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As fear of the Ebola virus spreads, ad-ministrators at Duke are taking precau-tions in case the virus hits locally.

Duke Medicine confirmed a false Eb-ola scare last Thursday and continues to make preparations to handle the possibil-ity of an Ebola patient. Meanwhile, the University is taking separate measures to protect members of the Duke commu-nity—particularly travel restrictions and regulations. Travel restrictions to West Africa have been expanded, and Duke is monitoring the activity of students, faculty and staff in the region, said Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh.

“Ever since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, we have been monitoring the situ-ation closely with infectious disease ex-perts in Duke Medicine,” Cavanaugh said.

A baby who had recently been in West Africa was brought to Duke Regional Hos-pital with a fever late Wednesday night, spokespeople confirmed Thursday. The case proved to be false, however.

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As peers end student loans, Uni. keeps aid policyThough many elite colleges offer

no-loan policies, Duke maintains its balance of grants and loans

Photo Courtesy of Th e Washington PostDr. J. Soka Moses prepares to enter the Ebola ward at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia.

Jenna ZhangLocal & National Editor

Although offering loans places Duke in a minority among elite universities, the University stands behind its financial aid policies.

Several weeks ago, the University of Chi-cago announced the launch of No Barriers, a program that will replace student loans with grants in all need-based financial aid packages beginning with the Class of 2019. Its new commitment to eliminating loans leaves Duke and the California Institute of Technology as the only two top-10 universi-

ties in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings that still offer loans in need-based financial aid packages.

Duke currently has policies in place to limit the loans given to any student in one year and to keep low-income students from taking loans altogether. Although the University has considered going completely loan-free in the past, there remain significant financial bar-riers to getting rid of stu-dent loans, Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of finan-cial aid, wrote in an email Saturday.

“It’s an expensive proposition,” Rabil wrote. “And we believe that the policies we have in place minimize the debt a student

has to incur while he or she is here.”

‘An expensive proposition’Although many top colleges and univer-

sities have taken the step to go loan-free in recent years, the financial bur-den is considerable and has proven intractably problematic for some.

But going loan-free is not entirely out of the question, Rabil added. The ongoing Duke For-ward capital campaign, which aims to raise $3.25

billion by 2017, stands to raise more than $400 million for financial aid, she said—noting that whether Duke will consider a

It’s an expensive propo-sition. And we believe

that the policies we have in place minimize the debt a student has to incur while he or she is here.

— Alison Rabil

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Brianna Siracuse | Th e ChronicleDespite giving up 465 total yards of off ense, the Blue Devil defense held Virginia to 13 points as Duke clinched bowl eligibility for the third straight year, a fi rst in the program’s history. Th e win also put the Blue Devils atop the ACC Coastal Division (See story on Page 6).

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Homecoming celebrations draw largest crowd in years

There were so many highlights—it was

a big hit. I think it was a great foundation on which to build even bigger week-ends in the future.

— Sterly Wilder

Rachel ChasonUniversity Editor

Students and alumni turned out for Homecoming 2014 in record numbers.

Between 4,000 and 5,000 alumni re-turned to campus for the weekend’s festivities, estimated Sterly Wilder, Trin-ity ’83 and associate vice president for alumni affairs. She said this year’s Home-coming had one of the best turnouts in recent years. Wilder said a number of factors—including the ideal weather, enthusiasm about the football team and introduction of a first year reunion—con-tributed to excitement about the weekend.

“There were so many highlights—it was a big hit,” Wilder said. “I think it was a great foundation on which to build even bigger weekends in the future.”

Wilder said that of the estimated alumni on campus, ap-proximately 2,200 actually registered for Homecoming activities online. She explained, though, that because regis-tration is not required, the actual num-ber of attendees was higher.

Traditional Homecoming events like President Brodhead’s dance on Friday and Saturday’s football game against the University of Virginia were well at-tended. Alumni also appreciated new

and there was never a disruption in ser-vices within the hospital and Duke Re-gional continues to operate per usual,” Duke University Health System said in a statement.

Newly established protocols require all patients entering Duke University Health System to be screened for possible risk of exposure to Ebola. In addition to creat-ing its own regulations, Duke Medicine is working to help the University develop policies, Cavanaugh said.

“Duke Medicine is also coordinating closely with Duke’s Student Health Center and Employee and Occupational Health to ensure the safety of Duke student, staff and faculty members,” he added.

Cavanaugh noted that the University has been determining strategies in collab-oration with the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention, the North Carolina State Department of Health and Human Services and leaders from Duke’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness.

