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october 2, 2013

“I think it is really imperative to point out what an embarrassment of

riches we have in this area. We are so lucky to have the really amaz-

ing variety of independent schools we do. This also ensures that a

family can certainly determine a best fit for their student.”Ted de Villafranca, former admissions director and college counselor, is

managing partner of Edvice Ltd., an educational consultancy in Princeton. He

points out both the number of outstanding private schools in the Princeton

area and the importance of finding the right one for the student.

Each school has its own character, personality, and focus. Some enroll all

boys or all girls; more are co-ed; some have a religious orientation; some

offer boarding, others are day schools; some are pre-K through 12th grade;

others have limited grades, for example, fourth through eighth, sixth through

12th, etc. What they have in common is high academic standards and strong

records of achievement.It is also important to know that nearly all private schools have financial

assistance programs. As Thomas von Oehsen, director of admissions of Prin-

ceton Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-boys school, notes, “We want

parents to know that private school is an option. They don’t need to be put off

by sticker shock. All private schools want to have the conversation on afford-

ability. With the changes in public schools, including reduction of programs

due to budget cuts, parents may want other choices today.”Best OptionIf parents determine that private school is the best option for their child, a

comprehensive research of the schools is the first order of business. Checking

out the website is an easy way to get started. A great deal of information is

available about the school, and it is an excellent means to clarify the selec-

tion — and elimination — process.Princeton Day School offers an on-line application, linked to the school’s (Continued Inside)

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Navigating the Private School Admission Process:Help From the Experts to Match School and Student

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TRE BAR AT TRE PIANIITALIAN120 Rockingham Row 609-452-1515Wine bar from Slow Food guru JimWeaver offering a gourmet small platemenu and wines from France, Italy,America and Australia.x f 4 m h t TRE PIANIITALIAN120 Rockingham Row 609-452-1515Slow food headquarters and one ofcentral New Jersey’s premiere restau-rants featuring award-winning food,wine and ambience.z f w 4 m g h pt v


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UNDERGROUND CAFÈCAFE4 Hulfish St. 609-924-0666The menu features French & Italianentrees, but the big stand-out is theshish-kebab at this sleek modernnewcomer.z a o g p r t WITHERSPOON GRILLSTEAKHOUSE

57 Witherspoon St. 609-924-6011From the man who brought you BluePoint Grill and Nassau Street Seafoodand Produce Company, this eatery is ahaven for carnivores. Menu itemsinclude dry-aged steaks, meatloaf andpork loin, to name a few.z f o m

YANKEE DOODLE TAP ROOMPUB FOOD10 Palmer Square 609-921-7500This classic rathskeller has served generations of university students andtheir parents.z f o h p ZEN PALATEASIAN FUSION301 N. Harrison St. 609-279-9888Despite the Asian fusion vegetarianmenu, the majority of this restaurant’spatrons are carnivores, tempted by thelikes of basil peanut moo shu rolls andFelicity Mushrooms.

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PRINCETON JUNCTIONBOG RESTAURANT &LOUNGE

SEAFOOD49 Southfield Road 609-799-2715Specialties such as fried calamari andgrilled swordfish make seafood thestar.

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GANGESINDIAN33 Princeton-Hightstown Road 609-750-1550

This chef-owned gem features authen-tic dishes from Northern andSouthern India and specializes inHyderabadi cuisine. Many of the menuitems are delightful adaptations ofbeloved family recipes.x a 5 e g h t LITTLE SZECHUANCHINESE2025 Old Trenton Road 609-443-5023

Chinese restaurant with a wide arrayof choices, eat-in or take-out.y a o t

SKILLMANGENTEEL’S TRATTORIA &PIZZERIA

PIZZA1378 Route 206 609-252-0880Italian cuisine and pizza, including spe-cialties such as tortellini funghi andshrimp pappardelle.y a o m d g hp

SAHARA RESTAURANTLEBANESE1325 Route 206 609-921-8336Enjoy traditional Lebanese cuisine in alively atmosphere.y a o c

YA YA NOODLESASIAN1325 Route 206 609-921-8551Taiwanese restaurant and noodleshop, eat-in or take-out.x a o e g p t v

WEST WINDSORCARLUCCI’S ITALIAN GRILLITALIAN335 Princeton-Hightstown Road609-936-0900

A traditional Italian menu with largeselection of entrees that appeal tothe whole family.x a o m h t

















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ELLEN GILBERT BENOIT CORTET

EISGRUBER IS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S NEW PRESIDENT

IDEALIST AND

PROBLEM SOLVER

hristopher Ludwig

Eisgruber’s recent

appointment as the 20

president of Princeton

University was greeted with

cheers and glowing descriptions of his

superlative qualifications and readiness

for the job. On this particular afternoon

early in his tenure, though, he good-

naturedly allowed as how the the task at

hand—posing for a number of

photographs—was new and perhaps a

little uncomfortable for him.

Eisgruber is nothing if not an even-

tempered man, though, and this was

evident as the photographer clicked away.

Gamely following instructions, he looked

this way and that, assumed a variety of

expressions, and worried, after being

asked to pose yet again with his hand

inside his jacket as if reaching for his

phone, that the image might evoke

associations with Napoleon. Eisgruber is

very tall and very pragmatic, though;

comparisons are highly unlikely.

“We have hit a home run with

President Eisgruber,”

Jeffrey A. Kehl, ’70,

was quoted as saying

when the appointment

was announced.

