Valencia Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Helps Fight Cancer Bone Marrow Drive Provides Hope to Kids Battling the Deadly Disease
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NEWSNEWS OPINIONOPINION FEATURESFEATURES SPORTSSPORTS 1 April 6, 2011 VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 12 VALENCIAVOICE.COM Valencia chapter of Phi Theta Kappa helps fight cancer Bone marrow drive provides hope to kids battling the deadly disease By Andresa Knight challenge for getting awareness [email protected] out is the lack of knowledge and fear within communities.” Could you be the match? The Doctor has made it her life Phi Theta Kappa Society and mission to save lives. Kids Beating Cancer conducted According to Guest Speaker a bone marrow drive initiative Dr. Paul Lopez a bone marrow Tuesday at Valencia College transplant delivers healthy West campus. bone marrow stem cells into the Kids Beating Cancer is a patient. It replaces bone marrow non-profit organization that that is either not working coordinates and facilitates properly or has been destroyed marrow donor awareness in by chemotherapy or radiation. the community. “The donating process is an KBC funds the most outpatient procedure and is Collin Dever / Valencia Voice Rob Stio president of PTK Chi Epsilon chapter told listeners of how PTK is convincing people to donate bone marrow. sophisticated lab testing virtually painless” states Lopez. necessary to identify family For thousands of children donors for children and adults and adults battling leukemia, only hope for a cure, 75 percent other donors to find that life states “You can not give up, stay in need of marrow transplants. lymphoma, sickle cell anemia of these patients, however will saving match. positive and hopeful.” Guest Speaker Adele Doctor, and other life threatening not have matching donors in Kim Johnson a recipient of For more information on KBC a recruiter for KBC for over diseases, a bone marrow their families. a bone marrow transplant and or to become a donor visit http:// eight years, states “The largest transplant offers their best or They depend on KBC and a Valencia College graduate www.KidsBeatingCancer.com. NEWS OPINION FEATURES SPORTS 2 a witness. Once we have heard, we must not stand idly Buchenwald concentration camp, where his father, a by. Indifference to evil makes evil stronger.” shopkeeper, died from starvation and dysentery. Wiesel emphasized that he holds no malice toward Wiesel was freed from the camp as the war in Eu- Germans whose parents and grandparents were Nazis. rope ended and taken to France. Penniless and living “Only the guilty are guilty,” he said. “The children and on his own, the teenager learned to read and write in grandchildren of these killers are not killers.” French and went on to become a journalist. On Tuesday, Wiesel, who is a professor at Boston Wiesel waited a decade before describing his expe- University, spoke on the subject of “Knowledge and riences in “Night,” which has been translated into 30 Ethics” to an audience of 900 in a Chapman auditorium. languages and is now taught in many public schools. “One thing I hope comes of these visits for our stu- Since then, he has had 40 books published on a variety dents is that history will have a face, and that as a result of subjects, only a few of them involving the Holocaust. of meeting him they will become inspired and engaged But in his characteristic self-effacing manner, he in the human story,” said Marilyn Harran, a religion told a group of Chapman students that after a career and history professor who is director of the campus’ that has joined literature, philosophy, religion and Ho- Rogers Center for Holocaust Education. locaust studies for decades, he still has no answer to Wiesel’s is an extraordinary life. Born in 1928, in this question: What makes people good or evil? Sighet, Romania, he was one of the town’s 15,000 Jews He paused, and then added, “How did we not lose transported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. His our values? Nothing but questions remain.” Liz O. Baylen, Los Angeles Times / MCT mother and sister died in the gas chambers there. —MCT Campus Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust chronicler, is surrounded by students after Wiesel led a discussion with the freshman level Religion and Values class at Chapman University in Orange, California. In 1945, Wiesel and his father were sent to the History has a face, but is it good or evil? Wiesel offers students firsthand account of Holocaust Good business By Louis Sahagun spoken in accented English and a soft, low voice, vis- is a Los Angeles Times Skill. ibly affected the students. One wanted to know how Wiesel managed to Twenty-one Chapman University freshman lis- overcome the memories of the deaths of his father, tened intently this week as Nobel Peace Prize laureate mother and sister