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Ron Jeremy talks to the audience Wednesday night during his opening statement on pornography during a debate on the industry’s effect on society.
Ron Jeremy and pastor debate the pornography industry By Erik Kropp news@kykernel.com
Tensions were high on Wednesday at Memorial Hall as porn star Ron Jeremy and Christian minister Craig Gross engaged each other in
an intense debate. Some of the main points during the debate consisted of minors encountering porn at an early age, how porn can ruin relationships and how porn can misconstrue the human mind into think-
ing what sex is really like. “It is scary that this has become kids’ education about sex,” Gross said. “The fact is you take Stormy Daniels, a big porn star, look at her logo then look at Disney. They’re pretty similar.”
Gross also focused on how the porn companies use younger looking actresses to attract minors. “I am not a fan of kids watching porn,” said Jeremy in response. “The average age of kids watching porn for the first time is 11 — that is not good. We don’t like that.” Jeremy mentioned how parents need to learn how to block websites and TV channels because the Internet is a
big place where it is easy to find anything. He said that married couples could actually improve their relationship by using porn, but criticized any spouse who watched porn without the other spouse knowing about it. A heated moment occurred during the Q&A section of the debate. An audience member asked a question directed toward Gross about how peo-
ple who do not choose their sexual identity at birth fit into the conversation. Gross responded by saying that the topic was on porn and not on including all sexual preferences. The audience member later said, “You need to take into consideration on how our society at large and the porn industry focuses on heterosexual men.” See DEBATE on page 3
Pharmacy team Groups push for inclusive restrooms competes By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
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The five-student UK College of Pharmacy clinical skills team reached the quarterfinals of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Clinical Pharmacy Challenge. They were one of eight teams who made it from 104 other colleges and the only college to return to the quarterfinals from last year. “It is all about the students,” said Bob Kuhn, professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, who serves as the team’s coach. “Being able to watch them grow throughout this process is rewarding both professionally and personally.” Kuhn said that specialists and clinical professors have been reviewing information with the team for the past three months. The team consisted of Jonathan Hughes, Brette Conliffe, Savannah Lindsey, David Roy and Carly Stoneman. Hughes, who led the team in the competition said “The challenge consisted of three rounds: Trivia, clinical case and a jeopardy round.” Hughes is in his fourth year as part of the Doctor of Pharmacy candidates at UK. The first rounds were completed online and the top eight scoring teams attended the live tournament in Austin, Texas. This competition was
just as important to the students within the team, according to Hughes. “Although it is a relatively new competition, it is hosted by ACCP, an important national pharmacy organization,” said Hughes, who mentioned that having something like this on a resume is “an excellent way to network and demonstrate skills when competing for those residency spots.” Hughes said that it was not just the idea that this tournament will give them recognition within the profession that motivated them. “We were largely inspired by the success of our predecessors who also advanced to the quarterfinals last year,” Hughes said. “It is honestly a ton of nerdy fun to apply the knowledge we have been learning for the past three and a half years and compete against others.” Kuhn took great care in choosing his team, according to Hughes. “After a few therapeutic reviews, our clinical knowledge was assessed through written examination as well as our ability to work together as a team,” Hughes said. Each team member received a $125 gift card to spend on resources published by the ACCP. They also received free registration to attend the ACCP annual meeting where the tournament was held.
Members of the UK LGBT Council and OUTsource are pushing UK to provide access to more gender inclusive restrooms on campus. “Gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation is on a fluid spectrum,” said OUTsource chairman and financial director Michael Frazier. “We fell into this rut, where people are saying ‘you can check mark this box and be either or,’ when tons of research have found that it’s not that simple.” In fact, another area where the organization feels
that the university could be more gender inclusive is on check boxes, specifically when filling out forms for housing. International studies sophomore and OUTsource administrative director Randi Walker said that having to explain the broad spectrums of gender identify could be complicated. Walker said that all of the major buildings on campus should provide access to gender inclusive bathrooms. “It’s literally terrifying to go into the bathroom,” Walker said in regard to gender fluid students who have to choose between male or female restrooms rather than having access to a unisex or
gender inclusive restroom. According to Frazier, there are gender inclusive restrooms at the CSI room in the Student Center, Frazee Hall, the William T. Young Library and University Health Service. Frazier pointed out the issue that the gender inclusive restroom in the Student Center closes when CSI closes. “It’s a comfort level, it’s a safety issue, it’s a quality of life issue,” said Frazier, who noted that gender fluid students in the Student Center are without options after 9 p.m. Frazier said this is especially a problem because these students are more prone to sexual and violent crimes.
