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Rice to speak for WWS 75th anniversary

Princeton NJ—U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has accepted an invitation to deliver the keynote address on Friday, Sept. 30, opening a year of celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Rice will speak at 3 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium. Her address is part of a Sept. 30-Oct. 1 kickoff that also will feature speakers from the Princeton Project on National Security, a major bi-partisan initiative bringing academics and policymakers together to re-examine the fundamental assumptions underlying U.S. national security strategy.

“I cannot imagine a better person to launch our 75th anniversary celebrations,” said Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter. “For 75 years the Woodrow Wilson School has been preparing Princeton students dedicated to serving the nation and the world through careers in public and international affairs. Secretary Rice’s career exemplifies those values; she has held the highest level positions in and out of government and is currently shaping policy on many of the most important issues of our time.”

Other events scheduled for the 2005-06 year include a 75th anniversary speaker series at the Woodrow Wilson School, regional events across the country, international events in London and Tokyo, and various conferences on issues of public and international affairs. In February the school will host a symposium at Princeton to examine the changes and challenges in attracting the best and the brightest to government.

“This anniversary celebration allows us to recognize the Woodrow Wilson School’s first 75 years of distinguished achievement in public and international affairs, but it also allows us to look ahead to the many future contributions the school will make to addressing major national and global issues,” President Tilghman said. “Secretary Rice left the position of provost at one of our peer institutions to serve our government at the highest levels, and this visit will give our students and others an opportunity to engage her in conversation about some of the major issues for which she has responsibility.”

Rice, a former provost at Stanford University, will take questions following her address. Tickets for the address were to be made available to students, alumni, faculty and staff via a lottery system. A limited number of tickets will be made available to members of the Princeton community.

The lottery for students, faculty and staff with Princeton University IDs opened Wednesday, Sept. 21, and was to close at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. Members of the public who would like to attend cannot participate in the lottery, but must come in person to Jadwin Gymnasium between noon and 6 p.m. Sept. 26 or Sept. 27 to pick up a ticket on a first-come, first-served basis. One ticket will be allotted per person, and all individuals must bring a government-issued photo ID. The same ID should be brought the day of the event for identification by all those attending.

Regular updates on the Rice visit and other activities will be posted on the anniversary Web site at www.wws.princeton.edu/75thAnniversary.

Events mark Gandhi’s birthday

Lectures, photo exhibitions and a classical Indian dance and music performance are part of events scheduled to mark the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday.

An event honoring the father of India’s freedom movement, who was born on Oct. 2, 1869, is scheduled from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Fields Center. Gyan Prakash, a Princeton professor of history and director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, and Robert Holmes, a professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester and an expert on issues of peace and nonviolence, will deliver lectures.

The celebration will include a photo exhibition related to Gandhi’s life and a presentation of the first Mahatma Gandhi Awards to high school and middle school students by the Association of Indians in America’s South Jersey chapter, which is co-sponsoring the event with the Fields Center and the International Center.

Also on Oct. 1, sitarist Dipanjan Guha and dancer and choreographer Baladevi Chandrashekar will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Frist Campus Center theater. Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for others. They are available through the Frist ticket office, 258-1742, or online through University Ticketing at www.princeton.edu/utickets/. Proceeds will be donated to organizations promoting development in India. The performance is sponsored by the Princeton Association for India’s Development and the International Center.

A separate photo exhibition on Gandhi’s life will be on display on the 100 level of Frist from Monday, Sept. 26, through Wednesday, Oct. 5.

University Art Museum

An exhibition that explores some of the complex exchanges that took place between early photographers and artists will be on view at the University Art Museum through Oct. 30. “Picturesque Imaginings: Defining the Photographic Within 19th-Century European Visual Culture” focuses on, for example, how aspiring camera operators in the 1840s looked to Dutch paintings for compositional models, borrowing vantage points, rural subjects and popular, romantic landscapes. One set of the works explored is “Quinces and Haws”(left), a watercolor by William Henry Hunt, and “Still Life” (right) an albumen print by Roger Fenton.

Hit the classroom before the stadium

The Alumni Association is once again offering Tiger football fans a chance to hit the classroom before they hit the stadium.

The Alumni Education Program has organized a series of lectures this fall that precede selected home football games. The lectures are free and are open to alumni, family members, faculty and staff.

All lectures start at 10 a.m. in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall. Here is the schedule:

• Saturday, Oct. 1 (Columbia game): Bess Ward, the William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences, on “The Strange Science of Antarctic Lakes.”

• Saturday, Oct. 29 (Cornell game): Robert Fagles, the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, on “A Morning’s Odyssey With Robert Fagles.”

• Saturday, Nov. 12 (Yale game): Miguel Centeno, professor of sociology and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, on “Networks and Globalization.”

For more information, contact Kaitlin Lutz in the Alumni Council at 258-0014 or klutz@princeton.edu.

Fallows to offer views on Iraq

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, will speak on “After Iraq: What’s Ahead for America” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in McCosh 50.

Fallows, who has extensively covered the management—and mismanagement—of the “war on terror,” will explain what Americans can expect during the last phase in Iraq and afterward.

He has been with The Atlantic Monthly for more than 25 years and has been published in most of the major magazines of the United States. The author of seven books, he also has frequently served as a commentator on National Public Radio.

Fallows won the 2003 National Magazine Award for his Atlantic Monthly article about the consequences of victory in Iraq, “The Fifty-First State?”

The talk, designated as the Stafford Little Lecture, is part of the University’s Public Lecture Series.

Exhibition of junior independent work

Two photographs of cacti, “Specimen #3” and “Specimen #5,” by Lispeth Nutt will be among the works on display in an exhibition of junior independent work by seniors in the Program in Visual Arts Sept. 27 through Oct. 9. The show is on view at the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St., from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. An opening reception is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the gallery.

“Pretty Things,” a painting by Aprajita Anand, is one of the works on display in an exhibition of junior independent work by seniors in the Program in Visual Arts.

Nursery school holds open house

The University League Nursery School will hold an open house from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the school, located at 171 Broadmead in Princeton. Interested families are invited to attend.

The school offers two-, three- and five-day morning programs on a cooperative basis for children ages 2-1/2 through 4, as well as extended and full-day noncooperative care for children ages 3 and 4.

This year the school will incorporate the “Blast preK” program for early childhood science learning, recently developed and offered to preschools by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Teachers will explore the program’s themes, which include insects, the senses and sound, to encourage scientific learning through seeing, touching and doing.

The University League Nursery School is accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Applications for fall 2006 are being accepted through Jan. 15. Oversubscription to programs is resolved by lottery. Later applications are taken by date of receipt. For more information, call 924-3137.