By Catherine DunnSTAFF WRITER

The governing boards of Rutgers Uni-versity are expected to approveJonathan Holloway as the school’s firstblack president, a university officialconfirmed Sunday, speaking on condi-tion of anonymity ahead of an officialvote on Tuesday.

Holloway currently is provost ofNorthwestern University, where he isalso professor of history and AfricanAmerican studies. Before joining theNorthwestern faculty 2½ years ago,Holloway was the dean of Yale Collegefrom 2014 to 2017.

T h e R u t g e r sBoard of Governorsand the Board ofTrustees are sched-uled to meet Tues-day at 9 a.m. to voteon a resolution onthe “appointment ofan executive-levelmember of the ad-ministration,” ac-cording to their re-spective agendas.

A school spokes-person declined tocomment Sunday, be-yond pointing to thenotices posted regarding the vote.

Rutgers president Robert L. Barchiannounced last July that he would bestepping down from the role this year.He took over in 2012 as head of NewJersey’s flagship university, which num-bers more than 70,000 students acrossthree campuses.

NJ Advance Media was first to re-port on Sunday that Holloway will benamed as Barchi’s replacement.

Holloway earned his doctorate inhistory from Yale in 1995, and hasauthored two books on black history:Confronting the Veil, a biography ofthree black scholars who taught atHoward University during the 1930s,and Jim Crow Wisdom, about race andmemory.

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I have a dream and it’s that onMonday, the federal holidayhonoring the late Rev. Dr. Mar-

tin Luther King Jr., nobody getsshot or stabbed.

Not another young black man.Not another battered woman

caught up in a domestic night-mare.

And certainly not another inno-cent child.

Designated in1994 as a nation-al day of ser-vice, the holi-day is supposedto be used “as aday on, not aday off.” In oth-e r w o r d s ,you’re not sup-posed to justhang around

the house. The goal is to get in-volved in service projects, whichis noble. However, this year, Iwould like to suggest that anoth-er component be added to theannual recognition, and it’s thatit also be observed as a day ofpeace.

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Ritz at the Bourse willclose at end of month.

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DHS CommissionerCynthia Figueroa istaking over the newlycreated Office ofChildren andFamilies. It will workon issues concerningchildren in their livesat home as well as inschool. The newoffice is to find waysfor DHS and theSchool District towork together.

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Noema Alavez Perez looking at a photo of her daughter, Dulce Maria Alavez, in the living room of her parents’ home in Bridgeton,N.J. Dulce went missing Sept. 16 from the city park. The police chief says he’s optimistic. CURT HUDSON

By Laura McCrystalSTAFF WRITER

Mayor Jim Kenney wants to improve cityservices for children, and he’s created a newoffice to do it.

The Office of Children and Families willoversee existing city departments that servekids, including the mayor’s signature pre-Kand community schools programs, and willwork closely with the School District of Phil-adelphia and other city departments to findways to improve those services.

Kenney signed an executive order creat-ing the office earlier this month, hours afterbeginning his second term, and appointed

Cynthia Figueroa, who has served as thecity’s Department of Human Services (DHS)commissioner since 2016, as deputy mayorfor children and families.

“When you think about the barriers thatkids and families face, it’s not only going tobe the academic achievement gap,”Figueroa said in an interview. “It’s what’sgoing on in the home that’s impacting theachievement gap that also needs to be ad-dressed. So instead of doing those in silos,the best interest for our families in Philadel-phia is to do that in a collective way.”

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By Julie ShawSTAFF WRITER

After walking one more timethrough the playground where shelast saw her 5-year-old daughter,Noema Alavez Perez wonderedaloud about her disappearance.

She knows so little.All she knows is that her daughter, Dulce,

raced off to play, ran toward someone — andthen she was gone.

There was a witness: Dulce’s 3-year-oldbrother, Manuel. But he can say only somuch.

“He saw everything, but like he’s tooyoung,” the 19-year-old mother said lastweek. “For him, it’s hard to talk.”

Four months later, Dulce Maria Alavez isstill missing.

Authorities have interviewed 1,000 people,including the child’s father in Mexico, peoplewho were in Bridgeton City Park on the dayshe disappeared, and registered sex offend-ers in Cumberland and surrounding coun-ties. They have chased down countless leadsfrom tip lines from sources as far away asCalifornia, Michigan, and Texas, BridgetonPolice Chief Michael Gaimari said.

