November 6, 2002

10/30/02 Amanda Brown ’06 shows her stripes, or rather her colors, during the football game against Harvard. Princeton lost 24-17. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)

CAMPUS
Responding to a lawsuit filed by William Robertson and other members of the Robertson family in July 2002, the university joined President Tilghman and three other university-appointed trustees of the Robertson Foundation in filing a motion in New Jersey Superior Court today asking that the lawsuit be dismissed. The filing argues that, under the law, members of a foundation board of trustees are required to give the board an opportunity to investigate and resolve potential problems before turning to the courts. In this case, Robertson, one of three family-appointed trustees on the seven-person board, made a number of requests for additional information and changes in operating procedures at the April 2002 annual board meeting and the board responded by agreeing to attend to the requests. The university was in the process of responding affirmatively to requests made to it by the foundation's board when the lawsuit was filed in July.

How do you build a future from a horrific past? This question is occupying the minds of five faculty members and two alumni of the School of Architecture currently developing plans for the World Trade Center site. The architects are on three of the six teams selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to conceptualize a new beginning for a significant portion of Lower Manhattan, extending from the pit of Ground Zero. The teams have just six to eight weeks from the October 11 start date to submit their proposals. Among those involved in the project with associations to Princeton's School of Architecture are faculty members Peter Eisenman, Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, and Jesse Reiser; Kevin Kennon *84 and Greg Lynn 88; and Dean Stan Allen.

New Jersey may be leading the nation in terms of politics and policy yet may be dangerously close to setting the tone as well for an apathetic political climate, several panelists agreed during an election eve discussion, "As Goes New Jersey, So Goes the Nation? A Conversation on the U.S. Senate Race in New Jersey," held November 4 at the Woodrow Wilson School. "Apathy raises issues about the well being of our democracy," said panelist Thomas Byrne Jr. ’76, a former chair of the New Jersey State Democratic Party. He insisted that New Jersey suffers from a "triumph of apathy" as exemplified by tendencies including: candidates' oversimplification of issues, voters' lack of campaign volunteerism and an emphasis on raising money for certain but not all campaigns. He said this apathy is reversing the vision of our nation's founding fathers. Other panelists included Ingrid Reed, director of the New Jersey Project for the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Iver Peterson, a political reporter for the New York Times, and panel moderator Douglas Arnold, the William Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School.

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UPCOMING PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LECTURES AND EVENTS:
(Updated daily, Monday through Friday)
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November 14, 4:30 p.m. — Andres Franco, deputy permanent representative of Colombia to the UN: A lecture. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. (WWS)

November 14, 4:30 p.m. — Reynaldo Marconi, of the Asociacion de Instituciones Financieras para el Desarrollo Rural in La Paz, Bolivia: "Desarrollo de las microfinanzas y lucha contra la pobreza: caso de Bolivia." 58 Prospect Ave., Room 107. (Latin American Studies)

November 14, 4:30 p.m. — James Cahill, UC-Berkeley: "Passages of Felt Life: Paintings for Women in Ming-Qing China" 106 McCormick. (Tang Center for Chinese andJapanese art and East Asian studies)

November 14, 4:30 p.m. — Robert Sutter, visiting professor from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a former national intelligence officer for East Asia, and Robert Suettinger, director of research at MBP Consulting and a former director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council: "The China Threat and Its Implications for U.S. Policy — a Briefing" Bowl 001, Roberston Hall ( Center of International Studies)

November 14, 7:30 p.m. — Eric Schlosser ’81, author of Fast Food Nation: A talk about how powerful industries use the idea of inevitability to convince us to accept the unacceptable. Book signing to follow. McCosh 50. (Presented by Eating Fresh Publications and Another World is Possible. Cosponsored by Students for Progressive Education and Action (SPEAC), USG Projects Board, GSG, Pace Center, and the Whole Earth Center)

November 14, 8 p.m. — Ze'eva Cohen: "israeli Dance as Theater Aret." Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nasssau St. (Jeiwhs studies)

November 14- 16, 8 p.m. — University Players present West Side Story. Richardson Auditorium.

November 15-17 — Triangle Club's This Side of Parody. McCarter. 609-258-2787.

November 14-17 & 21-23 — Melancholy Play, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Davis McCallum; Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

November 15-17 — BiZone presents Endless Possibilities Conference. Frist Campus Center. Registration: required: www.bizone.org/con2002/register.html>http://www.bizone.org/con2002/register.html
This year Princeton is hosting and cosponsoring a regional bi conference, which addresses bisexuality, polyamory, and transgender issues. It is open to all LGBT and ally members of the PU community. Contact Debbie at 258-1353 or Bazarsky@princeton.edu.

