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African-American Studies: An intellectual undertaking with "a gigantic literature"
It has been three decades since Princeton created a program in African-American Studies, and history professor Nell Painter is reflecting on what has been accomplished. She gets up from her desk and walks toward a row of books -- required reading for a course called Recent Scholarship in the African-American Intellectual Tradition. The row stretches for several feet. The books -- and the course -- span a wide range of disciplines and topics... [>>more]
Crossing the boundaries of academic
discidisciplines can be daunting, but for the
winners of this year's Sachs and Dale scholarships,
that approach has paid off. Susan Taylor has been named director of the Art
Museum. Currently director of the Davis Museum and
Cultural Center at Wellesley College, she will take
up her Princeton position in August. At Wellesley,
Taylor has overseen acquisitions, exhibitions and
programs. A highlight of her 12-year tenure was the
construction of a new building designed by Rafael
Moneo. [>>more]
Fellowship winners cross disciplines
Ken Shaitelman, recipient
of the Daniel M. Sachs '60 Scholarship, is a
classics major working toward certificates from the
Woodrow Wilson School and the Program in Russian
Studies. Lilith Wood, who won the Martin A. Dale
'53 Fellowship, is majoring in ecology and
evolutionary biology, is interested in mathematics
and history, and plans to be a writer.
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Art Museum appoints new director
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We can't tell you when; we can't tell you where. But
sometime, some place on campus, someone will offer you a
piece of chocolate or a bagel or a cup of cocoa -- free.
What's the catch, you ask? Believe
it or not, there's no catch. You will be on the receiving
end of a Random Act of Kindness, perpetrated by a member of
the student group of the same name. [>>more]
Basketball. On March 7 both the men's and
women's teams lost to Pennsylvania (men 73-52,
women 68-54). Chris Young '02 and Kate Thirolf '00
were named first-team All-Ivy League. (Men: 19-10,
11-3 Ivy; women: 9-19, 6-8 Ivy) Fencing. In NCAA Regionals on March 12,
Eva Petschnigg '03 finished first in women's foil.
(Men: 12-3, 4-0 Ivy; women: 15-2, 5-0 Ivy) Water polo (women). In the CWPA League
games on March 11 and 12, Princeton won against
West Chester, Villanova and Pennsylvania (twice).
(9-0, 4-0 CWPA)
Teams from 46 schools participated in the
Conqueror of the Hill, an annual applied
physics/engineering competition for NJ high school
students, held in McDonnell Hall on March 11.
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Athletics
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