER WHO HATES TO LOSE TRIES TO TAKE THE LEOPARDS ON A HISTORICAL TRIP.
BYLINE: By DON BOSTROM; The Morning CallThe grind and intense repetition of the marathon ping-pong game had almost put Tom Ehlers into a hypnotic trance.
Only the sweat that was pouring off his face in rivers kept him alert.
Finally, after what had seemed an eternity, he was able to deliver a wicked, game-winning shot to the far corner of the family game room.
Tom's victory celebration was cut short because he had to dodge a flying paddle and then a couple of sneaker missiles that had been launched by a kid brother who was moving in fast for a body slam.
"I don't know if you've ever noticed it, but Brian is a bad loser," Tom Ehlers said.
People who have followed Brian Ehlers' Lafayette basketball career wouldn't know.
The two-time Patriot League Player of the Year has walked off the Kirby Sports Center floor on the short end of the score only five times in the last three seasons. …
Even when that quest was accomplished four years ago, the man who has become known as "The Quiet Assassin" stayed in character.
"I was expecting some trash talk, finger-pointing or dancing," said Tom, who played for the Princeton University junior varsity. "Brian never said a word. The knowledge that he had finally beaten me gave him enough pleasure. He didn't want to rub it in." …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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March 8, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: SINGER EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS ON LIFE, DEATH; * AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, THE AUTHOR SAYS LINE 'ISN'T SHARP' REGARDING KILLING.
BYLINE: SUSAN RUIZ PATTON; The Morning CallThe man who believes it's OK to kill a severely disabled infant opposes the death penalty.
Princeton University's first professor of bioethics, Peter Singer, eschewed advance publicity of his appearance Tuesday at Lehigh University because of previous death threats for his pro-infanticide views.
Remarkably, his two-hour appearance at Zoellner Arts Center drew roughly 175 students, including the student group Lehigh for Life and members of the Lehigh Valley Animal Rights Coalition.
Singer said he opposes the death penalty because there are no guarantees an innocent person would not be killed in error and he does not believe the death penalty is a deterrent.
But infanticide, if a child is severely disabled, is a necessity of the modern world, Singer said. …
"We're not here to protest," said Ryan Overberger, a sophomore from Yardley who passed out copies of a critical article on Singer from The New Republic's January issue. "We want to hear what he has to say, and we have some questions for him." …
Overberger asked Singer where one draws the line between who lives and who dies.
"I don't want to draw the line," Singer said. "With the babies, the decision is up to the parents, and doctors must make sure parents understand. It's the same as with terminally ill patients." …
The Richmond Times Dispatch
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March 8, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: A BETTER FORD; ATLEE JUNIOR ON CRUISE CONTROL
BYLINE: FRED JETER; Times-Dispatch Staff Writer; Call Fred Jeter at (804) 739-2219 or e-mail him at; fjeter£timesdispatch.comRapid acceleration. Negotiates tight turns. Sleek design. Smooth running.
No, this is not some Madison Avenue advertisement for a motor company.
It's a description of another kind of Ford - Atlee High junior track standout Brian Ford.
Look under Ford's hood, and what you'll see is flesh, bone and finely-tuned muscle, as well as a tank brimming with dedication to go faster and faster, further and further.
"Brian already has accomplished a lot, and with his combination of talent and hard work he will continue to improve," said Raiders coach Jim Triemplar.
The finely-crafted 5-9, 170-pound Ford resembled a NASCAR pace car at the recent Central Region Indoor Championships on the Ashe Center oval.
Brian ran. The others chased.
On the track, Ford follows in the footsteps of sensation Javius Wynn, now a Princeton University freshman.
"Javius was a great role model for me," Ford said. "He showed me what it takes to be successful in track and also in school."
Ford looked on as Wynn led Atlee to a region track title a year ago. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 7, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Quake nudges Indiana
BYLINE: By KEN KUSMER, Associated Press WriterNot many people felt Indiana's first earthquake in more than three years. In fact, more people may have heard it.
The earthquake lasted only a few seconds at 9:02 a.m. CST Monday, and with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0, it was only powerful enough to be felt over about 10 square miles of the Evansville area, said Michael Hamburger, a seismologist at Indiana University.
Some people reported hearing what they thought was a sonic boom, Hamburger said from the Bloomington campus.
"Sometimes, if they're small and shallow, they (earthquakes) produce audible emissions," he said.
The U.S. Geological Survey placed the preliminary magnitude at 2.5. Earthquakes in the 2.5-3.0 range generally are the smallest felt by people.
"That's pretty much below the threshold of where damage begins," Hamburger said. …
Evansville Harrison High School, on the city's east side, is one of about 20 Indiana high schools with seismometers as part of a program with Princeton University.
But earth science teacher Greg Small admitted he and his students had no inkling of the quake until it was over. …
The Bulletin's Frontrunner
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March 7, 2000HEADLINE: NJ: Florio Says Labor Treatment Should Be Considered In Trade Deals.
The AP (3/6, Siegel) reported former Democratic Gov. Jim Florio "criticized the nation's foreign trade policy Monday, saying the United States must toughen trade deals it makes with other countries to force them to accept mandates for fair labor treatment." Speaking to "about 200 United Auto Worker members," Florio said, "I will fight for a muscular trade policy." The AP added Democratic competitor Jon Corzine "staked out similar views on trade deals, though in less detail, during a foreign policy address at Princeton University last month." Florio "devoted most of his 30-minute remarks to the trade issue, saying some deals hurt the nation's workforce by allowing imports from countries that use child or prison labor." …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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March 7, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: The Philadelphia Inquirer Loose Change Column
BYLINE: By Joseph N. DiStefanoUNTIL LAST WEEK, onetime Princeton University football player Aaron Harris, 29, ran Nicholas-Applegate's 18-month-old Global Technology Fund from an office in sunny San Diego. It quintupled in value last year, one of a handful of Internet-heavy start-up mutual funds that rode Web mania to trounce the S&P 500.
Now he's coming to Miquon, the latest in a stream of money managers lured to year-old Villanova Capital by founder Paul Hondros.
"Paul's goal is to have a whole class of technology funds -- including biotech and health technology" among Villanova's offerings, Harris said. His job will be to run the funds and recruit other tech managers. "I hope I can be pretty helpful in developing the culture here, on the ground floor."
At Nicholas-Applegate, Harris's tastes ran to big tech stocks like Qualcomm, America Online, Cisco, Amazon.com and Microsoft -- and to their Japanese counterparts, including wireless emporium Hikari Tsushin, Internet investor Softbank Corp., and Matsushita Communications.
Hondros says he expects Harris to broaden that global focus. "The 1990s belonged to growth investors, shareholders and firms," he said. "I'm not saying over the next two years, but over the course of the next 10 years, history wil repeat itself. The future will belong to gloal growth investing." …
The Plain Dealer
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March 7, 2000 TuesdayHEADLINE: BLAIR RECALLS BRADLEY; GOING TO THE HOLE
BYLINE: By Mary Schmitt Boyer; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
DATELINE: SALT LAKE CITYCavaliers assistant coach Bill Blair remembers the first time he met Bill Bradley.
At the time, Blair had no idea Bradley would be running for president in today's primary election. And, at the time, Blair couldn't have cared less.
Bradley was playing for Princeton and Blair was at VMI. Their teams met in the first round of the 1964 NCAA Tournament in the Palestra in Philadelphia.
"We played in the third game," Blair recalled. "They let people smoke in there, and by that time, the smoke was pretty thick. We were the only Southern team there. There wasn't anybody in the building pulling for us."
