The Mirror—December 8, 2014

A refl ection of the UNC CommunityDEC 8, 2014

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Dressed in black and chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot,” participants marched in unity across campus last Friday af-ternoon. Students participated in a peaceful protest to reach solidar-ity against Michael Brown’s death and Offi cer Darren Wilson’s freedom.

Story by Makalah Emanuel on page 5.

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OPINION4 LITSHA SAYS LAME STUFF: ON BLACK LIVES MATTER

NEWS5 PROTESTS ON CAMPUS6 UNC EPIDEMIC PREPARATIONS

A&C7 PRE-KWANZAA EVENT SERIES8 GLEE CLUB CONCERT

SPORTS9 EDITORIAL: RAY RICE REINSTATED10 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

11 FUN & GAMES CLASSIFIEDS

“How could anyone sit in a room with all of the facts and arrive at the decision the NFL made?”

“I feel really great. It’s an opportunity to try open up our club, and we feel the Garvey is like a bridge for us to build a connection with the rest

of the students on campus and off campus”

“It’s for Mike Brown, but it’s also for all the other black lives that have been killed.”

December 8, 2014OPINION

ACTION SHOWS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER

By Litsha Leeper

Litsha Says Lame Stuff

All around the world, people of all ethnicities are marching and protesting, touting the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. I, along with many others, am emotionally exhausted with the amount of cases of police brutality against black people. Police officers can and do murder black people every day, and their cases never make it to trial. As frustrating as this is, what is more frustrating is watching people protest with no real objective. What is the goal of the protest? Is it to

end white supremacy? To stop police bru-tality? How do we expect that to happen? We need to be active in ending the oppression of black people. America is in a radical problem; Therefore, it needs a radical solution. Black Economics—Black people have to organize and create their own economic base. Money is power and does not circu-late enough within the black community; Thus, our power is limited. When you are an oppressed person and have to go to your oppressor for all of your needs, such as employment, welfare, education, groceries, public services and so on, then you will constantly be a dependent and will be treated as such. Black people need to cut off the Anglos’ source of income by not contributing, which in turn will wilt their system.

Self-Defense—Police brutality cannot be stopped, but what can be done is learn-

ing how to defend yourself. POC (People of Color) should take up and host self-defense classes.

Political Participation—Protesting is not enough, and understanding the political process is where the gold lays. Not just POC, but the youth in general, do not un-derstand that the power is with the people, and local government is where the initial change begins. We control who are in city and state offices, and we control how long they stay in office. A large focus should go to policy additions and changes. Politi-cal science majors could hold workshops, particularly focusing on how to promote change in our communities.

Curriculum—All majors should undergo an accuracy evaluation. Nationwide educa-tional institutions contribute to the white supremacy agenda by creating Eurocentric curriculums that omit POC contributions to society and the sciences. If Anglos are

taught that POC have not contributed to society, they will naturally develop a superiority complex. On the other side, POC will develop an inferiority complex, internalizing self-hatred.

Campus Inclusion—If we really believe black lives matter, we should show that on campus. The JAMES Salon should have a stylist who specializes in ethnic hair, and the bookstore and Munchie Mart should have an ethnic section that offers materials that POC need but cannot find in Greeley.

If you believe black lives matter and want a revolution, contact me so we can organize.

—Litsha Leeper is a senior philosophy major and an opinion columnist for The Mirror. She can be reached at [email protected].

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“HANDS UP! DON’T SHOOT!”By Makalah [email protected]

Last Friday afternoon the University Center was filled with crowds of people dressed in black, silently walking through the lower level with their hands raised —evoking the powerful image of Michael Brown’s recent death. As they exited the UC, protest-ers were heard chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot” and other sym-bolic phrases from blocks away. Eleven days after the decision not to indict Officer Darren Wil-son, UNC students and supporters participated in a peaceful protest. The crowd met in front of Holmes Dining Hall in pursuit of what some of the protesters’ post-ers called “justice for black lives.” Some protesters held up “#BlackLivesMatter” signs as they marched. The protest route looped around west campus, traveled through the UC, looped around central campus then concluded on the east side of the UC. Lynea Grimball, a sophomore Africana studies major, organized the event and said she started the protest “simply because it needed to be done.” Grimball said she was happy with the outcome of the protest, not only because of the large amount of participants, but also because of the emotions and activ-ism it provoked. Protesters engaged in three ‘die-ins.’ Participants lied as if dead on the floor for a duration of four minutes and 30 seconds. Grimball explained that the four min-utes and 30 second time frames represented the four hours and

