3,000 yet to comply
UHC requests immunization proof
By Laura Smith
Staff Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students who do not comply
with University Health Center
requirements proving they have
been properly immunized against
rubeola measles may have their
records frozen.
Kathy Austin, director of the
student judicial affairs office, said
this means students will not be able
to register for classes or obtain
transcripts until they are immu
nized.
About 3,000 students have not
yet complied with the health cen
ter’s request.
Kunlc Ojikutu, health center
administrator, said he feels that
this is an extremely large number
of students who have not shown
records of being immunized for
rubeola.
This semester, 23,926 students
attend UNL.
‘ ‘Even if one person is not prop
erly immunized, we run the risk of
an outbreak,” he said.
During the first week of No
vember, the health center sent out
letters asking students to comply,
according to Nora Ryschon, proj
ect assistant at the health center.
The letters said failure to com
“I’m sure they (the students)
got very apprehensive about this,’ ’
he said.
But, he said, students will have
until the end of the spring semester
‘Even if one per
son is not prop
erly immunized,
we run the risk of
an outbreak.’
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to prove they are properly immu
nized or to get immunized, Ojikutu
said.
After a hold is placed on rec
ords, students will have to fill out
the proper forms or be immunized
to register for subsequent semes
ters, Austin said.
April 20, health center doc
tors diagnosed a student as having
contracted rubeola measles after
visiting Florida for spring break.
The epidemic spread, with 16
cases being reported on campus
before the end of the semester.
Mass immunizations were con
ducted April 26 and 27, and several
hundred students were immunized
during the semester.
Ryschon said she believes most
students have been immunized,
but the health center just does not
have a record of it.
Health center officials want to
make sure students received the
right immunization and that the
immunization was done after 15
months of age and after 1969, she
said.
Ojikulu said that by not holding
records until the end of the spring
semester, everybody will have
time to comply.
“We want to work with the
students,” Ojikutu said. “All they
have to do is call us.”
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Favoritism leads to competition
among the campuses and should be
avoided, he said.
‘ The new president should look at
state higher education as a whole,”
he said. “The new president needs to
try to avoid all the wiles of political
goings on.”
Massey encouraged Brown-Cor
son to look for individual characteris
tics of applicants that would suggest
they would represent all campuses
equally.
Brown-Corson said that before the
search committee looks for applica
tions, the NU Board of Regents must
“set up a belter idea of the job the
new president will be doing.”
‘The new president
should look at
state higher edu
cation as a whole.
The new president
needs to try to
avoid all the wiles
of political goings
on.'
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Until committee members know
what the new president’s job will
involve, it will be impossible for
them to find a person to fill that job,
she said.
In other action, ASUN passed a
resolution calling for Vice Chancel
lor for Business and Finance John
Goebel to initiate construction of bus
shelters near Lyman Hall on City
Campus and Barkley Memorial Cen
ter on East Campus.
The senate also passed a bill call
ing for the Government Liaison
Committee to lobby the Lincoln City
Council for a traffic light at the inter
section of Avery and 14th streets.
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