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April 28,1989 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 148
Employees of the state health department and UNL Health Center load measles vaccines
into syringes.
Officials maintain close watch
By Larry Peirce
Senior Reporter
Mass measles imrntuiiza
tioni for University of
Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents ended Thursday, but health
officials are keeping a close watch
for further outbreaks of the dis
ease.
No new cases of rubeola
measles have been diagnosed
since Wednesday, said Dr. Gerald
Fleischli, medical director of Uni
versity Health Center.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we
got more, and I wouldn't be sur
prised if we didn't," he said.
On Wednesday 4,138 students
came to the mass immunization
sites for shots, and 2*441 had come
by 3 p.m. Thursday.
Health officials Friday will
compare a list of people who are
still not known to be adequately
immunized with the names of
people who are at risk of infection
by Uie two students who represent
the first and second generations of
the
Fleischli said letters were sent
Thursday to about 100 students
who are in the second victim's
classes to tell them to come to the
health center for immunization
shots from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
§ Students who were at risk of
infection from the first case - such
as some ROTC members and other
_
classmates - and students who
were prevented from coming to the
mass immunizations also can
come lo the health center Friday,
he said.
Fleischli said only one student
who lives on the same floor as the
two victims has not been immu
nized. It will be one week before
students will be out of risk from
infection from the first generation
of the disease, and two weeks be
fore they will be out of risk from
the second generation of the dis
ease, he said.
Each case brings two more
weeks of potential outbreak, he
said, but the mass immunizations
lessened the risk.
If more measles cases arc diag
nosed, health officials will con
tinue to notify any high risk groups
in each case, such as those possibly
exposed in classes and living units.
Those people will be contacted by
letter, he said.
If two or three more cases show
up by May 8, Fleischli said, an
other meeting of health officials
would be needed to form a secon
dary plan.
when all the numbers are added
up from the mass minimizations,
health officials will study them to
get a close estimate of how many
students remain who are not ade
quately immunized.
Fleischli said some of the stu
dents who remain on the list are
immune.
“They just haven't come in,”
he said.
Fleischli said the mass immuni
li,*T^lgueas^?ilS«rwe probably
did as well as can be practically
done,” he said.
Students have cooperated with
health officials’ efforts, Fleischli
said, but some students suffer from
a fear of receiving shots.
“We try to handle them indi
vidually,” he said.
Fleischli said staff members
notified him Wednesday that a
student was feeling faint because
he hated shots. Fleischli said the
student was taken aside and reas
sured that he would get the best
care.
“I told him we would get the
besinurse on it,” he said.
Fleischli said the staff of uni
versity, city/county, and state
employees and student volunteers
who helped are exhausted after
showing up Wednesday and
Thursday at 5:30 a.m. and working
four-hour shifts until 7:30 p.m.
When they started the immuni
zations Wednesday, he said, staff
members were giving the shots
standing up. By Thursday after
noon they were tired, and giving
the shots while sitting.
The health center has focused
only on more serious cases while
staff members worked to defeat die
measles, he said.
Phi Mu to start over
with 54 new members
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
FI ollowing a “tremendous rc
! sponsc” to open rush at the
Phi Mu sorority, the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln chapter will
have 54 new members next fall.
Carmen Shively, a Phi Mu alum
nus who is helping in the chapter’s
reorganization, said the chapter had a
list of more than 350 names from
which to choose new members.
The 350 women were students
who went through rush last fall,
women who responded on their own
to the open rush and women who
were recommended by other sorori
ties, fraternities and new pledges.
‘ ‘The type of girl we were looking
for was a type of motivated, leader
ship-oriented person,’’ Shively said.
“We found some very strong lead
ers.’’
Shively said the new pledges al
ready have had one meeting and will
have another before school is out. She
said the new pledges will be going
through a very condensed pledge
period and will be initiated over the
summer - before fall rush begins
Aug. 18.
Not having gone through a formal
rush will not be a disadvantage to the
new members of Phi Mu, Shively
said
‘ ‘The group is so excited now, and
by August they should be really cx
■ cited - it can only be to our advan
tage,” she said.
Phi Mu will be able to add 40 girls
during the fall rush, Shively said
“If the girls arc there, and they arc
quality girls, we’ll take up to our
quota,” Shively said.
Phi Mu is developing a social
calendar for the reorganized chapter.
Shively said the new members al
ready have received calls from sev
eral fraternities and sororities invit
ing them to participate in their social
events. ,
“We do appreciate all the help
that everyone in the greek system has
given us,” Shively said.
