By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a graduate student fights to keep his spouse in the United States, election excitement is heightened on campus, and more.

October 21, 2010—A graduate student and his husband give a presentation about their plight under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in Whitman College. They were legally married in Connecticut, but the law defines marriage for federal purposes as only valid between a man and a woman. This means that Joshua Vandiver *12’s husband faces deportation to Venezuela after a work visa has been denied.

October 22, 1993—“As companies fiddle with CD-ROM technology,” Robert Tsai ’94 writes, “the future of the book and the library becomes questionable.”

October 25, 1884—The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that the Cleveland-Blaine presidential contest is particularly heated at Princeton, where

Probably in no other campaign since the War times, when the students from the North and South fought to settle the question as to whether the “Stars and Stripes” should float from Old North Hall, has there been so much excitement over politics. It is the theme for conversation everywhere.

October 26, 1978—After a week on display, Princeton University Art Museum officials realize that a painting by “B. Edward Key” labeled an “Anonymous gift to the University in 1976” is a hoax and remove it from the gallery. It is actually the work of a junior who bet his roommates he could hang fake art in the museum, and that it would stay up for at least 24 hours.

For the previous installment in this series, click here.

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