30 minutes Michael Brown’s body remained uncovered after he died. “I feel like it got a lot of people roused up and going,” Grimball said. “It festered the emotions they already had. And it helped them to use those emotions to do some-thing about it, and not just stand there, but to go and make a differ-ence and be heard in some way.” Glenn Hartman, a sophomore theatre education major, said he felt compelled to get involved partly because of his race. “As a person who is white, I do have that privilege,” Hartman said. “I wanted to march in solidarity with my friends that aren’t white because I feel that I need to use my privilege for change. I saw online a picture of a poster from one of the other Ferguson protests and it said ‘White silence equals white consent,’ and that really hit home for me. A majority of white people

are either being silent about it or saying, ‘It’s not about race,’ and this whole issue is about race. That’s why I chose to get involved.” Some on-lookers joined the crowd that walked through the campus. One of the on-lookers who united with protesters was Tyler Warner, a sophomore inter-national affairs major. “I didn’t actually know about the protest, but I saw it going by my house, and I was happy to see it because I feel like it’s something that needs to be heard,” Warner said. UNC administrators, such as sociology professors Kelly Davis and Pepper Mueller, also took part. Davis and Mueller said they participated to practice what they preach in the classrooms. “I think that if we’re going to tell students to be engaged in their communities and to seek the

process that makes social change, then we need to actually act out what we’re teaching, and we need to support all students and people of color,” Mueller said. “This is a horrible situation we’re facing with systematic racism across the coun-try. It’s time to stop.” Cherjanet Lenzy, who is earn-ing her doctorate degree in higher education and student affairs lead-ership, agreed that racism needs to end and further explained her passion to get involved. “It’s for Mike Brown, but it’s also for all the other black lives that have been killed,” Lenzy said. “I participated because as a black woman, I wanted to make sure my voice is heard.” Before the protesters dispersed, Grimball asked the participants to take with them any frustration they felt and use it proactively as they continue to demand change.

Cassius Vasquez | The MirrorStudents gather outside the University Center to protest racial discrimination in the wake of the Ferguson protests. The woman with the raised fist is Lynea Grimball, an Africana studies major who organized the event.

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UNC PREPARED TO COMBAT LARGE-SCALE PANDEMICBy Chelsea [email protected]

Although Ebola seems like a low-risk situation, UNC has prepared for a case of Ebola and many other possible health emer-gencies as well. “I think you could always have some new strange disease that’s going to pop up at some point, and so I think you always have to be prepared,” said Cindy Vetter, director of student business ser-vices and overseer of the health center and health services. Because of the media atten-tion Ebola has recieved, UNC’s health center has ordered appro-priate equipment, gone through training, done drills, identifi ed their isolation rooms and modi-fi ed the interview questions that are asked during check-ins.

In addition to preparation for Ebola, UNC has implemented an emergency response team that plans for many other health emergencies as well. “Interestingly, UNC is way ahead of the game on it, be-cause we created an emergency preparedness committee clear back in the old avian fl u outbreak stuff ,” Vetter said. Th e health center usually plays a large role in any health-related emergency, but depending on the nature of the emergency, the emergency response team utilizes the department that is directly associated with the incident. Th ere are representatives of almost every aspect of campus in the emergency committee, including organizations such as dining services, residence life, health services and many more. “We have trained and prac-

ticed on multiple diff erent levels, and there are multiple plans,” said Glenn Adams, director of environmental health and safety. Th e environmental health and safety department primarily functions as the go-between for supplies and training with the state and county. “We try to be proactive and have our plans in place before the event happens,” Vetter said. Th ere are emergency response drills and training to help the committee prepare. Th e committee does tabletop exercises: a scenario is given and participants have to decide how they are going to respond and who they need to bring in to ad-dress the situation. “We not only train with our staff here, but we train with oth-ers all the time outside of here too. So I feel very comfortable,”

