Class Cuts

PRINCETON

A junior at Princeton University died last week from wounds that a preliminary autopsy indicated may have been self-inflicted, according to The Daily Princetonian.

Laurance Myers died from cardiac arrest following emergency surgery at the Princeton Medical Center where he spent almost a day in critical condition.

Myers was discovered in his apartment with knife wounds in his chest and lacerations on his wrists. Police are still investigating his death.

A junior varsity tennis player, Myers was majoring in philosophy. Columbia Completes Divestment

COLUMBIA

Columbia met a self-imposed deadline last week when it completed its divestment from domestic companies with holdings in South Africa, The Columbia Spectator reported.

The university first announced plans for divestment in 1985, and completed the sale of its more than $39 million in holdings before its October deadline. The university still holds about $25 million worth of foreign stock, but the trustees did not require the sale of these holdings.

Campus activists have continued to call for further divestment, arguing that the university should also sell its stock in companies that distribute products in South Africa, but have no holdings there, according to The Spectator.

Although Columbia still has over $10 million worth of holdings in these companies, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Norman Mintz said that Columbia's divestment is officially completed. Cheating Corrupts Columbia Council

COLUMBIA

The Michigan University Board of Regents have appointed former University President Robben Fleming to serve as interim president if their quest for a new helmsman is not completed by the first of January, The Michigan Daily reported last week.

Fleming, who served as president from 1967 to 1978, may be temporarily filling the shoes of the current president, Harold Shapiro Shapiro will be moving east with the coming of the new year assume the presidency of Princeton University.

Fleming said he hopes his services won't be necessary, but added that he will not sit in Shapiro's vacated seat merely to take up space.

"If I'm going to be president, I want to be the president," he said in an interview with The Daily.

The Michigan Board of Regents has accumulated a list of 250 to 300 possible candidates for the position. Shapiro aide Robin Jacoby told The Daily last Friday that "it was unlikely the search would move quickly enough for someone to be selected and ready to assume office January first." Corruption Rocks Radio Station

YALE

Members of the Columbia College Student Council Election Commission stuffed ballot boxes and miscounted votes last spring in order to help their friends win their election bids, last year's commission chairman charged.

Former Election Commision Co-Chairman Dan Schacter, who graduated last year, said last week that his successor and a former member of the commission both rigged the spring elections to help candidates Kaivan Shakib, the current council vice chairman, and Monica Byrne-Jimenez, a senior who lost her bid.

Incumbent Shakib, a junior, received few votes at the beginning of the election process, and most council members thought he would not be re-elected, according to the Columbia Spectator. Schacter said Shakib quite suddenly received an overwhelming number of votes on the last day of voting, while the current election commission co-chair was manning the polls.

In addition, Schacter has charged another member of the commission with miscounting the ballots to award Byrne-Jimenez a seat on the council. A recount revealed that Byrne-Jiminez placed eighth rather than third, as originally claimed. Two weeks after the elections, the commission member resigned.

Schacter also said that if all the ballots recorded during last spring's elections were valid, 10 percent more people voted than in 1986. The rise indicates that ballot boxes were probably stuffed, he said.

The current council chair, Jared Goldstein, has been asked to look into the charges. Graduates Suffer From Stereotype

MIT

The general manager and the program director of the Yale radio station WYBC resigned last spring after the station treasurer claimed they had used organization credit cards to cover about $3500 in personal expenses, The Yale Daily News reported last week.

Senior Anthony Duff, the station's general manager and corporation chair, and junior Rohan Jones, WYBC's program director, used station credit charge for such expenses as a $274 suit at J. Press and $1763 in car rentals, according to treasurer Susan Takemoto, a senior.

In addition, WYBC files revealed claims from station clients that they had paid Duff and Jones more than $9500 in cash--money which the student-run organization never received, according to The Daily.

The station is considering legal action against Duff and Jones. MIT

Graduates Suffer From Stereotype

MIT graduates still trail in top schools nationwide in attaining managerial or executive positions, largely because society stereotypes engineers as "nerds," according to The Tech.

Little basis exists for this negative stereotype, said Robert K. Weatherall, director of career services and preprofessional advising. He said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported.