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May 16, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu
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Open AA Meeting
Alumni and their families
are welcome at
Reunions AA Haven
Murray-Dodge East Room
Friday & Saturday
June 1 & 2
5 pm - 6 pm
Feel free to drop by the
AA Haven for fellowship
from 7 pm - 2 am
Frist Campus Center,
Class of 1952 Room.
Reunions!
A Pro-Life,
Pro-Family
Alumni
Gathering…
Princeton Pro-Life &
The Anscombe Society
with special guest
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence, Director
James Madison Program
Friday
June 1, 2012
4:30-6:00 pm at
Butler College,
1915 Room
For more information go to
princeton.edu/~prolife or
blogs.princeton.edu/anscombe
to the search for purpose and meaning,
then so much for academia!
Finally, it is also worth pointing out
that as this is written, Jewish Princetonians
around the world — religious
and secular alike — will celebrate the
holiday of Passover, and will recount to
their children the story of the Exodus
from Egypt. No nation, before or after,
has ever had the audacity to claim that
3 million people all experienced a
revelation of Divinity together (as
revelation narratives involving lone
individuals are much more difficult to
refute!). The unbroken chain of tradition
passed from father to son may or
may not persuade, but it certainly constitutes
“evidence” and should not be
disregarded so flippantly.
JAKE GREENBERG ’00
London, U.K.
The lesson Italy provides
Professor Maurizio Viroli says that “Italians
have never been good at defending
their own liberties because Italians are
extremely hostile to the rule of law and
to the idea of civic duties. They think
those are only good for fools and idiots”
(A Moment With, Feb. 8). There’s a lesson
there for Americans. For at least the
last couple of decades, there’s been an
incessant assault on the concept of civic
duties, on American talk radio and
cable TV. It bodes ill.
JOHN HELLEGERS ’62
Jenkintown, Pa.
Taking risks for race relations
It can be argued that the seeds of the
current Princeton Prize in Race Relations
were sewn in the early 1960s by
the efforts of John F. Kennedy ’39, John
Doar ’44, and Nicholas Katzenbach ’43
to ensure the desegregation of Southern
universities. Few remember the
risks, personal and political, that these
individuals took to do the right thing.
In September 1962, James Meredith
was refused admission to the University
of Mississippi. On Oct. 2, 1962, John
Doar, acting at the direction of President
Kennedy, confronted Gov. Ross