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FDA licenses first meningitis B vaccine

FDA licenses first meningitis B vaccine

Lorenzo Quiogue

The Food and Drug Administration approved Trumenba, a vaccine against meningitis type B, for active immunization in 10- to 25-year-olds on Tuesday, according to a press release by Pfizer, the manufacturer of the vaccine. This is the first vaccine against this strand of bacterial meningitis approved in the United States.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

USG, Garden Theatre discuss earlier showings for USG-sponsored movies

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government has approached the Garden Theatre to try to schedule earlier screenings of their sponsored movie nights, according to USG movies committee chairJack Mazzulo '16. The initiative, however, has been met with some resistance on the part of the newadministration of the movie theater, which started its duties this summer.According to Mazzulo, students have told him that the regular 11:45 p.m.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

News & Notes: Christie belligerent with heckler at press conference

Daily Princetonian Staff

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received national attention for responding to a heckler at a press conference on Oct.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Helen Joynes, bus operator and honorary member of the Class of 2013, dies

Helen receives her honorary Class of 2013 degree

Helen Joynes, bus operator and honorary member of the Class of 2013, dies

Linda Song

Helen A. Joynes, a bus operator with First Transit, the service provider of the University’s TigerTransit bus system, died on Oct.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Midterm elections accompanied by vote on bail requirement

Jacqueline Gufford

In addition to casting votes for congressional candidates in the midterm elections on Tuesday, New Jersey voters will be confronted with a public question to amend the state constitution’s bail requirement. The ballot question specifically asks voters whether they approve of a measure that would allow courts to order the pre-trial detention of defendants. This addresses the implementation of a bail reform measure,an act passed by the state legislature and signed into law by New Jersey Gov.

NEWS | 11/02/2014

Amid protests, Dalai Lama maintains jovial atmosphere

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Amid protests, Dalai Lama maintains jovial atmosphere

Chitra Marti

The Dalai Lama spoke about compassion, forgiveness and the oneness of humanity, and even told a few jokes at a lecture co-sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and The Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation in Jadwin Gymnasium on Tuesday morning, as protests over allegations of discrimination against small Buddhist sects took place outside. Around two hundred members of a group known as the International Shugden Community held a demonstration to the east of Jadwin.

NEWS | 10/28/2014

Tenured professorships in decline nationwide, U. defies trend

Ruby Shao

Tenure is declining in higher education across the country: while over 78.3 percent of faculty held tenure-track or tenured positions nationally in 1969, only 33.5 percent did so by 2009, according to a reportpublished by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. The University, however, is not following the national trend.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

News & Note: Rutgers School of Law report claims Hurricane Sandy voting measures illegal

Daily Princetonian Staff

A report released on Thursday by the Rutgers School of Law-Newark concluded the stop-gap measures intended to allow people to vote in the days after Hurricane Sandy violated state law, according to NJ Advance Media. Those measures included allowing people to cast ballots by email and led to mass confusion, according to the report. “Emergency measures such as Internet and fax voting not only violated New Jersey law, but also left votes vulnerable to online hacking,” the report said.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

News & Notes: In ongoing case of academic fraud, UNC Chapel Hill administrators fired

Daily Princetonian Staff

Two administrators perpetuated widespread academic fraud at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill within an academic department consisting of various athletic teams, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report details how students –many of them athletes –in the University’s African and Afro-American studies department were able to take no-show courses and earn passing grades for doing little to no work, ensuring their eligibility to compete. UNC Chapel Hill hired former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, now a partner at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, to investigate the matter. The two administrators in question, former department chairman Julius Nyang’oro and retired administrator Deborah Crowder, decided to cooperate with Wainstein to produce the most detailed examination yet after criminal charges were dropped against them earlier this year. So far, nine employees have been dismissed or disciplined in connection to the investigation, which started years ago.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Group to protest Dalai Lama talk at Princeton next week

Zaynab Zaman

More than 100 members of the International Shugden Community will be protesting at the Dalai Lama’s public speech on Oct.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Amid suit over tax status and patents, U. lobbies in D.C. over same issues

Jacob Donnelly

The University has been lobbying the federal government on intellectual property policy and tax legislation for the end of 2013 and all of 2014 so far, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed with the U.S.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

Whig-Clio changes break trip name after Pace Center voices concerns

Jessica Li

The Pace Center for Civic Engagement has recently raised concerns about the use of the word “Breakout” by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.

NEWS | 10/23/2014

News & Notes: Student hit by golf cart, taken to hospital

Daily Princetonian Staff

A student sustained a knee injury after he was hit by a golf cart on a sidewalk near the Friend Center at1:27 p.m.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

News & Notes: Dartmouth newspaper advocates abolishing the Greek system

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Editorial Board of “The Dartmouth” published an article on Oct.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

Princeton's license to distribute unapproved meningitis vaccine to expire

Olivia Wicki

The University's special license to use Bexsero, a vaccine against meningitis B that is not yet licensed for use in the United States, will expire soon, after the last vaccination clinic takes place on Nov.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

Theft charge against professor dismissed in exchange for community service

Jacob Donnelly

A Princeton municipal court judge dismissed on Monday a charge of theft against operations research and financial engineering professor John Mulvey on the condition that Mulvey perform 120 hours of community service. Mulvey was accused of removing lawn signs belonging to Princeton Computer Tutor and Repairsfrom private properties over the course of about a year. The allegedly stolen signs were listed as valued at $470.82. Ted Horodynsky, president of Princeton Computer Tutor and Repairs, set up several cameras and filmed Mulvey taking the signs twice in July.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

U. creates new position to market research amid lawsuit over tax exemption

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The announcement that the University’s Office of Technology Licensingestablishedthe position of executive in residence to help commercialize its research comes in the midst of alawsuitagainst the University regarding its tax-exempt status. Local plaintiffs, who filed the suit in 2011, cite the University’s commercialized research revenue as a reason to increase its tax duties, leading some community members to interpret the creation of the new position as a recognition of the University’s corporate priorities. Although the University does not pay taxes on most of its property, it spends about$10 million a yearon taxes for nonexempt properties and voluntarily pays taxes on some graduate student housing, making it the largest tax contributor in town. “They’re being sued in a nationally renowned lawsuit over abusing tax-exempt privileges,” the plaintiffs’ representative and Princeton-based lawyer Bruce Afran said of the University.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

150 students invited to meet the Dalai Lama

Zaynab Zaman

Following the Dalai Lama’s public speech at the University on Oct. 28, there will be a private, invitation-only event with him for selected students, faculty and staff. Around 150 students have been invited by the Office of Religious Life, which is organizing the 90-minute private meeting together withThe Kalmyk Three Jewels Foundation. Though the Dalai Lama has toured college campuses before, this personal interaction with students is a unique event, Dean of the Office of Religious Life Alison Boden said.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

Updated: Ten Princeton alumni seek seats in Congress

Jacqueline Gufford

At least 10 University alumni are seeking a seat in the House of Representatives or the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. The candidates include Rep.

NEWS | 10/21/2014

USG discusses representation of women in officer positions

Zaynab Zaman

Members of the Undergraduate Student Government discussed strategies for increasing the representation of women in USG and strengthening communication between officers and students in the weekly Senate meeting Sunday. Discussion revolved around both the lack of women running for elected positions in USG and the low number of female members currently in USG.

NEWS | 10/19/2014

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