November 15, 2:30 p.m. — Ken'ichi Utsuki, Aizenkobo, Kyoto, Japan: "Traditional Japanese Indigo Dyeing" 202 Jones (East Asian studies)

November 15, 2:30 p.m. — Pietro Bortone: "Language and Society on the Black Sea: The Muslim Greek-Speakers of Turkey." Rm. 107, 58 Prospect. (Hellenic studies)

November 15, 7:30 p.m. — "Lyin' Tails," a montage of 4 short films that examine the tensions of a person being a stranger in his one homeland. Produced, written, and filmed by Frankie Ng ’04. Level 100 Frist. (International Center)

November 15, 8 p.m. — Darrell Scott, father of Columbine viction Rachel Joy Scott: "Where Was God at Columbine?" McCosh 10. (Christian Leadership Ministries and Agape Christian Fellowship)

November 16, 8:00 p.m. — Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. Performance and discussion. Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Free and open to the public.

November 17, 1:30 p.m. — Memorial service and Chapel stone dedication for Richard Modica '99 in the University Chapel. On March 22, 1997, the Tigertones were returning home from Spring Tour when the car in which Modica was traveling was hit by a drunk driver.

November 17, 4 p.m. — David M. Ransom ’60 and his wife, Marjorie: "The U.S. State Department and U.S. Policy in the Middle East." 302 Frist. (International Center)

November 18, 4:30 p.m. — James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly; former editor of U.S. News and World Report. "So We Win the War: What's Involved in Occupying Iraq?" Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. (Woodrow Wilson School/History Department/CIS)

November 18, 4:30 p.m. — John J. DiIulio, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania: "God and the First Amendment: TheDevilish Truth About Strict Separation Doctrine." Computer Science Building 104. (James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions)

November 19, 4:30 p.m. — Richard S. Williamson '71, alternate representative of U.S. to U.N. Security Council: A lecture. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. ( Woodrow Wilson School/UNA)

November 20, 4:30 p.m. — John J. DiIulio, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania: "God and the Fourteenth Amendment: Why Grassroots Religious Minority Groups need Equal Protection." Computer Science Building 104. (James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions)

November 20, 6 p.m. — Brendan MacFarlane and Dominique Jakob, architects and partners at Jakob + MacFarlane in Paris: "Projects". Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building (School of Architecture)

November 21, 4:30 p.m. — Michael B. Oren *86, author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East; Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Israel: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East." Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. (WWS)

November 21-23—Instituting Hispanismo (Spanish and Portuguese department)

November 22, 4:30 p.m. — Dramatist Tom Kilroy, "Contemporary Irish Theatre". Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

November 22, 4:30 p.m. — Professor Gunter Blobel, the 1999 Nobel laureate in physiology and a professor at Rockefeller University: The 2002 Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. (Sarnoff Corp., Janssen Pharmaceutica, Bovis Lend Lease, Inc., The Free Enterprise Foundation)

November 23, 10 a.m. — Professor William Howarth, professor of English at Princeton: "Earth Islands: Darwin and Melville in the Galapagos". Guyot 10.

November 23, 1 p.m. — Princeton football vs. Dartmouth. Princeton Stadium.

November 25, 4:30 p.m. — John J. DiIulio, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania: "God and Man at Yale Revisited: The Coming Religious Revival at Elite Universities." Computer Science Building 104. (James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions)

November 26, 4:30 p.m. — Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UNDP Regional
Bureau for Arab States (RBAS): Lecture TBA. (WWS)

December 3, 4:30 p.m. — David Scheffer, former ambassador for war crimes and U.S. negotiator on the
International Criminal Court. Topic to be announced. (WWS)

December 4, 4:30 p.m. — Isobel Coleman '87, senior fellow. US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations. Topic
to be announced. Bowl 016. (WWS)

December 4, 6 p.m. — Gregory Crewsden, artist in New York City and professor at the Yale School of Art. Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building (School of Architecture)

December 4, 8 pm — Vincent Courtillot, Université Paris 7, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, et Institut Universitaire de France, “Mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic: a single cause and if yes which?” Location TBA

December 6, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: Brahms (Serena Canin, violin; Nina Lee, cello; members of the Brentano String Quartet), Shostakovich. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

