Princeton's annual alumni bacchanal is in crisis. Reunions, as the well-documented event is known, coincides this year with a meningitis outbreak on Princeton's campus. But how serious of a threat, really, does meningitis pose to Princeton's campus-wide merriment? Not a whole lot — if Princetonians can hold off on making out too much.
Worrying for weeks about the possibility you may have contracted a deadly form of fungal meningitis is now a reality for some 12,000 people who received notices from the Centers for Disease Control.
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