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With a presidential mandate, Wilmerding preserves the past

With a presidential mandate, Wilmerding preserves the past

Since the days of the Carter Administration, John Wilmerding has played a key role on the veritable dream team of art and architecture experts charged with preserving one of the nation's most well-known landmarks.Wilmerding, a Princeton art history professor and an expert on American art, was asked to join the Committee for the Preservation of the White House while he was working at the National Gallery of Art in the late 1970s.Since then, he has been reappointed by each succeeding presidential administration, serving as one of the committee's specialists on visual art.In addition to Wilmerding, a slew of well-known interior decorators, historians, curators, collectors and philanthropists sit on the committee.During his time on the committee, Wilmerding has advised White House curators and helped plan several major restoration projects.Betty Monkman, the White House curator since 1997, said Wilmerding has made extremely positive contributions."He's got a very astute eye and a lot of common sense.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Faculty rejects amendment to weaken ULC resolution

December 7, 1982 ? The faculty yesterday handed supporters of the Women's Center a defeat by rejecting, 59-44, an amendment designed to dilute an Undergraduate Life Committee resolution concerning the proper status of centers.But the faculty tabled the actual resolution, which calls for all participating members to have "fair and reasonable access to the Center's financial and other resources," until the next monthly faculty meeting Jan.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Authorities investigate criminal mischief, burglary on Olden

Borough Police is investigating incidents of criminal mischief and burglary in two Olden St. buildings owned by the University.According to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser, police responded Tuesday morning to reports of damage in several rental units within the buildings.University maintenance personnel who discovered the damage observed several white males, believed to be between 16 and 18 years old, exiting the building.Authorities are still looking for those individuals.Inside the buildings, police discovered broken windows and holes in the walls.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

University trustees appoint professors

The board of trustees scored additional academic talent for the University last month, adding six new tenured professors to the faculty.The new professors are Christopher Eisgruber '83 in public affairs, Brian Kernighan GS '69 in computer science, Chiara Nappi in physics, Angel Loureiro in Romance languages and literature, Carol Greenhouse in anthropology and Colin Palmer, the Dodge Professor of History.The University actively recruited the new professors using recommendations from academic departments as well as advertisements in academic journals.Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor said some of the new faculty members were more difficult to recruit than others.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Preferable to Princeton

At age 13, Johnetta Pressley ? now a member of the Georgetown University Class of 2003, though she was accepted to Princeton ? paid little or no attention to diversity when she applied to high school.A black student, she had been going to a middle school that was half-black and half-white, so when she began thinking about high schools, Pressley never imagined race or ethnicity to be an issue.And it wasn't ? at least not on the surface."You had to take the time to notice it," Pressley said during an interview conducted via e-mail.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

This stop on the journey

Jesus Lemus '01 was the first person Adam Lieber '01 met at Princeton. The two were freshman-year roommates and when Lieber strolled into their quad in September 1997, Lemus was already there waiting."It was nice to meet another Californian," Lieber recalled.But the soon-to-be friends had grown up in two different Californias.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Rash of thefts in Forbes spurs investigation

University Public Safety is patrolling Forbes College more aggressively following a string of five laptop thefts that occurred Monday."We're trying to spend as much time as we can there," Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser said.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Housing demand exceeds supply in Graduate College

Amid the graduate school's celebrations commemorating its centennial this year, some graduate students in need of University-provided housing are trapped playing a game of musical chairs.And no one ? either in the graduate student government or in the graduate school administration ? knows how many will be left standing next fall.Because of an unexpected increase in demand for on-campus housing during the past few years, the University was unable to provide rooms for 114 graduate students when they came to campus this fall, according to assistant director of graduate housing Patricia McArdle.Graduate Student Government president Lauren Hale explained that many graduate students did not know they did not have University housing until they arrived on campus.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Outside, looking in

Charged with representing the voice of the student body, they have been visiting residential adviser groups, dining halls and eating clubs to learn what other students want in the University's next president.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Feminine atheist to speak at Whig

December 6, 1960 ? Atheist-philosopher-author Ayn Rand will address Whig-Clio tomorrow at 8 p.m.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Minority marrow drive takes a shot at finding donors for patients in need

More than 3,000 minority patients in the United States are currently in need of a bone marrow donation, according to Moazzam Kahan, the director of donator recruitment for the South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters.But the odds are not stacked in their favor.