Duke has enforced full country travel restrictions on four countries for under-graduate students so far—Liberia, Guin-ea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Restrictions were in place for Sierra Leone prior to the outbreak for security reasons, but restric-tions were placed on Liberia and Guinea in August. The restrictions on Nigeria came later this Fall.

“[The restrictions] apply to under-graduates potentially traveling on Duke programs,” Cavanaugh wrote in an email Sunday. “Coordination and oversight for this effort is coordinated though the In-ternational Travel Oversight Committee.”

events—Wilder said—including a din-ner specifically for the Class of 2014 on Saturday.

The first year reunion was co-chaired by Eliza Bray, Trinity ’14 and former Re-cess photography editor for The Chron-icle, and Vinesh Kapil, Trinity ’14. Bray said she hoped it would develop a sense of class camaraderie.

“Real life is fun, but everyone is so ex-cited to come back to campus and loves Duke so much,” Bray said. “We wanted to capitalize on that excitement right away.”

She and Kapil helped organize “Sat-urday Night at Satis,” an event where the Class of 2014 had the opportunity to wrap up their weekend at Satis-faction Restaurant.

“Our job wasn’t hard because there was already so much excite-ment surrounding the weekend,” Bray said. “A lot of people were already planning on

coming back to campus, so we just sent emails reminding them to register.”

More than 400 members of the Class of 2014 registered for Homecoming ac-tivities this year—a jump compared to the approximately 50 that have signed up in past years, Bray noted.

“Everyone seemed excited, so it would be great to build off of that mo-mentum and create some sort of tradi-tion for future years,” Bray said.

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For the graduate and professional student community—as well as staff and faculty members—traveling to these countries is strongly discouraged by the administration. Cavanaugh said that the administration is still discussing an over-all approach to travel policies for these areas.

Further precautions taken by the Uni-versity include monitoring student, fac-ulty and staff locations across the world, Cavanaugh noted. Members of the Duke community who have recently traveled to West Africa are responsible for con-tacting Employee Occupational Health and Wellness or the Student Health Center before coming back to Durham. Prior to returning to campus, they must consult with medical personnel.

“It is critical that we will be able to identify the location of individuals trav-eling internationally so that we can pro-vide support as conditions warrant,” he said.

Although many universities have enacted similar restrictions, not all of Duke’s peers are doing so. Yale Univer-sity, for instance, has maintained that it will leave travel to West Africa open—even after a student who traveled to Li-beria for research was hospitalized in a false alarm for the virus.

“As an academic institution with a re-search and teaching mission and a long tradition of service, it is important for our clinicians and investigators to be able to go where they can put their train-ing and expertise to the highest, best use,” Yale President Peter Salovey said in a written statement. “Some members of our community with special expertise may be called on to engage directly in order to advance knowledge and under-standing, to treat the sick or to tend to those who are displaced or suffering.”


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no-loan policy after the campaign remains a question for President Richard Brodhead and Provost Sally Kornbluth.

The University of Chicago is also in the middle of a capital campaign, aiming to raise $4.5 billion—part of which will be used to cover the cost of transitioning to the loan-free policy. In addition to the fundraising campaign, the university will also draw on its endowment of $6.7 billion, which is roughly on par with Duke’s $7 bil-lion.

Beginning with Princeton University’s decision to go loan-free in 2001, many top tier colleges and universities have adopted no-loan policies over the past decade—in-cluding Harvard University, Yale University and Columbia University. Although these institutions have significantly larger endow-ments than Duke, other universities with comparable or smaller endowments have also opted for no-loan policies in recent years, including the University of Pennsyl-vania and Dartmouth College—with en-dowments of $7.7 billion and $3.7 billion respectively, according to the 2013 Nation-al Association of College and University Business Officers Commonfund study of endowments.

When Duke changed its financial aid policies in 2008 to offer no more than $5,000 in loans to any student in one year, the administration considered all pos-sible scenarios—including going loan-free. Rabil noted that it was projected, however, that millions of dollars in additional aid would be required.

“That translates into a very large in-flux into endowment when you’re only spending a small percentage of the inter-

est earned on the endowed funds,” Rabil wrote.

A number of universities have rolled back on no-loan policies in recent years af-ter they proved too costly. Williams College eliminated student loans in the 2008-09 school year but revoked its no-loan policy three years later, and the University of Vir-ginia rolled back its policy of no loans for low-income students after the cost of pro-viding grants nearly quadrupled.

A number of smaller schools have main-tained their no-loan policies despite these financial challenges, including Amherst College and Davidson College. Several oth-er schools have a policy similar to Duke’s, with no loans for low-income students—in-cluding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Currently, UNC is spending more than it has fundraised from private sources on the Carolina Covenant program to pro-vide loan-free financial aid packages to low-income students, Shirley Ort, associate provost and director of Scholarships and Student Aid at UNC, wrote in an email Fri-day. Whereas the Covenant’s endowment is only about $6 million, $150 million would be required to fully fund the program—a long way off.

