NEWS
February 5, 2002
Princeton University has received a $30-million gift from the head of online auction house EBay and will use it to expand undergraduate enrollment for the first time since the Ivy League school began admitting women in 1969. The donation from 1977 graduate Meg Whitman will go toward the construction of another undergraduate residential college and the expansion of the student body by 10%, President Shirley M. Tilghman said.
NATIONAL
August 14, 2002 | JOHN J. GOLDMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Princeton University has reassigned its admissions director and is cooperating with an investigation by federal prosecutors examining unauthorized entries into the admissions Web site of Ivy League rival Yale University, officials said Tuesday. Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton's president, said a summary of the university's internal investigation of the embarrassing incident was sent to the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 27, 2008 | Seema Mehta, Mehta is a Times staff writer.
Samantha Roper sometimes dreams about the mashed potatoes her mother makes on Thanksgiving, from potatoes grown at an uncle's farm 10 minutes from her Southern Idaho home. But today, with airfare costs and distance making a trip home impractical, the Chapman University freshman will go without the creamy spuds on the holiday for the first time. Instead, Roper, 18, is staying at her Fullerton dorm as classes shut down for the long weekend.