2A - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 2A - Wednesday, September17, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * At MOd tgar BAY.. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN DOUGLAS SOLOMON Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com dougsolo@michigandaily.com D IA G DANCE GQING GeREEN(ER) h M S' tike sales mak history Michigan State University's 2014 football season ticket sales are the second-highest in school history, The State News reported Monday. In total, 61,931 season tick- et packages were sold, which makes up 83 percent of Spartan Stadium's capacity. MSU season ticket sales increased 7 percent this year after the football team won the Big Ten Championship and the Rose Bowl last season. The 61,931 season ticket pack- ages total includes 14,000 stu- dent-season packages. Indiana University buys commercial drone Taehee Hwang, assistant pro- fessor of geography at Indiana University, bought a commercial drone he calls Phantom II, The Indiana Daily Student reported Monday. Hwang said he wants to use the drone to survey forests. The drone is.capable of taking pictures of land and conduct- ing detailed analyses of its sur- roundings. Hwang told The Indiana Daily Student the drone will help him give an analysis of an area, rath- er than just an image. Ridesharing services to be reconsidered in Austin Austin City Councilmember LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily LSA sophomore Stuart Inahuazo along with other brothers of Lambda Theta Phi perform their salute on the Diag Tuesday. CAMPUS EVENTS& NOTES Bitcoin in A2 LGBTQ film Animal Club Consulting info WHAT: Digital currency screening mass meeting session anthsaiouaa iil b talri" Chris Riley announced his plan to push for the legalizations of ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, The Daily Texan reported Monday. Riley said he wants to take advantage of this opportunity and work with ridesharingrcom- panies to make their service legal and available. To operate legally, rideshar- ing companies need to operate under transportation services. The Austin Police Depart- ment has been issuing citations and impounding ridesharing drivers' cars for not having a proper permit. -JACK T URMAN THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Travel company Bru- vion Travel will pro- vide clients with social media assistants, ABC News reported yesterday. These assistants will take photos of travelers at scenic spots dur- ing their vacation and upload the photos to social media. The Statement maga- zine investigates the University's progress in outer space research, changing scientific culture and the development of LSA theme semesters. FOR MORE, SEESTATEMENT, PAGE1B NASA released data that showed this August was the warm- est the planet had since records began in 1881, The Huffington Post reported on Sept. 15. 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Top general says US ground Obama calls Ebola outbreak troops may be sent to Iraq a threat to global security If airstrikes fail, new measures may be taken against Islamic State WASHINGTON (AP) - Amer- ican ground troops may be need- ed to battle Islamic State forces in the Middle East if President Barack Obama's current strategy fails, the nation's top military officer said Tuesday as Congress plunged into an election-year debate of Obama's plan to expand airstrikes and train Syrian reb- els. A White House spokes- man said quickly the president "will not" send ground forces into combat, but Gen. Martin Dempsey said Obama had per- sonally told him to come back on a "case by case basis" if the mili- tary situation changed. "To be clear, if we reach the point wher ers shoul troops on a ISIL target that to the the chairm of Staff, de the Senate mittee. He tants by an Pressed Levin, D- chairman, said if Obat isn't enoug "go back t make a r may includ forces." Dempsey scored the many lawr moves thr: on authori implement announced Tuesday, ti expanded *UE0 e I believe our advis- carrying out two airstrikes d accompany Iraqi northwest of Irbil and three ttacks against specific southwest of Baghdad. ts, I will recommend Democrats in Washington president," Dempsey, spoke of a fear that the United an of the Joint Chiefs State might inevitably become clared in testimony to dragged into yet another ground Armed Services Com- war on the heels of Afghanistan referred to the mili- and Iraq. "We must ... ask our- alternative name. selves if we can truly, 'vet' these later by Sen. Carl rebel groups beyond their known. -Mich., the panel's affiliations, and ensure we are the four-star general not arming the next extrem- ma's current approach ist threat to the region and the h to prevail, he might world," said Rep. Pete Visclosky, to the president and D-Ind. ecommendation that The same question came up le the use of ground at the Senate hearing, and Hagel said the U.S. will monitor closely y's testimony under- to ensure that weapons don't fall dilemma confronting into the wrong hands. "We have makers as the House come a long way" in our ability ough its own debate to vet the moderate opposition, zing the Pentagon to and the U.S. has learned a lot as the policy Obama it has funneled non-lethal aid to last week. In Iraq on the rebels, Dempsey said. he U.S. continued its House Republicans said military campaign, they worried that Obama was responding tepidly to the cur- rent threat by terrorists who have overrun large sections of Iraq and Syria and beheaded two American journalists. "If it's important enough to fight, it's important enough to win," said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., one 3 5 4 of the first lawmakers to address the subject in several hours of scheduled debate. A vote was expected in the House on Wednesday, and in the Senate within