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Birthplace of Herbert Hoover:

Author

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Date

1998

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

SOCIAL CONTEXT
The Depression of 1929 had left many Americans homeless, jobless, and hopeless. Their "American Dream" had failed. One-third of the country's labor force was unemployed. Americans were in need of a sense of reassurance and stability, a renewed faith in the country and the American system of capitalism.

There was a resurgence of nationalism with greater emphasis on Americanism and praise of the traditional virtues of agrarian America. Patriotism became fashionable again as an anxious public turned from the sophisticated avant garde Europeanism of the 20s back to an enthusiasm for old American art and artifacts. This rebirth of interest in the American past stemmed from a search to recover the traditional values of home, family, country-the values thatAmericans perceived as the building blocks of our country's greatness. The economic crisis forced artists working in Europe to return home, to explore the unique aspects of their native culture, to capture the distinct regional flavor of their surroundings. Regionalist writers like Sinclair Lewis and painters such as Wood, John Stuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton responded to these changes by glorifying the land, people, and values of rural America in their art.

WOOD'S POSITION IN AMERICAN ART
If the 1920s had debunked our past, the generation of the 30s needed the reassurance of their grandfathers. With a desperate reverence for the past, Americans during the Great Depression looked back to Colonial America. It was an era that saw the beginning of our National Archives, the opening of the Williamsburg


Restoration, and the World's Fair colossus of George Washington. Post office murals gave people a visual grasp of their roots. Grant Wood, too, focused on Colonial America and its first president. His Parson Weems' Fable (1939) depicts George Washington, the legendary cherry tree, and the 18th-century Anglican clergyman who fabricated the legend. Daughters of Revolution(1932) gently satirizes the Washington Bicentennial celebration. Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) playfully pays homage to another colonial hero.

In touch with his own time and culture and drawing on such popular themes, Wood delighted many of his contemporaries and enraged others. Time and Life regularly covered him, describing him as a grassroots hero, an artist who created bold and incisive pictures of the American scene. In its December 24, 1934 issue, Time wrote:

Inthe United States opposition to such outlandish art (modernism exemplified and first seen at the 1913 Armory show) first took root in the Midwest. A small group of native painters began to offer direct representation in place of introspective abstractions.

But to others (New York City intellectuals and modern artists in particular), Wood's popularity was suspect. "American Scene art is reactionary because it accepts a meaningless and purposeless glorification of a local phenomenon, chiefly sentimental, like an American businessman on tour in Europe, bragging about his hometown," Stuart Davis wrote in 1936. Later, in 1941, Davis accused Wood and his fellow Regionalists of using "popular American symbols, but they are symbols which have been shaped by a public ignorant of art and their continued promotion merely flatters public ignorance."

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Newman, in 1942, called such painting "picture postcard art. . . cheap. . . commercial." By 1942, he felt it was "time to rid the art world of the sentiment of rural America, of sweet old pa and ma leaning on their pitchforks." [a pointed reference to Wood's popular American Gothic(1930)].

Thus, Wood was criticized for pandering to popular taste and sensibilities and for creating an art which was shallow and too easily accessible. Wood, though, felt abstract art was too foreign and too esoteric to relate to the American experience. Art, he felt, should come from deep and intimate experience of local materials and one's native surroundings; it should be meaningful to wide audiences.

He advocated regional art centers to foster a sense of community. In the summers of1932 and 1933, he tried out his ideas, joining with others to establish a summer art school and colony in the picturesque little village he had painted, Stone City. Though short-lived, the program should be considered successful because of the collaborative spirit it developed among students, faculty, and local citizens. By 1935, Wood had become a spokesman for the Regionalist movement. He gave lectures across the country, helped found an art colony, and joined the faculty at the University of Iowa. Art, he taught, should come from an artist's intimate experience with the immediate surroundings. One should not go abroad for subjects or learn "foreign" styles of painting. Instead, he envisioned the day when artists would stay at home to found major art centers in every province of


America.

The regionalist movement, however, was short-lived. By the time of Wood's death in 1942, the threat of Fascism abroad and the coming of war made Wood's benign and often humorous view of provincial America seem narrow-minded and dangerously nationalistic. Surrealism and abstraction were seen as more appropriate idioms, and Wood's kind of painting went into eclipse.

BIRTHPLACE OF HERBERT HOOVERBackground of the Site
Grant Wood captured the essence of small town mid-America in his 1931 Birthplace of Herbert Hoover. Working in autumnal tones with imaginative patterns precisely depicted, the Iowa artist painted the birthplace of his state's most famous native son. The house where Hoover was born was actually only the rear portion of the larger building that spreads across the vast lawn in the middle ground of the painting.

WhenHoover was born here in West Branch, Iowa, in 1874, the family homestead was a free-standing, three-room board and batten cottage. It had been built four years before by his father, a Quaker blacksmith, and was home to the future president for the first six years of his life. Eventually, R. Portland Scellers bought the property and made major changes to accommodate his growing family of five children. He turned the cottage to one side, moved it back on the lot, then moved a two-story home from elsewhere in town to the cottage's original site. He joined the two buildings-physically with a walkway and visually by covering the entire structure with unifying white siding. Part of the Sceller family remained in the house until 1935, two years after


Hoover left the White House. The Hoover family reacquired the property then and hired Bruce McKay, Grant Wood's good friend and associate in Cedar Rapids, to return the cottage to its original site and appearance.

In his 1928 presidential campaign, Hoover played up his humble frontier origins, thus, linking himself with Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. As often happens with homes of U.S. presidents, the cottage quickly became almost a national shrine, and the public flocked to West Branch to visit the "birthplace," as it was called. Mrs. Scellers, who was living in the house, allowed the pilgrims to tour the landmark for a ten-cent admission. With typical American enterprise, she even set up a souvenir stand on the front lawn to capitalize on heavy weekend traffic.

Presidential candidate Hooverreturned to West Branch to kick off his midwest campaign. Before appearing at a public rally, the millionaire candidate and Mrs. Hoover had an old-fashioned farm breakfast with Mrs. Scellers at the birthplace, now the house kitchen. Hoover's return to his hometown evoked one of our country's most central and abiding myths: that in the United States any citizen, no matter how humble his origins, can achieve great financial success and even rise to occupy the country's highest office.

Always interested in American legends, particularly those native to the midwest, Grant Wood traveled the few miles southeast from his home in Cedar Rapids to the tiny community of West Branch in September 1931. His interest, according to art historian Wanda Corn, was not so much President Hoover, but more


the sanctification of the Hoover birthplace. The major painting which resulted, Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, is now co-owned by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Des Moines Art Center. According to Wood's biographer James Denis, who interviewed the artist's sister, Mrs. Nan Wood Graham, Birthplace of Herbert Hoover should not necessarily be interpreted as a personal tribute to the ill-fated Republican President, for Grant Wood was a political independent who became a Democrat by the time of his death. In a letter dated February 7, 1975, Mrs. Graham explained that the painting had been "requested" by a group of Iowa businessmen who intended to present it to Herbert Hoover. The President, however, did not approve of the painting because it obscured the cabin in which he hadbeen born by including the later large house. Consequently, the businessmen did not buy the work. After 1932, Wood did not care to exhibit the painting and was relieved when it was sold to Gardner Cowles of Look magazine through a New York gallery, Ferragil, in 1934 for $600. (Earlier, in Cedar Rapids, Wood had given paintings to friends or neighbors or sold them at token prices. In late 1930, he was pleased to receive a $300 purchase award for American Gothic from the Chicago Art Institute. These figures give some indication of how the art market has changed.)

