College:

• As part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Benjamin Elman, a Princeton University scholar will host a lecture titled “Why Blame China? Who Was Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit Science and Technical Transmission to China in the 18th Century.”
• Rowan University’s Department of Theatre & Dance will be showing Moliere’s The Misanthrope from February 25 – 28 at the Tohill Theatre located in Bunce Hall.
• Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital in Camden are now in the process of finding a dean for the Cooper Medical School.

State:

• Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem has been accused of killing his 3-year-old by throwing her into the Raritan River. Her body is still missing. A first-degree murder complaint has been filed in Superior Court.
• Complaints about toll collectors are raising issues with people on the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. Some incidents include the threat of speed dating and being flashed by the local toll collectors.
• Another snow storm is expected to hit the south Jersey area, starting Wednesday evening into Friday morning.

National:

• Claude Edward Foulk, 62, the executive director of Napa State Hospital in Northern California was arrested for molesting his foster child for a decade.
• The Senate voted to extend parts of the Patriot Act for another year on Wednesday. They include parts relating to the counterterrorisim surveillance law.
• President Barack Obama nominated UC Berkeley professor, Goodwin Liu, as the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

World:

• India and Pakistan are set to have a talk underway which could create a more stable relationship between the countries since the Mumbai attacks in 2008.
• According to Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, the war in Darfur is over but many are skeptical of the supposed peace.
• A 24-hour strike occurred in Greece on Wednesday to protest against austerity measures.

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