The two engaged in an old-fashioned shootout. Bradley got 34 points to lead Princeton to an 86-60 victory, while Blair had 24.
"I didn't guard him all the time," Blair said with a smile. "But he had a good night."
Despite that beginning, Blair said he probably would have voted for Bradley in the primary - if this trip hadn't taken him out of town.
Scripps Howard News Service
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March 07, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: New computers better at judging intensity of hurricanes
BYLINE: LEE BOWMANA new computer simulation of ocean temperatures is expected to boost forecasters' ability to tell how damaging and deadly a hurricane's winds and tides will be as it makes landfall.
In the past decade, forecasters have become pretty good at predicting where any particular hurricane will make landfall, within 50 miles or so, and the margin of error continues to fall by about 1 percent each year.
But the science of calculating the power of hurricanes has lagged, with forecasts of peak winds frequently missing the mark by 20 to 30 mph, often the difference between an average and an intense storm.
"We've known for some time that we really need to do better with forecasting intensity, and adding this new element to our existing main forecast model seems really promising,'' said Max Mayfield, acting director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla. He said he hopes to have the new simulation up and running on a new weather service supercomputer in time for the June 1 start of the hurricane season. …
Although satellites and probes dropped by reconnaissance aircraft can measure the temperature of the ocean around and even inside a hurricane, this information may not reflect the temperature "drag'' that cooling water has on the strengthening of a storm.
"A lot of things are happening with a storm that can affect the heat exchange,'' (Rhode Island oceanographer Isaac) Ginis said. "Generally speaking, slower moving storms are less likely to intensify because as they linger, they run out of heat, while a rapidly moving storm is able to spin up rapidly, changing categories in just a few hours.''
Mayfield said the new model should be "especially helpful to us with rapidly developing storms, particularly those where the bottom drops out of them right before landfall, which is what happened in the cyclone that hit Mozambique a few weeks ago, for instance.''
Ginis and his colleagues at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fluid Dynamics Laboratory first tested the new model on several historic storms, particularly Hurricane Opal, which caused $3 billion in damage to the Gulf Coast in October 1995.
"This was one of the most rapidly intensifying hurricanes ever seen. It went from 110 mph peak winds to nearly 160 mph in about two hours when it was within 300 miles of Pensacola, a jump from moderately damaging to catastrophic that was completely unforeseen in the model the weather service was using,'' Ginis said. …
University Wire
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March 7, 2000HEADLINE: FDA rips into Penn gene study, refuses to lift ban
BYLINE: By Joshua Liez, Daily Pennsylvanian
SOURCE: U. Pennsylvania
DATELINE: PhiladelphiaIn a scathing letter to Penn's Institute for Human Gene Therapy on Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the Institute's defense of its handling of the clinical study that cost an 18-year-old man his life and refused to lift the ban on gene therapy at the University.
In the 20-page warning letter addressed to IHGT Director James M. Wilson, who led the study, federal regulators charged the researcher with having "failed to fulfill the obligations as the sponsor" of gene therapy studies, and accused him of violating federal human research regulations.
"We are disappointed that the FDA appears to discount a number of the responses to those charges filed by the IHGT," University of Pennsylvania officials said in a written statement issued Friday.
The warning comes six weeks after the FDA charged the Institute with 18 possible violations of federal research protocol breaches and placed a ban on all gene therapy at Penn. IHGT officials responded to the allegations last month and an external committee of scientists is expected to release its findings by mid-April.
Federal regulators refuted nearly all of the responses offered by the Institute concerning the gene therapy trial in which Jesse Gelsinger, who died last September, was enrolled.Wilson and his researchers later determined that Gelsinger died of multiple organ failure induced by the gene therapy. …
Lee Silver, a professor of Molecular Biology and public affairs at Princeton University, said it's unlikely that this marks the end of gene therapy at Penn.
"I think mediation will take place and all the deficits in the protocols will be corrected, and it will come back," he said. …
USA TODAY
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March 7, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Avon takes breast cancer fight personally CEO Andrea Jung leads company's fundraising efforts
BYLINE: Del JonesWhen Avon Products CEO Andrea Jung was 15, her grandmother May Lee Liu suddenly moved into the Jungs' Massachusetts home from Singapore, had a mastectomy that was kept secret from all but close family and died of breast cancer at 63.
It was over within a year.
"I don't think she was ready to die," Jung said in an uncharacteristically personal interview.
Still, Jung, now 41 and head of the second-largest company run by a woman, finds the topic uncomfortable and tries to change the subject. But she permits herself to be temporarily steered back.
The reason for her frankness: Jung wants Avon's breast cancer fight to go down as her signature accomplishment beyond the boundaries of business.
Today in New York, she will take her first step toward that goal when she announces that the cosmetics company has raised $13.7 million to fight the disease, the largest corporate gift ever earmarked for breast cancer….
About Andrea Jung
* Magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, 1979. English major. During her senior year, she wrote in Princeton's student publication, Nassau Herald: "The best thing about time passing is that we see, once it has passed, that the bad times were never that bad, and the good times -- the good times were never so good."
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Florio adds foreign trade to Senate campaign arsenal, close to Corzine position
BYLINE: By RALPH SIEGEL, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: EWING, N.J.Former Gov. Jim Florio, campaigning for U.S. Senate, criticized the nation's foreign trade policy Monday, saying the United States must toughen trade deals it makes with other countries to force them to accept mandates for fair labor treatment.
"I will fight for a muscular trade policy," Florio told about 200 United Auto Worker members.
Florio is facing newcomer Jon Corzine in the Democratic primary. The winner will run against the GOP nominee to replace retiring Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
Corzine staked out similar views on trade deals, though in less detail, during a foreign policy address at Princeton University last month. Florio on Monday devoted most of his 30-minute remarks to the trade issue, saying some deals hurt the nation's workforce by allowing imports from countries that use child or prison labor. …
Like Corzine, Florio said he would press for guarantees in all trade deals to ensure that the trading nation does not employ children or prisoners, and that environmental controls are implemented.
Afterward, Florio said he did not intend to criticize the Clinton administration broadly, but he said some trade negotiations have not been as tough on worker protection issues as they needed to be.
Corzine on Feb. 28 at Princeton said, "I want to work for ... trade treaties that place human rights and environmental protection at the core of any deal we sign.
Austin American-Statesman
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March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Design your own baby? Scientists say picking genes will be possible
BYLINE: Daniel Q. HaneySuppose parents-to-be could guarantee their children will grow up to be unusually healthy. Or extra smart. Or maybe just a little better-looking than mom and dad. Sound pretty good?
Now, suppose that guarantee requires a level of planning that goes way beyond the usual prenatal care. Suppose it requires some fiddling with the future kids' DNA, adding a few genes here and there to slow down aging or rev up the brain circuitry or lock in resistance to viruses.
Still sound good?
Even if your answer is a definite no, some scientists believe many parents will find this a very attractive option. And the time is coming, many scientists say, when parents will pick their children's genes. …
To hear these scientists talk, all of this and much more will be possible in the not-so-distant future. "There's nothing beyond tinkering," said Lee Silver, a Princeton University biologist. …
Business Week
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March 6, 2000HEADLINE: AN EYE FOR TREASURE
BYLINE: By Jeffrey M. Laderman in New York
HIGHLIGHT: PBHG's Slattery has a way of netting the Net's true gemsEven in a time of extraordinary gains for high-tech stocks and the mutual funds that buy them, PBHG New Opportunities Fund is in a league of its own. The fund, piloted by 27-year-old Frank P. ''Quint'' Slattery, celebrated its first anniversary on Feb. 12. Its total return: 622%.
