Here's the latest information (sent today to all Baylor faculty and staff) from Dr. Mark Schwartze (Medical Director, Baylor Health Services) concerning Baylor's flu vaccination policy:
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Due to the shortage of injectable flu vaccine, The Center for Disease Control has advised the vaccine to be prioritized for those individuals at high risk for severe complications to the influenza virus.
High risk individuals include:
The Baylor Health Center will follow these guidelines. The flu clinics will be held as previously scheduled. The Flu Clinic schedule for October is listed under Featured Events on the events calendar on the Baylor home page, or the Health Services website: http://www.baylor.edu/health_center/index.php?id=21347.
If there is flu vaccine left after the scheduled flu clinics, it will be made available for the Baylor community through the Baylor Health Center.
Mark Schwartze, M.D.
Medical Director
Baylor Health Services
Unlike the rest of the United States, Baylor does not face a shortage of flu vaccine (see my earlier entry entitled "Impact of the tort system on flu vaccine availability in the United States") which explains why this is the case. Anyway, here's the schedule (by the way, the cost of the vaccine is $15):
| Date | Day | Time | Location | |||
| 14-Oct-2004 | Thursday | 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | BDSC-Baines Room | |||
| 19-Oct-2004 | Tuesday | 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | BDSC-Beckham White Room | |||
| 21-Oct-2004 | Thursday | 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Robinson Tower, 6th floor | |||
| 22-Oct-2004 | Friday | 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | SLC-Room 308 | |||
| 27-Oct-2004 | Wednesday | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | SLC-Room 308 | |||
| 28-Oct-2004 | Thursday | 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | SLC-Room 308 | |||
| 29-Oct-2004 | Friday | 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | SLC-Room 308 |
The Business Ethics Forum is Nov. 3-5. Visit www.baylor.edu/businessethics for details.
Today's Gamma Iota Sigma meeting will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Cashion 406. Ms. Allison Keeton from St. Paul Travelers Insurance in Hartford, CT, will be speaking about her company as well as the property casualty industry in general. St. Paul Travelers is keenly interested in hiring graduating seniors into entry level underwriting positions in their field office in the Metroplex area, so graduating seniors in particular may benefit from making this connection.
Ernst & Young will be making a presentation about their Investigative & Dispute Services and Transaction Advisory Services Practices. Ernst & Young primarily hires accounting and finance students for this aspect of their business. Furthermore, Ernst & Young also has an Insurance Claims Practice which is ideally suited for RMI students.
Ernst & Young is looking for summer and winter 2005 interns, as well as a candidates for their YMP (Your Master Plan) program, a program that allows graduates to work for the firm and obtain a masters in accounting from Notre Dame or the University of Virginia.
If you are interested in attending this presentation, here is the information you need:
When: September 30, 2004, 6:30 PM
Where: Weithorn Visitors Center
Dress: Business Casual Attire
Food & Drinks Will Be Served.
On September 30, 2004, from 12:00-5:00 pm, Baylor Career Services will present their Fall 2004 Career Fair at the Ferrell Center. If you are interested in finding out more about the firms which will be recruiting at this job fair, go to https://baylor-cfm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?cf=fall2004. Currently, there are 95 companies signed up to participate, and it is possible that the number will exceed 100!
Jon Meacham, best-selling author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, will present the third Ferguson-Clark Author Lecture benefiting the Baylor University Libraries.
Meacham will speak on "Franklin and Winston: Leadership Issues for Today" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Mayborn Museum Complex. Baylor alumnus Collen A. Clark established the lecture series endowment in honor of his mother, Carla Sue Ferguson Garrett, a Baylor alumna and member of the libraries' Board of Advisors. Ernest Gaines and David McCullough presented the first two lectures.
Managing Editor of Newsweek
Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn., Meacham graduated cum laude from the University of the South and went to work as a reporter for The Chattanooga Times. He soon became an editor of The Washington Monthly and two years later was hired by Newsweek as a national affairs writer. As managing editor at 34, he oversees Newsweek's coverage of politics, international affairs and breaking news. The New York Times has called him "one of the most influential editors in the news magazine business."
Important, Insightful Book
Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation wrote: "This is at once an important, insightful, and highly entertaining portrait of two men at the peak of their powers who, through their genius, common will, and uncommon friendship, saved the world. Jon Meaham's Franklin and Winston takes its place in the front ranks of all that has been written about these two great men."
Meacham's new sources - including unpublished letters of FDR's secret love, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company - shed new light on the characters of both men. Meacham calls the book "a portrait of what I believe to be the "most fascinating friendship of modern times."
An eloquent speaker and a skilled raconteur, Meacham understands important issues and events in all of their complexity and how they impact our lives.
More information on the event may be obtained by calling Mary Goolsby, 254-710-6735.
Dear class,
On September 30, 2004, from 12:00-5:00 pm, Baylor Career Services will present their Fall 2004 Career Fair at the Ferrell Center. If you are interested in finding out more about the firms which will be recruiting at this job fair, go to https://baylor-cfm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?cf=fall2004.
Dear class,
The Hankamer School of Business will be hosting its annual Business Ethics Forum the week of November 1-5, 2004. I highly recommend that you try to take in some if not all of these public presentations:
1. Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Plenary Session I, featuring Dr. Gary Weaver, University of Delaware.
2. Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Dr. Pepper Float reception and Plenary Session II, featuring Dr. Edward Petry, Executive Director of the Corporate Ethics Officer Association.
3. Friday, November 5, 2004, 1:30-3 p.m. Panel Discussion on Integrity of Financial Reporting.