Mar 10 Faculty Speaker: Professor Armin Rosencranz
Mar 11 Second Thursday at Ireland’s Four Provinces
Mar 22 Donald Kennedy Breakfast Briefing
Mar 23 Tristan und Isolde at Washinton Opera
Mar 24 Modern Drama Discussion Group-Translations
Mar 28 United States Naval Academy Tour, Concert,
Reception
Professor Armin Rosencranz
Director, Environmental Policy Track, Program in Human Biology
Wednesday, March 10
7:00 P.M.
Environment and Development in India: The Role of the Judiciary
As one of the largest developing nations in the world, India faces hard choices
between economic development and preservation of the environment. In
maintaining this often dynamic balance, the Indian judiciary has become an
increasingly prominent actor. Professor Rosencranz will discuss how the role
of the courts has evolved, and the part they now play in national environmental
and development policy. Based on his extensive travels in the area,
Professor Rosencranz will also address changes he has seen in India, from
his first long stay there as a Fulbright Professor in 1983, to a visit just
last month.
Professor Rosencranz, the visiting professor at SIW this term, has earned
three degrees from Stanford, including a PhD and JD. He presently heads the
Environmental Policy Program within Human Biology. He was the founder of
the Pacific Environment and Resources Center, an NGO focused on global forest
and wildlife protection. He is the author of Environmental Policy and Law
in India and Economic Approaches to Protecting India’s Environment.
Complimentary wine and light refreshments will be offered from 7:00 P.M.
to 7:30 P.M.; talk follows.
The Stanford in Washington campus is located at 2661 Connecticut Avenue,
NW, one block north of the Woodley Park Metrorail stop. For further information,
contact Claire Taplett at 703-534-5920; e-mail
taplett@juno.com
Second Thursdays
Thursday, March 11
6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little early with some Stanford alums
at Ireland’s Four Provinces (4 P’s) in Cleveland Park.
From 6:00-8:00, the happy hour specials are $1.65 Bud, Bud Light and 4 P’s
Amber Ale; $3.25 Guinness and imported drafts. Live music starts at 8:30,
so stick around. We’ll be at the bar and at a couple of long tables near
the jukebox. Ask the bartenders, and they’ll point you in the direction of
the Stanford crowd.
Ireland’s Four Provinces is located at 3412 Connecticut Avenue, one block
south of the West exit at the Cleveland Park Metro stop on the Red line.
Keep your eyes open for the location of the April event. For more information,
or to offer suggestions on locations, contact Callista Chen at (202) 319-1841
or
callista@alumni.stanford.org.
March Madness!!!
Get ready to root for the Stanford Cardinal Men’s Basketball team as it battles
its way towards the NCAA Final Four. Because the NCAA has not released the
basketball tournament draw yet, the WDCSA will organize viewings in the upcoming
weeks. Check your e-mail or call the hotline (301-230-5575) for information
in the next week.
Washington Opera
Tuesday, March 23
7:00 P.M.
WDCSA still has 5 orchestra seats for Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, our last
opera of the season. “It was yet another triumph for the Washington Opera,
which has saved its best for last this season,” according to the Washington
Post review, which also raved that “Carol Yahr made a triumphant Isolde,
singing with oceanic power and passion…” Join 15 other Stanford opera-goers
on the 23rd for a grand night at the opera!
Opera: Tristan und Isolde
Date: Tuesday, March 23
Place: Orchestra seats, Kennedy Center Opera House
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Cost: $98
To reserve: Please send a check, payable to WDCSA, to Julie Campbell, 2601
Klingle Road NW, Washington, DC 20008. Questions? Call Julie at 202-244-0206
or email her at juliesed@aol.com.
Modern Drama Discussion Group
Wednesday, March 24-Translations
Dinner 6:00 P.M.
Discussion 7:30 P.M .
Brian Friel’s play Translations (1980) tells of the British army’s efforts
in 1833 to change Irish place names from Gaelic into English. The drama group
will meet at Luna Books, 1633 P St., NW (Dupont Circle metro) for dinner
at 6:30 P.M. The discussion, featuring Friel scholar Professor George O’Brien
and Translations director Mark Rhea, begins at 7:30. Call Karen Veninga BA’80
((703) 465-7579) or visit
www.footlightsdc.org
Membership Directory
The WDCSA annual membership directory has been sent to the printer and will
be mailed to members third class . Look for it in the next few weeks.
Donald Kennedy Breakfast Briefing
Monday, March 22, 1999
7:45 to 9:00 A.M.