NEWS | 12/05/2000

Seeking sisterhood

Maisha Robinson '02 and her twin sister Nuriya '02 were sitting one day in their high school A.P.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

Ford praises public servants, presents Rockefeller awards

WASHINGTON, December 5, 1974 ? President Ford lauded the five recipients of the 1974 Rockefeller Public Service Awards as "unsung heroes" and an "inspiration" and then presented them with scrolls at the award luncheon yesterday."Adlai Stevenson once joked that our public servants serve us right," Ford said during his five-minute speech.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

A stark reminder that Nude Olympics are still banned, and a chorus of lament from students

With the winter solstice around the corner and temperatures dropping below freezing, the first snowfall of the season seems imminent.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

Faculty approves new writing seminar

In a unanimous vote yesterday, the University faculty approved the proposal to require all incoming freshmen starting with the Class of 2005 to take a writing-intensive seminar in place of the current writing requirement.The plan will increase the number of classes required for A.B.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

University to use $20-million grant to examine response to global warming

Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Stephen Pacala did not believe Princeton had a good chance of winning British Petroleum's $15-million research grant.Pacala had been on sabbatical last spring when BP approached the University, peddling the grant to promote research into addressing the environmental problem of global warming.In addition to Pacala ? a leading scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute ? researchers at MIT and Stanford also applied for the funding.And Pacala believed one of those institutions was the likely choice."Stanford and MIT have the big engineering departments.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

McCosh infirmary officials decide not to offer abortion pill

In September, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for sale mifepristone ? also known as the abortion pill or RU-486 ? officials at McCosh infirmary were not sure whether they would make the drug available to students.But after months of investigation into the drug's effects, McCosh has decided not to offer RU-486, Director of University Health Services Dr. Pamela Bowen said yesterday.Bowen said she does not believe McCosh has the capability to administer the drug safely.

NEWS | 12/04/2000

Borough pushes local Scouts to amend policy

Almost six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America has a constitutional right to ban homosexuals as members and troop leaders, communities nationwide are still coming to grips with the landmark decision.Princeton ? home to Boy Scout Troop 43 ? is one of those communities.For more than 50 years, members of Troop 43 have sold Christmas trees behind the Nassau Inn as part of their annual holiday fund-raising initiative.But despite the Supreme Court's controversial decision, the troop has encountered unexpected resistance from Princeton Borough officials this time around.Two weeks ago, troop leaders applied to Borough Council asking for two parking permits that would allow customers space to pick up and load their purchases."We had a request from the Boy Scouts as to whether we would give them two metered parking spaces on Chambers Street," Borough Mayor Marvin Reed said yesterday.When the matter officially was brought before the Borough Council, however, Council member Ryan Lilienthal motioned to deny the request unless the Boy Scouts agreed to accept certain conditions."The use of those facilities would not be granted," Lilienthal said yesterday, "unless we knew [Troop 43] would agree not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation."Lilienthal's motion ? which also requested that troop leaders submit a statement of non-discrimination before being issued the permits ? was seconded by Council president Roger Martindell and then ratified by a 2-1 vote.Troop committee chair Nancy Shaw said it is, and will remain, virtually impossible for the troop to comply with Council demands."We could not provide that kind of statement because it would contravene national Boy Scout policy," Shaw said yesterday.

NEWS | 12/03/2000

Five clubs to accept women

Five eating clubs ? Campus, Charter, Cloister, Colonial and Dial ? have decided to include coeds in their selection procedures this year, thereby creating the possibility that half of the Prospect Street clubs will admit women in Februrary.Four other clubs ? Cap and Gown, Quadrangle, Tiger and Tower are now deciding whether to bicker coeds, and could boost the total number of clubs accepting girls to seven or eight.Ivy and Cannon clubs have not taken any steps toward changing long-standing policies of admitting only males.

NEWS | 12/03/2000

Applying themselves

During his freshman year, Greg Ruiz would take his little brother, Tommy, to play for his Special Olympics basketball team and supervise to make sure everything went smoothly.He watched the players ? whose disabilities ranged from Down Syndrome (like his brother) to Cerebral Palsy ? shoot around, run drills and erupt ecstatically if they made a single basket.

NEWS | 12/03/2000

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