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Lecture focuses on nuclear nonproliferation

The Challenge of Nuclear Non-proliferation After Sept. 11" is the title of a talk to be presented on Monday, April 29. George Perkovich, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Perkovich joined Carnegie in January after serving as deputy director for programs and director of the Secure World Program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation from 1990 to 2001. His expertise includes arms control, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, U.S. foreign policy and national security, Asia and Iraq.
     Perkovich is the author of "India's Nuclear Bomb" (University of California Press 2001, updated edition), which provides a comprehensive survey of how India obtained its nuclear capability. His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Italian film festival planned

Four Italian films will be shown Monday through Thursday, April 29-May 2, in the Film and Performance Theatre at the Frist Campus Center.
     The films will be screened at 7:30 each evening, and all have English subtitles. They are intended to represent the diversity of styles and motifs in the new Italian cinema.
     Here are the films and their directors:
• "Sun in the Eyes" by Andrea Porporati (2000), April 29;
• "The Manuscript of the Prince" (2001) by Roberto Andò, April 30; he will attend the screening and lead a discussion following it;
• "Jurij" (2000) by Stefano Gabrini, May 1; and
• "Rentrée" (2001) by Franco Angeli, May 2.
     The film festival is sponsored by Italia Cinema, the Frist Campus Center, the Department of French and Italian and the Film Studies Committee. For more information, call 258-4502.

Goldston describes science of fusion

Robert Goldston, professor of astrophysical sciences and director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, will deliver this year's Plasma Science and Technology Distinguished Speaker Lecture on Tuesday, April 30.
     He will discuss "The Cross-Disciplinary Science of Fusion Energy" at 7:30 p.m. in 105 Computer Science Building.
     Goldston will describe several fascinating puzzles in the science of fusion plasmas that relate in fundamental ways to solar flares and magnetospheric substorms, to energetic cosmic rays and the very high temperature of the solar corona, and to accretion disks that feed black holes and neutron stars.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the School and Engineering and Applied Science.

Panelists to discuss media and war on terror

A panel of media representatives will discuss "The Media and the 'War on Terror'" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
     The panel will address how various publications are covering the U.S. campaign against terrorism, explain principles that have driven the coverage and survey the general media landscape since Sept. 11.
     Participants will be: Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post; Richard Starr, managing editor of The Weekly Standard; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and a 1981 Princeton graduate. The moderator will be Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
     The panel is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Students for Informed Dialogue.

Genetic pioneer to give three talks

Sydney Brenner, one of the past century's leading pioneers in genetics and molecular biology, will present three lectures on campus Tuesday through Thursday, April 30-May 2.
     Brenner, currently a distinguished professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., will address the theme "Biology After the Genome Project."
     The specific lectures and their titles will be: "From Data to Knowledge," April 30; "Does E. Coli Understand Itself?," May 1; and "The Architecture of Biological Complexity," May 2. All will begin at 8 p.m. in McCosh 10.
     Among his many notable discoveries, Brenner established the existence of messenger RNA and demonstrated how the order of amino acids in proteins is determined. He also conducted pioneering work with the roundworm, a model organism now widely used to study genetics. His research with Caenorhabditis elegans, known to developmental biologists and geneticists as "the worm," garnered insights into aging, nerve cell function and controlled cell death. He and Genome Project scientists John Sulston and Robert Waterston this spring were named winners of a $1 million Dan David Prize in life sciences for their work with the worm.
     Most recently, Brenner has been studying vertebrate gene and genome evolution. His work in this area has uncovered new ways of analyzing gene sequences, which has resulted in a new understanding of the evolution of vertebrates.
     Before joining the Salk Institute, Brenner was director of research and president of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, Calif., and director of the Unit of Molecular Genetics at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England.
     His talks are designated as Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures and are part of the University's Public Lectures Series. They will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit <www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/>.

Senior thesis show

"Stephanie," a photograph from Ann Waddell's senior thesis show, "College Girls," will be on display Tuesday through Saturday, April 30-May 4, at the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. Waddell is displaying her work in the Program in Visual Arts along with videos by senior Jane Han. The opening reception for the show will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

New book is topic of Novak lecture

Michael Novak will discuss his new book, "On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding," at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in 104 Computer Science Building.
     Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also is director of social and political studies. His research interests include religion, business, culture, politics, ethnicity and sports.
     Novak is the author, co-author and editor of several books, including "On Cultivating Liberty: Reflections on Moral Ecology" (1999) and "The Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas" (1990).
     The lecture is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions through its Alpheus Mason Lectures in Political Thought and Constitutional Governance.

