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Arts Alive

Arts Alive, the program created and funded by Princeton to provide cultural experiences for school children affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, launched a new phase this month. Earlier this year, Princeton students worked with school children from New York; this fall, the program has been extended to include seven New Jersey schools in areas affected by the tragic events.
    Pictured, about 130 children from schools in Jersey City and Hoboken visited the Newark Museum Oct. 4. Serving as their guides were (back right in dark T-shirts) sophomore Rita Glasionov, left, and junior Nicole Golden, who were among 15 Princeton students trained as docents. Continuing the New York component, another 400 New York school children were directed through the American Museum of Natural History by 50 Princeton students that day. Princeton is conducting the Arts Alive program in partnership with HAI (Hospital Audiences Inc.).

Kinsman, Reid to present Gilbert Lecture

Princeton alumni Jeremy Kinsman, Canadian ambassador to the European Union, and T.R. Reid, London bureau chief for The Washington Post, will give this year's G.S. Beckwith Gilbert '63 Lecture on Monday, Oct. 14.
    The two will present their views on "Transatlantic Relations Are Said To Be the Worst Since 1945.... So What? Does It Matter? European Perceptions of America and American Perceptions of Europe" at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
    Kinsman, who earned an A.B. in English from Princeton in 1963, was named to his present post in Brussels earlier this year. Since 2000, he had been Canada's high commissioner (ambassador) to the United Kingdom. From 1993 to 2000, he served as Canada's ambassador to Italy and the United Nations Food Agencies in Rome; to Malta; to Albania; and to Russia and several other republics formerly part of the Soviet Union. Before his European appointments, he was based in Ottawa, serving in a number of roles in the Canadian government.
    Reid, who earned an A.B. in classics from Princeton in 1966, has become one of the nation's best-known foreign correspondents through his coverage of global affairs for The Washington Post, his books and his commentary on National Public Radio. He joined the Post in 1977, and has covered the U.S. Congress, national politics and three presidential campaigns. He was the Post's Tokyo bureau chief from 1990 to 1995. He has written four books in English and three in Japanese, and translated one book from Japanese.
    The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Canadian Studies Program.

'Human prejudice' explored in talk

Eminent philosopher Bernard Williams will speak on "The Human Prejudice" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in McCosh 50.
    Williams, who divides his time between professorships at Oxford University and the University of California-Berkeley, is considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary moral philosophy. He is the author of books on Plato and Descartes as well as a volume titled "Making Sense of Humanity."
    In describing his lecture, Williams said, "Many people think that 'humanity' is an ethical idea, and that it makes a basic moral difference whether a creature they are dealing with is another human being or not .... Some philosophers attack this outlook as a prejudice, similar to racism or sexism. I shall argue that their view is based on a deep misconception, which itself involves an attempt to project human attitudes onto the universe."
    Williams' talk is designated as the Walter Edge Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast; for viewing information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia.

Former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq to speak on 'How Did We Get Here?'

cScott Ritter, former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, will speak on campus Wednesday, Oct. 16. He will discuss "The Coming War with Iraq: How Did We Get Here?" at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
    Ritter joined the United Nations as a member of the weapons inspection team in 1991 and participated in more than 30 inspection missions, including 14 as chief. In 1995, his team discovered missile guidance equipment that Iraq had brought from Russia. Ritter then led a U.N. team into Iraq in January 1998 to perform additional inspections, only to be blocked by Iraqi officials who accused Ritter and the U.N. team of spying.
    He is a ballistic missile technology expert with more than a decade of experience in the military intelligence area of the U.S. armed forces, with assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. A former major in the U.S. Marines, Ritter also spent several months of the Gulf War serving under Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf with Marine Central Command headquarters in Saudi Arabia.
    Ritter's experience in searching out weapons of mass destruction within Iraq is the basis for his book, "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and for All" (1999). He explores the shortcomings of American foreign policy in the Persian Gulf region and alternative approaches to handling the Iraqi crisis. He is filming a documentary in Iraq, "Endgame: Closing the File on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction."
    The lecture is presented by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Global Issues Forum, a student organization that seeks to broaden the understanding of global affairs on campus, and is co-sponsored by a number of other campus groups.

