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Ebola: An exploration of the global epidemic
Cooper Neill/The New York Times
Center for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped up precautions with latest Ebola cases causing more concern with American public.
By KATHERINE LAVACCA News and Feature Editor
Women’s Soccer Continues Strong Pace Through SSC
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“I’m sick and tired of hearing Ebola jokes in class. I’ve not been directly affected nor has my birth country but I do know people who are directly or indirectly being affected by the outbreak,” said Leila Rugambarara a sophomore communications major from Burundi, Africa. “Stop listening to what CNN tells you and actually do the research, it doesn’t take that long.” Back in August, the directorgeneral of the World Health
Organization (WHO), classified the Ebola virus a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.” Yet according to a Google Trends chart, the public did not start paying attention to the Ebola virus until media coverage drastically peaked on Oct. 2, when it was discovered that Thomas Duncan had the virus and was released from a hospital in Dallas, Texas. Duncan checked into the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and after being readmitted was diagnosed, and died several days later. There have been more cases developing throughout the country
that have drawn attention to this incredibly dangerous disease. While the talking heads scrambled to blame the left, the right and anyone in-between there’s been a lot of unanswered questions floating around: Where does it come from? How do you get it? Is there a cure? What is it? The Ebola virus originated in Africa, is a type of Filovirus and is a highly contagious infection. The virus causes fever, respiratory issues, bleeding, and sometimes problems with the central nervous system that To EBOLA Page 4
Cleanliness of Laundry Facilities Examined By OLIVIA REEB Opinion Writer
The laundry rooms at this school are full of dust, hairballs, puddles, dirty footprints and piles of uncollected clothes sitting on top of the many tables and laundry machines. There are few things worse than dropping clean clothes onto the floor during the transfer from the washer to the dryer. The price UT students pay for housing should encompass the cleanliness and proper working order of the laundry rooms. The conditions of the laundry rooms are well below average. There are some issues that need to be addressed by maintenance such as dust, puddles, dirt and faulty machines. But some issues, like the wet clothes sitting on top of machines and on dividers, are entirely up to the student body to
address. Students need to work together in order to solve this issue. So people with laundry in the washer need to move their clothes to the dryer as soon as they’re finished. People waiting to do laundry need to put their laundry in a different washer, perform a random act of kindness and load the laundry into a dryer. There are always available washers early in the morning and late at night, it would behoove students to capitalize on these less crowded periods. Any student that does their own laundry knows that it costs $1 to wash and $0.85 to dry. On its own that doesn’t seem like an unreasonable price, but they add up quickly. The total cost of three loads of sorted laundry, whites, darks and colors, will cost you $5.55 to wash and dry. There’s also the issue that every once in a while you’ll end up with that dryer that doesn’t say it’s broken, but will eat your money and not
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average amount spent to live in residence halls cooperate. Before you know it, it’s time to refill your laundry card. The locations of the laundry card refilling machines are an issue too. Laundry cards can be refilled at the MacDonald-Kelce Library, Morsani Hall Food Court, Vaughn Center Lobby, Barrymore Hotel Lobby, or the West Kennedy laundry room. It would be a lot more convenient to keep the laundry card refill stations
in all of the laundry rooms as it is in West Kennedy. One of the most unfortunate things that can happen while doing laundry is to put your clothes into the washer, soap in the dispenser and your laundry card in the slot, only to have the machine tell you that you don’t have enough of a balance to do your laundry. To LAUNDRY Page 11