In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, a junior is arrested for anti-censorship activism in South Africa, the school celebrates the 150th anniversary of its founding, and more.
October 17, 1967—Bob Durkee ’69’s in-depth award-winning article, “A New Era for the Negro at Princeton,” first appears in the Daily Princetonian.
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October 18, 2000—Maurice Sendak, author of 1963’s Where the Wild Things Are, tells an audience in McCosh 50, “Adults were critical of the book, but children loved it.”
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October 20, 1977—Peter E. Maritz ’79 is arrested at a peaceful demonstration against censorship in South Africa and charged with violating the “Riotous Assemblies Act.”
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October 21, 1896—2,000 people march to Nassau Hall by torchlight to mark Princeton University’s sesquicentennial.
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