THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 30
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The season-ending injury to leading goal-scorer Ashley Jones helped push the Rutgers women’s soccer team to a victory against DePaul. The Knights must now fill the void left by the injured junior.
H1N1 vaccine shortage stalls U. distribution
ROCKING FOR REGISTRATION
BY SARA GRETINA UNIVERSITY EDITOR
RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
To encourage student voters to register for the Nov. 3 elections, University organizations team up with the New Voters Project at “Rock the Vote” yesterday from noon to 10 p.m. on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. Today is the last day for voters to register.
Report ‘prescribes’ public option to state BY ANDREW GOLD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The prescription for the state may be an overall reform of the health care system. A recent report by New Jersey Public Perspective singles out America’s Affordable Health
INDEX UNIVERSITY The women’s rugby team maintains their spot on the top after Sunday’s game against New Platz.
OPINIONS Columist Brian Canares offers his views on how the Rutgers University Student Assembly can change for the better and live up to their fullest potential.
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Choices Act, or House Resolution 3200, as the ideal bill for the state because it has a public option provision individuals could opt into. “Under this legislation, the federal government will pay more money to support N.J.’s health care programs that serve low and moderate income residents, freeing up more state
money for further expansion and improvement in our state’s health care system,” said Health Care Campaign Coordinator with New Jersey Citizen Action Eve Weissman. That public option is critical in New Jersey, where there has been
The federal government released the swine flu vaccine earlier last week for public distribution. The University has been approved as a vaccinator site, said Executive Director of University Health Ser vices Melodee Lasky in an e-mail sent out Friday to the University. But the University has not yet received its portion, she said. “At this time, we do not know when we will receive the vaccine,” Lasky said. “We are working closely with the New Jersey and Middlesex County health departments to ensure that we receive the 40,000 doses we requested, but it is important to note that it is likely that we will receive limited supplies initially with more to follow at intervals through December.” A lot of hysteria has surrounded the potential pandemic of the H1N1 virus this season, and controversy has followed its vaccine. “As with the seasonal influenza vaccines, the 2009 H1N1 vaccines are being produced in formulations that contain thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, and in formulations that do not contain thimerosal. People with
severe or life-threatening allergies to chicken eggs, or to any other substance in the vaccine, should not be vaccinated,” according to the Federal Drug Administration Web site. “Potential side effects of the H1N1 vaccines are expected to be similar to those of seasonal flu vaccines.” Regardless of side effects, the FDA approved the vaccine on Sept. 15, according to its Web site. The vaccine, which is available as a nasal mist or an injectable syringe, will be provided to people age 65 and younger first, according to the Centers of Disease Control Web site. “We could determine that younger people particularly did not have any built-in immunity and that some populations are really at risk,” said Beth Bell, associate director for Science at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease. People in high-risk groups, including college students, pregnant women and people with lung diseases, represent these populations, Bell said. The injectable syringe, which is composed of inactivated virus, is recommended for pregnant
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JAZZ ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM IN MEMORY OF LATE TRUMPET PROFESSOR The Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble will celebrate the life of late trumpet professor William Fielder with a musical tribute tonight at 8 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. The University Jazz Trumpet Alumni and friends of William Fielder — including famous jazz musician Terell Stafford — will join the ensemble, which is free and open to the public, said Ensemble Director Conrad Herwig. The concert will be preceded by a memorial service at Kirkpatrick Chapel, 85 Somerset St. in New Brunswick at 5 p.m., and followed by “Jammin’ for Prof,” a special open jam session, at 10 p.m. at Steakhouse 85 at 85 Church St. in New Brunswick, said Mason Gross School of the Arts Dean George Stauffer in an email correspondence. Fielder died on Sept. 24 after a long illness. Better known as “Prof” to his students, Fielder joined Mason Gross in 1980 and remained on the faculty until his death, according to the school’s Web site. A world-renowned trumpet player, Fielder performed with some of the biggest names in jazz and popular music, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and B.B. King, according to the site. Fielder was also an accomplished classical trumpeter, performing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Civic Symphony and other notable orchestras and ensembles. But “Prof” was most prominent as a teacher, one who educated the present generation of great trumpet players, including Wynton Marsalis, Sean Jones, Terrance Blanchard, Terell Stafford and many others, Stauffer said. “Professor Fielder was a warm, patient, but also demanding professor,” Stauffer said. “He was a force within the department and the jazz program, and he affected the lives of hundreds of Mason Gross students.” DownBeat Magazine recently recognized Fielder’s accomplishments as a professor by inducting him into its Jazz Educators Hall of Fame, he said. — Chris Zawistowski
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Despite approval as an H1N1 vaccinator site, the University’s request for 40,000 doses will only reach students in intervals through December. The federal government announced the vaccine distribution last week for national sites. Individuals under 65 years of age will receive priority.
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SC&I acts as local field in global breast cancer battle BY AMBIKA SUBRAMANYAM CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Hundreds of thousands of women and men are diagnosed with breast cancer ever y year, and the Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation acknowledges breast cancer aware-
ness month ever y October by running the Passionately Pink for the Cure program. Student Ser vices Coordinator for the School of Communication and Information Mar y Beth Hager brings the global movement to the University each year, asking
students and organizations to make donations. “This campaign is a way for anyone here at the School of Communication and Information to feel good about trying to rid the world of this terrible disease — both for men and women alike,” Hager said.
Running the campaign for the past five years, Hager said it initially started as a way to remember her family members who have passed away from the disease and those still struggling to fight it now.
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