September 21, 1998 Volume 88, number 2 Prev | Next | Index Contents • Shapiro launches '98-99 • More diverse students select Princeton • Orange Key opens campus • University acquires Prospect Street properties • Community, State Affairs bridges town and gown • Clazomenian sarcophagus goes on display in Art Museum • Nassau Notes • Calendar This issue of the Weekly Bulletin is mailed to all residents of postal areas 08540 and 08542. The University invites you to come and participate in the life of the campus throughout the year! The Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, except during University breaks and exam weeks, by the Communications Office. Send address changes to Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Stanhope Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544. Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt material from the Bulletin for use in other media. Subscribe Copy deadlines Editor:     Sally Freedman Associate editor:     Caroline Moseley Calendar and production editor:     Carolyn Geller Photographers:     Denise Applewhite,     Robert P. Matthews Web edition:     Mahlon Lovett Princeton University Office of Communications Stanhope Hall Princeton NJ 08544 Tel 609/258-3601 Fax 609/258-1301

Students hear presidential address, receive awards at Opening Exercises Shapiro launches '98-99 At Opening Exercises in the Chapel on September 13, President Shapiro launched the academic year 1998-99.     The program included the presentation of academic prizes to undergraduates and an address to the entering students by the president. [>>more] Community Day at the stadium The University invites everyone to Community Day on October 10, to celebrate the opening of the new Princeton Stadium. Five-dollar tickets admit you to the football game at 1:00 p.m. (Princeton Tigers vs. Brown Bears), as well as a variety of pre-game festivities, including: • Community track meet (outside stadium on Weaver track). 100-meter dash for those 12 and under, 400-meter run for other age groups. Tee-shirts for participants and prizes for winners. • Photo exhibition. Entries will be exhibited and cash prizes awarded to winners of a contest for amateur photographers in three age groups (youth, high school and adult). To enter, deliver 8-by-10 inch prints with identification labels to the Office of Community and State Affairs, 220 Nassau Hall, by September 25. (There is a maximum of five entries per photographer.) • Entertainment. Balloon sculptures; face painting; music by jazz and rock groups, singers and a marching band. • Art exhibit. Works by Princeton Youth Alliance, representing Princeton-area high schools. • Community Service Information Fair. Tables for charitable organizations to offer information about their goals and volunteer opportunities. • Food. Free snacks and drinks. • Souvenirs. Travel mugs; Tiger hats. • Door prize. Life-sized stuffed tiger dressed in University gear. Track meet begins at 8:30 a.m.; tickets go on sale at 10:00; other events start at 10:30. For more information on the track meet, photo exhibit or any other aspect of the event, call Community and State Affairs at 258-3204. People Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs Kent Calder has received the Asian-Pacific Grand Prize of the Asian Affairs Research Council. Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics Ingrid Daubechies, Professor of Psychology Charles Gross and William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science Andrew Yao have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, was the first recipient of the Ataturk International Peace Prize, the highest honor conferred by the Turkish Republic. The prize included 1000 gold pieces (equivalent to US $66,000), of which Lewis gave 998 to the Turkish Academy of Sciences, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, and Turkish-American Society in Ankara. Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages Theodore Ziolkowski has been elected to the German Academy for Language and Literature at Darmstadt. He has also been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Prize for Foreign Humanities Scholars.     Obituary John Garboski, 60, technical supervisor at the Plasma Physics Lab, died on September 1. A University employee since 1979, he was also a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, a member of the Flemington Exempt Firemen's Association and a former chief of the Flemington Fire Co.     He is survived by his wife Diane, son Edward, and daughters Kelly Rowe and Sharon Garboski.

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