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U. joins other colleges in nonprofit mental health initiative

U. joins other colleges in nonprofit mental health initiative

Pooja Patel

The University has joined 55 other colleges in participating in The Jed & Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, an initiative to reassess mental health policies on campus and make recommendations for potential changes. Dr. Calvin Chin, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, saidthat the fact that the University is looking toward nonprofits for guidance regarding mental health is completely independent of any controversy regarding the University’s policies. The program, which is mainly focused on substance abuse and suicide prevention, is a partnership between the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the emotional health of American college students, and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Health Matters Initiative, which focuses on improving health and well-being. The University's mental health policies have been widely criticized this year.

NEWS | 10/14/2014

Halal food now available in dining halls

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Halal food now available in dining halls

Katherine Oh

Halal food is now available on a rotational basis in the residential college dining halls.

NEWS | 10/14/2014

Frank ’80, coeducation activist, recounts fight to admit women to Ivy, TI

Sarah Kim

Sally Frank ’80, who successfully sued Ivy Club and Tiger Inn to admit women, discussed her 11-year legal battle at a lecture this Monday. Currently a professor at Drake Law School and an Iowa representative to the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, Frank opened up the lecture with the history of the University’s eating club and coeducation because she said that she believes the history best helps to explain the context of the lawsuit. The University’s secret societies, she said, were precursors to fraternities.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

Middle East and North Africa Regional Fellowship Program sends first fellow abroad

Sharon Deng

The Middle East and North Africa Regional Fellowship Program, originally operating under the name Princeton in the Middle East, has sent its first fellow abroad since disputes arose with the University about its name. The program sent Rachel Webb ’14 to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates in August to intern for Endeavor, a nonprofit organization that helps new entrepreneurs launch their careers around the world. MENAR, founded by a steering committee of four University alumni in 2011, is a fellowship program modeled after similar programs such as Princeton in Africa and Princeton in Asia.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

U. to hire additional investigator to handle sexual assault cases

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

The University is scheduled to hire an external investigator to handle sexual misconduct disciplinary proceedings, according to a job posting on the University's website. This is at least the second staff addition since the University's policies for dealing with sexual assault cases were overhauled this summer in response to pressures from the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

News and Notes: Following email threat, Harvard dean says communication could have been better

Daily Princetonian Staff

After racially charged death threats were emailed to several hundred Harvard affiliates in early October, the Dean of the College at Harvard Rakesh Khurana was critical of administrators for failing to communicate quickly and efficiently with faculty and students during the incident, according to the Harvard Crimson. An hour after acceptingresponsibility for the lack of communicationduring an interview with the Crimson, Khurana sent out an email to undergraduates that said administrators could do a better job of communicating with students in such situations. The email death threat that was sent out included a racial slur and disproportionately targeted women of Asian-American descent, the Crimson reported. In his email to students, Khurana called the threat “despicable” and said the emails, which directly targeted Asian and Asian-American students, created a campus environment of fear and anxiety. The Harvard University Police Department's investigationinto the source of the threat is still ongoing, although the Crimson reported that a spokesperson issued an advisory message saying the emails originated overseas and do not pose a credible threat to the campus. In the aftermath of the incident, students have gathered several times for community conversations to discuss the threat and associated communications.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

Documents shed light on how Princeton handles mental health cases

Chitra Marti

In March 2012, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey gave a student who had attempted to commit suicide a month earlier an ultimatum: Take a voluntary withdrawal sometime in the next four days or be forced to do so. “I do hope … that you will reconsider and take a voluntary withdrawal by no later than March 30, 2012,” she wrote in the final paragraph of a two-page letter.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

Women’s Center posters challenge gender representation in student groups

Women’s Center posters challenge gender representation in student groups

Corinne Lowe

“USG: where men are presidents and women are secretaries” is one of a series of posters that have spawned conversations about equal gender representation around campus, most notably in regards to the Undergraduate Student Government and campus leadership in general. Sponsored by the Women’s Center, the aforementioned USG poster is one of many that points out certain gender practices at the University.

