TUITION, FEES to EARLY PHotos SPECIAL PULLOUT: RISE 3.9 PERCENT OF NASSAU HALL PANORAMIC VIEWS PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY FIGHTING EBOLA Dr. Bruce Ribner ’66 has shown how the disease can be beaten MARCH 4, 2015 PAW.PRINCETON.EDU 00paw0304_CovCLIPPED.indd 1 2/10/15 1:31 PM MARCH 4, 2015 PRINCETON: THE GREAT CAMPUS THE 173-fOOT TOWER AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITy’S GRADUATE COLLEGE WAS DEDICATED IN 1913 AS THE NATion’S MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND, WHO HAD LIVED IN PRINCETON. THESE PANORAMAS, SHOT FROM CLEVELAND TOWER IN 1913 AND 2014, CAptuRE THE SWEEPING CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE ON CAMPUS DURING THE LAST CENTURY. Gatefold -- inside.indd 8 1/30/15 11:26 AM VIEWING A CENTURY OF CHANGE TEXT BY W. BARKsdale MAYNARD ’88, WITH photos from THE PRInceton UNIVERSITY ArchIves AND BY RIcardo Barros hundred years ago, Princeton University had about 1,400 students, 170 faculty members, and a small staff. There were fewer than 60 buildings. Today, the University Apopulation is nearly nine times bigger, and buildings have tripled to 180. In the first panorama, taken in 1913, Princeton’s surroundings are entirely rural; the second image, taken last fall, shows the modern buildings that have replaced fields and pushed the campus in all directions. Mercer County is three times more Four local landmarks, Blair Hall dormitory, Three towers from the populous than it was when Cleveland Tower was from left: 2-year-old Holder turreted Alexander Hall, Victorian era — the built, and suburbs now stretch to the horizon. Tower, the triangular and bulky Witherspoon Dickinson classroom Stuart Hall tower at the Hall dormitory still stand building, the School of The tower’s giddy heights have attracted Princeton Theological today, but the Reunion Hall Science, and Marquand countless visitors, including the undergraduate Seminary (since removed), dorm, with two T-shaped Chapel — all would Edmund Wilson 1916, later a famous literary critic. the round dome of Halsted chimneys, was demolished burn within 15 years. He admired “the strange miscellany of buildings Observatory, and the in 1965. The cupola of The bristling chimneys which makes Princeton; the gray Gothic of seminary’s Brown Hall Nassau Hall rises over belong to Edwards and Campbell, Little, Blair, and the rest was nearly cupola — the last two Witherspoon, whose pointy Dod dormitories, dating from the 1860s. Victorian towers later Victorian stalwarts lost among the older and more obtrusive vagaries were removed. still occupied today. of our earliest architects.” LIBRARY WING AND CANNON, CIRCA 1865 Moran photographed the place we call Cannon The golf clubhouse was Marking the home of Large science labs Palmer Recently erected for Green, which had been shifted here to make way University president John and Guyot are pictured Woodrow Wilson’s thickly planted with trees for the Graduate College, Grier Hibben 1882, the with the rooftops of preceptors, these houses in the antebellum period to built on the links over Prospect House tower Prospect Avenue clubs of Broadmead appear discourage students from the objections of former rises over the Brown Hall between them. A ballgame beyond the field where playing football. No matter: Princeton president dorm, with brand-new is underway at Brokaw Palmer Stadium would The lads devised a game Woodrow Wilson 1879. Cuyler dorm, with its many Field, today the site of be built the following that twisted in and among Among those to see the chimneys, at right. Below Whitman College. Stately year. A century ago, the tree trunks. Trees have view from Cleveland Tower the little white cupola of trees on Elm Drive screen Princeton’s setting was been scorched by frequent was F. Scott Fitzgerald Brokaw Memorial pool is Patton dormitory, with pleasantly rural. bonfires around the cannon. 1917, who later would call the barnlike Casino theater tennis courts on the future Princeton “the pleasantest where students rehearsed site of Wilson College. country club in America.” for Triangle shows. paw.princeton.edu March 4, 2015 Princeton alumni weekly 33 Gatefold -- outside-rev1.indd 8 2/3/15 10:25 AM Move forward. With confi dence. No matter how complex your business questions, we have the capabilities and experience to deliver the answers you need to move forward. 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All rights reserved. 