Oct. 26, 2009 volume 20, issue 4
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Bones are rendered from donated horse on campus
JUSTIN KELLER
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former student donated his horse to the biology department so it could be rendered for its skeleton. The horse was suffering from an undiagnosed wasting disease and was dying from kidney failure. On Aug. 13 the horse was brought to an outdoor enclosure next to the Des Lauriers Labs where a veterinarian then put the horse to sleep. Then a group of current and past Chaffey biologists proceeded to render the horse. “We needed to get as much of the soft tissue off as possible,” said Robin Ikeda, a biology professor who headed the project. Because so many students were involved in the rendering, small groups worked on each part of the horse. Ikeda worked on the trunk of the horse the majority of the time. “It was exciting,” said Ikeda. “The anatomy was so vivid...we don’t normally get specimens this large.” Ikeda thought that this was a great learning experience for the biology students who
worked on the horse. She trained the students on how to render the limbs. “I had never dissected anything so large and fresh,” said Helen Caparell, a zoology major. Brittany Tarabek, a biochemistry major, had quite a shocking experience while working on one of the legs. “When I was cutting into the leg, the muscle twitched,” Tarabek said. Ikeda made every step of the way a learning opportunity. The rendering itself gave students a detailed look at the anatomy of the horse. After the rendering, Ikeda used various parts of the skeleton as examples in her vertebrate zoology classes. Even the reconstruction of the skeleton will be a learning opportunity. Next semester Ikeda will let her vertebrate zoology students have the option of building the horse skeleton for their semester project. A number of other renderings have taken place on campus. Aside from the whale skull in Zimmerman Hall, all of the animal skeletons in the biology classrooms have been rendered on campus and have been constructed by biology students.
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Biology department members involved in horse rendering include (top) Brittany Tarabek, Sarah Cotton, Calra Villalobos, Jimdes Lawriers, Sam Gaddie, Mauo Evero, Annie Freire DeCarvalho, (bottom) Mark Ikeda, Tatiama Vasquez, Robin Ikeda, Lucila Reccia, Andrea Cabrera and Dale Des Lauriers.
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Chaffey crash: student loses control STEVE BOVI
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Driver Abel Rodriguez said the incident was bad luck.
DAN MCCARTY
student lost control of his pickup while exiting campus onto Haven Avenue from College Drive on Oct. 14 at about 12:30 p.m. The pickup crashed and flipped over, destroying part of the railing along the sidewalk. Abel Rodriguez, the driver, said the incident was purely bad luck. “I was turning, and the street was wet,” Rodriguez, said. “I lost control. I couldn’t control the truck.”
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He said he was not speeding, and it had rained that morning. Two passengers and Rodriguez all three walked away unhurt. The good news stops here, however. Because situations like this one are all too common. Steve Relph, Rancho Cucamonga Public Works Maintenance Supervisor, said that things need to change. “The problem is that people come from the turn pockets, and can’t make the corner,” he said. Three to four accidents are caused by students each year, a number Relph believes is too high.
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