Letters to the Editor

University does not plan to reroute Washington Road

Contrary to what was reported in Thursday's The Daily Princetonian, the University has no plans to reroute Washington Road, nor is it cooperating with the Borough on a plan to reroute Washington Road traffic from Route 1. I apologize for any misunderstandings that led your reporter to these conclusions.

The origin of the article was an annual safety walk that allows students and administrators to consider possible safety improvements on campus. We did talk about increasing safety for students crossing Washington Road, but there certainly are no plans to reroute the road. We also talked about the discussions that are taking place with the State and in several neighboring communities about traffic on Route 1. Most of those discussions are aimed at preserving the current distribution of traffic into Princeton via Washington, Harrison Street and Alexander Road.

They do not seek to move traffic off of one of those roads and on to another.

We are interested in improving safety along Washington Road as well as at other locations around campus, and we welcome any additional ideas from students and others. Janet Dickerson Vice President for Campus Life

Editorial correction

On Friday I learned that I had accidentally made an error of misattribution in the column I had published on this page the day before ("Does Anti-Israel = Anti-Semitism?," Nov. 21). The column dealt in part with a controversy surrounding Harvard's invitation to the British poet Tom Paulin. At the end of my column I alluded to and briefly quoted a recent article in the British press concerning this controversy, erroneously attributing it, in a critical context, to Oliver Burkeman, a writer for the "Guardian." But Mr. Burkeman did not write the article, nor did it appear in the "Guardian." Neither Mr. Burkeman nor the "Guardian" has the least thing to do with it. I quite simply made in haste a bibliographical blunder of which I here repent at leisure. The article to which I was alluding, and which I accurately characterized and fairly quoted, was written by Andrew Walker of BBC's "In Depth" ("Tom Paulin: Poetic polemicist," http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2481623.stm.) My regret is the greater in light of the fact that, unbeknownst to me, my column was circulated outside the Princeton community through blogging at instapundit.com. I have apologized privately to Mr. Burkeman and now wish to do so publicly at the first opportunity since learning of an error which while wholly inadvertent was also wholly of my own making. I hope that anyone who saw the original column sees this correction. John V. Fleming