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Student diagnosed with suspected measles case, no longer contagious

Student diagnosed with suspected measles case, no longer contagious

Daily Princetonian Staff

A student was diagnosed with a suspected case of measles but has now recovered and is no longer contagious, the University announced in an email to students on Wednesday. The preliminary medical test results were received on Tuesday, and more tests are currently being conducted. More than 99.5 percent of University students have been vaccinated for the disease, the email said. Faculty and staff who have not been vaccinated for the disease may be at risk if they were inWhitman College dining hall, Baker Hall, Holder Hall, McCosh Health Center, Frick Chemistry building, Wallace Hall, Blair Hall, Friend Center, Spelman Hall, 1938 Hall, Frist Campus Center, Dillon Gymnasium or the New South Building from Feb.

NEWS | 02/18/2015

Student begins collecting signatures for a petition to end Bicker process

Jacob Donnelly

A student began collecting signatures for a referendumpetition to end the Bicker process on Wednesday. The referendum, which was drafted by Ryan Low ’16, specifically calls for each eating club to end Bicker not later than the first day of the 2019-20 academic year, to establish an ad hoc USG committee to facilitate ending Bicker and to call on the Interclub Council to appoint a non-voting member to the ad hoc committee to work with it to facilitate ending Bicker. Low presented the referendum and began collecting signatures Wednesday evening at the Mental Health Initiative’s meeting. The proposed referendum requires 500 signatures before students can vote on it, U-council chairZhan Okuda Lim ’15said. Low coordinated with the Undergraduate Student Government to draft the text of the proposed referendum.USG assists students in drafting referenda they are interesting in running, but the referendum is not endorsed by USG,said Okuda-Lim, who assisted in drafting the resolution’s text for conformity to USG’s typical style. The process toward creating the referendum began in late January, Low said, when a Counseling and Psychological Services counselor told him that early February was a busy time of year in their offices due to Bicker.

NEWS | 02/18/2015

News & Notes: Harvard considering implementing honor code pledge

Daily Princetonian Staff

Harvard students will probably have to sign an honor pledge on their final papers and examinations if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves a proposed honor code, the Harvard Crimson reported. Harvard has never before had an honor code. Around 125 Harvard students were investigated for cheating on the final examination of a government class in 2012, and approximately 70 students were forced to withdraw but returned in the fall of 2013. The Faculty Council approved the honor code proposal last week, and the entire faculty now needs to vote to approve it.

NEWS | 02/17/2015

U. researchers co-author paper on using satellite constellations to predict floods

Corinne Lowe

Satellite constellations can be optimized to better predict flooding around the world, researchers from the University, Cornell University and The Aerospace Corporation said in a study published on Feb.

NEWS | 02/17/2015

Hamm ’78 speaks on student activism, civil rights movement

Pooja Patel

People don't have adequate power to make needed changes to society, Lawrence Hamm ’78, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, a social and economic activism organization, said in a lecture on Tuesday. “Ultimately, that’s what we’re struggling for: to empower people," Hamm said. Hamm said he began his work as a student activist in Newark in 1971. “Newark is a key center among several centers for the black liberation movement,” Hamm said.

NEWS | 02/17/2015

Princeton Post Office to move to new location on Nassau Street

Zaynab Zaman

The post office in Palmer Square is moving to the former West Coast Video property at 259 Nassau St. There is no set timeline for when the move will take place, Ray Daiutolo Sr., a U.S.

NEWS | 02/17/2015

Sebelius discusses health care, responds to College Republicans

Charles Kyungchan Min

The Affordable Care Act, as well as other Obama administration health care efforts, has made health care more strongly rooted in adding value-based services and better delivery system reforms, former U.S.

NEWS | 02/17/2015

Syrian film collective presents screening and Q&A

Pooja Patel

The act of filming takes on special meaning during times of war, Charif Kiwan, Syrian filmmaker and co-founder of the Abounaddara Collective, said on Monday. The collective’s films, titled "Syria: A History of Snapshots in the Making," were presented on Monday night.

NEWS | 02/16/2015

Scheide '36 bequeaths 2,500 rare books to Firestone

Jasmine Wang

William Scheide ’36, a musician and philanthropist who died in November at the age of 100, bequeathed his rare books collection to the University, making it the largest gift in the University’s history. The collection is valued at nearly $300 million and is particularly notable for its breadth and depth, Karin Trainer, the University librarian, said. Scheide had announced at a luncheon hosted by the University for his 90thbirthday thathe would bequeath the collection to the University upon his death, Trainer said. After his father,John Scheide,Class of 1896, died in 1942, William Scheidepermitted the transportation in 1959 of the collection from his father’s home in Titusville, Pa., to Firestone Library, where he continued to oversee its care and occasionally add valuable items to it. “I think he was very happy with the way he thought it was being used and the care he could see we were taking with it even though it belonged to him,” Trainer said of Scheide’s decision to trust the University with the collection after his death.

NEWS | 02/16/2015

Tea With Strangers launches, fills quickly

Jacob Donnelly

Tea With Strangers, a student-organized chapter of an international group by the same name, launched on campus Sunday evening and all of the program’s time slots have already been filled. The program facilitates group conversations between students on campus who do not know each other.

