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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014
LGBTQ Center teaches students acceptance during Trans* 101 seminar Seminar echoes goals of recent Safe Training 101, focuses on inclusivness PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER
The LGBTQ center continued its new educational seminars concerning the acceptance of all individuals regardless of sexuality or gender identification and gender expression Thursday in McMicken College. While it is similar to the Safe Zone Training 101, a program the center offered previously to advocate for inclusive language, the Trans* 101 seminar sought to express more of the difficulties transgender and gender nonconforming individuals experience. The asterisk signifies that all gender identifications fall under the term. The program touched on such subjects as cisgender privilege, the concept that individuals who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth have the benefit of being easily perceived by others as the gender they identify with. The seminar offered an educational
Students with disabilities conduct field study alongside UC professor
PowerPoint, videos detailing the experiences of transgender individuals and a discussion regarding transgender and gender-nonconforming issues. T. N. Vaught — a University of Cincinnati graduate student in the master’s program for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the program coordinator for the LGBTQ center — instructed the Trans* 101 training. The instructional training seminars offered by the LGBTQ center are part of a four-part series that spans four years. Jason Hettesheimer, a first-year undecided undergraduate student who had also attended the Safe Zone Training 101, said the training was well executed. “Trans* 101 lies a really good foundation, especially with stuff that is going on around campus. I think it’s handled in a really respectful way as well, especially when it comes to showing the gauntlet of different pronouns and making sure to include non-binary issues, because a lot of the times those issues are left out,” Hettesheimer said. PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER
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About 40 members of the UC community attended the Trans* 101 educational seminar Thursday.
UNIVERSITY HOSTS ANNUAL 5K TO SUPPORT MILITARY
CINCINNATI RUNS FOR SOLDIERS
CASSIE MERINO | CHIEF REPORTER
Students with disabilities were given a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in a field study to Canada thanks to a University of Cincinnati science faculty member. “There are a lot people who are just as talented, if not more talented, than a lot of the colleagues I have, especially from a technological stand point, but they don’t get to showcase that,” said Christopher Atchinson, UC assistant professor of science education and geology. Atchinson coordinated the trip, which allowed 14 students with various disabilities, and one student who works with disabled students, to study the geography of Vancouver, a city in British Columbia, Canada. Julie Hendricks, a support team member and a third-year special education student, helped the other students throughout the trip. Atchinson said that seeing Hendricks interact with students who she had never met before was refreshing. Hendricks used sandpaper to design tactile maps for the blind students involved in the field study. The students could feel the different types of sandpaper, which correlated to the different rock types across regions. Hendricks also assisted the deaf students who attended the field study. The students’ main form of communication was typing, where Hendricks would type what the instructors were saying and distribute the information electronically to deaf students. “I have learned a lot,” Hendricks said. “I have never worked with someone who was blind, so this was a real eye opener to see what kind of assistance they need and how to work with service animals.” Hendricks’s favorite memory from the trip was sharing a room with one of the blind female participants. “We would just stay up and talk about our lives and what things have been like for her,” Hendricks said. “I got a lot of insight on how her life has been different than mine growing up.” The students traveled to six deferent stops between Vancouver and Whistler to look at different geology. “Of all the STEM disciplines, geosciences are the most difficult to participate in because there is so much field work and so much requirement to get out into an uncontrolled natural environment and learn,” Atchinson said. SEE FIELD STUDY PG 3
DAVID WATKINS | CONTRIBUTOR
Fifty-nine people ran in UC’s third annual Run for the Fallen 5K to raise money and awareness for prisoners of war and those missing in action.
