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Web Exclusives: Headlines Posted February 6 Send us news about you, a classmate, or any Princetonian Meg Whitman ’77, president and chief executive officer of eBay, Inc., and her husband, Griffith R. Harsh IV, will give $30 million toward the construction of the new residential college to accommodate the increased enrollment at the university. The college will be named after Whitman, who also serves on the Board of Trustees. Harvard professor K. Anthony Appiah will join Princeton's faculty this fall in the philosophy department and at the Center for Human Values. Currently a faculty member of the Afro-American studies program, Appiah was recruited to Harvard by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who also said he might consider coming to Princeton. Cornel West *80's name has also been discussed in the national media as another possible candidate for Princeton's faculty. (He was at Princeton previously.) About 130 enthusiastic New York City school children and their parents joined a group of Princeton University students at theaters and museums January 30 for the kickoff of the University's Arts Alive program. Arts Alive is providing live arts and cultural experiences this winter for up to 10,000 youngsters from schools affected by the September 11 attacks. The Board of Trustees January 26 adopted a 2002-03 operating budget of $800 million that includes special funding for a number of areas ranging from campus life and facilities to the library and information technology. The trustees also approved a 3.9 percent increase in undergraduate tuition and fees. This increase is slightly higher than last year's rate of 3 percent -- the lowest in 34 years -- and rates of 3.3 percent in 2000-01, 3.5 percent in 1999-2000 and 3.7 percent in 1998-99. Peter McDonough, a member of Princeton's legal staff for 12 years, has been promoted to lead that office as general counsel. His appointment was effective February 1. He succeeded Howard Ende, who last year announced his intentions to leave the university this fall to become president of the Mpala Wildlife Foundation. Ende will remain on staff for the next nine months as senior counsel. The University of Oxford has announced that President Tilghman will receive an honorary degree at Oxford's annual honorary degree ceremony, known as Encaenia, on June 19. Tilghman will receive the degree of doctor of science, honoris causa. The University Chapel will be rededicated in a service at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 10. Since February 2000, workers have been restoring the stained glass windows and repointing and repairing the stonework and masonry. The project was completed in December. Leading the service will be the Rev. Thomas Breidenthal, who recently came to Princeton as dean of religious life and dean of the chapel. The service, which will include orchestral and choral music, will be followed by a reception in Murray-Dodge. Barbra Streisand recently paid $412,750 for a Charles Peale Polk oil-on-canvas portrait of George Washington as a young commander-in-chief at the 1777 Battle of Princeton. A funny thing happened on the way to the quad When emcee Peter Wicks introduced the new comedy show "Men and Women are Not the Same (and other observations)," he remarked that Princeton finally has all four varieties of comedic performance: improvisation comedy, sketch comedy, transvestites-in kick-lines comedy, and now, stand-up. The "kick-lines" jab was how Wicks, a doctorate candidate in the religion department, characterized the Triangle Club, Princeton’s oldest comedy organization, long famed for its all-male kick-line at the end of every show. In contrast to Triangle’s 112-year legacy, "Men and Woman are Not the Same" is the first stand-up comedy performance on campus, performed entirely by undergraduates, graduates, and recent alumni The show ran for three nights in Wilson College’s Black Box Theater, playing to capacity audiences each evening. "I try to avoid telling people that I do stand-up. When they do find out they usually make a comment like, ‘really, I would have never guessed you did that sort of thing,’" wrote Wicks in the program’s introduction. "To my paranoid ears, this always sounds like the beginning of a longer sentence, the second half of which is, ‘because you know, you’re really quite boring.’" Haris Hadzimuratovic, a freshman from Bosnia, made his comedic debut, assuring the audience that he was in fact the first Bosnian-American comedian and that his act would be "history in the making." His routine focused on the differences between Europeans and Americans. "I don’t understand how you all measure distance," Hadzimuratovic said. "When somebody asks an American how far away he lives from New York City, he usually responds, ‘Oh, about an hour.’ Too bad this measuring distance in time thing doesn’t work the other way. If somebody asks you how long your exam was, you really can’t tell them it was about 50 miles long." Brian Rosen ’00, now a consultant in New York City, returned to Princeton to showcase his stand-up routine, which included voice impressions of Richard Nixon, Woody Allen, actors Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson and Jimmy Stewart ’32, and even a dead-pan Bill Clinton. While in New York, Rosen has performed on stage with Craig Gass of the Howard Stern Show and Chris Rock. "Sometimes when I am sitting in my apartment watching commercials after work, I hear the voices in my head arguing, and its hard to ignore the debate," Rosen said. "Nixon and Jimmy Stewart are complaining about how my newer voices get more attention, and then in the background, Christopher Walken is doing some commercial about body moisturizers." Adam Ruben ’01 felt