“We started the program without having raised all the money we needed first,” Ort said. “Had we waited for that, we may never have started the program.”

Soaring tuition and student debtThe University of Chicago’s announce-

ment comes at a time of rapidly rising tu-ition and student debt. From 2001 to 2011, the cost of private colleges and universities rose by 28 percent, according to a report by the National Center for Education Statis-tics. Tuition at Duke increased 3.9 percent from last year—from $44,020 to $45,800—and on average, rose 4.46 percent per year

between 2002 and 2012.Rising costs have imposed greater finan-

cial constraints on both parents and stu-dents—many of whom incur considerable student debts during their four years at col-lege. Currently, students graduate with an average debt of a little less than $19,000, Rabil said—a figure below both the state and national averages of $29,400 and $23,893 per student respectively, according to the Project on Student Debt.

“We believe the amount is manageable, especially since the vast majority of the loans are subsidized federal loans that do not accrue interest while enrolled and have income-based repayment options,” Rabil wrote.

Students, however, have pointed out that the burden of student loans remains considerable for many.

“When people graduate, they graduate with all that debt, and if they can’t find a job, then they’re screwed,” senior Chelsea Zhou said. “I’m lucky because my parents are helping but some people aren’t so for-tunate.”

Sophomore Tina Chen said her finan-cial aid package this year is less generous than that of the 2013-14 academic year, when Duke had attempted to match finan-cial aid packages offered by other universi-ties.

“Once you’re securely nested into Duke, they change your financial aid package to match their own calculations,” she said. “I guess it makes sense that they do that, but at the same time, I wished they’d let me know in advance.”

Duke currently does not require stu-dents whose parents earn less than $40,000 a year to borrow, Rabil said. By ensuring that students graduate debt-free, no-loan packages target low-income students, who might otherwise hesitate to enroll in costly private institutions.

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Although loan-free policies target low-income students, the cost of providing loan-free financial aid also rises with the number of low-income students enrolled, Ort noted.

Limitations of loan-free policyWith a loan-free policy in place, students

may still have to borrow in order to cover their family’s Expected Family Contribu-tion, Rabil noted. The EFC, or the portion of total costs which families are expected to pay, is calculated by individual universities based on families’ different financial situ-ations. This amount, however, sometimes exceeds families’ actual capacity to pay.

“Students will still borrow to cover their parents’ contribution so the graduating debt even at a place like Harvard where there is the most generous financial aid program with no loans is still $5,000 to $7,000 per student,” she wrote.

Kathleen Zhou, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania—which has a no-loan financial aid policy in place—called the policy “bogus” and added that her family’s EFC was so high that borrow-ing was unavoidable.

“If they had given me loans imme-diately in my freshman year, I probably wouldn’t have chosen to attend,” she said. “But really seeing the amount of loans I’ll need later, in the long-run, the end would have been the same regardless of whether or not Penn was loan-free.”

Whether EFC is perceived as excessively burdensome or reasonable can often de-pend on students’ individual backgrounds and lifestyles, Chen noted.

“Creating a financial package based on all of the different lifestyles of Duke students is very hard,” she said. “I guess money doesn’t really matter—it’s how you change your life around the money that matters.”


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Brianna Siracuse | The ChronicleDespite allowing 465 total yards, the Duke defense employed its “bend-don’t-break” method to perfection, as it held Virginia to 13 points.

Lesley Chen-Young | The ChronicleSophomore Alyse Whitaker registered a ca-reer-high 15 kills Sunday, but the Blue Devils still fell to visiting No. 11 North Carolina.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The ChronicleSenior Jessica Buttinger assisted on two goals, including the game-winner, in her final regular season game at Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium Sunday against James Madison.

Brian PollackStaff Writer

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Blue Devils’ 10-game winning streak snapped by UNC

Blue Devils edge out James Madison on Senior DayPUTTING THE ‘D’ IN DUKE

Giving up 465 yards of total offense isn’t usually a recipe for success, but the Blue Devils made it work Saturday.

The defensive numbers from Duke’s 20-13 homecoming victory against Virginia were not exactly ideal. In addition to giving

up more than 450 yards for the second straight week, the Blue Devils allowed

Cavalier quarterback Matt Johns to pile up a career-high 325 yards through the air without an interception. Senior wide receiver Miles Gooch had a career day as well, catching six balls for 129 yards and recording his first career 100-yard performance. The defense registered zero sacks, and forced just one turnover, a fumble on the second play of the game.

