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DREAM Team rallies against deportation of El Salvador native

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DREAM Team rallies against deportation of El Salvador native

Jacob Donnelly

A crowd of 35 people gathered outside Frist Campus Center Monday evening to protest the deportation of German Perez, a Trenton-area construction worker and native of El Salvador charged with illegally residing in the United States. The demonstrators, carrying signs like “Call ICE!” with U.S.

NEWS | 11/18/2013

Princeton to sponsor two rounds of emergency meningitis vaccinations pending final CDC approval

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Princeton to sponsor two rounds of emergency meningitis vaccinations pending final CDC approval

Emily Tseng

The University will sponsor two rounds of an emergency meningitis vaccination campaign for the Princeton community pending a final go-ahead from the U.S.

NEWS | 11/18/2013

Emergency meningitis vaccines at Princeton discussed since summer

Emergency meningitis vaccines at Princeton discussed since summer

Marcelo Rochabrun and Emily Tseng

A plan to import a meningitis vaccine not currently approved in the United States for use at Princeton has been in the works since the summer. The Centers for Disease Control first contacted the U.S.

NEWS | 11/18/2013

Breaking: Acting executive vice president granted permanent status

Breaking: Acting executive vice president granted permanent status

Daily Princetonian Staff

Treby Williams’84, the acting executive vice president,will take on the position permanently, University officials announcedMonday.

NEWS | 11/18/2013

Updated: USG Senate votes to allow Ogle ’15 to run for president against Jackson ’15

Anna Mazarakis

Class of 2015 senator Zach Ogle will be allowed to run against USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 in the upcoming presidential elections, the USG Senate decided in a vote on Sunday night.The vote came after Ogle appealed a decision made by chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 last Tuesday, in whichshe disqualified himfrom the campaign for failing to submit one Google Doc among several pieces of required paperwork on time.With this decision, current USG president Jackson will no longer be running unopposed for reelection.Ogle handed in his candidate statement and signed petition at 4:55 p.m.

NEWS | 11/17/2013

Colleges “betray” victims of rape and sexual assault by failing to punish perpetrators, David Lisak says

Jacqueline Gufford and Regina Wang

Colleges and universities nationwide have “betrayed” victims of rape and sexual assault by failing to punish perpetrators of rape, forensic scientist David Lisak said in a lecture at the University on Friday.

NEWS | 11/17/2013

Relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan mobilized by University community in time for Homecoming weekend

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

Student council volunteers gathered$2,400 to support the victims of Typhoon Haiyan through the charitable organizations Oxfam International, Catholic Relief Services and Stiftung Solarenergie by selling T-shirts at the Princeton/Yale football game this weekend, according to Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne. The United Nations has put the typhoon's death toll at 4,200 people as of Saturday, although the Philippine government has insisted that the death toll is closer to 3,637, NBC News reported. The storm, which struck on the morning of Nov.

NEWS | 11/17/2013

Q&A: David Lisak, Ph.D., expert on sexual assault prevention education

Jacqueline Gufford and Regina Wang

University of Massachusetts professor David Lisak is a clinical psychologist who studies interpersonal violence.Prior to the first session of Lisak's three-part lecture on sexual assault at Princeton, The Daily Princetonian spoke with him on Princeton’s sexual assault statistics in relation to nationwide statistics. The Daily Princetonian: To put this into context at Princeton, more than 15 percent of female undergraduates have reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey.

NEWS | 11/17/2013

In face of ongoing Common Application problems, University sees slight increase in early action applications

Sarah Cen

The University received 3,831 early action applications as of Nov. 15, a slight increase over the 3,810 applications submitted last year.

NEWS | 11/17/2013

Updated: Princeton expected to make decision on unapproved meningitis vaccine Monday

Emily Tseng

The University is expected to announce Monday whether it will allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer a meningitis vaccine not yet approved for use in the United States to the Princeton community. SevenUniversity-associated individualshave been hospitalized with the disease since March.

NEWS | 11/15/2013

DeZarn reflects on lost bid for State Senate

Jacqueline Gufford

Donald DeZarn, the senior operations manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services,lost his bid for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate on Nov.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

ACLU attorney speaks on NSA: 'The Fourth Amendment in the Era of Mass Dataveillance'

Chitra Marti

The government’s mass call tracking program violates fundamental civil liberties and rights to privacy, Catherine Crump, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project argued in a lecture on Thursday. Crump began the lecture with a simple question: “How many of you have cell phones?” Virtually every hand in the room shot up. “It used to be practically impossible for the government to track you without expending tremendous resources,” Crump added.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

In some courses, break trips offer extra perk

Corinne Lowe

For some lucky undergraduates, fall break wasn’t a break from their courses, though it did involve zip-lining in Costa Rica and riding camels in Morocco.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

Email cautions against spread of meningitis before Orange and Black Ball, Yale game

Emily Tseng

With a number of school-wide events approaching, an email sent to students by the residential college directors of student life warned students to exercise caution over the weekendin light of the seventh case of meningitis associated with the University. The email, which had the subject “Alcohol and Meningitis,” advised students to prevent the spread of the disease by using their own cups, washing their hands frequently, using hand sanitizer and refraining from sharing drinking glasses, smoking materials or eating utensils. Alcohol consumption may put students at increased risk for spreading the bacteria that causes meningitis, the email warned. “The more you drink, the more your judgment may decrease about sharing objects that come into contact with the mouth, thereby increasing your risk of disease,” it read.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

After mixed student response, COS 226 modifies 'flipped lecture' format

Elizabeth Paul

After receiving negative feedback from students last spring, instructors have restructured the lecture format of COS 226: Data Structures and Algorithms this fall.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

LGBT Center Outreach Chats offer anonymous support for questioning students

Durva Trivedi

Those questioning their sexual identity or searching for LGBT resources need not look further than their computer screens. The LGBT Center’s Outreach Chats Program, a service providing an anonymous online chat resource for students to communicate with trained peer educators, is now receiving regular business in its second year.

NEWS | 11/14/2013

Greening Princeton, Building Services launch recycling pilot program

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

A single-stream recycling pilot program in 1939 and Edwards Halls was launched Monday through the collaborative efforts of Greening Princeton, a student group that promotes environmental sustainability, and University Building Services.

NEWS | 11/14/2013