On the Campuses: Audit Opportunities
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Reunions Line-Up: Beyond Beer
As Princeton alumni flock into town, with their sometime
garish orange and black costumes dotting the Nassau Street scene,
it’s easy to think of Reunions as one big postgraduate beer bash.
Some alumni, however, like to recall the other reasons for going to
college, including a little intellectual inquiry and discussion.
While the class tents may resonate each night with live music and
dancing feet, campus lecture halls and classrooms will be the scene
of dozens of seminars during the day. Visitors are usually welcomed.
For a complete list of Reunion activities see the university’s
website,
www.princeton.edu. For some business and career-related seminars,
see below:
11 a.m.: Inaugural Entrepreneur Conference — Competingin the New Economy . Meet with Princetonians who are shaping theNew Economy. The day’s events include a keynote address, a luncheonand two concurrent panel discussions in the afternoon:Company Formation will focus on the legal and business issues involvedin launching a start-up, such as finding the next big idea, actuallystarting a company and survival tactics. Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.Managing Growth will address the issues facing companies whichactuallysurvive the start-up phase, such as growing pains, hiring practicesand exit strategies. Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.The conference will culminate with a reception that allows theparticipantsto network and share more experiences. Keynote Address: DoddsAuditorium,Panel Discussion: Bowls 1 and 2, Robertson Hall, Reception: StudentCenter Rotunda.Top Of PageFriday, May 269:15 a.m.: Going Global: Is Bigger Better? Moderator:Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, lecturer in sociology. Panelists: DennisJ. Boccippio ’90, atmospheric scientist, NASA/MSFC Global Hydrologyand Climate Center; Shantayanan Devarajan ’75, research manager,DevelopmentResearch Group, World Bank; Eric S. Koenig ’80, senior corporateattorneyand senior federal affairs manager, Microsoft; Shawn P. Tully ’70,senior writer, Fortune Magazine. McCosh 50.9:15 a.m.: What is the Role of Citizens in Creating a CivilSociety? Moderator: Robert J. Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52Professor of Social Sciences, professor of sociology, and director,Center for the Study of Religion. Panelists: John H. Fish ’55,president,Princeton Project 55; David H. McAlpin Jr. ’50, minister, Habitatfor Humanity-Trenton, New Jersey; Suzanne R. Perles ’75, managingdirector, the Corporate Development Company; Carolyn S. West ’90,executive director, Princeton in Chicago Schools. McCosh 10.9:30 a.m.: Alumni in the Public Interest — PrincetonProject 55 as Venture Catalyst. Join Princeton Project 55 incelebratingthe alumni who are active in public interest projects; learn abouttheir impact and potential. Speakers will include President Shapiro.Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.10:30 a.m.: How to Raise a Non-violent Child in a ViolentSociety. Moderator: Joan S. Girgus, professor of psychology, chair,Department of Psychology, and director, PEW Science Program.Panelists:James A. Aull ’60, director of training and program services, ChicagoYouth Centers; Alexandra Davis DiPentima ’75, administrative judge,U. S. Superior Court; Fletcher Harper ’85, rector, St. Luke’sEpiscopalChurch; Ellen N. Junn *84, director, Faculty Development Center andprofessor, Child and Adolescent Studies, California StateUniversity-Fullerton;Glenn D. Paige ’55, president, Center for Global Non-violence. DoddsAuditorium, Robertson Hall.10:30 a.m.: Privacy: How Much Do You Think You Still HaveLeft? Moderator: Helen F. Nissenbaum, lecturer in the UniversityCenter for Human Values. Panelists: Warren W. Eginton ’45, seniorU. S. district judge, District of Connecticut; David A. Golden ’95,senior project manager, Customer Value Management, Oliver, Wyman andCompany; Jason B. Meyer ’80, editor-in-chief and publisher, LAWCAST;Harriet P. Pearson ’85, director of corporate public affairs, IBMCorporation; Richard S. Sheres *98, director of criticalinfrastructureassurance programs, CIA; Stuart S. Taylor Jr. ’70, opinion columnist,National Journal. McCosh 50.10:30 a.m.: The Library in the Electronic Age —InformationFaster Than Thought. Moderator: Karin A. Trainer, universitylibrarian.Panelists: James H. Billington ’50, librarian of Congress, The Libraryof Congress; Sanford G. Thatcher ’65 *67, director, Pennsylvania StateUniversity Press; Calhoun Winton *55, professor, Department ofEnglish,University of Maryland. McCormick 101.10:30 a.m.: Tour Princeton’s Plasma Physics Laboratory.The tour will include experimental devices being used to developfusionas an attractive energy source. (Restrictions: no high-heeled oropen-toedshoes.) Repeated at 1:30 p.m.10:30 a.m.: Washington, Princeton and You. “Dig IntoGeorge,” a CD-ROM demonstration followed by a video presentationof “The Life of Washington,” which contains opening andclosingremarks by Bill Bradley ’65. Program sponsored by Robert B. Gibby’36, Class President. Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.1 p.m.: Faith in an Era of Technological Change.Moderator:Elaine H. Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor ofReligion.Panelists: Donald J. Cohn ’50, trial lawyer in private practice; LeroyL. Lim ’90, reverend and former Episcopal chaplain, UCLA; RebeccaMigliore ’85, pastor, Patterson Memorial Presbyterian Church; EdwardE. Sterling ’75, Global Missions Fellowship. Betts Auditorium, Schoolof Architecture Building.1 p.m.: Is Public Funding of the Arts a Right or aPrivilege?Moderator: Paul J. DiMaggio, professor of sociology. Panelists: JohnF. Andrews ’65, president, the Shakespeare Guild; Hugh M. Davies ’70*76, director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Lawrence P.Goldman *76, president and chief executive officer, New JerseyPerformingArts Center Corporation; Jocelyn E. Russell ’85, executive director,Lincoln Theater; A. Richard Turner ’55 *59, professor of art history,New York University. McCosh 50.1 p.m.: Campaign Reform and an Engaged Democracy.Moderator:Michael Rothschild, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, professor ofeconomics and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Panelists:TheodoreR. Gamble Jr. ’75, managing director, Transwestern CommercialServices,LLC; Thomas B. Hartmann ’45, professor emeritus in journalism andmass media, Rutgers University; Richard C. Leone *69, president, TheCentury Foundation; Ralph Nader ’55, consumer advocate. McCosh 10.2 p.m.: “From Chemistry and Physics to Medicine andImaging”Symposium. This symposium will focus on fundamental developmentsat Princeton in chemistry, physics and engineering which could reshapemedicine and medical imaging in the next few years. It will alsohighlightwork by the Center for Ultrafast Laser Applications, a state-supportedR&D Excellence Center on campus, and show how frontier medicalresearchcan be done without a medical school at Princeton. Reception followsat 5 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Frick Laboratory.2 p.m.: Third Third of Life. The reality of a long lifeand short careers has changed the old paradigm of working for 40 yearsfor one company, retiring for five years and then vacating thisplanet.The panel discusses the joys and challenges of life from 60 to 90+years. Presented by William R. Stanley ’56, management consultant.Sponsored by the Class of 1960. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.2:15 p.m.: Playing God? Unintended Consequences of Lettingthe Gene (Genie) Out of the Bottle. Moderator: Peter Singer, IraW. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for HumanValues. Panelists: Henry B. Betts ’50, professor, Department ofPhysics,Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University; Donald L.Drakeman*88, president and chief executive officer, Medarex Inc.; Alexa BoerKimball ’90, assistant professor, Stanford University School ofMedicine,Dermatology; Warner V. Slack ’55, professor of medicine andpsychiatry,Harvard Medical School. McCosh 50.3:30 p.m.: Glassman Colloquium: Successes and Failures inMotor Vehicle Emissions Control. Robert F. Sawyer, professor,Universityof California at Berkeley. Sponsored by the Department of Mechanicaland Aerospace Engineering. To 4:30 p.m. C207, Engineering Quadrangle.3:30 p.m.: Hollywood and the Three Big Lies: How the MediaAre Changing America’s Values. Lecture and discussion with FrankRunyeon II ’75, actor, playwright, producer and veteran of over 1,000television programs and recent seminary graduate. Sponsored by theClass of 1975. Bowl 5, Robertson Hall.4 p.m.: Searching for Life in the Galaxy. Presented byProfessor David Wilkinson. Followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m. inJadwin Plaza. McDonnell A02.7:30 p.m.: Finding a Cure For Breast Cancer: The ClimbAgainstthe Odds. View