After all that work, Gaimari remains hope-ful and insists that the investigation hasmade progress. “I’m optimistic she’s alive,”he said.

A task force of investigators from the po-lice department, New Jersey State Police,county prosecutors, and the FBI meets dailyas part of what Cumberland County Prosecu-tor Jennifer Webb-McRae described as “an

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My dreamhas youputtingdown guns

By Ellie RushingSTAFF WRITER

Starting Tuesday, travelers boardingcertain international flights at Philadel-phia International Airport will havetheir face scanned along with theirboarding pass.

Three gates at the airport will begina 45-day pilot program for facial recog-nition scanners that cross-check a liveimage of a person with governmentphotos. The scanners are meant tohelp U.S. Customs and Border Protec-tion process passengers and speed upboarding, the airport said.

Gates A15, A16, and A17 will each usea different biometric technology scan-ner for select outbound internationalflights on Qatar, British Airways,Lufthansa, and American Airlines. Af-ter the pilot program is completed, theairport will assess which brand per-formed best for permanent use.

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Face scannersare coming toPhila. airportStarting Tuesday, some travelerswill be in a PHL pilot program.

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JonathanHolloway is saidto be up for avote Tuesday.

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New city department willcoordinate services for kids

‘I still have hope she’salive.’

4MonthsLater,DulceStillMissing

Dulce had been in the park withher brother. A task force meetsregularly on the case.

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Barry Tuckwell, 88, an Austra-lian virtuoso of the French hornwhose mastery over his fiendish-ly difficult instrument broughthim international renown as thepreeminent hornist of his era,died Thursday at a hospital inMelbourne.

The cause was complicationsfrom heart disease, according tohis wife, Jenny Darling.

Mr. Tuckwell grew up in a musi-cal home — his father, an organ-ist, manned the hulking Wurl-itzer at the local movie theater —but he showed only moderatemusical promise during his earlyyears playing the piano, violinand organ.

Only at 13, when he firstpicked up a French horn, did hisprodigious talent shine through.Mr. Tuckwell was still in histeens when he began playing pro-fessionally with orchestras inAustralia. He was 24 when, in1955, he became principal hornplayer with the London Sympho-ny Orchestra, a post he held for13 years.

Thus began a musical careerthat would take him aroundthe world over half a century.In 1968, Mr. Tuckwell left theLondon symphony to strike outon his own, becoming one ofthe vanishingly few horn play-ers to establish solo perform-ing and recording careers. Hewas widely described as themost recorded hornist in histo-ry.

A case of “right-arm disease”— his jesting term for the lure ofthe conductor’s podium — ledhim to pursue conducting oppor-tunities, as well, and in 1982, hebecame founding music directorof the Maryland Symphony Or-chestra in Hagerstown. Mr. Tuck-well retired from performing in1997 and left his post in Mary-land the following year, eventual-ly returning to his native Austra-lia.

The French horn (more proper-ly called the horn, according tomany enthusiasts) is formedfrom 20 feet of coiled brass tub-ing that opens into a flared bell.A descendant of the huntinghorn, it is capable of producingrousing fanfares as well as musi-cal lines of sublime delicacy, butonly in the hands of the mostskilled musician.

Mr. Tuckwell became the lead-ing interpreter of the small butexquisite repertoire for Frenchhorn. It includes four concertosby Mozart, which Mr. Tuckwellrecorded several times over; twoby Richard Strauss; and worksby composers as disparate asCherubini, Bruckner, Brahms,Ravel, and Shostakovich. Con-temporary composers includingOliver Knussen, Richard RodneyBennett, Thea Musgrave andRobin Holloway wrote works forhim.

Barry Emmanuel Tuckwellwas born in Prahran, a suburbof Melbourne, on March 5,1931, to a family of Welsh ori-gin. His mother played the pi-ano. His sister, Patricia, playedthe violin and later marriedGeorge Lascelles, a cousin ofQueen Elizabeth II and an in-ternationally known authorityon the opera.

Mr. Tuckwell said that he couldread music before he could readbooks but that he did not seemdestined for a life in music be-fore he tried the horn.

