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

The Daily Princetonian

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

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

The Daily Princetonian

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

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

The Daily Princetonian

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
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LGBT Center Outreach Chats offer anonymous support for questioning students

The Daily Princetonian

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

HackPrinceton site What Would I Say passes 1 million hits, gains national attention

The Daily Princetonian

HackPrinceton site What Would I Say passes 1 million hits, gains national attention

Joseph Sheehan Joe

“We lured a girl into the Large Hadron Collider.” “Herman Cain has already received a carefully groomed mustache.” "We tried to eat our spectacular students." These are just three examples of the randomly generated non sequiturs produced by What Would I Say, a website developed by seven Princeton graduate students during last weekend's HackPrinceton event.

NEWS | 11/13/2013

Proposed amendments to separate class governments from Senate shows tensions between two bodies

The Daily Princetonian

Proposed amendments to separate class governments from Senate shows tensions between two bodies

Anna Mazarakis

The USG Senate and class governments could become two independent bodies if the Senate passes several amendments in its upcoming meetings. The proposed amendments were discussed and written jointly by the class governments and members of the Senate, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.

NEWS | 11/13/2013

Arts and Transit Neighborhood restaurant seeks additional liquor license, though town limit has already been reached

The Daily Princetonian

Arts and Transit Neighborhood restaurant seeks additional liquor license, though town limit has already been reached

Elliott Eglash

A restaurant that will be locatedin the Arts and Transit Neighborhood is attempting to obtain a liquor license, even though the state has already given away its maximum number of licenses to the town of Princeton. To get around the lack of available licenses, Raoul Momo, head of Terra Momo Restaurant Group, applied for a concessionaire’s permit, a special kind of permission granted to businesses that the state deems to be of public benefit.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

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Physicist Randall: Higgs boson "a spectacular discovery" but not "the final word"

Corinne Lowe

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson, a previously only-theorized particle whose existence would validate the currently accepted model of why things have mass, has had enormous implications for physicists’ understanding of how particles acquire mass, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall explained in a public lecture on Monday evening.In March, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, identified a particle bearing the attributes of the proposed Higgs boson.Theoretical physicistsPeter Higgs and Francois Englert received the Nobel Prize in physics last month for their 1964 proposals of the particle.Randall explained that the discovery will pave the way for new research in particle physics.“It really was a spectacular discovery that gives us insight into the Standard Model of physics,” Randall said of the discovery.Randall began her lecture by showing the hall several pictures of the Eiffel Tower at different resolutions, providing an analogy about the importance of scaling in scientific inquiry as well as the need to examine phenomena at both a large and small scale.Randall emphasized the importance of small scaling in scientific examination and how crucial it was to the research being conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.When Higgs boson particles were discovered, scientists didn’t see the Higgs particles themselves, but rather the particles they decayed into, Randall explained.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

Students with an evening exam followed by a morning exam the next day will now qualify for rescheduling

The Daily Princetonian

Students with an evening exam followed by a morning exam the next day will now qualify for rescheduling

Anna Mazarakis

Students who have a final exam at night followed by an exam the next morning will now be able to reschedule their morning exam for the afternoon, according to the Office of the Registrar’s website. "Students who have an in-class night exam (7:30 p.m.) followed by an in-class morning exam (9:00 a.m.) the next day may request that the morning exam be rescheduled to the afternoon (1:30 p.m.) of the same day," the policy reads. The change is the result of efforts from the USG Academics Committee, whose chair Dillon Sharp ’14 presented a series of recommendations for the final exam period to the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Oct.

NEWS | 11/12/2013

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