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Volume 99, Number 2
March 14, 2012
College Students Protest Cuts to Higher Education By Angel Silva
EL VAQUERO NEWS EDITOR
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ollege students and instructors from across the state gathered at Sacramento on March 5 for a massive protest against continued budget cuts to higher education in California. The protesters gathered at Southside Park, arriving on buses and carrying signs. Colleges that sent students to Sacramento included Glendale, Pasadena City College, Cal State Stanislaus, UC Berkeley, CSULA, CSUN, and several others. The march to the state capitol started at 10 a.m. Students held signs and chanted in unison. “Students united, will never be divided,” “Hear us out or we’ll vote you out,” “No cuts, no fees – education should be free!” [See Protest, page 2]
EL VAQUERO ONLINE Photo by Angel Silva
MARCH IN MARCH: Students and instructors chant while holding signs as they march from Southside Park to the state capitol om March 5. Community colleges across California are raising tuition from $36 to $46. See related story, left and pages 2, 8-9.
Social Sciences Celebrate Lacks By Jonathan Caballeros
EL VAQUERO STAFF WRITER
A IN THIS ISSUE News.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10 Opinion.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Center Spread.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Entertainment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-14 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
rguments rose, points were made and some emotional moments were shared Thursday afternoon, during the presentation “What’s in a name? HeLa/ Henrietta Lacks: Two Sides of Same Coin.” Discussion was led by Reina Prado and J.C. Moore. A crowd of about 25 people came to LB205 to discuss the life of Henrietta Lacks, and immortality of
her cells which were the first to survive outside the human body. The discovery of the HeLa cells in 1951 have led to the cures of many diseases, including polio, discovered by Jonas Salk in 1954. The down side is that Lacks’ family never knew she was being experimented on. Neither family, or the public, knew of the torturous treatment Lacks would also receive from the doctors at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Md.
The type of treatment and the face Lacks’ family didn’t know about how her cells were used, served as a starting point for Moore’s presentation. “If Henrietta Lacks were a white female, would the treatment be different?” said Moore, a professor of sociology in GCC “Would the treatment or the discovery have been different?” “With such good intentions, we tend to sometimes forget that people are involved in [See HeLa, page 6]
ONE BOOK/ONE GCC: The social sciences department has planned numerous events around the story of Henrietta Lacks, including lectures, a book club discussion and a film screening.