The Washington D.C. Stanford Association invites you to a breakfast briefing
with Donald Kennedy, Stanford University President emeritus
GOVERNANCE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND CONFLICT
Donald Kennedy, professor at Stanford since 1960 (currently Bing Professor
of Environmental Science), Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Environmental
Science and Policy, and President of the University from 1980-1992, has
maintained an ongoing interest in environmental policy issues. His present
research program, conducted partially through the Institute for International
Studies at Stanford, consists of interdisciplinary studies on the development
of policies regarding such trans-boundary environmental problems such as:
major land-use changes, economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice,
global climate change, and the development of regulatory policies. Kennedy,
with several colleagues, recently completed Environmental Quality and Regional
Conflict, an analysis for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
Don would like to share the thoughts and recommendations of this analysis
with us on March 22.
Environmental Quality and Regional Conflict proceeds from the assumption
that environmental quality, and in particular, degradation that may result
from the rapid pace of environmental change, is likely to be a risk factor
for future conflict-conflict between groups within a country, between nations
or between regions. The study focuses on future problems that might arise
as a consequence of population growth, climate change, resource shortages,
land use and land cover change, and other vectors. Also examined are
environmental hardships that may weaken state capacity, such as transboundary
pollution (e.g., China and acid rain) or contests over shares resources (e.g.,
water rights in international rivers). What measures can or should be taken
to avoid or lessen the likely problems? Who should undertake these
measures?
Kennedy, who chaired the Department of Biology at Stanford and helped create
the Program in Human Biology, served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration during President Carter’s administration. He currently
chairs the Advisory Board of the Center for Science, Mathematics and Engineering
Education of the National Academy of Sciences.
Place: Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th Street, N.W.
Metro: Metro Center (13th and G Streets, N.W.)
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999
Time: 7:45 to 9:00 A.M.
Menu: Continental breakfast
Cost: $13.00 per person
Make checks payable to Washington DC Stanford Association and send them by
March 19 to: Terry Adlhock c/o Florida Power Corporation, Suite 250, 801
Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington DC 20004, tel. (202) 783-5560, e-mail:
tadlhock@aol.com
United States Naval Academy Tour, Concert, and Reception
Sunday, March 28
Come join us for a spring afternoon at the Naval Academy. We will begin with
a half-mile walking tour led by CAPT Jo Dee Catlin Jacob, “Mayor of the Yard,”
BA ’73, and Deputy for Operations at the Naval Academy. We will meet at 1:30
at the USNA Visitor Center right inside Gate 1. The tour, which includes
a 10-min film at Visitor Center, will take us through athletic facilities,
Memorial Hall and Bancroft Hall, the world’s largest dormitory, housing over
4,000 Midshipmen.
The tour will end at 2:45 at the USNA Chapel, where the one-hour organ concert
begins at 3 P.M. Internationally acclaimed university organist Monte Maxwell
will perform an all Bach program, including J.S. Bach’s ever-popular Little
Fugue in G-minor as well as a unique performance of P.D.Q. Bach’s Toote Suite
for 4-hands. After the concert (approximately 4 P.M.), we will walk about
1 block to CAPT Jacob’s quarters at 11 Porter Road for a reception with beverages
and hors d’oeuvres. 11 Porter Rd is a Victorian mansion on historic “Captains
Row” designated a National Historic site. The cost is $10 per person for
the reception; the tour and concert are free.
Please send check, payable to WDCSA, to Bill Pegram, 815 South 18th, #400,
Arlington, VA 22202 by Tuesday, March 23, (703) 486-0952 or
DCSTANALUM@aol.com. If you would
like to come on the tour, but will not stay for the reception, please let
us know. If you would like to watch the Navy vs. Brown varsity baseball game,
it begins at noon.
From Washington, D.C.: Take US Route 50 East for 35 miles and get off on
Rowe Blvd., Exit 24. Take Rowe Blvd. 1.6 miles to where it deadends at College
Ave. – make a left turn. Go to the first stop light, this will be King George
St. – make a right turn. Follow King George St. for two blocks. Enter Gate
1, Visitor’s Parking is on your right. Visitor’s Center is located straight
ahead as you come in the gate 1 on the right hand side.
From Baltimore: Take either Interstate 97 South to route 50. Follow route
50 to Rowe Blvd., Exit 24. Follow directions above.
Looking Ahead to April
Old Rag Mountain Hike
Saturday, April 17
Come enjoy the springtime with the WDCSA at Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah
National Park. We’ll follow with more information in next month’s newsletter.
Christmas in April
Saturday, April 24
Roll up your sleeves and get ready to participate in a nationwide volunteer
effort. A team of Stanford alumni will help rebuild and refurbish a home
in one of the District’s neighborhoods. Look for more information in the
April newsletter.