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Vol. LXII, No. 35
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Vol. LXII, No. 35
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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 (Photo by Isabelle Clement)
LIMBERING UP: Members of the Princeton High boys’ soccer team stretch as they get ready for a training session last Monday at the Valley Road field. PHS, which won the Mercer County Tournament last fall on the way to posting a 17-1 record, is slated to host North Brunswick for a preseason scrimmage on August 29. The Little Tigers will start regular season play when they host Lawrence High on September 12.
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While the first day of school for children in Princeton public schools is Thursday, September 4, the school system has been hard at work during the last two months. “We have been in full swing all summer with excellent programs for both teachers and students,” said Princeton Regional School Superintendent Judy Wilson recently.
There’s no denying it: green is in vogue. Beyond contemporary fashion, sustainability and heightened environmental consciousness have become key issues in a time of high gas prices and global warming.
Princeton University finds itself behind Harvard in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” ranking that was released last week. The ranking system places Harvard, Princeton, and Yale in the top three spots, with MIT and Stanford sharing position four.
Clad in a Princeton University wrestling team tee-shirt, actor BD Wong took center stage at the Princeton Public Library’s first official program of the fall season last Thursday evening. Along with Director Roger Rees and Producing Director Mara Isaacs, he talked about their upcoming McCarter Theatre production of Herringbone, a one-man show in which he plays eleven roles.
Among the medals, citations, publications, diplomatic passports, NATO cufflinks, UN pins, pens, caricatures, stamps, and other memorabilia on display in Seeley W. Mudd Manuscript Library’s new exhibit about the life of John Foster Dulles (Princeton ’08), there is a photograph of Mr. Dulles in India placing a floral wreath on Gandhi’s tomb.
Regarding refugee camps on the border between Tanzania and Burundi, Princeton resident Tim Callahan said, “You see flyers saying ‘donate this amount of money,’ and pictures that bring you so close, but you’re still so far away,” adding that the unidirectional gaze “sometimes makes you feel even more removed.
Ryan Coyle was right under the noses of the Princeton University football coaches but he wasn’t on their radar screen when it came time for serious recruiting.
The Princeton University football team got its 2007 season underway with a kickoff return by Pete Ploszek.
May-Ying Nie-Medalia is not afraid to do some globetrotting when it comes to honing her field hockey skills.
Novelist Philip Roth, who turned 75 in February, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman, who will be 65 in November, both take on aging and illness in their most recent creations. Roth assumes the guise of Nathan Zuckerman again in Exit Ghost, and given the demoralized Zuckerman’s struggles with impotence and incontinence, it’s not exactly a cheerful read. In the title track of Harps and Angels (Nonesuch $18.95), his first recording since 1999’s Bad Love, Newman assumes a role he’s played as often as Roth has played Zuckerman, except this time the nameless good old boy isn’t amusing us by venting his prejudices. He had a near-death experience and he’s telling us about it.