Kerry: Speech stressed country collaboration
Tim Bobosky | Photographer
Joel Bauer, a Thurston High School junior, wears his Bush/Cheney ‘04 sign as a skirt on
the comer of 10th Avenue and Willamette Street. Teresa Heinz Kerry was speaking across
the street at the McDonald Theatere.
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addressing the current administration’s
failures in the areas of health care, edu
cation and women’s issues while ex
plaining her husband’s plan for com
bating them.
About 1,100 people attended the
event, putting McDonald Theatre at
full capacity and forcing event coor
dinators to turn away an estimated
300 more people.
Heinz Kerry emphasized the need
for the country to work with other
countries “with a generosity that is not
condescending, with strength that is
not threatening and with a heart full of
pride that is not arrogant.”
Several prominent Eugene politi
cians spoke before Heinz Kerry, prais
ing the Kerrys for their commitment
to health care, education and
women’s rights.
“The Bush administration’s war on
women has been unrelenting,” May
or-elect Kitty Piercy said. “They have
put science at the mercy of this ad
ministration’s moral bias.”
University graduate student
Nathan Corwin said hearing Heinz
Kerry discuss education and the need
for responsible scientific research has
aided in his transformation from anti
Bush to pro-Kerry.
“Every time 1 hear her or Kerry
speak 1 like them more and more,”
Corwin said.
Warren said much of what Heinz
Kerry and her husband say about the
Bush administration “are outright
lies,” and he felt it was necessary to
show the community and the media
that Republicans do exist and not
everyone believes the rhetoric that is
repeated by the Kerry campaign.
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Senior news reporter Parker Howell
contributed to this story
Vaccine: Simply washing
hands can stop spread
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before running out of the vaccine,
which protects against the virus for
about three months.
In response to the lack of flu
shots this
ent states and about 85 different
countries — when they attend
classes. Stress, late nights with
friends and poor eating habits make
students more susceptible to illness,
Harbert said.
T ifo io 1/inH nf
year, the
health center
has shifted
attention
away from flu
vaccines to
promoting
healthy
behavior,
Harbert said.
“This gives
us an oppor
tunity to real
ly promote
healthy be
havior,” Har
bert said. “Be
sides getting
flu shots,
there are
PRIORITY GROUPS FOR
INFLUENZA VACCINATION
• Children 6 to 23 months old
• Adults 65 years and older
• People 2 to 64 years old with underlying
chronic medical conditions
• Women who will be pregnant during the in
fluenza season (usually December through
March, peaking in February)
• Residents of nursing homes and long-term
care facilities
• Children 6 months to 18 years on chronic a:
pirin therapy
• Healthcare workers involved in direct patienl
care
• Out-of-home caregivers and household con
tacts of children under 6 months old.
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“Life is kind of
like a three-legged
stool,” she said.
“It’s hard to do, but
it’s really important
for students to keep
their lives in
balance. Getting
enough rest, wash
ing your hands and
eating a good diet is
very important.”
Although the Uni
- versity will not offer
flu shots
this year, students
who are part
of the CDC’s
recommended
priority groups,
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some things students can do to stay which are based on certain medical
healthy that are very important.” conditions and ages, should go
Students should wash their t0 ^ane County Health
— Deoartment to be vaccinated, said
Hands otten, tolJow
“respiratory etiquette”
by covering their
mouths and noses
when they cough, dis
pose of used tissues in
the trash and wear
surgical masks if sick
when visiting the
health center, Harbert
said.
She added that
students, whether
WHERE PRIORITY
GROUPS CAN GET
FLU SHOTS
• Personal physicians
• Lane County Health De
partment starting Oct. 11.
Call the county's flu line at
6824181 for locations, or
call 6824013 with ques
tions.
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University Director and
Associate Dean of Student
Life Laura Blake Jones.
“Having the flu is
harmful for anybody,”
Blake Jones said. “But
for high-risk students in
certain priority groups,
. where getting the flu can
exacerbate other prob
lems for them, those are
the students we’re con
living in residence halls or off cam- cerned about. ”
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