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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013
Friday
It'll freeze when you are done.
Wednesday
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A few passing clouds,otherwise generally sunny. North winds at 10 to 20 mph
Mostly sunny. South winds at 10 to 14 mph.
The prodigal sun returns.
Thursday
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Tuesday, Dec. 10
What: SenEx - University Senate Executive Committee
When: 3 to 5 p.m.
Where: Strong Hall, Provost's Conference Room
About: Executive committee of the University Senate
Wednesday, Dec. 11
What: The Maderati
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: William Inge Memorial Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: The comedy, directed by Jeanne
Tieben, is $14 KU faculty/staff and $10
for students.
What: Ecumenical Christian Ministries Faith Forum: Queering Christianity - Celebration and Evaluation When: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave., Main Floor
About: Come hear stories from people who have realized in their faith journeys that there is nothing wrong with being queer and Christian.
Thursday, Dec. 12
What: The Maderati
What: The Museum
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: William Inge Memorial Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: The comedy, directed by Jeanne
Tieben, is $14 KU faculty/staff and $10
for students.
What: Last day of classes
When: All day
Where: All university
What: SUA and the KU Memorial Unions
Present Tea @ Three
When: 3 to 4 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union Lobby, Level 4
About: Free tea and treats.
Friday, Dec. 13
What: Stop Day
When: all day
Where: all campus
About: No classes held or assignments
due
What: Establishing and Nurturing
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, International Room
About: Workshop presented by Human Resources
Princeton vaccinates students for meningitis outbreak
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thomas Clark, chief of the meningitis branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, walks to the campus center at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.; Monday. Clark was at the center to oversee as the Ivy League school began vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Princeton University has begun vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis in an unusual federal government-endorsed administration of a drug not generally approved for use in the United States.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seven students and one prospective student who was visiting campus have been stricken by potentially life-threatening type B meningococcal disease since March. None of the cases has been fatal.
Scores of students were lined up in a campus center when the vaccinations became available Monday. More than 1,200 had received shots just a little past midway through the first day. Vaccines are being given through Thursday, and a booster dose will be given in February.
The vaccinations were recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccine is being made available to all undergraduates, as well as graduate students who live in dorms and employees with certain medical conditions. Taking it is voluntary.
"It's hard to take it seriously even though I know it's a serious situation," Ryan McDonnell, a 20-year junior, said after receiving the
Under New Jersey law, all students who live in dorms are required to have a meningitis vaccine, but it does not prevent the B strain, which responds differently to vaccines from other strains. The strain is the most common in Europe and accounted for one-third of the meningitis cases reported in the U.S. last year by the CDC. Princeton's is the first outbreak of the B strain worldwide this year.
On campus Monday, students were amused at the presence of reporters interested in whether they had gotten a shot, or planned to.
vaccine. "I never considered not getting it."
He said that the experience, including filling out a consent form and waiting 15 minutes after the shot was given, took less than 30 minutes.
Another 20-year-old junior, Jimmy van Thron, said he was planning to get the vaccine in coming days.
With the most recent case reported in November, the CDC said there was a strong likelihood of more cases despite steps
"My mom's a pediatrician, and she told me to," he said. "So, gotta do what mom says."
taken by the university, including encouraging students not to share cups. The agency says it's important as many students as possible get vaccinated to help halt the outbreak. The disease can be spread through kissing, coughing or lengthy contact.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of a vaccine, Bexsero, that has been approved for use in Canada, Europe and Australia but is not yet licensed in the U.S.
Made by Switzerland-based Novartis, Bexsero is the only vaccine designed to ward off the strain. It is in the approval pipeline in the
United States. The CDC said it does not consider it experimental. Thomas Clark, chief of the meningitis branch of the CDC, was on campus Monday to oversee the vaccinations.
He said that with a disease outbreak, the agency always considers vaccinations if they are available. He said the agency considered it initially over the summer and moved forward after there were new cases of the B strain in the fall.
"It tends to cause outbreaks that smolder," he said. "They don't explode."
More than 8,000 people were
safely vaccinated as part of studies that resulted in its approval in the other nations where it is now licensed, the CDC said. Since the vaccine does not include live bacteria, it cannot give someone meningococcal disease, or meningitis.
The illness can cause swelling of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It's fairly rare in the U.S., but those who get it develop symptoms quickly and can die in a couple of days. About 10 to 15 percent of cases are fatal. Survivors can suffer mental disabilities, hearing loss and paralysis.
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2:30 a.m. Saturday. Suarez said he hadn't had anything to drink
— he generally concentrated instead on his studies. Some friends offered him a ride, she said, but he declined. It was hot inside — Suarez said Villagomez, a confident salsa dancer, had been "dancing the night away" to the Spanish music playing at the party. His girlfriend's house was only two blocks away and the cool air would be a relief.
At first, some of his friends thought he maybe was just working on a project overnight. Villagomez has always been a dedicated student, Alig said. He graduated in May with an industrial design major and decided to return to study computer science as well, which allowed him to maintain his student visa.
Earlier in the afternoon yesterday, Villagomez's father and older brother, who also graduated from the University and now lives in Seattle, were flying in to Lawrence to help. His mother stayed behind in Peru.
Sgt. McKinley thanks community members, friends and volunteers who have helped supply the Lawrence Police Department with leads, posted information on social media and searched the area.
The information in this story is complete as of the time of publication.
Edited by Tara Bryant
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the city's traffic supervisor. "As we have incoming traffic in the morning, and in the evening, go-home traffic, that's what we want to control."
In the past five years, the city has installed such systems along North Second Street, from across the river to the turnpike to the Massachusetts Street bridge, from Sixth Street and Massachusetts Street to Iowa Street, Sixth Street to 23rd Street and from 23rd Street and Iowa to the city limits. The recent grant helps to expand the system to the rest of the arterial roads.
The construction will begin next summer and will be completed before the end of the year.
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For now, the city only plans to update the major thoroughfares. However, secondary streets around the University campus may eventually be targeted for such technology, Risner said.
"It will be used to help improve efficiency of signalization and safety. We just see ways we can enhance traffic flow," Cronin said. "We hope that we can improve things as much as we can."
Edited by Sylas May
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