Details of the Painting
The work focuses on the sprawling eclectic house placed center stage and spotlit almost theatrically. The white siding sparkles against the greens and earth tones which dominate


the rest of the scene. Its repeated rectangles (windows, roof planes, doorway, chimneys, each "block" of the house) contrast with the repeated curves and arcs of the trees, landscape, and undulating road. Wood calls attention to the "important" part of the house, the birthplace cottage, in a number of ways. A tiny figure, dressed in a gray suit, wearing a hat but no tie, points to the cottage with a raised right arm. His shadow emphasizes his gesture. The drainpipe on the front portion of the house leads our eye back to the cottage. So, too, does the implied compositional line from the bridge abutment, man, shrub, and water pump. From the left, our eye travels from outbuilding to woodpile to clothesline to birthplace. Tree trunks are onornament that was in vogue when this was painted. The orientalized patterns of willowware china may have provided inspiration for the fancifully painted trees. Wood often spoke about the Blue Willow and Staffordshire china his mother used for special occasions when he was a boy. A Staffordshire plate from the English Greengates Pottery dated 1841-97 in the collection of the Hennepin County Historical Society has stylized floral borders and trees, a "scalloped" landscape, and spatial organization very similar to Birthplace of Herbert Hoover.The viewer hovers so far above the scene that the face of the small man is indistinguishable. Wood probably borrowed this birdseye perspective (he had already used it in Stone City, 1930, and would repeat it again and again) from the 19th-century prints he loved and


from lithographs on early American maps and in county atlases. But though we are far away, many details are clear: the carefully patterned lawn seems painted blade by blade; two boys in overalls walk on a bend in the sidewalk to the left; haystacks dot the field behind them; three chickens peck like tiny wooden animals in a toy farm set. We can read the sign on the front lawn: "Hoover." The pink rock on the other side of the front walkway is a native boulder placed in front of the landmark in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution; it bears a plaque which we cannot decipher, but which reads, "Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, First President of the United States Born West of the Mississippi River."Thus,Grant Wood deliberately primitivized his scene, ignoring atmospheric perspective. The result is an evocation of American folk art. The repeated geometrics, careful composition, precise details, large unbroken areas, and cloudless sky combine to produce a hushed landscape forever frozen in time.

The small figure pointing to the house like a tour guide comes down through art history as a device to draw viewers' attention to what is important in a landscape. In 19th-century American prints and paintings, similar figures were often used to point out a beautiful view or important site, such as Niagara Falls. Wood would use a larger variation of such a character in Parson Weems' Fable (1939) where the myth-making cleric in the foreground points to the father of Washington, young George, and the mutilated cherry


tree.

A preliminary drawing for Birthplace of Herbert Hoover shows that Wood also considered using another bit of Americana, an inset view of the original Hoover homestead. Nineteenth-century atlases and prints often included such drawings of the original log cabin or sod hut that had stood on the site where the depicted farm or residence was now; this gave an idea of the material progress made by a family in a particular place. Wood's early drawing, on exhibit in the 1983 Grant Wood retrospective, included such a device in the lower left corner: a rectangular frame, flanked by floral motifs, showed the cottage as it looked originally. Wood changed his mind and in the final painting eliminated the cottage, replaced the inset with the oak, and concentrated on thecontemporary view of the eclectic, conglomerate structure.

BIOGRAPHY
Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891, near Anamosq, Iowa, and lived his first ten years on the family farm. In 1901, when his father died, the family moved 25 miles south to the thriving city of Cedar Rapids. The move, from rural family farm to bustling urban center, can be viewed as an example of modern dislocation. It was an experience that profoundly influenced the subjects and themes of Wood's Regionalist art. It was a move not only from country to city, but in a manner of speaking, from 19th-century agrarian America to 20th-century urbanism. Millions of Americans experienced this same wrenching transition in the early 20th century.

So interested was Wood in pursuing an artistic career that the very night of


his graduation from Cedar Rapids' Washington High School, young Grant boarded a train for Minneapolis where he studied design for a summer with Ernest Batchelder at the Minneapolis School of Design and Handcraft and Normal Art. Aspiring to be a "modern artist," he took a few more formal art courses in Minneapolis and later in Chicago, but he made his living as a schoolteacher in Cedar Rapids. He explored a variety of styles ranging from Art Nouveau to Impressionism and Classicism. Whenever he could afford it, he traveled to Europe. He referred to the 1910s and 1920s as his "bohemian" years; he grew a beard, lived on the Left Bank when in Paris, and painted landscapes in a loose, Impressionist derived style. As subject matter at home andabroad, he chose what he later described as "tumble-down houses that looked 'Europy.'" In the late 1920s, Wood, dissatisfied with his Impressionist paintings, set out to invent a new visual language, one as descriptive and narrative as that of the midwestern writers he admired. While visiting Munich's Alte Pinakothek, he was inspired by the 15th- and 16th-century Flemish painters, particularly the works of Hans Memling. He felt especially drawn to the "rationalism" involved in Late Gothic and Northern Renaissance methods of designing cohesive compositions overlaid with a multiplicity of details. The young American determined to do as they had done and to paint meticulously "decorative" works of the people and landscapes he knew best. "Europy" houses no longer fascinated him. He physically and spiritually returned from Bohemia and,


in 1932, wrote:

I know that our cardboardy frame houses on Iowa farms have a distinct American quality and are very paintable. To me, their hard edges are especially suggestive of the Midwestern civilization. After this line of reasoning I really found myself, and instantly my work became successful.

Hoover's birthplace was a "cardboardy" house, a most ordinary and architecturally unexceptional structure. Except for the accident of a single birth, no one would have cared about it. It has been suggested that Wood spoofed the American habit of enshrining meaningless monuments, yet at the same time he offered his own kind of homage to midwestern history and vernacular architecture.

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Compare with theLamentation by the Master of the St. Lucy Legend, a 15th-century Flemish work similar to those that influenced Wood in Munich. Note the clear light, minute detail, linear quality, rich color and patterns. Note, too, that the Flemish master set the Biblical scene close to his home in Bruges, an environment he knew well. Then look at Holidays by Maurice Prendergast and Isle of Shoals by Childe Hassam; these artists were American contemporaries of Wood's who continued to work in an Impressionist-derived style.

Compare with Catskill Mountain House (1855) by Jaspar Cropsey, a work which also views a famous building in its landscape setting.

Compare with Thomas Sully's 1820 portrait of George Washington which also deals with the notion of President as national hero. Sully's work attempted to help make


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François Girardon Facts

The work of the French sculptor François Girardon (1628-1715) reflected the French taste for a restrained, classical version of the dominant baroque style.

François Girardon was born at Troyes on March 17, 1628. He studied in Rome for an undetermined period of time between 1645 and 1650. He then studied at the Royal Academy in Paris and was admitted to the academy as a member in 1657. Much of Girardon's most important work was executed for King Louis XIV and consisted of major commissions for the palace and gardens of Versailles. One of Girardon's most famous productions is Apollo and the Nymphs of Thetis in Versailles (1666-1672), originally designed for a grotto there. This elaborate project of seven separate marble statues depicts the god Apollo surrounded bynymphs, and it exemplifies with exceptional clarity the French interpretation of the baroque style in sculpture, an interpretation that rejected the fluid, dramatic, and emotional Italian baroque in favor of a cooler, more sober approach based upon the sculpture of antiquity. The Apollo group is filled with references to Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, and while Girardon was working on the commission he made a second trip to Rome for inspiration from antique sources. The ancient world, however, had never attempted to assemble several large pieces of free-standing sculpture into one unified composition, and in solving this problem Girardon had recourse to the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the great French baroque classicist.

The classicism of the Apollo group conformed fully to the official style of the French Academy and the


personal taste of Louis XIV, but the composition has many baroque elements. The vigor and variety in the movement of the figures, the rich textural contrasts, the grand scale of the project, and the dramatic use of space are all stylistic qualities that firmly link the work to the international baroque style.

One of Girardon's most important works is the tomb of Cardinal Richelieu in the church of the Sorbonne, Paris (1675-1677). This monument shows the dying prelate in a semireclining position, his vestments falling in broad curves that are echoed in the draperies of the allegorical figures at the head and foot of the tomb. As originally placed in the church, the monument was freestanding so that the spectator was compelled to enter into the action of thework—a typical baroque compositional device.

Girardon's most significant late work was a majestic bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV (1683-1692) executed for the Place Vendôme in Paris and based upon the famous Roman equestrian monument of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Girardon's work was destroyed during the French Revolution, but several small-scale copies of it exist.

During the 1690s French taste shifted from Girardon's classicism to the more expressive baroque manner of Antoine Coysevox. Girardon died in Paris on Sept. 1, 1715.

Further Reading on François Girardon

The most important work on Girardon, Pierre Francastel, Girardon (1928), is in French. For a brief but thorough and excellent analysis of Girardon's place in 17th-century French art see Sir Anthony Blunt, Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (1954; 2d ed. 1970).


A man stabbed his love rival to death minutes after his girlfriend sent him a picture of herself performing a sex act on the other man.