But for Duke, the only number that matters is the number of points the opponent scores—and Virginia only managed to put up 13 points against the Blue Devil defense.

“I say it over and over again, but I really believe it—we’re kind of a bend but don’t break type of defense,” linebacker David Helton said. “We’re going to have things that go against us, whether it’s people going out or big plays against us. We have that M.O. and identity that we are not going to let them score. That’s our kind of mentality.”

A huge component in keeping the

The Blue Devils turned their final home game of the regular season into a thrilling victory.

No. 8 Duke notched the go-ahead goal in the final minutes of regulation

to win 3-2 against the James Madison Dukes Sunday afternoon. Both

teams will finish their seasons on the road before beginning postseason play in November.

“It was a good fight for us,” senior midfielder Abby Beltrani said. “We fought through a lot. It was a tight game, and JMU is definitely feisty and they worked hard, so I think it was good for us to keep the intensity high the entire game and to stay on task, stick to what we know and then we ended up scoring so it worked out for us.”

The Blue Devils took their first lead of the game in the 66th minute when a high shot from senior forward Jessica Buttinger soared to the far side of the goal where freshman forward Ashley Kristen was positioned to tap the ball in for the 3-2 lead.

Duke (11-4) was immediately forced to protect its lead when the Dukes earned

Two days after sweeping Virginia and winning their 10th-straight game, No. 21 Duke could not protect its undefeated home record at Cameron Indoor Stadium, as it fell to rival No. 11 North Carolina in front of a raucous crowd of 3,873.

In the 105th meeting between the two teams Sunday, the Blue Devils were

swept by the Tar Heels in three sets—25-23, 26-24 and 25-20. Duke

was led by sophomore middle blocker Alyse Whitaker, who registered a career-high 15 kills with only four errors on 28 attempts. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the rest of the offense was not as effective.

“It felt like not much was working because the blocks were well set on our outsides,” Whitaker said. “We were ready to come out and play Carolina but we needed to come out more aggressive.”

North Carolina (15-2, 6-1 in the

Cavaliers off the scoreboard was Duke’s improvement as the game wore on, particularly in the secondary. Johns lit up the Blue Devils in the first half to the tune of 212 yards and one touchdown, but threw for only 113 in the final two quarters without getting his team into the end zone.

Toward the end of the second quarter, Virginia appeared to be settling into a groove offensively and scored 10 consecutive points to tie the game before halftime. When the Cavaliers smoothly drove down the field on their opening possession of the second half, it looked as if the Blue Devils would be in

ACC) rolled into Durham on the heels of a five-game winning streak—four of which were sweeps—and came prepared to protect the net. The Tar Heels dominated Duke (15-4, 7-1) up front, compiling 11.5 team blocks compared to the Blue Devils’ three. This made it difficult for Duke’s outside hitters to get any sort of rhythm going. Offensive leaders Emily Sklar and Jeme Obeime only managed 10 combined kills with 12 errors between their 45 shots.

“They’re a very good blocking team and that’s no surprise,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We knew that coming in that they’re doing very well, they’re a physical team. We’ve got some other strengths that at times we showed, but not enough to make a difference.”

During the first two sets, the Tar Heels only committed four errors, as opposed to Duke’s 16. North Carolina senior Chaniel Nelson had 13 kills—including both set-winners—as the Blue Devils struggled to close out either set. Late in the first set, Duke led 22-21, but soon after a timeout, the Tar Heels—who had not led since they held an 8-7

advantage—tied the game at 23. North Carolina proceeded to score the next two points and steal the set from the Blue Devils.

“Nothing was really going our way,” Whitaker said. “We couldn’t put the ball away. All around, we had team errors.”

The second set was more of the same, as the score was tied 12 times and neither team led by more than two throughout the set. With Duke down 23-21, Nagel called a timeout to rally the team. Fresh out of the break, the Blue Devils tied the game up at 23, with the tying point coming on a nice touch by senior Kelsey Williams, who contributed 42 assists. The game was tied up again after both teams traded points, but as in the first set, mistakes gave North Carolina the next two points and the set.

“We were doing some things pretty well,” Nagel said. “It’s just that when you’re playing a good opponent and the two of you are pretty comparable and tight, you can’t afford any miscommunication or lack of control…

trouble for the rest of the afternoon.Then came the turning point. Facing a

third-and-12 from Duke’s 13-yard line, Johns lofted a pass to wide receiver Keeon Johnson in the end zone, only to have it knocked away by defenders DeVon Edwards and Breon Borders—one of 10 pass breakups for the Blue Devils on the afternoon. That forced Virginia to settle for a game-tying field goal instead of a go-ahead touchdown.