Arts studio sophomore and OUTsource creative director Skylos Arms said that UK could look to the University of Louisville as an example in implementing more gender inclusive restrooms. “They’ve created multiple gender neutral bathrooms throughout their campus,” Arms said. “One of the things they did is put them in very accessible places.” Frazier pointed out that the Student Center is scheduled to be decommissioned after 2014, and said that the Student Center executive director John Herbst has made a wonderful effort to ensure that a gender inclusive restSee LGBT on page 3
Professor, wildlife specialist dies at 56 By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
Thomas G. Barnes, 56, extension professor and wildlife extension specialist, died Sunday morning in his home in Barbourville according to a report from the Lexington Herald-Leader. According to coworkers in the UK Department of Forestry like research forester Christopher Reeves, Barnes was most known for his ability to capture nature through photography. “It was a passion of his that continued even though his health was deteriorating,” Reeves wrote in an email to
the Kentucky Kernel. Barnes authored several publications and books like “Gardening for the Birds,” “The Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky,” and “The Gift of Creation: Images from Scripture and Earth.” According to Barnes’ most important roles in the department were the protection of biodiversity and urban wildlife conservation. He held his doctorate in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A&M University, masters in wildlife and fisheries sciences from South Dakota State University and a Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from Huron Col-
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lege in South Dakota. The entire Forestry Department was saddened by the loss of Barnes, said extension information specialist Renee Williams. “I worked with him since 2006,” Williams wrote in an email to the Kentucky Kernel. “There are others who knew him better than I did. But yes, I worked with him a lot.” Reeves said that Barnes was a very spiritual person, and connected his spirituality with his love of nature. “I can’t speak directly to Tom’s faith, but it was obvious in his writings and this book that he had a view of
the world that it was man’s responsibility to care for the earth,” Reeves said. Reeves said that Barnes had been working on compiling photographs of Kentucky waterfalls into a book. “The book was almost completed so we hope to get it published somehow,” Reeves wrote in the email. Barnes was a staff member at UK for more than 20 years. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Barnes is survived by his wife, Jamie; his son, Jeremiah; his daughter, Michaela; and stepchildren Ayman, Zak, and Jehan Abuzour.
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OPINIONS
Marvel, DC comic series can be overwhelming ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
As the child of a megageek, I have grown up around superheroes. Giant, glossy-paged Marvel and DC character guides are lined up with mythology collections and anthologies on my parents’ bookshelves. As a young, impressionable child, I quickly developed a marked preference for the X-Men. Their origins were cooler than your average government-experimentgone-wrong story. Their costumes were (usually) less mesh, more leather. They dealt equally with social issues and the problems that come from putting a bunch of super-powered teenagers in an enclosed location. I learned a frankly, disturbing amount of trivia about my favorite characters and proceeded to dominate at those sections of the Marvel Scene-It game. I can’t unfailingly declare myself an X-Men fan, however, for one very simple reason: I’ve never read X-Men comics. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. As a teenager in the 2000s, looking through the list of X-Men continuations alone
is a daunting prospect. The cyclical nature of comic books and the constant reboots, retcons and offshoots means that, according to the Marvel database, there are 20 broad categories of X-Men comics. These series add up to well over 1,000 comics to go through, all with different storylines and continuity issues to deal with. In short, no part of this medium is conducive to new readers just ‘jumping right in.’ I read comics and have been for a few years. I’ve been working my way through Darkhorse comics’ “Hellboy” and B.P.R.D. volumes after watching the Guillermo del Toro movies several years ago. These publications have a broad, overarching plot with several volumes intended to be read in chronological order, but even more are framed like short stories that can be consumed without need for extensive context. I recently picked up Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” comics, a 10-volume run published by DC. The issues are fairly substantial for their price, clearly labeled so that the story can be followed in order, and are not a huge reading commitment, together or individually. But I am afraid that when it comes to the huge comic franchises,
We should stop calling people’s tastes ‘basic’
my experience may be limited to movie-watching. Marvel and DC may have become too overwhelming for new readers, those of us not raised in a time period and culture where comic book reading was the norm. Prior generations had the benefit of years in which to latch onto this genre and keep up with the reading. Beginning with the original series would be like a brand-new “Doctor Who” fan watching every single original episode before starting “New Who,” the revival that began with the introduction of the Ninth Doctor in 2005, a natural starting point for many millennial fans. If anything can fix this problem, it is the fact that comics inevitably reboot themselves. A new series of Ms. Marvel, featuring a brand-new heroine, in February 2014. Its use of a Pakistani-American teenager has already earned decent reviews, and other timely regenerations could allow younger fans to make their way into the comic world. As it stands, the inadvertent exclusion of newcomers means that Marvel and DC are missing out. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email ahalliwell@kykernel.com.
