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Reported eating club crimes

At least four thefts and two burglaries reported from eating clubs in past three months

Between September and November, four thefts and two burglaries from the eating clubs have been reported, compared to zero in the same period last year, according to a review of police records from the same period in 2012 and 2013. The incidents have been reported at Cap & Gown, Cottage, Terrace, Quadrangle and Tower Clubs. Based on public records detailing the incidents as well as interviews with eating club presidents, the victims themselves and police officers, no explanation for the increase in the number of reported incidents could be determined.

NEWS | 12/05/2013

The Daily Princetonian

University victims of meningitis have not "completely escaped residual effects"

Some University students infected with meningitis have suffered some of the disease’s residual effects, according to Peter Johnsen, Director of Medical Services at University Health Services. “I would not say all of our students have completely escaped residual effects,” Johnsen said at a panel on the upcoming meningitis B vaccine Thursday evening, where medical professionals from the U.S.

NEWS | 12/05/2013

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McGraw Study Hall experiences overcrowding, student 'misapprehension' of program's purposes

Though McGraw Study Hall remains a popular academic-help resource, with 5,800 student visits recorded by the McGraw Center in the last academic year, its popularity has also been a source of dissatisfaction for some students because of the overcrowding and shortage of student tutors. According to data collected by the McGraw Center, in the 2012 fall semester, 62 tutors regularly worked one shift a week, and in spring 2013, only 59 did so.

NEWS | 12/05/2013

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Priorities Committee to make recommendations to improve use of University funds this month, present to Board of Trustees in January

Due to recessionary pressures and diminished federal funding for research, this month the Priorities Committee is examining ways to more efficiently use the University's funds. The Priorities Committee will make preliminary recommendations on Dec.

NEWS | 12/04/2013

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: U. researchers examine how targeted advertising personalizes web experience for each user

In a study examining how the commercialization of online data has personalized web users’ experience, researchers at the University and Belgium's KU Leuven have released "bots" that mimic the behavior of real people online, according to "Freedom to Tinker," a blog hosted by the University's Center for Information Technology Policy. Their research studies the different personal experiences that arise due to the practices of companies like Google, which stores data on users' web history and filters their search results based on this history.

NEWS | 12/04/2013

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About 12 percent of eating club members drop clubs before graduation

The launch of anew official websiteabout the eating clubs has provided a unique window into the clubs’ real membership numbers, one which suggests that a significant number of students drop the eating clubs before graduating.As of the beginning of the current semester, 1,710 students in the Classes of 2014 and 2015 are members of the eating clubs according to the InterClub Council website.

NEWS | 12/04/2013

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: University of California, Santa Barbara meningitis outbreak reaches four cases

Princeton is not the only school experiencing an outbreak of meningitis B. Four students at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been diagnosed with the disease since November, The Los Angeles Times reported. All four cases have been of serogroup B, the same serogroup that has affected eight people at the University.

NEWS | 12/03/2013

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Yale's selective social science majors not likely to follow Wilson School to non-selectivity anytime soon

Despite the entrance of the first non-selective class of undergraduate Wilson School majors this year, similar interdisciplinary majors at Yale University are not currently considering similar alterations to their application processes.Like the formerly selective Wilson School’s old application process, the Ethics, Politics and Economics major and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs major require prospective students to apply during their sophomore year.

NEWS | 12/03/2013

The Daily Princetonian

Updated: U. may join First Lady’s initiative to increase low-income students’ access to higher education

Princeton is in conversations with the White House about taking part in anew educational initiative byFirst Lady Michelle Obama ’85 that seeksto increase low-income students’ access to higher education.Nevertheless, some administrators and faculty said they appreciated the motives behind the new initiative but expressed skepticism about the potential impacts of the initiative if applied to Princeton, noting that the University has already taken a number of measures to recruit low-income students and is already actively working to improve those measures.Obama announced the initiative in November in a speech at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C.

NEWS | 12/02/2013