00paw0403_coverNOBOX_00paw0707_Cov74 3/19/13 4:17 PM Page 1 Coping with Princeton climate change Boom times for Alumni computer science Weekly Texting’s downside GAY AT PRINCETON ALUMNI SPEAK OUT ABOUT A TIME WHEN THEY WERE SILENT April 3, 2013 • paw.princeton.edu Also during Reunions Weekend: Remembering Butler: A Video Storytelling Project Demolition Date: Summer/Fall 2014 Services University Yoon, Michael by Photo Did you live here? If so, we want to hear your story. Come to Reunions and participate in the “Remembering Butler” project created to record your stories about life at Butler. Sign up for interview times on the APGA’s Reunions website: APGA Reunions 2013: May 30-June 2 http://alumni.princeton.edu/apga/reunions/ The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni invites graduate alumni and guests back to campus to celebrate with old and th new friends as we honor the 100 anniversary of the Graduate The Fight of the Century: The Thrill-A on the Hill-A College and our lives as graduate students with our theme, GCentennial: Living it Up! Whether you lived in the GC, Butler, Hibben-Magie, Lawrence, Stanworth, or anywhere else, let’s celebrate the good memories and make some new ones at this year’s Reunions. Event Highlights: Friday, 5/31 t Alumni Faculty Forums featuring several graduate alumni panelists t Welcome Reception kicking o" Reunions weekend at the APGA Tent t Late Night Party at the APGA Tent featuring live music from Brian Kirk & the Jirks – open to all Reunions attendees! ’73 Mills Saturday, 6/1 t Cleveland Tower Climb with champagne & strawberries Michael t Festive Lunch at the APGA Tent including family fun for all ages by t The One and Only P-Rade – march and show your Princeton pride! Photo t Tribute to Teaching Reception celebrating excellence at Princeton t GCentennial Dinner Celebration, complete with birthday cake! You won’t want to miss this Graduate College Reunions panel t University Orchestra Concert & Fireworks Show discussion! Taking place on Friday afternoon, panelists will explore the West-Wilson Graduate College battle and the Help us help others: As a part of this year’s Reunions outcome that changed the world; how the !rst Graduate celebration, the APGA is collecting unused hotel toiletries for College in the nation changed graduate education; Graduate Ronald MacDonald House’s Family Rooms, which provide a College architecture; and Graduate College traditions that place for families with sick children in the hospital to rest and began even before there was a GC! Panelists include John regroup. Please save your hotel toiletries and bring them along! Fleming *63, Karen Jackson-Weaver ’94, Gregg Lange ’70, W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 and Michael Mills ’73. SAVE MONEY and register online by May 20 at These events are co-sponsored by the Alumni Council’s Princetoniana http://alumni.princeton.edu/apga. Committee and the APGA. Register today! Connect with the APGA Support the APGA Many thanks to those graduate alumni who have already paid Facebook: APGA Dues for the 2012-2013 year. Facebook.com/PrincetonGraduateAlumni APGA Sustaining Dues are $40 and Centennial Dues are $150. Web: alumni.princeton.edu/apga Become a Life Member for $1,000. Pay your APGA Dues online at alumni.princeton.edu/apga/support - it’s easy! 66635_PU_Alumni Ad_v5.indd 1 3/12/13 11:40 AM 01paw0403_TOC_01paw0512_TOC 3/15/13 6:42 PM Page 1 Princeton Alumni Weekly An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 APRIL 3, 2013 VOLUME 113 NUMBER 10 President’s Page 2 MARK WILSON/GETTY Inbox 5 What Hurricane Sandy IMAGES From the Editor 6 left behind, page 28 Campus Notebook 12 Computer science is a hit with stu- Hidden lives 22 dents • With new club, undergrads Gay students at Princeton today may feel free to express their find the sweet spot • Bridge-year pro- sexuality, but the experience was different for undergraduates in gram expands • Sexual harassment, assault survey • Performing a thesis • the 1950s and ’60s. Several gay alumni spoke to PAW about their IDEAS: Reviewing history, Professor lives at a less-open Princeton. David Cannadine sees the positive • By Richard Just ’01 Searching for exoplanets • Findings • ON THE CAMPUS: Investing in values After Sandy 28 Sports 20 Because of climate change, devastating storms like Hurricane Austin Hollimon ’13 stars in track • Sandy are likely to become more common. Princeton faculty and EXTRA POINT: Club sports • Sports shorts alumni are helping the New York area decide what to do about it. By Anna Azvolinsky *09 Alumni Scene 32 Clifford Nass ’81 *86 studies a down- side of texting • STARTING OUT: Jack Marzulli ’12 • TIGER PROFILE: Michael Mills ’73, preservation architect • What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Newsmakers • READING ROOM: Why you MARCHING AGAIN think the way you do • New releases Photos of women’s basketball’s fourth consecutive NCAA A Moment With 35 PHOTOS, Tournament trip. Joel Slemrod ’73, on tax reform FROM TOP: Class