Adams said. In addition to the emergency response committee, UNC has implemented a pandemic plan, which is updated every one to two years. Th e plan was developed with the primary purpose of dealing with contagions that may impact campus. In addition to the annual or biannual updates, the pandem-ic plan also updates whenever a new disease is discovered. Chief of UNC Police Dennis Pumphrey said that planning for an incident always starts with awareness. He said he consistent-ly scours the Internet to see what illnesses or diseases are impact-ing people in other locations. “Th e thing about plans is that you want a plan that’s a good plan and one that you can fi t things into. But you don’t want a plan that’s so complex that you have

no options,” Pumphrey said. Pumphrey said they create broad plans that can easily be altered and adapted to depending on the situation. “I think we’re very prepared. I think the H1N1 [virus] helped us to even get prepared more, at that time,” Adams said. “Because that was kind of the fi rst big incident for the United States, if you want to say, or Colorado, or even Ev-ans, that we have gone through, such as a pandemic type. ... Learning off of that, I think the university is very prepared to handle multiple, diff erent inci-dences.” By performing “hot washes,” which are essentially analyses of lessons learned for incidences, the university is able to update and prepare for a large range of situations, Adams said.See Ebola on page 12

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ARTS&CULTUREMARCUS GARVEY PROMOTES UNITY THROUGH PRE-KWANZAA

By La’Asianee Brown [email protected]

While the title of the workshop, “How to Take Over Your School (Without Getting Kicked Out),” was a promising preface to the night’s events, it seemed as though no one expected the conversation to shift into a discussion about Ferguson last Tuesday in the University Center Ballrooms. Marcus Garvey’s annual Pre-Kwanzaa events began last week with guest speaker Stephanie Brown James. Pre-Kwanzaa coordinator Darian Gray themed the week’s events around umoja, the Swahili word for unity. James used Ferguson as a platform to relay her advice on how to unify the student body to take action on injustices that effect the University of Northern Colorado’s student body. “I think it’s important for people and the students here, specifically at UNC, to realize that we have to go from just being passionate about an issue and work to create strategic solutions and sustainable changes that will better both the campus and the community,” she said. “I think that the students here are well-positioned to live in their power and actually have real changes made that will help people.” Pre-Kwanzaa continued last Wednesday night with a trivia game entitled “Are You Smarter than a Graduate?” Gray said the game consisted of three categories, including Kwanzaa, African-American history and topics from last Tuesday’s guest speaker.

Participants competed for a brand new PlayStation 4. The room was divided into teams who had to pick questions from each category in a jeopardy-themed game. Isaiah Freeman, a freshman secondary education major, answered many of the questions for one team. “My grandmother actually used to run the Marcus Garvey [center] back in the day. My grandmother is just really big on teaching me my roots, so just my entire my life, I’ve pretty much been learning all of this,” he said. Freeman was the projected winner of the night, but in a twist of events Hananya Sisaye, a freshman pre-nursing major, once a teammate of Free-man’s, walked away with the grand prize. Last Thursday night, the pre-Kwanzaa festivities concluded with a feast held at the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center. Students and faculty members gathered at the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center for a dinner filled with cultural foods provided by the Garvey staff and the African Students Association. President of the African Students Association Spany Mburunyeme walked around engaging in conversation with everyone and seemed pleased with the turn out. He said he enjoyed collaborating with the Gar-vey staff to hold programs such as the dinner because it unified not only the Black Student Union, which is run out of the Garvey, but the African Students Association as well. “I feel really great. It’s an opportunity to try to open up our club, and we feel the Garvey is like a bridge for us to build a connection with the rest of the students on campus and off campus,” he said.

The pre-Kwanzaa event series brought students out for a speaker, trivia game and dinner. Above left , freshman pre-nursing major Hananya Sisaye was the winner of “Are You Smarter than a Graduate?” Above right, criminal justice major Abdisalam Mumin helps serve at the closing feast.

