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FRESHLY MINTED WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL DEAN CECILIA ROUSE WANTS MORE LUNCH OPTIONS, HAS A SUPREME MIDDLE NAME, SAYS HARVARD IS FUN

Name:  Cecilia Elena Rouse
Hometown: Del Mar, CA

What did you do this summer?
I spent a good part of the summer with my family in France, Switzerland, and Prague.  We took a long overdue vacation.

What do you think are the most pressing policy issues, domestic and international, that we need to work on?
I believe that ensuring public institutions (of all kinds) are structured adequately for our changing population and the increasingly global economy is key, especially as we continue recovering from the Great Recession.  I’m thinking of not only of reform of our entitlement programs and provision of education and health care, but also of the various policies in place that affect the business environment.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
There are too many wonderful Princetonians to choose from.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
My husband’s chicken with black beans and rice.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
At the moment, as dean I’m spending a lot of time listening.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Watching bad movies.

What is the one thing you want to change the most about Princeton/WWS?
More places to go for lunch and dinner.

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Sep 22, 2012

21 Questions with … Dean Cecilia Rouse

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Photos taken by Robert Joyce '13 and Prathik Root '12 (Middlebury College).

Study abroad took on a whole new level of intensity for Robert Joyce ’13, one of five Princeton students who were supposed to spend this semester in Egypt.

Joyce, who was on a program with Middlebury College in Alexandria, just returned to the United States a few days ago. His story of what he and fellow students saw during the Egyptian protests involves tear gas, burning trucks, and staying up all night to fight off thugs with a nail-studded 2×4. Basically, like something out of an action movie.

The other four students were Oren Samet, Michael Gibbs, Kelly Roache and Tal Eisenzweig, all juniors who were on a Woody Woo task force in Cairo. All of them are safely back in the U.S. now, and meeting with a dean today to discuss options for the rest of the semester.

Read the full story at thePrinceton Packet and Newsweek.com.

Feb 4, 2011

IN PRINT: Students Escape from Cairo and Alexandria

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If you play your cards right (and beat me to it), all this could be yours...

If you play your cards right (and beat me to it), all this could be yours...

Over the next few days (November 11-13), the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination of Princeton University will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary. We’ve come a long way, baby!

This unique institution is one of the few university organizations that can say that it was co-founded by a reigning monarch (…the Prince of Liechtenstein), and one of the even fewer university organizations that uses the phrase “geostrategic perspectives” in its mission statement.

According to the institute’s website, it concerns itself primarily with issues of self-determination, “especially pertaining to the state, self-governance, sovereignty, security, and boundaries with particular consideration of socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious issues involving state and non-state actors.”

This is particularly fitting for an institute founded by the rulers of a place so small that Snoop Dogg once tried to rent out the entire country for a video shoot.

Liechtenstein, referred to fondly by Wikipedia as Europe’s favorite doubly landlocked alpine microstate, is known for winter sports, tax scandals, and being the world’s largest producer of sausage casings, potassium storage units and false teeth.

The Liechtenstein Institute Colloquium’s scheduled events and highlights include panels on religion and diplomacy, self-determination and sovereignty, the state and the international system, and crisis diplomacy.

We will also be graced by the dreamy presence of the big man himself: His Serene Highness Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (H.S.H.P.H.-A.I.I.o.L. for short).

No, he doesn’t have any eligible heirs apparent (believe me, I checked)

But if you’re interested in a little mercenary homewrecking, HSH is going to be giving a welcome speech in the University Chapel today at 4:30.

Dress to impress!

Nov 11, 2010

Putting the “Prince” back in “Princeton”

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Look, we get it. One of the greatest perks of going to Princeton is the free food. I say this with only a small amount of sarcasm, because we, too, have experienced the bliss of stumbling across a platter of abandoned cookies from Olives or walking into a study break just in time to snatch the last samosa.

And we, like many before us, have wondered just how easy it would be to be a freegan here at Princeton. Last week we even gave you “The Scavenger’s Guide to Princeton” to share our wealth of free food-related knowledge.

But you gotta have style.

Not to point any fingers (You’ll get this pun in a minute.) but we’re talking to you, Woody Woo.

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Oct 10, 2010

Enjoy your free food, but keep it classy

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While you were slumbering at 9 AM this past Saturday, a host of big names descended upon Robertson Hall.

New Jersey U.S. Representatives Holt and Lance, your favorite ECO professors Alan Blinder and Uwe Reinhardt, former Dubya Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, and numerous WWS professors all came together to discuss the challenges facing American policy makers after the Great Recession.

This looks boring, but Reinhardts lecture was actually hysterical

This looks boring, but Reinhardt's lecture was actually hysterical

Christina Romer, the Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers delivered the keynote address, and former Goldman Sachs CEO and Jersey Governor (and future visiting professor) Jon Corzine capped off the day.

They all emphasized a “return to normal” after the Great Recession, and the opportunities the moment’s created for American policymakers to make the normal we return to even better than it was before.

You can read the full story at the Wilson School website.