MARJORIE KIRK Kernel Columnist
In our transition from adolescence to adulthood, our generation has been guilty of placing more importance on social identity than previous generations. In fact, it is a trend that by my observation has been increasing, and will continue to increase, over time. It is a societal occurrence: people calling each other names on social media, in video games and in public. We have made categorizing each other a regular part of communication, but it is not. To what lengths will you go to be called “bae” or to avoid being called “basic”? With Fall being the Pumpkin Spice everything season, the use of this term “basic” will be used to stereotypically generalize a large portion of our campus based on their specific likes and dislikes. If you type “basic” into Google’s search engine, the first result will be a link to the Urban Dictionary definition of the term: “an adjective used to describe any person, place, activity involving obscenely obvious
behavior, dress, action. Unsophisticated.” On this same site it continues, “used to describe someone devoid of defining characteristics that might make a person interesting, extraordinary, or just simply worth devoting time or attention to.” Granted, this isn’t the most scientific source, but from the public responses I have received about the word’s meaning, it is spot on in pinpointing the derogatory nature of the word. Some of the factors that I have seen used to characterize someone as basic are whether or not they like Pumpkin Spice lattes, Ugg boots, North Face jackets, Instagram filters, selfies, photos of Fall, iPhones/MacBooks, and infinity scarves (too name a few). Saying we like any of these things, for whatever reason, has become an invitation to scorn from our friends and the strangers who make shallow judgments from their pretentious pedestals. I asked some of the baristas at the student center Starbucks and they guessed that every third person in line orders a Pumpkin Spice Latte and that they make thousands in a day. This represents just a small portion of the actual amount of people who we
judge because their preferences are not good enough, not “hipster” enough, not “fire” enough. Why do we continue to socialize these derogatory terms and deem it acceptable? Many believe that social media and the Internet has been the cause of our generation’s poor social skills, and I can see that the opportunity to edit and publicize an online persona has given reign to the pursuit of sounding intelligent at the expense of vindictive remarks towards others. How many negative comments are on the average viral YouTube video? How many negative Twitter fights do people start over whether Justin Bieber or Harry Styles from One Direction is the cutest? The truly unintelligent behavior is that of the hypocrites who believe their judgmental attitude is “worth devoting time or attention to.” Until we take these derogatory terms out of circulation and stop trying to drag each other through the mud, society will continue to create youth who find their identity in the opinions of others. Marjorie Kirk is a journalism and international studies sophomore. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
SPORTS
UK men’s soccer dominates in road victory against Evansville UK men’s soccer was dominant in its road match against Evansville on Wednesday, winning 5-1 against the Purple Aces. Both teams struggled to get their offense going in the first 15 minutes of the match. But UK broke through first in the 25th minute when senior forward Justin Laird scored off a pass from sophomore midfielder Napo Matsoso. It was Laird’s team-leading fourth goal of the season and Mat-
soso’s team-leading fourth assist of the year. Sophomore midfielder Ryan Creel gave UK an insurance goal 10 minutes later when he scored his second goal of the year off an assist from sophomore defender Charlie Reymann. The assist put Reymann in a tie with Matsoso in assists on the year. The Cats would score two more goals early in the second half, with junior midfielder Kristoffer Tollefsen
recording the first goal, and sophomore midfielder Paul Sime scoring the second goal nearly 30 seconds later. Junior goalkeeper Callum Irving held Evansville scoreless for nearly 70 minutes before the Purple Aces broke the shutout in the second half. It was Irving’s first allowed goal in his last three games. UK tacked on another goal with nearly five minutes left in the game when freshman midfielder Kevin Bara-
jas scored his first goal of the season. The Cats dominated the Purple Aces in shots, forcing them to make seven saves off of 12 shots on goal. Evansville recorded only four shots on goal against the Cats. UK (7-3-3) has now won three straight matches and will return home on Saturday to take on New Mexico at the Bell Soccer Complex. Staff Report
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Senior wide receiver DaVaris Daniels and defensive end Ishaq Williams, two of five suspended football players involved in the academic fraud investigation at Notre Dame, will not play for the Irish this season. Williams would like to return to the team next season, coach Brian Kelly said Tuesday. Daniels could leave Notre Dame and pursue other options, DaVaris and his father, Phillip, originally said on Twitter. Later, Phillip Daniels said the family is considering an option to return in 2015. "Finally after over 4 months my son got an answer! He is done at Notre Dame and will weigh his options for the future! (hashtag)HeIsNDNoMore" (sic) Phillip Daniels tweeted. But a short time later, Phillip Daniels tweeted: "(hashtag)Irish fans. There is an option for DaVaris to return in 2015 and that is being considered as well. Sometimes you gotta see through the fog!" DaVaris Daniels said on Twitter that he is not looking to transfer. "ND was my team. ND is