Sure, big gains in a few stocks can send the net asset value of a small fund rocketing -- and New Opportunities was launched with only $8 million. But a sevenfold increase ''is truly amazing,'' says Edward S. Rosenbaum, research director at Lipper Inc., a fund-data company. During the same period, the average U.S. diversified equity fund gained 31%, says Rosenbaum.
SORRY, TOO LATE. It's no secret how Slattery did it: Internet stocks, especially the companies that serve business-to-business markets or provide the Net's infrastructure. His biggest and most profitable holding is InfoSpace.com Inc., which now makes up about 6% of the $390 million fund. Other top names include JDS Uniphase, Brocade Communications Systems, and Exodus Communications. Yet, New Opportunities is not, by its prospectus, even a tech fund.
''We want to own the very best and fastest-growing companies,'' says Slattery. ''At some time, those may be health-care or consumer companies, but right now they're tech.'' Slattery, a 1996 Princeton University graduate, joined Pilgrim Baxter & Associates, parent of PBHG Funds, as an analyst in 1998 after crunching numbers for investment bankers at Merrill Lynch & Co. …
Business Wire
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March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: NeuVis Names Princeton University Economics Professor Dr. Burton Malkiel to Board of Directors; Malkeil to Provide Counsel on NeuVis' Corporate Strategy and Positioning
DATELINE: SHELTON, Conn., March 6, 2000NeuVis, the leader in architected, engineered e-commerce development, today announced the appointment of Dr. Burton G. Malkiel to its Board of Directors.
"Dr. Malkiel has spent his career analyzing the rough waters and hidden dangers of the investment world and understands the challenges that growing companies such as NeuVis are facing," said Arun Gupta, president and CEO of NeuVis. "His insight will help guide us to better serve our customers, our investors and our partners."
Dr. Malkiel has had a distinguished career in economics leadership spanning many prestigious universities. He served as chairman of the economics department at Princeton University and later as dean of the School of Management at Yale. He has published numerous articles and has penned nine books on the topics of securities, the stock market and the economy, including the best seller "A Random Walk Down Wall Street". In addition, he has been a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. He has served as a director for numerous financial institutions including The Vanguard Group, Prudential Insurance, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Gestinova (Madrid, Spain) and The Select Sector SPDR Trust (American Stock Exchange).
Dr. Malkiel holds a Bachelor's degree from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. Dr. Malkiel was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Hartford and the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. He is also member of Phi Beta Kappa. …
Insight on the News
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March 06, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Not Politically Correct: Stossel Tells It Like It Is
BYLINE: Jennifer G. Hickey; INSIGHTSUMMARY: Reporter and libertarian John Stossel of ABC's provides balance to the liberal bias rampant in the news media on issues that involve business, government and American consumers.
TEXT: Swimming against the tide of disaster-driven and fear-focused coverage apparent in consumer reporting is John Stossel of ABC News. Stossel brings to his coverage an appreciation for the free-market system that rarely is evident in broadcast reporting, particularly in the area of consumer affairs.
According to politically correct reporters, airplanes are falling out of the sky, pesticides in food products are killing children, disasters are lurking behind every corner - and only government agencies can protect citizens from the malevolent ogres crowded around conference tables of big corporations all across America. But there is a breath of fresh air, yes, unpolluted air, in the consumer reporting by Stossel.
Beginning in 1994 - the year conservative Republicans won an overwhelming victory in Congress - Stossel was given a platform from which to provide a different perspective to the news. In his first special, "Are We Scaring Ourselves To Death?," he offered some much-needed perspective about the exaggerated fears many Americans have concerning environmental pollutants, their own chances of falling victim to violent crime and a host of other politically fueled traumas.
The last six years have seen this witty Princeton graduate challenge society to look honestly at a host of issues from political victimology to junk science and the endlessly multiplying lawsuits in the nation's courts. The politics of casket sales, the state of the public-school system and the media's coverage of school violence all have come under Stossel's libertarian magnifying glass in his "Give Me A Break" segments on ABC's 20/20. …
Insight: Where would you consider yourself on the ideological spectrum?
JS: When I started consumer reporting I was a typical left-wing, Ivy League graduate. Now I lean toward liberty.
Insight: One of your specials dealt with the phenomenon in which some Americans forever are making claims on the rest of us, contending that they are victims to whom we owe special consideration. Is that sort of thing the result of good times - no wars, a good economy?
JS: Yes. If you look back at the frontier you see that people had no time or opportunity for victimhood. It was assumed that you would take care of yourself. Big government now has created a culture which often invites people to compete for recognition as victims and rewards them accordingly. …
International Herald Tribune
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March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: AMERICAN TOPICS
BYLINE: By Brian Knowlton; International Herald TribuneAfter hearing complaints for years that some foreign graduate students were impossible to understand, administrators at Princeton University are making them pass an English proficiency test.
Beginning this summer, graduate students will have to pass the test to be course preceptors, the name the university gives to instructors heading small class sections. If they fail, they must take a yearlong English class. Native English speakers and foreign students who were undergraduates in the United States will be exempt.
Thirty-seven percent of the graduate population at Princeton is made up of students from other countries. The largest groups come from China, Canada, India, Taiwan, Britain and South Korea.
The Nikkei Weekly
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March 6, 2000HEADLINE: These bureaucrats have got class Contact with students helping policy-makers keep ideas fresh, relevant
BYLINE: KAORU SAKURABA Staff writerAn increasing number of central-government bureaucrats are spending part of their working hours as university lecturers.
The classes taught by people at the forefront of policy-making generally are well-received by both students and schools. And the bureaucrats themselves are finding the teaching experience useful for their policy-making tasks.
In the first semester of the 1999 school year, Saitama University offered an economics class that featured guest speakers from central-government agencies as well as business leaders.
The class' two main lecturers were also bureaucrats: Toru Shikibu from the Financial Supervisory Agency and Shuhei Kishimoto from the Ministry of Finance, who took up subjects such as fiscal restructuring and industrial policies.
Kishimoto, who has been busy visiting Asian countries to aid them in recovery from the financial crisis, has taught before. He was the first Japanese bureaucrat to become a visiting lecturer at Princeton University.
Using his experience at Princeton from 1996 to 1998, Kishimoto's lectures at Saitama University were geared toward letting students form their opinions and discuss them in the class.
Some questions, said Kishimoto, "such as, 'Why do we have to use the yen for our financial aid to Asian countries,' made me re-examine issues from the basics again by letting me realize how I was influenced by established theories." …
PR Newswire
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March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Prominent 20th Century Sculptor Leaves Her Mark on U.S. Postage Stamps
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 6Expansive, three-dimensional walls of wooden boxes painted black, white, or gold are among the unique trademarks of environmental sculptor and artist Louise Nevelson.
On April 6, the U.S. Postal Service will commemorate the works of Nevelson, one of the most gifted sculptors of the 20th century, with the issuance of a pane of 20 (five designs) postage stamps. …
Among her most important commissioned sculptures are: "Atmosphere and Environment X," for Princeton University, New Jersey; "Bicentennial Dawn," for the James A. Byrne Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia; and "Transparent Horizon," for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 6, 2000HEADLINE: POLITICAL BATTLE LINES BEING DRAWN OVERREDISTRICTING
BYLINE: PAUL KANE, States News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWith the U.S. Census Bureau embarking on its 10-year nose count, New Jersey's political leaders are gearing up for the once-in-a-decade opportunity to redraw the map for the state's congressional delegation and its legislative districts.
