Mirror - Vol. 35, No. 09 - November 04, 2009

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The Reflection of Fairfield
Swine Flu, Vaccines
Arrive at Fairfield
BY KERI HARRISON
NEWS EDITOR
is to be administered to those in the University
community who fall into the appropriated
categories named by the federal government,
said Birge.
According to Associate Vice President
and Dean of Student Thomas Pellegrino, the !
University and the Health Center are well-prepared
to deal with outbreaks of the swine
flu this semester.
"Our approach is to separate the ill from
the healthy, which is something that really
calls upon cooperation from everyone," said
Pellegrino.
The Health Center has set up a hall in
Dolan Hall adjacent to the Health Center
which can fit
approximately 22
students. Accord-ing
to Birge, this
is for students
who can not
make it home.
"The Health
Center devel-oped
protocols
forHlNland
the Task Force
created plans to
accommodate
students who
become ill with
Contributed Photo the flu," she
The H1N1 vaccines are ready in the Health Center's refrigerator. said. "Identifying
a 'recovery area'
and planning for food, linens, and medical
monitoring for sick students has also been
addressed."
Birge also said that in preparation for this
semester and flu season, the Health Center has
teamed up with the Town of Fairfield and State
of Connecticut Health Departments in order to
come up with H1N1 strategies on campus.
As of this week, three Fairfield students
have been diagnosed with swine flu. Approxi-mately
60 students have had flu-like illnesses.
While the health center reports that all of
the cases have been mild, many students are not
aware ofthe flu's presence on campus. In addi-tion
to a University message Tuesday night giving
an update to students on the swine flu, Fairfield
has a small page on its Web site dedicated to flu
information. In light of President Barack Obama
recendy declaring swine flu a national epidemic,
there is little student knowledge of the H1N1 up-dates
in the
University
community.
"I had
no idea.
The Univer-sity
could
have done
a better job
by letting
students
know to at
least look
on the Web
site," said
Samantha
Santana
'12.
Interim
Director of the Health Center Susan Birge said
that in no way are they trying to hide informa-tion
when in fact students have the right to
know about the flu epidemic on campus. The
reason for the Web site is that it can be updated
in a timely manner and accessible to anyone in
the Fairfield community.
The Health Center also received an initial
supply of the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday, which
Women's Rugby Fights to the Finish
Peter Caty/The Mirror
The women's rugby team lost the championship game to Hofstra University on Sunday afternoon,
20-14. Fairfield's team went into the game undefeated, the first time they have done so in a season.
Pictured above, lennifer Manzi '10 tries to get past the Hofstra defense.
Perlitz Detained
BY CHRIS SIMMONS
MANAGING EDITOR
Last Wednesday, Federal Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis detained Doug Perlitz '92
after his lawyers withdrew their argument against his detainment.
William F. Dow III, Perlitz's lead attorney, asked for the right to continue the matter
at a later date if the defense should choose to. The government's petition for detainment
was granted without prejudice. Dow said that the defense had not yet met the conditions
that Margolis had set forth for his release, but that ultimately, he will ask for Perlitz to be
released once he secures the finances.
"It's an extraordinary bond requirement," said Dow after the hearing. "It involves a
bunch of moving parts, like playing three-level chess."
But the day before, the lawyers for Doug Perlitz '92, filed a new motion, which submit-ted
a new proposal for Perlitz's release. Margolis seemed to indicate that she would accept a
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Obama's Source ofVictory
BY MELISSA MANN
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
He was the man behind President Barack
Obama's campaign, the one who helped keep
everything on track, the face in the back-ground
that helped with the making of history.
And now he's coming to speak at Fairfield.
David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign
manager, will be speaking in the Oak Room on
Wednesday as part of Fairfield's OPEN Visions
program to promote the release of his book,
"The Audacity to Win," which chronicles the
lengthy campaign process that led to Obama's
election as president.
"I started as a very low-level campaign
staffer, kind of knocking on doors," Plouffe said
in a phone interview about his beginnings in
politics. "I just started down the track, working
different elections and managing house races
and senate races, culminating in the Obama
campaign last year."
Plouffe explained that he had met Obama
when Obama was running for Senate in 2004.
When Obama started thinking about running
for president, he came to Plouffe.
"I think he wanted a group of people
around him that were close to him and that he
trusted," Plouffe said.
And thus begin Plouffe's important role
in helping to shape Obama's journey from
candidate to president.
"Starting in 2007, most of the political
community didn't think we would win," said
Plouffe. "We thought we had a narrow path-way
to victory. We were very clear-eyed about
how hard it was going to be. It's an improbable
American story."
Plouffe said that there were many
things throughout the campaign that helped
them achieve a victory, including Obama's
strong visions of what he wanted to accom-plish
as president and the help of volunteers
along the way.
"He understood very clearly from day one
what he wanted to say in the campaign. He
knew who he was and the idea he wanted to
talk about," Plouffe said.
But it wasn't
always easy, and
the campaign team
needed to rely on
each other and its
experiences to deal
with the setbacks
that came along.
Asked if there was
anything that he
would have done
differendy, look-ing
back, Plouffe
said that "we were
fortunate to be part
of an endeavor that
got most of the good things right."
"We made a couple mistakes in the pri-mary
in terms of how we approached certain
states," he continued. "But we just came to be
enormous believers in internal communica-tion,
making sure that our staff and our volun-teers
knew what was going on in the campaign
while we were making the decisions that we
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David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, will be coming to Fairfield on
Wednesday at 8pm to discuss his book, "The Audacity to Win."
were making."
Still, that was the one area Plouffe felt
could have been improved, if given a second
chance. "We didn't know enough about the
primary, so when we were going through a
tough time, we were not doing a good enough
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