David Saunders, 33, was driven into a ‘jealous rage’ when law student Sarah Bramley sent him a photograph of her and Michael Lawson.

Saunders took a taxi to the street near Miss Bramley’s home in Darlington, County Durham, and lay in wait for Mr Lawson.

He attacked him with a knife which he used to deliver a single fatal blow, Teesside Crown Court was told.

Sarah Bramley relaxes on a sun lounger while on holiday with Michael Lawson in 2016

David Saunders (left), 33, was driven into a ‘jealous rage’ when law student Sarah Bramley sent him a photograph of her and Michael Lawson (right)

He had toldin front of a judge only.

Yesterday he told of his anger at being sent the explicit photograph: ‘I was upset, really upset and angry. I loved her, it was not nice to see that. I felt angry at both of them.’

That morning, June 30, Miss Bramley had sent Saunders a text to say she had been sleeping with Michael Lawson.

Miss Bramley (pictured, with Mr Lawson) had been sitting at home at home with Mr Lawson when she sent Saunders a photo of herself performing a sex act

Miss Bramley and Mr Lawson pose for a photo while on holiday together in summer last year

The defendant admitted that in the past he had damaged Mr Lawson’s car because he had caught him at the home of Miss Bramley, who he


had been in a relationship with since November of last year.

He said that he and his ex-girlfriend split up in April partly because she had been sleeping with Michael Lawson.

He said: ‘I saw his car outside her house and went in through the door. He ran out of the back then I heard his car start. I ran out and punched out a window of his car and kicked off his wing mirror.’

During the furious text exchange between him and Miss Bramley on the night and early morning of the killing he threatened Mr Lawson.

He texted Miss Bramley saying: ‘You Sket. I’m coming over, I’m going to knock f*** out of him, watch,’ later adding: ‘You’ll see me angry. Keep him there.’

However Saunders said he did not takea knife with him when he went to Miss Bramley home, insisting it was Mr Lawson who had it.

Mr Lawson and Miss Bramley together, before he was stabbed by David Saunders

He confronted Michael Lawson in the street. He told the court: ‘I told him “She just used you, she has been texting and ringing me”.

‘He said “Why don’t you f*** off and leave me alone.” He pushed me. I pushed him back.

‘I saw something in his hand, I saw it was a knife in his right hand. I kicked the bottom of his wrist. I chased him, he slipped on the grass.

‘I kicked out at him I flung my arm out and stabbed him with the knife I had taken from him. I stabbed him but I didn’t


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Edinburgh and Aberdeen ranked in 'UK's top cities' Published duration 1 November 2018

Edinburgh and Aberdeen are among the top 10 places to live and work, according to an index of UK cities.

Across the UK this year's index shows a continuing gap between the highest performing cities of Oxford and Reading and the lowest ranking, Swansea and Sunderland.

The Scottish capital has slipped from fourth to sixth, as housing affordability has caused challenges.

Aberdeen climbed from 11 to nine in the rankings, with Glasgow at 25.

The Good Growth for Cities Index, run by PwC, measures the performance of 42 of the UK's largest towns and cities.

The index aims to show there is more to life, work and general wellbeing than simply measuring GDP.

Which places make it into the top 10?

Oxford Reading2005-07, well ahead of the UK average increase of 0.29 - driven, according to the report, by an improvement in skills among 25 to 64-year-olds.

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* Aida suffered a mishap on Nov. 13 when a stage accident halted weekend performances and resulted in minor injuries for two of the show's stars. Aida had just begun a pre-Broadwayrun when, in front of a stunned Chicago audience, a problem with the set during the show's final moments felled stars Headley and Pascal. According to an eyewitness report, while the two actors were being conveyed in a suspended boxlike "tomb" at the climax of the show, the set piece broke from its support and plunged approximately 8 feet to the stage.

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Headley and Pascal returned to the show on Nov. 18.

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by set problems. An earlier incarnation debuting at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in 1998 suffered repeated glitches with its pyramid set piece. The sets for the revamped Chicago-Broadway production are by noted set designer Bob Crowley (Carousel, Twelfth Night).

The second coming of Aida will play in Chicago until Jan. 9, 2000, after which it will move to New York's Palace Theatre on Feb. 23, for a March 23 opening.

The new Aida is vastly different from the production which opened at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Oct. 7, 1998. Of that show's stars, only Heather Headley, as Aida, and Sherie Rene Scott, as Amneris, remain. New is Adam Pascal (Rent) as Radames. Tony-winner Robert Falls is the piece's new director, taking over from Robert Jess Ross; and acclaimed set designer Bob Crowleyhas replaced Stanley A. Meyer. Also part of the new team is choreographer Wayne Cilento. Playwright Henry David Hwang has worked on the book of the show as a "creative consultant." Original bookwriter Linda Woolverton remains with the show.

Several of Crowley's stunning designs for Aida were revealed recently at a Disney presentation at the New Amsterdam Theatre intended to drum up group sales. Among the sets are a backdrop for Aida's native Nubia, in which the work "Nubia" is spelled out in letters several feet high, and a perspective-twisting backdrop of a David Hockney-like swimming pool, reminiscent of Crowley's work on The Capeman.

The presentation also featured several of Cilento's dances and stars Pascal, Headley and Scott singing the songs "Written in the Stars," "My Strongest Suit," "A Step


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Christopher Ireland, 26, was shot in the stomach in his basement apartment on Crown Street late Monday night. He was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he died yesterday morning. The shooter fled.

* The body of a man was found floating yesterday in the waters off Sunset Park, cops said.

Cops from the NYPD Harbor unit received a 911 call and responded to Pier 4 at 58th Street and First Avenue, where they discovered the unidentified body, police said.

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* An unidentified man was shot in the head yesterday by at least one suspect in Mount Eden, authorities said.

The attack occurred at Townsend Avenue near East 171st Street at about 3:36 p.m., cops said.

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* Police yesterday were investigating an apparent bias incident in which derogatory comments


were scrawled on an elevator in a New York Public Library branch in Harlem.

Sources said the insults were directed at a library worker.

The vandalism was discovered in an elevator at the library on West 125th Street near Old Broadway at about 11:15 a.m. Monday, cops said.of the huts we used to make as small ones. To stay isolated but at the same time close to our house, the city."

The parasitic structure makes use of a pair of concrete beams beneath the bridge deck as the runners for a set of wheels that allow the studio to be moved using a hand crank.

The metal and wood structure can be rolled along the beams to join a column, which is fitted with wooden shelves, a tabletop and a plastic chair, or towards the top of a bank that allows Abellanas to access the space.

The studio is designed as an urban cabin, offering retreat from the bustle of the city while being directly below a busy road.

The shelving offers a workspace but also stores bedding and


and 13 elementary schools, six black and seven white, and there were dual attendance zones.

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But by that time, the plaintiffs had instituted their federal court action seeking injunctive relief from this discrimination.  The district court ruled that the plaintiffs were entitled to relief and directed the defendants (hereinafter referred to collectively as the 'District') to eliminate segregation with all deliberate speed.  A desegregation plan, after revision and amendments, was approved by the district court on April 29, 1965.  The plan embraced a form of freedom of choice, beginning with the lower grades, over a three-step transitional period with full effectiveness in the 1968-69 school year, but it contained no provision for faculty desegregation.  The plaintiffs appealed, challenging freedom of choice as an acceptable methodthat motion.  The District filed its response.  Interrogatories were submitted.  On August 15 the district court ordered the District to file further modifications or an alternative by November 1.

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On October 9 the District filed its report setting forth, as of September 30, 1968, the number of students in each grade in each school and the number of minority students in each grade.  On November 1 a proposed modification of the plan was filed.  This recited that the District had operated under a freedom of choice procedure 'which has been most effective'; that the number of black children 'attending formerly white schools has almost doubled each year'; that zoning in the District 'would result in substantially less progress' and 'would, in fact, be moving


and to eliminate all vestiges of a dual system of schools.'

