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CHEATSHEET EACH WEEKTHE PENDULUM BREAKS DOWN COMPLEX EVENTS BY INTERVIEWING RELEVANT EXPERTS Health Services prepares to take on flu season at Elon Ginette Archinal Medical Director of Student Health Ginette Archinal explains flu season preparations Mackenzie Wilkes Elon News Network | @macwi!kes As flu season in North Caro lina continues to affect hundreds of individuals across the state, Eton Univer sity’s Health Services have made prepa rations so its affect on cam pus wont be as severe. Ginette Archinal, medical direc tor of student health and university doctor ex plains the different ways they will be keeping the Elon community healthy. Q: How is Health Ser vices preparing for the flu season? A: Well, the first thing is it’s not just health services that’s pre paring for the flu season. I work in Student Health. There’s also facul ty/staff wellness, and then there’s also flu preparation campus wide ... Here in Student Health, we are basically in the same position we are year round in terms of infec tious disease. The biggest differ ence during flu season is that to protect ourselves even though we’ve all had the flu shot, there are certain types of masks we will be PHOTO COURTESY OF TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE The CDC is urging people to act now, just before the October start of the 2018-2019 flu season, and get vaccinated. wearing. Q: What can students do other than getting the flu shot? How can they protect themselves? A: It’s actually relatively easy. Certainly, hand washing is cru cial. If you can’t wash your hands with soap and water, use hand sanitizer ... Very often you con tract and contact infections by touching a surface. Then you push your glasses back, you push your hair back, you blow your nose ... That’s how these things spread. You know, there’s hand sanitizer all over campus. Q: A lot of people are skeptical of the flu shot and vaccine. What would you tell them to reassure them that the flu vaccine is in their best interest and in the best interest of others? A: Well, there’s a couple of rea sons why people don’t like getting flu shots. Certainly one of the big myths is that you can get the flu from the flu shot. You cannot catch the flu from an injectable flu vaccine because ... there is no life particle [in the vaccine] ... If you contracted the flu before you got the vaccine, you may well have gotten the flu, but you certain ly didn’t get it from the vaccine ... The other thing is that people don’t appreciate that you can ac tually be sick for two weeks with the flu ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recom mends you do not go to work, to school or to anything when you have the flu until you have been without a fever for 24 hours with- out taking any Advil or Tylenol or anything like that. That’s the real reason people need to get the Jn vaccine. Q: Are there resources here at Health Services to help students if they get the flu? A; Oh, absolutely. So, we see patients from 8:30 in the morning till 6 o’clock at night, Monday to Thursday. We see patients 8:30 till 4 on Fridays, we’re here Saturday and Sunday from 9 till 1.1 mean, we have more hours and availabih ity than your local doctor’s office. If you do get the flu, we can cer tainly prescribe a flu medication ... If you are dehydrated from the flu, we can give you IV fluids so that you don’t have to go to the emergency room. Q: Is there anything you want to add? A: Yes. People die from the flu. About 181 children died from the flu last year and 80 percent of those children were not vaccinat ed. And 391 people in North Car olina died from the flu last year, the majority of whom were not vaccinated... It is a serious disease which kills people. It may not kill you, but it may kill the person you give the flu to. I think it behooves everyone to get a flu shot, not just for themselves, but for th® friends, their family, their co workers, their colleagues, every one they come into contact with. Defining and safeguarding Elon’s traditions Anew council forms to maintain Elon’s most historic traditions Victoria Traxler Elon News Network | (S)victoriatrax While Elon University is an in stitution that prides itself in em bracing change, it is now trying to establish its traditions as well. The Elon Traditions Council is now in the early stages of development. Jodean Schmiederer, chairman of the Traditions Council, believes the group will help define, contin ue and support traditions at Elon. This includes university-based traditions such as the acorn to sapling process, or student-led traditions such as the Elon Ball. Schmiederer said the idea for a Traditions Council arose when it was observed that the Commence ment ceremony would no longer fit Under the Oaks. “Traditions sort of ebb and flow,” Schmiederer said. “The ones that we don’t want to go away, what do we need to do to make sure that they stay? And how do we support students and new traditions that bubble up from among the student body?” The Traditions Council will be comprised of Schmiederer; Bri an Feeley, the director of alumni engagement; Chrystal Carpenter, the coordinator of university ar chives and special collections; Joel Harter, associate chaplain and di rector of the Truitt Center; a rep resentative from athletics and five students. f/ • ••• * * • * 8,9 9, : P One of Elon’s mnst popular traditions, luminaries, is held In the fall of each year in anticipation of the holiday Of the five students, two will be appointed by the student body president, Kenneth Brown Jr. The other three students will be cho sen by the current staff and faculty on the existing council. Brown said he wants to ensure every voice possible is represented on the council. The diversity of thought could range from diversi ty in ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender, socioeconomic status to living location on campus. “[We want] the council to kind of get a full perspective of what students consider traditions, rath er than having similar voices say similar things,” Brown said. Schmiederer added that the current council is looking for stu dents who are wanting to be a part of this council, but are not over scheduled. “For me and for those who are also on this, we want students who take the values of the institution to heart and really want to see school spirit and school pride,” Schmie derer said. Elon’s Holiday Lights, or the Luminaries, is an example of a tra dition that is likely to change and be reorganized under the supervi sion of the Traditions Council. As the size of it grows, Schmiederer states that it is no longer physical ly able to be held in front of Ala mance Fountain. If we need to move it, where do we move it?” Schmiederer said. We don t want to lose what makes that special, so let’s just have some conversation about what that might look like.” Brown said a student-organized Elon tradition he would like to see continue is the Elon Ball. De signed by the SGA, the Elon Ball is Li ONE OF ELON’S TRA DITIONS IS THAT WE CHANGE. ITHINKTHERE WILL ALWAYS BE A NEED FOR US TO PAY ATENTIONTOOUR TRADITIONS AND OUR FOUNDING VALUES. JODEAN SCHMIEDERER CHAIRMAN OF THE TRADITIONS COUNCIL a strong example of a student-k^i tradition which defines Elon. “This is what Elon tries ® do, bring our students toge et Brown said. “We thought havinj a big dance that’s better than you high school prom would be a goo way to do that.” Both Schmiederer and Bro» believe the Traditions Councd W help make sure that the tradition Elon continues or supports !■' future keep aligned with t e' ues of Elon as a whole. “One of Elon’s traditions we change.” Schmiederer “There will always be a nee to pay attention to our tradiW and our founding values.
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