Because new members are not
familiar with each other’s abilities
and talents, Shively said, the chapter
will run on a committee basis until
November when it will hold officer
elections.
The new members of Phi Mu also
will receive help from their national
headquarters and their alumnae.
Shively said a chapter consultant
from their headquarters will work
with the new pledges until May 7, and
several other national officials will
visit throughout the next year.
Shively said the new chapter
won’t have to deal with debts in
curred by the sorority before reor
ganization.
“Our pledges will not be penal
ized for anything from the past,’ ’ she
said. “That would not be fair to the
new girls.”
Shively said the former chapter’s
debts would be paid by a major fund
raiser organized by alumnae to he
held this summer.
Enforcing Pell Grant stipulation
will rest on government s back
By Shawn Schuldies
Staff Reporter
Officials at the Department of
Education last week dis
avowed announced plans to
use investigators to enforce a law
which states that Pell Grant recipients
will lose their grant if they use illegal
drugs.
According to an article in the
Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Department of Higher Education
announced earlier this month that it
was going to send investigators to
campuses to make sure students are
drug free and schools are complying
with the new law.
A law passed by Congress requires
Pell Grant recipients to sign a state
ment saying they will not * ‘engage in
the unlawful manufacture, distribu
tion, dispensation, possession or use
of a controlled substance during the
period covered” by their grants.
The plan to use investigators to
enforce the policy was issued in a
press release based on a speech by
Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos.
However, Cavazos said, he had not
approved the plan or its inclusion in
his speech, the article stated. Al
though Cavazos removed the plan
from his address, the press release
was sent out unchanged, Cavazos
said.
John Beacon, director of the Of
fice of Scholarships and Financial
Aid, said the confusion in the Depart
ment of Education has him wonder
ing how Cavazos will plan to enforce
the policy.
“We loo are wailing," he said.
The people who should be making
the policy aren’t, Beacon said.
Beacon said that right now, the
law is not enforced. He said the law
achieves nothing unless the student
refuses to sign an agreement not to
use drugs.
If the department does decide to
send investigators to campuses, like
stated in the original plan, and take
tips from the public, the department
will be doing all the work, he said,
and his office won’t be involved.
All his office does is compile in
formation from the Pell Grant forms,
he said.
Bill requiring minors to tell parents of abortion debated
By Jana Pedersen
Suff Reporter
While the U.S. Supreme Court consid
ered testimony that could overturn the
landmark Roe vs. Wade case legaliz
ing abortion, lawmakers debated a separate
abortion issue Thursday on the floor of the
Nebraska Legislature.
Continuing debate that began Tuesday af
ternoon, the Legislature considered first-round
approvai of LB769, based on similar legisla
tion in Minnesota, that would require any
woman under the age of 19 to inform her
parents before having an abortion.
Ensuring that LB769 would be constitu
tional if passed was the focus of Thursday’s
debate.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha moved to
reconsider an amendment that had been voted
down during Tuesday’s session.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Daniel
Lynch of Omaha, would require that informa
tion be provided to the underage woman about
a judicial bypass to the parental information
requirement without her having to ask for it.
Chambers said the amendment would be a
necessary addition to the bill to protect the
rights of the underage woman.
The judicial bypass provided under the bill
should be called a "heart bypass," Chambers
said, because the bill has ,Jno heart at all’’
where underage women are concerned.
It is unfair for sponsors of the bill to talk
about protecting the rights of the unborn child
when they fail to inform the underage woman
of her own rights, he said.
"A right which is denied a person who is to
benefit from it is not really a right but... a
mockery of it," Chambers said.
Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha said he
thought LB769 would not be constitutional
without the addition of Lynch’s amendment
and other changes.
The judicial bypass was added to LB769 to
ensure its constitutionality, Ashford said, but
the bill also must guarantee the underage
woman’s right to know about the bypass.
The requirement that both parents must be
informed also is unconstitutional, he said,
because both parents may not be her guardians.
Ashford said the concept behind the bill
isn’t bad but it needs to be accomplished in a
more "reasonable" manner.
Sen. Bernice Labedz of Omaha, co-sponsor
of LB769, said underage women could be
informed of their rights under the bill.
Because the physician who is to perform the
abortion is the one responsible for informing
the underage woman’s parents, Labedz said,
the physician will know the proper judicial
procedures and be able to inform the underage
woman about them.
But Sen. Dave Landis of Lincoln said he
didn’t think the bill had anything to do with
women knowing what their rights are.
“This is not a bill of the right to know. It’s
an attempt to take away the constitutional
rights of women,’’ he said.
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