February 9, 1995

With student protesters pounding at his door, the president of Rutgers University struggled to ease campus tensions yesterday by repeating apologies for remarks about genetic background while vowing that angry demonstrators will not be allowed to "interfere with the rights" of others.

Last month, Dr. Berta Scharrer's cockroaches, hundreds of them, left the Bronx for the suburbs. "The great exodus" was what Dr. Scharrer called the migration, via moving van, to a laboratory at the State University in Old Westbury, L.I. "I felt nostalgic," she said. "I said goodbye to them."

Amy Gutmann will become dean of the Princeton faculty effective July 1. Ms. Gutmann, the Laurance S. Rockefeller university professor of politics and director of the Princeton University Center for Human Values, was unanimously recommended by the faculty search committee.

The House tonight passed crime legislation long sought by conservatives that would overhaul two fundamental tenets of the judicial system: permitting prosecutors to use more illegally seized evidence at trial and placing time limits on appeals by death row inmates. The votes were victories for the Republicans who are rewriting last year's crime bill to demonstrate a new toughness on criminals. They were devastating blows to liberals, who said repeatedly that the votes were unraveling constitutionally protected rights.

Though it appears that George J. Marlin has the votes to be confirmed today as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, some New Jersey Democrats continued yesterday to criticize his selection. Representative Robert G. Torricelli called on the agency's commissioners to reject Mr. Marlin, a Conservative Party leader who is the choice of Gov. George E. Pataki of New York. Mr. Torricelli said he was concerned about Mr. Marlin's support for turning government assets over to private interests.