October 24, 2001: Snapshot Press Check By Josephine Sittenfeld 02 At midnight on September 30,
Daily Princetonian editors (from left) Ben Grossman 02, Mike Grabell
03, and Dan Stephens 02 were wrestling over captions to accompany
their coverage of President Tilghmans installation, trying to remember,
for example, the name of the universitys mace bearer. (Its
English professor Tom Roche *58, as they eventually recalled.) We
were focusing on the way the university community came together for the
event and how its style was a product of President Tilghmans personality
and goals, said editor-in-chief Stephens, a history major from Bethesda,
Maryland. Its a very rare event for the university to be installing
a new president, so of course it has a lot of news value in itself, but
we were especially interested in how it differed from past installations,
to give us a sense for what a Tilghman presidency might be like.
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