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President Utsav Gupta, along with several prompted campus officials to prepare Undergraduate activists met last night to discuss Sept. 24th’s campus walkout. Although all present agreed the protest against potential once again for a potential campus student fee hikes and budget cuts was an overall success, some felt that the rally lacked organization and offered suggestions for future events. leading cabinet members, has worked closely with epidemic. Grove student manager Thomas Frank over the According to Student Health last two weeks to generate a Services Director Gina Fleming, );>W\M[\W+WVLMUV*]LOM\+]\[ new business plan capable UCSD officials have spent the sum- of pulling the cafe out of its mer preparing for the threat of a nearly $130,000 debt. By Hayley Bisceligia-Martin The Grove has suf- renewed outbreak, primarily by Staff Writer spreading awareness about how to fered financially since its avoid catching the virus. Declaring solidarity with the students, faculty conception, struggling to The Student Health Center and staff who participated in the Sept. 24 system- draw a profit amid grow- is anticipating a shipment of the wide campus walkouts, the A.S. Council passed a ing competition from new swine-flu vaccine from the Centers resolution last night endorsing the protests and campus coffee shops, heavy for Disease Control and Prevention, condemning the UC Board of Regents’ proposed turnover among its student which should be available by early fee increases. employees and diminished November. A virtually identical resolution, drafted by campus visibility. “There are many stu- “It’s really important “We are hoping to be able to have UCSD A.S. Vice President of External Affairs The cafe’s debt more than dents who say that our that we all come to enough for everyone,” Fleming said. Gracelynne West, was passed by the UC Students doubled last year, after coun- one walkout didn’t do these teach-ins ... Temporary vaccination clinics Association on Sept. 13. cilmembers voted to hire anything, but I don’t they’re going to be will be set up around campus to “We really tried to make [the resolution] former manager Cleveland believe that. It’s a step speaking on issues that cope with the large influx of people all-inclusive, both to students affected by priva- Thomas as a full-time employ- towards our ultimate impact us all.” expected to seek the vaccine. tization and lack of public funding, but also to ee — breaking from the Grove’s goal, and we have to Currently, the Health Center faculty and grad students,” West said. “The effects student-run model and incur- start somewhere.” holds a limited amount of seasonal of these budget cuts are going to be widely felt by ring a cost of $45,000 over the flu vaccinations available for students TIM MOK GRACELYNN WEST course of a year to pay Thomas’ with pre-existing conditions — con- THURGOOD MARSHALL A.S. VICE PRESIDENT salary. ditions which may leave them more See RESOLUTIONpage 6 COLLEGE FRESHMAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS vulnerable to the swine flu virus, See GROVEpage 3 Fleming said. Get-Well Kits — containing a thermometer, throat lozenges, Tylenol, hand sanitizer and tissues — are now available for $5 at the Student <*:+P7OVUL(WWSPJH[PVU7\[Z;YP[VU3PURPU@V\Y7VJRL[ Health Center. “The most important item in the University works with According to Assistant Vice No idea where Real-time shuttle Chancellor of Administrative to find that See FLUpage 6 student org, tech Computing Elazar Harel, student locations and obscure lecture up-to-date company to design response has been overwhelmingly hall? Maps schedules. positive. can help. campus-themed tools Over 8,000 people have down- loaded the latest Version 1.1, for iPhone users. Frequent updates released a few weeks ago and includ- Look up your classmates, from a variety of Angela Chen ing podcast capability, news sources, campus news Contributing Writer athletics updates, video links and a professors, and administrators. sources (Guardian feature that allows users to monitor not included). In late June, UCSD became the exact location of campus shuttles the nation’s first public university in real time. to offer its students iPhone access The most popular facets of the A full schedule Images from to campus-related of classes with application are the campus map, campus events. GET IT information. descriptions, shuttle, directory and course fea- The UCSD The first version locations and tures, Harel said. iPhone app of the application times. University spokesperson Rex Keep up with is available was downloaded by Graham praised the thorough nature all your favorite for download 2,100 users in the of the application, particularly the Browse Triton teams. at the Apple first two days. map feature. student-made App Store. An early glitch Harel emphasized the impor- videos and allowed public access course pod- tance of student involvement in the to unauthorized personal informa- casts. development of the application. tion through the directory feature, but was fixed within a few hours. NEWSDAY/MCTCAMPUS See IPHONEpage 2 :762,5 -69,*(:; 50./;>(;*/ :<9-9,769; .(:7,9.(3365 05:0+, LOW We’re going to make it THURSDAY FRIDAY *VTPJZ Height: 4-5 ft. 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