News briefs
By Daily Bruin Staff
April 27, 2005 9:00 p.m.
La Verne student diagnosed with meningitis
LA VERNE -“”mdash; Antibiotics have been given to about 90
students after a University of La Verne freshman was diagnosed with
bacterial meningitis.
Carlos Carrazco, 19, was taken to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical
Center on Sunday night, where he was diagnosed with the contagious
and potentially deadly disease. He was moved out of the intensive
care unit Tuesday and was in good condition, hospital spokeswoman
Kathy Roche said.
University administrators and Los Angeles County health workers
handed out antibiotics to students who lived in the same residence
hall or might have come into contact with Carrazco.
“The good thing is that he got treatment in time,”
university spokesman Charles Bentley said. No other cases of
meningitis were suspected, he said.
Ex-cons not affected by Proposition 69
SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; California’s ex-cons are not
required to submit DNA samples under a sweeping anti-crime measure
voters approved last year, as civil rights groups had feared, a
federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Fern Smith’s decision, released
Wednesday, reinforces an opinion by the state attorney
general’s office that Proposition 69 does not apply to the
thousands of convicts who served time for crimes and completed
their post-incarceration supervision before voters passed it Nov.
2.
The class-action was brought by the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Compiled from Bruin wire services.