Borders was a key force in the secondary throughout the game, totaling three pass breakups despite entering the game with just one on the season. After playing what he

considered a subpar game last week against Georgia Tech, he was determined to have a better showing in front of the home crowd.

“Immediately after the Georgia Tech game, I kind of figured they were going to come at me because I gave up a couple passes,” Borders said. “My defensive back coach, [Derek] Jones, preached that all week during practice. They’re going to come at me, I’ve got to play my technique and for the most part I did and I made some plays when I had to.”

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a penalty corner of their own. Beltrani surged forward to defend the shot and managed to deflect the ball outside of scoring range, transferring possession to the Blue Devils and securing the win.

“[I was thinking] ‘Just run fast, get out there quickly… just stop it, don’t let it in the goal’—and it worked out,” Beltrani said.

From start to finish, the game was filled with fast-paced action and pressure from both sides, with the first score of the game coming just six minutes into

the first half. James Madison (9-5) put the Blue Devils behind early when a baseline advance from redshirt junior forward Taylor West drew goalkeeper Lauren Blazing out of the goal. West took advantage, dumping the ball to junior forward Danni Wilson who finished in front of the goal to give the Dukes an early 1-0 lead.

“Nothing comes easy,” head coach Pam Bustin said. “They caught us in a moment where we let our guard down, and that’s something you just can’t let

happen. We’re getting better at it, but good teams will still find it when you don’t do it.”

Duke and James Madison both scored their next goals on penalty corner plays, with the Blue Devils scoring first to tie the score and the Dukes then surging ahead. Buttinger took control of the ball as the first half game clock wound down and passed to junior midfielder Aileen Johnson, who spun the ball under diving senior goalkeeper Hannah George, ending the half tied 2-2.

“We knew that if we just stuck to what we do—two-touch passing, [getting] back to our structure—that the game would work out for us, which it did,” Beltrani said.

Although the second half continued with the same tempo as the first, the score remained tied. Despite James Madison’s familiarity with high-scoring games—averaging 3.38 goals per contest—the high-speed action gave the Blue Devils an advantage.

“We’re a team that likes to keep the ball moving,” Bustin said. “We like to keep a good passing game going, and we were able to do that today, which I think kept possession in our favor most of the time.”

DUKE 0UNC 3

The Blue Devils rank fifth in the nation with just 15.1

points allowed per game.

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After that stop, the Duke defense raised its play to another level and held Virginia scoreless on its final five drives. Following Thomas Sirk’s touchdown pass that put the Blue Devils up 20-13, the Cavaliers picked up a few first downs as they drove for a potential game-tying touchdown. But once they started to enter Duke territory, the defense stiffened and forced three straight incompletions as Virginia turned the ball over on downs at the Duke 40-yard-line with just 2:14 left on the clock.

Head coach David Cutcliffe pointed to his team’s performance on third downs as a key factor in its ability to limit the damage. The Blue Devils allowed the Cavaliers to convert 5-of-8 third down attempts in the first half, but held them to 3-of-8 in the final 30 minutes.

“Their third downs hurt us badly in the first half. We had turned them into eight third downs in the first half. If you win five of those as opposed to losing five of those, you may not give up 10 points,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s football—it’s that tight a line in that thing. I thought the defense did a great job, particularly when it flipped into the second half. [Virginia] started winning the field position game….The field flipped on us a little, and that’s when our defense played best.”

Even though the yardage numbers indicate otherwise, the Duke defense is starting to establish itself as a stingy unit when it comes to giving up points. After yielding just 13 Saturday to Virginia,

At the end of the first set, [we had] a couple of errors. At the end of the second, for sure, we had some errors too...we just needed to execute better.”

In the third set, it was more of the same for the home squad. North Carolina began to make errors—it had five total in the final set, more than the other two sets combined—and the Blue Devils were able to build an 8-5 lead. The Tar Heels then stormed back to tie the game at nine. On the next play, Duke libero Sasha Karelov and Sklar collided during a serve for

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Lesley Chen-Young | � e ChronicleSophomore libero Sasha Karelov and the Duke squad had their perfect record at home broken up by the Tar Heels Sunday.

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another instance of poor communication. From that point on, the Blue Devils never held the lead again. They trailed by as many as five and gave up the last four points of the game.

During Duke’s victory against Virginia, it had less than six errors in each of its three sets. The mistakes piled up Sunday—21 attack errors to North Carolina’s nine—costing the Blue Devils the match. Although Duke had more kills—48 to the Tar Heels’ 47—the Blue Devils only had a hitting percentage of 0.209 compared to North Carolina’s 0.298.