where my heart was. Unfortunately my time here is done, ready for my future," (sic) Daniels tweeted. A source confirmed to the Tribune multiple reports that said the pair received two-semester bans from the school. They will be eligible to re-enroll for the school's summer session. The Tribune reported last week the five were unlikely to play this season as a result of honor code rulings handed down by a school "honesty committee," which held hearings for the five. Last week, cornerback KeiVarae Russell said he was suspended for two semesters, but will return to Notre Dame in 2015. Kelly said both Russell and Williams will not be allowed to attend classes at Notre Dame the rest of the semester even though all five players are technically still enrolled at the school. Kelly said he had a conversation with Williams about his future recently and Williams expressed his desire to return next season. Daniels also sat out the spring semester for academic reasons. Daniels has 80 receptions for 1,235 yards and seven touchdowns over two seasons. "Good luck to the rest of
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Wide receiver DaVaris Daniels of Notre Dame catches a pass during the BCS National Championship game in Miami Gardens, Fla.
the players at ND and we wish you much success," Phillip Daniels tweeted.
"Thanks to the fans for your support and the parents for their love!"
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room is included in the relocation process. “To not recognize these students or to give them a limited number of bathrooms is almost in a way ignoring the problem,” said educational policy evaluation graduate student Jimmy Jones. “It’s almost saying that there aren’t that many (gender fluid) students here, when there actually are.”
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Gross interrupted her by yelling, “95 percent of the porn issue is heterosexual, so I am sorry that we did not spend the majority of our time focusing on the other five percent.” This quickly ended the conversation and she left immediately to sit back down. Another audience member became antagonistic toward Gross and he told the
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Federal deficit down, debt still rising UK gets grant to Great Recession still having an effect, according to experts By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit fell sharply in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 — but the federal debt continues to rise. The deficit for the recent fiscal year totaled an estimated $483 billion, the Treasury Department said Wednesday. That’s roughly a two-thirds improvement over the $1.4 trillion deficit in fiscal 2009, President Barack Obama’s first year in office and amid the Great Recession. The Treasury Department’s latest figures reflect a number 29 percent, or $197 billion, lower than the fiscal 2013 deficit, and $165 billion less than forecast by the president in his proposed budget. Importantly, the deficit as a percentage of the broader economy shrunk to 2.8 percent, the lowest level since fiscal 2007 and below
U.S not to work with rebels By Hannah Allam McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — John Allen, the retired Marine general in charge of coordinating the U.S.-led coalition’s response to the Islamic State, confirmed Wednesday what Syrian rebel commanders have complained about for months — that the United States is ditching the old Free Syrian Army and building its own local ground force to use primarily in the fight against the Islamist extremists. “At this point, there is not formal coordination with the FSA,” Allen told reporters at the State Department. That was perhaps the bluntest answer yet to the question of how existing Syrian rebel forces might fit into the U.S. strategy to fight the Islamic State. Allen said the United States’ intent is to start from scratch in creating a homegrown, moderate counterweight to the Islamic State. For most of the three years of the Syrian conflict, the U.S. ground game hinged on rebel militias that are loosely affiliated under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, or FSA. Their problems were no secret: a lack of cohesion, uneven fighting skills and frequent battlefield coordination with the al Qaida loyalists of the Nusra Front. This time, Allen said, the United States and its allies will work to strengthen the political opposition and make sure it’s tied to “a credible field force” that will have undergone an intense vetting process. “It’s not going to happen immediately,” Allen said. “We’re working to establish the training sites now, and we’ll ultimately go through a vetting process and beginning to bring the trainers and the fighters in to begin to build that force out.” The Syrian arena is important, Allen said, but to the U.S., “the emergency in Iraq right now is foremost in our thinking.” There will be a simultaneous training-and-equipping campaign for Iraq, where the U.S.-trained military collapsed during the Islamic State’s summer offensive. Allen said the new training program is “for those elements of the Iraqi national security forces that will have to be refurbished and then put back into the field,” with the ultimate goal of reclaiming Iraqi territories seized by the Islamic State. Allen sounded confident that the United States and its allies could juggle two massive training efforts even as the Islamic State has shown itself to be resilient under weeks of coalition airstrikes.
