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Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 7A

Vaccine priority groups
altered plan for campus

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the University's planning.
"Suddenly our whole campus be-
came a priority group," Ernst said.
"That change kind of pushed back
our plans."
UHS originally made arrange-
ments to vaccinate priority groups
like pregnant women and health
care providers this fall, thinking that
students would not be eligible to re-
ceive immunization until the spring.
"When the priority groups
changed to include the college stu-
dents, we've had to accelerate our
plans to come up with strategies
that would allow for mass vaccina-
tion for the whole campus," Ernst
said.
According to Winfield, the Cen-
ters for Disease Control deter-
mined the priority groups based on
two factors: who gets infected and
who is at risk of death.
Currently, pregnant women are
the first on the list to get vaccinated,
followed by caregivers of children
younger than six months, health
care providers and emergency per-
sonnel, individuals ages six months
to 24, and individuals ages 25 to 64
who have high risk factors.
Winfield said he expects the
groups to change due to the amount
of H1N1 vaccine on hand.
"What we think will happen is
that there won't be enough vaccine,
and they will have to narrow those
guidelines," he said.
Winfield cited the CDC had
dropped its original estimate of 160
million doses of the vaccine being
available by Oct. 15. That figure has
since been reduced to 45 million,
according to The Associated Press.
The reduction appears to be a delay
rather than a shortage though, as
20 million more doses are expected
to be shipped out every week after
that Oct. 15 date, according to the
deport.
When the vaccine comes out, it
will be free of charge for students.
Additionally, public health offi-
cials expect H1N1 will require two
vaccinations about two to three
weeks apart.
Ernst said the second shot could
make it difficult to keep track of
student vaccinations.
"If you imagine we have 40,000
students, and they all become pri-
ority for H1N1 and they all need

two shots plus the seasonal flu shot,
that's starting to sound pretty com-
plicated," he said.
He added that UHS will not be
able to accommodate every stu-
dent seeking vaccinations and that
faculty and students in the health
sciences schools and the health
service are working together to
provide seasonal flu and HINT vac-
cinations.
Because influenza shots are in-
jected in a muscle, a medical degree
is not required to administer the
vaccine. As long as a health official
supervises them, Nursing and Pub-
lic Health students can volunteer to
give the shot to fellow students.
Cindra James, emergency pre-
paredness coordinator at the
Washtenaw County Public Health
Department, said the department
will also recruit University stu-
dents and students from Washt-
enaw Community College to help
administer the vaccine to county
residents.
All vaccine orders from hospitals
and private medical providers will
be shipped to the Health Depart-
ment, which will receive weekly
shipments of the vaccine based on
its availability. The providers will
then coordinate with the depart-
ment to arrange delivery or pick-up.
Although the county's Public
Health Department does not yet
know how many doses it will re-
ceive, James said it has been pre-
paring by purchasing more refrig-
erators to store the vaccine and
working with clinics, homeless
agencies and jails to ensure every-
one in Washtenaw County has ac-
cess to the immunization.
Additionally, the Health Depart-
ment is working with the public and
private schools in the area so they
know how to handle any outbreaks.
"We're working with the schools
to make sure they know they don't
have to close down if H1N1 appears
with their school," James said. "But
they have to work with the parents
to inform them how long to keep
kids at home."
On campus, UHS is encouraging
students to get vaccinated for both
H1N1 and the seasonal flu.
"We expect that there will be
seasonal flu like there is every year,"
Ernst said, "and the H1N1 will pres-
ent in very similar ways, so it's not
going to be very clear if people do

