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H1N1 vaccine shortage in Wisconsin
Trick and Treat!
By Rebecca Autrey The Daily Cardinal
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The UW-Madison campus gets into the Halloween spirit, with the Hoofers Haunted House (left), and Trick-or-Treat with the Greeks (right).
UW student dies in motor accident Craig Houston, a UW-Madison student, was killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday Oct. 24 near Oshkosh, Wis. Houston was traveling on his motorcycle on Highway 41 late Saturday night when he crashed and died on the scene, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Officials are still unclear if Houston was hit by another car. Houston was a junior at UW-Madison, according to UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas. “It’s tremendously sad, and a loss to our entire community whenever we lose a student,” he said. According to his obituary from Westgor Funeral Homes, Houston graduated from Neenah High School in Neenah, Wis., in 2007. The obituary also said he was an excellent student who was involved in various extracurricular activities. Houston’s visitation is scheduled for Saturday Oct. 31 at 9:30 a.m. followed by the funeral at 1:00 p.m. at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Neenah, Wis. ‘Muffin man’ robs teenager A 17-year-old boy was robbed along West Johnson Street early Tuesday morning while he was robbery page 3
ASM supports student voting member on ALRC By Andrew Kasper The Daily Cardinal
Associated Students of Madison unanimously voted to officially endorse a Common Council amendment that would make a permanent position for a student representative on the Alcohol License Review Committee. According to ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Adam Johnson, the amendment would modify the pending expansion of the ALRC from seven voting members to nine, mandating that one of the new positions remain permanently set aside for a student representative. UW-Madison student and Ald. Bryon Eagon, District 8, proposed the amendment. Johnson, a proponent of the amendment, asked the student council to support the amendment before the vote. He said he plans to attend the Common Council meeting next Tuesday with other members of
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ASM members voted to support an amendment Wednesday that would allow for a student voting member on the ALRC. the LAC in representation of strong student presence at next students and in support of the week’s Common Council meetamendment. asm page 3 According to Johnson, a
Committee considers stricter late-night vending regulations By Erin Banco The Daily Cardinal
Late-night vendors on Broom and Johnson Street may be moved to Library Mall because of complaints from residents in the area, members of the Vending Oversight Committee said at their meeting Wednesday.
Karen Foxgrover, member of the VOC, said residents of the area often complain about the noise vendors bring to the area. Warren Hansen, street vending coordinator, proposed assigning spots for vending carts on Broom and Johnson street to help stop disputes between
vendors. “The police are very uncomfortable dealing with this … monitoring the [area],” Hansen said. “The idea of having specifically assigned areas is so people don’t show up wherever they vending page 3
University Health Services has postponed a Nov. 3 H1N1 vaccination clinic due to vaccine shortages throughout the entire state of Wisconsin. Stephanie Marquis, spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, said the state has received only 300,000 doses of the 407,000 promised by the Center for Disease Control. As a result DHS has narrowed priority groups even further from those recommended by the CDC. Currently pregnant women, health-care workers, people who care for infants less than six months and kids six months to four years will receive the vaccine first. According to Marquis, most health-care workers in the state have already been vaccinated so they can remain healthy and continue to see patients. Although the CDC has also named six- to 24-year-olds a priority group, DHS has asked healthy people over 18 who do not have underlying medical conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular problems to be patient. “We all want the vaccine as quickly as we can,” Marquis said. “The reason these individuals are targeted is because they could really become very seriously ill if they receive the virus.” Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services, said in a press release Wednesday UHS expects to receive more doses of the vaccine and will let students know as it becomes available. Currently UHS is only providing H1N1 vaccinations to people in designated high-priority groups. Mae Knowles, spokesperson for Meriter Medical Clinic-McKee, said the clinic would follow DHS recommendations when administering the vaccine. In the meantime, she said priority and non-priority groups can take simple precautions to stay healthy. According to Knowles, people should wash their hands, not share straws and drinking cups, avoid people with flu-like symptoms and cover a cough with a sleeve. Knowles said that most people who contract the flu will be fine if they follow self-treatment guidelines, such as drinking fluids, getting rest and taking feverreducing medications. However, she stressed that patients who experience shortness of breath, pain or pressure in the chest, sudden dizziness, severe vomiting or who get better and then get worse should immediately seek emergency care.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”