Duke will look to bounce back as it continues its four-game homestand against Clemson Friday at 6:30 p.m.

the Blue Devils have held five of their first seven opponents to 17 points or less. That’s a tried-and-true method for winning, and the defense is happy to keep leading the team to victory.

“We have this saying ‘Win on D, count on me,’” Borders said. “Coach Cutcliffe tells us that every week. We kind of embrace the role. We kind of embrace trying to win the game on defense, and we come into every game expecting to win the game on defense.”

Sophia Durand | � e ChronicleCorner Breon Borders led the Blue Devil secondary with three pass breakups Saturday against Virginia.


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Lesley Chen-Young | The ChronicleSenior Abby Beltrani (pictured), Jessica Buttinger and Martine Chichizola were able to cap their final regular season home game with a 3-2 win Sunday.

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The game marked the last regular season game that Buttinger, Beltrani and classmate Martine Chichizola will play on Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium. The three seniors have combined to play in nearly 200 games throughout the course of their four years, notching 82 points between them. Chichizola missed the entirety of her junior year due to injury but has since returned to play in every game this season.

“[Martine has] positively contributed over her last four years, but on the field she’s really made a commitment

to help us be the team that we want to be,” Bustin said. “Abby’s leadership and ability to keep everything real on the field is awesome, and Jess’s passion and her charisma to play… [are] big parts of who we are.”

The seniors will play at least one more game on their home field when Duke hosts the ACC tournament in November. Before then, the Blue Devils will travel to No. 10 Syracuse and Richmond a week later to close out the regular season.

“This was a tight game, but we know that we’re going to keep getting better,” Beltrani said. “We have a good whole week of practice ahead of us, and then we’re [thinking] ‘take care of Syracuse, take care of Richmond and just keep going up.’”

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Preventing the next epidemicIf we learn nothing else from the current Ebola

outbreak, it will be that even epidemics are political and that ethical people—not uncaring markets—will give us the solutions for future problems.

Ebola, a virus whose horrifi c symptoms include profuse vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding,

has spread quickly across West Africa. Only months after the fi rst reported case of Ebola in Guinea, on September 30, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported the fi rst Ebola diagnosis on US soil—now there are two more.

Unfortunately for its victims, Ebola fi rst appeared in 1976 in two of the poorest countries in the world: Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. That epidemic claimed 300 lives. In the last few months alone during the current epidemic, more than 9,000 people have been stricken with Ebola and more than 4,500 of those have died. The unprecedented size of the current Ebola epidemic certainly merits the degree of global alarm raised about the issue. But we must ask ourselves: why has Ebola struck (again) with such a vengeance?

Since 1976 there have been tens of identifi able outbreaks of Ebola, yet no effective and approved preventative vaccine or treatment has emerged. It makes no market sense to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to create a product that would treat a disease that affects only a few hundred people—people who might not be able to pay full price either—every few years. The U.S. has not been immune to these kinds of value judgments. Drastic budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control directly stymied the development of vaccines and treatments for Ebola. Ultimately, market logic—promoting what is commercially profi table and cutting what is not—hurts not only our own preparedness to face global epidemics, but also values the lives of the light-skinned, wealthy and powerful more than marginal groups.

Meanwhile, we still joke about Ebola, a dual recognition of Ebola’s apocalyptic grimness but also the improbability of Ebola affecting us. “Don’t bring it back,” we cracked at friends who traveled by air this fall break. We have the luxury to make such jokes, but the people of West and Central Africa do not.

Even when we begin to pay attention to Ebola, it is largely to disingenuously politicize the epidemic. With election season fast approaching, politicians

have begun using Ebola as an instrument to further their own political ends. Whether to criticize the overreach of the Obama administration or to criticize the CDC, the dialogue misses the point, which should be an examination of the global inequalities the current Ebola epidemic has exposed. Most noxiously, preexisting xenophobic sentiments in the U.S. have leveraged Ebola-hysteria to encourage stopgap, anti-migration measures for anyone coming from Africa. Fear of the black patient has allowed racism to enter the discussion on Ebola. This kind of politicking is irresponsible and unproductive.

We were heartened to see Duke taking steps towards addressing the challenge of Ebola. Most notable is the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator’s (SEAD) new Ebola Innovations Challenge, which asks students to come up with business and policy solutions for the epidemic. However, while laudable, SEAD reads too little, too late. Ebola, and other commercially non-profi table diseases like it, is more than a game for students to sharpen their egos on. University initiatives like SEAD should incentivize non-market solutions to little addressed diseases so we can prevent the next epidemic. Otherwise, we are condemned to a cyclical historical forgetting.

