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¿Qué Pasa, OSU? ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Volume 21 Number 2 ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Spring 2014 A Community Based Magazine About Latinos at Ohio State • quepasa.osu.edu ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Los Bros Hernandez A Conversation with Beto Miguel Villalona-Calero Martín Pérez Ani Palacios Renata Baptista Cancer Research at The James Serving the Community Una Escritora Local Latina En Educación V. Muñoz 4 A. Wiggins 9 E. Foulis 16 B. Lynner 28 Who We Are Quiénes Somos Esquina del Editor Theresa Rojas Editor Jacinda Walker Art Director Indra Leyva Editorial Consultant The Pride of Presence Victoria Muñoz, Staff Writer Anthony Wiggins Staff Writer In putting together Verónica Betancourt shares her work on Leticia Wiggins, Correspondent this issue on the Latinos and museum representation at Yolanda Zepeda Managing Director heels of our last The Smithsonian; Anthony Wiggins profiles semester’s transition Martín Pérez’s journey from tortillería to Contributors to a new format and non-profit management; and Elena Foulis Lina X. Aguirre size, I could not have introduces us to Ani Palacios, a local Maria Barbero predicted such an Columbus writer. Maria Barbero and Nic Verónica E. Betancourt Ayendy Bonifacio enthusiastic response Flores offer inside advice for graduate Doug Bush from the OSU school; Doug Bush shares his work on Mauricio Espinoza community. I heard Latinidad and marking Latino characters in Nic Flores Elena Foulis from those excited soap operas; and Sonia BasSheva Manjon Francisco X. Gómez-Bellengé to read the new launches The Barnett Center for Integrated Brittany Lynner publication and even more enthusiastically Arts and Enterprise. We also showcase Sonia BasSheva Manjon Paloma Martinez-Cruz from those hoping to submit material. As poetry by Ayendy Bonifacio, Mauricio Amanda L. Matousek you can see here, many people were Espinoza, and Dr. Lina X. Aguirre. Tamra Pace moved to contribute to the ¿Qué Pasa? Ani Palacios spring issue. As if by popular mandate, we This issue features two excerpted Annalisa Perez interviews: Director Alex Rivera, and comics Brena Yu-Chen Tai received a wealth of stories profiling the Joey Terrill endeavors of Latinos and the storyteller and artist Gilbert Hernandez. OSU community. Rivera, whose dystopian science-fiction film The Office of Diversity and Inclusion Sleep Dealer (2008) will be re-released publishes ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? each autumn and spring semester. With the largest issue of my tenure, we’ve this May, visited OSU to share his thought- made further changes to the text and cover provoking work on the US-Mexico border. ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? is produced weight as we continue to grow and improve Hernandez, one of the creators of the in collaboration with the Hispanic Oversight Committee. the overall presence of our magazine. Love and Rockets comic series, along with No small thanks goes to our steadfast Art brother Jaime Hernandez was in town for The Ohio State University is not Director, Jacinda Walker for her eye on the Festival of Cartoon Art celebrating the responsible for the content and views of cultivating an award-winning publication. opening of the new Billy Ireland Cartoon this publication. The publication does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions Library and Museum. The Brothers, fondly of the staff. All submissions for publications We warmly welcome our new staff writer known as Los Bros, were keynote speakers must include contact name and phone Victoria Muñoz, a PhD candidate from for the event. Their generosity, candor, and number or e-mail address. ¿Qué Pasa, the Department of English. Readers will OSU? reserves the right to refuse any ease in conversation with me made the submission for publication. recognize Victoria from the cover of our interviews in this issue possible. autumn 2013 issue. We also welcome For questions and inquiries, please contact correspondent Leticia Wiggins who is A personal thank you to everyone who [email protected]. spearheading the new Via Brasil series, in agreed to be interviewed as well as to Note: We use the term “Latinos” to cooperation with The Wexner Center for those who took the time to contribute. The represent both Latino and Latina. the Arts. publication reflects not only a diverse range of work and interests across The Ohio Photos for each piece are provided In this issue you’ll find sketches highlighting by the author or interviewee unless State University, but also our community’s otherwise noted. Additional photo credits a diverse landscape by and about Latinos. investment in prominence. Latinos are for this issue: Fantagraphics Books, Bruce Among other stories, Victoria Muñoz working on the most compelling, cutting- L. Heflin, Indra Leyva, Harlee McBride, profiles Dr. Miguel Villalona-Calero’s work Alyssa Neumann, Prospect Park, Theresa edge, and