The H1N1 Flu Arrives at Santa Clara Law
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School of Law Newspaper Since 1970 Volume 40 Issue 1 October 5, 2009 The H1N1 flu arrives at Santa Clara Law Nick Peterson A vaccine is in production and stop the spread of disease. county as to whether they should stay Administrators suspect H1N1 flu has initial delivery is expected in mid- Should conditions worsen, Alex- open, said Assistant Dean for Student arrived on campus, and they are now October, Alexiou said. The first batch iou said they will evaluate the need Services Susan Erwin. The school has seeking to minimize proliferation of will be available only to health care to close public gathering places, like been working on an information cam- the highly contagious virus. workers and other high-risk groups. schools, on a case-by-case basis. paign stressing preventive measures. Three law students have reported More people will gain access as ship- “It really depends on how far and Experts encourage students with flu flu-like symptoms indicative of H1N1 ments continue. Until then, Alexiou how quickly it spreads and what the symptoms to isolate themselves until as of Sept. 23. The flu strain has been recommended getting a vaccine for the severity is,” Alexiou said. they haven’t had a fever for 24 hours. mild thus far, but public health offi- seasonal flu and stressed measures to Santa Clara is taking cues from the Furthermore, they recommend seeing cials are pushing measures to prevent a doctor only if symptoms become its spread in case the virus mutates to severe. become more pernicious. “Our hope is that if we remind you “People should be concerned,” enough times to be careful and do all said Joy Alexiou, Public Information of these preventive measures, maybe Officer for the Santa Clara County we can limit it a little bit,” Erwin said. Public Health Department. “I don’t Student need only notify Law Stu- think people need to overreact, but dent Services by e-mail if they must they should be concerned.” miss class because of the flu, and the The county has seen 136 hospi- office will then notify the students’ talizations and 8 deaths as of Sept. professors. Erwin said the provost has 23 thought to be a result of the virus. encouraged faculty to be lenient in Alexiou said she suspected the deaths their attendance standards and to con- occurred in cases involving underlying sider making course materials more available on the Web. health conditions. Lannie Nguyen contemplates beer pong and its bacterial dangers. See H1NI, page 3 FLY-ing above the rest riculum in the law-related education Lyndsey Eadler classes focuses on California crimi- If anyone needs confirmation that nal law that affects youth. Secondly, SCU Law students are involved in FLY reaches outside of the classroom their community, they need not look setting to connect youth and their any further than the 45 Santa Clara families with the social services they Law students who volunteer with the need, as well as provide direct men- Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) pro- toring services to the youth. Finally, gram. Our fellow students, along with FLY is particularly attuned to the the many other volunteers and staff, input of the youth it serves. Indeed, The FLY program in action will serve over 3,000 youth across FLY was created directly based on the Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties suggestions of incarcerated youth. In nized by parents, prosecutors, judges, the law. In addition, 98 percent of this year. FLY is a nonprofit organi- 1997, Stanford law student, Christa school officials, and probation offi- the youth indicate that FLY provided zation serving the most marginalized Gannon, started volunteering at the cers. FLY has also received local and them with positive role models, while and underserved youth in our commu- Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall national recognition, including the 90 percent of youth with mentors re- nity. Its mission is to prevent juvenile where she taught incarcerated teens first Human Rights Award from the duced drug and alcohol use. FLY’s crime and incarceration through legal about the law. One afternoon, she City of San Jose Human Rights Com- astounding success is the result of its education, mentoring, and leadership asked the youth to create a program mission. efforts to develop youth competency training. that would prevent juvenile crime. Even more importantly, 89 percent skills as well as the life skills and FLY is unique in its approach to From this exercise, Christa developed of the youth involved in the program character needed to exit or avoid the solving the problems that juveniles the FLY program, and in June 2000, report that after being a part of FLY, criminal justice