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At the April 9 hearing the plaintiffs produced a witness, presented as an expert, who proposed three alternatives to freedom of choice, namely, 'fluid attendance zones'; a combination of pairing, pooling, and zoning; or placing black pupils in the excess capacities in the white schools (a plan he did not favor).  His qualifications and his proposed alternatives were challenged by the District.  Against this was the testimony of the superintendent of schools that methods other than freedom of choice had been reviewed and that for this District at the elementary level freedom of choice 'offers the only chance of making a desegregated school system that will stay desegregated'; yet he did not feel 'that freedom ofF.2d 178 at 181, the September 1969 report on its very face is heartening.  It reveals that:

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1.  The two high schools are not racially identifiable.  Indeed, they could not be, for all 11th and 12th grade students attend the West Campus and all 10th grade students attend the East Campus.

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2.  The two junior high schools are not racially identifiable.  The ratio of whites to blacks there (76.76% For Barton and 73.775% For Rogers) closely approximates the 75.423% Ratio for all students in the District.  This was accomplished by freedom of choice in line with the District's hope and expectation and in the face of a most pessimistic prediction on the part of the plaintiffs.

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this coin, of course, is the increase in the number of black students attending formerly white elementary schools, namely, 323 in 1968-69 and 588 in 1969-70).  At the same time Murmil Heights is a racially identifiable white school.  And racial composition of still others may be somewhat suspect.  Carver and Rock Island are small schools, one located somewhat to the north of the District's central area, the other far to the south.  Fairview and Watson are larger; each is located in the southeast quadrant of the District not far from Murmil Heights.  Despite the short distance between the schools, the record reveals that Murmil Heights is separated from Fairview and Watson by a swamp and that a road across that swamp has notDistrict was able to accomodate all students who chose that school into other elementary schools of the District, Morning Star has been closed and the students who chose that school have exercised their choice to choose another elementary school in the District.'


This essay is the Introduction to Gaza Unsilenced, an anthology co-edited by Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad and published by Just World Books to mark the anniversary of Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza. The essay is reproduced here by permission of Just World Books to whom requests for further republication should be addressed.

Gaza Unsilenced will be launched July 8. Copies of the book can be preordered before then at justworldbooks.com/gaza-unsilenced.

On July 7, 2014, Israel launched a colossal ground, air, and naval assault on the Gaza Strip, the tiny Palestinian coastal enclave Israel controls. This was the third, and to date the worst, such assault waged by Israel against Gaza since 2008. It was an outrageous act of premeditated aggression to which the Israeli government gave the Orwellian namea still existent siege.

As Palestinians from Gaza who were watching the horror unfold from abroad, we were driven by a sense of urgency, despair, and obligation to curate and edit this book, to be a conduit for voices writing from and about Gaza, as a means for changing the narrative and thereby changing public opinions, which we hope can help push the long-standing U.S. policy of blind alliance with Israel in a different direction, and ultimately, let Gaza live.

Laila, an author, activist and mother of three, originally from Gaza City, was in the United States during the assault, where she makes her home along with her Palestinian husband, who is forbidden from returning to his native land, as are millions of other refugees. Refaat, a professor of English


literature, was in the middle of his PhD program in Malaysia, where he had been obliged to travel alone because the remainder of his family was unable to leave Gaza as a result of its near hermetic closure. We first met during an early 2014 book tour of the United States for Gaza Writes Back, a volume of short stories written by Refaat’s students in Gaza.

Besides being native Gazans, we both had another stake in this latest assault. Refaat had a deeply personal loss: his younger brother, Mohammed Alareer, 31, was killed by an Israeli missile in the presumed safety of his own home, leaving behind two young children and a wife. In his life, Mohammed was known as a loveable and somewhat mischievous character Karkour on thelocal television children’s program Tomorrow’s Pioneers. Refaat writes a deeply moving account of his relationship, and his brother’s untimely death, in the first chapter of this book (“The Story of My Brother, Martyr Mohammed Alareer”). Refaat lost four other distant relatives (three of whom were shot at short range) and eight in-laws, and dozens of his relatives lost their houses in the battered neighborhood of Shija’ia. Laila, whose aunts and uncles reside in Gaza, learned that nine members of her extended family, including five children, had been killed in a targeted Israeli strike—on the same morning in early August 2014 on which she was scheduled to participate in a Congressional briefing. Laila’s relatives were asleep inside their home when the first warning missile hit, killing half the family.


of the siege and blockade beyond 2014 and continuing with no end in sight, as part of an overarching and systematic Israeli policy to strip Palestinians of freedoms, livelihoods, and land.

A Brief History

Sometimes referred to as the world’s largest open air prison, a modern Warsaw ghetto, or other depictions that attempt to convey the cruel reality that this small corner of the world, our home, has become by design, Gaza is a very tiny place. It has a population of just over 1.8 million that is growing at a rate of three percent yearly, the thirteenth highest growth rate in the world. Its land mass is roughly that of the city of Philadelphia’s, a third of New York City, with a population density equal to that of Boston.It is a place where every space and plane is surveilled, occupied, and surrounded, where Israel’s ever-buzzing drones have become a disquieting, omnipresent fixture of the likewise besieged sky. It is a place defined by political paradoxes and subject to hegemonic hypocrisy—a place where your freedom to travel, to learn, to farm, to fish, to marry, to live, to build, or to simply be are controlled by an outside power, who nevertheless claims to have relinquished that control.

The modern-day Gaza Strip was carved out of a much larger British administrative swathe known as the Gaza District, which was connected without interruption to the rest of historic Palestine, and which was approximately three and a half times the size of the modern day Gaza Strip. As part of the


infamous Unit 101. Between 1956 and 1957, Israel briefly occupied Gaza and summarily executed more than a thousand Palestinian men and women, an event that Laila’s mother, Maii El-Farra, who was 11 years old at the time, recalls vividly. [6] In the early 1970s, Sharon, by then chief of the Israeli military’s Southern Command, hit Gaza hard in an attempt to crush the resistance in its refugee camps, bulldozing large blocks of entire neighborhoods to make way for army vehicles and deter future resistance, and burying alive many suspected fighters in the process.

In 1967, Israel invaded and formally occupied the entire Gaza Strip, along with the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem. Since then, Palestine has been suffocating under a brutally oppressive occupation.Palestinians, and in particular Israel’s violations of the 2012 truce with Palestinian factions in Gaza, were constant and continuous, though they went largely unreported by the Western media. An objective reading of the period prior to the 2014 offensive reveals hundreds of Israeli violations of the 2012 truce, ranging from shootings of farmers, to attacks on fishermen, to actual armed incursions into the Gaza Strip.

According to a study conducted by Yousef Munayyer in early 2014, “Israeli cease-fire violations have been persistent throughout and have routinely resulted in Palestinian injuries and deaths. Palestinian launches have been rare and sporadic and occurred almost always after successive instances of Israeli cease-fire violations.” [11] Munayyer traced and documented more than 100 Israeli violations that preceded the 2014 offensive. [12]

British journalist Ben White


without farms, students without classrooms, workers with no factories, fathers without jobs, children without parents, parents without children. An entire population was left reeling from severe trauma and a still unrelenting siege.

A War of Words

Gaza is a place drowning in euphemisms and the intentional semantic legerdemain that Israel uses to obscure its real intentions. Accompanying every attack, Israel rolls out a carefully considered operational name to evoke relief and comfort, even invoking the Bible: Operation Rainbow in 2004, Summer Rains in 2005, Autumn Clouds in 2006, Cast Lead in 2008, Pillar of Cloud in 2012. Spin-doctors are employed to sell these attacks to the international media in order to sustain them for as long as possible and to make them sound the only reasonable option at the disposablelarge-scale Israeli atrocity to unfold live on our timelines and social media feeds. During Operation Cast Lead of 2008–2009, Israel had at times imposed a complete media and telecommunications blackout of Gaza, but this was not the case during the 2014 attack.

Many have argued that social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, was an equalizer for Palestinians, accomplishing just that, leveling out the imbalance of power, and turning traditional media hierarchy on its head—or at the very least, that it provided the besieged with alternative tools of creative resistance with which to counter Israel’s bloody and fully funded offensive. On Twitter alone, for example, the hashtag #Gazaunderattack was used more than four million times in the first two weeks of the assault.