the PBS documentary of the five Princeton womenand five breast cancer survivors on the 1998 Women’s Climb of MountMcKinley to raise awareness about breast cancer for the Breast CancerFund. Sponsored by Outdoor Action. Betts Auditorium, School ofArchitecture.Top Of PageSaturday, May 279 a.m.: Is Managed Health Care Unmanageable? Moderator:Elizabeth C. Bogan, senior lecturer in economics. Panelists: JillR. Baron ’80, family physician; Raymond A. H. Carter, II ’65 *79,executive director, Integrated Healthcare Association; Harry P. Ward’55, chancellor, University Arkansas for Medical Science; David A.Willard ’60, physician, Montgomery Internal Medicine Group. McCosh50.9:15 a.m.: Campus Architecture: The Look of Princeton.Moderator: Benjamin R. Kessler, director, Slides and Photographs,Art and Archaeology. Panelists: Elizabeth C. English ’75, assistantprofessor, Department of Architecture, Tulane University; Wilmot G.Gilland ’55 *60, professor of architecture, emeritus, School ofArchitectureand Allied Arts, University of Oregon; Jeffrey A. Harris ’90, programassociate, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Frank X. Moya’80 *82, owner, Frank Moya Architects; Andras M. Nagy ’65, directorof hospitality, Karlsberger Architects; Robert Venturi ’47 *50,architectand partner, Venturi Scott Brown & Associates. McCosh 10.9:30 a.m.: Educated Guesses: Cross-disciplinary Predictionsfor the Next Century. Moderator: President Harold T. Shapiro *64.Panelists: Margaret J. Geller *75, professor, Center for Astrophysics,Harvard University; Rebecca Goldstein *77, novelist and professor,Columbia University; Robert E. Kahn *64, chairman, president and CEO,Corporation for National Research Initiatives; Andrei N. Lupas *91,senior computational biologist, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals;Harrison C. White *60, professor of sociology, Columbia University.APGA Centennial Symposium. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.10 a.m.: Health Care for the Baby Boomers. Lecture byUwe Reinhardt, professor of political economy. McCosh 50.10:30 a.m.: Alternative Education: The Many vs. the Few.Moderator: Nathan B. Scovronick, lecturer in public and internationalaffairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Panelists: Spencer W. Blasdale ’90,co-principal, The Academy of the Pacific Rim; William H. Kingston,III ’65, teacher, Moorestown High School; James T. Mills ’45, foundingdirector, New Jersey Communities in Schools; Howard C. Wainer *68,principal research scientist, Educational Testing Service, and member,Princeton Regional School Board; Diane K. Weeks ’75, attorney. McCosh10.10:30 a.m.: Princeton Women and the Law: Law as a Choiceand as a Tool. Moderator: Priscilla E. Hayes ’75, New Jersey SolidWaste Policy Group, and chair, Friends of the Women’s Center.Panelists:Sally Frank ’80, clinical law professor, Drake University School ofLaw; Brita Strandberg ’90, associate, Shea and Gardner; Tara Crean’94, Women’s Law Project; Ani Satz, joint candidate for Ph.D.,Bioethics/Philosophy(Princeton) and J.D. (U. of Michigan); Maria Kubat ’00, prospectivelaw student. Sponsored by the Friends of the Women’s Center. McCormick101.10:30 a.m.: Retirement Planning: How Much Is Enough?Presentedby William D. Zabel ’58, partner, Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP; RobertS. Ketchum ’59, principal attorney, Miller Canfield, Paddock & Stone;T. Randolph Harris ’72, partner, McLaughlin and Ster LLP. McDonnellA01.10:30 a.m.: The Under Representation of Women in Scienceand Engineering: Why Too Few? Moderator: Joan M. Ogden, researchscientist, Princeton Environmental Institute. Panelists: Sarah L.Billington ’90, assistant professor, Cornell University; CosemaCrawford’78 *81, vice president, Parsons Transportation Group; Vidya Krishnan’95, manager, Wireless Network Planning and Design, Nortel Networks;Lisa M. Pratt *82, associate professor, Geological Sciences, IndianaUniversity; Wendy L. Sheehan ’80, development manager, Banyan Systems;Jean E. Taylor *73, professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers.McCosh 50.Top Of PageSunday, May 2810:30 a.m.: Globalization After Seattle. Moderator: GeneGrossman, Jacob R. Viner Professor of International Economics.Panelists:David L. Aaron *62, under secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce;Laura Kneale Anderson *82, former director for trade and theenvironment,Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and Timothy Reif ’80 *85,chief trade