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Starting Aug.1, 2010,trans-
gender students at Harvard
University will be able to
receive insurance coverage
through Harvard's student
insurance plan for sex transi-
tion treatments includingsur-
geries and hormone therapy,
according to a March 11 arti-
cle in The Harvard Crimson.
According to the article,
sex hormones have been
covered under Harvard's
insurance plan since 2006.
However, in an effort to be
more welcoming toward all
groups of students on cam-
pus, the insurance policy will
now cover sexual reassign-
ment surgeries.
Noah Lewis, an attorney
for the Transgender Legal
Defense and Education Fund,
has been working with Har-
vard's University Health Ser-
CRIME NOTES
vices to get the policy passed.
Lewis told The Crimson
that he knows firsthand the
improvement in health that
follows gender reassignment
treatments.
"For those who want them,
hormones and surgery allow
transsexual people to feel
comfortable in their bodies
for the first time," Lewis said
in the article.
ASU TEAM IMPROVES
CHEMICAL DETECTION
A team of Arizona State
University scientists, led by
N.J. Tao of the ASU Biodesign
Institute, has developed a new
method to detect trace chemi-
cals, the ASU News reported.
According to the article, this
new technology can be used
in areas concerning human
health and national security.
This new technology -
electrochemical imaging
microscopy - has proved to
be more advantageous than
previous methods of chemi-
cal detection. The article
reported that Tao and his
team were able to detect and
identify particles of dynamite
weighing less than a billionth
of a gram on the ridges of a
fingerprint.
WMU INSTALLS NEW
ALERT SYSTEM
Western Michigan Uni-
versity installed a new emer-
gency notification system,
according to a March 11 arti-
cle in the Western Herald.
The system consists of
3,546 indoor and 62 outdoor
speakers that have the abil-
ity to alert students and fac-
ulty about emergencies, like
an active shooter or tornado
warning. The system, which
is activated by WMU police,
will only be used in extreme
emergency situations, the
Herald reported.
According to the article,
the system has been under
construction for a number of
years and was first tested on
March 4.
WMU Emergency Man-
agement Administer Cam
Vossen told the Herald that
students who walk around
campus with headphones on
may not hear alerts, ultimate-
ly making the system less
effective. "We can only help
people as much as they help
themselves," Vossen said in
the article.
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Engineeringjunior Shihan Qin practices piano Fri-
day evening in the lounge of Pierpont Commons.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Cultural film Spring pride
GPS and cash Drunk harasses
taken from car passerby with
WHERE: 2300 Glazier Road
WHEN: Friday at midnight
WHAT: The driver's side
window of a vehicle was bro-
ken into, University Police
reported. A Garmin GPS unit
and $20 cash were stolen from
the vehicle. There are no sus-
pects.
Student faints,
attempts to flee
from DPS
WHERE: Catherine Carport
WHEN: Friday at about 2 a.m.
WHAT: A student was found
passed out with injuries on the
right side of his face, University
Police reported. When con-
fronted, the student resisted
and attempted to flee the scene.
rainbow umbrella
WHERE: South Quad Resi-
dence Hall
WHEN: Saturday at noon
WHAT: An intoxicated person
yelled obscenities at a student
carrying a rainbow colored
umbrella, University Police
reported.
Student vomits
out of window
WHERE: West Quad Resi-
dence Hall
WHEN: Sunday at about 1:30
a.m.
WHAT: A student was cited
for a MIP after vomiting out
of a window, University Police
reported.
screening
WHAT: A film explor-
ing a activist's struggle for
women's rights within Islam.
WHO: Center for Mid-
dle Eastern and North
African Studies
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, room 1636
Lecture on
museum
funding
WHAT: Betsy Quick, direc-
tor of education at the UCLA
Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, will discuss the role
of university funding of cam-
pus collections and museums.
WHO: Museums Theme Year
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: The University
Museum of Art
rally on the Diag
WHAT: A rally celebrating
LGBT culture. The event is
part of Spring Pride Week.
WHO: LGBT Commis-
sion of the Michigan
Student Assembly
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: The Diag
Ensemble
performance
WHAT: A chorale and
orchestra concert performed
by University students.
WHO: Michigan Youth
Ensemble
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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The United States ranks
41st in the World Health
Organization's rankings of
maternal mortality, according
to the Telegraph, which means
that a woman's chance of dying
during child-birth is five times
greater in the United States
than in Greece.
The Michigan men's bas-
ketball team's season
ended abruptly on Friday
afternoon when Ohio State's
Evan Turner nailed a buzzer-
beating three-pointer from
half court in the quarterfinals
of the Big Ten Tournament.
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dren's knowledge of sci-
ence in England found that
one in 10 children believe the
Queen of England invented the
telephone and about 60 percent
of nine and ten year olds believe
Sir Isaac Newton invented fire,
according to BBC News.
