Nassau Notes
Arts
Women
and Gender exhibit
This photograph is part of the
exhibit "Looking Back Through Closed Eyes: Images of
Thailand" by Jennifer Parker, on exhibit in the lounge of
113 Dickinson Hall through February 16.
Strings
The Arditti String Quartet
will perform music by Janacek, Berg, Elliott Carter and
György Ligeti at 8:00 pm on February 17 in
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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"White Orchid, New Hope, Pa, 1999" is part of the black and white photographs taken by the members of the Princeton Photography Club on display in the Bernstein Gallery through February 26.
Milberg
exhibit features Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is
the subject of "The Story of a Novelist," an exhibit in the
Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts on the second floor of
Firestone Library through April 9. Wolfe was the
author of four major novels (Look Homeward, Angel; Of
Time and the River; The Web and the Rock; and You
Can't Go Home Again).
The Alexander D. Wainwright
Collection of Thomas Wolfe, given to the Princeton
University Library in 1998, is a comprehensive collection of
his published work, as well as printed material about him
and visuals inspired by him. Together with original
correspondence between the novelist and his editors in the
Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, the Wainwright Wolfe
Collection forms the basis for the current exhibit, which
marks the centennial of Wolfe's birth.
Speakers
Powell speaks on human rights
Catherine Powell will speak on
"Bringing Human Rights Home" at 4:30 pm on February 16
in Robertson Hall, bowl 1. Her talk will focus on US
compliance with human rights standards.
Acting executive director of Columbia
University's Human Rights Institute, Powell is also an
associate professor of clinical law at Columbia's Law
School. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1998 to found the
school's Human Rights Clinic and help launch the Human
Rights Institute.
She has been a member of the advisory
committee for Human Rights Watch; a consultant for Human
Rights Watch on a fact-finding mission to South Africa; and
a member of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
delegation to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing, China.
Powell earned a joint MPA/JD degree from
the Woodrow Wilson School and Yale University in 1991.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Kathleen Jamieson
Jamieson delivers Moffett lecture
Kathleen Jamieson will
speak on "Deliberation, Democratic Politics and Journalism"
at 4:30 pm on February 17 in Dodds Auditorium,
Robertson Hall.
An expert on political campaigns,
Jamieson is professor of communication, dean of the
Annenberg School for Communication and director of the
Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of
Pennsylvania. She frequently appears as a commentator on
CBS News, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer,
National Public Radio and CNN's Inside Politics.
She is the author or coauthor of nine
books, most recently, Spiral of Cynicism: Press and
Public Good (with J. Cappella).
The James A. Moffett '29 Lecture in
Ethics is sponsored by the Program in Ethics and Public
Affairs. A reception will follow the lecture in the lobby of
Robertson Hall.
Talks address Latin Jewish
experience
Joseph Schraibman, who teaches
at Washington University, will present two lectures on the
aspects of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
The first talk, entitled "The Spanish
Inquisition in the New World: The Story of the Carvajal
Family," will be held at 4:30 pm on February 17 in
107 58 Prospect St. A reception will follow.
"Memoirs of a Cuban Jew" will be held at
noon on February 18 in the Café of the Center for
Jewish Life. This will include stories, pictures and
reflections on Schraibman's return to Cuba in 1993.
The lectures are sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Life and the programs in Jewish Studies and Latin
American Studies.
Notices
Wrestling
Senior captains Justin Dodulik
(l), Jenaro Cardona-Fox and Marc Steyer and their team will
wrestle against Rutgers University at 7:00 pm on February
16, and against University of Pennsylvania, George Mason
and Sacred Heart universities beginning at 1:00 am on
February 19 in Dillon Gym. The matches will be
followed by the Class of 1958 Wrestling Room dedication at
5:00 pm in Jadwin Gym.
HR provides training courses
The following Human Resources
training programs have room for a few more participants.
Programs marked with an asterisk [*] are recommended
for managers and supervisors.
• *"Managing Threatening or Violent Behavior in the
Workplace: Guidelines for Supervisors," 9:00 to 11:30 am,
March 3 (registration deadline February 18)
• "Performance Appraisals That Work," 9:00 am to noon,
March 14 (registration deadline February 29)
• *"Coaching Skills in a Changing Environment, 8:30 am
to 12:30 pm, March 16 (registration deadline March
2)
• "Time Management," 9:00 am to noon, March 20
(registration deadline March 6)
• "Two Hour Practice Session: Performance Appraisals
That Work," 9:00 to 11:00 am, March 28 (registration
deadline March 14) and 1:30 to 3:30 pm, April 5
(registration deadline March 22)
Register at http://www.princeton.edu/hr/stfdevel/trainprg.htm.
Princeton Pension Plan meetings
The Pension Plan for Biweekly
Payroll Employees (the Princeton Pension Plan) was frozen
January 1994 when the Benefit Committee voted to move all
biweekly payroll employees to the Princeton University
Retirement Plan, the TIAA-CREF defined contribution
plan.
When the University made this decision,
it wanted to make sure that no employee would receive a
smaller benefit because of the move to the new plan. The
Pension Plan was frozen for five years in order to provide a
transition benefit to participants who were 49 years of age
or older at the time. Plans are now moving forward to
terminate the Pension Plan completely by the end of June
2000.
Information meetings for all plan
participants, both active and retired, have been scheduled
on the main campus and PPPL Campus from February 21
through March 10. The dates, times and places of
these meetings are listed below.
Plan participants with questions about
the schedule should call the Plan Termination Hotline at
(888) 245-5445 and leave a message that includes their name,
social security number, phone number and question. A
benefits administrator will return all calls by the end of
the next working day.
February 21, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, Dodds Auditorium
February 22, 7:00 to 9:00 am, Whig Hall; 2:30 to 4:30 pm,
Dodds Auditorium
February 23, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, McDonnell A01
February 24, 2:30 to 4:30, pm, Dodds Auditorium
February 25, 8:30 to 10:30 am, McDonnell A01
February 28, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, Dodds Auditorium
February 29, 7:00 to 9:00 am, Whig Hall; 2:00 to 4:00 pm,
McDonnell A01
March 1, 7:45 to 9:45 amMcDonnell A01
March 2, 3:00 to 5:00 pm, Dodds Auditorium
March 3, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Dodds Auditorium
March 6, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, Dodds Auditorium
March 7, 10:00 am to noon, Gottleib Auditorium, PPL; 2:30 to
4:30 pm, Gottleib Auditorium, PPL
March 8, 10:00 am to noonGottleib Auditorium, PPL
March 9, 9:00 to 11:00 am, McDonnell A01; 3:00 to 5:00 pm,
Dodds Auditorium
March 10, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Dodds Auditorium
Facility offers high performance
computers
The Keck Materials Research Computational Center
has state-of-the-art IBM SP and SGI Origin 2000 computers,
each with 64 processors and 32 Gbytes of memory, available
to members of the University community at nominal cost.
The Princeton Materials Institute has
established this facility with funding from the Keck
Foundation, the National Science Foundation and University
sources. Email Bill Wichser (mailto:bill@princeton.edu) for
more information.
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