Princeton Weekly Bulletin May
24, 1999
Nassau Notes
Humanists
Alexander Nehamas (l) and Maria DiBattista, winners of the annual Howard T. Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities, were congratulated by President Shapiro at the annual awards dinner on May 1. Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, is professor of philosophy and comparative literature. On the Princeton faculty since 1990, he has served both as director of the Program in Hellenic Studies and as chair of the Humanities Council since 1994. DiBattista, professor of English and comparative literature, joined the faculty in 1974. Since 1990 she has chaired the Committee for Film Studies, and in 1994 she won the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. In July she begins a term as master of Rockefeller College. (photo by Rita Nannini)
Triangle
Traditional kickline highlights the
student musical revue 101 Damnations at McCarter Theatre at
8:30 p.m. on May 28 and 29.
Roads close for Reunions, graduation
The main campus will be closed to all vehicles except those with Reunions passes from 8:00 a.m., May 27 through 8:00 a.m., May 30. On June 1 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. the campus will be closed to all vehicles. For information call 258-3157.
Building Services suspends moving
All departments are asked to curtail requests for moving services through June 11. This is Building Services' busiest time of the year because of Reunions and Commencement. Every effort will be made to accommodate anyone who feels that a particular moving request requires emergency service.
Reunions
The P-rade and many daytime events are open to all. For access to Reunions sites, wristbands are required. Faculty and staff who applied by the May 19 deadline may pick up their wristbands at Maclean House between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m., May 27 through 29. Each wristband is good for all three nights. (photo by Ron Carter)
Rock musical
Princeton University Players will present Hair by Gerome Ragni and James Rado with music by Galt MacDermot at 7:30 p.m. on May 27, 28 and 29 and 2:30 p.m. on May 28 in the Black Box Theater, Forbes College.
Lecture
Astronaut Greg Linteris '79 *90 will give a talk on "Fire in Space" at 4:00 p.m. in Bowen Hall on May 28 as part of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department's celebration of "Guggenheim's Vision of Aeronautics: 50 Years of Guggenheim Support." Linteris will discuss his experiences on space shuttle flights STS-83 and STS-94, when he was responsible for planned on-board fires as part of the flight's combustion science missions.
In 1948 the Daniel and
Florence Guggenheim Foundation made an endowment to the
University's Aeronatics Department "for the promotion of
aeronautics." The terms of the gift established a number of
graduate fellowships, as well as the Robert H. Goddard
Professorship of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
(photo courtesy NASA)
Furniture
The Campus Furniture Drive '99, sponsored by the graduating seniors, Graduate Student Union and Office of Community and State Affairs, is collecting furniture, rugs, small appliances and other items to distribute to local community service organizations, including the Rescue Mission, Home Front and Martin House. If you can volunteer to help staff drop-off sites between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. on June 1 or 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on June 2, call Community and State Affairs at 258-3204.
In two languages
The book Latin American Princeton/Princeton latino-americano presents the lives of Latinos in Princeton through oral histories, interviews with public leaders and official statistics. The first part of the book, "Sociological Perspectives on Latinos in Princeton," is a joint research project conducted in 1997 by undergraduates in Professor Miguel Centeno's course on The Sociology of Latinos in the United States. The second part,"Documentos," is a bilingual collection of 12 extensive interviews conducted by the student group Apoyo/Princeton Immigrant Rights League during the 1997-98 academic year. The book is available free at the Program in Latin American Studies or at www.princeton.edu/plasweb/apoyo.
Among the stars
A banner with the logo of the Centennial of the Graduate School (obverse above, reverse below) is traveling to the International Space Station with astronaut Daniel Barry *80 on NASA STS-96 at the end of May. The centennial celebration includes a broad range of programs scheduled for 2000-01 and the $100 million Fund for the Centennial, for which fundraising is already under way.
CIT explains new e-mail service
Effective September 7, PUCC mail
(also known as Rice mail or VM mail) and Pegasus mail (also
known as P-mail) will be discontinued at Princeton. To
schedule a one-hour presentation for your office or
department on the new e-mail, IMAP mail services, contact
Kevin Mensch at 258-6034 or kmensch@princeton.edu.
Information on IMAP and how to get
started is also available at www.princeton.edu/email.
This includes information on how to move old mail and
address books from PUCC and Pegasus mail to the new service.
Call CIT at 258-HELP with special problems or questions.
College tuition grant increase
The University's Tuition Grant under the
Children's Educational Assistance Plan has been increased to
$8,600 for the academic year 1999-00; the interest
for the loan remains at 7.25 percent.
The Base Loan Program will be
discontinued; faculty and staff who received a disbursement
last year will be eligible to apply for it this year if the
child is continuing during the academic year 1999-00.
Information will be mailed out to Base Loan participants in
July.
For more detailed information or an
application, faculty and staff on main campus should call
Karen Weisenberg at 258-5917 (kweis@princeton.edu);
Plasma Physics Lab staff should call Bobbie Forcier at
243-2101 (bforcier@pppl.gov).