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Bowling Green State University FRIDAY April 22, 2005 QUADSTOCKrThe Pulse previews Kreischer RAIN HIGH: 56 LOW 39 and Harshman's big rock show; PAGE 7 wvfw.bgnews.com A daily independent student press VOLUME 99 ISSUE154 1 1 TH ANNUAL Bill ensures extra breast LATINO ISSUES CONFERENCE cancer care Scholars discuss Latinos in in hospitals By Laura Collins Hollywood with community REPORTER Each year, more than 8,400 Ohio By Dan Myers interview, Gleach said aca- women are diagnosed with breast REPORTER demics should give back to the cancer and 1,900 die annually, Scholars joined together to community through the work according a spokesperson for die illustrate the importance of that they do. American (ancer Society. latinos in popular culture—an "1 think it's important to This month, the Breast Cancer importance underlined by the have your life and work inte- Patient Protection Act will he roughly 200-strong audience grated because we all live in reintroduced to Congress by that gathered in the Union the world and the work we do Connecticut Representative Rosa yesterday morning. is based in the world," Gleach L I vl .mm. The Breast Cancer Dr. Frederic W. Gleach, a said. "Anything that we (aca- Patient Protection Act will guar- lecturer in anthropology from demics] can do to give back as antee a minimum hospital stay Cornell University, played a sort of repayment is only fair of 48 hours for a woman having short DVD movie that used — in anthropology in particu- a mastectomy, and 24 hours for narrative, pictures and video lar, because it's the study of a woman undergoing a lymph node removal. JtnPaal BGNe« clips to present his research on people." The Latin Bombshell," Diosa Two grad students also pre- A mastectomy is a surgical pro- LISTEN UP: Students from Miami University listen attentively to Professor de la Garza yesterday. Costello. sented work during the same cedure where all or a portion of Costello was a Puerto Rican session as Gleach. tile breast is removed. During a actress during the 1930s, '40s fuliana Vukonic, who has a lymph node dissection, the sur- Columbia professor: Latino pell data, and '50s who played roles that bachelor's degree in political geon removes all or part of die stereotyped Latin American science, argued that Hollywood lymph nodes in the armpit to women. stresses the importance of the | determine if it is likely that cancer Bush's narrow victory do not correlate Gleach concluded that gen- "American look — blonde hair will spread beyond the breast. der-related and ethnocentric with blue eyes." According to her Web site. By Russ Zimmer The polling data was false them concerned about educa- Delauro began working on the Rtpomtn because of the concentration of tion and economy — mean- roadblocks limited the careers "With the influence of Hollywood," Vukonic said, hill in l996afterbcingapproacried Much was made of die shift Latino populations in a handful ing jobs, not taxes — but not of Costello and other latin "ILatinos] have been changing by a surgeon who was looking for in the Latino vote towards of states, such as Florida where immigration. American actors in the early their traditional values for lib- a solution to outpatient mastec- President George W. Bush in Cuban-Americans are some of "Immigration is never a major days of film. "We must learn from their eral American values." tomies. The bill was introduced the latest election according to the most loyal Republicans. issue for Latinos," de la Garza to Congress in 1996 then reintro- some exit polls, but the num- "Polling in Florida gets to a lot said. struggles," Gleach said. After the conference in an CULTURE, PAGE 2 duced in 2001, where it had 189 bers may be flawed. of conservative latinos," de la POLLING. PAGE 2 bipartisan cosponsors. Rodolfo de la Garza, a profes- Garza said. Delauro said that this bill is sor from Columbia University, De la Garza also noted that, important because it puts medi- « was in the Union yesterday to of a sampling of major polls cal decisions back where they speak to students and faculty for in the lead up lo the election, belong, in the hands of patients the Latino Issues Conference. none showed the Latino vote and their doctors, not the In his lecture titled, "The over 40 percent for Bush. insurance company. Latino Vote 2004," de la Garza "The Electoral College works "All too often, women are pointed to exit polls that gave against Latinos," de la Garza forced to go home from the hos- 44 percent of the Latino vote to said. pital before they are physically the president. That number is Contrary to news reports, or emotionally ready," Delauro "highly contested," according to de la Garza said that Latinos said. "A mastectomy is not a cure de la Garza. are shifting more to the for breast cancer and women By winning that much of the Democratic party. He displayed often are facing chemotherapy vote, Bush should have won by a data chart that shows Latino and/or radiation, in addition to a much larger margin because Republicans are more likely to physically healing from surgery" die voting trends of Latinos vote Democrat than Democrat DcLauro added that by keep- are similar to other traditional Latinos are to vote Republican. ing patients in the hospital longer, democratic voting blocks. "Latinos will vote for a it ensures a 24-hour support sys- "If Republicans don't get at white Democrat over a Latino tem to provide round-the-clock least 25 percent of the Latino Republican. Wfe've seen that," care following the procedure. vote, they will lose everything. de la Garza said. Bill Schroeder, communica- If they get more that 35 percent Latinos' priority issues in tions director for the Northwest they will win everything," de la 2000 reflected a more demo- Dw Myers BGNews ALUMNI, PAGE 2 Garza said. cratic platform, with most of AT ISSUE: Evelyn Silva, at the podium, discusses Argentinian youth while Dr. Frederic W. Gleach listens. Shumaker begins term I DEEP IN'THOUGHT' By Laren Weber they were held online, replacing but that's still only about 10 per- SENIOR REPORIER the traditional paper ballots that cent of the student population at Although the end of the were used previously. And along best, Shumaker said. semester is near, Monday with the implementation of the "We want to let students know marked a new beginning. The new voting system came a sig- what USG is," he said. "1 noticed results of the Undergraduate nificant increase in the number that when I was campaigning: Student Government elections of students that voted most students didn't know or revealed Friday that University When results were tallied, 1,766 care what USG was." junior Aaron Shumaker and students participated in this year's Making the organization sophomore Bernard Little would electioa according to Planning more visible among other take the reigns as president and and Institutional Research, Those student organizations and vice president. numbers surpassed the 762 stu- meeting the concerns of the stu- The two officially took office dents that voted in 2003 and last dents, Shumaker said, is the first Monday and immediately began year's total of 813 voters. step in truly becoming the voice their roles as the new Voice' of And despite the security con- of the students. the undergraduate student cern prior to the elections, no "It's going to start with knowing population at the University. major challenges arose with the concerns," Shumaker said. Shumaker and Little believe that the' new method, said Bill USG acts as the link between their campaign of realistic lead- Knight, director of Planning and students and administrators and ership placed them a step ahead Institutional Research. attempts to address issues and of the other candidates. "It went very smoothly from the concerns of both groups. Student Defying the stereotype of typi- scanable to the web approach," government is an influential stu- cal politicians, Shumaker and Knight said. "We had a significant dent organization on campus. Little opted not to make empty number of voting this year from It is essential that the concerns promises to win votes. the pencil and paper approach." of students that are communi- "We went into every speaking And although voter turnout cated to administrators are real- engagement and every person has increased, Shumaker wants istic, Shumaker said. we spoke to on the side [and] to make USG more known on "We're not going to get every- we let them know that we can't campus. A mission that he and thing we want, but at the same make you promises, but we can little want to accomplish is to time the administration needs promise that well let you know educate and make students to know our concerns," he said. Brian McRoOeMs BGNews what's going on," Little said. aware of the organization's pres- "We need to be realistic in our COFFEE 'N' BOOKS: Dave Hartman (left) goes over his class notes while his classmate Ashley USG elections is an annual ence at the University.