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MS Children in Day Care Need 7 Vaccines. University Students Need 1 THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Monday, September 9, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 6 MAKIN’ BACON Ole Miss handles Arkansas in 31-17 victory BILLY SCHUERMAN/ THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN Scottie Phillips (22) rushes for a touchdown against Arkansas. Ole Miss moves to 1-0 in SEC play for the first time since 2015. SEE PAGE 4 WILLIAM MAGEE WEILLNESS MS children in day care need 7 vaccines. CENTER OPENS The center honors the life of William Magee University students need 1. and will provide drug and alcohol prevention institution, only requires proof unvaccinated student to bring but diseases such as polio are resources to students. MCKENZIE RICHMOND of one vaccine before enrolling exposure to the campus. far more rare. However while [email protected] in classes on campus. “The likelihood of trans- outbreaks are rare, they aren’t SEE PAGE 2 Students are only required mission is the reason that it impossible. If a student did Mississippi, often a punch- to show proof of the measles, matters,” Bentley said. “It hasn’t bring exposure to campus, the line in state-to-state compari- mumps and rubella vaccination been a problem before. We people most susceptible would UNDERAGE STUDENTS sons, has the highest vaccination (MMR) because they are highly haven’t had outbreaks of conta- be other students that haven’t ENDANGERED BY ABC rate among school-age chil- communicable diseases that gious diseases, but the thing I been vaccinated. Columnist Sophia Meruvia dren. Before being admitted could easily spread on a college could see is possibly meningi- There are seven vaccinations writes, “The city of to any child care facility in the campus. tis since it tends to attack at the that are required for children in Oxford must take into state, Mississippi residents are Sandy Bentley, pharmacist college age and from dorm living the state of Mississippi: hepa- consideration that it is required to receive seven sepa- at the Student Health Center, people, which is the perfect titis B, Pertussis (diphtheria, rate vaccines, giving Mississippi said it is expected that most combination.” tetanus and whooping cough), arguably safer to drink some of the toughest vaccination students received the other Bentley said that the school polio, hib, pneumonia, MMR on the Square, and the laws in the country. seven vaccines during their requires the MMR vaccination and varicella (chicken pox). probability of unfavorable However, Ole Miss, the childhood. Though, since proof because there have previously Students in the health outcomes likely goes state’s flagship university and a is not required by the school for been measles and mumps up at house parties.” Carnegie certified R1 research admissions, it’s possible for an outbreaks on college campuses, SEE VACCINE PAGE 8 SEE PAGE 7 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 9 SEPTEMBER 2019 Bringing support to student mothers on campus overall undergraduate student year.” and plans on releasing a student MEGHAN STOUT population (42 percent) over the Cost and limited access to parent survey within the next [email protected] same time period,” IWPR’s report “I’m questioning childcare are not the only hinder- week or two. read. ing factors for student mothers. One of her main goals is for the Multiple faculty members now why we haven’t Although many universities Creating new childcare facilities university to apply for and receive and students, are working to throughout the country have already applied for it... on campus is not a cheap task. the Child Care Access Means create more resources for student resources to help student moth- “(Childcare committees) have Parents in School (CCAMPIS) mothers on campus. Their goals If we have that CCAMPIS ers, the University of Mississippi almost always said, ‘Yes, we need Grant, which provides childcare range from creating a new child- provides more of these resources Grant, there could be childcare on campus,’ but then subsidies for student parents. As care facility on campus to making for its faculty than for its students. nothing is done about it, I think of today, Southern Miss is the only childcare more affordable for a whole new group of Kelly Houston, the admin- because of the large startup cost,” school in Mississippi to receive students with children and creat- istrative coordinator for the students who might Houston said. “The most recent CCAMPIS funding. ing a general support system for Department of History, created childcare committee said yes, “I’m questioning now why we these students. give college a second the University of Mississippi there was a need, but instead of haven’t already