Marquette Tribune, October 9, 2014, Vol. 99, No. 13

              By Devi Shastri
devi.shastri@marquette.edu
See Flu Shots, Page 2
MU clinic
combats
flu vaccine
stigmas
As flu season looms, the Mar-quette
medical clinic kicked into
full gear to meet the demand
for vaccinations.
Despite an overall increase in
the number of vaccines adminis-tered,
the clinic is still working
to combat stigma and misconcep-tions
surrounding both the flu vi-rus
and shot.
The clinic gave around 1,400
shots by the end of September,
an increase of nearly 10 per-cent
from last year. Lynda Col-lins,
a medical clinic nurse and
coordinator of the flu clinic,
credits this increase to the fact
that Marquette is now giving
out the vaccines, rather than an
outside agency.
A woman receives a flu shot
in the university medical clinic.
Photo by Cassie Pieschel/cassie.
pieschel@maruqette.edu
“One of my goals was to get the
outside agency off campus and
have our medical clinic adminis-ter
the flu shots,” she said.
As a result, the clinic is in-creasingly
busy this time of
year, as it is open to students
and faculty, in addition to the
general public.
The clinic is advantageous
to patients and professionals
alike. Nursing students can even
administer the shots on a vol-unteer
basis to gain valuable
clinical experience.
“The first few times I adminis-tered
the injections, I was really
focused on the actual administra-tion
and didn’t really converse
with the patient,” Chrystal Mat-tappillil,
a junior in the College
of Nursing, said. “After a few of
them, I realized that conversing
with the patient puts them at ease
and makes their experience a bit
easier because they are distracted
and won’t typically focus on the
needle that’s being placed into
MU to collect input on police
By Rob Gebelhof
robert.gebelhoff@marquette.edu
University President Michael
Lovell announced Wednesday
that the university will collect
community feedback at the end
of October before he decides on
the commissioning of a Mar-quette
police force.
Paul Mascari, chief of the
Department of Public Safety,
will host presentations about
what the transition would in-clude,
and will lead forums
with faculty, staff, students and
the neighborhood.
Police powers would give
DPS officers the ability to ar-rest
people, access law enforce-ment
records and issue citations
and traffic tickets on campus,
although the Milwaukee Police
Department would retain pri-mary
jurisdiction in the area.
Mascari, who started his
tenure as chief of DPS earlier
this summer, said he thinks
commissioning a police force,
in agreement with MPD,
would be the next logical step
for his department.
“As a private security agen-cy,
we’re only able to do so
much,” Mascari said. “Our of-ficers
rely heavily on the Mil-waukee
Police Department to
handle things that can only be
handled by a police officer.
On a Friday or Saturday night,
that could take several hours. It
would make our jobs a lot easier
to handle routine things on our
own.”
Gov. Scott Walker came to
campus last April to sign leg-islation
granting Marquette the
power to transition DPS into a
police force. The legislation,
authored by Rep. Dale Kooy-enga
(R-Brookfield) and State
Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River
Hills), only gave Marquette
the option to commission,
leaving the decision up to the
university president.
If Lovell does take the com-missioning
route, DPS offi-cers
would have to meet stan-dards
for certification like
any other Wisconsin law of-
DPS Chief to lead
sessions on possible
police commissioning
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OPINIONS........................................8
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ficer, which Mascari said a
handful in DPS have already
voluntarily met.
“In many ways our train-ing
mirrors the training that
law enforcement receives,”
Mascari said.
A Marquette police force
would be qualified to ap-ply
for federal training
grants, but details about
how much this will cost the
university are not known.
“The feedback that we get
from the stakeholders will help
determine how the plan will
be rolled out,” said associate
general counsel Doug Smith.
“We’re not talking about the
numbers yet.”
Mascari stressed that the mis-sion
of public safety will con-tinue
to be keeping students
safe, noting that DPS prides the
relationship it has developed
with students.
“Absolutely nothing in po-lice
powers will change that,”
Mascari said.
In terms of the university’s
underage drinking policy, DPS
currently can’t issue citations
against students, but they can
call MPD if they think citations
are appropriate. Smith said con-sequences
would not change if
DPS were a police force, but
it would give Marquette the
chance to customize its alcohol
enforcement with the Office of
Student Affairs and cut out the
middle man.
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