Clinton ticket details available on Monday
Clinton, who is scheduled to speak at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, will be the keynote speaker at a two-day academic conference on "The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture and History." Although scholarly panel discussions on Oct. 6 are open to the public, admission to Clinton's address is limited to Princeton students, faculty and staff, with tickets to be distributed through lotteries.
For more information, including a conference schedule, visit the conference Web site at <http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pubaff/progressive.html>.
Series feature reading by noted poet
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The event is free and is being sponsored by the Creative Writing Program as part of the Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.
Walcott, born in St. Lucia, Windward Islands, the West Indies, is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. He is the founder of the Trinidad Theater Workshop, and his plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum and the Negro Ensemble Company. He has published five books of plays; "Dream on Monkey Mountain" won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play in 1971.
In 1981 Walcott was a recipient of a five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. An honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988. He also has published a collection of essays, co-authored with Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, entitled "Homage to Robert Frost."
Walcott divides his time between his home in St. Lucia and New York. During the academic year, he teaches at Boston University.
University League Nursery School open house
The University League Nursery School at 171 Broadmead will hold an open house from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27. The school operates from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., offering a variety of programs on a cooperative basis. They include two-, three- and five-day options as well as extended day care for children from two and a half through five years old. Applications for the fall of 2001 will be available at the open house. For more information, call Pam Betterton at 924-3137.
Angela Davis to speak Sept. 29
Activist and author Angela Davis will speak on "Human and Economic Impacts of the Prison Industrial Complex," at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, in McCosh 10.
The author of several books, Davis is a professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her address marks the 30th anniversary of Princeton's Third World Center, which will offer events on the theme of "social justice" throughout the year.
Peter Brown to lecture on Augustine
Peter Brown, the Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, will deliver the 2000 Palmer Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Center of Theological Inquiry, 50 Stockton St.
His lecture is entitled "Augustine the Bishop in the Light of New Evidence."
Brown has a B.A. from New College, Oxford, and has lectured and taught at Oxford and the universities of London, California-Berkeley and Padua. He has taught at Princeton since 1983.
The author of eight books, his most recent is entitled "The Rise of Western Christendom: 200-1000 A.D." His current project examines attitudes toward wealth and poverty in late antiquity and the early middle ages.
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September 25, 2000 Contents • Message
in a bottle • Officers
bond on beat (& crime stats) • Versatility
is key for organist • Faculty, staff invited to explore instant classics • Renovated
theater debuts
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