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Vol. XLV No. 5
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March 21, 2013
ASOC to elect Phases of spring through another lens new members By LOUIS LAVENTURE News editor
Running for office at Ohlone College is much more than just hanging up some campaign flyers. The Associated Students of Ohlone College elections are just around the corner beginning April 29. Online voting will begin at midnight. Polling places will be open on the Fremont and Newark campuses from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The election results will be posted on the door of the ASOC office May 1 after all votes have been tallied.
‘ It is a lot of work. I didn’t know about all of the meetings and signatures needed to run when I looked into it.’ --Jason Nguyen
There are several key dates and responsibilities for potential ASOC candidates. There are also several rules and restrictions that the ASOC advisor Renee Wong Gonzales
touched two of which upon at the last meeting on March 15. “You cannot campaign within 75 feet of any polling place,” Wong Gonzales said. “Students also cannot bond together and create a political party of any kind.” President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, representative at large, legislative representative, Newark center representative and marketing and communications representative are the positions of office students can seek. To be eligible to run for office, students have to attend a candidate information meeting as well as a mandatory pre-election candidates meeting. Candidates must also complete a 100-word statement expressing their views in addition to preparing a three-tofour minute speech to deliver at the College Assembly on April 24. “It is a lot of work,” former Ohlone student Jason Nguyen said. “I didn’t know about all of the meetings and signatures needed to run when I looked in to it,” said Nguyen. Nguyen was referring to the 75 Ohlone student signatures, Continued on Page 2
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Ohlone’s beginning digital photography class was assigned the topic of trees for one of its assignments. Students submitted a variety of tree photos, They were limited to submitting 10 photos in order for students to practice having a critical opinion of their own work. They were also encouraged to use different light to compose their photos.
Law and medicine mesh at science seminar By FRANKIE ADDIEGO Staff writer
Biology instructor Laurie Issel-Tarver explored some of the greatest controversies of 20th century biology in “Henrietta Lacks’ Cells, John Moore’s Spleen, Ted Slavin’s Antibodies and Myriad Genetics’ Patents,” a brief seminar March 15, sponsored by the Science, Engineering & Mathematics Division and the ASOC. In the late 1980s, IsselTarver worked under Mary Claire King, who was researching breast cancer in Berkeley. “I was actually rotating at her lab at the time,” she said. “It was a very exciting time.” King had managed to map a gene that was responsible for contributing to breast cancer, but a company called Myriad Genetics patented it before she had the chance, in just one of many ethically controversial events Issel-Tarver discussed. Issel-Tarver began with the story of Henrietta Lacks,
Moore became suspicious. As it turned out, Golde had applied for a patent on Moore’s spleen. Moore was powerless to stop it because his spleen was deemed medical waste and he did not have “continuing property ownership.” “Once cells have been removed,” said Tarver, “they’re no longer your property.” On the other hand, there have been patients who have been capable of turning their health problems into big business. Ted Slavin was a hemophiliac who actually sold his blood and it led to some TARA INGRAHAM / MONITOR breakthroughs, such as the Instructor Laurie Issel-Traver demonstrates how bacteria grows during her presentation at hepatitis-B vaccine. Ohlone College’s Fremont campus on March 15. The presentation took place outside of building 3 at Ohlone’s Fremont campus. This event is part of Ohlone’s Science Seminar Series. Fuwho suffered severe stomach tracted from the tumor growths a businessman named John ture speeches planned for this pains in 1951 and was treated in her body never stopped Moore found himself with semester include “50 Shades at Johns Hopkins Medical growing and multiplying. another health problem: of Green: Three Bugs, New Center, where doctors found Today her cells, known hairy-cell leukemia. UCLA Species and Why I’m Not a strange tumor within her commonly as the HeLa cells, doctors removed his spleen, Smarter Than a 5th Grader” cervix. continue to be used in re- which weighed as much as on April 19. Soon after Lacks died. A bi- search labs, but according to 22 pounds. Within days, “Benford’s Law,” hosted opsy revealed so many growths Issel-Tarver, her family only Moore’s blood profile returned by Jeff O’Connell on April that, according to Issel-Tarver, found out about it on accident to normal. 26, will discuss a statistical doctors said it appeared as if – and they haven’t seen any Soon thereafter, UCLA re- phenomenon that Benford, she was “filled with pearls.” money from it. searcher David Golde began had he owned a calculator, The cells that were exA quarter-century later, examining Moore so often that might not have discovered.