Kathryn Hall,

chair of Princeton’s

Board of Trustees and

the presidential search

committee, reported

that, following a

six-month search, Eisgruber was the

unanimous recommendation of the

17-member search committee. "From the

start we heard that Chris would be a very

strong choice, and this was confirmed and

supported with compelling evidence

month after month, comment after

comment, meeting after meeting,” said

Sociology Department Chair and search

committee member Miguel Centeno.

Shirley Tilghman, Eisgruber’s immediate

predecessor, observed that, "We have in

Chris the leader we are going to need for

the next decade or so. I don't think we

could be in better hands.”

A physics major at Princeton, the

Lafayette Indiana native spent two years

at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; he went

on to receive a law degree from the

University of Chicago. After clerking for

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Patrick

Higginbotham and U.S. Supreme Court

Justice John Paul Stevens and teaching at

New York University Law School for 11

years, he joined the Princeton faculty in

2001 as the director of the Program in

Law and Public Affairs and the Laurance

S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs

in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public

and International Affairs and the

University Center for Human Values. A

renowned constitutional scholar, he

examined the Supreme Court

appointments process, religious freedom

and the constitution in his most recent

work. His wife, Lori A. Martin, is a

securities litigator with the firm of

WilmerHale. They live in Princeton with

their 14-year-old son, Danny, a freshman

at Princeton High School.

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

Eisgruber describes himself as “a

constitutional lawyer or a constitutional

theorist. What excites me intellectually is

studying the U.S. Constitution,

constitutionalism more generally, and

religious freedom. For me, that sits at the

intersection of political theory and law.”

He is, as a result, very comfortable hanging

out with lawyers as well as political

theorists, and it is probably no coincidence

that he loved the movie Lincoln.

“Here is this extraordinarily

thoughtful leader and this terribly difficult

time, on the one hand steadfastly focused

and values and goals of the highest order,

but also making choices about

compromises. Lincoln was a great lawyer,

as well as a constitutional theorist,”

Eisgruber enthuses.

Eisgruber’s training as a legal scholar

dovetails nicely with his administrative

philosophy. The University’s approach to

the recent wave of interest in online

education, as he tells it, typifies this

weighing of what’s ideal with what’s

doable, and coming up with workable

solutions for the immediate future.

“What we have done here at

Princeton is to approach online education

in an exploratory way,” he says. “We

made a determination a year or so ago

that what was happening was both

interesting and might improve the

education of our students by putting some

courses online.” Considerations about

“putting information beyond our gates”

also figured into the decision to put five

courses online last year. The results were

encouraging, and five more will now

follow. “It’s an important experiment in

how we go about developing capacity on

this campus to be ready to move in

whatever direction is best.”

Striking a balance is also an

important consideration with respect to

government surveillance, an issue that has

been on Eisgruber’s mind “for a long

time.” Shortly after 9/11, he and another

constitutional theorist, Larry Sager,

co-authored a piece called Civil Liberties

in the Dragon’s Domain. He readily

acknowledges that “we are living in

perilous times,” that call for some

government protection. “On the other

hand,” he continues, “we also know, from

experience, that in difficult times and even

at other times governments overreach, and

even good people in government

overreach. So the question Larry and I

asked in this article was, ‘how do you set

up institutions that are on the one hand,

able to give the government the flexibility

it needs in order to protect us, but on the

other hand, also

protects the civil

liberties that we

care about so

deeply.’” A key variable in

that scenario, he

says, is Congress,

which has, unfortunately “not

been as aggressive

as it should be about limiting the

Executive. At times, Congress has been

too willing to hand the Executive a blank

check and the question then becomes

whether the Judiciary is able to interpose

limits. But judges rightly feel, although

they’ve intervened sometimes, that their

capacity to make those trade-offs is itself

limited.” The answer, Eisgruber says, is “a less

polarized Congress; one that is, on the one

hand, really willing, to take responsibility

for these choices but on the other hand

able to recognize how hard to choices are.

We have a government that presupposes

and depends upon having a vigorous,

effective, and public-spirited Congress,

and if you don’t have that, you can’t have

the President and the Judiciary

substituting for that.”

The current polarization among both

engaged citizens and elected officials

worries Eisgruber, and he’s made that

known to his students. He says that given

the name of a Justice and his or her

position on the question of abortion, “I

can give you the Justice’s position on

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“OUR NEW PRESIDENT DISPLAYS AN

ANALYTICAL MIND. HE UNDERSTANDS

PRECEDENT, BUT ISN'T BOUND BY IT.”

Frank W. Gobetz

AppraisingEach Other

B Y A N N E L E V I N P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y B E N O I T C O R T E T

Strolling around the spacious selling floor at the Rago

Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, David Rago

stops to muse about his relationship with his wife and

business partner, Suzanne Perrault.

“We’re an interesting team,” he says, thoughtfully. “We’re very different, but we complement

each other. She’s more formal than I am. She tells me when I need to be more formal and I tell her

when she needs to be less formal. It works for us.”

Rago and Perrault have been sharing an enthusiasm for art, antiques, and each other since first

meeting at an auction Rago was running at New York’s Puck Building two decades ago. Regulars on

PBS’s popular “Antiques Roadshow,” they have built their business into a highly regarded center

specializing in 20th century decorative art with a huge base of collectors, dealers, and designers such

as Juan Montoya and Alexander Gorlin.

It has been a roller coaster ride at times. The market for sought-after pieces of art glass by Tiffany,

pottery by George Ohr, William Grueby, and other masters, and furniture by Wharton Esherick and

George Nakashima has commanded startling prices. Four years ago, a vase by potter Frederick Rhead

sold for $516,000. But the recession has made its mark.