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News & Notes: O’Shea ’16 a Jeopardy! finalist

News & Notes: O’Shea ’16 a Jeopardy! finalist

Daily Princetonian Staff

Theresa O’Shea ’16 won her semifinal round competition of Jeopardy! College Championship last night, moving on to the final round with a chance to win up to $100,000. O’Shea said in a previous interview with The Daily Princetonian that being on Jeopardy!

NEWS | 02/18/2014

News & Notes: Holt chooses not to seek reelection

Daily Princetonian Staff

U.S. Rep. Rush D. Holt of New Jersey, who has represented the 12th congressional district — including Princeton — in the U.S.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Wilson School to offer study abroad program in Israel

Warren Crandall

The Wilson School has partnered with the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, to offer Wilson School students the chance to study abroad while completing a mandatory task force.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Weldon ’16 named Class of 2016 Social Chair

Anna Mazarakis

James Weldon ’16 will serve as the new Class of 2016 social chair, the 2016 class council announced in an email to the sophomore class on Tuesday. Molly Stoneman ’16 vacated the position after she won her bid for USG vice president in the November elections. Weldon was chosen out of approximately 20 applicants, Class of 2016 president Justin Ziegler ’16 said.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Falk encourages Palestinian use of ‘soft power’ in conflict with Israel

Falk encourages Palestinian use of ‘soft power’ in conflict with Israel

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Palestinians should continue to pursue self-empowerment, legal justice and peaceful resistance in their ongoing territorial conflict with Israel, international law professor emeritus Richard Falk said during the 11thannual Edward W.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Biographer discusses personal aspects of Wilson’s presidency

Corinne Lowe

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University trustee A. Scott Berg ’71 gave a lecture on Tuesday on the life of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, depicting Wilson as a president deeply influenced by his regional and religious background and reluctant to take a stand against racism and women’s suffrage. Berg’s Woodrow Wilson biography, published in the fall of 2013, is a New York Times best seller whose rights were recently been purchased by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

Confusion surrounding vaccination and blood drives resolved

Charles Kyungchan Min

Individuals who received the meningococcal disease vaccine were not originally eligible to donate blood because of the vaccine's unlicensed status in the United States.

NEWS | 02/18/2014

News & Notes: 1,162 receive second dose of meningitis vaccine on first day of clinic

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A total of 1,162 eligible individuals received the second vaccination dose against meningococcal-B on Monday, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

NEWS | 02/17/2014

News & Notes: Painting allegedly punched at Ivy

Chitra Marti

A painting was allegedly punched and damaged last Friday in Ivy Club, according to a press release by the Princeton Police Department. Police were called to the club on the report that someone had punched and damaged a painting in the club, the release said.

NEWS | 02/17/2014

Wantchekon strives for ‘pan-African’ university

Catherine Duazo

Politics professor Leonard Wantchekon, prison activist turned professor, is in the process of founding a university in Africa, which he hopes will become a “pan-African” university that would provide students with a “modern American-style university” experience.

NEWS | 02/17/2014

Princeton says no injuries due to ice, but students report falling

Jasmine Wang

The University is not aware of any injuries caused as a result of the sheets of ice that have covered sidewalks around campus after several snowstorms hit the east coast over the last few weeks, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

NEWS | 02/17/2014

USG sponsors Violence Intervention and Prevention week

Ruby Shao

The USG is sponsoring aViolence Intervention and Prevention week dedicated to educating students about issues related tosexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. Students this week will have the opportunity to attend lectures, study breaks, performances and discussions that deal with topics ofpower-based personal violence. The USG collaborated with Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education, the residential colleges’ directors of student life and the Women’s Center to create the initiative. USG president Shawon Jackson ’15, who proposed the project, said that the idea came to him at a meeting in which several officers were discussing the USG promotion of an upcoming lecture by sexual assault expert David Lisak.

NEWS | 02/17/2014

USG discusses PrinceTHON project

Sheila Sisimit

USG Social Chair Logan Roth ’15 presented the PrinceTHON project to the Senate at the first meeting of the new administration on Sunday night. According to its website, PrinceTHON has started "a year-long effort of innovative projects to unite the community and fundraise for big impact causes, culminating in Princeton’s first dance marathon" which will take place on April 5.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

News & Notes: Patton '77 writes new op-ed

Ruby Shao

Susan Patton '77 wrote a new column advising women to invest most of their efforts in finding a husband rather than establishing a career.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

Wrestling comes from behind again to defeat Columbia, easily dispatches two others

Jack Rogers

For the second consecutive weekend, Coach Chris Ayres’ grapplers continued to streak in regular season competition, as they once again went three for three in dual matches.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

U. physicists install underground detector in search of clues about dark matter

Elizabeth Paul

An international collaboration led by physicists from the University installed an underground detector in September with the hope of discoveringa new fundamental particle that could account for dark matter.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

Survey is first step in reevaluation of grade deflation

Chitra Marti

A survey sent out to all undergraduate students on Feb.

NEWS | 02/16/2014

Updated: Two seniors awarded Pyne Prize

Sheila Sisimit

Joe Barrett ’14 and Isabel Kasdin ’14 were this year’s recipients of the 2014 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize.

NEWS | 02/14/2014

Updated: Gore named Class Day speaker

Anna Mazarakis

Former Vice President Al Gore will speak to the Class of 2014 at this year’s Class Day, the University announcedFriday. Gore, who served as Vice President for President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his activism on climate change. “We were very excited when Al Gore accepted our invitation to speak at Class Day,” Class Day co-chair Alisa Tiwari '14 said in an interview.

NEWS | 02/14/2014

News and Notes: Student charged with drug possession had suspected Ritalin

Lorenzo Quiogue

The student who was arrested for suspected drug possession on Feb. 2had three pills of Ritalin and less than 50 grams of marijuana, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 02/13/2014

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