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Duke teams with NCCU for early voting transport
ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 32
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‘Breaking Out’ exhibit revived in Chapel
Aleena Karediya Local & National Editor In an effort to get more students to the polls for midterm elections, Duke is partnering with North Carolina Central University to provide transportation to early voting sites. The Go Vote Early program—led by the Committee for a Joint NCCU-Duke Program in African, African-American and Diaspora Studies—will transport students and employees from Duke to an early voting polling site at NCCU in late October. Duke does not have an early voting site of its own on campus. With new voter identification laws in place and North Carolina’s hotly contested senate seat in the national spotlight, the student vote has become an area of particular focus for activist groups across the state. “The low rate of voting overall in mid-term elections is an unfortunate feature of American politics, giving those few who do vote undue influence,” said Naomi Quinn, professor emerita of cultural anthropology and an administrator of the Committee for a Joint NCCU-Duke Program. See Voting on Page 4
Photo Courtesy of the “Breaking Out” Campaign Previously held in the Bryan Center, the “Breaking Out” exhibit, which features photographs of sexual assault survivors holding up words recounting their experiences, will debut in the Duke Chapel this Friday, Oct. 17. (See story on Page 7 of Recess)
Students brainstorm answers to Ebola outbreak Duke Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator challenges students to find solution for Ebola outbreak Grace Wang Health & Science Editor
Photo Courtesy of The Washington Post Angela Hewlett receives assistance putting on protective gear at the Nebraska Medical Center, where an Ebola patient is being treated.
Students are pioneering potential solutions to end the spread of Ebola. The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke is launching the Ebola Innovations Challenge. Throughout the challenge, the student community will submit possible plans to end the spread of Ebola. According to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, three cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the U.S., including two nurses previously in contact with the deceased patient. Amid the growing concern of the infectious disease in the US, the global Ebola crisis is one that requires eminent solutions to address a broader population. “The vast majority of the Global Health problems today could be solved with science we already have,” said sophomore Priyanka Venkannagari, a member of the student advisory committee of SEAD. “[The challenge] is about implementation, execution and how we can use existing resources to better a community in need.” The 2014 Ebola outbreak—one of the largest in history—has a cumulative number of 8,997 cases according to the Oct. 15 report by
the World Health Organization. The Ebola virus spread through these developing countries with poor precaution measures and treatment measures, afflicting the general population as well as healthcare workers. In the middle of the crisis, SEAD seeks to engage students and faculty in working to address the global concern. “Within the student engagement work stream of SEAD, we put on the Ebola Innovations Challenge because it is a very timely and high-profile challenge going on globally right now,” said Kimberly Bardy Langsam, program director of SEAD. SEAD was one of seven university development labs selected nationwide in 2012 See Ebola on Page 4
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