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February 27, 2020 Volume 102 Number 8 THE DUQUESNE DUKE www.duqsm.com PROUDLY SERVING OUR CAMPUS SINCE 1925 Duquesne Mardi Gras meets Towers Students research upset team finds over early unclear autism event rules Hallie Lauer markers news editor Hannah Boucher When the Duquesne University staff writer College Republicans wanted to host a movie screening event on Feb. 23, In 2006, Dr. Scott Faber and they received permission from uni- Howard Kingston were told they versity administration. The movie, were crazy for believing that au- titled Unplanned, follows the life tism was not a genetic disease, of a Planned Parenthood executive but rather an autoimmune one. who reverses her abortion views However, this did not stop the and becomes pro-life. pair from carrying out research They also received permission to for 14 years to prove those who hang flyers on campus advertising doubted them wrong. the event that said, “Pro-choice? I During their research, Faber Griffin Sendek / Photo Editor challenge you to watch this movie.” and Kingston developed their RAs of the second, third and eleventh floors of St. Martin Hall held a Mardi Gras celebration for their residents in Towers But after at least one student own measurement system in or- MPR. The celebration included Mardi Gras-colored cupcakes, pepperoni rolls and drinks, as well as fun crafts. raised concerns about the poster der to asses the likelihood of a — and many were pulled down — child developing autism. This mea- the Office of Student Life reversed surement system utilized 21 differ- course and instructed Alec Skomo, ent biomarkers to test for autism. Duquesne mourns loss of a student the president of the College Repub- A biomarker is any substance Ollie Gratzinger time,” Frizzell said in the email. “An- licans, in an email, that the flyers that occurs naturally in the body thony and his loved ones will be in our could not be replaced. that is measured to indicate a phe- editor-in-chief prayers.” “Students have expressed con- nomenon. In this case, the phe- A Duquesne University student en- Frizzell also explained that a vari- cerns that members of our campus nomenon is a disease — autism. rolled in the physician’s assistant pro- ety of services are available to those community feel distressed, due to With around $1.4 million in gram died unexpectedly Wednesday. on campus. Counselors are available personal or family experiences with grant money funding their proj- Anthony Bove, 22, of Hopewell at the Wellbeing Center in 636 Fisher the content matter at hand. In this ect, Faber and Kingston sup- Twp., died on Ash Wednesday fol- Hall for anyone who needs support, light we are not letting the posters ported their hypothesis, even in- lowing surgery at UPMC Presby- and the Spiritan community of clergy, be rehung,” the email said. venting their own measurement terian in Oakland, according to an along with Campus Ministry staff, “are The event went on as scheduled, systems in order to complete online obituary posted by Tatalov- with about 20 people in atten- their tests. available for conversation or prayer.” ich Funeral Home in Aliquippa. dance, even after being included One of the biomarker measure- Senior marketing major Julia He was a fourth year student in the in the DU Activities Weekly Events ments they invented involved Badgley traveled to Italy with Bove as physician’s assistant program, and Courtesy Tatalovich Funeral Home email blast. tracking glutathione (GHS), an part of the university’s study abroad was set to graduate from Duquesne Skomo was frustrated by the uni- antioxidant found in the body program, and said that everyone who Feb. 28 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Tata- on May 8 with a bachelor of science versity stopping advertisements for that reduces oxidative stress. knew him is “absolutely heartbroken.” lovich Funeral Home and Crema- the event. Improper levels of the oxidized in health sciences degree and a mas- “Anthony was one of the nicest, fun- tion Services, Inc., located at 2205 “I feel they are censoring us and variation of GSH can place chil- ter of physician assistant studies de- niest, most outgoing people that I’ve McMinn St. in Aliquippa. Family allowing it to not be as successful as dren at risk of suffering from ir- gree, according to the obituary. ever met. He positively impacted every- and friends will meet at Our Lady it could be,” he said. reversible brain damage Bove studied abroad at Duquesne's one he met — he had a way of making of Fatima Catholic Church, 2270 Imani Chisom, one of the stu- Once the GSH oxidizes and Rome campus in fall 2017, and was everyone feel comfortable,” Badgley