counsel, Minority, House Ways and Means Committee. DoddsAuditorium, Robertson Hall.Top Of PageOn the Campuses: Audit OpportunitiesPrinceton Reunions isn’t the only time an outsider cansample the Ivy League education being offered there. The retirementhome advertisements have it right: Settling down near a college towndoes have some real advantages. Not only does Princeton Universityoffer a slew of lectures that it advertises as open to the public,but — quietly — it also allows area adults to sit in on entirelecture courses. Until this year these auditors could attend for freejust by getting permission from the professor, but recently thoserequests got out of hand.Under the new system auditors must register and pay a token fee of$50. Compared to what the for-credit students pay, five figures foreach course, this is still quite a bargain, and for the would-beauditorswho cannot afford the $50, the fee is waived. Auditors can attendlecture courses but not labs, seminar courses, or precepts (smallerbreak-out session). Last fall 470 auditors registered and 360registeredfor the spring semester, says Pam Hersh, director of the Officeof Community and State Affairs.Princeton’s in-person registration for the fall semester is closed,but mail-in registration for auditors continues until September 1.Forms are available from a box outside Room 220 in Nassau Hall. Choosefrom a list of courses that have been approved by professors anddepartmentmanagers. Among the most popular courses are art history, music,literature,and history.Other area colleges offer similar opportunities. Mercer CountyCommunityCollege requires senior citizens to pay full fare for noncreditcoursesbut offers credit courses either for audit or for credit. Seniorsover 65 can take credit courses for free at Mercer under thesecircumstances:They must be Mercer County residents. Seniors who don’t livein Mercer County do get a discount — they pay in-county rates.They must wait to register until after late registration iscomplete and it has been determined that space is available.In contrast, Rider University allows members of the general publicto audit, on a space available basis, for $160 per undergraduatecourseand $225 for a graduate level course. Rider alumni, nevertheless,pay just $30. (These fees would also apply to Westminster Collegeof Rider University courses.)The policy for the College of New Jersey, meanwhile, is to chargethe going rate — the same rate as for credit students. In someisolated cases the tuition can be waived. The requirements for awaiverinvolve being enrolled in at least six credit hours.Nothing says you have to be retired to “take” or audit auniversitycourse. Your favorite course — one that may even pertain to yourday job — might be offered at lunchtime or in the evening.— Barbara FoxPrinceton Reunions: Women and the LawIn 1996, while still a law student at University ofChicago, Tara Crean got to work on one of the ugliest, costliestsexual harassment cases ever. A volunteer in the university’s legalaid clinic, a service for people with low income, Crean provided legalassistance to one of 27 women suing the nearby U.S. subsidiary ofMitsubishi for injuries suffered from a pervasive environment ofsexualharassment. The events were so atrocious — ranging from physicalharassment to discrimination — that soon after the U.S. EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission, Washington’s civic rightsenforcementagency, filed its own suit against the company. Mitsubishicapitulated,and nearly 800 women working at the company were offered a generoussettlement.The right of women to be free from sexual discrimination, protectedunder the federal constitution, prevailed in this case. But had asimilar case been filed against a public sector employer — thestate of New Jersey, for example — the outcome might have beenvery different, says Crean. In a recent move to protect states’rights,the U.S. Supreme Court has invoked the Eleventh Amendment to exemptstates from federal laws — including laws traditionally concernedwith civil rights. “The Eleventh Amendment is about the state’sright not to be sued, and if you work for the State of New Jerseyin Trenton, and you sue your employer, you’re suing the state,”says Crean, a 1994 graduate of Princeton University who now worksat the Women’s Law Project (215-928-9801), a legal non-profit basedin Philadelphia.Crean will be one of the speakers at “Princeton Women and theLaw: Law as a Choice and as a Tool,” a discussion sponsored