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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015
IN THE NEWS
VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 145
Pulling out all the shots
Citywide 10 p.m. curfew issued in Baltimore Supreme Court divided over same-sex marriage
UA affiliates create website to help improve lives of diabetics, utilizing better management techniques
US officials say bird flu expected to return in fall
BY JOEY FISHER
The Daily Wildcat
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here are college students everywhere who take 10-15 shots a day. A shot before every meal, a shot in the morning, a shot before bed and more throughout the day. These students need shots for their health, or they can’t handle their day-to-day activity. This is not because they are partying too hard, but because they live with a disease: Type 1 diabetes. Kelsie Owen, a public health junior, has been a Type 1 diabetic for 18 years. She started out the oldfashioned way with syringes but eventually moved on to an insulin pump when she was 7. Her mother, Leslie Owen, felt that it was better to switch to the pump. She said she believed it would help manage her diabetes better, and she would be “poked with a syringe less.” “She was so skinny and had really sensitive skin,” Leslie Owen said, “and she was just getting black and blue and just had sores from where we would do her pokes and give [Kelsie Owen] her insulin shots.”
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Since Kelsie Owen was diagnosed young, her mother administered her insulin shots. “When you think about going into a hospital, your mind tells you that you’ll leave the hospital better, like you [will be] cured or healed, but it was just the beginning,” said Leslie Owen, recalling the day her daughter was diagnosed. “This was the whole start of a lifetime of issues with having to give shots and pokes for her. So, giving her shots was just kind of a whole awareness thing, just to have to do that to your child.”
Diabetes management
Though there is no cure for diabetes, it is a manageable disease. Diabetics must count carbs, monitor blood sugar levels and give insulin accordingly. DiabeticLink is a website that accommodates Type 1, Type 2 or a prediabetic patients with tools that can help them self-manage their disease. It was started by Hsinchun Chen, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the UA, and Dr. Thomas R. Brown, a physician at
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The goal is cyber-enabled patient empowerment, and that’s really what we’re trying to do is empower our patients
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ARTS & LIFE
— Grace Samtani, a sophomore studying neuroscience and Spanish, research assistant and Type 1 diabetic
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QUOTE TO NOTE “Either Arpaio has been caught in his own web of lies or has just told us he needs to retire.” — Ashleigh Horowitz OPINION - 4
Journalist explains Students just throw it in the Middle East issues bag on UA mall was published in 2013, was featured by The New York Times The Daily Wildcat on its best seller list. Shavit’s goal is to create On Tuesday night, the Hillel a “loving, Foundation positive and conference room constructive was packed with view of the guests, including Middle East,” UA students as the conflict and community in that region members, to continues to be listen to critically publicized daily acclaimed by the media. author and He emphasized Israeli journalist the idea of Ari Shavit. taking Israel Shavit has out of common, — Zach Bernath, been described cliché ideas, dual major in Middle as one of the as well as most outspoken Eastern studies and mentioning the columnists for poltical science need for reform Haaretz and in the Zionist also serves as a movement. commentator for Many in attendance were Israeli Public Television. He is an acclaimed author; his novel “My longtime fans of the author, Promised Land: The Triumph SHAVIT, 2 and Tragedy of Israel,” which BY LAUREN RENTERIA
BY CHASTITY LASKEY
The Daily Wildcat
Plato’s Closet will host a booth on the UA Mall for another day of its Bag Some Cash event. “We hope to see more faces and buy more bags; we got the cash, so come on down,” said Lindsay Sushil, store manager of Plato’s Closet on Oracle Road. The event will continue today and Thursday on the UA Mall from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students can donate a small grocery-sized bag of clothes for $10 or a large bag for $20. Plato’s Closet, TMM Family Services, Inc., and the UA Office of Sustainability in conjunction with BolchalkFReY Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations kicked off the first day of the first
annual Bag Some Cash event Tuesday. Brooke Nowak, director of community relations and volunteer coordinator for TMM Family Services, Inc., said she thinks the event went extremely well so far, especially considering their fight with the wind, which prevented them from putting up any signs to highlight either Plato’s Closet or TMM. “I was impressed with the fact that every single person we talked to was very interested and said immediately that they would be back,” Nowak said. “Several even came back today.” Connie Knecht, owner of the independently owned and
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