The Garden State is expected to emerge from the constitutionally mandated process with its 13 congressional seats intact, and with the same number of seats in the state Legislature. Even so, the stakes are high.
With just a few tweaks of the electoral map,"you can completely change the odds of a Democrat or a Republican winning the district," said Steve DeMicco, a partner in Message & Media, a New Brunswick-based Democratic consulting firm. …
But there could be big fights in New Jersey over the reapportionment of its legislative districts, as the Democrats try to avenge what they view as a bitter defeat in the last go-round. …
Assuming that happens again, the commission will sit down for 30 days to consider the proposed legislative maps drawn by each party's delegation. In all likelihood, they will fail to reach a compromise on a joint plan.
New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz, by law, would then appoint a"tie-breaker," someone who is charged with acting as both a mediator and an arbitrator. The tie-breaker has another 30 days to try to craft a compromise plan on which a majority can agree.
At the end of 30 days, if no agreement is reached, the tie-breaker must pick one plan or the other, a winner-take-all Democratic or Republican victory. In 1991, the court-appointed mediator, the late Dean Stokes of Princeton University, sided with the Republican plan. …
The Star-Ledger
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March 6, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Plainsboro, N.J., Fusion Energy Researchers Get Boost from Gas Price Hike
BYLINE: By Kitta MacPhersonThe price for premium gasoline had jumped to $1.51 a gallon at the Mobil station on Route 1 in South Brunswick last week, provoking a steady stream of anxiety among its customers.
The threat of escalating energy costs may have been upsetting to drivers, but it had a special resonance for researchers at a federal energy laboratory just three miles down the road from the gasoline station.
At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Plainsboro, scientists enlivened by the recent surge in fuel prices are making strides in a decades-long quest to bottle the fusion genie that powers the sun and stars.
Where others see a looming energy crisis, they detect a silver lining, and the timing is critical. The future of the renowned lab -- and of fusion energy research -- might be on the line.
The drive to develop an alternative energy source that doesn't create byproducts linked to global climate change, and is drawn from cheap, available sources like seawater, is centered on a new scaled-down machine.
Though skeptics have questioned whether fusion energy will ever be a practical power source, the Princeton scientists are determined to prove they can build one that is also efficient.
"There's a window of opportunity for us to make an investment now, and Congress has seen it," said Robert Goldston, a physicist and director of the lab. "The question for the country is this: Do you want to fix the roof while the sun is shining or do you want to wait?"
After years of budget cuts and layoffs, the lab, managed by Princeton University for the federal Department of Energy, has received a 10 percent increase in its annual budget, bringing it to $63 million and funding a staff of 450. A similar budget increase for next year, recommended by the Clinton administration, is moving its way through Congress. …
University Wire
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March 6, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton students gather to address alleged racial discrimination
BYLINE: By Emily W. Johnson, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.About 40 students gathered outside Princeton University's Witherspoon Hall early Sunday morning to protest alleged racially biased treatment of African-American students by both Public Safety and the Princeton Borough Police.
"The issue is to address the general treatment of students of color on campus by Public Safety," said sophomore Ashley Adams, who led the meeting. "We want to make a conscious effort to make sure that Public Safety protects the rights of black students as equally as white students."
Students at the gathering said the response was spurred by a recent incident involving a student who was falsely accused of brandishing a firearm. They said the wording of a campus alert issued following the event was discriminatory against African Americans, and questioned the protocol by which Public Safety and Borough Police conducted the investigation.
A "visitor to the Chancellor Green Rotunda" reported to Borough Police having seen an African-American male revealing a "chrome-plated hand gun" to his friends Friday afternoon, according to the campus alert posted across campus by Public Safety.
After an investigation by Borough Police and Public Safety, the handgun was determined to be a toy cap gun.
Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said in an interview yesterday afternoon that he was alarmed to hear about the students' accusations of biased treatment of African-American students. "I am surprised that of all groups, my group is being criticized in this way," Weiser said. "If any group is diversified on campus, it is Public Safety. We are usually very sensitive to everyone's issues." …
The Weekly Standard
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March 6, 2000HEADLINE: Original Dissent; Keith Whittington makes the case for constitutional law
BYLINE: BY JEREMY RABKIN Jeremy Rabkin teaches constitutional law at Cornell University.Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review
by Keith E. Whittington
Univ. Press of Kansas, 320 pp., $39.95Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning
by Keith E. Whittington
Harvard Univ. Press. 352 pp., $49.95Whether the Constitution is most properly interpreted by its "original intent" was a subject of intense controversy twenty years ago, when such conservative scholars as Robert Bork accused the Warren and Burger Courts of spinning new constitutional doctrines out of mere political fashion.
By now, however, the active participants in that debate have all moved on. It takes a young, energetic scholar to start over with a subject that has been exhausted for most others -- a scholar, in fact, like Keith Whittington, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, who has recently produced a pair of books: Constitutional Interpretation, which proposes a new argument for interpreting the Constitution according to its "original intent," and Constitutional Construction, which defends the ability of the Congress and president to define, independent of the courts, constitutional practice in at least some areas.
Both these volumes display the labored earnestness that marks authors too recently released from graduate school. Still, they offer renewed vigor to a tired field and should provoke some fresh thinking by constitutional scholars. Whittington seems to have forced himself to read everything written on this subject over the past twenty years. He pursues the argument from the slap-dash polemics of law reviews to the murky depths of French deconstructionist theories. His seventy-odd pages of endnotes in Constitutional Interpretation record his qualified approvals, nuanced points of difference, and firm rejoinders to every theorist, commentator, and scholar he has consulted.
In the body of his text as well, he maintains a relentlessly academic tone. He takes all the competing arguments at face value, almost never stopping to speculate about the partisan motives that prompted them. So he carefully dissects the claims of left-leaning critics from more than a decade ago, without noticing that a great many of them have turned to invoking originalist arguments: Today, it is the liberals who protest against activism when a conservative Supreme Court justice asserts a new doctrine of states' rights or limitation on racial preferences. …
The great contribution of Constitutional Interpretation is that it seeks a political theory to undergird the jurisprudence of original intent. The question that cuts most deeply against originalism is this: Even where we can determine what the Constitution meant in the eighteenth century, why should we feel bound by the views of a vastly different country in a time so distant? …
Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: EXPERT: FINDING FAIR JURORS TAKES WORK
BYLINE: Susan Dryman, STAFF WRITERASHEVILLE - Prospective jurors who already know that Richard Allen Jackson confessed to killing Karen Styles in 1994 might think they can forget about it, but there's no way they really can, the nation's leading jury expert says.
"Jurors will say they can put it out of their mind, and they might believe they can put it out of their mind, but the reality is, they can never put it out of their mind," said David Davis, whose Los Angeles-based consulting firm was hired to help prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson case, the Oklahoma City bombing trial and the trials of Eric and Lyle Menendez, accused of murdering their parents.
"Our culture places a great deal of value on being perceived as a fair person," said Davis, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. "So for a prospective juror surrounded by other prospective jurors, the judge, the lawyers and a huge audience, there can be strong pressures to be fair. So as a result, the prospective juror may say he or she can be fair, when deep in their heart, that may not be so." …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: AIA at the BMA; Critic's choice: Architecture
BYLINE: Edward GuntsNew York architect Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer and architecture professor at Princeton University, will be the leadoff speaker in a spring lecture series on contemporary architecture sponsored by the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Nordenson began his career as a draftsman in the studio of designers Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.
He will lecture on his work at 6 p.m. March 8 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. His recent projects include the Corning Glass Center 2000 in upstate New York and the proposed expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. …
The Boston Globe
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: JUST A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR ...
