San Francisco Foghorn

              FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
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Vol. Ill, Issue 12
SCENE
foghorn.usfca.edu
THURSDAY, January 30,2014
French Fries in SF get
extra Frenchy with the
arrival of Quebec's Poutine
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OPINION
Tanya Zeif '17 questions the
achievable quality of college life
in relation to food.
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SPORTS
Dickerson, Dons power past
Santa Clara on night
that celebrates USF legend
Ollie Johnson
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NEWS
What'cha gonna do when
they come for you9 Muni police look out for expired USF
passes.
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Welcome Back! You're Paying Too Much for
Your Textbooks
f You Shop at the
USF Bookstore'
TANYA DZEKON
Staff Writer
An overwhelming majority ofthe
textbooks at the USF Bookstore are
more expensive to buy or rent than
purchasing the books online, even
though the USF bookstore advertises that students should "rent
fearlessly" and they could "save on
average 50% or more." Foghorn
reporters used Amazon.com to
compare prices of the textbooks to
bookstore prices.
The USF bookstore isn't owned
by USF; it is operated by Follett
Higher Education Group, a division of Follett Corporation, a $2.3
billion enterprise. According to
their website, Follett Higher Education Group manages more than
.930 college bookstores nationwide.
Junior politics major Madeline
Meininger does her research about
the cheapest options available to
her while shopping for textbooks,
and avoids shopping at the USF
Bookstore unless she needs a specific customized USF textbook.
Pricey textbooks are just one of a
number of financial burdens college
students encounter, and many USF
students opt to buy or rent their
textbooks through other online retailers to save money.
"I'm a savvy shopper," said sophomore sociology major Kristina Rodriguez. "I'll do a side by side price
check [of USF bookstore prices
versus other online retailers] and
very rarely is it cheaper to rent the
textbook from the bookstore."
However, Rodriguez did acknowledge the convenience of buying books on campus, as did other
students.
Senior Caroline Christ, a communication studies major said, "If I
need a book for class it's easier to go
downstairs than to wait two weeks
for Amazon to deliver it."
Danielle Maingot contributed to the
reporting.
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Students line up to get their textbooks at the USF bookstore
Generation Citizen:
Teach Teens to Make a Difference, While Fullfilling
Your Core Service Learning
ALLISON FAZIO
Staff Writer
Are you interested in making an
active change in the community?
Teaching high school students
about political action? Making
middle school students feel safer in
their own parks and playgrounds?
Generation Citizen is a nonprofit organization that aims to
solve problems in local communities through civic education. With
the help of teachers and trained
college volunteers called democracy coaches, Generation Citizen
provides middle school and high
school  students  the  opportunity
to directly participate in their local government through an in-class
curriculum designed to get students
to work with local leaders to address an issue relevant to them.
Tina Celani, senior communications major, is chapter director for
the USF Chapter of Generation
Citizen, which started on campus
in the fall.
"There has been a huge lack of
civic education for low-income students and students in general, and
Generation Citizen helps change
that," Celani said. "By working with
students to actively identify and ad-
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USF Bookstore
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Amazon.com
New      $95.49
Rent     $23.88
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USF Bookstore
New      $240.25
Rent     $58.49
Amazon.com
New      $96.60
Rent     $40.01
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(Left to right) Tina Celani, senior and current chapter director of Generation Citizen USF,
worked with 8th graders Magnus, Oak, fellow democracy coach and USF sophomore Noelle
Garza, and 8th grader Tyler to create safer park access for middle schoolers at Kimball Park.
Western Civilizations:
A Brief History
USF Bookstore
New      $218.00
Rent     $93.74
Amazon.com
New      $174.41
Rent     $30.74
Interpersonal
Communication: Everyday
Encounters, 7th Edition
USF Bookstore
New      $180.25
Rent     $86.52
Amazon.com
New      $138.23
Rent     $17.00
The Return of Swine '09
RITA MCNEIL
StaffWriter
In the peak of flu season, a virus that shocked the nation in 2009
has returned. H1N1, also known
as swine flu, has been present since
the initial pandemic, but this season the H1N1 virus is reportedly
emerging at higher levels than ever
since 2009.
The Center for Disease Control
and Prevention reports, "this is the
first season that the virus has circulated at such high levels since the
pandemic."
During the week of Jan. 12-18,
96.8% of the influenza A viruses
were H1N1 viruses, according to
their Weekly Flu View update.
As of Jan. 9, the San Francisco
Department of Public Health reported on the death of a flu patient
in San Francisco. They confirmed
the strain ofthe virus as H1N1.
In the past month, the San Jose
Mercury reported on eight deaths
of swine flu in California — one
in the East Bay, one in Santa Clara
County, two in Sacramento, one in
Orange County, and three people
in Stanislaus County.
Professor Ong-Flaherty of the
School of Nursing and Health Professions at USF thinks students are
not currently at high risk of catching the virus. "I am not aware of any
students with [swine] flu symptoms. Nor any cases around USF."
Luckily for students, the School
of Nursing is part of a national initiative to monitor influenza activity
and prevent flu outbreaks in the
USF community. Mark Smolinski,
MD, of the Skoll Global Threats
Fund, partnered with the School of
Nursing to introduce Flu Near You
on campus.
Flu Near You is a program that
tracks flu activity across the nation.
Reports are made available to vol-
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unteers after they anonymously submit flu-like symptoms, as shown in
an ABC 7 newscast.
Judith Karshmer, the Dean ofthe
School of Nursing, appeared on the
news report stating, "Flu is something that is really very serious, and
is something that we can track and
and know how to prevent."
Professor Courtney Keeler, who
led the Flu Near You initiative at
USF, recommends using the program to "help an individual remain
aware of flu patterns in their own
communities. These local trends are
important indicators since one's risk
of the flu increases with the incidence of flu in one's neighborhood,"
she said.
Although the risk of H1N1 in
the USF community is not currently
of paramount concern, Professor
Robin Buccheri notes, "A very scary
thing about the H1N1 virus that we
found in 2009 is that it can be especially serious in children and young
adults."
So why are young adults more
susceptible? "The leading theory is
that there is something about the
flu that resembles the HI flus that
circulated before the 1960's," according to Donald McNeil, New
SWINE continued on page 2
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