Israel, for its part, was funding digital war


Israel Accountable

Today, Gaza is back to the untenable status quo. The challenge of writing this book alone speaks volumes about that status quo: one of us, Laila El-Haddad, is based in the United States, and is unable to return to Gaza, though she possesses a Gaza residency identity card, or hawiya; when she does travel, her husband, a Palestinian with refugee status who is denied his right to return to his own native land by Israel, cannot travel with her. The other, Refaat Alareer, returned to Gaza shortly after the end of “Protective Edge”—but he has been unable to leave Gaza to resume his studies in Malaysia. Thusly, the fragmentation of the Palestinian people continues to be actively enforced by Israel. It took months of coordinating over Skype'Pravasi Friend' launched to address issues of NRIs

Kochi: Former Ranji Trophy cricket player S Manoj and selector of the Kerala cricket team P R Ganesh launched an organization 'Pravasi Friend', to address issues of NRIs. The organisation provides a complete range of services for NRIs and NRKs (non-resident Keralite) to tackle all their needs in their hometown.

Following the huge demand from customers, Pravasi Friend has begun extending their services to local people also.

According to Manoj, non-residents who come home on vacation find it difficult to complete a large list of mandatory tasks - ranging from government departmental services, legal services, medical services, spiritual needs, tours and travel to real estate purchases.

Keeping all these things in mind, Pravasi friend was launched to help those in need.

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such as Amenity, Heroin, Forced Down, Drive Like Jehu, and Crash Worship.

Pearson also attended metal shows at house parties, eventually discovering Che Café, an all-ages venue on the campus of UC San Diego. The Che frequently hosted underground metal and punk bands. At the venue he saw shows by Blast, Chain of Strength, Carcass, Chumbawamba, Crossed Out, Inside Out, Filth, and Sleep. Pearson befriended a number of the musicians, stating "I'd go [to the Che] and talk to all the bands. They were really down-to-earth people, but they had this art that was just mind-blowing. When they played they would turn into ax murderers on instruments." At the age of 16, his home situation escalated to Pearson having to fight back against his mother's boyfriend, and he wasNorth VietnaInese Inorale by the bOInbing, the generals had to assun1e the North VietnaInese to be psychologi- cally inferior to the British under the GerInan air raids of the Second \Vorld War-and, indeed, to theInselves. The Inilitary's theory proved false. The North VietnaInese insisted upon being treated as equals-as an enemy. At that point, the AdIninistration, if it was to pursue its objectives, had ver) little choice but to adopt a strategy of attrition. And because of the very na- ture of the war, that strategl Incant the attrition not only of encIny troops and Inilitary supplies but of all Viet- namese, in the South a" well as the North. No one in the AInerican gov- ernment consciousl) planned l po1iC) of genocide-the military c0111mand- ers would have


France or Italy during the Second "'T orld War. [n Europe, the AInericans rejected the USe of cheInical warfare, but in Vietna111 they used napaltn, phosphorus, tear gas, and defoliants of various kinds as a general practice and in such quantities as to render parts of the country unin- habitable. The use of a "body count" as the principal index of progl ess was also unique to the Vletna111 war. Be- sides all these unconventional 111ilitar) tactics, though to some extent the guid- ing force behInd theIn, was the West- moreland-Komer strategy for pacifica- tion: to reInove froIn the countryside all those people who could not be put under Inilitary occupation. The ARVK cOInInanders had no great record of hU111anitalian concern for civi]ians, but even the) would neverto the A111erican public no longer held. "That had looked like an atteInpt to "save Vietnam froIn C0111InunÎsIn" was, rather, an atteInpt to save AIner- ican "prestige" around the world. But the opportunity for that had already passed. The leaders of other nations had alread) seen what a sInall and de- tennined glOUp of people could do to the United States, and were in the process of dr.:l wing their conclusions. The AInel ican war effort had, then, become almost èntirel) solipsistic: the UnIted States govern111ent was trying " A . . " f A to save Inencan prestIge or Iner- icans alone, to convince itself of AIneri- can supenorIt) . -FRANCES FITzGERALD (T hÙ is the fourth of a series of five articles on TTietnaln.) . BLOCK


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CSO figures released today show a rise in employment in Ireland. There was an annual rise of 3.2% in the year until the third quarter of 2013, bringing total employment to 1,899,300.

On a quarterly adjusted basis, numbers in employment rose by 22,500 in this quarter. This also follows on from a seasonally adjusted increase in employment of 13,500 in the second quarter of 2013.

The unemployment rate over the quarter decreased from 13.6% to 12.8%. An unemployment decrease of 41,700 in the year brings the total number of people out of work down to 282,900.

The total number of persons in the labour force in the third quarter of 2013 was 2,182,100. This showed an increase of 16,300 over the year. The number of people not inWeb Stories

Thirty-two faculty members transfer to emeritus status

Posted June 12, 2013; 10:12 p.m.

by the Office of Communications

Thirty-two Princeton University faculty members were transferred to emeritus status in recent action by the Board of Trustees. All are effective July 1, 2013, except where noted. The faculty members are listed below, and their bios may be viewed by clicking on their names or scrolling down the page.

Leonard Babby, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has published widely in the field of generative linguistics and is a renowned scholar of Slavic languages and morphosyntactic theory. He was one of the first linguists to apply generative grammar to Slavic languages, seeking out the general laws and rules that governed their structure. In his 60 scholarly articles and five monographs, he has


tackled such subjects as a two-tiered theory of argument structure, impersonal sentences and negative existential sentences.

After spending 20 years at Cornell University, Babby came to Princeton in 1991, where he has served as the head of the Slavic languages and literatures department's Ph.D. Program in Slavic and Theoretical Linguistics and as director of the Program in Linguistics. He had also served as an assistant professor at Princeton in 1970-71. Babby earned his B.A. in Russian language and literature from Brooklyn College, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Mark Cohen (Photo by Brian Wilson)

Mark Cohen, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and professor of Near Eastern studies, is a distinguished historian of Jews in the medieval Islamic world. His published work includes studies ofMuslim-Jewish relations, Jewish social and economic history, the structure and functioning of the Jewish community, the Cairo Geniza, and Jewish law and society, as well as a translation and edition of the autobiography of a famous 17th-century Venetian rabbi. In addition to publishing scores of articles and books, Cohen established and has led the Princeton Geniza Project, an online database of transcriptions of documents used by scholars worldwide.

Cohen, who began teaching at Princeton in 1973, has also promoted understanding between Jews and Muslims in public talks and op-ed pieces. After receiving his A.B. from Brandeis University and M.A. from Columbia University, he received his M.H.L. and Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Martin Collcutt (Photo courtesy of Martin Collcutt)

Martin Collcutt, a professor of East Asian studies and history, developed


his interest in Japan after college, when he took a position teaching English in Japan, which led to learning Japanese, meeting his wife, and tutoring the then-crown prince in English. Since that time, he has focused his research and teaching on elements of Japanese history, religion and culture, including Zen Buddhism, the arts in medieval Japan, the aristocratic and warrior culture of the Heian and Kamakura periods, and Japan's relations with China and the West. Collcutt's principal publications include "Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan" in 1981; "Cultural Atlas of Japan" with Marius Jansen and Isao Kamakura in 1988; and the translation of "The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873, Volume 1," compiled by Kume Kunitake, in 2002.

Collcutt joined the Princeton faculty in 1975, served as chairof the East Asian studies department for three years and was director of the East Asian studies program for nearly 20 years, strengthening the intensive study of Chinese and Japanese. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge and his doctoral degree from Harvard.

John Conway (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

John Conway, the John Von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics and professor of mathematics, has made significant contributions in the fields of group theory, number theory, algebra, geometric topology, theoretical physics, combinatorial game theory and geometry over the last 50 years. In addition to dozens of articles and books, his accomplishments include inventing a new system of numbers, the surreal numbers, and, with Princeton Professor of Mathematics Emeritus Simon Kochen, proving the Free Will Theorem, which


stated that elementary particles can freely choose their spins in experiments, consistent with physical law.

Conway's numerous honors include the London Mathematical Society's Berwick Prize and Pólya Prize, Northwestern University's Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. Conway is a fellow of the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge, and he came to Princeton in 1986.

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Edward Cox, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology, has made seminal contributions in four major areas of biology: the genetics and population consequences of error rate control during DNA replication in microbial populations, the genesis of large-scale spatial patternsin simple developmental systems, the development of new ways to study single molecules in microfabricated environments, and the analysis of single molecular events in living bacterial cells in real time.

