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Three Princeton graduates found fecal bank

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Three Princeton graduates found fecal bank

Jasmine Wang

Three Princeton graduates launched a nonprofit organization in Sept. 2013 that collects stool samples and provides hospitals withscreened, filtered and frozen material for clinical use. Mark Smith ’09, James Burgess ’09 and Carolyn Edelstein ’10 created OpenBiome, which has already been featured in The New York Times. Edelstein explained that fecal transplants have been proven effective in fighting harmful intestinal bacteria, noting that while antibiotic treatments for the infection are approximately 80 percent effective, fecal matter transplantations, also known as FMTs, are around 89-92 percent effective. Smith explained that the process of an FMT starts far before one heads into the surgical room, noting that an FMT is an extremely complicated process that first requires finding a donor to undergo a very rigorous set of screenings, come in and produce fecal material to be processed.

NEWS | 02/25/2014

Career Services to review recruiting system

The Daily Princetonian

Career Services to review recruiting system

Lorenzo Quiogue

The Office of Career Services is considering making changes to its current recruiting system by expanding the range of employers and helping students in the recruitment process deal with interviews for different companies that happen at the same time, according to Executive Director Pulin Sanghvi. Sanghvi explained that Career Services will be pursuing a technology strategy inspired by the dating website eHarmony. "We will pursue a strategy inspired by eHarmony, in which we actively capture evolving student interests and preferences, and then use that information to build relationships with the organizations they are most interested in, and create more informed matches," he said.

NEWS | 02/25/2014

Former CDC director discusses vaccination and infectious diseases

The Daily Princetonian

Former CDC director discusses vaccination and infectious diseases

Charles Kyungchan Min

During a lecture on Tuesday, former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding discussed the challenge of developing vaccines to deal with the growing number of new infectious diseases that have limited antimicrobial treatments. Gerberding began with an overview of the problems the CDC and vaccine companies face in properly distributing vaccines around the world.

NEWS | 02/25/2014

MIT professor argues colleges reinforced slavery

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MIT professor argues colleges reinforced slavery

Corinne Lowe

MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder argued that colleges were responsible for reinforcing slavery in antebellum America and that slavery played a pivotal role in establishing American universities. Drawing upon his book published this September, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” Wilder described in a lecture on Tuesday what he calls “the extraordinary role the college played in deciding who could be educated and who couldn’t.” “We don't expect to look at colleges and see slavery,” Wilder said. Wilder stressed that universities have an obligation to confront their pasts, producing a “three-dimensional” depiction of their histories as institutions that accept the responsibility of producing knowledge. In his book, Wilder portrays universities as pillars of the anti-abolition movement, mentioning by name institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Brown and Trinity University during the lecture.

NEWS | 02/25/2014
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News & Notes: Christie's approval rating slides following Bridgegate

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Christie's approval rating slides following Bridgegate

Daily Princetonian Staff

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s job approval among the residents of the state has dropped 15 points since the Bridgegate Scandal, according to Monday’s Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll. Christie is also an ex officio member of the University’s Board of Trustees. The poll shows that 61 percent of the residents who have been following the Bridgegate story believe that the governor is not being completely honest about denying any knowledge about the incident, and 50 percent think that the governor was personally involved in the scandal. The governor’s personal rating has also dropped significantly from 70 percent of respondents being in favor of Christie last year to 44 percent saying they are in favor of him this year. Since the scandal, Christie has kept a low profile.

NEWS | 02/24/2014

Emanuel says traditional health care companies obsolete by 2025

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Emanuel says traditional health care companies obsolete by 2025

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Traditional health insurance companies will be replaced with Accountable Care Organizations by 2025, Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania said to a packed lecture hall on Monday. Accountable care organizations, groups of doctors and hospitals that tie reimbursements to the quality of care, are beginning to assume both the clinical and financial risks for Medicaid patients, Emanuel said.

NEWS | 02/24/2014

Princeton suspected at least one serious reaction to vaccine

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Princeton suspected at least one serious reaction to vaccine

Charles Kyungchan Min

The University has investigated at least one serious medical case as a potential adverse reaction to the meningitis vaccine, although a link was deemed unlikely in that case. An undergraduate student was sent to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro less than 24 hours after receiving the vaccine with a condition ofrhabdomyolysis, an acute breakdown of muscle tissue that causes muscle fiber and protein to be transferred into the bloodstream, risking severe kidney damage. Although the vaccine may have had a temporal correlation with the student getting rhabdomyolysis, specialists at University Health Services and the UMCPP said they do not believe the vaccine directly caused the condition. There has been no past correlation between rhabdomyolysis and the meningitis vaccine in Europe and Australia, where the vaccine was approved for use. Dr. Peter Johnsen, director of medical services at UHS, said that two specialists who observed the case both determined that the student’s illness was not related to the meningitis vaccine. “We posed that question to specialists in the hospital and another specialist, and in both cases, they felt that it was not likely to be related,” Johnsen said.

NEWS | 02/24/2014

Printers, Blackboard experience temporary outages

The Daily Princetonian

Printers, Blackboard experience temporary outages

Do-Hyeong Myeong

An unexpected outage affected the campus student network, including Internet access and printing services, on Monday at9:15 a.m.,according to a recorded status message by the University’s Office of Information Technology support and operation center.The OIT system was temporarily down, a variety of network services were interrupted temporarily and printers in clusters were disconnected from the network. OIT did not post an official alert on its website.

NEWS | 02/24/2014

Jackson ’15 requests funds for Ivy Policy Conference, motion fails in Senate

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Jackson ’15 requests funds for Ivy Policy Conference, motion fails in Senate

Durva Trivedi

An internal request for $5,500 in USG funds, made by USG president Shawon Jackson ’15for the 2014 Ivy Policy Conference, did not pass at Sunday night’s Senate meeting. The motion to approve his request failed with 10 members voting in opposition of the funding, nine in favor and three abstaining. The Ivy Policy Conference, titled “Identity and Inclusivity: Fostering a Community of Individuals,” will take place at the University from March 28-30. According to Jackson, the goal of the conference is to bring diverse students leaders from different Ivy League schools together to discuss ideas for improvement on their respective campuses. The conference will consist of three keynote speeches open to the entire student body and smaller precept discussions for conference participants only. Jackson said participation in the conference will be determined by application and while preference will be given to elected officials within USG, all University students are eligible to apply. Before voting, members questioned why a significant portion of the budget breakdown was dedicated to nonconference-related things such as food and T-shirts and whether or not participants were required to pay feesin past years. Jackson said that in its history, the Ivy Policy Conference has traditionally been free for participants and that the host university generally covers the costs of food and hands out free T-shirts. While Jackson’s request for funding was not approved, U-Councilor Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 requested that the revised proposal be put to a vote in public session rather than an online vote. Additionally, Class of 2015 Senator Nihar Madhavan presented a dining policy update and said the Dining Policy Committee hopes to work on increasing guest meals, meal exchange and dining options for independent students and members of co-ops, as well as publicizing and better communicating with the student body. U-Council chair Elan Kugelmass ’14 answered questions about the Discipline Report and Student Bill of Rights and said the committee is hoping to investigate “friction areas” between students and the University.

NEWS | 02/23/2014

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