By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, technology helps locals keep track of distant events in real time, students are protesting a new rule, and more.

April 29, 1893—Princetonians who stay in town are able to track their baseball team’s performance against Cornell’s in close to real time via a bulletin board where telegraphed scores are posted. Princeton defeats Cornell 3 to 2, with the tiebreaking home run in the 11^th inning.

April 30, 1997—Computer science professor Jaswinder Pal Singh has filed suit against a New York restaurant after being thrown out for refusing to remove his turban. Singh is Sikh, and his religion requires him to wear a turban at all times.

May 2, 1927— Students have been flying private planes over Nassau Hall for some weeks now to demonstrate their disapproval of the new Car Rule prohibiting them from having cars in town. Time reports that Dean Christian Gauss has finally responded to student protests.

“We have so many machines on the ground,” Dean Gauss began blandly, “that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. … Anyone may fly over Princeton–but if he lands here, and runs along the ground, we shall class his plane as a motor vehicle and return him and it to his parents.”

May 4, 1994—Jeffrey Schevitz ’62 is arrested in Berlin on charges of spying for the East German state security agency, known as Stasi, from 1977 to 1989.

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