bythe Princeton University Women’s Center that takes place on Saturday,May 27, at 10:30 a.m. in Room 101, McCormick Hall on the campus ofPrinceton. Brita Strandberg (Princeton Class of 1990) of Sheaand Gardner will talk about a case involving one of her clients, amember of the Iraqi resistance who worked against Saddam Hussein andhad to be evacuated from Iraq for safety. Sally Frank (PrincetonClass of 1980), another panelist, made headlines while still aPrincetonstudent when she sued three all-male eating clubs as a means ofopeningthem up to women. She now teaches law at Drake University. Call609-259-7184.Civil rights, women’s issues, and public interest law has beenforemostin Crean’s mind since her first few days at Princeton, when she joinedthe Urban Action League and got involved in community efforts inTrenton.Originally from the suburbs of Rochester, Crean studied politics andtook a year off to work for the Legal Action Center for the Homeless,an agency in New York that sets up legal clinics in soup kitchensto help inform homeless people of their rights, from welfareentitlementsto immigration issues.After graduation, Crean studied law at the University of Chicago,a school she admits “does not have a reputation for encouragingpublic service,” but she chose to attend so she could spy on theenemy camp. “I came out of there immersed in the reasoning ofthe Rehnquist Court, which is very much concerned with states’ rightsand limiting Congress to its enumerated power,” she says.”That’sa real threat to those of us interested in Civil Rights protectionand legislation — it’s through congressional power that a lotof Civil Rights laws have been enacted. Now, through the umbrellaof states’ rights, a lot of those are being cut back. “Just last week, in fact, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down asunconstitutionalthe Violence Against Women Act, a federal civil rights remedy thatwould have allowed women to recover damages if they could prove theywere raped, battered, or assaulted as a result of their gender.Congresshas been able to enact similar legislation in the past on the basisof its authority under the Commerce Clause and the FourteenthAmendment,but here the U.S. Supreme Court used another amendment to overrideit. “The Eleventh Amendment is this dusty part of the constitutionrecently discovered by the Supreme Court that creates sovereignimmunityfor the states, or the right to be free from federal law suits,”says Crean. “It even threatens the right of employees to sue forrace and sex discrimination. I think the people who are mostvulnerableare state employees because of this whole ascendancy of the stateamendment.”At the Women’s Law Project, Crean is an advocate for women’s rights,litigating on several instances of sexual discrimination on the job,from a women basketball referee’s demand for equal court time tofemaleemployees’ demands that their health insurance cover contraceptivesequally with male-specific prescription drugs and devices. In 1998,in the case of Kemether vs. Pennsylvania Interscholastic AthleticAssociation, she represented a high school basketball referee whowas told she could not officiate boys’ games, even though malerefereescan work with girls’ basketball. “We went to trial, prevailed,and now in Pennsylvania women can referee boys’ games and girls’games,”says Crean. “We think it’s important not only for Kemether, butto send a message to girls in athletics that their games are justas competitive and they deserve the best referees.”Although the Eleventh Amendment is not likely to erode civil rightsalready enacted by the federal government, Crean is fearful that newcivil rights law may suffer. “The Supreme Court seems to beindicatingthat it is not going to give Congress as much rein as it did in the1960s when the Civil Rights Act was enacted,” says Crean. “Idon’t think an injury already recognized by the court, such as sexualdiscrimination by a private employer, will go outside of the court’sreach because of precedent, but there are a lot of new rights, suchas the Family and Medical Leave Act, that the Congress has recognized.I think that these newer rights are more vulnerable. Part of the CivilRights movement is recognizing new rights, whether it’s the rightof gay and lesbian people to be free from discrimination in theworkplaceor the right of a battered woman not to have her productivityinterferedwith at work by her batterer.”— Melinda SherwoodNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