UC raises money, awareness for ‘unspoken heroes,’ remembers fallen DAVID WATKINS | CONTRIBUTOR
Despite the early call time, frigid weather and post-Halloween festivities, 59 Ohioans traveled to the University of Cincinnati Saturday morning to run the third annual Run for the Fallen 5K. UC’s Hap Arnold Squadron of Arnold Air Society orchestrated the event in 2011 to raise money and awareness for prisoners of war (POW) and those missing in action (MIA). There are 83,388 U.S. soldiers who are unaccounted for today, according to UC’s Hap Arnold Squadron of Arnold Air Society. This number represents the number of families, friends, loved ones and American citizens who mourn the missing state of these soldiers on a daily basis. “We started this event for the POW/MIA,” said Josephine Kane, a second-year criminal
justice student.“They are the unspoken heroes. A lot of people forget about them, and we just want to make sure that they are not forgotten.” Kane and Laura Bennett, a second-year math and sociology student, were in charge of the 5K. “One of our main focuses is service and giving back to others,” Bennett said.“POW/ MIA are the heroes that did not get to come home. For us, and AAS as a whole, this is a big event to show our support to the families that lost their loved ones even if they aren’t here. We want to bring them back home through the money we raise.” It was $25 to enter the race, but only $20 to “ruck” it, which is when soldiers in the army or marines carry equipment on their backs. Kane and Bennett suggested a 35-pound minimum for those who chose to ruck it, which is normal for ROTC students. Funds will be calculated and donated to pow-miafamilies.org, which has an office based in Columbus.
Although Bennett was worried about the race’s attendance with Halloween being the night before, students from various universities participated in the race. “We were a little worried at the beginning, but people started to show up before it began, so it was refreshing,” Bennett said. Out of the 59 runners from UC, Ohio State University and Wright State University, there was one winner that came out on top. “My watch says 15:50 and I usually run a 5K in 16:50,” said third-year information technology student Kyle Klinger, who belong to the UC Running Club.“We run five to eight miles around the city, like down to the river and around the Reds Stadium, but we’re always looking for local races. This was on campus and we heard about what the money goes to, so we definitely wanted to run it.” Despite their worries, Kane and Bennett foresee a large sum, as this year’s 5K was the most attended thus far.
Professor determined to lengthen HIV patients’ lives with medicine ELYSSE WINGET | STAFF REPORTER
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Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum is the vice chair of a national study researcing medications for HIV patients.
The University of Cincinnati is participating in a federally funded clinical trial involving 6,500 people nationally that tests the affect of certain medications on individuals with HIV. Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum, professor of infectious diseases at UC’s College of Medicine, serves as the vice chair of this national study. The study is funded partially by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “Even though we’re controlling HIV, we haven’t gotten rid of it completely,” Fichtenbaum said. “We want to look at a group of medications called statins that are very commonly used to prevent heart attacks and heart disease.” Fichtenbaum described the current state of HIV patients as people who live a near-normal lifespan but are two to five times more likely to have heart disease. According to Fichtenbaum, HIV patients have an elevated risk of heart disease
and stroke. Fichtenbaum is determined to find a medication that will lower patients’ heart rates to produce healthier, longer lives for individuals with HIV. The statin that is being used in this clinical trial is called pitavastatin, which is a common medication for heart disease prevention. KOWA Pharmaceuticals America Inc. is donating pitavastatin for use during the study. The clinical trial will study men and women ages 40-75 who have HIV but do not have a history of heart attacks, and those who have lower cholesterol and would not typically be recommended for the statin. Fichtenbaum said he hopes to see how these statins affect the patients. “If we give these people a statin who otherwise we wouldn’t recommend it for, is this going to help prevent more heart attacks? Is this going to help prevent heart disease?” Fichtenbaum said. The goal is to involve 6,500 people
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nationally, 150 of who will be enrolled locally. These individuals may vary between patients, doctors and students looking to get involved in the research and assistance of the trial. “People are going to be randomized by the flip of a coin,” Fichtenbaum explained. “Half of the people will get the active medicine and half the people will get a pill that looks like a matching pill but is really a placebo or a sugar pill.” The study is blind, meaning that neither the doctors nor the patients will know who is receiving which pill. This study is federally funded and in collaboration with other universities, including Harvard University. UC is one of the major collaborating institutions. “In the last three years, three of my own patients have passed away suddenly from heart attacks,” Fichtenbaum said. “I have several other patients of mine with known heart disease and heart problems that fortunately we caught them in time, so I think this has real value to people here living locally with HIV.” FREE • ADDITIONAL COPIES $1