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WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB LIGHTS UP SPIRITS

By Correll Comer [email protected]

Amidst stressful and chaotic preparations for finals week, hard-studying students were given a break, when the UNC Women’s Glee Club held an afternoon holiday concert in Michener Library last Wednesday. At the start of the performance, the women, all clad in black with red accessories, outnumbered the audience two to one. The voices of the 60 women carried melodic holiday tunes throughout the library, beckoning those who hadn’t already joined the audience to watch the show. By the end of the performance, the audience had grown to outnumber them. People were watching from the balcony above and from every nook and cranny on the first floor of Michener Library. Jill Burgett is the director of Choral Music Education and the associate director of choral studies at UNC. She has been coaching the women in the Women’s Glee Club for five years. With roughly 90 members, it is one of the largest

female collegiate groups in the nation. “Dr. B is definitely part of the reason why I’ve stayed involved in Women’s Glee,” said Olivia Piotter, a junior elementary education major who joined the ensemble two years ago. “She’s a wonderful and fantastic director. I love her. I’ve definitely grown musically since being a part of this.” Piotter’s friend Laura Malcom, who is also a junior majoring in elementary education, has been a part of the choir since she was a freshman, and after three years of being in the group, she says Burgett is largely why she’s continued coming back. “Dr. B is really why I haven’t tried to audition to the next choir level, because I just love her,” Malcom said. “She’s so encouraging, so positive and efficient. We work on a lot of hard music in a short time, but she makes practices fun.” The Women’s Glee Club is a century-old group at UNC, and Burgett said she is proud to carry the tradition. At the beginning of each semester, she reminds her students of the torch they carry with a picture of the Women’s Glee Club back in 1914. “It wasn’t extremely difficult to audition. It was a com-bination of some sight reading and singing,” Piotter said.“I

wasn’t part of a choir when I was in high school, so I really wanted to be a part of one in college.” After being accepted into the choral ensemble, the women receive one credit for their participation in the group, which practices for one hour, three times a week. “It’s a good way to satisfy my need for music. It’s really fun and it’s my bright spot on my Monday, Wednesday and Fridays,” Malcom said. Accompanied by a keyboard player, the Women’s Glee Club didn’t sing the traditional winter holiday tunes but instead sang several ballads made specifically for female choral ensembles. Their final song, “Eatnemen Vuelie,” gained its fame as the opening song in the recent movie “Frozen”. The song involves a Norwegian singing technique called joiking. Similar to chanting in Native American cultures, joiking involves repetition of phrases or sounds throughout the piece. The glee club recieved a standing ovation from the audience at the end of the holiday concert. To find out more about the Women’s Glee Club or any of the four choral ensembles at UNC, or to find out about upcoming performances, go to www.unco.edu/arts/music/ensembles/choirs/.

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EDITORIAL: NFL FUMBLES RAY RICE INCIDENTBy Brad Klump

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This past week former Balti-more Ravens running back Ray Rice won his appeal of his lifelong ban from the NFL. The ban stems from the events that took place between Rice and his now-wife Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City elevator earlier this year. Rice was able to win the appeal because the NFL is not allowed to punish a player twice for the same crime, and commis-sioner Roger Goodell had initially suspended the running back for two games. By now, most of us have seen TMZ Sports’ video showing a bru-tal case of violence committed by a man against someone who is about half his size and weight. There is no excusing what Ray Rice did. The video evidence made that crystal clear. But what isn’t so clear is the National Football League’s and Goodell’s handling of player misconduct. Because let’s not fool ourselves: the domestic violence issue is a much bigger problem for the NFL than just Ray Rice. This year alone Rice is joined by three other players currently fighting legal battles over domestic abuse. Some teams have placed players on an exempt list, while other teams such as the Arizona Cardinals have cut players who faced arrest charges. We also often overlook that it is very likely that the NFL, the Ravens and Goodell saw and had access to the tape when they imple-mented the original suspension of two games. After a legal mediation session in which the commissioner

