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September 27, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 24 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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LGBT
Student, professor share study to Congress
Blood drive
By Adam.Hayes iowastatedaily.com
CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Dawn Moon prepares Tonya Nelson during a blood drive in 2009. File photo: Iowa State Daily. ISU fans show support at a 2008 football game. Courtesy photo: Aaron Horn. Eli Horn shows off his scar to former ISU football player Cameron Bell. Courtesy photo: Aaron Horn
Child connects ISU campus to community ™
By Torey.Robinson iowastatedaily.com
Courtesy photo: Aaron Horn
Six-year-old Eli Horn’s parents stopped counting how much blood their son received after 50 units. It wasn’t about the little things during his chemotherapy treatment anymore — it was about Eli’s survival. “It became such a normal thing for Eli to need a unit of blood that we didn’t even think about it,” said Aaron Horn, Eli’s father. Eli was 3 years old when he was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma — a sentence that gave him a 30 percent chance of surviving until his eighth birthday. “Hearing that your child has cancer is absolutely crushing,” Aaron said. “You feel pretty numb from head to toe, and it only gets worse as the doctors describe what it will be like for your son to go through chemotherapy, radiation and painful treatments. It was devastating and it was hard, but
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you handle it because you have no other choice. You get up and start fighting and researching and doing whatever it takes because doing nothing isn’t an option.” Eli started fighting the day he was diagnosed. The family spent 32 days in Iowa City to begin the 3-year-old’s first round of chemotherapy. “We would go home for a week or two and then back to the hospital for another few weeks of treatment,” Horn said. “Eli would often [have no immunity due to low blood counts] and any kind of simple infection — like a cold — could give him a dangerous fever and we’d have to go straight back to the hospital. Most of his chemo treatments would be a week or so of getting chemotherapy every day, and then spending weeks recovering from the chemo wiping out his [red blood cell, white blood cell and platelet] counts.” Eli’s lifeline became blood — from complete strangers. “Eli would be getting red blood and platelet transfusions when these levels would drop dangerously low,” Aaron said. “Sometimes he would need blood and/or platelets every day for a while until his body could start producing its own again.” But it wasn’t enough. Eventually the Horns had to drive nearly 19 hours to New York City for Eli to receive treatment at the Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center. MSKCC is the only facility in the world that offered a 3F8 antibody treatment that could aid in combating neuroblastoma.
Horticulture
ISU Blood Drive
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday Great Hall, Memorial Union More than 700 student volunteers to participate ISU football, volleyball and gymnastics team members will be volunteering throughout the event
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Station houses space to study, research plants By Whitney.Sager iowastatedaily.com
Conducting research Nick Howell, superintendent of the Horticulture Research Station and graduate student in professional agriculture, said 15 faculty members and more than 20 graduate students from Iowa State are conducting
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Haiti The Horns stayed at the Ronald McDonald House a few blocks from the treatment facility at $35 per night for one year. “It’s much like a hotel with shared kitchen spaces and a playroom for the kids,” Aaron said. “Most of the families in the Ronald McDonald House were neuroblastoma families, which was a great resource of ideas and support.” Eli, still 4 years old, stayed positive. “Eli understands that his treatments are necessary to get rid of the ‘bad cells’ in his body,” Aaron said. “His antibody treatments are extremely painful, but he bravely walks through the door every day to get the treatment and knows that we will be there with him and that the pain is temporary and necessary. Eli’s attitude is positive, inspiring and courageous.” But Eli kept fighting, and eventually returned home to Ames — just in time for the 2008 Iowa State-Kansas football matchup. Parents of ISU football players and friends heard of Eli’s illness and frequently checked his progress. Several individuals contacted coach Gene Chizik about involving Eli in the team’s preparation for the game. Eli was invited to a practice and got a first-
ISD Style
From ornamental roses and apples to turtles and bluegill, the Horticulture Research Station is a place to conduct research and learn. Located east of Gilbert, the 230-acre research station is home to more than 80 research projects that are being conducted by ISU faculty and students.
Two members of the ISU community spoke to Congress about issues and hardships that surround students of the LGBT Blumenfeld community. They were two of the five main speakers that spoke to an audience of 75 people on behalf of a year-and-a-half long research study. The study included surveys from 5,149 students, faculty and staff from more than 2,000 colleges and universities across the United States. Warren Blumenfeld, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, and Jacob Wilson, junior in political science and women’s and gender studies, made the trip to Washington, D.C., to speak to Congress in the Capitol Visitor Building. Blumenfeld was one of four authors of the research report, “The 2010 State of Higher Education for LGBT People.” The research involved getting e-mail lists from ally organizations all over the country to survey people about their experiences on campuses. All 50 states are shown in the surveys. “This is really the first comprehensive study specifically on higher education,” Blumenfeld said. There have been studies on LGBT students in grade school and high school, but never on higher education institutions. “We want to give campuses around the country the research that
IOWA STATE: Project Runway Students prepare to be examined by the judges during the 2010 Iowa State Project Runway on Sunday in the Memorial Union. Students were informed of the theme on Saturday and had from Sunday morning until 8 p.m. to make outfits. Photo: David Livingston/Iowa State Daily
More online: Get full coverage of the Project Runway event, at isdstyle.com
Group infuses culture By Tessa.Callender iowastatedaily.com Editor’s Note: This article is a portion of a three-part series on Design Across Boundaries’ work with Haiti. The first part of the story, which was in Friday’s paper, included information on how this opportunity came about, what DAB did to prepare for its trip and project, and details about the design itself. Part two will focus on the nonprofit group’s specific work in Haiti, and the third part will feature the group’s plans for the future in Haiti. This is part two. Being in Haiti was a little out of the Design Across Boundaries members’ comfort zone — especially after its earthquake. “To see it on news and to drive through the capital, Port-au-Prince, which was all shaken to the ground, to see the women and the youth exploit themselves in the tent cities in order to earn enough to feed themselves for the day, definitely was an experience that required us to step outside of our comfort zone and accept reality,” said Jasmine Singh, member of DAB and senior in architecture. “I remember feeling short of words for a conversation on our drive back from witnessing 150,000 tents where refugees from the earthquake were relocated, initially with aid, now with none,” Singh said. But the nonprofit group was there for a purpose — to create a community center for La Croix. “But going to La Croix and watching the community prosper was a beautiful surprise,” Singh said. “Working on-site with the children,
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