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As older generations leave the field, osteopathy
sees credibility, number of applicants increase
From Page 1A
who applied to (Doctor of Oste-
opathy) schools in 2007 was 195,
compared to 388 last year," he
wrote.
Moses said the growing inter-
est is due to numerous factors, like
the rising number of osteopathic
schools across the country and the
increase in class sizes within these
schools, among others.
Despite the growth, there are
only 29 Doctor of Osteopathy
degree-granting schools in the
United States, compared with
more than 100 Medical Doctor
degree-granting schools or allo-
pathic medical schools, according
to the 2010 College Information
Book published by the AACOM.
Moses said another explanation
for the increase in applicants is
that osteopathic medicine appeals
more to students beginning their
medical careers today.
"I believe that the millennial
generation is more committed to
the personal aspect of medicine
and patient care, which are the
hallmarks of osteopathic meth-
ods," Moses said.
LSA senior Dustin Harmon said
he plans to attend osteopathic
school in the fall because osteo-
pathic doctors are less likely to rely
on pills and medications as a form
of treatment.
"For a headache, you can crack
(a patient's) neck and set it so that
it alleviates pressure, rather than
just saying, 'Take some ibupro-
fen,"' Harmon said.
Rosenthal said practitioners
who felt the medical profession
was becoming too standardized
and impersonal developed the
field.
"Osteopathic medicine focuses
more on patient history and a lot
of outside factors that should be
incorporated into a person's care
that sometimes aren't," she said.
Though in previous years osteo-
pathic doctors had fewer opportu-
nities to practice their specialty,
Brawn wrote that is no longer the
case.
"DOs have long since gained
rights to practice medicine in all SO
states and in more than 50 differ-
ent countries," he wrote. "The full
range of opportunities is available
in both fields."
Moses said she becomes
"crazed" when she hears "campus
myths" about osteopathic medi-
cine.
"People think they can't special-
ize or practice internationally," she
said. "It's just not true. DOs are not
limited at all."
Currently, osteopathic doctors
can fulfill medical doctorate resi-
dencies and offer the same pre-
scriptions as a medical doctorate.
In addition, Rosenthal said doctor-
ate osteopathic schools and medi-
cal schools have almost identical
curriculums.
"You have the same basic sci-
ence classes, and you take the same
clinical exam," she said. "But then
you also have an extra osteopathic
principle and practicum class that
teaches you how to do exams that
help you to understand the body
with your hands."
Despite the similarities among
the fields, Rosenthal said some
stigmas remain attached to the
field of osteopathic medicine
because it only gained recognition
by the American Medical Associa-
tion in 1969.
"Older generations, like my
grandparents didn't respect it as
much at first," she said.
Mariella Mecozzi, senior assis-
tant director of pre-professional
services at the University, said
stigmas stem from ignorance
about the practice of osteopathic
medicine.
"I think people are often skepti-
cal of what they don't know," she
said.
Mecozzi also said patients
can often be wary of DO doctors
because they believe it is easier
for students to be accepted to DO
schools, but according to Mecozzi,
there is only a slight difference
between the grade point averages
of students accepted to MD and
DO schools nationally.
"The explanation I can give
you is that DO schools pay a lot of
attention to what else the student
brings to the table," she said. "They
look for good GPAs and good let-
ters of recommendation."
She added that the real differ-
ence between MD and DO stu-
dents lies within Medical College
Admission Test scores. According
to Mecozzi, MD students score,
on average, about 30 on the MCAT
- which has a score range from 1
to 45 - while DO students score
about 25 points on average on the
test.
Rosenthal said many of her
friends have begun applying
to both MD and DO schools to
improve their chances of admis-
sion - a trend she believes is help-
ing to dissipate the remnants of
stigmas about osteopathic medi-
cine inherited from older genera-
tions.
"Now that our generation is
starting to learn so much about
it and the generation right above
us is starting to accept it more
because their kids are going to
these schools more often, I think
osteopathic medicine will become
as common as allopathic medi-
cine," she said.
Harmon saidbecause the stigma
associated with osteopathic medi-
cine is disappearing, there's more
camaraderie between allopathic
and osteopathic medical profes-
sionals.
"I don't think there's this huge
barrier that used to exist when
DOs and MDs just thought in com-
pletely different ways," he said.
Mecozzi also said that there is
more unity between the two medi-
cal fields.
"The last few generations of
(MD and DO) doctors have had
more of an opportunity to work
side by side," she said.
Harmon said that regardless of
the way osteopathic medicine is
received in today's world, he still
prefers to attend a DO school.
"I've worked with osteopathic
and MD physicians, and I've shad-
owed both," Harmon said. "You get
to establish a better relationship
with the patient in the long term if
you're an osteopathic physician, in
my opinion."
Mecozzi said eventually, after
the frenzy of applying to medi-
cal schools subsides, the degree
achieved becomes less important
than the skill of the doctor.
"I think there's more to a doc-
tor than the letters behind their
name," she said.
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