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October 25, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 45 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
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ISU hooks Longhorns Paul Rhoads celebrates an interception by Michael O’Connell during the first half of the football game against Texas on Saturday. Iowa State won 28-21. Photo: Darren Abate/The Associated Press
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Satellite voting goes on despite accusations
By John.Lonsdale iowastatedaily.com It started with two white dots. Three weeks went by after the accident before anyone knew what was wrong with him, until the doctor spoke the words that changed Larry Mitchell’s life forever. Mitchell, sophomore in prebusiness, has vitiligo. “If [the Daily] had come to me a couple years ago about a story,” Mitchell said, “I would’ ve said no.” He can remember the date, time and temperature exactly. Nov. 6, 1998, Mitchell was home from school because of the chronic asthma he’s had since he was 3 days old that also put him in a coma in 2004, but was starting to feel better around 5 p.m. With the purple BMX bike his grandmother had gotten him for Christmas, Mitchell rode toward a ramp at the 100-year-old, V-shaped tree near his house. As the 63-degree November air hit his skin, Mitchell couldn’t stop feeling uneasy about the day. The ramp grew closer until Mitchell pedaled off the ramp as he attempted to do a 360 through the trees and crashed into a chain-link fence. Mitchell blacked out. He woke up to his mother, Lisa, standing over him with Band-Aids over the open cuts on his hands and knees. Hysterical, his mother rushed him to the
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exploring ways to treat the disease. The goal of treatment is to restore the melanocytes in the skin, Warren said. Although the prognosis for treatment isn’t good, one commonly used on vitiligo patients is Narrowband UVB Phototherapy, an ultraviolet light treatment. Probably the best treatment, Warren said, the phototherapy process is slow and requires at least 6-to-12 months of treatment if it works at all, and in some cases, it doesn’t.
Satellite voting took place at Cornerstone Church on Sunday, despite accusations that there would be electioneering and influence on voters directed toward both the Story County Auditor and the church. Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman said more than 100 voters cast their ballots at the Cornerstone polling station, while an estimated 1,600 people attended the Sunday services last weekend. Satellite voting this year has seen a low turnout, Mosiman said, especially when compared to the 2008 presidential election, which saw 300 or more votes at satellite stations. The Cornerstone location has been the busiest station this year. However, Mosiman did not make any speculations as to what proportion of the votes came from members of the church itself. “We’ve seen both, either the members of the church or the people who came here specifically to vote,” Mosiman said. “We anticipate that we’ll receive traffic through two o’clock.” The final service ended at noon. Mosiman and Cornerstone were still adamant in their defense that there would be no electioneering or campaigning during the service or at the poll site. “I’ve talked with a number of people who are members of this church and a good portion of the staff members here, even the ones who preach the message,” Mosiman said. “I do know that they might be saying that we might have satellite available, but they won’t be saying vote this way or that way ... If that takes place in the church, that’s their risk.” There was no mention of the polling or the election during the church service, aside from a brief statement in the program that read “Register to vote in the south auditorium foyer on Oct. 24.”
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Elario “Larry” Mitchell, sophomore in pre-business, was diagnosed with vitiligo 12 years ago. Mitchell struggles to overcome others’ perceptions of him and his disease. Photo: Yue Wu/Iowa State Daily
nearest hospital where they lived in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the cuts scabbed over, Mitchell, as any child does, began to pick the scabs off of his wounds, and two white dots formed where his cuts had been. After waiting about a week, the two white dots grew to dimesize and then became bigger patches. Mitchell and his mother knew something was wrong. “I would have never went outside that day,” Mitchell said. Vitiligo is an autoimmune
disease that results in a loss of pigmentation in the skin. “[It] occurs in about 1 to 2 percent of the [American] population,” said Christina Warren, nurse practitioner at Iowa Dermatology Clinic. “Usually when people have vitiligo, they’re stuck with it for life.” Warren said the disease can be hereditary and the body is unable to produce melanocytes, the cells in the body that create pigment in the skin. Although there is no cure for it, dermatologists all over the world are