NEWS | 02/16/2015

Copeland speaks on diversity in the ballet world

Lorenzo Quiogue

One of the most important responsibilities of the ballet world today is to empower young dancers who don’t feel like they belong, Misty Copeland said at a discussion on Monday. A soloist with the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland spoke as part of the Lewis Center’s Masters of Dance series, which features professional dancers and choreographers in a series of events at the University in January and February. "I wish people would ask, ‘How does it feel to be alone?’ Because there’s really a history of there not being much diversity in the ballet world," Copeland said. She explained that when she first joined American Ballet Theatre, she wasn’t really aware of how she felt about being the only black female dancer on the roster, but things gradually built up as she spent more time in the company.Copeland was the only African-American member of the company for 10 years. "By my third year in the company, I had this resentment, and I really didn’t know where it was coming from," she said.

NEWS | 02/16/2015

News & Notes: Cornell U. fraternity chapter recognition restored

Daily Princetonian Staff

Cornell University has restored its official recognition of its Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity chapter after an interim suspension was imposed on Feb.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

News & Notes: Meningitis B case confirmed at Yale

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a Yale student was diagnosed with a probable case of meningitis B, the Yale Daily News reported on Friday. The student has already been discharged from the hospital after reporting there on Thursday with headaches and vomiting. No other cases have been reported at Yale so far. Medical services at Yale will begin to offer a vaccine for meningitis B at no cost to those with the college's health insurance.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

10 bridges around Princeton structurally deficient or functionally obsolete

Grant Golub

There are 10 bridges in the Princeton area that are“structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete,” New Jersey Department of Transportation commissioner Jamie Fox said last month. There are 500 bridges around the state of New Jersey that fall under this category. The 10 bridges in the Princeton area include bridges that serve important commuter routes, including Princeton Pike and Alexander Street, according to a Feb.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

USG discusses 24-hour study spaces, upcoming mobile calendar app

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed their semester goals as a whole and for specific committees at their weekly meeting on Sunday. USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that the USG recently sent an email to the student body that included a list of the senate's priorities for the spring 2015 semester.The list was compiled based on the recent What Matters campaign, which gave students the opportunity to rank projects they would like to see the USG work on in the future. “For the first time ever, USG can advertise our whole list of priorities,” Cheng said. One priority the senate is working on is increasing the availability of 24-hour study spaces on campus, Cheng said.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

Former student admitted to pretrial intervention program

Grant Golub

A former member of the Class of 2016 alleged to have recorded a video of a female student while she was showering was admitted into a pretrial intervention program last week, according to a press release from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.David Chesleyvoluntarily surrendered to and was charged by the Department of Public Safety on Sept.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

3 U. students awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships

Pooja Patel

Laura Cooper ’15, Samuel Kim ’15 and Cameron Langford ’15were among the 40 winners of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships that were awarded to students in the United States.Another 55 international recipients will be announced in the spring.The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded based on the criteria of intellectual merit, leadership and service.

NEWS | 02/15/2015

News & Notes: Harvard student group stages sit-in for divestment

Daily Princetonian Staff

About 40 Harvard students staged a sit-indemanding divestment from fossil fuel companies in Massachusetts Hall, which houses the office of Harvard President Drew Faust, onThursday,The Harvard Crimson reported. Undergraduate, graduate and law students from the activist group Divest Harvard participated by occupying a first-floor hallway beginning at around 10 a.m. The eventtook place on the eve of Global Divestment Day, which calls for climate change through divestment from fossil fuels. “We’re trying to put as much pressure on them as possible,” protester Canyon Woodward said.

NEWS | 02/12/2015

U. plans campus development for next 10 years

Olivia Wicki

The University is currently in the planning process for a new Campus Framework Plan that will cover the 10-year period from 2016 to 2026. Campus plans need to be renewed every 10 years for a campus plan to remain valid and vital, University architect Ron McCoy said. The University hired Toronto-based consulting firm Urban Strategies in August 2014 to assist in developing the plan. Currently, Urban Strategies is in the initial planning stages for future campus plans, Urban Strategies partner Warren Price said.

NEWS | 02/12/2015

U. to appeal denial of its motion to dismiss newer tax exemption lawsuit

Jessica Li

The University announced on Thursday that it will appeal a Morris County tax court judge’s denial of the University’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against its property tax exemption for the 2014tax year.The University is asking the Appellate Division of New Jersey’s Superior Court to review the denial of the motion to dismiss.The lawsuit in question is separate from a 2011 suit challenging the University’s property tax exemption for 19 buildings alleged to have non-educational or primary uses, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.In the lawsuit whose motion to dismiss was adjudicated on Thursday, four town residents are challenging the University’s receipt of a property tax exemption from the town in 2014.The lawsuit’s premises are flawed, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 said.“The standard in New Jersey for being eligible for property tax exemption is that your dominant purpose should be an educational institution, and Princeton’s dominant motive is to be an education institution," Durkee said.

NEWS | 02/12/2015

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