applied for it,” Undergraduate students look.” Working Mothers Support saying to start the center, they Antonow said. “If we have that with dependents have more - Laura Antonow Network in April of 2016 in University of Mississippi Childcare said to hire a childcare fellow to CCAMPIS Grant, there could be a than doubled nationally between hopes of creating a more fami- Fellow research ways to make it possi- whole new group of students who 1999 and 2013, according to a ly-friendly environment at the ble.” might give college a second look.” 2013 report from the Institute university by providing support Laura Antonow, the univer- Antonow has noticed the of Women’s Policy Research members, and only takes children to its working mothers. Unfor- sity’s current childcare fellow, is enrollment of students plateauing (IWPR). Nearly four million aged 3-4. tunately, not many student working to calculate the number and believes the CCAMPIS Grant college students — roughly 25 “Currently, the university does mothers are included. of student mothers currently could potentially help increase percent of all undergraduate not have anything (for children Although the university does enrolled, but has found that enrollment in both undergraduate students — have one or more under the age of three),” Hous- have an on-campus childcare getting this data can be a chal- and graduate students. children. ton said. “The cost of (the Willie facility, the Willie Price Lab lenge. She is working with the “I think there’s a lot in it for the “The growth in (single) moth- Price Lab School) in the past has School, it is primarily for faculty, financial aid office to pull data university to make this more of a ers in college was more than twice kind of prohibited a lot of student staff and some community from students’ FASFA forms priority,” Antonow said. the rate of growth seen among the involvement…it’s about $7000 a DOMINO’S DOMINO’S WEST & EAST - NEW NOW HIRING OLE MISS LOCATION! OPEN NOW! DRIVERS CAMPUS $ $ 1920 UNIVERSITY AVENUE Earn 12- 18 per hour 1603 WEST JACKSON AVENUE NEXT TO LARSON’S CASH SAVER Apply in person – 1603 W Jackson Ave 662.236.3030 662.236.3844 or 1920 University Ave or online at jobs.dominos.com SUN-WED 10:30 AM-2 AM OPEN LATE! 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More than 150 students work at Student Media some examples of the student positions: • Editor • Editorial Cartoonist • Advertising Account • TV/Radio News To apply: • Reporter/Writer • Multimedia Editor/ Executive Director go to theDMonline.com and click • Photographer Producer • TV anchor • TV Producer on the APPLY link at the top of • Designer • Sales Manager • TV Sports Director • DM Delivery Person the home page. 201 Bishop • 662.915.5503 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN |9 SEPTEMBER 2019 | PAGE 3 Bringing support to student mothers on campus Mississippi could revise meatless law THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [email protected] Mississippi is considering new rules that let companies continue to use food-labeling terms such as “veggie burger” and “vegan bacon,” as long as the terms are prominently displayed so consumers understand the products are not meat. The state agriculture depart- ment on Thursday proposed new regulations for plant-based products that are sold as alternatives to meat. The regulations were published weeks after a nonprofit organization that advocates plant-based foods REED JONES / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN and an Illinois food company sued Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks cuts the ribbon to the William Magee Center for Wellness Education. The center is now a permanent fixture in the Mississippi over a labeling law. The suit was filed on July 1, the same day South Campus Rec Center. the state enacted the law saying that “a plant-based or insect-based food product shall not be labeled as meat or a meat food product.” The proposed Mississippi regu- A culture of care: Ole Miss dedicates the lations say terms such as “plant- based” must be clearly displayed on packaging of products such as William Magee Center vegetarian hot dogs. “They’re common sense rules,” Mississippi Agriculture Commis- alumni, students and the Sparks, Interim Chancellor. the Magee Center. sioner Andy Gipson said. “We’re LIBBY HUFHAM Magee family themselves. Chancellor Sparks called the Many students stand stead- [email protected] doing exactly what we intended to Six years following William Magee Center a model for fast alongside the center’s do.” Six years after grave loss, Magee’s passing, the William universities throughout the purpose, and expressed their Gipson said the regulations the Ole Miss community is Magee Wellness Center offi- nation.
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