December 7, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: Brahms (Serena Canin, violin; Nina Lee, cello; members of the Brentano String Quartet), Shostakovich. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

December 9, 4:30 p.m.— "Argentina Today" deliverd by Carlos Altamirano at McCormick Hall. (Spanish and Portuguese department)

December 11, 4:30 p.m. — Carol Armstrong, the Doris Stevens Professor in Women's Studies and professor of art and archaeology, will present a talk concerning Manet and Cezanne, the "heroics" of modernism and a feminist alternative to the canonical accounts of their art. Location TBA. (Office of the President)

December 11, 8:00 p.m. — Student dance performance. Guest choreographer Jessica Lange and guest choreographer Stephen Welsh, Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street.

December 11, 8:00 p.m. — Dance performance. End of semester showings of student work, Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Free and open to the public

January 9-12, 2003 — Apollinaire's the Breasts of Tiresias, senior thesis production, directed by Matthieu Boyd ’03. Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

January 10, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: Cavalli's La Calisto (staged). Students of Music 214. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

January 11, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: Cavalli's La Calisto (staged). Students of Music 214. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

February 6, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and
Professor of History at Yale University Divinity School. Topic to be announced. Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. (Woodrow Wilson School/Center for the Study of Religion)

February 7, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Nancy Curtin, Fordham University, "The Reinvention of Irish Masculinity in the 18th century. Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

February 12-13, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Jonathan Glover, a professor of medical law and ethics at King's College London, “Interpretation in Psychiatry and the Person and the Illness.” Location TBA

February 13-16 & 20-22, 2003 — Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, senior thesis production, directed by Chris Wendell ’03 . Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

February 14, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Irish studies at Princeton.Panel I: The Backwards Look with Brendan Kane, Natasha Tessone, and Abby Bender. Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

February 14-15 2003, 8:00 p.m. — Student dance performance. Guest choreographer Jessica Lange and guest choreographer Stephen Welsh. Richardson Auditorium

February 14-15, 2003, 8:00 p.m. — Spring Dance Festival, Richardson Auditorium.

February 21, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Irish studies at Princeton. Panel II: Into Modernity with Howard Keeley, Barry McCrea, and Kimberly Bohman. Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

February 28, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Joep Leerssen, Harvard University, "How Time Passes in Joyce's Dublin". Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

March 5, 4:30 p.m. — Vincent Poor, professor of electrical engineering, will address the recent revolution in wireless communications that has led to a host of applications involving "anytime, anywhere" connectivity for the communication of voice, text and other media. He will explore the social, political and economic issues that are emerging with the new technology as they did with broadcast radio and the Internet in the 20th century. Location TBA. (Office of the President)

March 6-9, & 12-14, 2003 — Stoppard's Travesties, senior thesis production with Ben Beckley ’02, Jeff Kitrosser ’03, and Micah Baskir ’03, directed by Sujan Trivedi ’03. Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

March 7, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Len Graham and Padraigin ni Uallachain will introduce and sing "Songs from a Hidden Ulster". Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

March 27-30, 2003 — PETER MORRIS' MARGE. senior thesis production with Ashley Frankson ’03, directed by Sarah Rodriguez ’03 . Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

March 28, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — LAWRENCE TAYLOR, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, "Irish Braids: The Africanisation of Moore Street". Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

April 4, 2003, 4:30 p.m. — Playwright Marina Carr, Reading from her work and in conversation with Michael Cadden. Stewart Film Theater at 185 Nassau St. Free and open to the public. (Fund for Irish Studies)

April 17-20 & 24-26, 2003 — LACHIUSA'S THE WILD PARTY, senior thesis production, directed by Natasha Badillo ’03. Matthews Acting Studio at 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau. Check here for updates. Advance tickets for all productions may be purchased at the Frist Ticket Office, or at the door on performance nights.

April 25, 2003, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: The Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Concert. Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

April 26, 2003, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra concert: The Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Concert. Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Richardson Auditorium. www.princeton.edu/~puo

May 31, 2003, 8 p.m. — Princeton University Orchestra Reunions concert. www.princeton.edu/~puo

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Princeton Art Museum
Public tours, Saturdays, 2 p.m.

Current Exhibitions:

Cezanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, through January 12, 2003. Sixteen rarely shown watercolors.