historical averages. In fiscal year 2013, this number was 4.1 percent of the economy, and in fiscal year 2009 it was at a whopping 9.8 percent. “Going down to below 3 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) is a mean-
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And most budget analysts project that absent action by Congress to further cut spending or raise taxes, the deficit will return to an upward climb just a few years from now. “The large effects from the Great Recession have subsided … but there is not a change in the fundamentals at all,” said Robert Bixby, head of the budget watchdog group Concord Coalition.
The large effects from the Great Recession have subsided, but there is not a change in the fundamentals at all.” ROBERT BIXBY, head of watchdog group
ingful step,” Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a briefing with reporters. The improving deficit numbers, while welcome, mask the fact that debt held by the public continues to go up. It stood at almost $12.8 trillion at the end of fiscal 2014, up from just under $12 trillion at the start of the fiscal year.
“As turmoil subsides from the economy, we still have an underlying structural deficit that is just as bad as it ever was.” Congress and the White House have, since 2000, been unable to agree on structural changes to Social Security and Medicare to reduce their expected large strain on federal spending as
baby boomers hit retirement in mass. And the huge debt is a time bomb because it must be paid off through new borrowing. Should interest rates rise from today’s historical lows, it would mean servicing that debt would eat up more and more of the federal budget. Lew noted Wednesday that the economy has improved by “almost every measure.” That cleaned up language from Obama recently that by all economic measures Americans are better off. In fact, wages remain flat and the midpoint income for American families has dipped slightly. Similarly, Shaun Donovan, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, noted that health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years, and he said the sweeping revamp of health care called the Affordable Care Act “was contributing to that.” In the past, administration officials had credited the act for slowing health care costs, but economists said it was one of several factors.
combat obesity By Kaylee Hobbs news@kykernel.com
UK received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work toward lower high obesity rates in six counties throughout Kentucky. The six counties that are to be affected are Elliot, Clinton, Lewis, Martin, Logan and Letcher counties, where more than 40 percent of the population are considered obese — having a body mass index higher than 35. According to Ann Vail, Director of the UK School of Human Environmental Sciences, this grant will go toward creating advisory committees in these counties that will assess the specific needs of their respective county. This grant will also go toward proper training for these committees. Committees will work toward finding the needs of each community and delivering specific intervention
plans that will better the community and create a healthier environment. “Obesity is not a one-solution type problem, and there is not a one size fits all solution,” Vail said. “Therefore these interventions will be tailored to each community and created by the community members who are trained and know their community best.” UK students could potentially have the opportunity to work with these counties in implementing plans within their community. In the past, UK students in food science classes have worked toward developing healthier, low fat and low sugar recipe alternatives that could be beneficial to intervention plans in these counties, Vail said. Vail said other ways that students might be able to participate would be through developing curriculum to educate residents in these communities and also helping to assess the needs of communities.