“I really wasn’t any good atthem,” he recalled of his earlyexperimentation on the piano,violin and organ. “One daysomebody said, ‘Look, he’s musi-cal, he must be able to playsomething. Try this.’ And it wasa French horn, and it was some-thing I could do. So I was verylucky.”

He said he drew inspirationfrom the musicianship of Ameri-can jazz trombonist Tommy Dors-ey, whose recordings he studiedavidly. In 1950, after performingwith the Melbourne Symphony

Orchestra and later the SydneySymphony Orchestra, Mr. Tuck-well moved to England, wherehis appointments came to in-clude a teaching position at theRoyal Academy of Music in Lon-don.

Mr. Tuckwell led the Tasma-nian Symphony Orchestra inAustralia before founding hisensemble in Hagerstown, asmall city in western Mary-land. He had been drawn to thearea by Walter Lawson, a wide-ly admired French horn makerwho lived in nearby Boons-boro.

“I didn’t know there were thismany tuxedos in Hagerstown,”one attendee quipped to TheWashington Post when the Mary-land Symphony Orchestra debut-ed in 1982.

His marriages to Sally Newton,Hilary Warburton, and Sue El-liott ended in divorce.

He and Darling, companionsof 14 years, were married lastyear. In addition to his wife, ofMelbourne, survivors includetwo children from his first mar-riage, David Tuckwell of Lon-don and Jane Tuckwell of Brom-ham, in Wiltshire, England; anda son from his second mar-riage, Tom Shahani-Tuckwell ofLondon.

CBP will install the systemfor travelers entering the coun-try through Philadelphia, too.There is no timeline yet forthat installation, but it will bein the Federal Inspection Sta-tion in Terminal A-West.

All travelers will be scannedunless they ask not to be. Butalthough foreign nationals arerequired to get additionalscreening, they can opt out ofthe scans for outbound flightsand be verified through otherdocuments, said Stephen Sapp,a CBP spokesperson.

“It is designed to expediteboarding by eliminating thetime gate attendants take toverify the traveler’s identitymanually,” Sapp said. Passen-gers will still have to presenttheir boarding passes and pass-ports during the pilot program,but over time, the technology isexpected to replace that papercheck-in process.

The installation is part of afederal mandate and a more-than-decade-long push by Con-gress to track foreign travelerswho enter and exit the country.As reported by the WashingtonPost, Congress in 2016 ap-proved the use of up to $1 bil-lion collected from visa fees tofund the technology’s imple-mentation. A March 2017 exec-utive order directed the U.S.Department of Homeland Secu-rity to speed up implementa-tion.

Currently, 26 airports use thebiometric scans for people leav-ing the United States, 16 use itfor people entering the country,and six seaports use it for bothentry and exit. Government offi-cials say the technology pro-vides additional security andhas identified seven peopletraveling with another person’sdocuments since September2018.

But privacy advocates fearbias, inaccuracy, and potentialmisuse of the information col-

lected.“Automation in the boarding

process makes sense in the effi-ciency and economic stand-point,” said Michael Kearns, aprofessor at the University ofPennsylvania who specializesin machine learning, algo-rithms, and their biases. “Butthis also means that muchmore data about us will belogged.”

“It also moves us more andmore toward a surveillance so-ciety,” he said.

Biometric technology, or techthat uses your physiologicalcharacteristics, such as thethumbprint and facial scannersin iPhones, is not new to soci-ety or to airports. British Air-ways has used the technologyat London’s Heathrow Airportfor close to nine years.

As passengers board, a tabletdevice mounted on the gatekiosk scans their face and com-pares it to a database filledwith passport or visa photos. Ifthe images match, the machineclears the passenger for board-ing. If there is a mismatch, thescreen flashes and the personmay be pulled aside for addi-tional screening.

Once identities are verified,U.S. travelers’ images are delet-ed within 12 hours, CBP said.Foreign travelers’ photos aredeleted from the comparisondatabase within 14 days, butthen may be retained in the De-partment of Homeland Securi-ty’s Automated Biometric Iden-tification System, according toCBP.

Inaccuracy and security arealso a concern.

Kearns said that traditionalmachine learning is inherentlybiased. Over time, certain mi-nority groups may suffer de-lays in boarding or be pulledaside by attendants more often.

“The question is not will itmake mistakes, which it will,”he said. “But how might thosemistakes be unequally distribut-ed across demographics?”

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