A reception in Robertson Hall’s Bernstein Gallery will begin at 1 p.m.
A faculty panel discussion and a viewing of Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th U.S. president will be held in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall at Princeton University next Tuesday, Jan. 20.
Beginning at 11 a.m., former U.S. Rep. James Leach, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, and Brandice Canes-Wrone, professor of politics and public affairs, will discuss the new Obama administration. Leach, a 1964 Princeton graduate, served for 30 years as a Republican congressman from Iowa. Canes-Wrone, who graduated from Princeton in 1993, specializes in presidential, legislative and bureaucratic politics as well as the study of elections.
The discussion will be moderated by Nolan McCarty, associate dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs.
The panel will be followed at noon by a viewing of the inauguration of Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden. A reception in Robertson Hall’s Bernstein Gallery will begin at 1 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Wilson School, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Office of Community and Regional Affairs.
Also next Tuesday, Princeton Area Women for Obama are holding an “Inauguration Party” at Triumph Brewery, from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.
There will be a widescreen TV set up to watch the inauguration and a buffet lunch will be served at a cost of $20 per person, including salad, entree, dessert, soft drinks, coffee or tea. There will be a cash bar. Triumph Brewery is located at 138 Nassau Street across from the Princeton University campus.
”This is a continuation of the Obama Campaign’s grass roots movement,” explains Beth Margeson, co-founder of Princeton Area Women for Obama. The group was formed during the primaries to raise funds and to demonstrate that the Obama campaign had strong support of among women of every age and race. “Now, we are using the network that the campaign built to support community projects and organize for change.”
Two dollars of the admission price will be donated to The Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton’s Food Bank. Reservations are required for the event, which is limited to 60 persons. See http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptc53 for details.

