Joan Jett to perform at 2007 Dean's Date concert
Rockers Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will headline the USG's spring concert on Dean's Date, bringing rock 'n' roll to campus just as students have handed in their final papers and problem sets.
Jett will perform on Tuesday, May 15, at 5:15 p.m. in Dod Courtyard, USG president Rob Biederman '08 announced in an email on Monday.
Jett is best known for "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," which was the top single on the Billboard charts for seven weeks in 1982. It is Billboard's No. 28 song of all time.
Jett is not a typical choice for a USG concert, USG social chair Andrew Heyman '07 said. "I wanted to do something completely, totally unexpected," he said, adding that he wanted to eschew typical choices like alternative band Guster, last year's USG spring concert performer.
But, Heyman said, choosing Jett makes sense. "She's an icon, she's a legend," he said.
Even if students are unfamiliar with Jett's name, he said, they will likely recognize "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," "Bad Reputation" and other songs. "It's quite a big deal ... She's the single most important woman in the history of rock 'n' roll."
Jett headlined last year's Warped Tour, which can have as many as 100 bands perform and is also an extreme sports festival. She was also one of the biggest names in the 1990s punk feminist Riot Grrrl movement.
Arrests made in plot to attack military base 30 miles from campus
Six men were arrested late Monday night and charged with plotting to use rocket-propelled grenades to kill hundreds at Fort Dix, an Army installation fewer than 30 miles south of Princeton's campus. Two FBI informants infiltrated the group a year ago after a Mount Laurel, N.J., store clerk alerted the government when the men asked him to copy a video of them firing automatic weapons and shouting in Arabic.
At a press conference yesterday, U.S. attorneys said that the arrested men intended to "kill as many American soldiers as possible." Three of the men are in the United States illegally. Over the past year they conducted surveillance of the base; one used his job as a pizza deliveryman to gain familiarity with the inside of the base. The men trained at a rented house in the Pocono Mountains and collected a cache of weapons. They were arrested while trying to buy illegal assault rifles from an FBI agent.
Several statements recorded by federal agents indicate that the men were motivated by anti-American fundamentalist Islamic ideology. One man told an FBI informant, "it doesn't matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away; it doesn't matter. Or [if] I die, [it] doesn't matter — I'm doing it in the name of Allah," according to the criminal complaint.
The Army trains reserve and National Guard troops at the base, which is located in neighboring Burlington County, N.J. Over 13,000 people live on the base or work there daily.
'Prince' gives award to Breidenthal at annual banquet
The Daily Princetonian honored former Dean of Religious Life Thomas Breidenthal at its yearly banquet Monday night with its annual award. Two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro '57 gave the keynote address.
Breidenthal, who was recently consecrated as the Bishop of Southern Ohio's Episcopal diocese, was given the award for his work fostering interfaith dialogue on campus.
Breidenthal, who will be installed at Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, was not present to receive the award, but Associate Dean of Religious Life Paul Raushenbush read a statement of thanks and accepted it on his behalf.
"I am honored and touched to be receiving this award," Briedenthal said in the statement, "and I accept it in the name of all the students, faculty and staff who have made interfaith dialogue a vibrant reality at Princeton, through their willingness to share their own faith and their own questions about faith with each other."
The Daily Princetonian award is given by the paper's senior staff to a member of the community for contributions to the University. Past winners have included English professor emeritus John Fleming GS '63 and computer science professor Ed Felten.
Caro, a former managing editor of the 'Prince,' recalled his early beginnings as a budding journalist when he was wooed by flattery to work at a smaller local paper over a job at The New York Times. He also spoke about his time as an investigative reporter for the Long Island-based Newsday newspaper.
Caro's 1974 biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," won him a Pulitzer Prize. Caro won a second Pulitzer in 2002 for the third volume of his account of Lyndon Johnson's political career.
Caro is currently working on a fourth volume; he is also the grandfather of 'Prince' columnist Barry Caro '09.
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