relieved to be back at Princeton performing stand-up, where at least
the audience understands the high-brow humor characteristic of most
of his jokes. Now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University,
Ruben performs regularly at a comedy club in Baltimore. Send us news about you, a classmate, or any Princetonian Peter Paret, professor
emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study: Klinger to Kollwitz: Ambiguities
in Modern German Art from the 1880s to the Third Reich Peter Vitousek, Stanford University ecologist: "Beyond
Global Warming: Human Alteration of Biochemical Cycles" Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former ambassador to the Soviet Union and John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Company Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the School: "America and Russia in the World Today" February 13, 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. The author William Styron will read from his work February 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St. Jack Matlock Jr., former ambassador to the Soviet Union
and the John Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting
Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson
School: "America and Russia in the
World Today" Author and lawyer Gordon Chang: "Corruption, Chaos and Cure: A Short History of the End of the Chinese State" February 13, 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones Hall. Meir Wieseltier,
Israeli poet Peter Vitousek, Stanford University ecologist: "Biological
Invasion as an Anthropogenic Global Change," Heather Ruth, the former president and chief executive officer
of the Bond Market Association: "New York City's Fiscal Challenge
Post-Sept. 11 Peter Vitousek, Stanford University ecologist: "The
Hawaiian Islands: A Model System for Understanding How the
World Works," SHARE, Princeton's sexual harassment response center, and the Women's
Center is sponsoring a panel called
"Men Against Violence" The Princeton Juggling Club: "From Jersey With Love" Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, February 16, 9:30 a.m.: Who Wants To Be
a Scientist? A Game About the Expansion of the Universe, Jean-Marc
Perelmuter, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria,
Virginia. Heightened security measures are presently in effect at
the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information
about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the
laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. The Princeton Juggling Club: "From Jersey With Love" Strobe Talbott,
director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former
deputy secretary of state Rachel Tzvia Back,
Israeli poet Center for the Study of Religion, a symposium: Purity, Power,
and Praise: Revisioning Women's Religious Roles in Africa and the
African Disapora Taha Muhammad Ali,
Israeli poet Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy
and Management, Harvard University. Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 2, 9:30 a.m.: How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure, Samuel Wang, Department of Molecular Biology Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.: The Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas, Raffi Nazikian, PPPL (laboratory tour following lecture). Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Plasma Physics Science on Saturday, March 16, 9:30 a.m.: Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era, Mona Singh, Department of Computer Science. Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Tony Kushner,
playwright Sydney Brenner,
Oxford University and Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley:Biology
after the Genome Project Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Poussin’s Mad Pursuit: Timothy J. Clark,
University of California, Berkeley: Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory presents Science-on-Saturday talks The lectures are free and open to the public, Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on Sept. 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121 February 9 — "What Do Studies of the Solid Earth Tell Us About Life on Planets?" Charles Langmuir, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University. February 16 — "Who Wants To Be a Scientist? A Game About the Expansion of the Universe," Jean-Marc Perelmuter, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va. March 2 — "How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure," Samuel Wang, Princeton Department of Molecular Biology. March 9 —"The Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas," Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (laboratory tour following lecture). March 16 — "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era," Mona Singh, Princeton Department of Computer Science. Heightened security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121. Art Museum "Klinger to Kollwitz: German Art in the Age of Expressionism," an overview of late-19th-and early-20th-century German art, will be on view through June 9.
