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Students who kicked off weekend celebrations last night at Princeton University thought twice about the quantity of alcohol they consumed after rumors that the health center was quickly overcrowding with norovirus patients spread rapidly throughout campus.
 
Emails circulated by students warned that the University’s McCosh Health Center would not be accepting intoxicated students due to the number of virus-infected patients pushing the infirmary to full-capacity.
 

Eva Mantell loves teaching art.  “When students aren’t expecting to come up with anything good, and they are engaged and surprised by what they’ve created, it feels great. I find it very energizing.”

Karen Davison, a Reiki master and nurse at the University Medical Center at Princeton, provides stress relief tips. Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.
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“It didn’t come across as ‘neighborhood,’ ” said one resident. “It came across as ‘Courtyard Marriott hotel.’ ”

This was the sentiment Saturday morning among some of those attending Princeton Future’s meeting on plans to build a mid-rise residential community at the site of the old University Medical Center at Princeton on Witherspoon Street.

David Barile, executive director of New Jersey Goals of Care and medical director of the Acute Care for the Elderly(ACE) unit and palliative medicine services for University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), will lead this discussion.