BYLINE: By Tom Long, Globe StaffNORTH ANDOVER - James Tanton is a man on a mission: He wants to make mathematics fun. And, he's found a sweet way to put fun in the fundamentals: He tempts his students with candy.
Tanton is an associate professor of math at Merrimack College in North Andover. He also teaches at The Math Circle at Harvard University, a program for students who enjoy math and want additional challenges. "The whole world is scared of math," he said before a recent workshop in a student lounge at Merrimack. "It's something you learn in grade school. I call it math anxiety."
It's an anxiety Tanton never felt when he was growing up in Adelaide, Australia. As a young man, he said he often found himself staring up at the tin ceiling in his home, counting the panels and finding geometric patterns in the design. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with numbers.
"Math," he said in his thick Australian accent, "is not just about numbers. It's nothing more than looking for a recognizable pattern. It's about changing your thinking and getting to another place."
He has been a member of the faculty at Merrimack College for six months. He previously taught at St. Mary's College in Maryland. He began searching for new ways to engage his students and "dispel math anxiety" after completing graduate school at Princeton University.
"Math," he says, "is not just for nerdy or geeky kids." …
Calgary Herald
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Build baby your way
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORKParents-to-be could guarantee their children will grow up to be unusually healthy. Or extra smart. Or maybe just a little better looking than mom and dad.
Sound pretty good?
Now, suppose that guarantee requires a level of planning that goes way beyond the usual prenatal care. Suppose it requires some fiddling with the future kids' DNA, adding a few genes here and there to slow down aging or rev up the brain circuitry or lock in resistance to viruses.
Still sound good?
Even if your answer is a definite no, some scientists believe many parents will find this a very attractive option. For now, the choice is science fiction -- but just barely so.
The time is coming, many scientists say, when parents will pick their children's genes. …
To hear these scientists talk, all of this and much more will be possible in the not-so- distant future. ''There's nothing beyond tinkering,'' says Lee Silver, a biologist at Princeton University. …
The Capital (Annapolis, MD.)
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March 05, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: COLLEGE NOTEBOOK White expands range at Princeton
BYLINE: BY BILL WAGNERJosh White might be a little more worldly then his fellow freshmen on the Princeton lacrosse team.
That's because White has been a couple places and done a few things since he graduated St. Mary's High in 1997. Places such as Germany and Thailand, things such as jumping out of airplanes and learning how to handle deadly weapons.
White, who scored two goals in Princetion's season-opening win over Johns Hopkins yesterday, was one of Princeton's top recruits in '97, but he decided for a variety of reasons not to enroll immediately at the Ivy League school.
Instead White enlisted in the United States Army and committed to a two-year tour of duty. It wasn't an easy road to hoe. …
"Josh didn't feel as though maturity-wise he was ready for college," said father Rob White, an assistant principal and lacrosse coach at St. Mary's who served 14 years in the Army and participated in Desert Storm.
"I think Josh is better off for the experience. He's definitely more mature and responsible, he's more confident and he's much more considerate of others. That comes from being part of the ultimate team."
Princeton coach Bill Tierney maintained contact with White while he was stationed with a Ranger battalion at Fort Lewis in Washington state. …
The New York Times
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: In the Region/New Jersey; Along Rt. 1 Near Princeton, the Market Is Booming
BYLINE: By RACHELLE GARBARINETHE office market along the Princeton Route 1 corridor is on a roll: over the last year 800,000 square feet of space in six mostly speculative buildings became available, and all but 100,000 square feet has been leased.
Now the market is entering a second round of building. Work is under way or will soon begin on projects totaling 507,000 square feet. And thousands more square feet are planned, including research and development space, along the 20-mile corridor between New Brunswick and Trenton.
Developers say they are trying to capitalize on the state's strong economy and job growth, which continue to stoke tenants' need for space and their desire to be in this central location close to Princeton University.
Commercial brokers said they were initially concerned about overbuilding when so much space came onto the market in 1999. The Princeton corridor's 800,000 square feet of new office space was the second-highest production level last year -- after the Jersey City waterfront, with 1.1 million square feet -- in New Jersey's 11 central and northern counties. But that situation did not materialize, and "demand remains strong" said J. Douglas Petrozzini, a senior vice president in the Edison office of Grubb & Ellis, the national commercial brokerage company. The market should be able to handle the additional space, he added. …
The New York Times
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: MUSIC For Concert Planners, A Chicken and Egg Riddle
BYLINE: By LESLIE KANDELLYEARS before the headline "Who Cares if You Listen?" appeared on a 1958 essay by the composer Milton Babbitt, trust between composers and concertgoers had already eroded.
Serialism, the austere 12-tone style now regarded strictly as a useful skill, appealed to composers, but audiences turned off by pedantry walked off in droves.
And a recent BBC radio program referred neatly to those who now "seem conspicuously resistant to the charms of orchestral music."
Faced with dwindling concert attendance, composers have spent the past decade trying to make musical amends to rebuild the trust of the good old days. One avenue to reconciliation may be new kinds of concert planning to lure suspicious audiences back. "The eclectic mishmash which passes for programming has to go," said Joseph Horowitz, the musicologist who helped plan the New Jersey Symphony's Rachmaninoff festival. "There is an upsurge in thematic programs with ancillary events."
Dennis Russell Davies, who is to direct the Vienna Radio Symphony in New Brunswick next week, is in the vanguard of inventive programming. …
While Mr. Davies's relies on inner fantasy to provide visual images, other groups are experimenting with visible displays, like theatrical stagings of string quartets. Frances Fowler Slade, director of Princeton Pro Musica chorus, has also been grappling with questions about drawing an audience. Next week, the Pro Musica is to perform "Jonah and the Whale," Dominick Argento's hybrid setting of a 14th-century English play with Latin liturgical texts, sea chanteys and work songs.
"For some time I've been feeling that classical music has got to get with the visual emphasis of things these days," Ms. Slade said. "We have to admit that people are becoming used to visual entertainment. They need a multimedia approach. Alliance Church, which is brand new and looks like an auditorium, has the equipment to make it more of a spectacle."
With Stephen Zorochin, an artist and chorus member who volunteered to help, Ms. Slade chose about 20 slides from the Princeton University art department, depicting Jonah, the whale who swallowed him, and God, who set him up. Using a layering process familiar to artists as "sandwiching," Mr. Zorochin incorporated his own work and coloring into the slides.
The story will be told through slides as the hour-long oratorio is performed by chorus, instruments, soloists and narrator. "We don't want it to be a history lesson or an art exhibition," Mr. Zorochin said. But there is a lot to be pointed out, so Ms. Slade has put together a pre-concert panel discussion of Mr. Argento's work, and the Jonah figure in history and religion. …
The New York Times
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: JERSEY FOOTLIGHTS; Theater Program on School Violence
BYLINE: By JOSH SCHONWALDFor R. N. Sandberg, it was the repeated sightings of children beating up children at his son's Princeton middle school. For Ted Sod, it was the deadly shootings at schools in Jonesboro, Ark., and Littleton, Colo.
About a year and a half ago, Mr. Sandberg, 51, an instructor in Princeton University's theater department, and Mr. Sod, 48, the director of the George Street Playhouse's touring company, decided that it was time for a theater company to address school violence.
"As an artist," Mr. Sod said, "I felt that I needed to get this issue out into the community."
