Volume LXXIII, Number 41
University League Nursery School to Close After 70 years . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Reversing “Nutritional Ignorance” is Message of Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 PU Prison Teaching Initiative Awarded Shared Grant . . . . . . . 16 PSO Presents Concert of Russian Music . . . . . 23 PU Football Defeats Columbia in Ivy League Opener . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Horan Siblings Land Major League Baseball Front Office Jobs . . . . . . . . . 36
On John Lennon's Birthday, Singing Along with the Kinks . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors . .14, 15 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 28 Classified Ads . . . . . . 44 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Music/Theater . . . . . . 24 New to Us . . . . . . . . . . 32 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 42 Police Blotter . . . . . . . . 4 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 44 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Candidates for Council, BOE Gear Up For November 5 Election With lawn signs proliferating and only 27 days left until election day, three candidates for two spots on Princeton Council and four candidates for three seats on the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education (BOE) are revving up their campaigns. On the ballot for three-year terms on Council are Michelle Pirone Lambros and Mia Sacks, representing the Democrats after winning the most votes in the June Democratic primary, and Independent Democratic Coalition member Adam Bierman. Jenny Crumiller and Tim Quinn will be leaving the Council at the end of their terms in January. No Republicans are running for Council this year. Running for three-year BOE terms will be incumbent Debbie Bronfeld, former BOE member Dafna Kendal, new candidate Susan Kanter, and current BOE Vice President Greg Stankiewicz. Bill Hare will be stepping down from the BOE at the end of the year. With a wide range of hotly-contested issues on the table for both the town and the schools, the candidates have been getting their messages out through personal contact, social media, and a variety of online platforms, but each candidate was given the opportunity to state briefly “what the voters should know about you and your views on the future” of Princeton or the Princeton Public Schools (PPS).
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Princeton Professor Wins Nobel Prize James Peebles, Princeton University professor emeritus and a graduate of the Class of 1962, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.” Peebles was one of three to be recognized with the honor on Tuesday, October 8. He receives half of the approximately $908,000 cash award. The other half is shared by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva, Switzlerland, and the University of Cambridge, “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” At a press conference held Tuesday afternoon at Richardson Auditorium, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, who as a physics major was a student of Peebles, said, “While searching the cosmos, he never lost focus on what was right in front of him: his students.” Eisgruber recalled Peebles as “a popular teacher and a fixture in the undergraduate program.” Peebles was famous for his ice cream breaks, when halfway through the class, he and his students would buy ice cream from the vending machines in Jadwin’s basement. “If I remember correctly, he would continue the lecture with ice cream in one hand and chalk in the other,” Eisgruber said.
The University’s Physics Department Chair, Professor Herman L. Verlinde, said of Peebles, “He is one of the true pioneers, one of the founding fathers of a whole branch of physics now called theoretical cosmology.” According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “James Peebles took on the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies and galaxy clusters. His theoretical framework, developed over two decades, is the foundation of our modern understanding of the universe’s history, from the Big Bang to the present day.” Peebles is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science, emeritus, and professor
of physics, emeritus. During the Nobel news conference by phone, he said, “When I started working in this subject — I can tell you the date, 1964 — at the invitation of my mentor, Professor Robert Henry Dicke, I was very uneasy about going into this subject because the experimental observational basis was so modest.... I just kept going. Which particular step did I take? I would be very hard-pressed to say. It’s a life’s work.” Born just outside Manitoba, Canada, on April 25, 1935, Peebles received his B.S. from University of Manitoba in 1958 Continued on Page 7
Fueling Station at PFARS Site Continues to Concern Residents
The fate of the fueling station located at the nearly completed new headquarters of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad (PFARS), at 2 Mt. Lucas Road, is still undecided. Responding to neighboring residents’ complaints about the safety, aesthetics, noise, and other aspects of the station, which was moved from one side of the site to the other as part of the construction process, Princeton Council is consider-
ing whether to relocate it to one of three other sites, or keep it in place and make adjustments. Cameras tracking traffic flow at sites identified by a subcommittee of the Site Plan Review Advisory Board (SPRAB) are in place, according to municipal engineer Deanna Stockton. But the data has not yet been posted for public viewing. Being considered are the parking lot of the Continued on Page 10
Council Candidates
Bierman boycotted the Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) endorsement process last spring, criticizing a “pay-to-play” system, and was not on the primary ballot in June. He is the host of two shows on Princeton Community TV. “I have a difficult task in getting elected to Princeton Council as an Independent Democrat,” he wrote in an email. “I also believe it is possible because of the traditional openness and fairness of our town to candidates who press for change.” He continued, “We need to end the municipal silence that follows when meters are too complicated and fueling stations too big and sewer facilities environmentally dangerous. When the town administration denies press access to public records, this is interference. I have spoken up about these issues. I cannot say the same for my opponents.”
DAY OF DANCE: Sponsored by The Outlet Dance Project, the 15th Annual Day of Dance on Saturday at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton featured pop-up dance performances throughout the park and galleries . Shown here, members of Movement of the People Dance Company performed by “The Oligarchs” sculpture by Michelle Post .
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