Public Safety is now no closer to finding the vandals who tagged Whig and Clio halls with graffiti than when the events occurred three weeks ago.
Investigator Alvan Flanders has, however, determined the origin of an email sent to The Daily Princetonian by individuals claiming to be the vandals.
"We did trace the IP address and we did have a subject who we found out was logged on during that time frame," Flanders said, confirming that, as the 'Prince' reported, the email was traced to a Rutgers University student's account. "That's our only lead at this point."
Public Safety has not contacted the individual and until they do that, they are unable to make a determination as to who committed the crimes. "He could have used somebody else's identity to log on to the computer," Flanders explained.
A recent attempt by the 'Prince' to contact the individual proved unsuccessful.
Flanders now plans on contacting the Rutgers Police Department, which provided him with the contact information for the student.
"I have to work with Rutgers," Flanders said. "Supposedly they can get a hold of this person for me."
Once in contact with the student, Flanders said he plans to set up an interview, either at Rutgers or here at Princeton.
Referring to a quote in an article about the crimes in last week's paper, Flanders said that while University property is often spray painted during the year, incidents tied to Rutgers usually occur once a year.
"This is the only time that anything more than the cannon has been done," Flanders added.
A group calling itself the Order of the Bull's Blood, which purports to be a secret society at Rutgers, last week claimed responsibility not only for the spate of recent vandalism of Princeton property, but also for the theft of one of the University's cannons in 1875.
The source of that article, an individual who said he was a member of the Order, said his group tags the Princeton campus some 20 to 30 times each year. The group's claims about its activities and its history, however, remain in doubt.
The member interviewed for last week's article said his group's goal is to organize a repeat of the original Princeton-Rutgers football game. In 1869, the two schools held the first recorded intercollegiate football game in the United States.
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