The Carolinian [April 7, 2009]

              THIS WEEK: APR 7 ~APR 13 2009
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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG
Toby Shearer
Staff Writer
If you don't regularly wash
your hands, if you drink water
from disposable plastic bottles,
if you think money donated to
the developing third world is just
a tax write off, Pulitzer, Peabody
and Polk prize winning journalist
and author Laurie Garrett has a
bone to pick with you.
Last Tuesday the ongoing Sci­ence
and Society lecture series
hosted Garrett lecturing from her
book The Coming Plague: Newly
Emerging Diseases in a World
Out of Balance which focuses on
pandemic disease outbreak, like
AIDS and SARS, and their rapid
globalization.
The Science -and Society series
began last February and is meant
"to provide a forum for the pub­lic
to have access to scientists and
scholars on issues where science
and public policy intersect;' ac­cording
to Professor Liam Duffy
who introduced Garrett to a
packed audience of UNCG stu-
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Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World
Out of Balance, speaking at the Science and Society series on Tuesday.
Chancellor discusses budget cuts
Lili Johnson
News Editor
In preparation for the still­to-
be-determined budget cut,
UNCG has already begun their
Reduction In Force (RIF) process
in regards to staff.
The removal of the laptop re­quirement
in January was also
made as a preparation, allowing
the university to save $700,000 a
year? previously allotted for need­based
financial aid _for the laptop
initiative. Now that money can be
put towards offsetting whatever
the budget cut may be.
While Chancellor Brady saud
she hopes that the cut will be
seven percent of the 2009-2010
budget, the reality is that it could
be larger.
"It's important to keep in mind
that the governor was pretty
friendly to (higher education).
Our cuts in her budget are less
than cuts to other state agencies,"
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affect it could have on the University community.
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dents and professors in the Jaylee
Mead Auditorium last Tuesday. ·
In November 2003, Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
struck mainland China, spread to
a hotel in Hong Kong and within
a matter of days spread globally
with cases reported in Canada
and other Asian countries. Ac­cording
to Garrett the scope of
action needed to contain the out­break
in China was massive, and
on a scale she feels would be hard
to duplicate in America.
Cheap, functional hospitals
sprung up all over mainland Chi­na
to deal exclusively with SARS
cases, medical checkpoints were
established at every train station
and roadway checking for fever,
rurp.l villages threw up make-shift
barriers isolating themselves from
outsiders and infection.
"A hundred years ago our an­swer
would have been to build a
bigger border. That's out of date
by a century," Garrett said Tues­day
night. "In today's world you
have to assume the microbes can
be globalized which means you
have to concentrate on building
your own resilience, your own
capacity, and collective and co­operative
agreements between
governments."
For Garrett a large part of
those cooperative agreements
mean more financial contribu­tions
to developing nations. Cur­rently
the allotment of foreign
aid in the congressional budget
accounts for only 0.5 percent of
the national budget in spite of the
sizable increases to foreign aide
spending made during George W.
Bush's two presidential terms, ac­cording
to Garrett.
"What we did see was a steady
increase in the number of people
in the world who are staying alive
with HIV infections thanks to
European and American donors
primarily," Garrett said. However
globally, and in light of the global
economic downturn, foreign aide
spending and charitable contri­butions
have fallen off.
Garrett also cited, as further
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• There are ways to take care of your hair
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Instead of buying a bottle of shampoo and
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