Ebola-infected nurse broke protocol, CDC said Patient should not have flown on commercial air By Geoffrey Mohan. Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times (MCT)
DALLAS — One of two nurses at a Dallas hospital who tested positive for Ebola should not have flown on a commercial airline, officials said Wednesday, and she is being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment. The nurse, who had treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, traveled on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas, arriving Monday night, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The woman reported symptoms of Ebola early Tuesday and went to the hospital, where she was placed in isolation. The woman was among a group of as many as 76 health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital involved in treating Duncan, who died Oct. 8. CDC Director Tom Frieden said the nurse should not have been traveling by air and he pledged that his agency would work to ensure that others in the group heeded CDC guidelines on selfmonitoring. “The second health care worker reported no symp-
toms and no fever,” Frieden told reporters in a news briefing. The nurse arrived in Ohio on Oct. 8, according to the Cleveland Department of Public Health. CDC officials said she developed a fever in Ohio. Because the second nurse was among those known to have been exposed to Ebola, “she should not have traveled on a commercial airline,” Frieden said “The CDC guidance in this setting outlines the need for what is called controlled movement. That can include a charter plane; that can include a car; but it does not include public transport. “We will, from this moment forward, ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement,” Frieden said. According to the CDC, about 50 health care workers entered Duncan’s room during his hospitalization and about 25 other health care workers are being monitored. In general, such monitoring focuses on fevers, a key first symptom of Ebola. “We’re reviewing those and ensuring intensive fol-
low-up of those individuals,” Frieden said. “We are also planning for other eventualities in case we get additional cases in the coming days.” The group of health care workers being watched is in addition to the 48 people who originally had contact with Duncan, who stayed with family and friends in a Dallas apartment after he arrived in Texas on Sept. 20. Of the original group, four people, including Duncan’s fiancee, are in quarantine in Dallas until this weekend. None of the original group has developed symptoms, health officials said. The second nurse was identified by her family as Amber Vinson. The first nurse who contracted Ebola, Nina Pham, remains in isolation at the Dallas hospital. A man who was in contact with Pham is also isolation, but has not tested positive for the virus, officials said. Vinson will be cared for in the same isolation unit at Emory University Hospital where three Ebola patients have been treated. The first two patients, medical missionaries, were discharged in late August. A third patient, who arrived Sept. 9, is being treated there, the hospital said Wednesday.
Pham may also be transferred, Frieden said. ‘“She is in improved condition today. We will assess each hour, each day, whether (the Dallas hospital) is the best place for her or somewhere else might be.” Frieden said. Without naming the nurse, the school said that she had three relatives who were working at Kent State. The family members have been asked to stay off cam-
pus for 21 days while they are monitored for symptoms. The CDC has asked the 132 passengers on the plane to contact the agency to be interviewed. Experts have said that only someone with symptoms could spread the virus, which has killed more than 4,400 people in West Africa. Passengers are asked to call the CDC at (800) 2324636.
After a century, bison return to Illinois By Ted Gregory Chicago Tribune (MCT)
FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. _ The hulking animals that stepped from trailers to
corrals here late at night drew a hushed, attentive audience of about 25 people. The reason for the reverence: Wild bison have been reintroduced on the prairies
east of the Mississippi River for the first time since the 1830s, says the conservation group coordinating the effort. The 20 animals will eventually be released from
PHOTO BY ANTHONY SOUFFLE | CHICAGO TRIBUNE (MCT)
Emily Hohman, the western Iowa land steward for the Nature Conservancy, rounds up a herd of bison into a trap pasture on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, at the Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve in Westfield, Iowa.
the corral to gradually roam much of the 3,500-acre Nachusa Grasslands _ the key part of an ambitious prairie restoration 95 miles west of Chicago. "The word that keeps coming up is surreal," said Jeff Walk, director of science for the Illinois Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which owns Nachusa and has been readying the land for the bison since the late 1980s. He accompanied the 20 bison on an eight-hour truck trip from Broken Kettle Grasslands preserve near Sioux City, Iowa, to Nachusa last Friday. "After all the work that people have put into this," Walk said, "it's like, 'Oh my gosh, it's actually happening.' " The bison relocation is an effort to reunite the species with the most imperiled ecosystem on the planet so both can thrive. Some bison enthusiasts even hope the new oversized, shaggy
residents of Nachusa, the largest restored prairie in Illinois, will spark an environmentally responsible agricultural movement in the state. "If industry can adopt those practices," Matt Ruhter, president of the Illinois Indiana Bison Association said of placing bison on prairies, "then you'll get a lot of new prairies popping up and all the benefits that come along with having prairies." Despite the somewhat rocky arrival, Nachusa volunteer Cindy Crosby said the moment was historic. "This is tallgrass prairie in Illinois and this is the missing piece of the puzzle," said Crosby, who drove with her husband, Jeff, from Glen Ellyn to view the bison arrival. "More than 700 species (at Nachusa) but we didn't have the big piece, and tonight it's all going to change. Nothing is going to be the same as it was yesterday."