Nassau Notes
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Jim Jarmusch
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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch will talk about his films at 4:30 pm on March 27. Sponsored by the Film Studies Committee and the Visual Arts Program, the John Sacret Young Lecture will be held in the Stewart Film theater, 185 Nassau St. Jarmusch wrote and directed Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and Mystery Train (1989), among other films. (Photo by Jay Rabinowitz)
Exhibit, gallery talks
"National Champion
Valley Oak, California, 1994" is part of the exhibit
"Photographs by Barbara Bosworth" on view at the Art Museum
through June 18. There will be gallery talks on this
exhibit at 12:30 pm on March 31 and 3:00 pm on
April 2, given by associate curator of photography
Toby Jurovics. (Photo by Bruce White)
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Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
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Bernstein Gallery
Artist and designer Ruth
Goodman's paintings are on display in the Bernstein Gallery
of the Woodrow Wilson School through April 1.
Art Museum
The Pre-Columbian "Hauberg
Stela" from Mexico (197 AD) is part of the exhibit "The Dawn
of Maya Kings: An Exhibition of an Early Maya Stela" at the
Art Museum through May 6.
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Joseph Telushkin
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Joseph Telushkin will present the William G. Bowen Lecture on "The 21st Century: A Jewish Vision, One Day at a Time" at 4:30 pm on March 27. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Life, the lecture will take place in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Telushkin is the author of Jewish Literacy: The Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History and Biblical Literacy: the Most Important People, Events and Ideas of the Jewish Bible.
Following his lecture the newly acquired Jewish Heritage Video Collection will be dedicated at 6:00 pm at the Center for Jewish Life. The video collection consists of 200 films and television programs. It includes feature films and documentaries, American and foreign film productions. It is a gift from the Righteous Persons Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Alan Fortunoff, Arnow Family Fund, and Dr. David I. Lieberman in memory of Jeanette and Milton Lieberman.
Superior Court Judge examines police
profiling
Travis Francis will give a
lecture on "Police Profiling: Walking the Legal Tightrope"
at 4:30 pm on March 27 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Francis has been the NJ Superior Court
Judge on the Middlesex County Criminal Court Bench since
1992. He was previously a private practitioner in New
Brunswick, where his practice included extensive criminal
and civil litigation. He has a particular interest in the
economic and social consequences of the international drug
trade.
Before entering private practice, Francis
was a senior trial attorney for the Fireman's Fund Insurance
Co., trial attorney for the Prudential Insurance Co., and
assistant deputy public defender and criminal defense
attorney in the Middlesex Country Public Defender's
Office.
His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
WWS presents documentary, lecture
Eric P. Farnsworth and
filmmaker Charles Krause will present the documentary "The
Americas in the 21st Century" at 4:30 pm on March 29
in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Farnsworth is senior adviser for
international trade with the law firm of Manatt, Phelps,
Phillips and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies, a nonpartisan policy think tank,
both based in Washington DC. Previously senior adviser to
Thomas McLarty, President Clinton's special envoy for the
Americas, Farnsworth was instrumental in formulating and
implementing the administration's Latin American
policies.
Krause, who produced the documentary for
PBS, is an Emmy Award-winning former chief foreign
correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He
has reported from Central and South America, Haiti, Cuba,
the Philippines, Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Before joining
the NewsHour in 1983, he was Latin Ameri-can
correspondent for CBS News and South America bureau chief
for the Washington Post. In 1978 he accompanied
Congressman Leo Ryan to Jonestown and was among the
journalists wounded when Ryan was killed.
Farnsworth and Krause both hold MPAs from
the Woodrow Wilson School (Krause earned his in 1972 and
Farnsworth his in 1990).
The event is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
MacArthur Fellow speaks on Rwanda
Alison Des Forges will give a
lecture on "Ignoring Genocide: The International Community
and Rwanda, 1994" at 4:30 pm on March 30 in 2
Robertson Hall.
A MacArthur Fellow, Des Forges directs
research on Rwanda and Burundi for Human Rights Watch.
Author of Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in
Rwanda, she serves as expert witness to the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and she has also
assisted the UN commission, OAU commission, Belgian Senate
and French National Assembly in their investigations of the
Rwandan genocide.
As cochair of the 1993 International
Commission of Investigation into Human Rights Abuse in
Rwanda, Des Forges reported on government-organized
massacres of Tutsi that presaged the 1994 genocide. She also
chaired the 1994 International Commission that investigated
events in Burundi following the assassination of President
Mechior Ndadaye.
Des Forges' lecture is cosponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School, the Center of International Studies
and the African Studies program.
Adamany on urban education reform
David Adamany will give a
lecture on "Urban Education Reform" at 4:30 pm on March
30 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Chief executive officer of Detroit Public
Schools, Adamany was appointed to this position by the
reform school board of Detroit in 1999.
He holds undergraduate and law degrees
from Harvard University and master's and doctoral degrees in
political science from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
From 1982 to 1997, Adamany was president
and professor of law and political science at Wayne State
Uni-versity. He now serves as distinguished professor of law
and political science and president, emeritus. He has
written extensively on American politics, campaign finance,
constitutional law and the judiciary.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson.
Notices
Volunteer Day needs helpers
Campus Volunteer Day on
April 8 will begin with a 9:15 am bagel breakfast at
the Student Center and continue until 4:00 pm.
Faculty, staff and students are invited
to work on projects for the Borough Housing Authority,
Princeton Community Village, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed
Association, Princeton YWCA Nursery School, Princeton
Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center and Princeton Nursey
School.
Anyone interested in helping should send
their name, department, phone, e-mail address and choice of
project to fax 258-1294 or mailto:bascioli@princeton.edu
before March 31.
Summer camp registration
Registration for summer day
camp for children ages six to 10 will be held from noon to
1:30 pm on April 5 and 6 in the lobby of
Dillon Gym. For more information call 258-3533.
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