The Louisville Cardinal
SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2009
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SPORTS
Inside the head
of Joe Tronzo
A closer look at one of the
Cards' hardest-hitting play­ers.
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THE BEAT
Are you ready for
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It's that time of year again:
draft boards across the
country are lighting up,
and depths charts are be­ing
filled out. It's fantasy
football.
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OPINION
Smoking ban
Is the new universitywide
smoking ban a good idea,
or does it go too far?
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The independent weekly student newspaper at the University of Louisville since 1926
www.louisvillecardinal.com VOLUME 84, ISSUE 3 • 8 PAGES, 1 SECTION
U ofL prepares for flu season·
By Maggie Varner
The Louisville Cardinal
news@louisvillecardinal.com
The HlNl virus, also known as
swine flu, has been infecting people
all over America, and is predicted
to have deadly effects this fall and
winter.
The Louisville Medical Center,
along with the University of Lou­isville,
has been taking precautions
in order to prevent the spread of
this disease. However, health offi­cials
caution everyone to recognize
that they could have already been
exposed.
Governor Steve Beshear held a
summit this past week about this
epidemic and what health officials
should be doing to help Louisville .
survive the predicted crisis. Beshear
emphasized that communication
_.between all health and education
officials is the best way to con­tain
an outbreak. This could help
H lNl from claiming more lives
than it already has.
U of L has taken his sentiments
to heart and is implementing new
policies to prevent the spread.
According to a recent e-mail
sent to U of L students from the
Emerging Disease Planning Work
Group, "Sanitizing hand gels are
being sent to computer labs. Also,
Campus Health Services is distrib­uting
thousands of bottles of per­sonal
hand sanitizer, along. with a
seasonal flu and 2009 HlNl pre­vention
guide."
Individual residence halls have
been taking preventative steps. Res­ident
assistants in most residence
halls went to every occupied room
and interviewed residents to see if
~hey had any flu-like symptoms.
In Bettie Johnson Hall, resident
assistants not only went from door
to door, but also called each resi­dent
later that night, confirming
that they had not been experienc­ing
symptoms. They were encour­aged
to go immediately to Campus
Health Services if they suspected
anything.
.'J\t first we thought she was just
being cautio11s," "said sophomore
biology major Gina Perronie about
the visit from her resident assistant.
"But then we were worried that
. someone in our building, or even
our hall, had contracted the flu."
According to Fox 41, if an out­break
does occur, the university is
planning on closing campus and
utilizing the many technological
advances that are avai~able online,
such as Blackboard and ULink, to
FLU see page 2
U ofL announces smoking ban
By Michael Kennedy
The Louisville Cardinal
editor@louisvillcardinal.com
The University of Louisville
Belknap and Shelby campuses will
be smoke-free by next June. U of
L smokers will be forced to leave
campus to light up. Provost Shirley
Willihnganz made the announce­ment
last week by sending out a
universitywide e-mail.
The smoking ban will be phased
in, with the first phase beginning
Nov. 19. At this point, designated
smoking areas will be established,
leaving the rest of the Belknap and
Shelby campuses smoke-free. On
June 1 of 2010, the designated
smoking areas will be removed.
On campus, reaction has been
mixed.
"I think it's a great idea," Brooke
Scott, a freshman marketing major
and on-campus resident said. "It
will hopefully make me quit smok­ing.
I think it will be easier to stop
and not worry about it anymore."
Corey Cagle, a senior political
science major disagrees. "University
students are all adults who should
be free to engage in legal, consen­sual
behavior that isn't doing any
real harm to anyone else."
In January of 2008, the Health
Sciences Campus became a smoke­free
area, and Willihnganz cited the
"inequity" of having the smoking
ban on only one campus as a rea­son
to make the other campuses
smoke-free.
"Smoking isn't good for people
of the new restrictions, but Wil­lihnganz
said she hopes others on
campus will enforce it themselves.
"We're hoping this will be a
gradual cultural thing where people
who see other people smoking will
be able to now say 'that smoke's re­ally
bothering me; you have to go
somewhere else to do that,"' she
said.
"I think they need to tell them
to put it out- that's what the pun­ishment
needs to be," Scott said.
Cagle said he thinks the ban
will be difficult to enforce, lead-to
do," Willihnganz said. It causes
cancer, and one of U of L:s primary
goals is cancer research. High can­cer
rates cause U of L:s healthcare.
costs to rise, which in turn forces
higher tuition, according to Wib
lihnganz; . · ·'
"I don't think that young n Pr>n-l,iJ<',r,:
should smoke," said L J<I.VliJlu c:I
mar, a graduate chemistry student.
"Smoking is injurious to the person
that is smoking. It is also injurious
to people around it."
Willihnganz said U of L will
provide free nicotine gum, patch­es
and pills through the campus
health center to students trying to
stop smoking.
It's unclear what punishments
may come to those running afoul
ing students to smoke on roofs of
buildings, in secluded locations or
in bathrooms.
Willihnganz sald she will be
meeting with SGA this week to
discuss ways . to make this transi­tion
as smooth as possible.
The first phase is to be launched
on Nov. 19, the date of the Ameri­can
Cancer Society's Great Ameri­can
Smokeout. The University of
Kentucky will also be going smoke­free
on this day.
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