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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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interviews OK Go drummer Dan Konopka.
on Jeopardy! game show.
University turns 125
stories from over the break.
H1N1 shots have arrived Allison Sanders After the H1N1 virus hit St. Edward’s University hard last fall, the Health and Counseling Center has received a shipment of H1N1 vaccines. The shipment of vaccines came during the week of Jan. 11 when classes started for the spring semester, according to Katie Brosnan, a registered nurse at the Health and Counseling Center. The university received 300 vaccines after initially asking for 500 doses in October. The university did not receive any H1N1 vaccines last fall. The vaccine’s release was unexpectedly delayed
Christina Villareal
A shipment of the H1N1 vaccine recently arrived.
nationwide and began to be distributed on a wide scale in December. The vaccines were paid for
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Schultz memorialized St. Edward’s University Archives St. Edward’s University has seen many changes since its founding in 1885.
Jenny Trochez The year 2010 not only marks the beginning of a new decade, it is also St. Edward’s University’s 125th anniversary, and the university is going to celebrate by giving back. On Feb. 15, Student Life will host the Homecoming Kickoff event that will celebrate St. Edward’s 125th year anniversary. The Kickoff, taking place from 11 a.m. –2 p.m. on the Ragsdale Lawn,
will introduce the celebratory 125 Service Challenge. Through the challenge, the university intends for students, faculty and alumni to participate in 75,000 hours of community service for the year 2010, in celebration of the 125th year anniversary. “Clearly giving back to the community has always been a part of St. Ed’s,” said Mischelle Diaz, director of communications. “It is a part of the holy cross mission. I can’t
see this University celebrating any milestone as major as 125 years without a service component, so that’s what this is about. ” Regardless of the number of hours each participant dedicates to service, every hour brings the university one step closer to achieving the 75,000 hour goal. Last year, the university contributed 63,000 hours of service, CONTINUED ON | 4
Tristan Hallman Friends, family, colleagues and students gathered Jan. 16 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel at St. Edward’s University to remember Associate Communication Professor Marilyn Schultz. “Amazing Grace” and “White Coral Bells,” a song that gave Schultz inspiration at a time when she most needed it, a friend said, filled the packed chapel not far from where Schultz taught over the years. Schultz, a former NBC News correspondent who
came to St. Edward’s in 2002 as an associate professor after spending 10 years teaching at the University of Texas, died after a brief illness Jan. 10 at St. David’s South Austin Hospital. She was 64. Fr. Lou Brusatti , dean of the School of Humanities, delivered the opening prayer and was the first to eulogize his friend and neighbor of seven years. “She spent her life seeking God’s righteousness and making it happen in the here and now,” Brusatti said. Brusatti remembered
Schultz as entertaining and energetic, but also argumentative and persistent, even while facing death. “I woke up Monday morning after a long Sunday vigil at her hospital bedside; a vigil with all of her colleagues from the Communication Department and other members of the St. Edward’s community, the Brothers of the Holy Cross and her friends,” Brusatti said. “Of course, she wanted none of us to be there.” Brusatti said that Schultz CONTINUED ON | 2