Flu shots urged as season nears
By Sarah Fox
Staff writer
Catching the flu for four years in a
row is bad enough. Being sick with the
flu in a foreign country is worse.
After teaching in Poland last year
and not having access to a flu shot, grad
uate student Jon Bellum made sure he
received a flu shot from the University
Health Colter’s health fair last week.
“If it prevents me from getting the
flu, it’s definitely worth my time and
money,” Bellum said.
Bellum’s choice is increasingly pop
ular: More than 1,800 students, faculty
members and staff received the shots last
year,$n increase from previous years,
said Carol Ash, health promotions spe
cialist for the health center.
Many students don’t want to risk
getting temperatures of 102 to 104
degrees, aches and pains and fatigue for
up to a week while attending school and
perhaps working, she said.
But receiving a flu shot doesn’t guar
antee the recipient won’t get influenza. It
simply enhances one^ chances of avoid
ing it, Ash said
Scientists try to predict which
influenza strain will be common in the
winter and advise health professionals to
vaccinate against that strain. If a differ
ent strain sweeps the country, everyone,
including those who have received flu
shots, will be vulnerable to it
Ash advises using Tylenol, over-the
counter medications and rest to fight the
flu.
“There’s not a pill out there that can
take away the flu,” Ash said. “It just has
to run its course.”
She said students who experience
dehydration, severe vomiting and diar
rhea and continuous high temperatures
should see a doctor.
Students should get their shots early,
she said because resistance to influenza
develops one to two weeks after the shot
is given. The flu season usually lasts
from November to March or April each
year, according to the Lincoln-Lancaster
County Health Department.
Certain groups are at high risk to
contract the flu and are advised to get a
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Ru shots cost $8 and will be
amiable at both unions from 11 a.m. to,
1 p.m. on these days:
Nebraska Union:
Thursday
Nov. 4
Nov. 10
Nov. 18
Dec. 2
Nebraska East Union:
"Today
Nov. 5
Nov. 11
Nov. 19
Dec. 3
flu shot.
These people include those with
weakened immune systems, women
who will be more than three months
pregnant during the flu season, children
under 19 who are on long-term aspirin
treatment and those with a chronic med
ical condition.
Flu shots are available for $8 over the
next six weeks at the Nebraska and
Nebraska East unions.
Cockson case charges altered
Prosecutors modified the charges
against the man accused of killing
one University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student and injuring her two sisters in
a drunken driving accident last
spring.
At a preliminary hearing in
Lancaster District Court on Tuesday,
prosecutors filed to change the cir
cumstances of the manslaughter
charge against Jeffrey Ireland.
arged with
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w Cockson and
the Injuries to her two sisters, Erin
and Sarah.
Sarah was driving the car the
three Cockson sisters were in when
the car Ireland was driving slammed
into the passenger side of the car,
killing Laura.
Nebraska law allows prosecutors
to charge someone with manslaugh
ter when the death was unintended or
occurred in conjunction with certain
other crimes, Ireland’s lawyer, Brett
MacArthur said.
Originally, Ireland was charged
with manslaughter in conjunction
with third-degree assault against
Laura Cockson.
Because Prosecutors changed the
manslaughter charge to appear with
careless driving instead of assault,
MacArthur said prosecutors couldn’t
use the manslaughter charge any
more. Instead, he said, Ireland’s
charge should be reduced to motor
veliicle homicide.
District Court Judge Paul Merritt
Jr. will-now review the charges
against Ireland to determine if there
is probable cause to keep Ireland’s
ease in District Court.
MacArthur said he would request
additional review if the manslaughter
charge is upheld.
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Students opposed to 413
to march on Canitol today
ByIevaAugstums
Staffwriter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students will show their opposition to
Initiative 413 today when they march
on the State Capitol.
ASUN President Sara Russell
said the student-organized march will
let the public know what the proposed
tax lid amendment to the Nebraska
Constitution could do to the universi
ty
initiative 413, the proposed
amendment, will be on Tuesday’s
state election ballot.
If passed, it could cut $20 million
from NU’s budget; tuition could
increase up to 22 percent; academic
programming, including entire cours
es of study, could be eliminated; and
faculty and staff members could face
up to a 6 percent salary cut, according
to university budget estimates.
