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Former Princeton student Robert Clayton has charged the school's honor committee with breach of contract for violating its own procedural regulations. This is the first time such a charge has been made in a federal court...
Testimony in Trenton, N.J., district court ended a week ago, three and one half years after Clayton originally filed his complaint. A decision is expected from the presiding district court judge in early spring. Clayton's lawyer, Nell Mullen, said this week...
...second-year medical student at the University of Maryland, Clayton was accused of cheating on a biology exam in 1979. He was brought before a nine-student honors committee and found guilty, according to the committee's faculty advisor, Professor A. Walton Litz...
...lawsuit, Clayton claims the committee violated rights owed him under the conditions explained in university publications...
...presiding judge will not rule on Clayton's guilt or innocence but rather will determine whether or not Princeton treated Clayton fairly. Actually, Clayton's individual situation only confuses and perhaps hurts the case one might make to modify Princeton's honor system. At best, Clayton is guilty of an ill-advised and suspicious move. At worst, of course, he's just guilty. But if Princeton insists on an eleventh commandment--"thou shall state that thou hast not cheated"--then it owes its students the opportunity to deal with people more experienced in university matters and less likely...