Earth's Beauty Revealed: The Ninetheenth-Century European Landscape, through January 12 , 2003

Photographs from the Peter C. Bunnell Collection, through October 27. — A collection of contemporary photographs to honor Peter C. Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin ’20, professor of the history of photography and modern art and faculty curator of photography.

Lewis Baltz: Nevada and Other Photographs, through January 19, 2003

Beyond the Visible: A Conservator’s Perspective, through January 5, 2003 — An exhibition devoted to art conservation organized by museum conservator Norman Muller.

Exhibits on campus

Main Gallery at Firestone Library

Lewis Baltz: Nevada and Other Photographs, exhibit at the Art Museum, through January 19, 2003.

 Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts at Firestone Library

Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers, October 20 through March 30, 2003         

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

Take a Walk Along Nassau Street: Celebrating the Classes of 1942, 1952, 1962, 1977, and 1982

Paix et Liberté: Posters That Go BANG!, through February 1. Contentious political posters are common to many nations, but few are more explosive than a selection of French affiches on view at Mudd through February 1. The collection can be viewed in its entirety on the Web: http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/paix/

The exhibition showcases the work of the French anti-Communist organization Paix et Liberté (Peace and Liberty), which endeavored to combat what it regarded as lies contained in Communist posters. Founded by French politician Jean-Paul David in 1950 against the backdrop of a successful poster campaign by the French Communist Party, Paix et Liberté fought fire with fire by exploiting the themes, language, and symbols of its opponents' posters.

Online exhibits at the Library :

Comic art at Princeton
Cruikshank Artwork

Bernstein Gallery, lower level, Robertson Hall — "After September 11," an exhibition that explores how the work of 12 regional artists has been influenced by the events surrounding September 11. The show ends December 1, 2002.

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New York area events:

EB&C and the Chekhov Now festival present GULL an EB&C adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
Opening night: November 8, 8 p.m. Directed by Ellen Beckerman ’91. With: C. Andrew Bauer, Lizzy Cooper Davis*, Margot Ebling*, Shawn Fagan*, Elliott Kennerson, Colleen Madden* and James M. Saidy*. Lighting design by Michael O'Connor, sound design by Bray Poor, costume design by Julia White. Performances: Nov. 8 at 8 p.m., Nov. 9 at 5 p.m., Nov. 10 at 8 p.m., Nov. 10 at 8 p.m., Nov. 15 at 10 p.m., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m., Nov. 21 at 8 p.m., Nov. 23 at 5 p.m., and Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. Connelly Theater, 220 E. 4th St. (between Aves. A and B); tickets: $15; box office: 212-414-7773; tickets@chekhovnow.org


FFR/Princeton btGALA presents All-Ivy/Seven Sisters Mixer at XL
New York, N.Y.
November 20: 8-1 p.m.
XL in the Upstairs Bar, 357 W 16th St (just east of 9th Avenue, 212-995-1400
$5 suggested donation, cash bar
RSVP: Not required

The Virginia Club (University of Virginia) and UVA's Serpentine Society present A Walking Tour of Grand Central
New York, N.Y.
November 20: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Meet in the Yale Club Lobby
50 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY
$15 ($10 for members of the Virginia Club)
RSVP: Requested to Pat Barry of the UVA Club, uvanyc@uvanyc.org

Being Claudine, a comedy directed by I-Fan Quirk ’91. Claudine Bloomberg, a young aspiring actess who has been terribly unlucky in her pursuit of love, fame, and fortune, is at the center of this urban tale of human relations. Showing at the Screening Room, 54 Varick Street, New York, NY. For more information, phone Wellington Love at 212-366-4992.

FFR/Princeton btGALA presents All-Ivy/Seven Sisters Mixer at XL
New York, N.Y.
November 20: 8-1 p.m.
XL in the Upstairs Bar, 357 W 16th St (just east of 9th Avenue, 212-995-1400
$5 suggested donation, cash bar
RSVP: Not required

The Virginia Club (University of Virginia) and UVA's Serpentine Society present A Walking Tour of Grand Central
New York, N.Y.
November 20: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Meet in the Yale Club Lobby
50 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY
$15 ($10 for members of the Virginia Club)
RSVP: Requested to Pat Barry of the UVA Club, uvanyc@uvanyc.org

December 10, 6 - 8 p.m.
Third Annual University New Media @ Holiday Happy Hour!
Join fellow alums from several schools including Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale, Penn, Harvard and others on Tuesday, December 10th at Happy Ending -- recently named "Best New Bar" by Time Out New York magazine. 302 Broome St between Eldridge and Forsyth Streets; 212-334-9676. Subway: J, M to Bowery.