to write his first book, “Night,” an and Nazi death camp survivor Elie Wiesel discussed autobiographical account of the atrocities he and fel- Master it. the role of religion and morality in the face of immense, low Jews suffered at Nazi concentration camps. terrifying evil. With deep sadness in his eyes, Wiesel replied, Wiesel, 82, a witness to the human suffering expe- “Only those who were there know what it was like. “I initially chose Columbia College for rienced in the Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald con- We must bear witness. Silence is not an option.” the flexibility, as I knew I would be deploying with my National Guard unit centration camps, was in his element - assuming the Another student asked, “How can this generation a few years ago, and I could complete burden of memory for the millions who did not survive preserve what you learned there?” courses online while deployed.” the Holocaust. Wiesel brightened as he said, “Listen to the survi- The much-honored writer and professor clearly rel- vors. They are an endangered species now. This is the Toll free: (877) 999-9876 Josh Boesen ‘09 ished the exchanges in the main library at the campus last chance you have to listen to them. I believe with Master of Business Administration in Southern California’s Orange County. His words, all my heart that whoever listens to a witness becomes www.ccis.edu/masterit 2600 Technology Dr. • Orlando, FL NEWS 3 FEATURES SPORTS Jobless rate hits 2 year low Unemployment drops down to 8.8 percent By Jim Puzzanghera on a dramatic improvement in sition at a Target warehouse dur- Los Angeles Times jobs numbers in ’83 and ’84,” ing the holidays, Mabry said he’s said Carroll Doherty, associate ready to start seriously looking for The nation’s job-creation en- director of the nonpartisan Pew a full-time job. gine revved up last month and Research Center. Friday’s unemployment report pushed the unemployment rate During that two-year period, comes on the heels of recent good to its lowest level in two years, the unemployment rate fell from economic news. But several potential spreading optimism the econom- 10.4 percent to 7.2 percent. The trouble spots remain, including ris- ic recovery is firmly in place and recent drop in the unemployment ing energy prices caused by unrest in giving President Barack Obama a rate from 9.8 percent in November the Middle East and North Africa. political boost. is the best since then. Prices increased in February The unemployment rate ticked House Majority Leader Eric for the third straight month, with PROGRAMS down to 8.8 percent — a full per- Cantor, R-Va., downplayed the energy costs the main driver. Over- UCF VALENCIA OSCEOLA centage point lower than in No- job growth, describing it as an all, consumer prices increased 2.1 Applied Science (B.A.S.) vember and the sharpest four- “uptick.” percent in the 12 months that end- • Criminal Justice • Health Services Administration month drop in 28 years. White House officials were ed in February, the most recent • Industrial Operations* The improvement bettered delighted by the new numbers, data available. • Information Technology* Start here. Finish here. • Supervision and Administration economists’ predictions of about which they said surpassed their And economists noted that Business Administration (B.A.) 200,000 new jobs and led forecast- own internal projections. while the jobs drought is over, Elementary Education (B.S.) ers to say that strong job growth “Obviously, things can go there’s a long way to go to make Interdisciplinary Studies (B.A., B.S.) At UCF VAlenCiA OSCeOlA And UCF VAlenCiA WeSt, Psychology (B.S.) appeared to have taken hold. wrong, but this continues to be a up for the approximately 8.7 mil- you can start your bachelor’s degree on the same campus UCF VALENCIA WEST The GOP won big in elections last very solid trend that we’ve seen lion jobs lost in 2008 and 2009. you finished your associate degree. Through DirectConnect Applied Science (B.A.S.) fall at a time when some economists over the last year,” said Austan More than 13.5 million Americans • Criminal Justice to UCF, all graduates of Valencia are guaranteed admission • Health Services Administration predicted unemployment might hit Goolsbee, chairman of the Council remained out of work in March. • Industrial Operations* to UCF. So, you can finish your degree right here—with more double digits this year. Amid wor- of Economic Advisors. “It is sort of the tale of two cit- • Information Technology* options than ever. • Legal Studies ries about the economy, Obama’s re- Optimism also has spread to ies,” said Christine Owens, execu- • Supervision and Administration election prospects dimmed. unemployed workers, such as tive director of the National Em- To explore a degree program that suits you, contact an Architecture (B. Des.) 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