“This is our last chance to make a
visible impact,” Russell said. “The •
march will show the community what
we are dealing with, and it will remind
them to vote next week.”
The march will begin at noon
today on the south, steps of the
Nebraska Union, Russell said.
Students will march down
Centennial Mall to the north steps of
the Capitol. There, John Cederburg,
UNL Parents Association member
and Lincoln accountant, along with
Russell and other students, will speak
about the amendment.
The march is sponsored by
Students Against the Lid and the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska Government
Liaison Committee.
“If students don’t come, they
don’t,” Angie Klein, ASUN
Government Liaison Committee
chairwoman, said. “The main thing is
that they get out and vote on Tuesday.”
Opening for north union entrance delayed
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
The new revolving doors on the
north side of the Nebraska Union were
supposed to open Monday, but prob
lems with inspection of the lobby’s ele
vator have delayed its opening until
next week.
Nebraska Unions Director Daryl
Swanspn told Union Board members
Tuesday night that problems discov
ered during the state fire marshal’s
inspection delayed the opening.
Swanson said he did not want to
open the north entrance until the eleva
tor was operating because the elevator
makes the north portion of the union
wheelchair accessible.
Next week students will be able to
access the first floor of the union,
including the food court, by entering
the north entrance, he said.
But the rotunda with its winding
staircase is not complete, Swanson
said. Several pieces of glass panels for
the staircase were defective or have not
arrived, he said.
Swanson said by Thanksgiving
break the $950,000 renovations to
Memorial Plaza should be completed.
Most inside renovations also will
be completed before Thanksgiving
break, Swanson said. But it will be
early next semester before students
will be able to use die north entranced)
access the renovated upstairs meeting
rooms, the more-than-250-seataudito
rium, the bookstore and basement tele
vision lounge and billiard room.
Grand opening for the union is
scheduled for Feb. 18-19, Swanson
said, with the Broyhill Fountain dedi
cation following later that spring.
In other Union Board news:
At the Nov. 10 meeting in the
union, the board will discuss and k
review a recently passed non-student
policy that affects the northwest study
lounge.
Champion rider. UNL student rounds up three titles
Since she began riding at age 9,
Peterson said, she’s competed in ,
Kansas, Arizona, Montana/
Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, North
Dakota and Canada.
Though traveling consumes
much of her time, Peterson said, it’s a
great opportunity for her to meet new
friends and also a good chance for
her to catch up on her studies. And in the meantime, she said,
: She said her professors are very she’ll continue doing what she loves
helpful about working with her best: riding horses,
schedule so she is able to travel. Peterson said she is eager for new
“It’s not too hard to balance stud- challenges in the future, such as rid
ies with riding,” she said. ing a different horse or competing in
Peterson majors in speech different classes,
pathology and said she eventually * And though the trophies and rib
wants to earn a master’s degree and bons are nice, Peterson said, she also
open her own speech rehabilitation enjoys seeing old friends and family,
center. “It’s basically all for fun.”
Candidates promise a commitment to education
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If Initiative 413 passes, Moeser
said, UNL administrators and state
leaders will have to take a careful look
at how to respond and develop a pten.
He said action might not be neces
sary if the amendment is Challenged in
court and found to be unconstitutional.
Johanns said education - along
with law enforcement - would be the
last areas to see budget cuts so
Nebraska can continue to provide qual
ity education for its citizens.
Hoppner said making sure admin
istration runs efficiently and effectively
would be the best way to find savings
and redirect already existing funds
back into the university system.
With or without the passage of
Initiative 413, Moeser said he is wor
ried about finding new sources of rev
enue for the university. .
While the amount of funding from
the Legislature has risen each year,
Moeser said the modest additional
funding has not compensated for rising
costs and inflation.
“Even with tuition increases, we’ve
been barely able to keep our heads
above water,” Moeser said.
Moeser said representatives from
UNL and the NU system have met with
both candidates to discuss the funding
needed to achieve goals set by the uni
versity. •'
But, he said, it is difficult for either
of them'to make specific promises
about budget issues.
“Frankly, I think how they perform
really depends more on the fiscal reali
ties they have to deal with than their
personal or political agendas.”
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