October 5, 1998 Volume 88, number 4 Prev | Next | Index Contents • The Voice of Tiger Football • Why does lupus affect more women? • Government affairs • Campus construction • Calendar • Employment • Nassau Notes 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 Deadlines All news, photographs and calendar announcements for the Bulletin that covers October 19 through 25 must be received in the Communications office no later than Friday, October 9. Editor:     Sally Freedman Associate editor:     Caroline Moseley Calendar and production editor:     Carolyn Geller Photographers:     Denise Applewhite, Web edition:     Mahlon Lovett Princeton University Office of Communications Stanhope Hall Princeton NJ 08544 Tel 609/258-3601 Fax 609/258-1301

The Voice of Tiger Football She's the Voice of Princeton Tiger Football.     She? You bet. It was senior Wendy Herm's voice you heard over the brand-new public address system in the brand-new Princeton Stadium when Princeton played Cornell on September 19 and her voice you can expect to hear when Princeton plays Brown on Community Day, October 10. [>>more]  Government affairs The office decor is haute Princeton: posters proclaiming the University's 250th Anniversary, decorative maps of the campus, photographs of Nobel-winning faculty members Toni Morrison and Joseph Taylor and the Plasma Physics Lab's Nobel laureate, Russell Hulse.     But, sharing the table with copies of the Daily Princetonian, Princeton Alumni Weekly and Princeton Weekly Bulletin are the Congressional Daily; Roll Call (the newspaper of Capitol Hill) and the National Journal, a weekly update on politics and government.     It's Princeton's Office of Government Affairs (OGA), conveniently located five minutes from both the U.S. Capitol and Union Station. [>>more]   Why does lupus affect more women? Scores of diseases affect men and women differently. The obvious reason? Hormones. But are there others?      The assumption that hormonal differences are behind the discrepancy in the percentage of men or women who have a specific disease has kept researchers from investigating other gender-based causes. [>>more] Campus construction With the recent completion of the stadium and the imminent completion of Scully Hall, two major building projects are now off the drawing board. But plenty more are still in the works.     Scully Hall, which includes dormitory space for 261 students, is currently receiving finishing touches. Of the total student spaces, 160 were ready at the start of the academic year, and the remainder will be done on October 16, according to project manager George Olexa, assistant director of Physical Planning. Students now in temporary housing will soon be able to join their colleagues, who are enthusiastic about the new space, said Olexa. "The first kids that moved in left notes on their doors thanking the contractors for making them such a beautiful building," he said. [>>more]  People • Thomas Moore, assistant music librarian in Scheide Music Library, made his South American debut as a baroque flutist in an August 12 concert presented by the Instituto Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos in Rio de Janeiro. • The Plasma Physics Lab's human resources deputy director Susan Murphy-LaMarche has been named Executive of the Year for the Mercer Chapter of Professional Secretaries International.

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