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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 11-5-2009 Kenyon Collegian - November 5, 2009 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - November 5, 2009" (2009). The Kenyon Collegian. 177. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/177 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Established 1856 Volume CXXXVII, Number 10 www.kenyoncollegian.com THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, November 5, 2009 8 Pages College Investigates Rugby Team Injuries BY MArikA GArlAND the number of rugby injuries is not News Assistant increasing. Rather, the number of students reporting injuries is increas- The College has been look- ing because the College has been ing into the availability of trainers encouraging them to do so. for club athletes in response to the Exline said that having a coach high volume of rugby injuries in the for rugby teams may decrease the past month. According to Assistant number of injuries. Because the Building Coordinator for Intramural rugby teams do not have coaches, and Club Sports Adam Exline, the their training consists of “beginners College currently employs four full- teaching novices,” he said. time athletic trainers, which is fewer Many players do not like the idea than the five trainers the National of getting coaches, however. “I don’t Collegiate Athletic Association really think we need a coach,” said (NCAA) recommends for a school women’s rugby player Margo Smith The Health Center requires all visitors to wear masks in the waiting room. TOVE POUSEttE of Kenyon’s size. ’12. “The captains do an excellent Exline said that the trainers the job of teaching us how to protect College employs “do a pretty out- ourselves. … Rugby is a rough sport standing job,” however, and that they by nature, and I don’t know if there Kenyon Sees Increase in are more available to club athletes is anything that we can do to cut back than many other colleges’ trainers. on injuries.” “Many schools don’t serve club sports Exline said many players have at all,” he said. “We’re one of the few also said that they value the inde- schools that has an open clinic.” All pendence they gain from not having Confirmed H1N1 Cases students can see trainers from 9:30 coaches. If the rugby teams were BY LUis RODRÍGUEZ-rincÓN According to Nugent, it is hard to at Morgan Apartments and to those a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every weekday. officially coached, the players would Staff Writer tell how many cases are actually H1N1, who self-isolate in the dorms. Andrew Though trainers have open have increased responsibility as well. rather than other illnesses or faked ail- Davenport ’12 came down with flu-like hours in the mornings, Exline said Depending on the coach, the team The Health Center reported 70 ments. She said, “At least one student symptoms and decided to self-isolate. many rugby players have expressed would possibly have to begin abiding new cases of H1N1 last week in an has been overheard saying they used Davenport said the self-isolation was concern because they are absent by Varsity athletic guidelines, which e-mail to students. Estimates from the [the self-isolation policy to skip class].” comfortable because he had meals deliv- at rugby games. “I think a trainer would include creating practice and Center for Disease Control predict that The online self-isolation form reiterates ered three times a day for four days. would definitely benefit the team,” game schedules and submitting to up to 50 percent of the U.S. population that faking the flu is against the College’s Athene Cook ’13 also came down said President of the Women’s Rugby drug testing. will contract the “swine flu,” according to honesty policy. “I think that we just have with the flu and was told to self-isolate Club Franny Lazarus ’10. “As great as Vice President for Student Life the President’s Council of Advisors on to rely on the ethical standards of the and only take fever reducers such as the Health Center and Varsity train- Laura Snoddy ’11 said she spoke to Science and Technology, and Kenyon students,” Nugent said. Tylenol, which the Health Center pro- ers are, we often have trouble getting the Board of Trustees at the meeting is bracing itself for further spread of “So far, the disease has been fairly vided. Cook said her symptoms were players to see them right away, when on Thursday, Oct. 22, about hir- the disease. mild, with most students recovering in basically augmented versions of a cold injuries are most in need of examina- ing another trainer to better cover After the first confirmed student two to three days,” Cullers said. “To date, including a headache, chills and muscle tion.” club athletes. She case of H1N1 in August, Kenyon has all of our students who have contracted aches. “One positive thing about it was According said she merely seen relatively few cases of H1N1 until the H1N1 virus have recovered. How- that the illness didn’t last very long,” she to Exline, there is “I don’t know if there is discussed the last week. In a letter sent to parents on ever, I would like to emphasize that there said. “There were roughly two days that always a trainer on background of Oct. 30, President S. Georgia Nugent have been students on other campuses I felt really sick.” campus, but that anything that we can do the situation and said her “sense is that this flu will not that have developed life-threatening According to Cullers, the Col- trainer is required to cut back on injuries.” that there is not affect a massive number of students at conditions, mainly pneumonia, as a lege ordered enough H1N1 vaccine to to be present at yet a proposal any one time,” but that “a team of Col- result of this virus. We take this virus immunize the entire College student Varsit y g ames - Margo Smith to address the lege leaders is continuously monitoring very seriously, even though our cases so population. The focus of the first -im and thus cannot issue. the situation and devising strategies to far have been mild.” munization, however, was on specific be present at club sport games. As According to Snoddy, the trust- deal with the spread of this contagious Once students report an illness students who are at higher risk for 2009 stated in the College’s General Re- ees said they wanted to see more virus.” and test positive for a disease, the H1N1 because of chronic health disor- sponse Protocol for Club Sports, club responsibility from club athletes Kim Cullers, nurse practitioner Health Center provides them with the ders or compromised immune systems. athletes should call 911 and contact before hiring an additional trainer. and director of health services, who is necessary medication and determines The Knox County Health De- Campus Safety in cases of serious This responsibility would include spearheading the College’s flu response, whether the students should stay in their partment delivered 100 doses of the injuries. According to the College’s scheduling matches with teams that said that the Health Center received dorms or move to another location. If H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday this week for Club Sports Liability Form, club ath- are more equally matched with their “sporadic reports of influenza-like illness sick students’ roommates have not al- students who are considered “high-risk,” letes “assume all liability for injuries skill level to reduce the number of with maybe two to six cases per week ready had the flu, the students are moved according to Cullers. There were ap- and damages occurring as a result of injuries. until ... the last week of October.” The to one of five Morgan Apartments. So proximately 60 students who were first participation in [club sports].” Snoddy said the College would Health Center received about 90 cases far, 25 students have used the Morgan in line to receive the vaccine because of Interim Director of Student have to go through the trustees to hire that week of students testing positive for Apartments while recovering from the an underlying condition. Some of these Activities Meagan Webb said the another trainer because the trustees InfluenzaA or self-reporting influenza- flu this semester, and the Health Center students were vaccinated Tuesday. “As College has been concerned about must approve the cost. Outside train- like symptoms using the College’s online regularly checks in on the condition of the vaccine becomes more available, the safety of rugby athletes due to a ers, she said, are not a likely option form. As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Health these recovered students to see how they we will be communicating to students high number of injuries over a two- because most will not assist a team Center has seen 33 new cases, according are doing, according to Cullers. specific dates and locations [for receiving week period earlier this semester. without a coach. to Cullers. Meals are delivered to students the vaccine],” Cullers said. “I definitely According to Webb, seven students Snoddy said that before any think the H1N1 vaccine will make a were injured in one weekend about changes occur, she would be sure difference. From all the research being a month ago, although most of them to speak with the rugby players IN THIS ISSUE done, the vaccine is as safe as the seasonal were not Kenyon students.