Volume LXXI, Number 47
Home for The Holidays On Pages 21-25 Stuart Senior Initiates "Bestow-a-Book" Program. . . . . . . . . . 5 Shostakovich: The Saga of the Missing Symphony . . . . . . . . 12 Richardson Chamber Players Explore Music of Bohemia. . . . . . . . . . 16 Spectacular Sound at New Lewis Center Music Space. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 PHS Boys’ Soccer Falls to Kearny in Group 4 State Final. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 PHS Boys’ Cross Country Takes 4th at Meet of Champions . . . . . . . . 36
Abby Givens Helps PU Women’s Soccer Make NCAA Quarters. . . . . 30 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Classified Ads. . . . . . . . 40 Mailbox. . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Music/Theater . . . . . . . 16 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . 38 Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . 8 Real Estate . . . . . . . . . 40 Religion. . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Topics of the Town . . . . . 5 Town Talk. . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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School and Community Call On All Parties To Help Combat Hate
“We are issuing a joint call to all community leaders, institutions, and organizations to speak up and speak out against hatred, racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and all acts of hate in our community,” read the statement from local municipal and religious leaders. “We all must be very clear that hate has no home here in Princeton — in our conversations, in our offices and schools, and in our social media.” Mayor Liz Lempert, Police Chief Nick Sutter, the Rev. David Davis of the Nassau Presbyterian Church, and Rabbi Adam Feldman of The Jewish Center were writing in support of an earlier statement from the Princeton Public Schools in response to an incident of vandalism — with racist, anti-Semitic, and sexual messages — of a Google spreadsheet from a John Witherspoon Middle School (JWMS) science lab. They continued, “We call on everyone in our community to take the time to have the difficult conversations on this topic, to talk at home and in school, in the office, the church, the synagogue, with friends, family, teachers, and clergy so that we can unite against hatred. There may be no more important conversations we can have.” The source of the hate speech is unknown, as the school district continues to investigate the hacking incident. “Our investigation suggests that one student at JWMS posted the spreadsheet to an online platform and thereby opened it to the world,” Superintendent Steve Cochrane said at last week’s Board of Education meeting. “It was subsequently hacked with messages of hate, but those messages could have come from anywhere in the world and likely included numerous individuals.” Cochrane went on to discuss the importance of protecting students against hate in the world, “but we also need to empower them to stand against it.” JWMS Principal Jason Burr has been meeting with eighth grade students to talk about this incident and how to to “create a safe, inclusive, and respectful school community.” The district is also seeking to team up with the Anti-Defamation League and exploring their peer leadership program entitled A World of Difference. Burr wrote in a letter to eighth grade Continued on Page 8
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Uwe Reinhardt, Famed Economist, Dies at 80 Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University economics professor for almost 50 years and one of the most influential health policy experts in the country, died Monday, November 13 in Princeton. He was 80. As Congress, the states, and the White House carry on their disputes over health care, Reinhardt’s ideas and arguments continue to help shape the national health policy debate, as they have for decades. Many of his ideas are inscribed as components of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), including the individual mandate, which requires people to purchase health insurance or face penalties; government subsidies for low-income families; and the goal of a transparent market with lower prices. “It’s the Prices, Stupid,” the title of a 2003 article he co-authored, was one of his frequent observations in decrying the expense of medical care in the United States. Reinhardt was born in Germany in 1937. As a young boy he witnessed the horrors of World War II from his home near the Belgian border, and immigrated to Canada at the age of 18 to avoid being drafted into the German Army. After three years working at a shipping company and parking cars at night, he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan, eventually
graduating from there with a degree in commerce. He went on to earn his PhD in economics at Yale University. His dissertation was titled “An Economic Analysis of Physicians’ Practices.” Reinhardt joined the Princeton University faculty in 1968. “Uwe Reinhardt was one of Princeton’s most beloved teachers,” said Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber. “He had a lasting impact on generations of students, and we will miss him tremendously.”
Woodrow Wilson School Dean Cecilia Rouse added, “Uwe was a phenomenal colleague, mentor, and friend. He embodied what is the best of Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson School and contributed significantly to health policy debates around the world.” As a prolific writer — in The New York Times where he wrote a regular Economix blog and in an array of scientific and policy journals and other publications — Continued on Page 8
Former Mayor and Dinky Advocate Seek Enhanced Historical Displays at Train Site Former Borough Mayor Yina Moore and president of Save the Dinky Anita Garoniak are seeking to promote public awareness of the history of the old Dinky Station through more prominent and accessible displays, but they have so far made little headway in their appeals to the Princeton Council and New Jersey Transit. Claiming that New Jersey Transit has not complied with “the interpretative display condition” related to the moving of the Princeton Railroad Station, Moore and Garoniak’s November 12 letter to the mayor and Council contends that
“Council should act to see that the story of a beloved station and the history of the Princeton Branch are told in displays that are meaningful and accessible to the public.” The displays in question currently include four large photos and four explanatory panels on the wall of the Dinky Bar & Kitchen, which opened for business in the old station during the summer of 2016. An additional display consisting of six pavers, reminiscent of railroad ties, inscribed with information reflecting the history of Continued on Page 10
GRAPPLING WITH THE PAST: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, delivered the keynote address last week at Princeton University’s Princeton & Slavery Project Symposium investigating the University’s historical engagement with the institution of slavery. Morrison, left, was introduced by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities Director and Professor of Creative Writing. Following the speech, the University renamed West College Morrison Hall, in Morrison’s honor.
(Photo Courtesy of Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite)
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