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SEE PAGE 4 CAMPUS LIVING Vanderbilt prepares for u season Students VSG in partnership with stand Student Health Center for flu shots up for Nashville taxi drivers by CALLIE JONES News Contributor Vanderbilt Students of Nonviolence has embraced the plight of Nashville’s BRYAN CANDELARIO / The Vanderbilt Hustler taxi drivers that has, until recently, gone BRYAN CANDELARIO / The Vanderbilt Hustler Graduate student David Scoville receives a free u shot at the Student Health Center on Monday October 13th. relatively unnoticed. by ALLIE MORRIS every year because each year students who are young, strong e student group is gaining rst-hand Science and Medicine Specialist the vaccine is modi ed to keep and healthy are still susceptible by LILY CHEN Members of the SST accounts from the drivers and using up with the changing in uenza to the virus. Leadership Specialist Committee set up tables that knowledge to try to help them stay Vanderbilt Student Health has virus. “ e u is very contagious with signs and candy in organized, inform the student body begun to o er free u shots for “ is year, we have … You share breathing space In anticipation of the places around campus, and pressure the university to use their students this month in an e ort manufactured a completely new within three feet and that is the upcoming fl u season, such as at The Commons leverage in the city. to prepare for a severe in uenza vaccine,” Scha ner said. way the virus is transmitted ... Vanderbilt Student Center, recruiting students “We’ve been going out to the airport season, as anticipated by health Director of Student Health e notion to avoid everyone Government Student and urging them to go and talking to the drivers waiting in line o cials. Louise Hanson reported the who is coughing won’t work Services and Technology upstairs to get shots. to get passengers” said sophomore Josh “ e last three years, there health center has already given because people excrete the virus Committee partnered with “Students took shifts Rogen. “We listen to their stories and has been a relatively mild 1,000 vaccinations of the 3,000 for 25 hours before they get sick,” the Student Health Center in working the tables and encourage them to keep a high morale in uenza season,” said Professor vaccinations in their possession. Scha ner said. to provide fl u shots for dealt with signing consent despite no tangible gains yet.” of Preventative Medicine and “ e more vaccines we give, Hanson said getting students. forms,” Williams said. The city’s drivers have formed the Medicine Bill Scha ner. “ is the better it is for everybody,” vaccinated is an important part The committee, headed According to Director Metro Nashville Taxi Drivers Association year, the crystal ball is cloudy, said Hanson. of avoiding in uenza; however, by Senator Jean Xiao and Co- of Student Health Louise to end what they view as unfair wages but we anticipate a more severe Hanson said during the she said good nutrition, enough Chair Tommy Obenchain, Hanson, a wellness clinic and working conditions, and held a in uenza season.” u season, between fall and sleep and washing hands worked to inform the held Monday night in strike in early August to protest these According to Scha ner, early March, the health center frequently all help to prevent u student community to the Health Center was issues. in uenza experts anticipate this generally sees ve to six patients contraction. Student Health also take advantage of this free very successful. The clinic A preliminary report to the Nashville- u season, we will be hit with a a day who have in uenza or an o ers preventative medicine service. gave out 200 fl u vaccines Davidson County’s Transportation new strain of in uenza. in uenza-like illness. to students who have been in “This is a great opportunity to undergraduate and and Licensing Commission by MTSU “It changes a little bit year to “We typically start seeing the contact with a person sick with to get VSG’s name out and graduate students within Assistant Professor of Political Science year, some year the (in uenza) u around anksgiving … it in uenza. it’s a partnership (with the the two hours in addition Sekou Franklin found that after operating virus appears to be more knocks people out for days and Free u shots will continue Health Center) to make to 40 HIV screenings. costs, taxi drivers make just over $2 an aggressive than others,” Scha ner leaves you at on your back with through October at a variety sure students are informing The partnership between hour, making them some of the lowest said. a fever, unable to do anything fun of on-campus locations. More students of this service,” VSG and the Student Health paid workers in the nation. According to Scha ner, it is or work-related,” Hanson said. information is available at the said VSG President Joseph Center began last year. ■ Franklin’s study found that most drivers important to get vaccinated Scha ner warned that even student health Web site. ■ Williams. are responsible for gas, car insurance and service fees in addition to their licenses. e average gross income of a taxi driver is around $100 a day and the net income ACADEMICS is only about $32 for a 14-15 hour day. Vanderbilt women (and “When a driver wants to take a vacation, or even if he gets sick, he would have to Learning from the pay the cab company $400 per week men) ‘Take Back the Night’ to cover licensing fees and insurance,” Rogen said. horrors of the past “ ey already own the cars — most of them have thousands invested in the by SARAH BILSKY Gellar said the present is a business — and were suckered in by News Contributor place, “in which genocide still companies that don’t require the drivers takes place, where persecution to pay the license the rst few weeks” In the face of current still takes place, where … said senior Braden Clark. challenges, it is easy to feel dehumanization still takes e licensing issue was placed on the overwhelmed and uninformed. place.” Metro council’s agenda in response to It is therefore appropriate Michelle Peck, a senior the strike held in August. Although the that the theme of this year’s and president of Dores for Vanderbilt community was largely absent Vanderbilt Holocaust Lectures Israel, echoes this sentiment, during the strike, Vanderbilt students are series is “(over)Sites of emphasizing the importance hoping to help bring the drivers’ issues to Memory,” which examines of maintaining a connection to campus. both the locations of genocides the past while keeping our eyes “When talking to the drivers, we’ve and the most e ective ways to to the future. found that especially compared to other honor victims’ memories. “ is year’s lecture series cities, the Nashville system is backwards,” Lasting from Oct. 12 until may be one of the last times said sophomore Benjamin Eagles. Nov. 16, the series consists that students have the chance While Vanderbilt Students of of lectures, documentary to hear a (Holocaust) survivor Nonviolence and the Nashville screenings and even a ballet. tell their story in person,” said Movement, an organization that works to “ e series has not (just) Peck. “Raising awareness is bene t Nashville’s poorest workers, work been about what happened crucial to keeping things like to increase fares for the city’s taxi drivers, then and there. e series has this from happening again.” the students agreed it is important for the been, and is about, the present,” e next event of the series Vanderbilt community to be aware of the said Geller, associate professor is a lecture by University of realities facing the drivers. of Modern Jewish Culture at Minnesota Duluth Associate GENEVIEVE GALE / The Vanderbilt Hustler “Talk to them, nd out about their the Divinity School, to explain Professor of Spanish Maureen Supporters gather under a tent on Olin Lawn to hear speakers before leaving for the lives and their families,” said Matt the importance of the longest Tobin Stanley. On Oct. 23, she offi cial ‘Take Back the Night’ march to Centennial Park, an annual rally hosted by various Leber, an organizer with the Nashville running continuous Holocaust will share her examinations of Movement. “If nothing else, members student organizations to promote domestic violence awareness. lecture series at an American Spanish voices of resistance, of the Vanderbilt community should be university. exile and deportation. ■ kind to their drivers.” ■ CAMPUS LIVING: Students organize a wide range of service options for spring break. 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