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00paw1212_coverNOBOX_00paw0707_Cov74 12/5/12 7:53 AM Page 1 Peter W. Singer ’97 Princeton on modern warfare Alumni Veterans on campus Weekly Bonfire! MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ONE PROFESSOR’S SEARCH FOR SOMETHING OTHERS SAID COULD NOT EXIST December 12, 2012 • paw.princeton.edu HAPPY TIGER GLASS BALL ORNAMENT MEMBERS PRICE $12.60 REGULAR PRICE $15 SKINNY RUGBY STRIPE SCARF MEMBERS PRICE $27 REGULAR PRICE $30 BLOWN GLASS SNOWMAN ORNAMENT MEMBERS PRICE $22.50 REGULAR PRICE $25 VINEYARD VINES TOTE & TIE MEMBERS PRICE $157.50 REGULAR PRICE $175 36 UNIVERSITY PLACE CHECK US 116 NASSAU STREET OUT ON 800.624.4236 FACEBOOK! 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HOLIDAY 2012 AD.indd 7 11/6/2012 11:22:40 AM 02paw1212_TOCrev1_01paw0512_TOC 11/27/12 11:05 AM Page 2 Princeton Alumni Weekly An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 DECEMBER 12, 2012 VOLUME 113 NUMBER 5 President’s Page 3 Inbox 5 From the Editor 7 Campus Notebook 14 BEVERLY Few veterans on campus • Superstorm SCHAEFER Sandy roars through Princeton • Bonfire, page 22. São Paolo partnership • Online theses • IDEAS: Amaney Jamal on the Arab street • FYI: When do women speak Aworldinagrainofsand 26 up? • Sensors measure bridge health In his search for a natural quasicrystal, Professor Paul Steinhardt • ON THE CAMPUS: Bicker changes • Public-speaking club • Briefs wouldn’t take no for an answer. By Mark F. Bernstein ’83 A Moment With 21 Professor Brandice Canes-Wrone ’93: We had an election. Now what? Warfare, under the radar 32 Brookings scholar Peter W. Singer ’97 explains how a nation can Sports 22 be at war — and barely notice it. Two special victories, one huge bonfire • Football returns to Ivy By Christopher Shea ’91 prominence • Basketball preview • EXTRA POINT: The student-coach bond • Sports shorts Alumni Scene 38 What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE In the classroom, Nick Ehrmann *10 thinks small • TIGER PROFILE Hospital VICTORY’S GLOW leader Laura Forese ’83 • STARTING OUT: Watch video of the Big Three PHOTOS, bonfire, which returned to Taylor Carroll ’10 • Newsmakers • FROM Cannon Green Nov. 17. READING ROOM: Steven Strogatz ’80, TOP: on The Joy of X • New releases BRETT MARVELS OF MATH TOMLINSON/PAW; Perspective 42 View clips of Cornell Gregg Lange ’70’s Muslims and the West: Bridging professor and The Joy of X Rally ’Round the Cannon the divide HOUGHTON author Steven Strogatz ’80. A fond farewell to Taufiq Rahim ’04 Princeton’s Class of 1925. MIFFLIN Class Notes 43 BACK TO SCHOOL HARCOURT; Memorials 63 Football standout Chuck PAW on iTunes Dibilio ’16’s comeback story Listen to Rally NAM will begin in the classroom. Y. Princeton Exchange 69 ’Round the Cannon as HUH/AP a podcast on iTunes. Final Scene 72 IMAGES; LECTURE CIRCUIT APRIL ON THE COVER: Professor Paul Steinhardt’s three-dimensional Read about campus events, model of a 20-sided quasicrystal. Photo by Paul Steinhardt. including David Brooks’ BARTHOLOMEW lecture on “Politics and the Organization Kid.” THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE The Arts Take Flight One of the most far-reaching — and personally rewarding — writing faculty and students now thrive in intimate seminars rewardingdevelopments — developmentsof my tenure hasof my been tenure the expansion has been the of the and one-on-one advising sessions held in newly renovated expansioncreative and of performingthe creative artsand atperforming Princeton. arts Thanks at Princeton. to the classrooms and offices in New South. But students in many Thanksgenerosity to theof our generosity alumni, of led our by alumni, Peter B. led Lewis by Peter ’55, theB. Lewistalents of the other arts need more room to flourish. Thanks to our ’55,of our the faculty talents and of our students, faculty and and the students, support and of our the entiresupport new director of the Program in Visual Arts, Joe Scanlan, the ofUniversity our entire community, University thecommunity, arts have themoved arts fromhave themoved periphery offices at 185 Nassau Street that once housed creative writers fromto the the center periphery of academic to the life.center I have of academic asked the life. newly I have appointed are now studios and classrooms for certificate students in the askedchair ofthe the newly Lewis appointed Center for chair the ofArts, the MichaelLewis Center Cadden, for theto visual arts. The 2003 opening of