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Third US Ebola case diagnosed in Texas christina cox Managing Editor clcox@smu.edu
World HONG KONG— Riot police cleared an offshoot Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks, but leaving the city’s main thoroughfare in the hands of the activists.
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Amber Joy Vinson.
A second nurse tested positive for the Ebola virus early Wednesday morning, according to an article by The Dallas Morning News. The nurse has been identified as 29-year-old Amber Joy Vinson. Vinson took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. She follows health care worker Nina Pham’s
diagnosis Sunday. “Like Nina Pham, this is a heroic person – a person who has dedicated her life to helping others,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins at a press conference Wednesday morning. Vinson resides close to SMU’s main campus at The Village Bend East Apartments in the 6000 block of Village Bend Drive. According to The Dallas Morning News, Vinson was put into isolation within 90 minutes of reporting she had a fever.
STUDENT LIFE
ATLANTA — An immigration judge in Atlanta denied an attorney’s request to delay a hearing that fell during her sixweek maternity leave and then scolded her in front of a packed courtroom when she showed up with her 4-week-old strapped to her chest and the infant began to cry. HONOLULU— Tropical Storm Ana is expected to deliver heavy rain and potentially destructive winds to the southern half of Hawaii’s Big Island in the next couple of days..
Texas BELTON — A Central Texas school district has temporarily closed three of its campuses after a family of four, including two students from the district, traveled on the same flight as a nurse who has since been diagnosed with Ebola. DALLAS — Frontier Airlines is expanding the circle of passengers being notified that they flew with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola, or flew on a later flight using the same plane.
132 other passengers on the flight to get in touch by calling 1-800-232-4636. “The healthcare worker exhibited no signs or symptoms of illness while on Flight 1143, according with the crew,” the CDC said in a statement. “Frontier is working closely with CDC to identify and notify passengers who may have traveled on flight 1143 on Oct. 13.” Hospital officials are still unsure of how Pham and Vinson
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ACADEMICS
Meadows announces second dean finalist
MILAN — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic blitz on Ukraine got off to a rocky start Thursday when he kept German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for a meeting then showed up in the middle of a dinner with European and Asian leaders.
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Both Pham and Vinson have been transported to other hospitals. Pham is currently in an isolation unit at the NIH center in Bethseda, Maryland and Vinson is at a biohazard infectious disease center at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that Vinson traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland, Ohio to DallasFort Worth a day before she reported symptoms of the virus. The CDC is now asking the
christina cox Managing Editor clcox@smu.edu
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Junior Savannah Louie kept the General, her kitten, hidden in her residence hall during her first-year.
On-campus residents hide critters behind closed doors Ashley Almquist Contributing Writer aaalmquist@smu.edu SMU junior Savannah Louie raced the clock–stuffing catnip in her closet and sliding a litter box under her bed-–during a round of surprise room checks in Moore Hall during the spring of her freshman year. After hearing from a friend that her RA was making rounds, she knew she had to move quickly to keep her new kitten, The General, a secret. “I cleaned up and hid every cat-related item in the room,” said Louie. “Our RA came in right as we had finished hiding all of the stuff, and she didn’t suspect a thing.” Louie isn’t the only on-
campus resident to hide a pet in her dorm room. There was a bunny in Boaz, a hamster in McElvaney and a Maltese puppy in Shuttles in recent years. How many critters have called the SMU residence halls their home? Who knows? According to the SMU Residence Life Community Standards, SMU’s pet policy allows each student living in the dorms to have one fish in a tank of no more than 10 gallons. Kittens, rodents, puppies, reptiles, birds or any other animal are not permitted. The Residence Life and Student Housing office offers a number of reasons why they limit pets in student housing, including space, health and
sanitation concerns. “You can imagine all the issues that could arise if there were 100 pets in one building where 260 students live,” said Jennifer Post, the director of residential life at SMU. SMU sophomore Jack Ruh found that out the hard way after a heat lamp from his pet Iguana’s cage started a fire in Boaz last year. “I turned on the iguana’s heat lamp, left for class and got a text 20 minutes later that my room was on fire and the fire department was there,” said Ruh. Luckily, the iguana made it out alive. Most college campuses around
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COMMUNIT Y
Music and mission partner SMU professor and Carter High School mAllory paul Contributing Writer mmpaul@smu.edu When Virginia Dupuy’s husband asked her what she wanted for her birthday she didn’t request jewelry, flowers or a new handbag. Instead the SMU Meadows music professor asked for uniforms for the Carter High School choir. Four and a half years ago, Professor Dupuy saw a need in her community and decided to personally get involved. She created a partnership between SMU and David W. Carter High School. Dupuy wanted to ensure that all of Carter’s musically talented but economically disadvantaged choir students were ready for college auditions.
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Virginia Dupuy is working with the David W. Carter choir in Oak Cliff.
Her gift of uniforms was just one more way to help students at the low income school in Oak Cliff. Dupuy believes the arts especially rise above economic limitations. “The pecking order is not money or prestige or social
status,” Dupuy said. “It has to do with talent.” Dupuy has been working closely with Demetrius Ethley, the charismatic Carter choir director
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James D. Herbert, associate dean for curricular and student affairs at the School of Humanities at University of California, Irvine, is the second candidate for the dean’s position in Meadows School of the Arts. He is one of four candidates being considered for the position. The first candidate announced for the position was Victor Coelho. At UC Irvine Herbert is also a professor of art history and of visual studies. He graduated from Stanford University in 1981 and earned both a Masters and Ph.D. in art history from Yale University. Herbert has also worked as an assisstant professor at the University of Southern California and the University of Texas at Austin and as a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Herbert will visit SMU Oct. 20-21 where he will meet with SMU faculty and staff, members
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James D. Herbert.
of the search committee, the Meadows Dean’s Executive Council, SMU provosts, President R. Gerald Turner and SMU students. An email will be sent to the SMU community asking for feedback and people’s perceptions on Herbert’s ability to serve as Meadows’ dean, according to an email sent by Leon Simmons Endowed Dean David J. Chard. The first candidate to visit for the position will be Victor Coelho.
HE ALTH
Obama sees need for Ebola point person associated press Under pressure to select an Ebola “czar” to lead the U.S. response against the disease, President Barack Obama conceded Thursday it “may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person” to head the administration effort. Obama also said he is “not philosophically opposed” to a travel ban from the Ebolaafflicted region of West Africa “if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.” But he said experts tell him a ban would be less effective than measures currently in place. He said his team of Ebola advisers is doing “an outstanding job.” But he said several of them, including Centers for Disease Control director Thomas Frieden and Lisa Monaco, his top counterterrorism adviser, are also dealing with other priorities. He noted that Frieden is also dealing with flu season and Monac, with the Islamic State extremists in the Middle East.
“It may make sense for us to have one person ... just so that after this initial surge of activity we can have a more regular process,” he said. Calls for Obama to institute a temporary travel ban grew Thursday, mainly from Republicans who said the growing outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are creating a greater traveling threat. But Obama said a ban could increase the instance of travelers avoiding detection. “They are less likely to get screened and we may have more cases of Ebola rather than less,” he said. Obama spoke at the end of a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden and top White House officials. Obama on Thursday also authorized the Pentagon to call up reserve and National Guard troops if they are needed to assist in the U.S. response to the
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