The Carolinian [November 13, 2007]

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Bacterial infection
causes concern on
campus
Stephanie Patton
News Editor
After a 44-year-old male stu-dent
was admitted to a local hos-pital
last week for meningococ-cemia,
UNCG school officials are
taking proven tali vc measures.
As defined in a recent news
release, meningococcemia is an
acute infection ofthe bloodstream
caused by the bacteria Neisseria
meningitides (meningitis). The
infection is not to be confused
with the life-threatening disease,
meningitis, though it is still a se-rious
concern for students.
The student, whose name has
not been released, is a senior en-rolled
in four classes at UNCG.
Students registered for the same
classes have been notified by
email to their UNCG accounts
and are being advised to receive
preventative antibiotics from the
Student Health Center.
"The students that were in the
classes with the patient have been
exposed," said Dr. Eldaliz Fernan-dez,
interim medical director of
UNCG Student Health Services.
"We recommend they be treated
to prevent them from developing
symptoms."
Megan Moore, assistant direc-tor
of Orientation and Family
Programs, has sent similar emails
to parents of UNCG students
asking them to encourage stu-dents
to check their UNCG email
accounts and assuring them the
situation is being handled.
"There is no higher priority
than the safety of our students
and the larger university com-munity,"
commented Fernandez.
"We are monitoring the situa-tion
very closely and will con-
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New mayor to include college
students in local government
Janlne Camara
Staff Writer
Last Tuesday Yvonne Johnson,
a member of the Greensboro
City Council, beat out opponent
Milton Kern, the businessman
responsible for the transforma-tion
of Greensboro's downtown
area, in the election for mayor of
Greensboro. Johnson won 57 per-cent
of the vote, beating Kern by
14 points.
Johnson, a 65-year-old grand-mother
and executive director of
the Greensboro non-profit One
Step Further, will be sworn into
office on Dec. 4. She will replace
current Mayor Keith Holiday,
who has held the office since
1995.
Johnson's victory marks a first
for Greensboro. She will become
the city's first black woman may-or.
In her 14-year tenure on the
city council, Johnson has drawn
support from both black and
white voters.
When asked about the secret
of her appeal Johnson offered a
quote from poet Maya Angelou.
"You have to look through
complexion to see community,"
Johnson said in an interview with
The Carolinian.
"One of the things 1 am going
to do is always think how we can
include folk," continued Johnson
on involving different sectors of
the Greensboro community in
local governance.
Higher education, which John-son
referred to as one of Greens-boro's
"greatest assets," is one
section in particular she said she
would like to include.
As mayor, Johnson plans to
create three to four "think tanks,"
whose members will include stu-dents
and professors from local
universities and colleges. Each
think tank would cover different
topics such as social capital or
business and economics.
Johnson said that think tanks
would be a method for incor-porating
"young folks' thinking"
into local government.
In addition, Johnson also com-mented
that she would attempt
to include Greensboro's grow-ing
and diverse immigrant com-munity
in local government by
incorporating them into boards,
commissions, and special task
forces in the city government.
Other topics Johnson discussed
included the ongoing drought,
mentioning the City Council's
past decisions to purchase wa-ter
from Burlington and Reids-ville,
as well as getting involved
in the regional effort to build the
Randleman Dam.
For additional information about
Yvonne Johnson, visit www.yvon-nejohnsonformayor.
com
Insurance renewal required each semester
lUfXMOIR/THECAROUNWI
Cynthia Marts
Staff Writer
This past semester, students
were required to have health in-surance
if they were taking six
hours or more in degree seeking
programs. If students could not
provide proof of outside insur-ance,
a special student health
coverage charge of $365 was au-tomatically
added to their school
bill, and the insurance was pro-vided
for them.
Students used a web site linked
to UNCG's web site to prove their
outside insurance and waive the
campus-endorsed one. Now ev-ery
student on campus meet-ing
the above criteria has health
insurance.
The idea behind the manda-tory
insurance, says Gregory Ray,
insurance associate in the Student
Health Services, is to keep low
budget students from feeling they
had to drop out of school due to
health problems.
"Really it's for the folks who
have no health insurance," ex-plains
Ray. "Studies show that
they usually end up dropping out
of school, and this is to keep those
folks in school. This way if they
have a catastrophic accident or
illness, they won't end up drop-ping
out."
With registration drawing clos-er,
it seems students will have to
do this every semester from now
on. An email was sent to students
reminding them to again waiver
their insurance. If a student for-gets
to waiver, or for some reason
does not complete the waiver, the
student insurance is automatical-ly
added onto their account with
the $365 charge.
"It's just to make sure everyone
has got insurance," explains Ray.
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