the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Arts,reflect Michael on the arts Cadden, at Princeton to reflect today. on the — arts S.M.T. at Princeton Theater gave the Programs in Theater and Dance a much- today. — S.M.T. needed purpose-designed performance space; now we’ve t’s hard to believe that 2012-2013 marks the fifth added two rehearsal/classrooms — one dedicated to dance, anniversary of the naming of the Peter B. Lewis ’55 the other to theater — to the ground floor of New South. You Center for the Arts. No current undergraduate has can only imagine how we look forward to 2017, when the ever known Princeton without the center. If something new arts neighborhood designed by Steven Holl — Berlind Iexists for five years here, it’s usually assumed to have been Alexanderplatz as I like to call it — will be the visual around for over two centuries. However, as most PAW embodiment of the University’s new commitment to the arts. readers know, that is certainly not the case with the Lewis Center. I’m in my 30th year of teaching at Princeton, where I first came as an assistant professor in the Department CSOGI of English. Now I’m in my first year as chair of an entity unimaginable 30 years ago. PAUL The Lewis Center functions like a department; it serves as the umbrella organization for the Programs in Dance, Theater, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, and the Princeton Atelier. Its mission is to put the arts at the heart of the Princeton experience by offering a wide range of curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular opportunities designed to attract both students who self-identify as artists and those who want to explore what that might mean. In any given semester, over 10 percent of the student body is taking one or more of our courses. Paul Muldoon, our visionary inaugural chair, had the arduous task of carving out a space for the new center both within the University and in the world as a whole. It’s hard getting anything started, and Paul did a great job of Michael Cadden, chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, meets with establishing us on a firm foundation. It helped that the “arts students in his course, “Special Topics in Performance History and charge” was being led by the president of the University! In Theory –Performing Australia.” the center’s first year, Paul riffed with characteristic wit on the University’s informal motto — “In the Nation’s Service Another sign of that commitment will be the arrival and in the Service of All Nations” — to set the Lewis Center next fall of our first Princeton Fellows in the Creative and agenda: “Princeton in the Service of the Imagination.” But Performing Arts, a program kick-started with an endowment how best to serve the imagination? from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a gift from an One way, of course, is to develop a world-class faculty anonymous alumnus. To get things rolling, every year, early- of teaching artists and scholars of the arts — people whose career artists whose achievements have been recognized as achievements make them the equals of faculty members demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic across the curriculum. A case in point: Three years ago, practice will be invited to spend two years at Princeton. we hired choreographer Susan Marshall to be the first-ever They may be asked to teach one course each semester, but director of the Program in Dance. Susan’s work has graced fellows may also take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a many of the major dance venues around the world, so it was class, such as directing a play, conducting a student music hardly a surprise she’d won a MacArthur “Genius” Award. ensemble, or creating a dance with our students. As full and When we were courting Susan, she expressed amazement lively members of our community, dedicated to frequent and that someone who had never been to college was being engaged interactions with students, these artists will provide offered a professorship at Princeton. I remember a hint of a new dimension to the arts scene at Princeton. pride in Paul’s voice when he replied, “Your work speaks I’m committed to establishing Princeton’s pre-eminence for itself.” Those of us in the room knew where that hint of in the field of undergraduate arts education. In collaboration pride came from: Most universities treat their artistic faculty with a new president and our faculty, staff, and students, I as second-class citizens.