Activists on Campus

PRINCETON New Jersey--The U.S. Supreme Court recently threw out a Princeton University appeal and let stand a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that the university had no right to ban uninvited political activists from the campus.

The U.S. Supreme Court said the case--which began in 1978 when a Labor Party representatives was arrested for trespassing on the Princeton campus--was a criminal one and Princeton had no grounds for an appeal. James Rixse, managing editor of The Daily Princetonian, said yesterday.

The New Jersey ruling in November, 1980 said that restricting unsolicited political groups was not in keeping with Princeton's stated educational goals. After the incident. Princeton changed its policy that had banned outside speakers on campus unless sponsored by a student group, but it pursued the case on principle. Rixse added.