Two weeks ago, Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam announced that he is gay, and thus will become the first openly gay player to enter the NFL draft.
Town attorney Edwin Schmierer will step down from his position after a town council meetingon Monday, according to the Princeton Packet. Schmierer served as the municipal attorney for more than 30 years and has represented both the former borough and the former township of Princeton before the two merged.
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.
Only 24 students enrolled in the second-semester component of the Humanities Sequence — listed as HUM 216-219 — compared with 47 students who were enrolled in the class for the fall semester.
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.
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.
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.
Terrace Club accepted 13 new members during second-round sign-ins, club president Christopher St John '15 wrote in a statement. While Terrace took members in the second round of sign-ins, it did not offer membership to everyone who listed it as a second-round choice, The Daily Princetonian independently confirmed.
A town resident was allegedly assaulted by two men with a baseball bat on Nassau Street around11:37 p.m.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will reveal his budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday in midst of political troubles related to the Bridgegate scandal. The September traffic jam at a major bridge in Fort Lee, N.J., allegedly an act of political retaliation, may serve as a political distraction.
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.
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The University should consider changing its motto to “Princeton in the nation’s service, in the service of all nations and in the service of humanity, one person and one act at a time,” Sonia Sotomayor ’76, associate justice of the U.S.
Hunter R. Rawlings III GS ’70 commented on the challenges that universities face in providing undergraduate education in the “data age” in an Alumni Day speech.
Terry O’Shea ’16 won first place in Friday’s final round of the Jeopardy!
Attorneys for two former aides of embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will appear in court next month to argue why their clients should not comply with subpoenas issued to further investigate the Fort Lee bridge lane closures, The Star-Ledger reported. State Superior Court Assignment Judge Mary Jacobson told attorneys for former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly and former campaign adviser Bill Stepien to submit briefs defending their position by March 3.
Town Mayor Liz Lempert said that the Princeton Council could appoint a new police chief to replace disgraced former police chief David Dudeck as early as next month, the Princeton Packet reported. Dudeck signed a separation agreement with the town last year after facing numerous allegations of administrative misconduct. Captain Nick Sutter has run the police department in Dudeck’s absence, but Town Administrator Robert Bruschi said that Sutter will not necessarily be the automatic choice for the position.
Former President of the United Nations General Assembly Vuk Jeremic gave a lecture Thursday in which he argued that regional and national governments are facing a growing danger in continuing to misalign short-term priorities with long-term needs. Sustainable development is an essential component to moving forward and preserving humanity, he said.
Daphne Oz ’08, co-host of ABC’s food-centered talk show The Chew, shared her experiences in the professional world during a lecture on Thursday and advised students to embrace the opportunity to explore different career paths before choosing a long-term track. “It’s not only amazing, it’s totally acceptable for people our age to have eight, 10, 15 careers,” she said. Oz explained that upon graduation from the University, where she concentrated in Near Eastern Studies, she struggled to identify what she wanted to do as a full-time career.
