Word: charter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alumni elected for five-year terms, the president and the University treasurer--was the University's first governing body, later joined by the President and Fellows, more commonly known as the Corporation, in 1650, the first incorporated organization in North America. In the 1657 Appendix to the Charter, the Corporation was given the power to make major decisions which would affect the University, but the Overseers had to approve those decisions...
Activists have made the argument in the past few months that the disagreement over a Board vote goes back to the original Charter and the legal role of the Board. Robert Weissman '88-89, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored Harvard Watch, wrote a report to the Overseers in March arguing that the Board should resurrect its rights and vote on divestment...
...those who oppose a vote on divestment do not disagree that the Board has the right to hold such an opinion. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 says that the issue raised by the divestment vote, should have little to do with the strictures of the founding charter...
...students charged with the violations were Simpler, Charter's social chair Lisa Napolitano and Cloister's social chair Jim Martin, former president Jay Weiss and former social chair Kristin Seymour...
Attorney Kim Otis, who is representing the two Charter students, wrote a letter to the Princeton Borough Police Department in which he said the charges brought against his clients are "selective prosecution...