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CJL emails reveal split in board

CJL emails reveal split in board

The following email messages were sent between Stanley Katz, former CJL board president and Wilson School professor; Arlene Pedovitch '80, interim CJL director; and Henry Farber, current CJL board president and economics professor; regarding comments made by Pedovitch to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Debate grows over Khalidi candidacy

The potential appointment of a professor embroiled in the controversy over Middle Eastern studies at Columbia has polarized some members of Princeton's Jewish community.On Friday morning, Wilson School professor and Center for Jewish Life (CJL) board member Stanley Katz wrote a sharply critical email to Arlene Pedovitch '80, the CJL interim director, about her public comments regarding Rashid Khalidi.Khalidi, director of Columbia's Middle East Institute and a prominent historian, is being considered for Princeton's new Robert Niehaus '78 chair in contemporary Middle East studies."In the first place, I don't think the CJL has or should have a position on an academic appointment in this university," said Katz, a former CJL board president.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Tilghman talks technology

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? President Tilghman joined Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in a panel about the effects of increasing global competition on higher education and scientific research in the United States.At the panel, held Wednesday in the Library of Congress, Gates said the position of the United States as magnet for the "best people" from around the world was "eroding," adding that he was "concerned that the United States will lose its leading position in something that's critical for the economy."Most of the best universities in the world are in the United States, Gates said, but universities abroad are conducting significant research while America is experiencing "disinterest in the sciences" and "declining funding for risky research."Tilghman cited a "failing K through 12 education system" in the United States as a reason for fewer students being interested in the sciences."Too often, by the time [American students] come to [universities], they are math-phobic or science-phobic," Tilghman said.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Plans released for pedestrian bridge

Students will walk 30 feet above bustling traffic to get to physics lab or lacrosse practice with the construction of a proposed pedestrian bridge over Washington Road, not to be completed for at least five years."The center of gravity of the University is moving south.The planning board strongly suggested it was time to make it easier and safer for pedestrians to cross Washington Road," University architect Jon Hlafter '61 GS '63 said.Christian Menn, the Swiss engineer famous for elegant concrete bridges perched on mountains, designed the walkway to cross the road between Jadwin Hall and Icahn Laboratory.The conceptual design features a "curved x-shaped superstructure supported by a single arch" and a "glass covered bridge girder creating reflections of light and shadows," according to Menn's website.Preliminary bridge model photos depict leafy tree branches surrounding the walkway.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Burrito stand debuts at Fields Center

Brunger's Burritos is open for business. After weeks of meetings with University administrators and representatives from Dining Services, U-Councilor John Brunger '05 and USG Vice President Jesse Creed '07 finally saw their plan for a new late-night burrito stand come to fruition Tuesday.Due to regulatory restrictions from the New Jersey Department of Sanitation the stand could not yet be open to the public, so the invitation-only inauguration party consisted almost entirely of USG senate members, class presidents and members of the Race Committee.USG President Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06, one of the first taste-testers, was already optimistic about the future of the burrito stand.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Latino community discusses fallout over controversial 'aliens' slogan

A Latino student group forum was held Wednesday night to ease tensions over the International Festival (IF) slogan controversy and discuss the role of Latino groups on campus.The panel consisted of nine students representing the International Consortium (IC), Acci

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Frist protest continues for third day

A student-led filibuster continued into its third day today on the Frist North Lawn, drawing more than 60 students to speak in protest of a proposed congressional rule change that would circumvent Democrats' efforts to block the appointment of some of President Bush's judicial nominees.The protest, which began at 11 a.m.

NEWS | 04/27/2005

Club sports teams report lacking funds

The women's rugby team leaves for California today to play Stanford in the final four ? but they will be buying their own plane tickets.The team receives $3,000 from the University annually, but will spend more than 10 times that amount this year on referees, union dues, transportation and ambulances at their games, said former rugby team president Lisa Newman-Wise '05.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Smoking banned near public library

The Princeton Borough Council voted in favor of an ordinance banning smoking in the new outdoor plaza next to the Princeton Public Library.The ordinance was passed with a 5 to 1 vote.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Professors' salaries third highest in nation

Full professors at the University earn an average annual salary of $151,100 ? the third highest in the country, according to a report released last week by the American Association of University Professors.This is a 3.7 percent increase over last year's average of $145,600, but inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index increased by 3.3 percent over the period covered, making the actual increase in buying power slight.Salaries also rose slightly for lower-ranked faculty members.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

West, Wallis advocate religious left

Author and evangelist James Wallis and religion professor Cornel West GS '80 spoke Tuesday night about how to change the way liberals and moderates view religion before an overflowing audience in McCosh 50.Wallis criticized the conservative hold on religion, arguing that prophetic religion should be a force for social change.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Students protest Frist at Frist

Correction appendedFor more than 12 hours yesterday, students on Frist North Lawn continuously read from the U.S.

NEWS | 04/26/2005

Bowen calls for focus on socioeconomic diversity

American excellence in higher education will falter unless universities provide better opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds, former University president William Bowen GS '58 argues in his latest book.The book, titled "Equity and Excellence in American Education," was released last week."If you want the [United States] to be competitive in the future, you have to do something now," Bowen said in an interview.Bowen, who currently serves as president of the Andrew W.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Williams wins Ruth Lilly Prize

C.K. Williams, a professor in the creative writing program, is the surprised recipient of this year's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement award that carries a $100,000 reward.Despite receiving many prestigious awards, Williams said that winning the Lilly Prize "had never even crossed [his] mind" before he received the congratulatory call in the Boston airport a few weeks ago.Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for "Repair," the National Book Award in 2003 for "The Singing" and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987 for "Flesh and Blood." He has published nine collections of poetry, and plans to release his collected works in 2006."C.K.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Ninety years later, a debate stirred

Ninety years after the killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, Peter Balakian is trying to make sure people don't forget."Memory is a moral act.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Meng '05 wins Dale for environmental project

While some post-thesis seniors spend the last few weeks of the year relaxing, Kyle Meng '05 plans to sit in the basement of Fine Hall, finishing a presentation for the U.S.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Lawrence, Hull win '08 class runoff elections

After a few nervous days in limbo, newly-elected Class of 2008 vice president Katie Lawrence and social chair Leland Hull learned Friday of their runoff victories.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Fewer sophomores opt for 'big five' departments

The number of sophomores concentrating in the University's five largest departments has decreased five percent this year, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at a faculty meeting Monday afternoon.With psychology replacing English as the fifth most-popular department for sophomores, 38 percent of the Class of 2007 has chosen to major in politics, history, economics, the Wilson School or English ? down from 43 percent last year and 46 percent historically, Malkiel said.The numbers come in the wake of Malkiel's campaign to diversify students' choices of concentrations and reduce the number of concentrators in the larger departments.Humanities majors increased by 15 percent and natural sciences by seven percent, while social sciences concentrators decreased by seven percent and engineers by four percent.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Seniors Phadke and Phillips win top honors

Seniors Varun Phadke and Graham Phillips were named valedictorian and Latin salutatorian, respectively, at the University faculty meeting Monday.

NEWS | 04/25/2005

Pulitzer winner Berg '71 to speak

A. Scott Berg '71, a Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of figures including Charles Lindbergh and Katharine Hepburn, will participate in a discussion tonight with fellow alumnus Roger Berlind '52, a 12-time Tony winning Broadway producer.The book that launched Berg's career, "Max Perkins, Editor of Genius," emerged from Berg's Princeton experience.

NEWS | 04/24/2005

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