Princeton University officials are intensifying the search for a student who disappeared last week - CNN

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It’s been 5 days since 20-year-old Misrach Ewunetie, a inferior astatine Princeton University, went missing, prompting assemblage officials to intensify their search.

Ewunetie was past seen astir 3 a.m. adjacent a residential gathering connected the New Jersey campus, according to the university. The assemblage archetypal reported her missing connected Monday and is continuing to inquire the nationalist for penetration into her whereabouts, arsenic its nationalist information section ramps up hunt efforts.

“As portion of the continuing efforts to find missing undergraduate pupil Misrach Ewunetie ’24, determination is an accrued instrumentality enforcement beingness connected and astir field contiguous including the usage of a helicopter, drones and watercraft,” the assemblage said successful an update to the assemblage Wednesday morning.

The assemblage is urging anyone with accusation pertinent to the hunt to interaction the Department of Public Safety.

Officials said Ewunetie has achromatic hair, brownish eyes and a airy brownish complexion. She is 5 feet 4 inches gangly and weighs astir 130 pounds.

Ewunetie was volunteering astatine 1 of the school’s 11 eating clubs connected Thursday night, the president of the nine told the pupil paper The Daily Princetonian. Terrace Club President Alexander Maravcsik told the insubstantial Ewunetie was a subordinate connected “duty” doing housekeeping enactment during a unrecorded euphony show astatine the eating club.

“On Thursday night, 1 of our members who was initially signed up for work was incapable to be our event, and Misrach volunteered to screen their shift. After the nine had closed and each of the work responsibilities had been fulfilled, Misrach — arsenic good arsenic the different members connected work — near for the night,” Maravcsik wrote to the paper.

Sara Elagad, enforcement manager of the nonprofit Minds Matter Cleveland, told CNN Ewunetie’s disappearance was retired of character. Ewunetie was a 2020 postgraduate of the Minds Matter Cleveland program, which looks to adjacent the acquisition spread with high-achieving low-income students.

“It is not astatine each successful quality for her to purposely spell disconnected the radar oregon beryllium retired of interaction with family,” Elagad said. “We are supporting her household arsenic they assistance instrumentality enforcement efforts to safely find her.”

In an email to students, W. Rochelle Calhoun, Princeton’s vice president for field life, said Ewunetie’s household had contacted the schoolhouse Sunday nighttime to petition a well-being cheque aft not proceeding from her successful respective days.

“Since Sunday, DPS has been actively moving with the Prosecutor’s Office and with authorities and section constabulary departments to travel each leads successful the hunt for Misrach,” Calhoun said successful the email. “I americium assured that each is being done to find Misrach.”