THE & STATESMAN Volume 52, Issue 43 Monday, March 30, 2009 www.sbstatesman.org Sports: 1 1 Arts and Entertainment: 4 Sports: 11 In Photos >> Page 6 Music: Not Without a Fight Men's Lacrosse Falls to Conference UMH Smashes Women's STONY BROOK COLO GUARD Lacrosse Rival UMBC A&E Exploring Other Painfully Real Cultures Through Anne Hathaway as a moody ex-junkie just out of rehab? Study Abroad Somehow, I just don't buy it. That's not to say that Jonathan lv GABRIELA PENAHERRLRA Demme's moving family dra- -taf Writer ma "Rachel Getting Married" isn't worth watching. As long The thrill of globe trekking as you have a box of Kleenex around the world as an under- with you, that is. ,raduate student can be a fulfilling \perience that teaches the ditffer- 7 Spage nces of cultures, languages, and lestyles that are difftlerent from ir own. OPINION "The thought of exploring an- ther countrythrough excursions, Missing I-CON 28 liflerent types of food, culture, and people always captivated my inter- For the past 27 years, Stony est;' said Christine Lee, a senior Brook has played the variably at Stony Brook University, who gracious host to the Northeast's visited Tanzania before deciding biggest science-fiction, fact and Kennerth Hol SB Statesmen upon her major. "Before decid- Brooke Ellison speaks al)out the controvers', it'ueI )1stem cell researc h. fantasy convention. It started up ing on Tanzania, I almost went occupying a few rooms in the through another program after student union, but as interest in reviewing other study abroad op- the sci-fi genres grew, so did the The Brooke Ellison Proiect: tions, but I decided not to due to a "Island Convention." sudden change of plans. The next Campaigning For Stem Cels year, I declared Anthropology as page 5 my major." By TARA DILl ON by Ellison, a screening of the doc- various other diseases, stem cells Lee said that she was more ex- What Happens to a Contributing VVriter umentary "Hope Deferred," and could mean relief from the pain cited to go to Tanzania because she Weed Deferred? a panelist discussion. The panel they have been suffering for years. had academic drive to go on the At 11 years old, Brooke El- included experts and researchers "Aworld without Alzheimer's trip. "While the excursions to Kili- On March 26, 2009, I felt a sense lison was just like any other kid. from all over the field including and Lou Gehrig's disease is a manjaro and the Serengeti remain of generational pride in my She danced, she sang and she biomedical engineering, medical world we can look forward to,"' as the highlights of the trip, I really government. President Obama enjoyed playing in her neighbor- humanities, compassionate care, says Lawrence Goldstein, the enjoyed the overall experiences was testing out an excitingly hood with her friends. That is un- and bioethics. Turnout to the director of the stem cell program throughout my journey in Tanza- new means of representation by til her life changed in an instant. event, which was held in the SAC at the University of California, nia;' she said. "Playing soccer with addressing public qualms and "One day I'm walking home from auditorium, drew over 100 peo- San Diego, who was quoted in the local schoolgirls,exploring the quandaries of the people via an school, anxious to play with my ple, including a few who would the documentary. Many people city of Arusha by ourselves,and online white house forum. That's friends, and the next I'm confined benefit from stem cell research interviewed in the documentary playing with the children from right, the internet. Now I'm not to a wheelchair, breathing with themselves. agree with this statement, includ- local orphanages.Throughout the old enough to remember a time the help of a tube;' says Ellison, The documentary "Hope ing family members of those trip, I took comfort in feeling more when the Internet didn't exist, a now 30, of the car accident that Deferred:' by Jimmy Siegel, gave suffering from incurable diseases. like a visitor in a novel country fact that has greatly influenced ended with a one-year hospital the audience a wide understand- Douglas Melton, the co-di- than a common tourist" my generation. stay from a spinal cord injury. It ing of what Stem Cells were and rector of the Stem Cell Institute Stony Brook University offers is then that she decided that she how scientists go about getting at Harvard University, has a son a variety of study abroad programs page 5 would become an advocate for them. Siegel owns a well-known and daughter who both suffer for a short-term program in sum- stem cell research, "I wanted to creative services business and has from diabetes. For him, stem mer or winter, or a long-term Who Punishes the help further the issue in any way worked with the likes of Hillary cells would take away the painful international exchange program Punishers? that I could.":' Clinton and Eliot Spitzer. insulin shots and multiple pills that can extend over a semester or Ellison now spends her day- "The film takes the issue out that he has to watch his children academic year. The outrage propagating straveling to different schools and of the political sphere and brings take every day. These programs offer course through the media over the communities across the country the issue into a new light --one For Kieran McGovern who credits in a foreign environment AIG bonuses is starting a cas- to educate the public on stem cells involving human life," Ellison suffers from Friedreich's Ataxia, and also excursions to different cade by which the government and how millions of people could said. a painful neurological disorder, landmarks and historic sites that is descendirg down a slippery benefit from them. Ellison, along According to the documen- stem cells would mean being free are incorporated with the learning slope into micro-management with her organization, the Brooke tary, "Stem cells are unique cells from a wheelchair and the abil- experience. "Besides a beginner's of the economy. First we at- Ellison Project, recently made a that have the ability to both self- ity to walk. McGovern, though, knowledge of Swahili, I've learned tach strings, preventing com- stop at Stony Brook University renew and to develop into other doesn't let this stop him from to be happy and be free;' said Lee. panies receiving bailouts from on Mar. 25. types of cells in the body." For having a positive outlook of the "While we stayed at various loca- fulfilling contractual obliga- The event, sponsored by the people suffering from diabetes, world, "You have to take a bad tions around the northern part of tion of granting bonuses. College of Engineering and the spinal cord injuries, neurological hand that you got and use it to Tanzania, our motto became "be Women in Science and Engineer- disorders, cancer, Lou Gehrig's page 9 ing program, included a speech disease, multiple sclerosis, and Continued on page 7 Continued on page 7 2 FREE CRAB LEGS BUYAN ORDER OF ALASKAN SNOW CRAB LEGS, GET ONE FREE! 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