Next Saturday, the fruit of the Sod-Sandberg collaboration will be performed in New Brunswick, as part of the George Street Playhouse's annual Playday event for children. Written by Mr. Sandberg, and directed by Mr. Sod, "In Between" explores the causes of school violence through the stories of three students. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: SUNDAY FOCUS / CAMPAIGN 2000'S TOLERANCE TUG OF WAR
BYLINE: Jonathan Tilove. Jonathan Tilove writes about race for Newhouse News ServiceFROM RICHARD Nixon to Lee Atwater, from the Southern Strategy to Willie Horton, Republicans were the smooth operators of racial politics and the Democrats-soft on crime, weak on welfare, keen on quotas- were their hapless foils.
But with the arrival of Super Tuesday 2000, it is the Republican candidates for president who are looking battered and bewildered and the Democrats who look rested and ready on race. For two of the longest weeks in the history of presidential politics, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain have been beating each other bloody over who is buddies with the bigger bigots-or maybe it is who is least tolerant of the intolerant. …
The problem the Republicans face as they attempt to get Carolina off people's minds is that, having invoked the spirit of Nixon and Atwater, their ghosts linger. After all, it was Bush the Elder-whose "kinder, gentler America" refrain precisely presaged the younger's "compassionate conservatism"-who was elected after a no-holds-barred campaign of race baiting in 1988. In the thick of that race, Atwater suggested that by the time he was through, folks would think that Willie Horton, the black convicted murderer who raped a white woman while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison, was Michael Dukakis' running mate.
In fact, it can be argued that Willie Horton drew down the curtain on the era of Republican dominance on race. Tali Mendelberg, a Princeton University political scientist and author of the forthcoming "Mobilizing Race in the Age of Equality," found that the use of Horton's story and image was devastating to Dukakis until the waning days of the campaign when the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Dukakis' running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, finally charged that the Bush campaign's focus on Horton was racist.
As soon as they said it, Mendleberg says, Horton was no longer effective against Dukakis. What Mendelberg says she has discovered in her work is that today only subtle appeals to race are effective, and that the minute someone blows the whistle and says the appeals are racist, they stop working-even on people who harbor racial resentments, and even if those people don't necessarily believe that the appeals are racist.
"All you have to do is to get someone to consider the possibility that an appeal is racist and it stops working," Mendelberg says. …
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (RIVERSIDE, CA.)
Copyright 2000 The Press Enterprise Co.
March 05, 2000, SundaySECTION: LIVING
HEADLINE: How much do you know about our presidents?
BYLINE: The Press-EnterpriseHave fun with these questions about the lives of the presidents:
Q 5. Which future president helped coach football at two universities?
A 5. While he was a professor of history and political science,Woodrow Wilson helped coach the football teams at Wesleyan and Princeton universities. This was during the 1880s and 1890s, before universities hired full-time football coaches.
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 5, 2000HEADLINE: ON CAMPUS
BYLINE: The RecordPRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The university's Art Museum is one of 29 museums in the United States and abroad to receive gifts of contemporary art from the collection of Peter and Eileen Norton. The couple donated 1,000 works with an estimated value of more than $2 million to the Art Museum and institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan.
Most of the donated pieces were created in the 1990s by younger artists. The Princeton museum received 22 contemporary photographs.
St. Petersburg Times
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March 05, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Son's lust for family fortune behind death plot, police say
BYLINE: EDIE GROSS; ERIC STIRGUSHe's accused of trying to arrange the murders of his three brothers and his mother, a Clearwater philanthropist.
Outside the gilded gates of one of Pinellas County's finest communities, beyond the yacht club dining halls, no one wants to talk about it.
One by one, they will tick off Carolyn Hunter's accomplishments, the generous gifts she and her late husband have bestowed upon the community.
The benefits the couple hosted for the Upper Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens. The valuable land at the north tip of Clearwater Beach that they set aside for a bird sanctuary. The donations to Morton Plant Hospital.
But the other topic, the one that is so unbelievable, so unacceptable, is off-limits. …
Police say her eldest son wanted her dead. …
Carolyn Hunter's husband, Ed Sr., and his brother, John Hunter, owned apartment buildings, hotels and commercial real estate in Des Moines. They also owned Hiland Potato Chip, a famous snack company in the region that bragged about producing the "chippiest chip around."
In the 1950s, they brought their business acumen to Florida, buying an interest in the historic Clearwater Beach Hotel. They became sole owners in 1976.
Peter Hunter, said family members, believed the whole operation would be his one day.
Peter, 50, was the oldest of Carolyn and Edwin Hunter Sr.'s four sons. He grew up in the wealthiest enclave of Iowa's capital city, a neighborhood of spacious, hilltop homes hemmed in by acres of woods, the Raccoon River and aptly named Grand Avenue.
He spent his teen years boarding and studying at the elite Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before moving on to Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business. …
Sunday Mirror
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March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: MY BEAUTIFUL INTERNET LOVER TURNED OUT TO BE A 20-STONE PENSIONER OF 65... WHO HAD A DEAD BODY IN HER FREEZER
BYLINE: Emily Compston In South CarolinaTHE pretty young American seemed the answer to lonely Trevor Tasker's dreams.
After exchanging intimate messages and photographs on the Internet, he and Wynema Shumate had fallen in love and planned to marry.
Trevor, 27, smitten by the photographs Wynema had sent him, quit his job as a petrol pump worker in Goole, Humberside, to fly 3,000 miles to the US to settle down with his new fiancee.
But moments after his plane touched down, he got his first shock...
Waiting to greet him at the airport was not the pretty 30-something who smiled out at him from his computer screen.
Instead, his bride-to-be was a 65-year-old grey-haired pensioner ...who weighed 20 stone.
Shumate admitted she had sent him photographs of herself that were taken 30 years ago.
But that shock was nothing compared to what hapless Trevor was to discover next.
Nestled amongst the frozen peas and chips in her freezer, scheming Shumate kept the dead body of her former employer, James O'Neil.
Trevor is believed to have stayed at Shumate's home in Charleston, South Carolina, for about a week before uncovering the grisly secret. …
Victim O'Neil, aged 70 and a graduate of Princeton University, vanished last June.
His family feared for his safety and hired a private detective to track down the deeply-religious former sports magazine worker.
Shumate, originally from New York, had worked as a live-in housekeeper for O'Neil, an alcoholic who suffered from diabetes, since 1997.
Police are waiting for the body of the widower to thaw before they can establish how he died. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: For the Waltons, Life Is a Ball; Four Sons Inherited a Gift for the Game From Dad
BYLINE: William Gildea , Washington Post Staff WriterOne evening in mid-January, the phone rang at Luke Walton's apartment at the University of Arizona. The familiar bass voice belonged to Luke's father, Bill, basketball star for the UCLA Bruins in the early 1970s. Luke declined a chance to play for UCLA and now starts as a redshirt freshman for the Wildcats, a Pacific-10 Conference rival and a national power with hopes of winning this season's NCAA championship.
Arizona would play at UCLA that week. Walton the father called to give his son some good-natured grief.
"UCLA was the greatest in the history of the sport," the father reminded.
Luke suggested that was history.
Sure enough, Arizona won handily, 76-61. Afterward, Bill bought dinner. …
Luke is just one of Bill's four basketball-playing sons. There's Adam, 24, who has completed his college career, which included three years at Louisiana State, and now helps coach a high school junior varsity team in San Diego; Nate, 22, a junior who plays for Princeton; Luke, 19, and Chris, 18, a high school senior bound for San Diego State. They're all tall, at least 6 feet 7, but none is as tall as the 6-11 Bill. …
"Dad was always stressing the rest of the world besides basketball," Nate said during a phone conversation from Princeton. "He made a point of emphasizing the importance of education. My brothers talk a lot of trash about the Pac-10 being better in basketball than the Ivy League." And Bill might join in. But he's proud of Nate's choice of schools and has hung in his rec room a framed copy of a sports page with the huge headline marking a significant Princeton victory in an NCAA tournament game: "Brains Beat Bruins." …
THE PANTAGRAPH (Bloomington, IL.)