Brodhead Road, Aliquippa, on Sat- dents who had voiced complaints becomes glutathione disulfide “a well-liked person,” according to an said. “Anthony was one of my favorite urday, Feb. 29. A Mass of Christian about the posters, was also frus- (GSSG), there is no more GSH emailed statement sent to students, people that I’ve met at Duquesne, and Burial will be held at 10 a.m. trated, wondering exactly how left. If all of the GSH turns into faculty and staff by Vice President for he’ll be missed by everyone he met.” In lieu of flowers, the family re- events on campus are approved. GSSG, then the child’s immune Student Life Douglas K. Frizzell early The obituary described Bove as an quests donations to McGuire Me- Chisom has been involved in system is no longer function- Wednesday afternoon. avid tennis player and competitive morial, 2119 Mercer Road, New organizations like Ebony Women ing properly. In fact, if there is “I join President Gormley and the swimmer who loved to travel, and Brighton, Pa. 15066, which was for Social Change, Kappa Alpha anywhere from 3 to 5% of GSSG entire Duquesne University commu- said that his “last act in life was “near and dear” to Bove. Kappa Sorority Incorporated and in the body instead of GSH, the nity in extending our sincerest condo- that he donated his organs so oth- Information regarding a cam- the Multicultural Program Council immune system will begin to lences to his family, friends and all ers may live.” pus memorial at Duquesne will be who knew him, during this difficult Friends will be received on Friday, forthcoming. see POSTER — page 2 see BIO — page 2 opinions features sports a & e Follow us on... Movie I leap, therefore Swimming & Duke & subtitles I am Diving places Josh Making the film DU student born third Josh Peck talks industry more on Feb. 29 Everhart wins to students accessible three gold medals @theduquesneduke PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 9 2 THEDUQUESNEDUKE POLICE briefs Biomarker measurements may help to Another week of damaged cars, which listen I understand, for detect autism earlier in children some reason it’s difficult to park between those two lines in the BIO — from page 1 there being any bias. This helped increase the credibility of their data. parking garages ... y’all passed weaken. With these findings, Faber and your driver’s tests right? In terms of its relationship to Kingston hope to apply these tests autism, children under the age of in a way that would be more acces- On Feb. 19, a resident student two that show signs of having a sible to people around the world. reported that her roommate weak or underdeveloped immune “They don’t have to get to was missing. Campus police system are at a greater risk of de- the disease. If we catch [it] soon located the missing student a veloping autism. enough, we can prevent [it]. We short-time later in Brottier Hall “From 2006 to 2012, the world could rescue 2% of the world’s pop- and no further action was re- disagreed on this [biomarker] ulation. That is the dream of the quired. measurement by three orders of magnitude. We now make that doctor in myself,” said Kingston. On Feb. 21, damage to an un- measurement to plus or minus The goal is to be able to con- attended vehicle parked in the five percent,” said Kingston. duct the same blood work tests Locust Garage extension was Kingston compared this dis- using a dry blood spot card. This reported. crepancy with the uncertainty of allows children to be tested more going into battle. frequently, along with allowing On Feb. 24, a student reported “Imagine me telling a general doctors to possibly prescribe the that her vehicle was damaged that he has 1,000 soldiers in the card to parents so they can test Courtesy of Howard Kingston Members of the research team, back row from left to right: Howard Kingston, Jeremiah while parked unattended in a field, but he doesn’t know if he their children from home. university garage. If a child were to have results Jamrom, Weier Hao and James Henderson and in the front row left to right: Caley has 999 dead soldiers and one Moore, Ashley Dillard, Taylor Teitelbaum, Ashley Trouten and Ashley Parisi-Goldblatt live one, or 999 live soldiers and that came back positive for au- one dead one,” he said. tism, or possibly trending to- Faber is the Scholar in Resi- ics. Currently, he has a research This is just one of the many wards autism, then possible dence here at Duquesne, which team of 10, consisting of both markers that Faber and Kingston treatment or preventative mea- means that he assists in research, graduate and undergraduate stu- test for to see whether or not a sures could be used to intervene. participates in committees and dents.