THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19; 2009
NEWS
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Watkins to dispense free H1N1 vaccines tomorrow
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
Watkins Memorial Health Center will begin offering free H1N1 vaccines to students from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said the shot would be available to students age 24 and younger who show their KU ID. Students 25 and older can receive the vaccine if they have medical conditions such as diabetes or asthma. The clinic is on first-come, first-serve basis.
"Obviously we won't be able to get a vaccine for everybody" Cohen said.
However, Cohen emphasized that
no one was turned away from the last vaccination clinic, held on Nov. 6. Cohen said that about 600 people received the vaccine on that date.
"You don't need to camp out — it's a KU tradition for basketball, but we don't need to do that for the flu," he said.
In the meantime, Cohen said the University encouraged students to take precautions to prevent the flu. Cohen also said that the vaccination would take about six weeks to kick in.
"You can't just take a shot and walk out and say, 'OK, I'm protected,'" Cohen said.
Students can take other preventative steps. Jarad Gouge, Lawrence sophomore and desk assistant at Hashinger Residence Hall, said the
check-in desk on the main floor of Hashinger offered free masks.
"The main concern is the confinement issue," Gouge said. "The fact that we have 400-plus students living in one place and it's such a contagious illness that if one person gets it, it can spread."
Symptoms of H1N1 include a fever of more than 100 degrees, coughing, sore throat, body aches, respiratory congestion and occasionally vomiting and diarrhea, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Web site. Students with flu-like symptoms are encouraged to stay home and isolate themselves from roommates to prevent spread of the disease.
Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
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Hutchison senior Jason Hering and Andrew Nussbaum, social studies teacher from Lawrence Free State High School, help distribute rice to participants in the Oxfam Funger Banquet held Monday night at the Kansas Union. Participants were given food options reflecting the types and quantities of food available for upper, middle and low classes.
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Students protest huge tuition hike at University of California
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LOS ANGELES — Financially hobbled University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by $2,500 over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations across the state against the higher costs.
Fourteen protesters were arrested at a University of California, Los Angeles, meeting where a Board of Regents committee endorsed a plan that will boost undergraduate fees, the equivalent of tuition, by 32 percent in two stages by 2010. The full board is expected to approve the fee increases Thursday.
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University of California, Berkeley student Matalaflores holds a strike sign in Sproul Plaza during a large rally on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif., Wednesday. Financially hobbled University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by 32 percent over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations against the higher costs.
At the University of California, Berkeley, more than 1,000 demonstrators condemned the fee boost and high salaries for university administrators. Protesters carried mock gravestones to represent programs that have suffered under state budget cuts and waved signs reading "Save our university."
After a series of deep cuts, and with state government facing a nearly $21 billion budget gap over the next year and a half. Board of Regents members said there was no option to higher fees in Light of withering government dollars. University of California President Mark Yudof has said the 10-campus system needs a $913 million increase in state funding next year, in addition to higher student fees
request would restore previous cuts. He did not rule out even higher student fees if Sacramento can't find the money.
More than two-thirds of the
Board members pointed out that lower-income families would be shielded from the jump, and financial aid would help others
"When you have no choice, you have no choice," Yudof told reporters after the committee vote. "I'm sorry."
defray the higher cost.
The Los Angeles meeting was repeatedly interrupted by outbursts from students and union members, who accused the board of turning its back on the next generation.
"We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?" asked UCLA graduate student Sonja Diaz.
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"She got up immediately and they put her in the patrol car," McDaniel said.
He said a touch of the stung gun — "less than a second" — stopped the girl from being unruly, and she was handcuffed, he said.
If the officer tried to forcefully put the girl in handcuffs, he could have accidentally broken her arm or leg, Noggle said.
"We didn't use the Taser to punish the child — just to bring the child under control so she wouldn't hurt herself or somebody else," Noggle said.
Noggle said the girl will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile in the incident.
Tasers are a safe way to subdue someone who's a danger to themself or others. No disciplinary action was taken against Bradshaw, he said.
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"People here feel like that he made a mistake in using a Taser, and maybe he did, but we will not know until we get an impartial investigation," McDaniel said.
Bradshaw's report said the girl screamed, kicked and resisted any time her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate.
According to a report by Officer Dustin Bradshaw, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, police were called to the Ozark home Nov. 11 because of a domestic disturbance. When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, the report said.
Policeman uses taser on ten-year-old
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Police Chief Jim Noggle said
"Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to," Bradshaw wrote.
But McDaniel said he wants Arkansas State Police — and if they decline, the FBI — to investigate the incident. The state police declined his request Tuesday.
Ozark Mayor Vernon McDaniel said Wednesday that the girl wasn't injured and is now at the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil.
The names of the girl and her mother were redacted in the report.
The child was "violently kicking and verbally combative" when Bradshaw tried to take her into custody, and she kicked him in the groin. So he delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back," the report said.
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