Nassau Notes
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Holiday volunteer opportunities
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Toys for tots |
Toys for tots. The Office of Community and State Affairs invites you to celebrate the last holiday season of the 20th century by participating in community service initiatives that will extend the holiday spirit into the 21st.
Toy drive (through December 19). The Princeton Human Services Commission is collecting new, unwrapped toys for children (infant through 13) living in Princeton Community Village, Griggs Farm, Redding Circle and Clay Street. One of the drop-off locations is 220 Nassau Hall, between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
Holiday baskets. A department or office or individual can "adopt" a family through a social service agency, by buying food and gift items customized to the needs and wishes of the family. A list of participating agencies is available on the Community and State Affairs web site at http://webware.princeton.edu/CSA/holiday.htm.
Rescue Mission. The Trenton Rescue Mission accepts donations of clothes, shoes and bedding any time in its drop box located in Lot 16, near the Faculty Road kiosk. Receipts for tax purposes are available from Community and State Affairs.
For more information on any of these programs, call 258-3204. For more suggestions, contact Hands on Helpers, a clearinghouse that helps connect individuals and volunteer opportunities throughout Mercer County (see www.handsonhelpers.org or phone 921-8893).
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Dress for success |
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Hire Attire in New Brunswick provides "gently used" business clothes for men and women, as displayed by Ben Codjoe and April Bollwage. From December 8 through 15, the offices of the Associate Provost and Community and State Affairs are conducting a drive to benefit Hire Attire.
Needed are all types of clothes in good condition and appropriate to wear to work, including suits, dress slacks, khakis, dress shirts, ties, belts, jackets, blazers, sweaters, dresses, coats and accessories.
Items may be deposited in the Human Resources Training Room at the Armory (Washington Road side) between 8:00 and 9:30 am and noon and 2:00 pm weekdays between December 8 and 15. For more additional information contact Claire Del Medico at 258-6110 or Blanche Scioli at 258-3204. (Photo by Karen Woodbridge)
Benefit UNICEF
Holiday greeting cards,
ornaments, gift wrap, games and toys are on sale at the
University Store, Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to
9:00 pm and Sunday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm through December
24. The sale, which benefits UNICEF, is sponsored by the
Friends of the International Center.
Arts
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Junot Diaz |
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Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz will read from his new fiction at 8:00 pm on December 8 in 101 McCormick. He is the author of Drown, a collection of stories that explore the experiences of Latino immigrants in New Jersey, where he grew up after emigrating from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The event is sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. (Photo by Marion Ettlinger)
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Christmas at McCarter |
Stephen Temperley as Scrooge (l) and Sam Blackman Boyles as Tiny Tim will appear in McCarter Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol through December 24.
Art Museum
"Head of a Woman" by Pablo
Picasso stands in front of the Art Museum and is part of the
John B. Putnam Jr. memorial Collection of sculpture on
campus. Throughout the year the museum offers public tours
on Saturdays at 2:00 pm, gallery talks on Fridays at 12:30
pm (repeated on Sundays at 3:00 pm) and talks for children
on Saturdays at 11:00 pm.
Neuhaus speaks on religion, public
policy
Richard John Neuhaus will
speak on "The Public Square: Naked, Sacred or Civil?" at
4:30 pm on December 9 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
A Lutheran clergyman, Neuhaus has been
actively involved in civil rights, international justice and
ecumenism, and has held presidential appointments in the
Carter, Reagan and Bush admin-istrations. A survey of
national leadership in U.S. News and World
Report named him one of the 32 "most influential
intellectuals in America." Now president of the Institute on
Religion and Public Life, he was senior pastor of a
low-income parish in Brooklyn for 17 years, and in 1991 he
was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
Editor in chief of First Things: A
Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, Neuhaus is
the author of numerous books, including Freedom for
Ministry; The Naked Public Square: Religion and
Democracy in America; The Catholic Moment: The
Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World and, with
Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Believing Today: Jew and Christian
in Conversation.
His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Religion.
Scholars assess German democracy
"From the Bonn to the Berlin
Republic: Fifty Years of Democracy in Germany" is the topic
of an international conference to be held December 9
through 12 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Panelists will discuss the historical and
structural changes of democracy and society in post-war
Germany, including the constitutional and institutional
choices that established a decentralized parliamentary
democracy in a former authoritarian and fascist country; the
challenge of integrating a capitalist and a former socialist
nation in one society; and the multiple problems of
political and cultural identity in Germany today. Particular
attention will be given to the relationship of Germany and
the European Union, the future of the transatlantic
community, and the relationship of Germany and the United
States.
Panelists include Cornel Metternich,
consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany; Brigitte
Sauzay, counselor of the German Chancellor for German-French
Relations; Helmut Schlesinger, former president of the
Bundesbank; Karsten Voigt, coordinator for German-American
cooperation, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of
Germany; and Robert Zoellick, former undersecretary of state
and deputy chief of staff for the White House.
Institutions represented include
Columbia, Harvard, New York and Princeton universities;
Dartmouth College; the universities of Konstanz, Freiberg,
Bremen and Heidelberg; Humboldt University; the Free
University of Berlin; and the Berlin Bureau of the New
York Times.
Organized by Princeton's Committee
for European Studies, the conference is supported by the
Center of French Studies, Center of International Studies,
Council on Regional Studies and Woodrow Wilson School, and
by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies,
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, German Academic Exchange
Service, German Information Center, Goethe-Institut New
York, Max Kade Foundation and Max Weber Chair of New York
University.
Essay contest features $1000 prize
Continuing a 10-year-old
tradition, Princeton invites high school and middle school
students to participate in its Martin Luther King Day
celebration by entering essay and poster contests. Winners
will be announced at the Martin Luther King Day program on
January 17, 2000, when Melvin McCray, an
award-winning writer, producer and editor, is the featured
speaker.
For the essay contest, students in grades
9 through 12 are being asked to propose, in 500 words or
less, an innovative but feasible way to improve the
communities in which they live. The Princeton Class of 2000,
which is sponsoring the contest as part of its year-long
Millennium Project, will award a $1,000 prize to the winner,
as well as seed money to an appropriate community agency to
try and start implementing the winning proposal. Honorable
mention winners each will be awarded $100. The deadline for
these essays is December 10.
Middle, elementary school
Students in grades 7 and 8 are
invited to submit essays of no more than 300 words about the
effect of television on race relations and social justice.
Does television help or harm efforts to create the kind of
society that Martin Luther King envisioned? How could
television do a better job?
Fourth, fifth and six graders are asked
to design posters that show a television screen conveying a
message about race relations or social justice that the
student would like to see on television. Judges will place
more emphasis on the quality of the message than artistic
excellence.
Winners of the middle and elementary
school contests will receive a $100 first prize, $50 second
prize and gifts for the honorable mention prizes. The
deadline for the middle school essays and grade school
posters is December 17.
All entries should be submitted to Robert
Durkee, vice president for public affairs, 221 Nassau Hall,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
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