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

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

Updated: Mastroianni '14, McGinnis '13 win Rhodes Scholarships

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Adam Mastroianni ’14 and Timothy McGinnis ’13 were selected as recipients of the U.S.

NEWS | 11/24/2013

Updated: Eighth case of meningitis at Princeton reported; will not affect vaccination plans

Emily Tseng

Updated 11/24, 9:07 p.m. A female student was diagnosed with meningitis and hospitalized late on Thursdayin the eighth case of the disease to strike the University community since March. The student developed symptoms of the diseaseon Wednesdaynight, when she went to University Health Services at McCosh Health Center.

NEWS | 11/22/2013

Ogle ’15: “Increased outreach”

Ogle ’15: “Increased outreach”

Anna Mazarakis

Despite a late start to campaigning, Zach Ogle ’15 said he will rely on his perspectives as a student in USG and in other campus groups to win the campus vote, emphasizing the importance of increased outreach to student groups. “I’m running for USG president because I feel like USG can do a much better job of reaching out to non-USG students,” Ogle said.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

3 of 4 races for USG committee chairs to be contested

Anna Mazarakis

In a break from recent trends, three of the four USG committee chair positions — Campus and Community Affairs Committee,Social Committee and Academics Committee — have contested elections.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

Pilot service trip program to expand solar power to Peru

Sheila Sisimit

This spring break, eight Princeton students and one faculty member will travel to Urubamba, Peru to bring solar power to two communities in the area.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

Victory bonfire won’t burn John Harvard in effigy

Victory bonfire won’t burn John Harvard in effigy

Jacqueline Gufford

In response to student concerns regarding the burning of a human figure, fuel for Sunday’s bonfire will not include an effigy of John Harvard and likely will not include a Yale bulldog.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

76 percent of students say they plan to get meningitis vaccine

76 percent of students say they plan to get meningitis vaccine

Konadu Amoakuh and Joseph Sheehan Joe

Out of a total of 259 students interviewed by The Daily Princetonian between Tuesday and Wednesday, 197, or 76 percent, said they plan to get a vaccine not yet licensed in the United States that will be offered by the University to combat a campus outbreak of type B meningitis. Since March, six students and one visitor have been hospitalized with the disease.

NEWS | 11/20/2013

With new course and club, Deaf culture enjoys resurgence on campus

Ruby Shao

Amid the chaos of Cane Spree this October, Colin Lualdi ’17 was trying to ask for a T-shirt.

NEWS | 11/19/2013

'The fastest, most unsettling disease': one student's recovery from meningitis

Charles Kyungchan Min

On May 6, Peter Carruth ’14 was admitted to the hospital for symptoms of meningococcal disease.

NEWS | 11/18/2013

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

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

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

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

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