The Justice Department named Andrew Weissmann ’80, a leading organized-crime prosecutor from New York, to its investigation of the collapse of the Enron Corporation. Weissmann, chief of the criminal division of the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn and the lead prosecutor in the 1997 trial that ended with the imprisonment of the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, is described by colleagues as a tenacious investigator and litigator, said the New York Times. Kyle Brandt ’01, former Princeton football player, can be seen Tuesday nights on MTV's The Real World. This see-all, reveal-all show was taped in Chicago and will continue for several weeks. The accounting firm Arthur Andersen that had as a client the bankrupt energy giant Enron has hired Paul A. Volcker Jr. ’49, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, toorganize and head an independent oversight board at Andersen. Christopher Janney ’72’s newest installation‚ "Light Waves," is on the façade of Orlando’s main public library.The piece, which was commissioned by the Orlando Public Arts Commission last June, is composed of four 38-foot tall transparent colored glass formsattached to the side of the 50-foot tall building. A series of "touch plates" trigger the light within the forms along with an accompanying sound when activated by passers-by. (Photo by Philip Franklin) Joshua
Lewis Miner ’43, who established the wilderness-adventure
program Outward Bound USA died January 29. Send us news about you, a classmate, or any Princetonian John Thompson ’88 has Princeton’s men’s basketball team playing inspired defense and it’s paying off in the victory column. The Tigers used some stifling full-court pressure to come back against Columbia on Friday night after being down by as many as 13 points to win 49-41 and turned up the defense from the beginning on Saturday to rout Cornell 60-38. The wins put the Tigers (9-7, 4-0 Ivies) over .500 for the season and they remain in first place and are the only undefeated team in Ivy League play. Kyle Wente ‘03’s 17 points carried the offense against Columbia and Ray Robins ‘03’s career-high 28 points, including 18 in the first half, led the Tigers’ dismantling of an overmatched Cornell squad. The Tigers head into a big three-game stretch as the head to Brown (13-6, 4-2) and Yale (13-7, 5-1) next weekend and then host Penn (15-5, 2-2) on February 12 at 7:30 p.m. Princeton’s women’s swimming and diving team stretched their consecutive dual meet winning streak to 30 as they swam past conference rivals Harvard and Yale at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in New Haven over the weekend. Princeton, now 7-0 overall and 6-0 in the conference, defeated the Crimson by a 190-127 score and outpaced Yale, 144-125. Highlights included senior Valeria Kukla’s victories in the 200-, 500-, and 1,000-yard freestyles. Senior Kate Conroy led a 1-2 Princeton finish in the 100-yard backstroke (56.24); junior Michelle Nielson finished second with a 57.07. Women’s hockey treated a trip to Canada this week as a chance to fatten up their statistics as Princeton swept to a 4-0 win against McGill and a 6-2 decision over Concordia in Quebec. The non-league victories improved the Tigers to 13-6-2 overall. Their 7-3-0 mark in the ECAC-North Division is good for a third-place tie with Dartmouth. Sophomore forwards Gretchen Anderson and Susan Hobson provided much of the offense in Canada. The pair scored six goals and handed out eight assists between them in the two matches. Forwards Nikola Holmes ’04 and Lisa Rasmussen ’04 added two goals each. The 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics start February 8 and Princeton will be represented by Andrea Kilbourne ’02, who will be competing with U.S. women’s hockey team — the defending gold-medal winners. But Kilbourne is not the first Princetonian to skate for a U.S. hockey team in the winter games. In 1932, Gerald Hallock III '26 and Robert C. Livingston '31 helped the men’s hockey team to a silver medal in Lake Placid, New York. And in 1936, Frederick A. Kammer ’34 and Malcolm E. McAlpin '32 won bronze medals with the U.S. hockey squad in 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Click here for The Varsity Typewriter by Patrick Sullivan '02
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