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Ivy tigers
The two stainless steel tiger sculptures installed last
fall near Princeton Stadium have grown thick green coats
over the past several months. The 7,000-pound tigers spent
last winter in the University's greenhouse so that ivy could
be grown inside them and through the mesh. They were
reinstalled at the north entrance to the stadium, just in
time for football season. The sculptures were the gift of
William Weaver Jr., a 1934 Princeton graduate who also
donated the funds for the nearby track and field stadium.
They were created by Ruffin Hobbs, a metal sculptor from
North Carolina.
Community/Staff Day
The annual Community/Staff Day at Princeton Stadium
Oct. 6 provided fun for the whole family. Pre-game
activities in- cluded a community art exhibit, a community
service fair and entertainment. The face painters and
balloon sculptor were a hit with some (below), while others
(right) were fascinated by the stilt walker. The event was
sponsored by the departments of community and state affairs,
athletics and human resources.
Journalist looks at Indonesian leader
A Princeton graduate who is a Jakarta correspondent for
the Far Eastern Economic Review will speak about the new
Indonesian government Monday, Oct. 15.
Sadanand Dhume, who earned his M.P.A. in
1999, will address the question "Can Megawati Save
Indonesia?" at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
The Far Eastern Economic Review is Asia's
leading business and political weekly, published by Dow
Jones in Hong Kong. Dhume covers Indonesian business,
politics and society. In this lecture, he will speak broadly
about the challenges facing Indonesian President Megawati
Sukarnoputri and her government, as well as likely responses
to economic stagnation and political unrest.
Dhume's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs'
Office of External Affairs.
Scholar evaluates Sept. 11 impact on
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Program in Near Eastern Studies is sponsoring a
lecture Tuesday, Oct. 16, on "The Impact of Sept. 11
on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict."
Henry Siegman, a senior fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations and director of the council's
U.S./Middle East Project, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Frist
302.
Siegman has studied the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than four decades. He
has published extensively on the subject and has been
consulted by senior governmental officials, international
agencies and non-governmental organizations directly and
indirectly involved in the peace process. Before joining the
Council on Foreign Relations in 1993, Siegman served as
executive director of the American Jewish Congress for 16
years.
Professional 'debunker' will expose magic and
miracles
James Randi, a former magician who has built a reputation
as a professional debunker of psychic and other "paranormal"
claims, will speak on campus Tuesday, Oct. 16.
Randi's free talk is scheduled for 8 p.m.
in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. It will be the
Spencer Trask Lecture of the annual Public Lectures
Series.
Titled "The Search for the Chimera," the
lecture will provide an overview of how science has pursued
magic and miracles in the 20th century and into
the 21st century.
Randi, known as "the Amazing Randi," is
the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation, which
investigates paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He
attained a national reputation in 1972 when he helped
television show host Johnny Carson expose the paranormal
claims of Uri Geller. In 1986, he received a fellowship from
the MacArthur Foundation.
Most recently, Randi has addressed claims
that passages from the 16th-century astrologer Nostradamus
predicted the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The predictions,
he said, are modern fabrications.
Ex-CIA official to discuss counterterrorism Oct.
17
The former chief of CIA counterterrorism operations will
discuss "Prospects for Counterterrorism After Sept. 11" at
4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in McCosh 46.
Vincent Cannistraro, who worked in
intelligence for 27 years, both as a CIA agent abroad and at
posts in Washington, D.C., will deliver the address. In
addition to serving as director of the CIA's
Counterterrorist Center, he was director for intelligence
operations at the National Security Council during the
Reagan administration. He currently is an international
security consultant and has been quoted extensively in media
reports since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The lecture is sponsored by the Research
Program in International Security in the University's Center
of International Studies.
Former U.S. Congressman addresses challenges to
peacemaking in Africa
Howard Wolpe, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow
Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and former presidential
special envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region, will present a
lecture titled "Challenges to Peacemaking in the Great Lakes
Region of Africa" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Wolpe is a specialist in African politics
with particular interest in the dynamics and management of
ethnic and racial conflict. A former member of Congress from
Michigan (1979-1993), he spent 10 of his 14 years in that
capacity chairing the House Foreign Affairs Committee's
Subcommittee on Africa. He also has been a visiting fellow
in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings
Institution and a faculty member at Western Michigan
University and the University of Michigan.
A current member of the Council of
Foreign Relations, Wolpe co-directed the 90th American
Assembly on "Africa and U.S. National Interests" in 1997. He
has written extensively on Africa, including "Urban Politics
in Nigeria" and "The Great Lakes Crisis: An American View,"
which appeared in the South African Journal of
International Affairs in summer 2000. He also co-wrote "The
United States and Africa: A Post-Cold War Perspective."
Wolpe's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs'
Office of External Affairs.
New parking decals being distributed
Faculty/staff campus parking decals will expire Oct.
18. Parking office staff members are in the process of
distributing new decals to those who have completed vehicle
applications. Those who have not completed the applications
should do so immediately and drop them off at the parking
office in Stanhope Hall.
Author of definitive 'Twin Towers' book to speak Oct.
18
Angus Gillespie, the author of a book on the World Trade
Center published in 1999, will speak at 1:30 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 18, in Guyot 10.
His talk, "Twin Towers: The Life and
Death of the World Trade Center," is sponsored by the
Princeton Environmental Institute.
Gillespie, professor of American studies
at Rutgers University, began researching his book, "Twin
Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center," in
1991. He wanted to explore the complex's cultural
implications and symbolic meaning to Americans.
Before Sept. 11, only about 2,000 copies
of the book had been sold by Rutgers University Press.
Bookstores have now ordered more than 50,000 copies.
Gillespie and the publisher are donating a portion of the
profits to victims of the World Trade Center attacks.
Nobel Prize winner gives Einstein lecture
A recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics will
present this year's Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture on
campus Thursday, Oct. 18.
Herbert Kroemer, professor of electrical
and computer engineering at the University of
California-Santa Barbara, will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Frist
302.
Kroemer will discuss his latest research.
He won the Nobel for his pioneering work in transistor and
semiconductor laser structures, which laid the foundations
for modern information technology through the invention of
rapid transistors, laser diodes and integrated circuits
(chips).
The lecture is sponsored by the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the
Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area.
"Camera Women" at the Art Museum
"Elaine," an albumen print by British photographer Julia
Cameron (1815-1879), is one of the works on display in the
"Camera Women" exhibition at the Art Museum through Jan.
6. The print is from Tennyson's "Idylls of the King and
Other Poems."
Empire of Stone: Roman Sculpture
This Roman funerary monument for a victorious charioteer
is among the 48 works included in the "Empire of Stone:
Roman Sculpture from The Art Museum, Princeton University"
exhibition at the Art Museum through Jan. 20. The
exhibition coincides with the publication of a comprehensive
scholarly catalog of the museum's collection of Roman
sculpture edited by Michael Padgett, associate curator of
ancient art.
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October 15, 2001
Vol. 91, No. 6
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Contents
In the news
• Seminars put writing
at the forefront for freshmen
• Basis for 'just war'
is redress, prevention of aggression
• University signs
agreement to acquire land in West
Windsor
• Milberg inspires
celebration of Jewish-American writing
• Tilghman launches
lecture series
People
• Spotlight
• Briefs
Sections
• By the
numbers
• Nassau
Notes
• Calendar
of events
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