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Yik Yak, PornHub and Facebook—we all use them, except that we can’t a lot of the time we’re on campus. That’s because Duke is centrally

located in a cellular service dead zone. This lack of access is only worsened by our insufficient wireless Internet that only sporadically extends beyond the walls of buildings. Students do not have the internet they deserve and actually need.

Often, I am unsure if I should walk back to West campus from Central or wait for the bus. When I open Transloc though, I’m left looking at a blank map—the lack of internet service means the application can’t update and that I don’t know how long the bus will be. With little time between some classes, deciding to wait for the bus can be the

difference between getting to class a couple minutes early and walking in 15 minutes late.

The buses run less often late at night and on weekends, easily leaving students waiting for 20 minutes before a bus arrives. Without Internet access, students are unable to effectively use this time to complete work. They can’t access necessary resources such as Sakai, Piazza or Sapling without Internet access. And with many students wasting upwards of an hour daily waiting for the bus, that time that could be spent much more productively in students already overscheduled days.

Furthermore, the cost of extending wireless Internet service to bus stops would be very little for a university like Duke. This cost would also be greatly overshadowed by the hundreds of hours of productivity gained daily.

The lack of connectivity throughout Duke also creates a safety issue, with members of the Duke community often relying on their cell phones in events of emergency. The limited cellular reception in conjunction with the spotty wireless internet creates large dead zones throughout the campus that blue emergency poles just can’t fi ll.

While covering the campus in wireless internet

would be more expensive than simply extending the network to bus stops, the safety and peace of mind it brings students alone would justify it. This campus-wide expansion of service would also allow students to make calls over the Internet and avoid the constant dropped calls many experience due to poor cellular service. And of course, students would be able to work on the go and outdoors more easily if this expansion were enacted.

With the campus undergoing so much renovation of late, doing something that benefi ts students here today just seems right. Expanding wireless Internet could be done for less than it costs to build an aesthetic glass box entrance to the Bryan Center and it would actually provide utility to the Duke community without

inconveniencing them during its installation.A more complicated but equally valuable

investment would be the addition of wireless Internet to all of Duke’s buses where rides can take 15 minutes or more. This addition would ensure Internet when the bus routes go off campus as well as times that the signal might cut out on bus rides on campus.

The administration needs to understand that glass boxes and new buildings are nice and will ultimately be valued by the student body, but that we need more fundamental things such as expanded internet access in this modern age. Hopefully, the next announcement from Larry Moneta will be about something students here today can enjoy soon without another building or access point being closed—wireless Internet is what students want today and will need for years to come.

Something as simple as campus wide wireless Internet will also raise student morale with campus renovations and help us to regain trust in the administration—it just makes too much sense to not do.

Justin Koritzinsky is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Monday.

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JustinKoritzinsky SOUNDOFFS FROM EDEN

When I stepped off the plane into the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for fall break, I couldn’t help but to notice that everyone seemed just a little on edge. An extra squirt of hand sanitizer here, a hand-

shake instead of a hug there. Ebola seemed to come up in every other conversation and the general atmosphere was that of a lecture hall full of students waiting to be handed their midterms back.

Unfortunately, everyone panicking about Ebola is missing the point. We

are so concerned with ourselves contracting this monstrous disease that we have forgotten about the thousands of people dying abroad. Our energy and focus has shifted from how to solve a desperate humanitarian crisis into the self-centered mania of a hypothetical American Ebola outbreak.

Public hysteria has reached an all-time high in Dallas. Middle school students at my sister’s school whisper about Ebola on the playground and even adults are being irrational with mailmen wearing gloves and people refusing to come to the city for interviews.

The more time I spent in the Big D, the more I started to understand where all the hysteria was coming from. The media’s fear mongering can be seen through articles titled “Dallas: A Journal of the Plague City” and Foreign Policy articles like “How to Keep Ebola out of Your Neighborhood,” which feed the ridiculous notion that the American public is at risk. For all we know, respectable news organizations like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are drafting pieces like “10 things you should know for the Ebola Apocalypse” and “How to Purchase a Personal Ebola Protection Suit.”

This self-centered hysteria is the result of what I would venture to call the “empathy gap.” This gap is the reason that we have people in front of the White House holding signs that say “Stop the Flights!” It’s the mentality that drives sinister articles like “Experts: Ebola vaccine at least 50 white people away” from satire organizations like the Onion. It is utterly disappointing because it seems to suggest that we as a society value to the lives of Americans and people living in this country more than the lives of those in Africa.

