January 15, 1993 ? Since his 1988 inauguration, the tenure of Princeton's 18th president, Harold Shapiro GS '64, has been alternately turbulent and smooth.
A notochord is a primitive backbone in most low vertebrates. But at Princeton University it has played a much more significant role, igniting the most highly publicized court case involving the University's 107-year-old Honor System and perhaps initiating decades of future discussion and debate about the code.When Robert Clayton '82 answered question number 19 ? identifying the notochord on an amphioxus ? for a make-up lab practical exam, he says he never thought it would lead to questions of academic fraud or a controversial court battle that would last nearly six years."I was totally oblivious to anything else going on," he said in an interview earlier this week.Clayton's case ? the first time anyone challenged the Honor System in a court of law ? was not the first instance in which a student said he or she felt the Honor Committee's procedures were unfair.And it has not been the last."Ever since I became academics chair, students have come up to me who have been involved in different Honor Committee investigations and have spoken to me about what they thought could be fixed," said Jeff Gelfand '01, USG academics chair for the past two years.
About 200 University students, workers and faculty members turned out yesterday for the kick-off event of the newly formed Workers' Rights Organizing Committee.W.R.O.C.
January 12, 1972 ? Approximately 200 persons massed on Cannon Green for an anti-ROTC demonstration Monday and, after several speeches, submitted to President Goheen a petition protesting the proposed return of military training to the campus.The petition, whose signers were opposed to the return of ROTC "in any form," had 1,151 signatures, according to demonstration organizer Alexander W.
Borough Council member Mildred Trotman will replace current Council president Roger Martindell as the board's leader, the Council decided Sunday.
A sixth-year graduate student died Jan. 2 in his Plainsboro apartment from complications related to a flu-like illness, University officials said last night.Cheng Liao was a 27-year-old graduate student who was finishing his Ph.D.
When Travis Sowders '97 was a student at Princeton, he often stayed up late into the night, surfing the Web for anything he could find about politics."I would wake up at 4:30 in the morning sometimes, and he would be sitting at the computer pulling facts off the Internet about various political figures," said Josh Cohen '97, who roomed with Sowders during their junior and senior years."The funny thing is I still remember in 331 1901 Hall, I used to walk by him and he would call out a random political fact in the middle of the night.
Borough Police officials are considering the use of undercover officers and aggressive investigation tactics to monitor and curtail underage drinking at eating clubs, Borough Police Capt.
Andrew Han Chang ? a 21-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley and a West Windsor resident ? was charged with sexually assaulting a woman who was on campus visiting her cousin, Borough Police Capt.
January 10, 1958 ? Members of the Class of 1960 will make their first mass invasion of Prospect St.
A fire sprinkler pipe in the attic of Colonial Club froze and burst, causing approximately $15,000 in damages, Colonial Club house manager Collin Dretsch '01 said.The damage occurred on the east side of the building, flooding Colonial Club president Melissa Waage '01's room, where the sprinkler pipe burst.
TRENTON ? New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman gave what is likely to be her final State of the State speech yesterday in the Trenton War Memorial.
For 16 months during the early years of the Clinton administration, Wilson School professor Frank Von Hippel worked with the White House, advising the president on arms control and nuclear disarmament.But he doubts he will be invited back in the near future.And Von Hippel is not alone among those Princeton professors who consider themselves liberals.
Seth Green '01 left the interview uncertain about his performance.An applicant for the Marshall Scholarship, Green felt the opportunity was a perfect fit for his future plans, but he doubted his interviewer would see that match.And so he prepared for the long and anxious wait before the final decision, not expecting to learn who would be awarded the scholarship for several weeks.But the day after his interview Green found out he had won the prestigious scholarship.
Greg Ruiz just wanted to go home. The senior at Jesuit High School in California had been standing on a makeshift assembly-line, passing 60,000 pounds worth of food since 3 p.m.
No Princetonian says, "Penn," without adding "safety school."But at Harvard, students have taken the back-handed remark ? which they direct at arch rival Yale ? one step further into cyberspace.Just in time for the Harvard-Yale football game Nov.
The Supreme Court ruling this summer that the Boy Scouts of America may exclude homosexuals spurred criticisms and debate across the nation.
Everyone knows Princeton is cracking down on grade inflation and academic standards these days. But one visiting professor is so tough that he wouldn't let any auditors ? not even one who was born in the U.S.A.
December 15, 1972 ? Princeton's 1972-1973 Annual Giving fund-raising drive has just reached the $1-million mark, according to its assistant director, William M.
Andrew Baldwin watched awkwardly as his father moved toward him. He saw his father's eyes droop and his body sag as his arms rose to embrace his son.Baldwin cringed.