Copyright 2000 The Pantagraph
March 4, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Higher ed campuses size up well; Year of growth, inauguration highlight change
BYLINE: ROGER MILLERIllinois Wesleyan University
New construction and a record enrollment marked 1999-2000 for Illinois Wesleyan University, which is preparing the celebrate its sesquicentennial this fall.
IWU's enrollment of 2,075 set a record this year as it topped 2,000 for the third consecutive year. In fall 2000, IWU intends to limit total enrollment to around 2,000, with about 1,950 students on campus and the rest studying abroad.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine in its September 1999 issue rated IWU 12th among the nation's top 100 private colleges in terms of quality education at an affordable cost. The Kiplinger rating tied IWU with Princeton University and Dartmouth College. IWU ranked ahead of Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 4, 2000, SATURDAYHEADLINE: SENATE OKS FIRE SAFETY MEASURE; COLLEGES WOULDHAVE TO PUBLICIZE RECORDS
BYLINE: BRIAN KLADKO, Staff WriterThe U.S. Senate has approved a bill that would require colleges to publicize their fire-safety records, including the number of false alarms and whether their dormitories are equipped with sprinklers.
The measure, sponsored by Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., and Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, is a result of the Jan. 19 fire at Seton Hall University that killed three freshmen and injured 62 other people.
If approved by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Clinton, the bill would require schools to issue a statement that would clarify whether sprinkler systems and smoke alarms are in all student campus housing. …
Seton Hall, along with Rutgers and Princeton universities, advised the lawmakers on the measure and supports it, he said.
"I can't imagine any opposition, because the bill is responsible," Filippelli said."It's practical." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Police say money missing from dead man's accounts
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C.Police say about $5,000 was taken from the bank accounts of a 70-year-old Ladson man whose frozen body was found in a garage freezer this week.
The money was taken from the accounts of James H. O'Neil after his disappearance early last year, said North Charleston Detective Sgt. Doug Hester. Police say he had been in the freezer for more than a year.
His family had reported him missing in June and police discovered the activity in his bank accounts while trying to locate O'Neil, Hester said.
O'Neil's housemate, Wynema Faye Shumate, is charged with unauthorized removal of a dead body and destruction or desecration of human remains. Shumate, 65, told police she found O'Neil dead in his bedroom, according to an arrest affidavit. …
Investigators have said Shumate and O'Neil lived together since at least 1997. He had attended Princeton University and worked for a New York-based sports magazine. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Investigators piecing together bizarre case of frozen roommate
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C.In a story that could be a plot for an Alfred Hitchcock movie, police have a frozen body, a woman facing charges and questions about whether they are dealing with a natural death or a homicide.
"I've dealt with plenty of bizarre cases, but this has go to be close to the top," said Charleston County Sheriff's spokesman Mitch Lucas.
Authorities this week arrested 65-year-old Wynema Faye Shumate and charged her with unauthorized removal of a dead body and destruction or desecration of human remains.
Police found the body of James H. O'Neil, 70, on Tuesday in a freezer in the garage of the Ladson home he shared with the woman. O'Neil's family had hired a private investigator to find him, and police, alerted by the use of one of O'Neil's automatic teller machines, had a warrant to find evidence that Shumate illegally used O'Neil's money. …
Investigators said Shumate and O'Neil lived together at least two years. He had attended Princeton University and once worked for a New York-based sports magazine. …
American Health Line
Copyright 2000 The National Journal Group, Inc.
March 3, 2000SECTION: POLITICS & POLICY
HEADLINE: HUMAN TRIALS: OFFICIALS CALL FOR MONITORING CHANGESBased on more than a year's worth of hearings nationwide and the recent problems with gene therapy experiments, federal health officials and members of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission Wednesday called for changes in the monitoring of research trials using humans, the New York Times reports. Commission Chair Dr. Harold Shapiro of Princeton University said, "One problem we have heard again and again is that, once an experiment is approved, there is a failure to follow what's going on with the patients.
"I think there is a growing consensus that something must be done." On Wednesday, the commission heard testimony from NIH and FDA representatives, who discussed scientists' failure to inform federal agencies of "serious adverse effects" involving patients. …
The Buffalo News
Copyright 2000 The Buffalo News
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: BRADLEY FINDS HE HAS TO PLAY CATCH-UP BALL
BYLINE: ANTHONY VIOLANTI; News Staff ReporterThird of four profiles.
Bill Bradley's campaign has given him the shivers.
Two weeks ago, it was the draft from a faulty radiator at Erie Community College that sent a cold chill through him.
"My back is very cool, my front is very hot," he said with a forced, irritable smile before a news conference at the school's downtown campus.
Today, it's the latest round of disappointing primary results from Washington State, where Vice President Gore trounced Bradley by nearly 70 to 30 percent earlier this week. Next Tuesday's round of primaries, including one in New York, looms as Bradley's day of reckoning -- and perhaps his last stand.
"On March 7, I have to win a number of states, no question," the candidate said. …
Bradley's serious side is a byproduct of his upbringing as an only child in Crystal City, Mo., where his father, a Republican, was the town's banker and his mother insisted that Bradley balance his love for basketball with other pursuits -- such as playing the French horn.
He opted to attend Princeton University in part because he thought it would improve his chances of winning a Rhodes Scholarship. When he won one, after an All-America collegiate career capped by winning the gold medal at the 1964 Olympics, he stuck with his plan to attend Oxford. Bradley put his pro career on hold for two years. …
The Post and Courier
(Charleston, SC)
Copyright 2000 The Post and Courier
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Frozen man's money missing
BYLINE: GLENN SMITH; Of The Post and CourierInvestigators say about $5,000 is missing from the accounts of a Ladson man whose frozen body was found in a garage freezer Tuesday, according to North Charleston police.
The money was taken from the accounts of 70-year-old James H. O'Neil after his disappearance early last year, said Detective Sgt. Doug Hester. His family reported him missing in June 1999. Investigators believe his body had been in a freezer at his Hardwood Street home since February of last year.
O'Neil's housemate, Wynema Faye Shumate, is accused of placing his body in the freezer. Shumate, 65, told police she found him dead in his bedroom, according to an arrest affidavit. The coroner's office has not determined how O'Neil died because his body must thaw before an autopsy can be conducted. …
Investigators have said Shumate and O'Neil lived together since at least 1997. He had attended Princeton University, worked for a New York-based sports magazine and lived on Legare and Savage streets in Charleston. She was a New York native who had come to South Carolina from Virginia in 1992 to escape an abusive relationship, Shumate told a judge Wednesday. …
The Star-Ledger
Copyright 2000 The Star-Ledger
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: New Jersey Residents Puzzle over Listing of Unclaimed Assets
BYLINE: By Dan WeissmanSteven Barach's due some money. From where, he's not sure. Maybe it's an overlooked checking account, albeit a small one, that "fell between the cracks." But that, in his own words, is a wild guess.
The senior vice president/investor relations with GA Kraut Co. in New York is convinced there's nothing substantial, no lost inheritance waiting somewhere in a safety deposit box.
The Short Hills man's name is just one of 45,000 -- regular folk and businesses alike -- just published in a eight-page-thick newspaper legal advertisement as a "notice of persons appearing to be the owners of personal property presumed to be abandoned."
Barach intends to solve the mystery. "I'll look it up," he said.