Cox joined the Princeton faculty in 1967, and served in several administrative posts, including as associate dean of the college from 1972 to 1977 and as chair of the Department of Biology from 1977 to 1987. He received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by training as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Frederick Dryer (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

Frederick Dryer, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has focused his research in the field of energy conversion, with particular interest in the chemistry of combustion and the chemical kinetics


of fuels and other materials. His work on ignition and combustion has contributed to fire safety-related issues, and for three decades he has collaborated with NASA on experiments related to isolated droplet burning in low-gravity environments.

Dryer received his B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He served as a member of Princeton's professional research staff for 10 years before joining the faculty in 1981. In addition to mentoring more than 50 students, Dryer served as undergraduate departmental representative from 1984 to 1987 and as associate dean of academic affairs for the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1987 to 1990.

Thomas Espenshade (Photo by Brian Wilson)

Thomas Espenshade's wide-ranging career as a professor of sociology and faculty associate in the Office of Population Research (OPR) hascovered families and household economics, contemporary immigration flows, the development of mathematical models, and the sociology of education and affirmative action. His publications include 150 articles and 13 books and monographs including the prize-winning book "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life."

Espenshade earned his B.A. from The College of Wooster, his master's degree at Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at Bowdoin College, Florida State University and Brown University and worked at The Urban Institute and U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service before joining Princeton in 1988. In addition to mentoring many cohorts of students and postdocs, Espenshade has served as the departmental representative and chair of the sociology department, as well as the director of graduate


studies of OPR.

Jacques Fresco (Photo courtesy of the Department of Molecular Biology)

Jacques Fresco, the Damon B. Pfeiffer Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of molecular biology, is a pioneer in the biochemistry of nucleic acids, and since his faculty appointment in 1960 he has helped develop the field at Princeton. Fresco's research has spanned several areas of DNA and RNA biochemistry, including tRNA structure and folding, gene repair for sickle cell anemia, mechanisms of spontaneous mutation and developing a rationale for the evolution of the genetic code. His research has been reported in many published papers, meeting abstracts, book chapters and patents.

After Fresco earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from New York University, he worked as a fellow at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, as an instructor inbiochemistry and pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine, and then as a senior fellow at Harvard and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. First in 1965 and then from 1974 to 1980, he served as chair of Princeton's biochemical sciences department, which later evolved into the Department of Molecular Biology. Fresco has remained active in research and teaching throughout his 53 years at Princeton — he is teaching this spring and just published a paper on his current research, which he intends to continue to pursue during his retirement.

Charles Gross (Photo courtesy of Charles Gross)

Charles Gross, a professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has contributed foundational work to the field of cognitive neuroscience. He has specialized in studying the primate visual system and


has revolutionized scientists' understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition. Throughout his career, Gross has studied neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of the brain, analyzing their visual functions as they relate to perception and learning.

After receiving his B.A. from Harvard, Gross studied ethology at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship before earning his Ph.D. in psychology there. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and faculty member at Harvard prior to joining Princeton's faculty in 1970. Among his many honors, Gross is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

András Hámori (Photo courtesy of András Hámori)

András Hámori, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of NearEastern Studies, is one of the foremost scholars of classical Arabic literature. His scholarship combines linguistic expertise with literary criticism, as in his pioneering 1974 text, "On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature." Hámori has written about a range of topics, from the Arabic background of some Hebrew poems from medieval Spain to the "Thousand and One Nights," and from the concepts of shame and prudence in an eighth-century mirror for princes to modern jihadist poetry.

Hámori earned his A.B. at Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard, and he began teaching at Princeton in 1967. He served as chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies from 1997 to 2005.

Marie-Hélčne Huet (Photo by David Dopkin)

Marie-Hélčne Huet, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French and Italian, has taught and researched


a number of topics throughout her career, with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century French thought and literature. Her publication topics include Jules Verne, the French Revolution, the monstrous in French Enlightenment writings and the culture of disaster. Huet's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and being awarded the title of Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for her contributions to culture and the arts.

Huet joined the Princeton faculty in 1999, after teaching at the University of California-Berkeley, Amherst College, the University of Virginia and University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate from the University of Bordeaux.

Morton Kostin (Photo by Leigh Photo and Imaging)

Morton Kostin, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been interested in a wide range of fields in science andfacilities of the University will enable him to devote full time to this exciting and enjoyable research.

Kostin received his bachelor's degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and his Ph.D. from Harvard. At Princeton, he served as a research associate, postdoctoral fellow and visiting lecturer before joining the faculty in 1964.

Heath Lowry (Photo courtesy of Heath Lowry)

Heath Lowry, the Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies and professor of Near Eastern studies, is a renowned scholar who has researched the entire chronological scope of Ottoman and modern Turkish history. He has written dozens of articles and books covering institutional, urban, cultural, economic, architectural and diplomatic histories of the region. They include "Trabzon Şehrinin İslamlaşma ve Türkleşmesi, 1461-1583" ("The Islamization and Turkification of


Trabzon, 1461-1583"), now in its fifth edition.

Prior to coming to Princeton in 1993, Lowry helped found the history department at Bosphoros University in Istanbul, was a senior research associate at Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and directed the Institute of Turkish Studies. He received his B.A. from Portland State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California-Los Angeles.

Richard Miles (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

Richard Miles, the Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is an expert in hypersonics and advanced laser diagnostics, and his research has spanned a range of topics including the use of lasers, electron beams, microwaves, morphing materials, and magnetic devices to observe, control, accelerate, extract power, and precondition gas flows for supersonic and hypersonic fluid dynamics, diagnostics, and propulsion applications.He invented a variety of diagnostics, including nonlinear optical methods to write and follow lines and patterns for the measurement of turbulence, and he has been a leader in the field of plasma interactions in air, including the use of magnetohydrodynamic forces to control boundary layers and extract power. His recent work involves imaging the dynamics of high-speed flows and using lasers and radar for standoff detection of trace contaminants in air. He expects to continue this research as an emeritus professor and senior research scientist.

Miles earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Stanford. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1972 and served as chair of the Program in Engineering Physics from 1980 to 1996. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Chiara Nappi (Photo by


Denise Applewhite)

Chiara Nappi, a professor of physics, has made important contributions to a broad range of problems in modern particle theory. She has contributed to mathematical physics, string theory, models of baryons in quantum chromodynamics, quantum black hole physics, and supersymmetric phenomenology.

Nappi has been a member of the Princeton theoretical physics community for more than 30 years. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1980 to 1983 and 1988 to 1999, and at Princeton was a senior research physicist from 1983 to 1988 and has been a professor since 2001. From 1999 to 2001, she was a professor at the University of Southern California. In addition to serving as director of graduate studies and departmental representative for undergraduates, Nappi has promoted science in avariety of venues, including writing in English and Italian publications about science education, serving on the board of the Princeton school system, and founding a summer school that aims to motivate women and minorities to persevere in advanced studies in theoretical physics. She earned her undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Naples.

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Susan Naquin, a professor of history and East Asian studies, is an eminent historian of late imperial China. Her studies of sectarian religion using Qing dynasty archives led to her first two books, "Millenarian Rebellion in China" and "The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774." Naquin's "Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900" used deep empirical research and analysis to show how the religious institutions of China's capital facilitated the city's vibrant


cultural, social and economic life during the Ming and Qing periods.

Naquin received her bachelor's degree from Stanford and her Ph.D. from Yale. She taught at UPenn before joining the Princeton faculty in 1993. She served as chair of the East Asian studies department from 2001 to 2005 and 2007-08, and received the Graduate Mentoring Award in 2009. Naquin's other honors include the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and American Council of Learned Societies.

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Edward Nelson, a professor of mathematics, has contributed to a number of fields of mathematics, including probability, logic, foundations, mathematical physics and analysis. In 1995, he won the Steele Prize for research ofseminal importance for his contributions to constructive quantum field theory. Nelson is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Nelson studied at the Liceo Scientifico Giovanni Verga in Rome before earning his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Prior to his appointment to the Princeton faculty in 1959, he spent three years as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.

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John Pinto, the Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of the History of Architecture and professor of art and archaeology, has focused on architecture, urbanism and landscape in Italy, especially Rome, throughout his career. One of his key publications is "Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy," which he co-authored with his former Smith College colleague


William MacDonald, and which won multiple prizes including the Book of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects. Pinto's other research interests include 18th-century architecture in Rome, the prints of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the image of Rome in art and literature.

