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Updated: Gas leak evacuates 500 from central campus, is turned off before noon

Updated: Gas leak evacuates 500 from central campus, is turned off before noon

Michael Granovetter

During some routine excavation work occurring just south of McCosh Health Center on Monday morning, a backhoe struck a 2.5-inch high-pressure gas line, causing a rupture shortly before 10 a.m.

NEWS | 12/02/2013

News & Notes: SCORE precept enrollment to be used for all courses next spring

News & Notes: SCORE precept enrollment to be used for all courses next spring

Daily Princetonian Staff

Students will be able to select all spring-semester precepts and lab sections directly in SCORE during course selection, University Registrar Polly Griffin announced in an email to the student body on Monday.

NEWS | 12/02/2013

News & Notes: Lawrence Township company aims to ferment University food waste

Daily Princetonian Staff

Twenty tons of food waste from University dining halls could be sent to a plant in Lawrence Township, N.J., each week to be cycled through a new waste handling process involving mass fermentation, The Times of Trenton reported on Friday. Local startup company AgriArk has made a deal with the University to use University food waste in the development phase of its efforts to establish a food waste processing plant in Lawrence, according to a proposal AgriArk has filed with Mercer County. Using Japanese fermentation technology that decomposes food waste in an acidic, anaerobic process similar to that used to make kimchi and other pickled vegetables, AgriArk’s industrial homestead would turn food waste into solid and liquid fertilizers that could be sold back to the University. AgriArk hopes to have permits by the end of January and a functional site up and running by the spring, the Times reported.

NEWS | 12/01/2013

In introductory language classes, discrepancies in proficiency not an issue

Paul Phillips

More than half of the students who take SPA 101: Beginner's Spanish I, a class for students with no previous background in the language, have studied Spanish before enrolling in the class, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in spring 2012. The survey, which received 106 responses, also revealed that 29 percent of the students surveyed had taken at least three years of Spanish before beginning the introductory course. “Language teaching is very different in different institutions,” Spanish Senior Lecturer Alberto Bruzos Moro explained.

NEWS | 12/01/2013

Unpublished J.D. Salinger story kept in University library leaked illegally online

Patience Haggin

A previously unpublished J.D. Salinger story housed in the University’s Firestone Library was illegally made public online on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Salinger’s story, “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” provides the backstory to his famous 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by recounting the death of Kenneth Caulfield, the older brother of the novel’s protagonist.

NEWS | 12/01/2013

Students say Arts and Transit Neighborhood construction causes some inconvenience

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Students say Arts and Transit Neighborhood construction causes some inconvenience

Jacob Donnelly and Jean-Carlos Arenas

Construction of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood has caused small inconveniences for the day-to-day lives of students living in Forbes College, according to several residents of Forbes.The intersection of Alexander Street and University Place was closed to vehicular traffic in October, resulting in changes to pedestrian and bike paths from Forbes College to the main campus.

NEWS | 12/01/2013

Updated: USG President Jackson ’15 re-elected with 68 percent of vote

Anna Mazarakis

USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 won his bid for reelection, chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 announced in an email sent by Jackson to the undergraduate student body last Friday afternoon.Jackson received 68.36 percent of the vote, with 1,303 students voting in his favor.

NEWS | 11/29/2013

USG debates proposal to separate class governments from the Senate

Anna Mazarakis

Members of the Senate debated a proposed constitutional amendment to split the existing USG structure into two separate bodies at their Monday evening meeting.

NEWS | 11/26/2013

Updated: CDC approves meningitis vaccination campaign; dates announced

Updated: CDC approves meningitis vaccination campaign; dates announced

Emily Tseng

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given final approval for ameningitis vaccination campaignto commence at Princeton, the University announced in an emaillast week. The vaccine will be made available to all undergraduate students, graduate students living in undergraduate dormitories, the Graduate College and annexes and other members of the University community with medical conditions predisposing them to meningococcal disease.

NEWS | 11/26/2013

DREAM Team advocated to halt deportation of El Salvador native Perez

Hannah Schoen

Princeton’s DREAM Team, a student immigration advocacy group, said it helped prevent the deportation of German Perez, a native of El Salvador, by successfully lobbying N.J.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

Importation of Novartis meningitis vaccine not likely to make U. liable

Warren Crandall

Princeton's plan to make a meningitis vaccine —called Bexsero —available to students in the near future likely has few legal ramifications for the University, despite the fact that the U.S.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

News & Notes: U. donates $100K to Princeton Public Library

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News & Notes: U. donates $100K to Princeton Public Library

Daily Princetonian Staff

The University has made a donation of $100,000 to the stewardship fund of the town's public library.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

News & Notes: Reported gunman keeps Yale campus on lockdown

Daily Princetonian Staff

Reports of a gunman on campus brought Yale University under a daylong shelter-in-place lockdown order Monday. The campus-wide lockdown lasted approximately six hours, from 10:50 a.m.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

Alumni Association publicizes Reunions jobs through 'more robust' website, student survey

Corinne Lowe

Students who wish to be employed by the Office of the Alumni Association during Reunions may now complete an online survey to be considered for employment, according to an email sent by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students to non-senior students last week.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

4 graduate students awarded Jacobus Fellowships

Elliott Eglash

Four graduate students were named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top honor for graduate students, the University announced Friday. The students, James Pickett GS, Emily Vasiliauskas GS, Sonika Johri GS and Cristina Domnisoru GS, will receive funding for their final year of graduate study.The fellowship is awarded to those whose work has exhibited the highest scholarly excellence. Pickett, a Ph.D.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

‘splash,’ ‘Saheli’ win big at Princeton Pitch

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The two $1,000 first prizes for Princeton Pitch went to the creators of “splash,” a free application that allows users to share media based on location, and the developers of “Saheli,” a catering service that aims to help Indian women escape the sex trade. Students dressed in business attire crowded into Dodds Auditorium for the annual competition hosted by the Entrepreneurship Club, which gives participants 60 seconds to pitch their startup ideas, in for-profit or social entrepreneurship tracks, to a panel of judges for cash prizes.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

At first-ever TEDx PrincetonU, social entrepreneurs, academics and educators discuss 'disruption' in academia and beyond

At first-ever TEDx PrincetonU, social entrepreneurs, academics and educators discuss 'disruption' in academia and beyond

Elizabeth Paul

The changing landscape of education in the digital age was a prominent topic of discussion at TEDx PrincetonU, an event that featured 12 short talks on the topic of “Disrupt" last Saturday.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

Li '14 awarded Marshall Scholarship

Durva Trivedi

Dixon Li ’14, an English concentrator from Sandy, Utah, has been awarded the Marshall Scholarship for further study in the United Kingdom.He is the only University student or alumnus to receive the scholarship this year.

NEWS | 11/25/2013

Concern over meningitis outbreak impacts Big Sibs, Princeton Disabilities Awareness carnival

Angela Wang and James Evans

Several campus organizations have had their events cancelled or seen reduced participation due to concerns by outside groups over the outbreak of bacterial meningitis at Princeton.The Big Sibs mentoring program by the Class of 2016 has had two events with its elementary school mentees cancelled, and a Princeton Disabilities Awareness event this weekend saw much lower attendance than predicted.

NEWS | 11/24/2013

Victory pyre warms students in freezing weather

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Victory pyre warms students in freezing weather

Michael Granovetter

On the first day of the semester with temperatures that failed to reach above freezing, students, faculty, staff and townspeople huddled for warmth around a bonfire on Cannon Green to celebrate the football team’s victory in the Big Three for the second year in a row.

NEWS | 11/24/2013

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