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Bat crashes ECO 100 lecture in McCosh 50 By Claire Silberman Head News Editor
Last year, bats invaded Holder Hall, 1976 Hall, and the third floor of Frist Campus Center. This Wednesday, a bat sought a bigger audience. At around 11:30 a.m., in the middle of an ECO 100: Introduction to Microeconomics lecture in McCosh 50, students and faculty reported the return of a bat. Valeria Torres-Olivares ’22 was sitting in class when the bat appeared. “I was writing down my notes and I heard screams from the class and the professor. I looked up and there was a bat flying around,” she said. “The bat was just circling around and freshmen were getting up on the balcony and trying to touch it. Someone got up and started waving their jacket to catch it, even though that wasn’t a good idea.” Professor Kelly Noonan attempted to resume the lecture while the bat continued to get “lower and lower,“ according to TorresOlivares. But Imaan Khasru ’23 observed classmates getting “noticeably worried.” “A couple of minutes in, when we realized the bat wasn’t leaving anytime
soon — that’s when people started filing out,” Khasru said. The 50-minute lecture on budget controls and indifference curves was cut short. Deputy University Spokesperson Mike Hotchkiss explained in a statement to The Daily Princetonian that the room was evacuated shortly after the bat sighting. A pestcontrol company arrived to find the bat gone, “likely through an open window.” Still, according to multiple students in ENG 385: Children’s Literature, the 12:30 p.m. lecture in McCosh 50, the professor announced at the outset of class that the Facilities Department was “on speed dial,” presumably in case the bat returned. Ellie Goodspeed ’21, one of the 421 students enrolled in Children’s Literature, thought it was mostly funny. At the beginning of the lecture, Goodspeed said, she and a friend chanted “Bat! Bat! Bat!” because they “really wanted to see it.” “But then I remembered a scene from ‘The Office’ … where a bat attacks Meredith, and Dwight puts a garbage bag over her head. The bat bites her and she basically gets rabies,” Good-
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speed said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rabies is relatively rare in humans, with only one or two human cases each year in the United States. However, the most common way to get rabies is through bat contact.
If bitten by a bat, individuals should “wash any wound … thoroughly with soap and water and seek medical attention immediately,” according to a statement on the CDC website. Students took to the classroom response system Acadly to debrief the inci-
dent. Justice Chukwuma ’22 solicited names for the bat from classmates. Nathan Yates ’22 named it “McLovin.” Neither Yates nor Chukwuma responded to requests to explain the name.
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Four graduate students named Jacobus Fellows
Menstrual Product Task Force presents plans for expansion, ‘Periodpalooza’
Q&A with Chris Lu ’88, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor
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modeling” to model animal behavior. According to the University statement, Periera sees his dissertation as a foundation for “quantitative behavior-driven neuroscience, including new avenues for diagnosis of human psychiatric disease.” With support from the Princeton Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund, Pereira developed a groundbreaking arBy Sam Kagan and Taylor tificial intelligence framework Sharbel Assistant News Editor and Staff to track the individual body Writer parts of animals. Mala Murthy, a professor of neuroscience, The Daily Princetonian praised Pereira’s work for leversat down with Chris Lu ’88, aging “novel solutions” to track former Assistant to the Presianimal behavior in a statement dent and White House Cabito the University. net Secretary for President “There’s almost nothing like Barack Obama. Lu discussed it,” Murthy said. his time at Princeton, his days Computer science student with Obama at Harvard Law Singh was awarded for his disSchool, and 2020 Democratic sertation on refining learning Candidates. algorithms. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, The Daily Princetonian: Kanpur, Singh’s Ph.D. work proWhat’s it like to come back PHOTO COURTESY OF PREETI IYER ’20 vided the foundation of a new to Princeton and what does Leaders of the Menstrual Product Task Force include (from left to that mean to you in the con“sub-discipline” in computer right) Benjamin Harrison ’22, Madeleine Marr ’21, Preeti Iyer ’20, text of your new stature? science called “non-stochastic Stephane Sartzetakis ’22, and Rayyan Sarker ’22. control,” according to Elad Chris Lu: I have the Hazan, professor in computer greatest memories of Princscience, in the University state- By Caitlin Limestahl by hanging QR-code flyers eton, but I’m here all the Assistant News Editor ment. next to menstrual product time. I’m probably on camSingh’s research on “learndispensers. Of 276 responpus every year or two doing ing algorithms” has previously On Feb. 19, Preeti Iyer ’20 and dents, 98 percent supported something. My wife and I been awarded the SEAS Award Rayyan Sarker ’22 of the Men- the products and wanted to see are actually huge Princeton for Excellence, the Spotlight strual Products Task Force them expanded in additional basketball fans, so we show Prize, and the ICML 2017 Travel presented their goals to ex- bathrooms. up once a year to see games. Award. pand in the coming semester The survey also found that I was a Wilson School maOxford and Yale alumnus and introduced “Periodpaloo- 85 percent of respondents jor so the chance to come von Doetinchem de Rande was za,” a four-day celebration of found the products “useful for back and talk to students recognized for her research on menstrual equity, at a meeting unexpected periods.” Furtheris great. the “Qur’anic concept of fiṭ ra,” or of the University Student Life more, 8 percent stated they DP: What would you say someone’s intrinsic being. Ac- Committee (USLC). could not otherwise afford the is your favorite Princeton cording to von Doetinchem de Last September, the task products. memory? Rande, her work builds a bridge force was responsible for the “It’s been great to see people CL: The Daily between the intellectual tradi- implementation of free men- openly talk about menstruaPrincetonian. I was a Wiltions of Europe and the Islamic strual product dispensers in tion more,” said Iyer, the task son School major, but world. 56 bathrooms across campus. force’s leader. “I feel like the to the extent that I had a “Von Doetinchem de Rande is The task force recently con- campus as a whole has been minor it was in The Daily the first religion student to fuse ducted a survey regarding the more comfortable talking Princetonian, and there See JACOBUS page 3 initiative, which it advertised See PERIOD page 3 See LU page 2
Contributing Columinst Juan José López Haddad argues that the solidarity the American left has shown for leftist movements in Latin America ignores the extremism these movements are based upon, and causes harm for those living through such upheaval.
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On Feb. 13, graduate students Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie, Talmo Pereira, Karan Singh, and Raissa von Doetinchem de Rand were named winners of the Jacobus Fellowship, the highest graduate student honor awarded each year by the University. Established in 1905 in memory of Porter Ogden Jacobus, the award acknowledges “the highest scholarly excellence” in four distinct fields — the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and engineering — and supports graduate students in their final year of study. Furuie, who attended the University of São Paulo as an undergraduate, wrote his dissertation on the “Argonauts of the Amazon.” According to the University statement, his anthropological research focuses on “regatõe” river traders and brings to light autochthonous knowledge of the “threatened region” of the Amazon rainforest. In a statement to the University, João Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology, praised Furuie’s ability to weave ethnography and “brilliant” theory into “luminous” writing. Furuie’s trailblazing fieldwork was supported by a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, and his research has been recognized by PrincetonBrazil Global Health Research, the Walbridge Fund Graduate Award for Environmental Research, and the Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Award. Pereira, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience, was awarded ge the fellowship for his research on utilizing “machine learning, computer vision, statistical physics, and probabilistic
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