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Contents
• He's no ivory tower
engineer
• New facilities vp to
start in April
• Teaching, Learning
Center head to come from Berkeley
• NBAC meets on campus
to discuss ethical issues
• Student effort
promotes literacy
• Black History Month
• Campus architecture: The postwar era
• Nassau Notes
• People
• Obituaries
• Employment
• Calendar
of Events
• Athletics
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Editor:
Sally
Freedman
Associate editor:
Caroline
Moseley
Calendar and
production editor:
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Geller
Contributing writers:
Mary Caffrey,
Justin Harmon,
Ken Howard,
Steven Schultz
Photographer:
Denise Applewhite
Web edition:
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Lovett
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He's no ivory tower engineer
 By
Caroline Moseley
There is no such thing as an ivory
tower engineer," declares Zellman Warhaft,
visiting professor in Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering. "Every engineering
device, whether a quaint windmill or a
guided missile, has social
implications."
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New facilities vp to start in April
  Kathleen
Mulligan, director of facilities services
at Oregon State University, will become
vice president for facilities in
April.
Mulligan has
worked as director for facilities at
Oregon State for more than 10 years,
overseeing the physical plant,
environmental health and safety, and
facilities planning, and managing the
construction program for the 420-acre main
campus.
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Teaching, Learning Center head to come
from Berkeley
Jacqueline Mintz, founding director of
the GSI Teaching and Resource Center at
the University of California at Berkeley,
will become director of Princeton's new
Harold W. McGraw Jr. Center for Teaching
and Learning at the beginning of the
1999-2000 academic year.
Mintz has led the
Berkeley center for 10 years, working
particularly with graduate student
instructors (GSIs) and with faculty
members to enhance teaching and learning
on that campus.
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NBAC meets on campus to discuss ethical
issues
 The
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
chaired by President Harold Shapiro met on
campus this month to discuss ethical
concerns posed by breakthroughs in
biotechnology.
In its meetings,
held February 2 and 3 in Whig Hall, the
commission turned its attention to an
examination of the ethical and public
policy issues raised by research on human
embryonic stem cells.
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Student effort promotes literacy
By Caroline Moseley
The Caffie Greene Conservatory is a
nonprofit organization created to promote
literacy in the village of Komenda, Ghana,
and eventually to build there a Pan
African Center dedicated to the
preservation and dissemination of African
culture.
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Black History Month
 The
University's observance of Black History
Month kicked off with an opening
celebration at the Third World Center on
February 4, featuring keynote speaker
Robert Johnson (above r), founder of Black
Entertainment Television. Johnson is a
graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School,
where he earned an MPA in 1972. The
evening continued with a performance by
the Gospel Ensemble, whose members later
enlivened dinner with impromptu singing
(below). During the program, Unsung Heroes
and Heroines Oscar Smith and Mary Daniel
of Dining Services, Sylvia Swain of
Firestone Library, and Natasha Tucket of
Building Services were honored. (photo:
Ron Carter) •
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People
• George Neilson,
research physicist in the Plasma Physics
Lab, has been named a fellow of the
American Physical Society.
• Theodore Ziolkowski, Class of 1900
Professor of Modern Languages, has been
awarded the Christian Gauss Award by Phi
Beta Kappa for his 1997 book The Mirror
of Justice.
Obituaries
• John Henneman,
62, a librarian with the University since
1983, died on July 7. He is survived by
his wife Margery.
• Joan Murphy, 63, secretary for
Purchasing with the University since 1979,
died on July 9. She is survived by her
daughter, Carol Livesey.
• Robert Anderson, 54, a roofer in
Maintenance who had been with the
University since 1957, died on October 5.
He is survived by his mother
Verna.
Athletics
Basketball. Both
men and women defeated Harvard on February
5 (men 66-60, women 55-42); the men won
but the women lost to Dartmouth on
February 6 (men 76-48, women 61-69). On
February 9 the men won an upset 49-50
victory against Penn. (Men: 16-4, 7-0 Ivy;
women: 11-8, 6-1 Ivy)
Fencing. The men outfenced Stevens
Tech and NJIT on February 6 but lost to
Penn on February 7. The women beat FDU-T
and Cornell on February 6 and Penn and
John's Hopkins 30-2 on February 7. (Men:
8-1, 1-1 Ivy; women: 11-1, 3-0 Ivy)
Indoor track and field. The men won
against Penn State and Connecticut on
February 6. Tora Harris '01 set a new meet
record and qualified for the NCAA
Championships with a high jump of 7 ft.
2.5 inches. (2-1)
Squash. The women's team defeated
Yale 9-0 on February 6. (9-0, 4-0 Ivy)
Swimming and diving. The Tiger
women placed first at the HYP meet, with
Jenny Macaulay '02 taking first in three
events: the 100-meter breaststroke,
200-meter breaststroke and 200-meter
individual medley. (6-0 overall, 6-0
Ivy)
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