Justin Curry & Angela Szesciorka,
news editor
Question of the Weep by Dana Vaccaro, features editor
What areyour thoughts on the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
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Flu vaccines available
in limited supply
by C.J. lannini
staff writer
The hard-to-find influenza vaccine is now available
at Penn State Behrend's Health and Wellness Center
in the Carriage House. Students can walk in or set
up an appointment for the shot. The cost is $lO, which
can be paid in cash or put on the student's account.
According to Patty Pasky McMahon, director of
the Health and Wellness Center, Behrend received
50 doses despite the nationwide shortage. Behrend
began to offer the vaccine Monday and will continue
to offer them until supplies run out. The Health and
Wellness Center is open Monday through Thursday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health decicded
OHIO HALL COUNCIL
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Mall or Best Buy certificates. An open bar will
provide more of a mature atmosphere for those of
age.
"People here at Behrend always say there is
nothing to do. Well, here's a great opportunity to
get out and have some fun," said Boazzo. With the
dance, all students can participate, not just the
athletes and the Greeks.
The Ohio Hall Council was able to hold the first
homecoming funded by the Student Activity Fee
and various outside donations. Whatever money is
left afterward will go toward a homecoming fund
for next year. They will create a homecoming
committee to plan next year's plans. Anyone
interested in learning more or helping can contact
the Ohio Hall Council.
LION CASH
replaced by an online flexible spending account
It will work like the current Diners Club account,"
said Geering. "Students will be able to add points
online and use the account for all applications of
the current Lion Cash Account, laundries, vending,
copiers and in all on-campus food service
operations."
Not only will it be faster to add money to your
card, but there will also be additional benefits. For
instance, if students lose their cards, they no longer
lose all the money stored on their card. The money
is stored online. Another perk is that students no
longer need their cards to add money to them.
Instead they just need a computer and no longer
have to make those dreaded trips out in the cold to
a machine, that most likely will not work.
All University locations will switch to the new
online flexible spending account system, Geering
also confirmed. When asked about the costs of this
new system Geering said, "While the initial start
up will be costly, the cost of the new hardware is
much less expensive then the current hardware.
There will also be a cost associated with networking
all of the vending, laundry and copy machines."
Until the Lion Cash machines are fixed, students
will have to go to the Id+ Office.
To help out students with the inconvenience, the
Id+ Office will be open for the weekend until the
machines are fixed. The office will be open from
noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
"We hope that this will allow students to plan
accordingly and give them plenty of opportunity to
purchase Lion Cash," Geering said.
"I thought it was different.
didn't get offended; it was
interesting."
Allen Lu
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to order more vaccines. Penn State was included as
one of the recipients.
Influenza kills 36,000 Americans each year, mostly
among the elderly. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), symptoms
of the flu include a high fever, headache, drowsiness,
dry cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose and
muscle aches.
"If you do get the flu and have already had the
shot, the symptoms won't be as severe," said
McMahon.
The flu shot takes two weeks for the immunization
to kick in. The body's ability to take to the vaccine
depends on the age and health status of the person
and the similarity between the virus strain and the
vaccine in circulation. The flu shot lasts for one year.
Angela Szesciorka contributed to this report
SCIENCE BUILDING
was more concerned with the safety of the building.
"This shouldn't have happened," said Cutter. "I
think this incident is a sign that they need to take a
look at the way they run things."
Cutter was extremely concerned with the amount
of water that accumulated before the break was
discovered. Because the break was part of the
sprinkler system, Cutter questioned the safety of
the fire alarm system in Science.
Maintenance is currently waiting to install a new
fire alarm system.
ONLINE CONTRACTING
submitting their contract offer back to Housing.
"It's a new process, and people aren't used to it
yet," said Geering. "And it just takes a little time
to get used to. Nine times out of ten, a student just
didn't follow through with one small step of the
process, and that's what happened."
"I'm not going to say the word guarantee, but
the people who get on the waiting list right now
will have a fairly good chance of getting housing
in the fall." Geering said.
Students who requested a contract but either
failed to submit one back to Housing and Food
Services or were not offered one, can request to be
placed on the waiting list.
"But we have to work with the system, because I
can't play favorites, but certainly, if they have
factual information," such as a printed out
confirmation page, "that there was a mistake made,
we would make adjustments for those reasons."
And students don't know how lucky they are that
adjustments can be made.
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Housing contracts used to be issued manually,
and then a lottery was held. Contracts were placed
in students' mailboxes and returned to the Housing
office, and each contract was assigned a number.
Then, if 1,200 contracts were returned, and there
were only 1,100 spaces available, a number was
drawn to start. The student with that number on
their contract would get first pick of where they
wanted to live, and so on down the line. Seniority
didn't matter, and your housing placement was
basically determined totally on luck.
At one time, housing at Behrend was issued on a
first-come, first-serve basis. That's right, obtaining
housing on-campus at Behrend used to be like
waiting in line for tickets to a Dave Matthews
concert. "With the first-come, first-serve basis,
people would sit on the stairs," said Geering.
"Monday morning (issuing housing contracts)
would start, and they would camp out on Friday
night."
Friday, February 6, 2004
"I was like, oh my God
Justin was hot."
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