Volume LXIX, Number 22
Chair-Making in 19thCentury New Jersey On Display at Morven Museum and Garden. . 15 PU Men’s Heavyweights Earn 2 Medals at IRAs As Program Shows Depth, Competitive Attitude. . 24 Hoops Standout Dietrick, Lax Star MacDonald Receive Princeton’s Top Senior Sports Awards . . . . . . . 26 Rebounding from 2-6 Start to Finish at 9-9, PHS Boys’ Lax Headed in Right Direction. . . . . . 28
This Week’s Book Review Focuses on John Nash and His Wife Alicia, Who Lost Their Lives in the May 23 Car Crash. The Nobel Prize Winner’s Obituary Appears on Page 31. For a Letter Remembering Nash, See the Mailbox . . . . . . . . 13 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 12 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Classified Ads. . . . . . . 34 Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Music/Theater . . . . . . 18 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 31 Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 33 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Voters Show Support For Liverman, Howard In Non-Contested Primary In unofficial results from Tuesday’s primary election, Princeton citizens cast 530 votes in favor of current Council member Lance Liverman and 537 for current Council member Heather Howard. Both Democrats, Mr. Liverman and Ms. Howard ran unopposed. On the Republican side, Kelly DiTosto and Lynn Lu Irving also ran unopposed for Council seats. Ms. DiTosto earned 128 votes, while Ms. Irving got 134. Mr. Liverman was a member of the Princeton Township Committee prior to the consolidation of Princeton Borough and Township in 2013. He has been active on the Affordable Housing Board, the Corner House Board, the Housing Authority, the Personnel Committee, the Princeton Alcohol & Drug Alliance, the town’s Public Safety Committee where he serves as Fire Commissioner, and the Affordable Housing Task Force. Ms. Howard, on Borough Council before consolidation, serves as Police Commissioner on the Public Safety Committee, and is also on the town’s Board of Health, Human Services Commission, the Legal Expense Committee, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, and the Pedestrian & Bike Advisory Committee. Ms. DiTosto and Ms. Irving filed in March to run as Republicans in the election for Princeton Council. Ms. DiTosto is a longtime Princeton resident whose children have attended Princeton public schools. She works in the accounting field. Ms. Irving is a licensed real estate agent who was previously a pre-school teacher. A native of China and a local resident for more than 25 years, she has two children who are Princeton High School graduates and another who attends Princeton Day School. Other numbers reported in the primary included 562 votes for Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes. In the 16th District for General Assembly, there were 564 votes for Democrats Andrew Zwicker and 521 for Maureen Vella. On the Republican side, there were 131 votes for Jack Ciattarelli and 127 for Donna Simon. The winners will face off in the November elections. —Anne Levin
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
“Dream Audaciously” Eisgruber Urges Graduates
Persistent rain on Monday moved Princeton University’s annual Class Day ceremony from outside to inside the University Chapel. But despite Tuesday morning’s raw weather, the University held its 268th Commencement ceremony on the green in front of historic Nassau Hall. A total of 1,268 seniors received undergraduate degrees, while 885 graduate students were awarded advanced degrees on the lawn, the site of the University’s Commencement exercises since 1922. University President Christopher L. Eisgruber presided over the event. Due to the inclement weather, he delivered an abridged version of his address. The full text of his talk is as follows: In a few minutes, all of you will march through FitzRandolph Gate as newly minted graduates of this University. Before you do so, however, it is my pleasure, and my privilege, to say a few words to you about the path that lies ahead. For many Princetonians, the FitzRandolph Gate has an almost metaphysical significance. The gate marks not simply the edge of the campus, but the border between two worlds: on the one side, what students fondly — or sometimes not so fondly — call the “orange bubble,” a beautiful campus blessed with extraordinary
resources, dazzling talent, and heartfelt friendships; and, on the other side, a turbulent world of practical difficulties, ranging from awesome global challenges to mundane personal problems — such as finding an apartment and paying the rent. But of course the barrier between the campus and the world is not, and has never been, so sharp as the metaphor of the orange bubble would suggest. The world finds its way through the bubble,
affecting life on our campus in myriad ways. Princeton, in turn, seeks to project its learning and leadership into the world—to be, as Woodrow Wilson of the Great Class of 1879 said, “Princeton in the nation’s service,” and, as Sonia Sotomayor of the Great Class of 1976 said just last year, “Princeton in the service of humanity.” We saw visible and poignant expression of those connections this year, including Continued on Page 7
“We Will Not Stop Until the Threats Stop” Says Sutter of Recent Phoned-in Threats Threats made in recent weeks to local schools, the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, Quaker Bridge Mall, a private business and residence have local law enforcement scrambling to determine who is behind these prerecorded messages. While each case so far has been deemed a hoax, police are taking no chances. “This is an absolutely despicable crime that is targeting the most precious of our society — our children,” said Princeton Police Chief Nick Sutter, on Monday. “It is certainly causing fear among schools
and families. We are working with federal and state agencies, and have top experts partnering with us, and we will not stop until the threats stop and these people are brought to justice.” The threats have increased across New Jersey in recent weeks. “I don’t use this word often, but from my perspective it certainly is an act of terrorism,” Mr. Sutter said. “It causes fear, has economic repercussions, and makes people afraid to go to public places. It’s quite serious in all of its ramifications.” Continued on Page 14
COLORFUL COMMENCEMENT: A persistent drizzle couldn’t dampen the spirits of the 1,268 undergraduates and 885 graduate students awarded degrees at Princeton University’s 268th Commencement Tuesday. Held, following tradition, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall, the ceremony also included the awarding of honorary degrees to artist and social activist Harry Belafonte; the University’s Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, David Billington; retired U.S. Army general Ann Dunwoody; former New Jersey Supreme Court justice Deborah Poritz; retired associate justice of the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens; and Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. (Photo by Eric Quiñones Courtesy of Princeton University, Office of Communications)
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