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tuesday, October 08, 2013 volume 113, issue 032
Inside Coverage
Spooky Shoppin’
Recycling in the Big Ten
Seasonal Halloween shop ready for holiday
See how UNL stacks up in its green efforts
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UNL rugby dresses to impress
Lydia Pflanz, freshman psychology major, right, stretches to catch an inbound pass during the annual Prom Dress Rugby Game at the Vine Street Fields on Friday, Oct. 4. The annual game is played between the current UNL women’s rugby team and alumni players from previous years.
Led by conductor David Sackchewsky, the Men of Northwest from Grand Island Northwest High School perform at the Nebraska Men’s Choral Festival held in Kimball Recital Hall Monday night. Accompanied by four dancers, the choral group sang “Cinderella” written by Steven Curtis Chapman.
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POLITICO editor to speak on US foreign policy will shed some light on that. Susan Glasser, the new ediSusan Glasser will tor of POLITICO magazine, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the discuss how foreign Lied Center for Performing policy has changed Arts. Her talk, “Washington and the World in the Age of Obama,” in post-Iraq, will address the changing place Afghanistan world of the U.S. in relation to the rest of the world. “The series ‘U.S. and Them’ will examine America’s econoSTAFF REPORT my, foreign relations, military Dn reach, educational status, and the viability — and relevance After the United Nations con— of the American Dream,” the firmed reports of chemical forum’s website states. weapons use, it Glasser was forseemed like the merly the editor-inUnited States was chief of Foreign Policy, poised to attack the magazine of global Syria. On Sept. 24, politics, economics President Barack and ideas. Under her Obama gave an imtenure, the magazine passioned speech won various awards arguing for milifor its innovative covtary intervention erage, including three against Bashar aldigital National MagaAssad’s regime. zine Awards. PreviAfter passing ously, she covered the Glasser the political ball wars in Iraq and Afto Congress, and a ghanistan as a foreign deal with Russian correspondent and ediPrime Minister Vladimir Putin, tor at the Washington Post. intervention was suddenly off She co-authored the book, of the table. “Kremlin Rising; Vladimir PuThis exercise of foreign pol- tin’s Russia and the End of icy is in stark contrast with the Revolution,” with her husband United States of a decade ago, Peter Baker. and the next E. N. Thompson Forum of World Issues speaker
policy: see page 2
The Classmen of Columbus High School sing “The Morning Trumpet,” arranged by Mack Wilberg and conducted by Fred Ritter. Columbus High School was one of 16 schools to perform in the
The Lincoln Boys Choir sings “Jubilee,” the opening song in the festival. They were conducted by Burton Schernikau and accompanied by Karen Karr Ammons on piano.
Shutdown limits flu tracking services The shutdown ends the CDC’s flu tracking system, but vaccines will still be available on campus whitney carlson dn Flu season is starting early this year just as employees in the Centers for Disease Control have been furloughed by the federal shutdown, but University Health Center officials say they aren’t too worried. Since the shutdown on Oct. 1, the center cannot track the spread of the virus. Other monitoring groups, like Flu Near You and Google Flu Trends, are keeping track of the flu, and these organizations have seen a rise in flu-like symptoms across the U.S. “Flu season is starting early this year,” said Nancy Orsborn, the nursing director at the health
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Nancy Orsborn, nursing director at the University of NebraskaLincoln health center, gives Matthew Erickson, a sophomore mechanized systems management major, a flu shot on Monday in Filley Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus. The health center is prepared to give 4,000 flu shots this year. center. “There has already been one case on campus confirmed by a lab.” Orsborn said she didn’t have much information about the CDC
and how its closing will affect the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specifically, but she confirmed that the university already has its vaccinations.
The state keeps track of flu cases by county, so the closing of the CDC won’t affect Nebraska’s flu monitoring in the short term. Health center staff have set up free flu shot clinics hoping that it will attract more students to get the vaccination. Kofi Britwum is a agricultural economics graduate student from Ghana. He just moved to UNL from Delaware this semester and has only lived in the U.S. for two years. Britwum’s academic advisor encouraged him to get the flu shot. “It’s a new environment here in Lincoln,” Britwum said. “I thought it’d be a good idea to get one.” The flu clinic at Filley Hall on Monday vaccinated about 80 people. About 1,000 flu vaccinations have been given so far this year, Orsborn said. The university ordered 4,000 shots and is hoping to put them all to use. “The old vaccines only lasted about three to four months, but the newer, more purified versions can last at least nine months,” Orsborn said. A new quadrivalent flu vaccine is out this year. This shot pro-
flu shots: see page 3
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RSOs vie for $1,000 in free Pepsi products
Experience Fund, the university’s Pepsi funding program, is to Student Involvement help student organizations with out-of-pocket expenses. offers free soda to “This will lighten the load for organizations,” Rezny said. RSOs that fulfill “It should help generate more certain requriements profit for the actual philanthropies.” Rezny said the funds will be divided into $100 increments, with five student groups able Colleen Fell to use the funds each semester. DN Student organizations may only Student Involvement at the Uni- apply for the funds once per academic year. versity of Nebraska-Lincoln is Even though Pepsi has been giving away $1,000 in free Pepsi a donor to the university for products to UNL student organimany years, this is the first time zations. in four or five The products years Student Inwill be available volvement has This will to Registered allowed student Student Organilighten organizations to zations on a firstapply to use the come, first-served the load for products, Rezny basis. A total of organizations.” said. $1,000 worth of So far, there Pepsi products Brock Rezny have been a few will be given graduate educational student organiaway throughout administration student zations that have the school year, applied for the with $500 to be funds. Some of given away each the groups include Chi Omega semester. sorority, Phi Kappa Theta fraBrock Rezny, a graduate ternity and the College of Ageducational administration sturicultural Sciences and Natural dent with Student Involvement Resources. at UNL, helps decide where the Reshell Ray, of Student Indonated funds from Pepsi are used at the university. He said the purpose of the Pepsi Student
pepsi: see page 3