New York Networking Nights Needs Space

New York Networking Nights offers an opportunity for New York area Princeton alumni to learn about career issues and build their own career networks. We meet monthly, usually Monday, and draw between 50 and 70
Tigers of all fields and career stages. We need to find Manhattan spaces that can hold our large group. Ideal
spaces are:
-theatres
-art galleries
-offices with large conference areas
If you are willing to donate space for a night please get in touch with Kelly Perl *93 at kperl@alumni.princeton.edu.

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San Francisco events:

FFR/Princeton btGALA, Yale GALA and Stanford GALA present An All-Ivy/Seven Sisters/Stanford Mixer
San Francisco, Calif.
November 20, 7-9 p.m.
Home
2100 Market Street (at Church)
No cover, cash bar

Florida

Seattle

Harvard GALA, Penn GALA and FFR/Princeton btGALA present An All-Ivy/Seven Sisters LGBT Alumni Reception
Seattle, Wash.
December 7
Details to be announced later.

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Business Wire reported that Popular Science magazine debuted a new annual awards section in its November issue that featured an elite group of young scientists “who are shaking up their fields and whose work will touch all facets of life.” Manjul Bhargava *01 made the list for his work in mathematics and research associate Zoltan Haiman made it for his work in cosmology. According to Business Wire: “Bhargava extended some work of the legendary 19th-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, work that forms the basis of modern algebraic number theory. He recently found a proof for the Fifteen Theorem that was not only simpler than past proofs but that also expanded the result so that it applied to the generation of any specific set of integers — such as all the odd numbers.” And Haiman “is exploring the first object to appear in the universe after its chaotic beginnings in the big bang. He uses clues — what the universe looks like now, the gases known to have been circulating after the big bang, and the unchanging laws of physics — to model the objects that would have formed when the universe was just a billion years old.”

Chang-Lin Tien *59, a former Princeton trustee and former chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley, died October 29 at age 67. Tien, who received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Princeton in 1959, served as a university trustee from 1991 to 1995. Tien was appointed chancellor of Berkeley in 1990 and served in that post until 1997. He is credited with providing critical leadership that maintained Berkeley's top-level status in teaching and research at a time of severe budget cutbacks in the University of California System. In 2000, Tien received Princeton's James Madison Medal, given each year to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of education or achieved an outstanding record of public service.

Two alumni win MacArthur grants: Ann Blair *90, a professor of history at Harvard, and Charles Steidel ’84, a professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology.

Princeton Club of Shanghai holds inaugural meeting

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Football survives scare at Cornell to win 32-25 in OT
Princeton overcame a 25-10 fourth quarter deficit on a snowy Saturday, November 2, in Ithaca to beat Cornell 32-25 in overtime.
Backup quarterback Matt Verbit ’05 won his first career start for Princeton as he filled in for David Splithoff ’04, who was nursing a separated shoulder he suffered in the loss to Harvard.
Verbit completed 20 of the 34 passes he threw with no interceptions and a rushing touchdown. His lone touchdown pass came in the overtime period, when he connected with Blair Morrison ’04 on an 11-yard score that proved to be the game winner. Morrison, who was filling in for an injured B.J. Szymanski ’05 caught a career-high eight passes – all after halftime – for 107 yards.
Defensive end Joe Weiss ’04 led Princeton’s defense with 11 tackles and two sacks. He also had one of the game's biggest plays when he tipped a pass with time running out in the fourth quarter and the score tied at 25. Defensive back Jay McCareins ’05 intercepted the tipped ball and kept Cornell from attempting a field goal.
Princeton (5-2, 3-1 Ivy) now faces Penn (6-1, 4-0) at home on Saturday, November 9, with the Ivy League title still a three-team race. Harvard (5-2, 4-0) is also in the mix as they take on Columbia. Penn has won four straight in the series and Princeton has not beaten Penn in New Jersey since 1992. Last year the Tigers led the Quakers, 10-7, late in the third quarter. But Penn scored twice in the fourth for a 21-10 victory.