That means filling out the coupon and mailing it to the Unclaimed Property Bureau of the State Treasurer's Office, which publishes the exhaustive list annually in hopes of finding the owners of everything from uncashed paychecks to stocks and bonds to insurance claims. …
The Bank of New York, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New Jersey, Bell Atlantic New Jersey, Allied Signal, Inc. -- now Honeywell after a merger -- lrvington General Hospital, Seton Hall University School of Law, Aetna U.S. Health Care, The Star-Ledger and Princeton University's Board of Trustees are just some of the corporate names on the latest. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Harvard Crimson via U-Wire
March 3, 2000HEADLINE: Students stage sweatshop protests at colleges nationwide
BYLINE: By Robert K. Silverman, Harvard Crimson
SOURCE: Harvard U.
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.Over the last two weeks, students on three campuses have staged sit-ins for a total of 16 days.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania occupied the president's office for nine days, eating granola bars and peanut butter and communicating with the outside world via e-mail and cell phone.
A week ago, more than 50 police officers dressed in full riot gear forcibly ended a four-day sit-in at the University of Wisconsin, using saws to break apart a group of students who chained themselves together with bicycle U-locks around their necks, after earlier dispersing protesters with pepper spray.
Here at Harvard, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) have been staging rallies and demonstrations for almost a year. Their last attempt to distribute leaflets in Mass Hall resulted in prompt eviction.
What has inspired these activists to disregard response papers and problem sets and put their physical safety at risk?
All of the protesters were demanding that their schools withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC).
On the surface, the distinction between the two organizations seems slight. Both are designed to combat overseas sweatshops, both advocate a system of monitoring and working with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
But protesters charge the FLA is too closely tied to corporate interests to protect workers. Administrators counter the WRC is too loosely organized to be effective.
"The FLA--which we pronounce 'flaw'--was designed by corporations to protect themselves," says Benjamin L. McKean '02, a member of PSLM and also a Crimson editor.
Robert K. Durkee, vice president for public affairs at Princeton University and the sole representative of universities on the FLA board, says the WRC is unstable.
"With the FLA you can be fairly confident it is what is says it is, whereas the WRC is always moving," he says. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
March 3, 2000HEADLINE: Near Eastern studies at Princeton receives grant from federal government
BYLINE: By Jessica Hafkin, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Princeton University's Program in Near Eastern Studies will receive a $318,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Rep Rush Holt (D-N.J.) announced Thursday.
Holt, a member of the House Education Committee who represents New Jersey's 12th district, was notified of the grant in a letter from Assistant Secretary of Education Scott Fleming. According to the letter, the three-year grant -- which takes effect in August -- is part of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program.
The program provides $15 million in fellowships to aid graduate students in foreign languages or international studies.
"We can certainly point to a number of examples of American ignorance about the Near Eastern region that have resulted in diplomatic and economic failures," Holt said in an interview yesterday. "I would hope that a grant like this would allow more depth in Middle Eastern studies. It's important work to do."
According to a statement from Holt, the University's grant will be used specifically to fund summer and academic-year internships to promote Near Eastern studies education. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
March 3, 2000HEADLINE: Ivy League students unite in refusing to work for Coke, GM, BP-Amoco
BYLINE: By Sonia Fernandez, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: New YorkStudents from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania pledged Thursday not to accept jobs with several corporations until they meet certain environmental standards.
"Students have always been idealistic, campaigning to save the world. The difference is that today we are organized and educated in the rules of [the corporate] game," Columbia senior Andrea Avolio said.
The purpose of the campaign is to mobilize students to build awareness of the significance of career choice, Frankie Lind, a Cornell junior explained.
Coca-Cola, British Petroleum-Amoco and General Motors are the current targets of the students' campaign. The companies were chosen by Ecopledge.com, a nationwide campaign formerly known as the Dirty Jobs Boycott.
"Coke, GM and BP-Amoco are just three of the many companies out there green-washing the public," Avolio said. "They are telling us that they are environmental and at the same time they are destroying our natural resources and contributing to global climate change." …
OBITUARIES
New Jersey Law Journal
Copyright 2000 American Lawyer Newspapers Group, Inc.
March 6, 2000HEADLINE: Voice of the Bar/Richard Biunno's Publisher Laments
Dear Editor:
Soon after the death of Richard J. Biunno, Esq., I submitted the following obituary to the Law Journal. … The obituary is presented in this forum so that your readers may judge for themselves its worthiness for publication: Richard J. Biunno, 54, of Milltown, author of Gann Law Books' New Jersey Rules of Evidence, died December 23, 1999, in St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, after a long illness. Mr. Biunno, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was first an attorney with Lum, Biunno and Tompkins in Newark. He then served as an assistant prosecutor in Essex County from 1975 through 1978 and of Middlesex County from 1978 through 1995. Superior Court Judge Richard Rebeck, who was Middlesex County Prosecutor when Mr. Biunno began his tenure in that office, described him as "a brilliant but unassuming person whose legal writings and editing of the New Jersey Rules of Evidence showed the depth of his legal scholarship. He was a help to all of us and an asset to the law with his annotations." …
Michael Protzel, President
Gann Law Books
The Boston Herald
Copyright 2000 Boston Herald Inc.
March 3, 2000HEADLINE: Obituary; David L. Melemed of Sharon, at 43, computer analyst
David L. Melemed of Sharon, a computer analyst, died Tuesday at Norwood Hospital of a heart attack. He was 43.
Born in Boston, Mr. Melemed was raised and educated in Brockton.
After graduating from Brockton High School, he attended Princeton University and graduated from Boston University.
Mr. Melemed was employed as a computer and systems analyst for Fidelity, Inc. for more than 10 years. He had been previously employed by the Boston Company. …
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
Copyright 2000 Spokane Spokesman-Review
March 3, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Robert Brown, 75
Grand Junction, Colo.
Service for Robert Charles Brown, a former Medical Lake resident, was Tuesday at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary in Grand Junction. Burial followed at the Veterans' Cemetery in Grand Junction.
Mr. Brown, who was born in Stone, Ky., died last Friday. He was 75.
He graduated from Big Creek High School in War, W. Va., and attended Princeton University and the University of Richmond (Va.). …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
March 8, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: LESLIE E. MASON, 38, WAS AN ARCHITECT, DESIGNER
DATELINE: SHAKER HEIGHTSLeslie Elizabeth Mason, an architect and designer of luxury residences, died Saturday at Hospice of the Western Reserve. She had cancer.
In addition to designing houses in the Hamptons, Aspen and New York City, the 38-year-old had worked on public buildings across the world. …
She earned a master's degree in architecture in 1985 from Princeton University, where she was an editor of the school's architecture journal. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 2000 P.G. Publishing Co.
March 5, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: John N. Irwin II Lawyer and diplomat, was ambassador to France BYLINE: NICK RAVO
John Nichol Irwin II, a Manhattan lawyer and diplomat who served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur during World War II and later became ambassador to France, died Monday in a hospital in New Haven, Conn. He was 86.
Mr. Irwin, who lived in New Canaan, Conn., held numerous government positions starting in 1947, when he was appointed a member of the staff of the joint Philippine-American Finance Commission during the Truman administration. …
Mr. Irwin was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on Dec. 31, 1913 and graduated from the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University. He received a master's degree from Oxford University and a law degree from Fordham University in 1941. …
He spent many years on the boards of directors of IBM and of the U.S. Trust Co. He also was a trustee of the Lawrenceville School, Princeton, the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Union Theological Seminary, the National Gallery of Art, and the French American Foundation.
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