150312_Deloitte_Ivy.indd 1 1/21/15 10:17 AM March 4, 2015 Volume 115, Number 8 An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 Arsinoe and PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 Marion Nassau Hall in 1865, of INBOX 3 page 26 Buildings FROM THE EDITOR 5 the ON THE CAMPUS 11 Tuition, student aid increase Princeton posting on Chinese “Facebook” STUDENT Reconstructing DISPATCH: No sympathy for Gold: the editor Wintersession of SPORTS: A basketball season City for the history books, 50 years ’72; later Sports shorts Carey LIFE OF THE MIND 19 Art Meredith Martin on digital humanities Stephen Kotkin courtesy on Stalin A new chemical bond Faculty books Bric-a-Brac; PRINCETONIANS 39 Dan Biederman ’75 gives old 1965 parks new life 15 YEARS OUT: Mary McNealy University; Czarnecki ’00 juggles life’s demands Phil Zabriskie ’94 on soldiers in combat More Kearse/Emory CLASS NOTES 43 Jack MEMORIALS 62 When the Call Came 22 ‘Old North,’ in Pictures 26 Dr. Bruce Ribner ’66 wasn’t preparing The earliest images of Nassau Hall specifically for an outbreak of Ebola. But Princeton: The Great Campus 34 Archives; CLASSIFIEDS 67 when it happened, he was ready. Special pullout: Two views, old and new THAT WAS THEN 70 By Mark F. Bernstein ’83 By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 University PAW.PRINCETON.EDU Princeton left: from Archives; Lay of the Land Fighting Ebola March Memories New Scoops Digital Humanities Gregg Lange ’70 Tour the Emory Part two of our Longtime journalist View reconstructions University reviews the history University Hospital PAW Tracks special Art Carey ’72 makes of buildings in of campus planning isolation unit with highlights Princeton’s the case for “good ancient Cyprus, Princeton at Princeton. Dr. Bruce Ribner ’66. run to the 1965 news” in an essay created by computer Top: Final Four. for PAW. science students. On the cover: Photograph by Jack Kearse/Emory University. Bobby Simmons, marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights, put zinc oxide on his face to protect against the sun. He asked another marcher to write his convictions on his forehead. — Condensed by Constance Hale ’79 THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Scholarship and Service — from Wilson to Turing to Davos n late January, I traveled to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, becoming the first Princeton president to join in the grand annual gathering of some FORUM 2,500 heads of state, business executives, scholars, Iphilanthropists, and artists. The forum is designed for influential leaders, thinkers, ECONOMIC and practitioners to address global challenges ranging from inequality to climate change to the future of technology. It was WORLD / a striking experience — not only in terms of the breadth of topics being discussed, but because of the setting. The village is a stunning, postcard-perfect version of the Swiss Alps. Attending Davos felt a bit like being at the Winter Olympics STEINEGGER given the scenery, security, media saturation, celebrities, and air of excitement. REMY A Princeton colleague suggested that Davos in some ways resembled Reunions. The entire town gets made over and people descend on it from around the world for seminars and social Woodrow Wilson School Dean Cecilia Rouse (right) participates in a events — although the proportions are reversed in Davos, and panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with both the dress and the tone are more muted (lots of dark suits, (from left) Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Dow Chemical Co. and not a Tiger-striped bowling shirt to be found!). The forum CEO Andrew Liveris, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. also reminded me of what happens on a college campus, with time and opportunity available for serendipitous interactions that are more profound than the exigencies of the moment. with many interesting people. And during my week at Davos, I was reminded of this by, of Thinking about such connections between Davos and all things, the entertainment headlines of the day. Prince ton, I am drawn back (as I am often) to Woodrow As I attended the global forum, Andrew Hodges’ terrific Wilson 1879 and his seminal speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s biography of computer science pioneer Alan Turing *38 was Service.” Wilson declared that if Princeton “is to do its right climbing The New York Times best-seller list — heady territory service, that the air of affairs should be admitted to all its class- for a Princeton University Press book, especially one that was rooms.” Today, if Princeton is to be faithful to Wilson’s call, then first published in 1983! The renewed interest in Alan Turing: we must be in places like Davos taking part in important conver- The Enigma was sparked by the success of The Imitation Game, sations about the state of our global society. a critically acclaimed film that had just received several Oscar At Davos, I participated in the Global University Leaders nominations and was based on Hodges’ book. Forum, at which university leaders from around the world Turing was a mathematical genius whose work had immea- discussed the future of higher education. Princeton faculty surable impact on the world. His explorations of questions members were also on hand. Cecilia Rouse, dean of the of mathematical logic led to his landmark 1936 paper, “On Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Computable Numbers,” which ultimately spawned the field of joined U.S.