Women’s soccer clinches NCAA berth with win over Cornell
Princeton’s women’s soccer team became the first team in the country to earn a bid to the 2002 NCAA tournament with a 2-0 victory at Cornell on Saturday, November 2.
Maura Gallagher ’06 scored both goals in the final four minutes of the first half to give Princeton its 13th win of the year – one short of the team record set in 1980 and tied last year. The win clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title for the Tigers. Princeton would win the outright league championship should Dartmouth have either a tie or loss against Penn in its final league game. If there was a tie, the Tigers have already earned the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by virtue of a 4-1 win over Dartmouth earlier in the season.
Princeton (13-2, 6-1) lost 1-0 in overtime to William & Mary Wednesday, October 30. The loss dropped the team from 16 to 21 in the national college poll. The Tigers finish their regular season at home Saturday, November 9 against Colorado College.

Field hockey upsets No. 8 North Carolina in busy week
Although it has not been the same dominant team that went to the Final Four in 2001, Princeton’s field hockey showed why they still have to be considered a threat for the national title after upsetting eighth-ranked North Carolina on Sunday, November 3. The 4-2 win took the edge off a 3-2 loss to top-ranked Old Dominion two days prior.
Against North Carolina, Natalie Martirosian ’05 scored twice and Cory Picketts ’04 and Rachael Becker ’03 each scored one goal.
The win lifted Princeton (10-6) from 14 to 11 in the weekly national college field hockey poll.
The Tigers have already clinched the Ivy League title and will close the regular season at home on Friday, November, against Penn at 7 p.m.

Tyler Wren ’03 defends his national Collegiate Mountain Bike cross-country title
Princeton cycling’s Tyler Wren ’03 finished just three seconds ahead of his closest competitor last month in the national Collegiate Mountain Bike cross-country championships, but it was enough to give him his second straight Division II title.
Wren completed the 11.5-mile course at the base of the Angel Fire Ski Resort in New Mexico in just over 2 hours and 22 minutes. The win gave him four national titles in the last two years. He is Princeton’s first national cycling champion since the 1960s.
“I love the smooth single track here,” said Wren after the race. “The dusty stuff is great – my specialty is climbing so it was a good course for me.” Wren, an economics major, will join the pro ranks next year, riding for the New Jersey based Bolla-Colavita squad. He has also been invited to stay at the USA Cycling’s house for young riders in Belgium.

Water polo loses to Navy in Southern Championships
Princeton took a 4-3 lead into the locker room at halftime against Navy in the title game of the CWPA Southern Division Championships, which were held at Princeton November 2-3. But the Tigers could not hold onto that lead, losing 9-6 as Navy held Princeton scoreless in the third quarter.
The Tigers will now wait to face Brown in the opening round of the Eastern Championships in Providence on November 16-17. With the second place finish in Southerns, Princeton will go into Easterns with the second seed.

Cross-country teams make strong showings at Heptagonals
Juniors Emily Kroshus and Tristan Colangelo paced the men’s and women’s cross country team at the 2002 cross-country Hepatagonal Championships in New York City.
Kroshus (17:38.6) took sixth place in the women’s race as the Tiger squad finished fourth with a score of 100. Columbia’s women’s team placed five runners in the top-10 to win the Heps championship. Yale and Cornell also finished ahead of Princeton.
Colangelo’s fourth place finish on the men’s side carried Princeton to a third place finish behind Columbia and Dartmouth, which won the Heps championship for the third straight year. Jon Bell ’03 finished in ninth place for the Tigers and Austin Smith ’05 placed 10th.

Women’s volleyball still in hunt for Ivy title
With five league games remaining, Princeton’s women’s volleyball team remains in the hunt for its 11th Ivy League title and its first since 1997.
With wins over Cornell and Columbia in the past week, the Tigers have improved to 13-5 and 6-3 in the Ivy League. Princeton also lost to Villanova on the road. The Tigers now travel to Harvard to play Friday, November 8, and then to Dartmouth for a match the following day.

Women’s hockey opens season with two shutouts
For the first time in team history, the women’s soccer team opened its season with back-to-back shutouts. Goalies Sarah Ahlquist ’03 Megan Van Beusekom ’04 combined to make 30 saves in the two games in Hobey Baker rink.
Ahlquist shut out Wayne State on opening night, November 2, as sophomore April Brown scored two goals and added two assists in the 5-0 win. Van Beusekom stopped Findlay University the following night as Rebecca Stewart ’05 and Heather Jackson ’06 each scored goals in the 2-0 win.
Princeton returns to the ice Friday, November 8, when they face off against Colgate at 7 p.m. in Hobey Baker Rink.

For a student POV on sports: Nate Sellyn ’04's The P-nut Gallery

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