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Researchers hope to nd curefor diabetes
DIABETES
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researchers succeed in finding a cure for diabetes,"
University President Lee Bollinger said.
"Everyone has a fantasy. Mine is to host the going-
out-of-business party of the JDF," said JDF Chairman
of the Board John McDonough, whose organization
has raised more than $320 million toward diabetes
research.
Ryan Dinkgrave, a 17-year-old junior from Steven-
son High School in Livonia and a Type 1 diabetes
patient, told the audience at the announcement cere-
mony yesterday how the disease has changed his life
during the last seven years.
"I had no clue what it was when I was diagnosed
with it,' he said. "It wasn't easy. ... You have to learn
a whole new way of life."
Dinkgrave, who wears aninsulin pump that feeds
his body different allocations of insulin, created an
award-winning Website to help teenagers and fami-
lies of patients with diabetes.
The site, wwwdiabetes.cbyc.com, allows commu-
nication between patients about living with the dis-
ease and ways of "making life easier," Dinkgrave
said.
Contrary to popular belief, insulin is not a cure for
the disease. It allows a person to remain alive, but it
does not protect patients from suffering blindness,
heart attacks, kidney failure, strokes, nerve damage
or amputations.
iCommon symptoms that Greene said students
need to be on the lookout for include excessive thirst,
urination and fatigue, as well as constant hunger or
sudden weight loss.
Individuals who experience these signs are at a
high risk of having Type I diabetes, or juvenile onset.
The symptoms of Typ2 2, or adult onset diabetes,
include sensitive skin, tingling of hands and feet, gum
or urinary tract infections and excessive hunger and
thirst.
Students who experience these symptoms are
encouraged to visit a clinician and, if recommended,
receive a free glucose test from the University Health
Services to determine whether they have diabetes.
BOLLINGER
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is trying to look at the changing role of
media in this technological world."
Clrk said she hopes the lecture
series will eventually grow into a larg-
er conference-style event. "We want to
bring in people who are doing research
in the area," she said.
The department is currently con-
ducting a search for an adjunct chair to
specialize in media technology.
Clark said the position would be a
parallel chair position, in addition to
current department Chairman Mike
Traugott. Evans has also donated the
funds for this search.
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In a statement released by Danco
Laboratories LCC, a New York-
based women's health pharmaceuti-
cal company which was given an
exclusive license to the drug by the
Population Council, the organiza-
tion expressed pleasure with the
letter.
Danco views it as "a.major step
forward in the complex drug
approval process necessary to make
the early option pill, mifepristone,
available in the United States."
The company also said in the
statement that it is working on pro-
viding all the information that the
FDA requested.
If the drug is approved, it will be
available for use by abortion clinics
across the country.
But it will not be offered at the
University Health Services.
"We have, thus far, made a deci-
sion to not do abortions at the
health service or use abortion
induction programs," interim UHS
Director Robert Winfield said.
"We feel that we do not have the
ability to give 24-hour coverage in
case of a complication with the
abortion."
Winfield also said he did not feel
the clinic has the sufficient equip-
ment or training necessary. "It's
based on wanting to do an excellent
job in whatever we do," he said.
But UHS does offer the option of
counseling for pregnant women.
According to the Population
Council Website, mifepristone is
an antiprogestin that interrupts
pregnancy in its early stages by
blocking the action of proges-
terone, a natural hormone that pre-
pares the lining of the uterus for a
fertilized egg and then maintains
the pregnancy.
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Mifepristone is used in combina-
tion with the drug misoprostol to
ensure a greater chance of a termi-
nated pregnancy.
"I want to make a distinction
between the morning-after pill and
the abortion pill," Winfield said.
"UHS offers preven and Plan B for
those who had contraception failure
or didn't use contraception."
Morning-after pills must be taken
within 72 hours after unprotected
sexual activity, but mifepristone is
effective for about 10 weeks after
conception occurs.
The Website also said about five
out of every 100 women who under-
go medical abortion will need a sur-
gical abortion because the pill was
ineffective.
But the site also said this type of
abortion is a less invasive process
and has the potential for greater
privacy.
There are also fewer side effects
with medical abortion, which can
include nausea, vomiting, cramping
and urinal bleeding.
"I think it's really important to
find ways to give women back the
power to take control over their
reproductive health," said Students
for Choice co-Prcsident Jennifer
Anderson, an Education junior. "As
long as its considered safe, I think
it's a great step."
Many critics of the pill say it
makes abortion easier and worry
that the pill will be used as a form
of birth control.
"If the abortion pill does what it
says it does, obviously being pro-
life, I'm against it," said Students
for Life President Melissa Osborn,
an LSA senior. "It becomes, so to
speak, more convenient."
"Part of our mission is helping
women in those situations to get the
help they need to keep their babies,"
Osborn said.
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Jury begins deliberations in Diallo case
ALBANY, N.Y. - Jurors began deliberating yesterday in the case of foul
white police officers charged with killing an unarmed black man, after the judge
said the panel could acquit if they believed the officers acted in self-defense. -
The officers could be cleared if jurors believe their claim that they fired 41
bullets at Amadou Diallo becase they thought he had a gun and wanted to sho&E
them, Justice Joseph Teresi said. "A person who acts in self-defense is not guilt.
of any crime," he said.
The judge spent more than three hours going over the legal instructions fir
each of 24 criminal counts jefore deliberations began.
He gave the jurors the option of considering charges other than murder, and'
told them the law allows police officers to stop and question someone if wrong-'
doing is suspected.
"You should figuratively put yourselves in the shoes of each defendant and
consider how the situation appeared to him," the judge said. "You should consid-
er what Amaou Diallo did before or during the encounter."
Earlier, Teresi replaced a female juror for talking about the case outside of
court. The jury is now composed of four black women, one white woman and
seven white men.
Sean Carroll, Edward Mellon, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy each have
pleaded innocent to second degree murder.
COurt rules Hawaii trustees to a state agency that provide
economic and social aid to people who
law unconstitutional trace their ancestry to the islabi&!
inhabitants in 1778, when Englarnd's
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ly watched race discrimination case, the arrived.
Supremne Court yesterday struck down a
Hawaiian voting restriction designed to Minnesota monks
benefit descendants of the original
islanders. The justices said the law gather ancient text
unconstitutionally makes distinctions
among people based on their ancestry. COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. - rn a
By a 7-2 vote, the court declared the vault beneath the frosty expanse of cent
Hawaii law violates the Fifteenth tral Minnesota, the Benedictine monks
Amendment's mandate that people not of St. John's Abbey have amassed the
be denied a vote on account of race. world's most comprehensive collection,
Dissenting justices said the decision of medieval texts onmicrofilm.
ignores the history of the 50th state and The monks have set a goal - they
government efforts to compensate for aim to photograph and catalog every .
past bias against indigenous peoples. page of every text written in Europe, the
While the ruling directly affects Middle East and North Africa before the
only Hawaii, the attitude of the invention of printing.
majority opinion reflects the Court's They want, in short, to preserve --s
continuing drive against government microfilm - the cultural heritage of
policies that give advantages to racial Western civilization.
minorities who historically have faced But there's plenty still out there. -
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marks the first time the court has-used 500 years or so," said Father Eric' H l
the Fifteenth Amendment. las. In the past 35 years, they have pho-
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