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For the slender, slightly preppy, clean-cut president, who invented the Michigan Econometric Model of U.S. Economy — considered the standard work of economic forcasting — and for his wife, Vivian Shapiro, an assistant professor of social work in U- M's psychology department who hopes to teach in Princeton's Women's Study Center, packing up their books and other belongings isn't going to be easy. Monday night, prior to ad- dressing some 150 people who had gathered at Birmingham Temple for the Symposium `88 speakers series, Shapiro and his wife spoke to The Jewish News to discuss their excitement and nervousness about the upcoming move. "Uprooting is always dif- ficult," said the U-M presi- dent. "Ann Arbor holds a special place in my heart that won't be replaced. It's a challenge but also a great deal of fun!' Born in Montreal, Shapiro was raised in what he calls a "quite traditional" home. His father owned Ruby Foo's, a restaurant in the city's suburbs, described as the London Chop House of Montreal. In 1956, Shapiro, together with his twin brother, Ber- nard, graduated from Mon- treal's McGill University. A year later, his father died, and for a short while, the Shapiro brothers ran the restaurant. But they sold it soon after in order to go on with their education. Bernard went off to Harvard and Harold to Princeton, where he earned his masters degree and doctorate. Harold Shapiro came to Michigan in 1964 as an assis- tant professor of economics. By the late 1970s he had worked his way up to vice president of the university. Meanwhile, Bernard had become the vice president at the University of Western On- tario in London and subse- quently Ontario's Deputy Minister of Education. In 1980, Harold was named Harold Shapiro: Leaving U-M. president of the U-M, leading the university through its worst financial crisis in re- cent history as well as last spring's outburst of racial pro- blems on campus. Now he moves on to Princeton. Though a con- siderably smaller school (Princeton has 7,000 students; U-M has 35,000) and celebrated as one of the most prestigious universities in the nation, Shapiro said in many ways the two schools are easily comparable. "They're both very big, very powerful and with great tradi- tion," he said. "This is a lat- teral move, it's not up or down!' In other ways, however, the schools are drastically dif- ferent. "The key differences," said Shapiro, "are the fewer professional schools at Princeton and their greater emphasis on undergraduate education." Despite Shapiro's eagerness to begin his new post, he is not without some hesitation. "Anything brand new is anxiety provoking," he said. Princeton, which now boasts of nearly 20 percent Jewish representation and an ever-expanding number of other minorities, was rarely thought of as the bastion of racial tolerance, but rather an enclave for priveledged males, predominantly white Anglo- Saxon Protestants. Therefore, the choice of a Jewish presi- dent has come as somewhat of a surprise. "There has been a history of anti-Semitism at Princeton!' said Rabbi Paul Yedwab of lemple Israel, who graduated from Princeton in 1979. "I find it astounding that they would have chosen a Jew — and quite healthy. While I never experienced any overt anti-Semitism, one still had the feeling that the power Continued on Page 14