Pinto earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, and he joined the Princeton faculty in 1988 after teaching at Smith for a dozen years. At Princeton, he served multiple stints as director of graduate studies and as acting chair; he also was associate chair from 1992 to 1999.

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Albert Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion, is one of the foremost scholars of African American religious history. His first book, "Slave Religion: The 'Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South," reshapedhistorians' understanding of black religious history and religious life, showing how black Christians reimagined their faith to make it give meaning to their own experience of slavery rather than accept the perspective of their oppressors.

Raboteau earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola Marymount University, a master’s in English from Berkeley, took graduate courses in theology from Marquette University, and his Ph.D. from Yale. He came to Princeton in 1982 after teaching at Yale and Berkeley. Raboteau has served in numerous administrative posts, including chair of the religion department and dean of the Graduate School.

François Rigolot (Photo by Carol Rigolot)

François Rigolot, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, is a prolific scholar of Renaissance literature, with more than 200 articles and book chapters to his name, along with nine


monographs and nine edited volumes. Many of his publications have examined the great writers of 16th-century France, and have investigated rhetoric, stylistics and poetics. Among Rigolot's many honors are a P.O. Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America, the Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite from the French government, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.

Rigolot studied at the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales before earning his M.A. in economics from Northwestern and his Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at Wisconsin, Michigan and Middlebury College before joining the Princeton faculty in 1974.

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Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, is a renowned historian of American cultural and intellectual life. Inhis prize-winning books, he has tackled the subjects of work ethic in the era of high industrialism, key words in American politics, social politics during the Progressive Era, and the fracture of major intellectual trends and identities in modern times.

After earning his bachelor's degree in engineering from Brown, Rodgers spent a year providing social services in Oregon through AmeriCorps, then known as Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA. He then completed his Ph.D. in American history at Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to Princeton in 1980. At the University, Rodgers was chair of the history department from 1988 to 1995 and 1997-98, directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 2008 to 2012 and won the President's Award for Distinguished


Teaching and Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

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Gilbert Rozman, the Musgrave Professor of Sociology, has spanned the fields of sociology, regional studies and international relations in his studies of China, Japan, Korea and Russia. His research covers the topics of pre-modern urbanization and modernization in Russia and East Asia, these societies' perceptions of each other, regionalism in Asia and national identity studies. Rozman's work has won him numerous grants and honors.

Rozman spent his junior year of college at Princeton studying Russian and Chinese in the University's Critical Languages Program. He earned his bachelor's degree at Carleton College and his Ph.D. from Princeton. Rozman has long been a proponent of internationalization efforts at the University, serving on the Councilon Regional Studies and chairing the Faculty Committee on International Experience in Undergraduate Education.

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Peter Schäfer, the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion, is a leading scholar of rabbinic Judaism and early Jewish mysticism. His scholarship shaped the way hekhalot manuscripts were compared and edited, and it offered an alternate narrative to their interpretation. Schäfer's work with rabbinic thought has covered comparative work on editions of the Talmud and the relationship between rabbinic thought and Christianity. He also has worked to make important manuscripts available online.

Schäfer studied at the University of Bonn and Hebrew University before earning his Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg and his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt. He taught at the University of Tübingen,


University of Cologne and Free University of Berlin before joining the Princeton faculty in 1998. Schäfer has been the director of the Program in Judaic Studies since 2005.

José Scheinkman (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

José Scheinkman, the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, will transfer to emeritus status on Sept. 1, 2013. Over his career, he has contributed to a number of areas of economics, including mathematical methods, theories of competition and industrial organization, macroeconomics, social interactions, asset-price bubbles, financial time series, and friction in financial markets.

Scheinkman received his B.A. from the Undersidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, his M.A. from the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. After teaching at the University of Chicago, he came to Princeton in1999, where he joined the economics department and helped build up Princeton's newly established Bendheim Center for Finance. In addition, Scheinkman has worked as a practitioner in finance in the United States and in public affairs in Brazil.

Anne-Marie Slaughter (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will transfer to emeritus status on Sept. 1, 2013. While serving as dean of the Wilson School from 2002 to 2011, she grew the faculty, especially in international relations; expanded the Master in Public Policy program and established the joint Ph.D. program; and created numerous centers and the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative. A scholar of international relations and international law,


Slaughter also served for two years as the director for policy planning for the U.S. State Department.

After receiving her A.B. from Princeton in 1980, Slaughter earned her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations from the University of Oxford and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She taught at the University of Chicago Law School and Harvard before joining the Princeton faculty in 2002. Slaughter will become the president of the New America Foundation in the fall.

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Robert Socolow, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is known for his interdisciplinary work on energy and the environment. His 1971 book "Patient Earth," with his Yale colleague John Harte, was one of the first books to combine the science and social issues involved in climate, energy,water and land use issues. Socolow is also well-known for his 2004 article in Science, with Princeton's Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Stephen Pacala, on climate change mitigation via stabilization wedges.

Zoltán Soos, a professor of chemistry, has conducted research at the intersection of chemistry and physics for nearly half a century. His research has focused on organic molecular solids, ion radical and charge transfer salts, neutral-ionic phase transitions, electronic excitations of conjugated polymers, triplet spin excitons and one-dimentional spin systems. Some of these areas have seen numerous applications with the rise of electronic devices over the last three decades. Soos has had a large network of collaborators, from his graduate students to Princeton colleagues, and from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., to the


University of Parma in Italy and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

Prior to coming to Princeton in 1966, Soos was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics at Harvard, and he earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology.

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Erik Vanmarcke, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, has explored a wide range of research interests in engineering throughout his career, including random fields and random media; risk assessment and management against earthquakes, wind and other hazards; energy density fluctuations in the early universe; and the formation of the cosmic structure. One of his most important contributions was his 1983 book "Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis," an introduction to randomfield theory across disciplines; the second expanded edition of the text was published in 2010 by World Scientific.

Vanmarcke received his bachelor's degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium, his master's degree from the University of Delaware, and his Ph.D. from MIT. He taught at MIT until he joined the Princeton faculty in 1985. His honors include the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2012 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal for distinguished achievement in safety and reliability studies and being named a distinguished member of the society, and election to the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium.

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Maurizio Viroli, a professor of politics, is a scholar of political theory and the history of political thought. His books have focused on Jean Jacques Rousseau,


Niccolň Macchiavelli, the language of politics, nationalism, and religion and politics, and he has also studied classical republicanism, constitutionalism, classical rhetoric, citizenship and civic education.

Viroli joined the Princeton faculty in 1987. He studied at the University of Bologna and received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. In addition to his visiting positions at other universities, he has served as an adviser to the president of the Italian Republic and is director of a Master in Civic Education program in Asti, Italy. Viroli currently has a faculty position at the University of Italian Switzerland, and he will take on a position at the University of Texas-Austin in spring 2014.

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Frank von Hippel, a professor of public and international affairsin the Wilson School, is a nuclear physicist and an expert on nuclear arms control and proliferation policy. Early in his career, he researched elementary particle physics theory. He then developed an interest in public policy and has worked on proposals related to the elimination of the production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium. Von Hippel lent technical support to Mikhail Gorbachev's initiatives to achieve a Comprehensive Test Ban and arms reductions treaties, worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-founded the International Panel of Fissile Materials.

Von Hippel earned his bachelor's degree at MIT and his Ph.D. at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After holding positions at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Argonne National Laboratory and Stanford, he came


to Princeton in 1974. In 1975, von Hippel co-founded what is now Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security.

Andrew Wiles (Photo by Denise Applewhite)

Andrew Wiles, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, transferred to emeritus status Sept. 1, 2012. He received widespread acclaim for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, which had been unsolved for more than three centuries, in a 1995 paper titled "Modular Elliptic Curves and Fermat's Last Theorem" in the Annals of Mathematics. In doing so, Wiles brought fundamental new techniques into number theory, and he has made many other contributions to number theory through his research and his advising of graduate students at Princeton. Wiles also chaired the mathematics department from 2005 to 2009.

Wiles received his undergraduate degree at Oxford and hisPh.D. at Cambridge. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1982, and after his transfer to emeritus status he became the Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford. Wiles' many awards include the Shaw Prize and being knighted as Sir Andrew Wiles by the Queen of England.

