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February 9, 2000 

Princeton Students Go to Cuba

Will "Listen To the Cuban People"

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Twenty Princeton undergraduate students and three University faculty will go to Havana, Cuba, for 10 days of research, travel and "listening to the Cuban people" during Princeton's annual spring break (March 9-20), as part of the student-initiated Princeton in Cuba program, just begun on campus. Led by an unofficial "junta" -- as they are whimsically called -- of student leaders, they plan to stay at a converted convent in Old Havana and to do field work in such areas as Cuban approaches to public health, AIDS prevention and treatment, public education, environmental protection, the economy, and religions, including the Cuban-Jewish community which remains active in Havana.

You are cordially invited to meet the students and their faculty advisors at a press conference of the Princeton in Cuba program at the Woodrow Wilson School (Robertson Hall) on Thursday, February 10 at noon in Bowl 5 (downstairs).

Robertson Hall is located on the northeast corner of Washington Road (Route 571) and Prospect Avenue in Princeton Borough. Limited parking is available on Prospect Avenue or in a parking lot on William Street, which is the next street north of Prospect Avenue if entering from Route 1. A map is available on the web at http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/map+key.pdf.

Photographers and all media are welcome.

If possible, please e-mail student organizer Jill Otto at jillotto@princeton.edu if you will be attending.