Celebrate spring a Fristfest May 2

Members of the University community are invited to celebrate spring at the second annual Fristfest beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Activities on the inside and outside of the Frist Campus Center will feature food, live entertainment, games, DJs, giveaways and many surprises.
     Carnival concessions will be available on the South Lawn from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. with free cotton candy, popcorn, beverages and $1 hot dogs. Dinner will be served on the North Lawn from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. featuring beef and chicken fajitas, sausage and peppers, vegetable and chicken stir-fry, burgers, salads, cookies, soft pretzels and ice cream.
     For more information on Fristfest, including a complete schedule of entertainment and menus, visit the Frist Campus Center Web site at <www.princeton.edu/~frist/>.

'The Kids Concert' presented May 2

The Arts Council of Princeton and the Composers Ensemble of Princeton University will present "The Kids Concert" at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
     The free concert will include original compositions targeted to children in grades K-8. Audience participation is encouraged. For more information, call 924-8777.

Leone to discuss role of progressives

Richard Leone, president of the Century Foundation, will present a lecture titled "Shaping the Debate: Can Progressives Get Back in the Game?" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Leone will begin his lecture with a brief review of the political battleground over ideas since the 1960s, with a special emphasis on the role of conservative and liberal policy institutions. He will discuss these institutions by looking at key policy areas, such as Social Security and taxes.
     The Century Foundation (formerly the 20th Century Fund) is a public policy research foundation dedicated to questioning the assumptions behind sweeping policy claims on issues such as economic inequality, population aging and the public's discontent with government and politics.
     Leone is a Princeton graduate alumnus, having earned his master of public affairs in 1965 and his Ph.D. in 1969. He served as commissioner and then chair of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1988 to 1994.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Conference set on post-Sept. 11 politics

A conference on "The New Era in World Politics After Sept. 11" is planned for 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
     The editors of World Politics, a journal of international relations published by Princeton's Center of International Studies, have invited five distinguished scholars to discuss the potential consequences of the events of last fall -- to identify the crucial questions and issues that arise from the attacks and the response. The speakers will begin to define the parameters of a more extended debate on how world politics as a whole may be altered by the Sept. 11 tragedy and its aftermath, how those and similar events should be analyzed, and what strategies might be followed in such scholarship.
          The conference program is as follows:

• 12:30 p.m. -- "Sept. 11 and U.S.-Russian Relations," Jack Matlock, the John Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School.
• 1:30 p.m. -- "The Trump Card: Osama bin Laden's Use of Palestine in Historical Perspective," Michael Doran, assistant professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton.
• 2:30 p.m. -- "Sept. 11 and the Resurgence of Religion in International Affairs," Daniel Philpott, assistant professor of government and international studies at the University of Notre Dame.
• 3:30 p.m. -- "American Asian Policy and the New Era in World Politics," Lowell Dittmer, professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley.
• 4:30 p.m. -- "Islam and Authoritarianism," Steven Fish, associate professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley.

The conference is open to the public and sponsored by the Center of International Studies, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Council on Regional Studies.

Lecture inaugurates Wilson exhibition

What would Woodrow Wilson have thought of Princeton today?
     James Axtell, the William Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, will try to answer that question in a lecture titled "The Dream Realized: President Wilson on Princeton Today" at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.
     The lecture will inaugurate an exhibition at Firestone Library, "Woodrow Wilson at Princeton: The Path to the Presidency" (see related story on this page). It will be followed at 4:30 p.m. by an opening reception in the library's Exhibition Gallery.
     Axtell's interests include the history of American higher education. He was commissioned to help update the authoritative history of the Graduate School, "The Princeton Graduate School: A History," during the school's centennial two year ago. He currently is working on a history of Princeton in the 20th century.
     The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library.

McCarter Theatre

Laura Kenny (from left) plays "Mathurine," Adam Stein plays "Don Juan" and Mary Bacon plays "Charlotte" in McCarter Theatre's world premiere production of "Don Juan" by Moliere, translated, adapted and directed by Stephen Wadsworth. This once-banned classic runs April 30 through May 19. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the McCarter box office at 258-2787 or http://www.mccarter.org.

April 29, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 25
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Contents

Page one
• Princeton biologists track down central cause of lupus
• Q&A Breidenthal: Reflection should be part of college life

Inside
• Stan Allen selected as dean of School of Architecture
• Forum encourages frank talk about difficult ethical issues
• Exhibition chronicles Wilson from student to professor to president

Sections
• People
• By the numbers
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events

Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
Contributing writers: Marilyn Marks, Evelyn Tu
Photographer: Denise Applewhite
Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor, Megan Peterson
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

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