This value of life theory is important and worth reflecting on. The discussion about Ebola in the media and amongst most people I have talked to is largely focused on the new Ebola patients in the U.S., what their treatment will look like, who is to blame for this and all sorts of other precautions ranging from airport checkpoints to schools shutting down.

The reality is that the Ebola epidemic is a serious tragedy affecting thousands of real people. The few patients in the U.S. who have gotten the disease seem to lose their humanity and suddenly transform into carriers for the disease and threats to the public welfare. When Dr. Kent Brantly, an American doctor with Samaritan’s Purse working in Liberia, was brought to the U.S. for treatment, many people objected to treating him in the U.S. over concerns for their own safety. Many people demonized Thomas Eric Duncan, who tragically died in a Dallas hospital from the disease, as “irresponsible.” Social media revealed a particularly ugly response with tweets from Larry Elder reading, “What’s the basis for wrongful death suit by #Ebola man’s family? That he’s entitled to costly scarce non-FDA approved drugs?!? #Ungrateful” and responses such as “@larryelder he’s not even American we tried to save him #ingrates is right.”

To be honest, it isn’t surprising that Americans are suddenly much more interested in Ebola now that it has appeared on our turf. However, it is an important reality check that globalization makes the spread of disease diffi cult to stop. If the United States is serious about keeping Ebola from being a constant threat, we should also focus on stopping the outbreak in Africa. Critically low supplies and resources in affected countries are stifl ing the response effort and increasing the chances that Ebola could become a worldwide epidemic. So the next time you fl ip through the news on Ebola in the US, remind yourself of the thousands of patients and health care workers that everyone else seems to have forgotten about.

Shruti Rao is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Monday.

Because I don’t believe in attending class or staying on campus longer than I have to, I decided to extend my

fall break by nearly two weeks. In an effort to expand my cultural horizons, I planned to spend my fall break doing what most Duke students (wish they could) do, jet setting off to the closest resort I could find.

Unfortunately, after getting a little too turnt (also known as “blackout”) to function at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, I missed my flight to Las Vegas through a series of blurry memories involving several airports, rude immigration officers I can’t remember and a passport that can basically get you everywhere—yeah, I have connections with the United Nations because I’m important—and I somehow ended up—came to—in China.

As you can imagine, I was disappointed, mostly because I have been to Panda Express and did not like the food because I have taste buds. How was I going to enjoy being in real China? Also, remember severe acute respiratory syndrome? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Regardless of how I eventually managed to break in to

the People’s Republic, I decided to use this opportunity to bless the Duke Kunshan Campus in its first semester with my amazing advice.

First of all, I’m guessing that no one in the Duke administration has actually been to Kunshan or heard of Google Maps, because it took me an hour to get from Shanghai to Kunshan, meaning that the lauded “minutes to Shanghai” that DKU espouses in its advertising is false.

That’s basically like someone wanting to study abroad in New York City, but living in Philadelphia. And if you’ve ever been to Philadelphia or heard Will from the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” talk, you know that’s a bad thing. Furthermore, even though I love lying, like how I told my parents I would be spending fall break “catching up on work,” I found this egregious lie incredibly offensive because my time is more valuable

than that open bar at Homecoming.Second, the campus architecture

leaves much to be desired. I’m a snob about basically everything so I know what I’m talking about when I say that DKU’s campus looks like Penn Pavilion on crack, multiplied. Your guardian devil knows that the only reason a Duke education is worth it is so you can remember your hallowed college days with nostalgia on a Gothic campus. So take it from me when I tell you that DKU is essentially failing harder than most fi rst year students in their midterms. But maybe DKU’s ultra modern architecture mimics Chinese culture, so whatever.

I know that the demand to study abroad with DKU among undergraduates is almost as high as the entire state of Colorado, but let me impart some much-needed advice to your weary minds. Don’t. You can’t even access Facebook there, which makes the whole point of going abroad entirely pointless if you can’t even make it seem like you’re having the most fun.

I’m all for proving you’re better than someone else, but as for the University’s Napoleon complex (even though Duke in

France is apparently a thing) with other schools to establish an international satellite campus, while ours in Durham remains imperfect—mostly because Pinkberry is greater than Red Mango, to be honest—is appalling. As I write this fl ying fi rst class back to Durham, your guardian devil strongly suggests you all temper that yellow fever by not going to DKU—or Dallas, seriously, why is no one up in arms about the impeding Ebola induced zombie apocalypse a la “World War Z” (but with less running hopefully)? Duke students should be dedicated to the great things they’re doing in Durham—like fake tailgate or shopping at Harris Teeter.

Your guardian devil is currently opening up a Swiss bank account, for “tax reasons,” and is attempting to rent out DPAC for an upcoming Shooters pregame.

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