Princeton Weekly Bulletin, April 20, 1998
Nassau Notes
Washington Post writer looks at social
insurance
Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne will lecture on
"Social Insurance: Is It Still a Good Idea?" at 4:30 p.m. on
April 20 in 1 Robertson Hall.
With the Post since 1990, Dionne
has written his twice-weekly op-ed column since 1993, and he
writes "The Chattering Class" for the weekly magazine. A regular
commentator on politics for CNN, he is a frequent guest on
national television and on NPR.
Before joining the Post, Dionne was
a reporter for the New York Times for 14 years. He is the
author of two books, Why Americans Hate Politics and
They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next
Political Era.
His lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School and the Herman M. Somers Lecture Series on
Aging.
Schultz talk explores work, social
justice
The annual Frederick H. Schultz '51 Lecture will be given by
Brian Howe, who will speak on "Work and Social Justice: Are They
Compatible?" at 4:30 p.m. on April 21 in 5 Robertson
Hall.
Former deputy prime minister of Australia,
Howe is currently Schultz Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson
School. He is also a professorial associate at the Center for
Public Policy and in the Department of Social Work at Melbourne
University.
Howe's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Sprinzak speaks on weapons of mass
destruction
Ehud Sprinzak will discuss "Terrorism and Weapons of Mass
Destruction: Myths and the Reality" at 4:30 p.m. on April
22 in 66 McCosh Hall.
An authority on public affairs, violence,
terrorism and religious fundamentalism, Sprinzak is Jennings
Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace for 1997-98.
Professor of political science at Hebrew University, he is the
author of Israeli Democracy Under Stress, Brother Against
Brother: Extremism and Violence in Israel from Atalena to the
Rabin Assassination and The Ascendance of Israel's Radical
Right, which won Israel's Michael Landau Prize for 1992 for
the best political science book on Israel and the Middle East.
Sprinzak's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
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Evnin Lecture
Associate Professor of Chemistry Robert Pascal will discuss the question "Toxins, Drugs and You: How Much Is Too Much?" when he gives the Evnin Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April 22 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Pulitzer Prize winner reports on
Russia
David Remnick will speak on "Ten Years Reporting From Russia:
New Worlds, Old Worlds" at 4:30 p.m. on April 22 in 1
Robertson Hall.
A staff writer for New Yorker
magazine since 1992, Remick previously spent 10 years as a
staff writer for the Washington Post, including four years
as Moscow correspondent. His 1993 Lenin's Tomb received
both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for
excellence in journalism. His latest book, Resurrection,
focuses on the struggle to build a Russian state from the
ruins of the Soviet Union.
Remnick's lecture is sponsored by the
Center of International Studies and Program in Russian
Studies.
Lecture discusses history of Shoah
Saul Friedländer will discuss "Writing the History of the
Shoah: Some Major Dilemmas" at 8:00 pm on April 23 in 101
McCormick. His talk is the 20th annual Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial
Lecture in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Professor of History at Tel Aviv
University, Friedländer is the first incumbent of the Chair
in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,
emeritus, and a member of the Independent Experts Commission for
the Historical and Legal Investigation of the Fate of Deposits
made in Switzerland as a Result of the National-Socialist
Regime.
He is the author of the memoir, When
Memory Comes, as well as Pius XII and the Third
Reich: A Documentation; Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on
Kitsch and Death; Probing the Limits of Representation:
Nazism and the "Final Solution"; and Nazi Germany and the
Jews, Vol. I: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939.
New Media hosts cinema director
Glorianna Davenport will present a talk on "The Future of
Storytelling and Interactive Cinema at 4:30 p.m. on April
23 in the large auditorium of the Computer Science
Building.
Davenport is director of the Inter-active
Cinema Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
Her research, she says, explores funda-mental issues related to
collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences, where
the task of narration is split among authors, consumers and
computer mediators.
The lecture is part of the New Media
series sponsored by the Engineering School.
For all ages
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tom Chapin will appear at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on April 25 in McCarter Theatre.
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Freshman plays for Mindlin concert
Freshman Emily Liao will play Rachmaninoff's Second Piano
Concerto as part of the University Orchestra's annual Mindlin
Memorial Concerts at 8:00 p.m. on April 24 and 25 in
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Winner of the annual Orchestra
Concerto Competition, Liao is currently studying at the Manhattan
School of Music in addition to pursuing her BA degree at
Princeton. Previously an honorary scholarship student in the
Pre-College Division at the Juilliard School, she has given solo
performances at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall and elsewhere in New
York City, as well as other venues in the United States, Germany,
Italy and Switzerland. In addition to piano, Liao plays the viola
and was principal violist in pre-college orchestras at
Juilliard.
The Mindlin Concerts program will include
Otto Nicolai's Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Barber's Essay No. 1 for Orchestra and Elgar's
Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma"), as well as
the Rachmaninoff piano concerto.Proceeds of the concert
benefit the Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Fund, established by the
Mindlin family to support performance instruction for orchestra
members.
Communiversity '98
Communiversity, the annual town-gown festival, will be held on April 25 from noon to 4:00 p.m. on the Front Campus and on Nassau and Witherspoon streets. Organized by the Arts Council of Princeton and University students, the festival features singers, dancers, actors and other performers, as well as food and crafts. The rain date is April 26. For more information call the Arts Council at 924-8777.
Broadmead Swim Club
The Broadmead Swim Club, located on Broadmead across from the
University League Building, is accepting members for the 1998
season, May 22 through Labor Day.
Membership is $430 for a University family
and $290 for a single person; and $705 for community families and
$440 for a single person.
For information and application forms call
Meghan Drago at 396-2208.