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Flu, stomach bug spreading By SHANE MCKEON
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SUPREME SPEAKER United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks at the Northwestern School of Law. Kagan discussed the state of law schools and shared anecdotes about her experiences as a judge.
Kagan talks courts, law By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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CHICAGO — Justice Elena Kagan spoke at the Northwestern School of Law on Tuesday about diversity in the court system and life as a justice. Kagan spoke to a packed Thorne Auditorium and School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez moderated the event. The talk was part of the Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program. “There’s something to be said about having an institution that reflects the country the institution serves,” Kagan said during the talk. All nine Supreme Court justices attended Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. Kagan said although she doesn’t believe this affects the court’s
decision making, she said the lack of diversity is “unfortunate.” “It would be a really great thing if there was more diversity in legal backgrounds,” she said. Kagan attended this year’s State of the Union address with five other justices. Because the justices are often unable to react to the speech out of fear of expressing partisanship, Kagan joked that the justices liken attending the event to acting “the potted plant.” “It is a very partisan event,” she said. “I think the spectacle of it all is very interesting.” During the talk, Kagan mentioned the hunting trips she frequently takes with Justice Antonin Scalia, which began during her confirmation hearings in 2010. “I shot Bambi, it’s true,” Kagan said, eliciting laughs from the audience. “I
couldn’t get an antelope, but I shot Bambi.” Kagan said she considers U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Abner Mikva and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, both of whom she clerked for, her two biggest mentors. She called Marshall, who was the first African-American justice, “the best lawyer of the 20th century” and said clerking for him as a recent law school graduate was an intense experience. “He had unbelievable stories to tell,” she said. “It was opening this window to this incredibly important part of history.” Kagan also discussed her experience with her four law clerks, who she said “want to be there all night and do everything.” She has had conservative clerks, » See KAGAN, page 5
Whole Foods proposes bar By BEN SCHAEFER
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The new Whole Foods Market coming to Evanston this year now includes an in-store wine bar and pub in its proposed plan. Representatives from the grocery chain spoke about the proposal at a 6th and 7th ward meeting held by Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) and Ald. Jane Grover (7th) on Jan. 22. “We’ve been eagerly anticipating this store,” Grover said. “There has not been a lot of pushback to the idea of the wine bar and pub.” The store will fill the retail space at 2748 Green Bay Road, which has been vacant since Dominick’s closed at the end of 2013. This will be the third Whole Foods in Evanston. The location is one of several new Whole Foods in the Chicago area that could include a bar. The proposal awaits approval by the liquor commission and the City Council. Whole Foods must attain two liquor licenses, one for selling and one for serving, Grover said. “The Dominick’s was in many
ways our village green,” Grover said. “We ran into everybody there. I have been very impressed that Whole Foods is looking to recreate essential Evanston when they move in.”
During the planning process, Whole Foods designers explored local elements and typographies to come up with a theme for the
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FOOD AND DRINK The incoming Whole Foods, 2748 Green Bay Road, is seeking licensing to include a bar on the premises. The store, depicted above in a rendering, has submitted proposals to the city and plans to open in July 2015.
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A largely ineffective vaccine and sorority recruitment have fueled the flu season on campus, with a separate stomach virus spreading within University housing getting more students sick, said Thomas Reda, medical director of the Northwestern University Health Service. The biggest factor in this particular flu season, Reda said, has been the flu vaccine’s widely reported shortcomings: It reduces a recipient’s chances of having to see a docfor the If you can take tor flu by only five days off of 23 percent, class and lie in according to the Centers bed and feel like for Disease a truck hit you Control and Prevenfor those five tion. In past days, don’t get years, that number has the flu shot. been up to Thomas Reda, NU Health Service 60 percent. Neverthemedical director less, Reda said Searle had a “record year” for giving flu shots, with many more students than normal receiving a vaccination. Reda said it is “absolutely” worth getting a flu shot this late in the season. “If you can take five days off of class,” he said, “and lie in bed and feel like a truck hit you for those five days, don’t get the flu shot.” Reda said NUHS saw an uptick in the number of students who came to Searle for “influenza and influenzalike illness” the second week of the quarter. For the week of Jan. 5, Searle documented seven such cases. The next week, Searle documented 41 cases.
Reda linked the increase to sorority recruitment, which ended Jan. 13. Recorded cases dropped the next week — the most recent data available — to 22 cases. Reda said no students have been hospitalized with the flu this year. Health Service’s numbers, however, almost definitely understate the total number of students who contracted the flu. SESP junior James Keane said he was sick with flu-like symptoms the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Keane never went to Searle for the illness because it was closed Monday for the holiday. “I did find that frustrating that there was a three-day stretch without that access to medical attention,” he said. “So I never found out for sure if I had the flu, but with the symptoms, it felt like I did.” Reda also said a stomach virus has spread, especially within Willard Residential College and Allison Hall. He said it’s difficult to measure how many students contracted the bug because many don’t come to Health Service for treatment. Communication freshman Sofia Kuta, who lives in Allison, caught the stomach bug around Jan. 11 and never went to Searle. She said she called the Health Service’s afterhours hotline, which helped diagnose the illness and how she could treat it. A week after she recovered, she started feeling flu-like symptoms, despite getting the vaccine earlier in the fall. Kuta didn’t visit Searle after her second illness, either, instead using the hotline again. “When you have a lot of people living in a close, confined environment, the potential for what happened is there,” executive director of Residential Services Paul Riel said. After it learned of the virus, Riel’s
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THE BUG Northwestern University Health Service, located at Searle Hall on Emerson Street, has treated students for both influenza and a stomach bug this winter. NUHS Medical Director Thomas Reda said the illnesses are a result of an unsuccessful flu vaccine and sorority recruitment.
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