Notes 36 FACE-TO-FACE TIME BEVERLY Clifford Nass ’81 *86 discusses Gregg Lange ’70’s Memorials 56 his research on communication Rally ’Round the Cannon SCHAEFER; among tweens. In advance of “Every PRINCETON Princeton Exchange 61 Voice,” a brief history OPERATIC ADAPTATION of Princeton’s LGBT ALUMNI Final Scene 64 community. Watch an excerpt from John WEEKLY Eaton ’57 *59’s Benjamin (2); Button opera. PAW on iTunes COURTESY Listen to Rally COURTNEY TIGER OF THE WEEK ’Round the Cannon as A new profile every Wednesday, a podcast on iTunes. DRESSING including planet-finder ’10 ON THE COVER: Illustration by Jean-François Martin. Courtney Dressing ’10. THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Up for a Challenge Although the physical foundations of the Andlinger Center for On the education front, I am particularly proud of the Energy and the Environment are still being laid, the center’s new Energy track of the Technology and Society certificate work has begun in earnest, thanks, in no small measure, to the created in partnership with the Keller Center. This track will talent and passion of its founding director, physical chemist teach humanities and social science students about the benefits and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the and pitfalls of various energy technologies and their impact Environment Emily Carter. I have invited Emily, who joined on society and on the environment. Another, more technical our faculty in 2004, to share her aspirations for the center with certificate, offered you, along with some of the steps that she and her colleagues by the Program are taking to fulfill its crucial mandate. — S.M.T. in Sustainable Energy, is geared ne hundred years from now, I hope it will be said toward scientists that Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and and engineers. the Environment led the way in training generations Both initiatives of thought leaders, scientists, and engineers who aim to produce Ofurnished solutions that helped to save the planet from the future leaders and worst ravages of global climate change. As founding director decision-makers of the Andlinger Center, I aim at nothing less. Beyond the well-versed in these potentially existential threat of global warming, I see two other intertwined issues. imperatives driving the work of the center: national security At the heart and economic competitiveness. We need to be in control of of any enterprise our own energy destiny, whether it is fuel for our military are the people. aircraft or power generation right here at home. Whatever your In addition to perspective, these are three compelling reasons why we must building a first-rate revolutionize the way we harvest, convert, store, transmit, and administrative use energy, as well as mitigate harm done to the environment staff, a committed through its use. It will take multidisciplinary teams, working faculty executive with partners at other academic institutions and in industry, committee, and Professor Emily Carter, Founding Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the nonprofits, and government, to define, discover, and implement a stellar advisory Environment the technological, economic, and policy solutions required. And council, we have what better place than Princeton, the best place on Earth to secured the first perform integrated multidisciplinary research and education, to three of nine new joint faculty. Energy storage whiz achieve these ambitious goals? What follows is a taste of how we Daniel Steingart was first to arrive; solar cell specialist have begun this journey. I’d venture to say we are on our way. Barry Rand *07 and green cement/carbon sequestration The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment expert Claire White will be with us for the fall. I am also was founded in 2008 by virtue of the extraordinary generosity grateful to Kenan Visiting Professor Daniel Giammar, of Gerhard (Gerry) R. Andlinger ’52, who exemplifies how who is teaching “Environmental Implications of Energy a Princeton education can transform a life. Gerry came as a Technologies.” The enrollment of 76 (!) students illustrates scholarship student and built a shining career, first at ITT and the soaring interest that the next generation has in these then in his own firm, where he made pioneering investments issues. And Michael Schwartz *76, our first Gerhard R. in alternative energy. He recognized this field as the key to Andlinger Visiting Professor, is teaching an advanced securing the future for generations to come, and thus saw course in energy policy, bringing in leading lights from giving back to Princeton as a profound way to kick-start an industry and government to provide their perspectives. effort that is truly “in the nation’s service and in the service of Students have been making their mark as well. Josephine all nations.” His gift galvanized the Princeton community to Elia, our inaugural Maeder graduate fellow, and 12 take a new look at this global imperative.