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Contents
• Practical
solutions
• All stars
• How brain senses
sounds
• Mars flight to mark
Wright brothers' centennial
• Alumni Day
• Hsia, Sierk win Pyne
Prize
• DiBattista to be master
of Rockefeller College
• Shanghai
ghetto
• Nassau Notes
• Obituaries
• Athletics
• Employment
• Calendar
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 Practical
solutions
Disarmament policy analyst Frank von
Hippel finds Vonnegut's observation apt in
the aftermath of the Cold War. In the
economic rubble of Russia, the scientists
and technicians who built the Soviet
nuclear armory are as poorly and
infrequently paid as factory hands,
despite the temptation to peddle their
skills and pilfered plutonium to rogue
states and aspiring nuclear powers.
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  All
stars
Theodore and Renee Weiss (top l), Yusef
Komunyakaa, Agha Shahid Ali (below l) and
Toni Morrison were among the current and
emeritus faculty members of the Creative
Writing Program who participated in a Gala
Reading to Celebrate 60 Years of Creative
Writing at Princeton on February 17.
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How brain senses sounds
Research staff member Michael Graziano,
working in the lab of psychology professor
Charles Gross, has identified a portion of
the brain that controls our finely tuned
ability to judge the distance of sounds
that are very close to our heads.
More. . .
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Mars flight to mark Wright brothers'
centennial
NASA has agreed to fund a project that
will culminate in a flight of an airplane
in the atmosphere of Mars on December 17,
2003, exactly 100 years after the Wright
brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk,
N.C.
The idea was first
proposed by Edgar Choueiri, assistant
professor in the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering. . .
More. . .
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 Black
heritage
The Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor was the
guest speaker in the Chapel on Black
Heritage Sunday, February 21. Pastor of
Concord Baptist Church of Christ in
Brooklyn for 42 years, Taylor is "dean of
the nation's African American preachers"
and one of the top seven preachers in the
United States, according to Time magazine.
Audio tapes of his sermon are available
through the Religious Life office,
258-3049. (photo: Ron
Carter) •
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Obituaries
Tertia Hughes,
31, a member of the technical staff of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, died on
November 24. She had been with the
University since 1996. She is survived by
her parents, Donald and
Patricia.
Frances Follin
Jones, 87, former curator of
collections at the Art Museum, died on
February 13.
Jones studied Classical
Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, where
she earned a BA in 1934 and a PhD in 1952.
She worked on the excavation of the
ancient city of Tarsus under the direction
of Hetty Goldman and first came to
Princeton in 1939 as assistant to Goldman
at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Beginning in 1943,
Jones divided her time between the
Institute for Advanced Study and the Art
Museum. When she arrived at the Art
Museum, she recalled, "the budget had just
been raised to $500 per annum," and the
staff consisted of "Professor Frank Jewett
Mather, Jr., the director, who lived in
Bucks County and had only enough rationed
gasoline to make the trip to Princeton
once a week"; herself; and "a
janitor-guard, on duty in the afternoons."
Jones soon became a full-time member of
the museum staff, rising from secretary
and assistant curator of Classical art to
curator of Classical art in 1946. Promoted
to curator of collections in 1971, she
retired in 1983.
Jones also participated
in archaeological expeditions, as a member
of the staff of the Princeton expedition
to Sicily in 1955 and 1959, and as a
visiting member of excavations at Curium,
Cyprus, and Aphrodisias, Turkey. She
published the Hellenistic and Roman
pottery from Tarsus in Excavations at
Gözlü Kule, Tarsus I (1950).
Beginning in 1955, she was an American
correspondent for Fasti
Archaeologici, and at the museum she
was a founding editor of the Record of
The Art Museum.
An informal gathering
in remembrance of Jones will be held at
Wynd- ham, the Alumnae House of Bryn Mawr
College, at 3:00 p.m. on March 12.
Tributes may be sent to the Department of
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology,
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010 or
to the Art Museum.
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Athletics
Basketball. The
men beat Dartmouth 65-51 on February 19
but lost to Harvard 79-87 on February 20;
the women lost to Dartmouth 40-64 on
February 19 but beat Harvard 51-48 on
February 20. (Men: 18-6, 9-2 Ivy;
women:14-9, 9-2 Ivy)
Indoor track and field. The men
finished first and the women second at the
Heptagonal championships on February 20
and 21. (Men: 4-1; women: 1-2)
Squash. The men's team out-played
Franklin and Marshall on February 16,
Colby on February 20 and Williams on
February 21. The women defeated Brown on
February 19, Penn on February 20 and
Harvard on February 21 to win their second
straight national championship at the Howe
Cup. (Men: 10-3, 4-2 Ivy; women: 13-1, 5-1
Ivy)
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