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Michael Wood, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is a prominent literary and cultural critic with a column in the London Review of Books and a long list of publications to his name. His interests include film studies, postcolonialism and literary criticism, and he is an expert on the modern novel in English, French, German and Spanish.

After earning his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at Cambridge, Wood took his first teaching position there.


He traveled as a freelance writer and taught at Columbia and the University of Exeter before coming to Princeton in 1995. He chaired the Gauss Seminars in Criticism from 1995 to 2001 and the English department from 1998 to 2004.been paying attention to the district because he’s running for president,” said Scott Ferson, a Massachusetts Democratic strategist who advised Moulton in 2014.

Making matters more complicated for the members of Congress seeking the White House is that all three have clashed with Democratic leadership, both in their home states and in Washington.

Swalwell won his seat in Congress by ousting Rep. Pete Stark (D), the dean of California’s congressional delegation when Swalwell beat him in 2012.

The most significant threats Moulton faces come from women who are considering mounting a challenge. Several Massachusetts political watchers pointed to state Rep. Lori Ehrlich (D) and Kim Driscoll (D), the mayor of Salem, as potential rivals.

"The biggest threat to Seth Moulton keeping that congressional seat is a woman running against him. He opened


the door when he opposed Nancy Pelosi," said Mary Anne Marsh, a Boston-based Democratic strategist. "Kim Driscoll is somebody who a lot of people think could run, should run, and would win if she did."

“If Nancy Pelosi wanted to have some payback, that would be a concern," Ferson said.

In Hawaii, where political memories are long, Gabbard beat out a crowded field that included former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann (D) to win her seat. She angered some Democrats with her opposition to same-sex marriage, a stand she has since reversed. And she roiled many by visiting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad at the height of a bloody civil war, in which Assad had been accused of war crimes.Los Angeles Times – At 32, Walter, an aquatic ecologist, is a rising star among the thousands of scientists who are struggling to map, measure and predict climate change. Parts of her doctoral dissertation on Siberian lakes were published in three prestigious journals in 2007: Science, Nature and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. According to one of her studies, methane emissions from Arctic lakes were a major contributor to a period of global warming more than 11,000 years ago. Video and news story available through the Los Angeles Times.


Candidate collision event in the CMS detector. Image copyright CERN.

The first protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider today at CERN outside Geneva, Switzerland. The four largest detectors at the LHC all recorded candidate collision events. Scientists at CERN, throughout the United States, and around the world celebrated the news.

"This is a very exciting moment after so many years of preparation,” said Andrew Lankford from the University of California, Irvine, deputy spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment. Beams were first tuned to produce collisions in the ATLAS detector, which recorded its first candidate for collisions at 2:22 p.m. local time. "The real accomplishment belongs to the accelerator scientists for bringing the beams into collision so quickly after they were first circulated,” he added.

These first collisions are another milestone onthe way to the ultimate goal: high-energy collisions of protons in the center of the LHC experiments. They follow a weekend of rapid progress for the LHC. After more than one year of repairs, on Friday evening, November 20, beams were once again circulating in the collider. Over the weekend, the LHC team carefully studied the beams one at a time. Today at approximately 1:30 local time, two beams circulated at the same time for the first time in the LHC. As the two circulating beams passed through each other, protons from each beam hit one another, and the resulting spray of particles registered in the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb detectors.

Celebrations on Friday, November 20, when the first beams of 2009 successfully circulated in the LHC. Image


will also be used by scientists to calibrate and test many other parts of the complex detectors.

The first two protons collided at the relatively low energies with which they were injected into the LHC, 450 GeV each. Over the next few months, LHC scientists will raise the beam energy, aiming for collisions at the world-record energy of 3.5 TeV per beam in early 2010. With these high-energy collisions, the teams on the LHC experiments will embark on their quest to solve some of the mysteries of the universe.

American scientists have contributed critical components to the construction of the LHC accelerator and experiments, continue to play key roles in the operation of the detectors, and will be vital to the success of the experiments in their search for newRobert Cumber

Police officers are facing misconduct hearings after a protest by pensioners at Sheffield station ended with two people being arrested.

One police officer has a case to answer for gross misconduct, a police watchdog has ruled, while three other officers and a police community support officer (PCSO) have cases to answer for misconduct.

George Arthur and Tony Nuttall, who were arrested during the protest and later charged (Ross Parry / SWNS Group)

The hearings were ordered over British Transport Police's handling of a demonstration at Sheffield train station in June 2014 against cuts to travel passes for the elderly and disabled.

George Arthur and Tony Nuttall, both in their 60s, were arrested and charged with obstruction and fare evasion, before the charges were dropped that December.

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a separation of "religion and health care."

Item 2: Gordon College, a small Christian school north of Boston, is facing the possibility of having its accreditation revoked by the higher education commission of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, according to an article in the Boston Business Journal. Since accreditation determines a school's eligibility to participate in federal and state financial aid programs, and the eligibility of its students to be accepted into graduate programs and to meet requirements for professional licensure, revoking a school's accreditation is a big deal — and can even be a death sentence.

What has Gordon College done to jeopardize its accreditation? It has chosen to enforce a "life and conduct statement" that forbids "homosexual practice" on campus.

Now, one could imagine a situationand traditions based on them. The problem is also the dogmatic denial of the beauty and wisdom contained within those beliefs, ways of life, and traditions. (You know, the kind of thing that leads a doctor to risk his life and forego a comfortable stateside livelihood in favor of treating deadly illness in dangerous, impoverished African cities and villages, all out of a love for Jesus Christ.)

Contemporary liberals increasingly think and talk like a class of self-satisfied commissars enforcing a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. The idea that someone, somewhere might devote her life to an alternative vision of the good — one that clashes in some respects with liberalism's moral creed — is increasingly intolerable.

That is a betrayal of what's best in the liberal


'I had my first sexual encounter with a guy when I was 17... I hated myself': Rugby champ Gareth Thomas' secret suicide torment

Since coming out in 2009 former rugby star Gareth Thomas has become a role model for other young men struggling with their sexuality.

But it hasn't always been so easy for the Dancing On Ice star, who has revealed during a soul-searching documentary on his secret past the lengths he would endure to cover up his sexuality, which drove him to contemplating suicide.

In the Channel 5 documentary Gareth is deeply honest about his first intimate encounter with a man at a party, but said he felt such shame afterwards he scrubbed himself clean afterwards.

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Reflective: Gareth has bared his soul for the documentary, which featuresprevious unseen footage of the former rugby champ

Straight-talking: Gareth came out in 2009, after being married for six years - he is the first professional rugby player to openly reveal his homosexuality

He said: 'I had my first sexual encounter with a guy when I was 17, I hated myself so much after I remember trying to scrub myself clean.

'I had a lot of anger, I didn't like myself after I stepped off the field.'

Gareth, who admits he regularly felt suicidal because of his deception, admits his sport was often a double-edged sword.

Although enjoying the escapism and violence of rugby, the talented player would often feel marginalised in the often homophobic sport.

Hiding his pain: Gareth said rugby was a form of escape for him, and the violence saved him


from the streets

Dancing On Ice: Since leaving rugby Gareth has gone on to star in a series of reality shows, including this year's Dancing On Ice

He explains if it wasn't for the violence of the sport he fears he would be in prison as the aggressive sport was a chance for him to let out steam, which otherwise he would have taken to the street.

He said: 'If I didn't have the rugby to cope with the aggression i would have been locked up years ago. If you are known as a tough guy, you are not gay.'

In My Secret Past: Gareth Thomas Coming Out, the 38-year-old heart-breakingly reveals: 'When I couldn't handle being around the people I was deceiving, I'd walk for hours along the local cliffs.

Tormented: NowGareth is helping others deal with their sexuality struggles

'During my worst times, I'd come here everyday with the thought I was going to kill myself. I hated being Gareth Thomas.

'I hated the man in the mirror, I hated it so much I wanted to die.'

Gareth's brave choice to become the first openly gay professional rugby player has won him praise from teammates and charities.

But the former Celebrity Big Brother star is still haunted by the secret life he led while being married to blonde Jemma.

His best friend: Gareth said even though he had flings, he never cared for anyone in the way he cared for his ex wife Jemma

He admits sleeping with men while married and the pair filed for divorce after six years in 2007.

'For me getting