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Princeton University Orchestra

The Princeton University Orchestra will present a concert of music by Brahms and Shostakovich at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The concert is part of this season's celebration of 25 years of leadership by conductor Michael Pratt. For ticket information, call 258-5000.

United Way drive continues

The University's annual campaign to support the United Way of Greater Mercer County runs through Dec. 5 on the main campus and takes place Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
    Campus volunteers are distributing pledge cards. Faculty and staff who have questions or need another pledge card should contact their departmental campaign volunteer, check the United Way home page at http://www.princeton.edu/pr/uw, or contact the main campus coordinator, Barbara Spielman, at 258-2430 or mailto:bspielma@princeton.edu. Plasma Physics employees should contact the lab's United Way campaign chair, Mary Ann Brown, at 125-3045 or mailto:mabrown@pppl.gov.

Exhibition salutes Princeton women as role models

"Read. Listen. Take chances. Learn something new. Be bold. Be brave." That's the advice imparted by politics faculty member Kiki Jamieson in an exhibition at the Frist Campus Center called "Women with Wings: Princetonian Rays of Light." The display, contained in showcases on the 100-level, runs through Dec. 6.
    It salutes 18 women in the Princeton community as positive female role models, presenting a photograph of each woman along with an inspiring quote. The women are members of Princeton's administration, faculty, staff and student body.
    From Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life, comes this advice: "Care for yourself; become your own best friend."
    Firmiller Ford, an officer in the Department of Public Safety, said, "Whatever your goal may be, reach for the stars and don't stop until you shine."
    Jessica Brondo, a member of the class of 2004, said, "Women should not give up their uniqueness and become more masculine, but instead should value their femininity and strive for nothing less than equality."
    And President Tilghman said, "In 30 short years Princeton has gone from a place virtually devoid of women to one in which women with wings are soaring. How exhilarating to be a part of this!"
    The exhibition was organized by the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) Office, which offers counseling and information to the University community on sexual harassment, sexual assault or harassment based on sexual orientation. The photographs are the work of Denise Applewhite, photographer in the Office of Communications.

U.N. assistant secretary-general to speak on forging social contract with Arab world

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Rima Khalaf Hunaidi will speak on "Forging a New Social Contract in the Arab World: The Arab Human Development Report 2002" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, in 016 Robertson Hall.
    Hunaidi also directs the U.N. Development Program's Regional Bureau for Arab States, which was a driving force behind the Arab Human Development Report 2002 released in July. The report is the first U.N. human development report devoted to a single region. It was prepared by Arab intellectuals from a variety of disciplines, and warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the repression of women and an isolation from the world of ideas that stifles creativity.
    Before her U.N. appointment, Hunaidi served as a senator in the upper house of the Jordanian Parliament from November 1997 to September 2000. She simultaneously served as a member of the Economic Consultative Council, a public/private-sector initiative established and directly supervised by His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein to promote economic reform and modernization in Jordan.
    Hunaidi has held several other high ranking governmental positions in Jordan, including minister of industry and trade (1993-95), minister of planning (1995-98) and deputy prime minister and minister of planning (1999-2000).
    The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Human rights in China is focus of panel

A discussion on "New Approaches to Human Rights in China" is set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in 202 Jones.
    Speakers will be: Wang Dan, a student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations who was imprisoned in China; John Kamm, director of the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to improving human rights by dialogue between the United States and China; Xiao Qiang, director of Human Rights in China, an international nongovernmental organization based in New York; and Michael Santoro, assistant professor of international business at Rutgers University and author of the book, "Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China" (Cornell, 2000).
    The discussion is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.

Geophysicist to look at causes of mass extinctions

The role of catastrophes in mass extinctions will be explored in a lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in McCosh 50.
    Vincent Courtillot, a geophysicist at the University of Paris, will present an address titled "Mass Extinctions in the Phanerozoic: A Single Cause and, If Yes, Which?"
    Courtillot is the author of "Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinctions" (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which described the two main theories explaining mass extinctions of dinosaurs and other species: asteroid impact and massive volcanic eruptions. In recent years, the impact hypothesis has gained precedence, but Courtillot suggested that cataclysmic volcanic activity could be linked to most of the main mass extinction events in the history of the Earth.
    "Asteroid impact, massive volcanism, sea-level changes, anoxic events or mechanisms related only to biological population dynamics have all been considered as possible causes of mass extinctions," he said in describing his lecture. "I will review recent progress in dating continental flood basalts and show that, in an increasing number of cases, the correlation with a mass extinction is compatible with the most accurate data." Flood basalts were unusual volcanoes consisting of cracks in the earth's crust that poured out floods of lava and formed deep layers of rock.
    "Sea level variations will also be considered and can rather readily be associated with flood basalts," he continued, "suggesting that the internal pulsations of Earth geodynamics and plate tectonics exert the principal control on the few, brief episodes when 'survival of the fittest' was replaced by 'survival of the luckiest.'"
    Courtillot's talk is designated as the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia.

Coleman to examine role of women in economic, political development

A lecture on "The Role of Women in Economic and Political Development: Lessons From the Middle East and Southwest Asia" is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 4.
    Princeton alumna Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow on U.S. foreign policy and the director of the project on Women and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in 016 Robertson Hall.
    Coleman, who earned her A.B. in public policy and East Asian studies from Princeton in 1987, directs a two-year project that examines U.S. policies toward women in traditional societies in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. The project looks at the effectiveness of existing international and local programs that encourage the economic and civic participation of women within their local cultures.
    The lecture will mark the launch of the Gender and Development Policy Network at Princeton. The network is a group of students, faculty and alumni who have taken an active interest in gender and development policy. More information can be found on the network's Web site at http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~gender. The network is sponsoring the event with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Middle Eastern experts lecture

Two Middle Eastern experts will present the latest installments of the Program in Near Eastern Studies lecture series, "Israel-Palestine Peace Process: What Went Wrong and Can It Be Righted?"
    At 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, Nabil Shaath, minister of planning and international cooperation for the Palestinian Authority, will speak. At 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, Yossi Beilin, former minister of justice for Israel and architect of the Oslo Accord, will lecture. Both events will take place in McCosh 10.
    They are co-sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies, the Global Issues Forum, the Center for International Studies and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

November 25, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 11
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Contents

Page one
•Gossman expresses gratitude through book on WWII rescue
•University to 'redouble' diversity efforts with dialogue

Inside
•Personal involvement provides inside view
•Enthusiasm for biology is contagious

People
•Healy named director of public safety
•Taylor to step down as dean of the faculty; search committee formed
•New associate, assistant professors appointed to faculty
•People, spotlight, retirements, briefs
•Obituaries

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

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