and company sat down with Rice and his wife to discuss exactly what happened, they then decided that a two game suspension would be a fair punishment for Rice’s crime. The NFL was also able to strong-arm Rice into a diversion program so he wouldn’t face jail time but instead had to attend mandatory counseling. While Rice faced a two-game suspension, Broncos receiver Wes Welker faced a four game sus-pension for taking Adderall, and Browns receiver Josh Gordon was given 12-week suspension for test-ing positive for marijuana. Welker, in all likelihood, probably used the Adderall to aid recovery from one of his concus-sions, and Gordon was almost able to prove that his positive test was due to secondhand smoke. Yet he was suspended six times as long as Rice was. Math isn’t my strong suit, but those numbers don’t add up. It just seems like another example of a professional athlete getting away with something that is against the law. Rice committed a crime and wasn’t ever fairly punished for it. How could anyone sit in a room with all of the facts and arrive at the decision the NFL made? What Rice did was wrong, and there is no way to justify what he did in that elevator, but the reason Rice and his legal team were able to win his appeal was because the NFL could not punish him again. But when the NFL realized they had fumbled this issue and tried to extend his punishment, they broke their own rules. The severity and prominence of the video make a story that can take up large sections of media time.

During the wake of the TMZ video release, ESPN suspended popu-lar writer and analyst Bill Simmons for three weeks when he called out the League’s sub-par handling of the incident. Simmons called the commissioner a liar dur-ing a podcast, and ESPN suspended him for not meeting their guidelines for coverage. The fact that Sim-mons was suspended for expressing his disap-pointment reveals just how powerful the NFL is. The NFL is what keeps the power on at ESPN, and the management felt that questioning its actions was a negative action as a company. Simmons is one of ESPN’s most popular writers, and ESPN made a strong statement of its stance by suspending him. As fans and consumers, there is not a whole lot we can do. Pretty much the only thing that could possibly hurt the NFL would be a loss of its corporate partnerships. As fans, we must accept this, but as for me, I would like to see the NFL do a better job teaching and men-toring its young players to make good decisions. While we can look up to profes-sional athletes for their excellence on and off the field, we cannot continue to depend on them to always model positive behavior for the rest of society. Athletes are just as likely to mess up as everyone else, and then they are given a large paycheck to play a sport in front of thou-sands of adoring fans. Rice is now free to sign with

any NFL team; However, many teams and players have said there is no place for him in their teams’ locker rooms. Denver defensive captain Terrence Knighton tweeted “As players we must speak up. Stand up for what’s right. I don’t give a damn who you are or how much money you make. No place for this.” Knighton is perhaps the most respected individual in the Bron-cos locker room, in my opinion, outside of Peyton Manning, and his words reveal a lot about the character of one of the “good guys” in the NFL. However, there are 31 other teams in the league, and at one point, one team will decide that their need for a running back out-weighs the potential for a negative reaction and inevitably sign Ray Rice to their team. Whether it is this year or next, it’s very likely Rice will get another shot in the NFL. When that day comes, fans will once again be forced to ques-tion the integrity of the NFL, and frankly, it’s beginning to get old.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SPLITS TWO GAMESBy Makalah [email protected]

“Keep grinding,” said Stephanie Lee, senior center on UNC’s women’s basketball team, last Tuesday evening aft er the Bears took down Air Force, 76-35. “Coach said, ‘Keep on the gas pedal,’ and that’s what we did,” she said. Th e win marked the team’s best off en-sive game of the season, shooting 31-of-55 while adding 23 assists. As far as defense goes, the Bears (5-2) forced 16 turnovers and benefi ted from 20 points off turnovers. Northern Colorado senior guard D’Shara Strange sketched out a great game, shooting at 60 percent and going 3-5 from behind the 3-point line. Strange left the night as the team’s leading scorer with 21 points, a new season high, along with fi ve assists and two steals. Strange said she was upset her perfor-mance didn’t end in a double-double while Lee said she couldn’t be more thankful for

Strange’s presence, both on the court and off of it. “It’s almost like a comfort zone for me to have her back,” Lee said. “She’s playing great, and I’m just so thankful. Not enough words can describe what a great leader and role model and friend she is, on and off the basketball court. I’m very thankful to have her on this team.” Lee also had a well-performing night, scoring 19 points and adding three blocks and three steals. Bears head coach Kamie Ethridge said she was happy with the eff ort from Lee and Strange, along with the other starters who “just dominated their minutes.” She also expressed how proud she was of the team’s success thus far. “Omaha gave us a lot of things that we had to deal with that we hadn’t seen with their zone, and we really recovered and played great defense in the second half there,” said Ethridge. “I’m pretty happy with where we are, mainly because I feel like we’re getting better in a lot of diff erent

phases, which helps us, hopefully, for the next team, South Dakota State. Th ey bring a tradition-rich program that knows how to win and is used to winning, so we have to match that.” Northern Colorado fell short in match-ing the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, as they lost 71-48. Strange, who fi nished with nine points, three steals and four turnovers, described the game as a “punch to the gut” and referred to the lack of preparedness as the primary contributor to the lost. “We just couldn’t match their intensity. I think they came out strong and hard. We weren’t prepared for it,” Strange said.

