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Hundreds of Stony Brook students line up for H1N1 shots

Stony Brook University medical student Pryanka Relan, left,

Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | Stony Brook University medical student Pryanka Relan, left, gives the H1N1 vaccine to graduate student Krishna Nibhanupudi, 24, Wednesday night. About 500 students were vaccinated. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Even though Jessica Diamond, 18, would have rather gotten dinner, she listened to her father's advice and waited on line for almost an hour to get vaccinated for H1N1 at Stony Brook University Wednesday night.

"He's like - it's free, you might as well take advantage of it," said Diamond, a psychology major from Queens Village.

Diamond was one of hundreds of students waiting on a line...

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