get sick whether or not it's H1N1 or
seasonal flu, so anything people can
do to protect themselves from get-
ting sick we think is a good idea:'
LSA sophomore Josh Symes is
considered at risk for getting H1N1
because he has asthma. Although
he said he usually gets vaccinated
for the seasonal flu and plans on
getting the H1Nt vaccine as an ex-
tra precaution, he's not too con-
cerned about a massive outbreak on
campus.
"I haven't thought about it
enough to get worried about it," he
said.
While only high-risk patients
like Symes will receive medication
if they become infected with H1N1,
all students with the virus will be
asked to wear a mask, which will
be provided in the residence halls.
Logan said the masks are to prevent
healthy students from contracting
the illness.
"We are going to ask students
who are sick to wear a mask when
their roommate is present so as not
to expose them to the droplets of
moisture from sneezes or coughs
that can carry the virus," he said.
Additionally, non-alcohol based
hand sanitizer will be placed in res-
idence hall lobbies, dining halls and
community centers.
In another attempt to reduce the
spread of germs, University Hous-
ing is trying a new tactic that asks
students who eat at the Hill Dining
Center to swipe their own MCard
before entering the cafeteria, in-
stead of a dining hall employee.
"Our greeters typically wear pro-
tective gloves; but any germs from
one card that are picked up on the
greeters' gloves may be passed on to
the next card," Logan wrote in an e-
mail interview. "So having students
swipe their own meal cards reduces
the back-and-forth exchange of mul-
tiple cards through the greeters."
Logan added that the trial effort
has been well-received by students
dining in Mosher-Jordan Residence
Hall, and University Housing plans
to try it at other dining centers.
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LAW SCHOOL
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mal time with our students, help
us celebrate our anniversary and
groundbreaking, and root for the
Maize and Blue," Caminker wrote
in the letter.
In addition to the other oppor-
tunities, the Law School offered
Roberts a $15,000 honorarium. In
response to the Daily's information
request, the University's Freedom
of Information Act Coordinator Pa-
tricia Sellinger wrote that Roberts
did not accept the offer.
"Please note, that the honorari-
um offer was extended as a courtesy
and the Law School did not expect
Chief Justice Roberts to accept it;"
Sellinger wrote, "in a verbal conver-
sation, representatives for the Chief
Justice have confirmed that he will
not accept the honorarium offer."
Margaret Leary, director and li-
brarian of the Law Library, said the
event with Roberts will be an infor-
mal question-and-answer session
with Caminker, allowing for the
possibility of spontaneous ques-
tions.I
Roberts is at least the third Su-
preme Court justice to visit the Law
School in the last five years.
STOCKWELL
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perience program will address the
"slump," which is common for sec-
ond-year students grappling with
academic and social life questions.
"Through SYE, Housing has an-
swered sophomores' cry for help,"
he said at the ceremony.
Linda Newman, University
Housing director, said though it
was a big change to welcome male
residents to Stockwell for the first
time, Housing officials were happy
to do it.
"Students asked for it and we
were able to give it to them," she
said.
Alice Berberian Haidostian, who
lived in Stockwell from 1943 until
1946 and attended the ceremony,
said the residence hall becoming
co-ed doesn't concern her.
"You just expect everyone to be

Leary said some of the events
are already sold out, and others
have limited availability. She added
that officials have already changed
venues for the Roberts event due to
demand from Law School students,
alumni and faculty.
"Chief Justice Roberts was origi-
nally scheduled for 100 Hutchins
Hall that holds maybe 350 people.
We got more than that, so we moved
it to Rackham ... and then we filled
Rackham, so we moved it to Hill,"
she said.
In addition to giving the Law
School community a chance to in-
teract with Roberts, the sesquicen-
tennial will celebrate the school's
achievements, like its international
diversity, Leary said.
"(The sesquicentennial) means a
lot, because one of the qualities this
law school has that makes it stand
out from most other law schools is
that we're old," Leary said. "We've
been around since 1859. We've al-
ways been a large law school. Dur-
ing the end of the 19th century the
largest law school title was bounc-
ing around between Columbia Law
School and Michigan Law School.
We're also celebrating the fact that
we are a public institution, which
takes public service very seriously."
Other scheduled events for the
gentleman and ladies," she said.
She added that it was a different
change that surprised her the most.
"No dining room? That's the big
change," Haidostian said.
Another University alum in at-
tendance, Pauline Walters, said de-
spite the renovation, the building
doesn't look much different from
when she lived there from 1947 to
1950.
"This is still as beautiful as it was
when I first came here," she said.
Newman said keeping the histor-
ical character of the building was a
priority during the renovation.
"The juxtaposition of new and
old embodied in the renovation of
Stockwell Hall is part of the very
character of this University," she
said during the ceremony.
E. Royster Harper, vice president
for student affairs, called the reno-
vation "a dream come true."
"It is particularly fitting that we

weekend include a gala dinner, a
talk given by Leary -- who also hap-
pens to be an expert on William
Cook, the largest donor in the his-
tory of the Law School -- and a live
screening of the Notre Dame game
in the Law Quad.
"We will have tents set up, which
will already have been set up for the
lunch on Friday. And we're going to
have giant monitors, giant screens,
and that will be also basically a tick-
eted event," Leary said.
According to Leary, Roberts
plans to attend the football game at
the Big House.
The event will also include cele-
bratingagroundbreakingceremony
for the Law School's new academic
building and Law School Com-
mons, where University President
Mary Sue Coleman and Caminker
are expected to make remarks. Rob-
erts will be in attendance.
The four-day celebration also
highlights the University's global
leadership in the law, an aspect of
the school that, Leary says, is as old
as the school itself.
"I think we're also celebrating,
as the logo says, 150 years of global
leadership in law," Leary said.
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contributed to this report
are celebratingthe reopening ofthis
residence hall thatis so rich intradi-
tion," she said during the ceremony.
She added that she was particu-
larly excited to reopen Stockwell a
year after cutting the ribbon on the
Hill Dining Center and with the
knowledge that the grand opening
of North Quad is only a year away.
"I am really having a moment
here in time," she said.
Varilone said he's excited to call
the brand new residence hall home,
adding that he feels privileged to be
one of Stockwell's first male resi-
dents.
"It's just a great place to live," he
said. "There's tons of space to do
whatever you want here:'
Tehrani said that while he's
happy with his new digs, he wish-
es there were a few more urinals
around.
"I can tell a lot of the stuff was
originally for females," he said.

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