SDSU scored 14 points before UNC’s fi rst bucket. At the end of the fi rst, the Bears were shooting at 28 percent and knocked down 4-8 of their free throws, compared to SDSU’s 100 percent free throw percentage. Th e halft ime score was 31-20 with South Dakota State ahead. Th e second half didn’t bring much of a diff erent momentum than the fi rst. UNC junior guard Kyleigh Hiser stepped up and began knocking down shots. Hiser fi nished as the team’s leading scorer with 11 points and going 2-for-3 from the free throw line. Th e Bears will return to the Bank of Colorado Arena on Wednesday night to take on Grand Canyon University.

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The pandemic plan has dif-ferent levels depending on where a contagion appears. A four-tier system helps the team prepare for the worst. The first tier is concerned with being aware of contagions that exist on a worldwide scale. Once a contagion appears in America, the second tier is activated: plan-ning. If a contagion moves into Colorado, those plans are imple-mented in the third tier. The fourth and final tier is activated if a contagion appears on campus. Response would be initiated, the health department would be uti-lized and the incident, depending on the severity and scope, would become a national concern. “Level of success is going to depend on how you get resources and how you execute the plan,”

Pumphrey said. “That’s really what it’s going to boil down to.” Campuses look at situations that they do not wish to look at, Vetter said, but UNC is prepared as a result. If a very contagious and large-scope emergency were to occur, Pumphrey said resources would be strained, response would slow down and the incident would be more difficult to fix. At that point, the federal government would get involved. “We have to just make sure that we’re going to go ahead and be reasonable in our response and not overreact ... but also be cognizant of the fact that we’re dealing with something that could be very dangerous,” Pum-phrey said. Preparedness for a situation of this scope and severity quickly starts looking like something out

of a sci-fi or horror flick. “You want to have a mental concept that even if it’s really big, it’s not overwhelming,” Pumphrey said. “You still have a plan and you’re going to have some success with that plan.” By preparing for larger scale pandemics, the university is able to be more prepared for smaller incidents as well. “Overall, I feel very, very comfortable with where we’re at,” Pumphrey said. Vetter said the school is care-ful to notify students and parents of a situation without causing too much panic. “We want to make sure people are educated and kept up to date, but we don’t want people to go into panic mode,” Vetter said. “If we go into a mode where we have to respond to some type of pandemic or some type of

disease, communicable disease, on campus, there’s no doubt it’s going to be an inconvenience. Nobody’s going to like it,” Pum-phrey said. “So I would ask the students then to have patience.” Being aware and noticing abnormalities is one of the best ways to be prepared for any kind of emergency, Vetter said. “I think hygiene is the biggest thing that students can do to help reduce the risk and the spread of the illness,” Adams said Pumphrey suggested that students prepare for incidents in which they become unable to leave their homes. This type of preparedness would not only help in health scares but also many environ-mental emergencies. Vetter said roommates who live off campus should provide each other with emergency

contact lists of family members. “Wash your hands. Be aware of your surroundings. Those are probably the two biggest ones,” Vetter said. In case of an emergency or suspected health concern, call 911. Dealing with outbreaks of influenza and meningitis are big-ger concerns to Vetter than the outbreak of Ebola. “And a lot of people don’t think about influenza being something that will kill people, but it does,” Vetter said. With the aid of the media, Ebola is on the forefront of many people’s minds. However, UNC has not only prepared for Ebola but also many other possible incidents. “But next year it’ll be a new disease of the year. ... Every year it’s like there’s a new disease of the year,” Vetter said.

The Mirror—December 8, 2014

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