Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 | Volume 210 | Number 83 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
A chance to contribute Ban prohibiting gay men to donate blood revised by FDA By Morgan.Kelly @iowastatedaily.com
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ayne Glass wants to help save lives by donating blood. But he hasn’t been allowed to donate because of a Food and Drug Administration lifetime ban deferring blood donations from men who have had sex with other men any time after 1977. On Dec. 23, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration issued a draft for the lifetime blood ban on men who have sex with men to be lifted. Men who have had sex with other men at any time since 1977 — the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States — are deferred as blood donors, according to the FDA.
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1977 HIV first detected in U.S.
1983 Risk of AIDS through blood transfusion discovered
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FDA approves OraQuick in-home HIV test
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Former ISU researcher to plead guilty in federal court By Matthew.Rezab @iowastatedaily.com
New court documents show a former ISU researcher in the Department of Biomedical Services has agreed to plead guilty to scientific fraud, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court. Dong-Pyou Han originally pleaded not guilty in June 2014 to four felony counts of making materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statements about a matter under the jurisdiction of a branch of the United States government. The charges carry fines and up to five years imprisonment. The details of the plea agreement were not specified in the document filed Jan. 16 by Joe Herrold, Han’s public defender. Kevin Vander Schel, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said prosecutors don’t release details of a plea agreement until it is formally filed in court. After admitting he’d faked results of experiments with an AIDS vaccine in 2013, Korean-born Han was forced to resign his position as a research assistant professor. He admitted to mixing human antibodies with the blood of rabbits to make it look like the vaccine was protecting the rabbits against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The falsified research originally brought in millions of dollars in federal grants, but Iowa State has since been forced to repay $496,000 to the federal government and another $1.4 million in grants have been canceled. According to the court documents, Han “is currently on pretrial release in the state of Indiana, and, due to a health problem, is not able to drive to Iowa for change of plea proceedings.” Herrold also asked for extra time to find a qualified Korean interpreter and “provide the defendant with sufficient time to obtain a reasonably priced flight,” which the document states Han plans to purchase himself. Han’s trial was set to begin Feb. 2, but has been granted a continuance. A jury trial is now scheduled to begin March 2, marking the fourth time a continuance has been granted. ISU officials have said Han was the lone culprit in the the fraud and the team will continue their research to find an AIDS vaccine.
Big-name conservatives CyRide provides coming to Des Moines alternatives for Orange Route By Alex.Hanson @iowastatedaily.com
Almost two-dozen big-name Conservative politicians and activists are set to gather for an eight-hour summit in Des Moines this weekend. The first ever “Iowa Freedom Summit,” put together by the Conservative group Citizens United and U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. “Coming off our successful
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be among the group of speakers to be featured at the very first Iowa Freedom Summit at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.
College of Business extends accreditation By Matthew.Rezab @iowastatedaily.com The ISU College of Business and the separately accredited accounting program have earned a five-year accreditation extension by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. In order to earn the accreditation, the College of Business had to meet AACSB standards for innovation, impact and engagement. AACSB Accreditation is known, worldwide, as the longest standing, most recognized form of specialized/professional accreditation an institution and its business programs can earn. According to their website, less than 5 percent of the world’s business programs have earned
accreditation from AACSB International. The College of Business first received accreditation from AACSB in 1991, seven years after becoming a college. The AACSB committee singled out four programs and policies as strengths of the college: - Student engagement: CyBIZ Lab and other opportunities in which students work directly with business were recognized as model activities. - Interdisciplinary programs: The College of Business partners with the College of Engineering to offer a program in which students can earn a four-year undergraduate engineering degree and an MBA in five years. The two colleges also partner on a master’s of engineering in engineering management program. - Communications Lab: Stu-
dents can receive writing critiques as well as help develop their oral communication skills. The committee noted that this is a conscious effort to address an ongoing challenge for business schools to improve students’ written and oral skills. - Doctoral program: The Business and Technology Ph.D. program has advanced quickly given that it is relatively new. The accreditation effort was led by Danny Johnson, associate dean of the College of Business. According to their website, the ISU College of Business is one of 716 member institutions that hold AACSB Accreditation and one of 182 institutions to earn specialized accreditation for their accounting programs. Overall, 48 countries and territories are represented by AACSBaccredited schools.
CyRide is calling for students to vote on three alternatives to the existing No. 23 Orange bus route. CyRide held an open-house forum in the Maple-Willow-Larch commons area Thursday to give analysis on the No. 23 Orange Route alternatives from. CyRide is offering three options for the 23 route: an articulated buses alternative, to split the route into two, or a bus rapid transit system. The current No. 23 Orange Route uses two buses or an “extra bus” at the most congested stops along the route. “During the main hours, in the morning, lunch and at dinner time there is a lot of chaos,” said Lindsay Sturtevant, a freshman living in Willow Hall. The No. 23 Orange Route is currently running at capacity and ridership is rising 2-3 percent per year. CyRide has made the decision that adding more 40-foot buses is not a solution to the problem. “40 percent of riders come from the commuter lot and 40 percent come from MWL,” said Bill Troe, a SRF consultant hired by CyRide to help with alternative solutions. “The remaining 20 percent is what comes from campus locations.” The high amount of student traffic coming onto campus is causing problems on the route. The most prevalent problems
include an increased time on bus stop waiting, standing room only on the buses and more vehicles on campus. The first solution given is the articulated bus system. The articulated bus system proposal suggests buses run the same route as the current 23 route, but will call for fewer buses. Eight buses would be used to accommodate current and future demand and all of the buses on the route will be articulated [bendy buses]. “We currently have two [articulated] buses,” Troe said. “A grant to CyRide may pay for about four more buses.” This means that Cyride may only be required to purchase four buses with current funds, instead of all eight. The second proposal would split the 23 route in two. New routes would run both north and south of Lincoln Way. An “express” route would run from the Iowa State Center lot and Vet Med, while a route starting at Maple-WillowLarch would continue to run the current 23 route, but would terminate at Maple-Willow-Larch. Both routes would have fewer stops, but this plan has the highest operating costs. “Split route has good qualities, but will be just as busy as the current route,” said GSB Senator David Moore. “I think we are spoiled a little bit with the orange route, but thats OK sometimes.”
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