system, with the ulti- face. This uniqueness is rooted in a FLY became a nonprofit organization. they now plan ahead, make better mate goal of transforming the youth three-faceted program. First, the cur- The success of FLY has been recog- choices, and are less likely to break See FLY, page 4 2 / Letters The Advocate Volume 40, Issue 1, October EDITORS AND STAFF Autumnal Ick-quinox income by taxing those who would Immigrant health- like to purchase health care (even if Editor in Chief Dominic Dutra, Editor in Chief care excluded but they are here illegally), will we say Dominic Dutra no? Probably not. Will this affect me In this lovely season of runny directly? Sure! I do not want to pay noses, hacking coughs, and other not forgotten Managing Editor higher hospital fees. Does it mean IPBMs (inter-personal bacterial Camille Alfaro-Martell Nikki Corliss I would encourage turning people missiles), The Advocate is attacking While not everyone agrees about away based on their citizenship sta- the pandemic head-on by printing News Editor the immigration issue, this does not tus? Hell no. this issue on Purell-fortified paper. Nikki Corliss mean these people should automati- At the end of the day, there is no way to All joking aside, the onslought cally be categorized as second-class find all 12 million illegal immigrants of health center emails, flu kits Feature/Entertainment Editor human beings. They are still people and send them “home.” Americans in classrooms and germ-warning Daniel Zazueta and have the same concerns that ev- need not go out of their way and offer flyers are paralleling one of the eryone else does: work, children, free services, but maybe we should biggest domestic debates in ages. Editorial/Opinion Editor rent/mortgages, and survival. We accept the situation and resolve the Public healthcare, or not to public Tara King must consider the conditions they issue before us. There are more im- healthcare, that is the question. As were living in before. These people portant issues in the world occurring the right and left bludgeon each Circulation and Publicity Editor chose a more demanding life here everyday – and that is where I would other with “public option” and ‘no Shauvie Rogers over their home country. I consider rather focus my money. option’ plans, students battle their myself lucky to be a U.S. citizen, but colds in classrooms, as we increas- Staff Writers it was not something that I had any WhyClicker? ingly value our legal education, Recently, classes have been re- Adam Chastinger hand in. over our health (and just about quiring students to purchase iClick- Jason Tauches President Obama has drafted a sum- everything else). Those of us that mary of the health care plan, which ers to bring to class. Unfortunately, have been here a while know that these $40 harmonica-like devices Conributing Writers does not specifically address illegal struggle well, and have, over time, are not only expensive, but hardly Maddy Douglass immigrants or the plan’s effect on learned to find a relative balance. useful.With books that can cost a Camille Alfaro-Martell them. But for all of those fresh new faces student nearly $1,000, the last thing Jillian Allen ABC News’ Senior White House in Bannan, heed the examples of most people need is to be forced to Mark Andrus Correspondent analyzed the Aug. your forebearers and work on find- treat law school like a hard question Martin Behn 26th Congressional Research Ser- ing that balance. in “Who Wants To Be a Million- Lyndsey Eadler vice report entitled “Treatment of 1Ls, be weary of the first-semester aire.” While they may add value Peter Felton Non-Citizens in H.R. 3200.” Ac- burnout. It is true that the first year to the classroom experience, it is Nick Peterson cording to this report, some illegal is a bit of a race, but keep in mind immigrants who meet the substantial likely outweighed by the insanely that it’s more like a marathon, and large amount of money they waste. Contributing Editors presence test might be required to less like a sprint. When that burnout I would hope that a school that Robyn Morris purchase health care coverage. Also, starts to creep up on you, put down knows the cost of textbooks and tu- Marie Sobieski there are no restrictions on who can your books. Go hit the gym, watch participate (purchase) health care ex- ition very well, would understand some trashy television, drop some The Advocate is the student news and change. And, finally, the guarantee that forcing somebody to buy a de- literary publication of Santa Clara Uni- loan money on fall’s latest fashions, that subsidies do not go to illegal im- vice they will use sparingly doesn’t versity School of Law. All articles by the but don’t become a slave to your migrants relies entirely on the Health make very much sense.