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Show Wednesday, November 18, 2009 ir 1 HE SIGNPOST Vaccines con tin uedfrom fron t continued from front Community members of Weber County and WSU students wait outside the Dee Events Center on Monday morning behind the wildcat statue. M*^m,«_ • \ ^ AlfcWpinwiOii^'BRyAKiiB ANNIVERSARY SALE sU, Store Wide Sale - Up to 75% Off let. Over All Diamond Hybrid 100 0 Rings Diamonds On On for Sale! Sale! Up Up to $399! to 1/2 $500 BeHiston JEWELRY Thursday-Friday-Saturday 10am-9pm Off Off time so I just wanted to make sure I got it this time," Hansen said. The Salt Lake Valley Health Department started turning down Hansen and others late last month about 30 minutes after opening their doors. Hansen said she was in line at 5 a.m. but there were people in front of her who had camped overnight in the cold and snow. Buttars said that statistics show people younger than 24 are affected by H1N1 more severely and frequently than the rest of the population. Despite health department concerns, nursing major Brynne Ludlow was one of several students in the Union Building Tuesday who was not interested in receiving the vaccination. "I'm paranoid and worried that it's not tested enough," Ludlow said. "I don't want to turn into a mutant." Some of the other students who weren't vaccinated said they were too busy or even that they weren't sure if they qualified to receive the shot. There are five groups of people eligible to receive the vaccination: health care workers, persons six months to 24 years old, pregnant women, caregivers of infants younger than six months and 'people 25 to 64 who have health conditions associated with a higher risk of medical complications from influenza. The WCHD will hold H1 Nl vaccination clinics every Tuesday and Wednesday beginning Dec. 1 at the Weber County Fair Grounds. Appointments to receive the vaccination can be made Monday at the fair grounds between 4 and 6 p.m. Over 100 students volunteered their time to help distribute the vaccine. Nursing student Casey Smith administered the vaccine via shots and nasal spray from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. "I'm able to come out here and to be a benefit to other people," Smith said. "That's part of what nursing is." If the H1N1 vaccine is ever produced and distributed to local health departments in large enough quantities, it could be made available to the entire population. For now, Buttars said the vaccination will have to be rationed because of an ongoing shortage. For more information about the H1N1 vaccine or virus, contact the WMHD at 801-399-8814. Comment on this story at wsusignpost. com. they were having to do as a result of the benefit," Meaders said. "So some of them are either going to have to drop out of school, not attend school at all and stop their progress." Monson said he hopes to continue going to school and teaching but that, like many other adjuncts, he may be forced to get another job. The Human Resources department made the change in adjunct benefits in order to even out the amount of time worked with the hours given as a waiver. Adjuncts are now limited to a total of six credit hours of tuition benefits per semester, where in the past they have been given six credit hours of a waiver to every hour taught. Cherrie Nelson, the assistant vice president for Human Resources who spearheaded making the changes, said she preferred not to comment. "The people that they're saying that it would look unfair to are people that have master's degrees that are adjunct faculty in the business school, or in the English school, or the communications school; they're not going to take classes here/' Monson said. "We don't have anything to offer them. So they're not going to use the benefit regardless, whether we have it or not, but for people like us, we will use it, every semester we use it and that's why there are so many students that are wanting to teach, especially for the P.E. department, because we have the benefit." Both Monson and Meaders said they are concerned about the effects the change will have on Wildcat Lanes. Each student that signs up for a bowling or billiards class pays a lab fee, which goes directly into funding Wildcat Lanes, Without adjuncts being able to teach multiple classes or any classes at all, there may not be as much money going to support Wildcat Lanes. "A number of them have just said, to be very honest with the low amount of pay they get, to have to come in to teach a class and just get the one credit hour, it's not worth the time and effort for them to do that because of what they have to do," Meaders said. '; Monson said he hopes Wildcat Lanes will be able to remain stable financially and that students will still be able to utilize the classes being offered. "I'm worried about the state of Wildcat Lanes in the Union Building," Monson said. "I know a lot of our money every year comes from the student fees that are paid for these1 classes and if we don't have the faculty to teach these classes, we're not going to have the money coming in, which really could jeopardize the future of what we have here for the students." Comment on this story at wsusignpost.com. • ' H O I O BY BRYAN BUT7ERFJELD [ l i l t SIC\>CO* I Billiards teacher John Giles plays a game of billiards. Feedback continued from front WSUHOhE I SEARCH | MG£X OGDEN BOOKSTORE Tell Us About IT ' "IT" means information technology. 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