By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a new snack food is causing problems for some students, a future where students must take out loans to pay for an education is predicted, and more.
April 14, 1987—To understand lectures, Jenny Schwarzenberg ’88, who is hearing impaired, relies on oral interpreters who silently mouth the words the professor says. She pushed for the University to develop such a program because the available resources were not adequate for her needs.
April 16, 1998—Roben Farzad ’98 reflects on his recent experiences with Olestra, an indigestible vegetable oil that promises to help with weight maintenance but causes severe digestive problems with some consumers—including his friend Conrad.
Having learned from his nightmare, I hope we can all find the courage to reach for a bag of standard 14-grams of fat per serving salty snacks instead of mortgaging our gastrointestinal stability for a bag of “Wow!”
April 17, 1875—Locals express disapproval of other Princeton residents who accused students of voting illegally in a recent election.
But that our students, who were the principal ones challenged, are such monsters of iniquity and stupidity, as to attempt to vote illegally, we are unwilling to believe. … Sometimes however, vote challenging is indulged not so much to guard the purity of the ballot box, as to annoy the opposite party, to stop the progress of the election till, as the day advances, the rush increases, and respectable men either will not come to the polls at all, or are driven off. Often the challenging is done by one party, and those only are subjected to it, who it is supposed intend to vote the opposite ticket.
April 18, 1959—The Saturday Evening Post reports that Robert Goheen, president and “young boss” of Princeton University, predicts that one day soon students will not be able to pay for their educations while they are in school, and instead will need “a long period of years after graduation” to do so.
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