NEWS The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 6, 2004 - 5 OUTBREAK Continued from Page 1 earlier in the week, such as LSA freshman and fourth floor Reeves resident Will Hathaway, said they are beginning to feel better. They are still taking precautions to avoid another bout with the illness. "It felt like little animals were nibbling away at my stomach," Hathaway said. Although most of fourth Reeves fell ill, there is still a small number of residents who have not caught it, like LSA freshman Matt Eliaser. "I'm one of the only ones left standing. I fig- ure if I get it, I get it," Eliaser said yesterday afternoon. He added that resident advisers in his hallway gave out surgical masks for residents to wear to avoid catching germs from their neighbors, but the virus still appears to be spreading. "My roommate just got sick too, about 10 minutes ago," Eliaser said. LSA freshman Eston Bond chose to return to his parents' home, as did some other fourth Reeves residents. "I honestly just felt awful. I felt like someone shot holes through my stomach. When I got in the hospital (Tuesday) night I was in really bad shape," Bond said. He said he notified his RA after almost pass- ing out in his hallway en route to the bathroom. "I started walking down the hallway, and I got tunnel vision," Bond said. His RA notified the Department of Public Safety, which called an ambulance to trans- port Bond to the emergency room, where he was given four bags of intravenous fluid to combat dehydration. Upon arrival at the hos- pital, he was also given aspirin for a 104- degree fever. DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown suggests that students follow the same precautions as Bond and return to their homes if possible. "If students who are sick have parents or family members within driving distance who can pick them up and take them home, that is the ideal situation. It is more comfortable for the sick person to be at home than in a small dorm room by themselves, and we might be able to reduce the spread of this," Brown said. An e-mail was sent to Markley residents late Wednesday night by University housing with resources for sick students fighting the virus, as well as tips for students who have not yet contracted the illness. "Amazingly, people seem to have read it, because some students who were sick have actually called Dean of Students Office to con- tact faculty about missed exams. Sick people are also starting to call dining services to have meals delivered to them," Levy said. He also reminded students that certain serv- ices are covered by University Health Service, while others are not, and stressed the impor- tance of students knowing their health insur- ance information. "If you go anywhere else, like the Univer- sity of Michigan medical center, it is not cov- ered for registered students. It's either going to be covered by your personal health insur- ance or you will be billed personally for an emergency room visit or treatment outside of UHS. That also includes ambulance trans- port," Levy said. OSEH is analyzing specimens and sam- ples from students and sending them to state laboratories for further investigation. OSEH is also interviewing students for more infor- mation about the sickness, such as symp- toms, places visited and food eaten during the period of infection. "We're very fortunate at the University to have a staff like OSEH. Most universities have some components of what our OSEH staff pro- vides, but many are not as developed as ours" Brown said. Levy and Brown said it takes at least a week for the test results to come back. Afterward, OSEH will be able to draw more specific con- clusions about the virus. At this point, Brown said that OSEH still does not believe this incident was food-borne, because it was isolated to one area of the resi- dence hall. A glmpse iside the lab PROFILING Continued from Page 1 "There is a big flaw in all of these racial profiling studies when they fail to record what happens after a stop is made. What we were pushing for (Thursday) is for the Ann Arbor Police to keep that data," Powell said. "If 10 people are stopped and two happen to be black and are searched and the other 8 are sent on their way, that is something significant." The study didn't take into account the post- pullover data because in 2001, after the study was requested, there wasn't much emphasis on racial profiling after a traffic stop has been made, Lam- berth said. "We've done (post-pullover research) in other cities but that was not part of this study," he added. "Also, there were technical problems in getting the data from the police." Though Lamberth Consulting didn't look at data on the characteristics of those being pulled over or on the officers making the stops, the City Council had pressed for such data to be collected. "The first thing was that the council had asked that information be gathered on gender and age of per- sons stopped, as well as that of the officers who con- ducted the stop," Woods said. "The council also wanted to know if a search was conducted during the stop, and what the outcome of the stop was. Those were my major concerns about that, because I think we need that kind of informa- tion to find out if that kind of racial profiling is actu- ally happening," Woods said. A lack of data regarding traffic stops of other minorities prevented Lamberth Consulting from determining whether other minority groups, such as Hispanics or Arab Americans, were being profiled against. However, data also indicated that racial profiling against blacks was above 1.5 at the intersections of South University and Washtenaw, and at Hubbard Street and Huron Parkway, and at Stadium Boulevard and Washtenaw Avenue. "At least for the first two, there may be a lot of African American students or persons of color going to and fro doing their business. So I think for stu- dents, that this is something that seems to be interest- ing," Woods said. Despite disagreements over whether racial profil- ing is still happening in Ann Arbor, officials agree the AAPD has improved since the study was first requested in 2000. "Overall, I think that the police department is doing a good job, and I think it is much better than it 'There is a big flaw in all of these racial profiling studies when they fail to record what happens after a stop is made. What we were pushing for (Thursday) is for the Ann Arbor police to keep that data." - Lloyd Powell Washtenaw County Public Defender used to be. But I don't think we should assume that all is well and that we should no longer pay attention to what is going on. We could easily slip back into the situation we found ourselves in in 2000 when it was requested," Woods said. Powell also agreed and said, "The emphasis on being sensitive was heightened during this three-year period. ... My perception is that the culture has changed and progress has been made. The study reflects positively on the AAPD," he added. SHUBHA UHHI/Uaily RC freshman Katie Cho does microbiology research in the University Hospital yesterday. Cho conducts her research through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. PRIN BREK gUPCOMIN(J EVE:NTS Women's Gymnastics #17 IM vs. Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan & Central Michigan Friday 8 p.m. $5 Adult, $3 Youth/Senior UM Students FREE Men's swinunin & #10 O Michigan State Friday 5 p.m. Coach Urbanchek's final home dual & Senior Night. Canham Natatorium Women's Tennis vs. Friday @ 5 p.m. vs. South Carolina Sunday @'11 a.m. FREE Admission UM Tennis Center Women's Basketball Wisconsin Sunday @ 1 p.m. UM Students FREE Crisler Arena ForcsrmA~c Crisler Arena __ .;; h , :.r:. 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