Apr 19, 2010

IN PRINT: Return to a “Better Normal” stressed at 2010 WWS Policy Colloquium

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Professors Douglas Massey, Daphne Brooks, Jeffrey Stout, and Imani Perry discuss Obama's 2008 campaign

Professors Douglas Massey, Daphne Brooks, Jeffrey Stout, and Imani Perry discuss Obama's 2008 campaign

Princeton professors in African American Studies, history, politics, public affairs, religion and sociology weighed in on President Obama’s 2008 campaign and his success in office so far at Tuesday’s symposium, “Race, American Politics, and the Presidency of Barack Obama.”  While they acknowledged the huge societal implications of his election, panelists stressed that race relations in the United States are still far from stable.

We’re not going to move into a post-racial world, but rather into a different racial world. The demographic writing is on the wall,

said Douglas Massey, professor of sociology and public affairs,

You can change political structures quickly, but it takes longer to alter racial ideologies. We’ve changed our principles as a nation, but the sentiments still linger.

Read the full story in the Princeton Packet here.

Apr 16, 2010

IN PRINT: University Panel Ponders Race and Obama Presidency

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While earthquakes have been rattling cities across the Western hemisphere in the past few months, the most devastating to date remains the Haitian quake of January 5. Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph came to speak to students and faculty in Dodds Auditorium this past Tuesday, and there he emphasized plans for a “new Haiti.”

His outline includes a decentralization of the country’s administrative and economic structure, attracting foreign investment, and rebuilding a tourist industry.

The lecture capped the Ambassador’s day at Princeton, which included a meeting with the engineering and architecture students and faculty to discuss sustainable reconstruction efforts in Haiti.

Read the full story at the Princeton website.

Apr 8, 2010

IN PRINT: Haitian Ambassador stresses need for “New Haiti”

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Upon turning in their senior theses today at 4:00 P.M., the Woody Woo senior class took their traditional post-thesis swim in the Robertson fountain to commemorate the occasion.

Armed with an inflatable boat, some paddles, and a floatie or two, a very excited group clad in their “Right tools for the job” shirts splashed around in the spring sun.

Oh, to be so carefree! Congrats, guys.

(Not pictured: A very dry set of Politics majors standing on the steps of Corwin.)

Apr 7, 2010

“The right tools” take a dip in Robertson fountain

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Not impressed by your thesis (image via wonkette.com)

Not impressed by your thesis (image via wonkette.com)

A university press release from this afternoon states Jon Corzine, New Jersey governor from ’06 to ’10, former co-CEO of Goldman Sachs and today named chairman and CEO of brokerage MF Global, will lead a public lecture series on financial market regulation in the fall and teach a graduate course on state policy in the spring.

Note, this is the same former New Jersey governor who underhandedly called his opponent fat in a 2009 election ad:

An important guy in public service with i-banking experience and a smug sense of humor? If this isn’t a Woody Woo major’s wet dream, I seriously don’t know what is.

Read the story at the Princeton news site.

Mar 23, 2010

Former U.S. senator, NJ governor, and Goldman exec Jon Corzine to join WWS faculty next year

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New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner spoke about the effects of the Great Recession on New Jersey’s judicial system in a public talk on March 3. Rabner said that the justice system can help alleviate the suffering of residents, though he added that layoffs make this task trickier.

Rabner, a 1982 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School, gave the School’s annual John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Robertson Hall.

Rabner explained that a statewide mandatory mediation program was implemented in response to the staggering increase in the number of contested foreclosure cases. In the past year, the number of foreclosure cases has tripled with nearly five thousand cases being filed per month, he said. Now, judges require a mediation session before a foreclosure case can come to court.

“The goal is to get borrowers and lenders to sit together at a table to try to work through the problem that exists in their contractual relationship and see if we can stave off foreclosures,” Rabner said. “The role of the court system is to ensure that there is a neutral forum where individual rights of both sides are respected and protected.”

Read the entire story here.

Mar 10, 2010

IN PRINT: NJ Supreme Court Justice on The Great Recession

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Toy trucks and tomes

Toy trucks and tomes

Jonathan Krohn, 14 year old conservative pundit and author of Define Conservatism, is already thinking about college. Which? Hint: Rhymes with Cringeton.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Krohn noted his desire to attend Princeton some time in the future. Why? Mr. Robert George teaches here, of course:

“He goes on both sides of the aisles,” Jonathan says, “I love Robbie George.”

Oh, how young and smart, but yet so naïve.

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Feb 16, 2010

Better know a pre-frosh: Jonathan Krohn

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Do you like the New York Times? Do you like hearing really, really interesting people speak? Well have we got the lecture for you.

The University Press Club is excited to bring New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn M.P.A. ’88 to Princeton. They’ll give a lecture titled “Half the Sky” at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, on Thursday, February 4, in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall. (That’s Woody Woo, in case you were wondering.)

And if that’s not enough, they’ll stick around for a book signing of their new book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”

Get there early – seats will be limited.

The Louis R. Rukeyser ’54 Memorial Lecture Series seeks to promote interest in the pursuit of journalism and to raise awareness of the role of the media in society. The event is also sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

Feb 3, 2010

New York Times columnist/Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to give talk at Woody Woo tomorrow

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