days. In the Senate, Republican leader Mitch 5 6 McConnell announced he would support the measure and Demo- 2 cratic leader Harry Reid pre- dicted bipartisan approval. The timetable was remarkably rapid by congressional standards, the result of a strong desire by law- 6 makers in both parties to adjourn quickly and return home to cam- paign for re-election. Only seven weeks before vot- 7 ers go to the polls, most Republi- cans had little stomach to oppose Obama on a matter of national security, particularly when polls, suggest he has the support of large segments of the public. President pushes for action as health crisis continues ATLANTA (AP) - Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to world security, Presi- dent Barack Obama on Tues- day broadly expanded the U.S. response by ordering thousands of troops to the region along with an aggressive effort to train health care workers and build treatment centers. He called on other countries to quickly supply more helpers, supplies and money. "If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hun- dreds of thousands of people affected, with profound eco- nomic, political and security implications for all of us," Obama declared after briefings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obama acted under pressure from regional leaders and inter- national aid organizations who pleaded for a heightened U.S. role in confronting the deadly virus, especially in the hardest- hit countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. At least 2,400 people have died, with Liberia bearingthe brunt. The president described people dying in the streets and health care systems near col- lapse from this latest outbreak. "In West Africa, Ebola is now an epidemic," Obama said. "It's . spiraling out of control, it is get- ting worse." At the same time, he offered assurances that the chances of an outbreak in the U.S. are "extremely low." The stepped-up U.S. response includes sending 3,000 troops to the region, including med- ics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help build treatment facilities and logistics specialists to assist in patient transportation. Troops would not provide direct care to Ebola patients, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. A substantial number will be sta- tioned at an intermediate base in Senegal, with others at locations in Liberia, he said. Obama also announced that Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, head of U.S. Army Africa, will head a military command center based in Liberia. The - announcement came the same day the World Health Organization warned that the number of West African Ebola cases could begin doubling every three weeks and that the crisis could end up costing nearly $1 billion to contain. Joanne Liu, president of Doc- tors Without Borders, said the global response was falling short. "The window of opportunity to contain this outbreak is closing," Liu told a meeting Tuesdayat the United Nations in Geneva. Dr. Margaret Chan, director- general of the WHO, welcomed Obama's announcement, call- ing the U.S. offer "precisely the kind of transformational change we need to get a grip on the outbreak and begin to turn it around." Nearly 5,000 people have become ill from Ebola in Libe- ria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nige- ria and Senegal since it was first recognized in March. WHO says it anticipates the figure could rise to more than 20,000. Obama described task ahead as "daunting" but said what gives him hope is that "the world knows how to fight this disease." With the addition of mili- tary personnel, administration officials said that the new U.S. initiatives aim to: -Train as many as 500 health care workers a week. -Erect 17 heath care facili- ties in Liberia of 100 beds each. -Set up a joint command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to coordinate U.S. and international relief efforts. -Provide home health care kits to hundreds of thousands, including 50,000 that the U.S. Agency for International Devel- opment will deliver to Liberia this week. -Carry out a home- and community-based campaign to train local populations on han- dling exposed patients. Meanwhile, a Senate panel held a hearing on the outbreak in Washington. Expected to testify were Dr. Anthony Fauci director of the National Insti- tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Kent Brantly, an American physician who contracted Ebola while work- ing in Liberia but recovered after treatment with an experi- mental drug. Obama met with Brantly at the White House on Tuesday before departing for Atlanta. At the hearing, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, declared, "This outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially cata- strophic for the world." Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said urgent action was needed. "We must take the dangerous, deadly threat of the Ebola epidemic as seriously as we take ISIS," he said, referring to the extremist group in Syria and Iraq. Separately, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, "Frankly, I'm a bit surprised the administration hasn't acted more quickly to address what is a serious threat, not just to Africa but to others across the world." He predicted action "in the coming weeks" by the exec- utive and legislative branches of government "to look at how do we best contain this very horrible disease." Obama administration officials said money for the stepped-up effort to combat the disease would come from $500 million in overseas contingency operations, such as the war in Afghanistan, that the Pentagon already has asked Congress to redirect to carry out humani- tarian efforts in Iraq and in West Africa. Officials said it would take about two weeks to get U.S. forces on the ground. 4