NEWS | 10/13/2014

News & Notes: Bill Clinton to speak at fundraiser in New Jersey

Daily Princetonian Staff

President Bill Clinton is booked to speak at a private fundraiser in Princeton later this month, The Jersey Journal reported. Proceeds from the event will go to the campaign of Democratic congressional candidate for New Jersey’s 12th district, Bonnie Watson Coleman.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

USG senate addresses Mental Health Initiative Board, Firefighters and Yik Yak

Olivia Wicki

Members of the Undergraduate Student Government senate gathered for their weekly meeting this Sunday to address the opening of Mental Health Initiative Board applications and explore counter-Yik Yak initiatives. U-Councilor and chair of the Mental Health Initiative Board Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 presented an update on the board, whose applications are due by 5 p.m.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

Princeton files motion to partially dismiss mental health lawsuit

Chitra Marti

The University is seeking to dismiss a number of claims, as well as the inclusion of former University President Shirley Tilghman as a defendant, in response to a lawsuit filed by a student in March, according to new court papers submitted last week. The student alleged in his complaint filed in federal court that he was discriminated against by University administrators and forced to withdraw from Princeton following a suicide attempt.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

Mandatory quarantine imposed on NBC crew due to Ebola scare

Durva Trivedi

After violating a 21-day isolation agreement, NBC chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman and her NBC crew are under a quarantine mandated by the New Jersey State Health Department until Oct.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

No evidence links political opponents Cruz ’92, Orman ’91 during time at U.

Christina Vosbikian

When U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz ’92 set out on a bus tour last week, kickstarting the campaign for incumbent U.S.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

U. brings additional high-profile law firm onto mental health lawsuit

Chitra Marti

The University has brought on additional outside counsel in a discrimination lawsuit by a student who alleges that he was forced to withdraw following a suicide attempt. In addition to William Maderer of Saiber LLC, who has represented the University in the past, the University has hired two lawyers from the firm Arent Fox LLP — Henry Morris, Jr., and Karen Vladeck — based in Washington, D.C. Arent Fox also has offices inNew York City,San Francisco andLos Angeles, and had revenues of $263.5 million in 2013, according to the National Law Journal. The University’s current lawyers, Saiber LLC, filed a motion for admission — called pro hac vice — for Arent Fox, moving that, although Morris and Vladeck are not currently licensed in New Jersey, they should be allowed to participate in this case in the New Jersey District Court.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

Number of disciplinary violations remains relatively constant

Number of disciplinary violations remains relatively constant

Chitra Marti

The number of students found responsibleand the number ofinfractions committed in violation of University policies increased marginally in the last year, according to the annual discipline reports for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years released on Oct.

NEWS | 10/12/2014

News & Notes: Police Department to hold Coffee with a Cop event

Daily Princetonian Staff

The Princeton Police Department will host its first Coffee with a Cop event on Oct. 11 from 9 a.m.

NEWS | 10/09/2014

Sculpture finds temporary home in Whitman

Jasmine Wang

A new sculpture suddenly appeared on Whitman College grounds this summer.

NEWS | 10/09/2014

News & Notes: Princeton ranked ninth least dateable school

Daily Princetonian Staff

Princeton ranked 9th on a list of the “least datable colleges” developed by The Dating Ring, according to the Mail Online. The list, which compiled data from the paid matchmaking service, used 7,500 date reports from 1,600 people over an 18-month period.

NEWS | 10/09/2014

Dyer discusses U.S., China battle for global hegemony

Jacob Donnelly

China has been actively working to increase its global political hegemony but will find it hard to dislodge the United States as the de facto global leader, Geoff Dyer, Financial Times foreign policy correspondent, told the audience at Dodds Auditorium on Thursday.The vulnerability of American capitalism indicated by the 2008 financial crisis in particular suggested to the Chinese political and academic elite that a more hawkish approach to the competition between the United States and China might be in order, Dyer explained.

NEWS | 10/09/2014

U. neuro research awarded BRAIN Initiative grant

Jessica Li

Two University neuroscience research projects received competitive grants totaling $2.29 million from the inaugural National Institutes of Health Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, a programput in placeby President Barack Obama to support studies on brain activity. A $1.02 million grant was awarded to a collaborative research effort spearheaded by six University researchers.

NEWS | 10/09/2014

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