DeLillo to read, discuss his work

Novelist, playwright and essayist Don DeLillo will read and talk about his work at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in McCosh 50.
    The author of a dozen books, including "Libra," "Mao II," "Underworld," "White Noise" and "Body Artist," DeLillo is the recipient of an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Prize as well as PEN/Faulkner and National Book awards. In 1997 he won the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to an author whose work explores the role of individuals in society.
    DeLillo has said that he became a writer "by living in New York and seeing and hearing and feeling all the great, amazing and dangerous things the city endlessly assembles." Later he spent three years living in Greece and traveling through the Middle East and India, gaining new perspective on America and learning "how to see and hear all over again more clearly than I could in more familiar places."
    DeLillo does not belong to the school of writing he describes as "around-the-house-and-in-the-yard." Rather, he prefers fiction "that is steeped in history, that takes account of ways in which our perceptions are being changed by events around us -- global events that may alter how we live in the smallest ways." In his works, often-endearing characters -- baseball fans, teachers, families -- evolve against a backdrop of terrorism, assassination and "airborne toxic events."
    As a Belknap Visitor in the Humanities, DeLillo joins a distinguished roster of eminent writers and artists, including Merce Cunningham, Nadine Gordimer, Arthur Miller, Richard Serra and Maurice Sendak, who have come to Princeton through a program created in memory of Chauncey Belknap of the class of 1912.
    The public lecture is being presented by the Humanities Council. Entrance to McCosh 50 will begin at 4:30 p.m. for holders of Princeton University ID cards. General admission will take place at 4:45 p.m. The talk will be simulcast in McCosh 10, 28, 62, 64 and 66.

'Avoiding Disaster in Afghanistan' is topic

A lecture titled "Avoiding Disaster in Afghanistan" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in 016, Robertson Hall.
     William Durch, senior associate at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., will give the talk, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
    Durch is co-director of the Future of Peace Operations project at the Stimson Center. The project evaluates and seeks to enhance U.S. policy and policymaking for peace operations, advances United Nations reforms of peace operations, and provides timely and useful information and analysis on ongoing peace operations. He also teaches in the Georgetown University Security Studies Program and previously taught at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School for Advanced International Studies.

Memorial service for Wilkinson is Oct. 25

A memorial service for David Wilkinson, the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics Emeritus who died Sept. 5, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in the University Chapel.
    A reception will follow in Jadwin Hall. Those planning to attend the reception should contact Angela Glenn at 258-0720 or mailto:angelaq@princeton.edu. A complete obituary is available on the Web at http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/02/q3/0906-wilkinson.htm.

New Webmail system launched

A new, improved Webmail program has been launched and is ready for use. The new program has additional features and is much faster than the current system.
    Webmail allows anyone with a University e-mail account to read and respond to messages through a Web browser. This access works from remote locations as well as on campus.
    The old Webmail is scheduled to be replaced by the new system on Jan. 1, 2003. The Office of Information Technology is encouraging members of the University community to begin trying the new Webmail system now, so that it isn't a sudden change for everyone.
    During this interim period, the Webmail link on the main Web site will go to an intermediate page that provides access to both the current and new programs, and offers brief information about the new program.
    The new version of Webmail is a result of OIT's upgrading its mail server to the latest version of iPlanet Messaging Server on July 27. The new program includes options for customizing the appearance of the list of messages in the "inbox" as well as the ability to handle attachments more easily and to save outgoing messages in the "sent" folder.

Public safety posts annual report online

The Department of Public Safety has posted its annual report online. The report contains crime statistics for the previous three years and is available at: http://web.princeton.edu/sites/publicsafety/Announcements.shtm#1.
    A printed brochure containing this data may be requested by visiting the department's office at Stanhope Hall or by calling 258-5772.

McCarter Theatre

The world premiere of "Crowns," a celebration of African-American women and their church hats, will be Tuesday, Oct. 15, at McCarter Theatre. The play with music was adapted from the best-selling book of the same name and inspired by its stunning portraiture. It runs through Sunday, Nov. 3.
    For more information about the performance and related events, call 258-2787 or visit http://www.mccarter.org.

October 14, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 6
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Contents

Page one
•Research in space-age materials takes off with support from NASA
•Rarely shown Cézanne watercolors exhibited at museum

Inside
•Lectures, discussion mark 20th anniversary of women's studies

Benefits update
•Open enrollment, Key changes, Group long-term care, Breast reconstruction, Dental

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

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, Margaret Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett

 
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