expansive work anywhere. What Rojas, Carlos Sosa, the Sosa Group, with the James Cancer Care and Treatment follows is but a small selection of that labor. Anthony Wiggins, Jennifer Wray, The Program, and Felipe Castelblanco’s work Wexner Center for the Arts, and World as media artist, educator, and activist. Her Circuit Records. piece on trans-culturation in music features the Buena Vista Social Club. Con amor, Theresa Rojas Editor Inside This Issue... Vol. 1 #3 BC 17 Vol. 1 #3 FC 17 30 The Barnett Center Jenni Rivera 18 A Conversation with Gilbert 14 Via Brasil 13 Latinos One Life to Live 29 Felipe Castelblanco 7 21 Sosa: Buena Vista Supply Chains 89 Subject/Headline Dr. Miguel Villalona-Calero James Cancer Care and Treatment Program By Victoria Muñoz, PhD Candidate, Department of English VM: Describe your For example, there is a type of leukemia called chronic experience at OSU. myeloid leukemia (CML). We used to tell patients… MC: I came to OSU [as that you have a time bomb inside you which at some an Assistant Professor] point will explode. You will go into what we call blast in April 1999. The James phase and you will die…Researchers discovered that and university as a CML was caused by the fusion of two genes that live whole provided a great in chromosomes 9 and 22, which fuse together and environment for me to produce a protein that drives the cancer. So, they grow... In 2002 I got [developed] a medicine called Gleevec that would block tenure and became an that. Most patients go into remission...When Gleevec was Associate Professor and being developed I went to the Dominican Republic…a Full Professor in 2007. In friend of a friend, a surgeon, had a daughter who was 2010, I was offered the diagnosed with CML. I handed him the abstract on the job of division director. My study of Gleevec and he managed to get his daughter seats at the Horseshoe are getting better. I wear several into a clinical trial in Guatemala and she went into hats, including the hat of administrator to make sure the complete remission…So advances like that are really division will be financially sound, that we grow, and that smart targeting. For lung cancer we now have a have a young talents are developed. This year, we recruited 24 few genes like EGFR [epidermal growth factor receptor]… faculty members to the Medical Oncology Division. and ALK gene that we can go after. We have two approved drugs for that. VM: Why did you study medicine? MC: I had a role model: my pediatrician, Doctor Ariza…My VM: Describe your recent article on ethnicity in mom would tell me stories about how during our civil war cancer research. [Dominican Republic, 1965], he was able to pay a home MC: Most new treatments in the U.S. and Europe are visit in the middle of the bullets because my brother and tested predominately in whites…So, when a drug gets I were sick…I chose lung cancer after [my fellowship] in approved, we don’t know how people from certain San Antonio…This cancer was very challenging…It’s an ethnicities will react in terms of good benefits and epidemic and the number 1 killer of men and women. toxicities. Although there are commonalities among We have a number of patients who never smoked different ethnicities…some side effects are more or smoked lightly. I have a lot of patients that have a common in some people compared to others and genetic abnormality. Smoking is still the top cause, but certain enzymes that contribute to elimination of the there are other factors. drug by the liver or kidney may be distributed unequally among different ethnicities. The article [surveys our VM: Describe your research. current knowledge of] toxicities and metabolism of MC: My field is really drug development—new anticancer certain anti-cancer agents among certain ethnicities, and agents. We call it early therapeutics, but it’s really late the different prevalence and mortality of certain cancers therapeutics because it’s when other things have failed. among ethnicities. I have a contract with the National Cancer Institute to do Phase II trials with new agents. This a consortium we VM: Tell me about your AAAS fellowship [See page 23]. lead in cooperation with Cleveland Clinic, Case Western MC: Real progress [involves] people of different fields Reserve, Georgetown University in Washington, and communicating. For example, a relevant quote at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. The patients AAAS meeting was, “the physicists gave the electrons I see have lung cancer, but [my field] is the translation to the engineers and they created the IT revolution; of new discoveries that can be applied to any cancer. biologists have given engineers the genes, and they We tend to think of translational research as scientists will construct the future.” I was recognized in the bringing discoveries to patients, but a lot of times the pharmaceutical sciences arena because of my efforts patients give us the answer and so we bring it back to regarding clinical trials with new agents in patients...What the lab and test.