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Black women and awareness in Breast Cancer Awareness Month:
A survivor’s tale
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but many people don’t realize black women with breast cancer are about 40% more likely to die from the disease than white women. In fact, the National Institutes of Health has funded a massive study to uncover the reasons for this disparity at https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/ nih-to-fund-study-of-breast-cancerin-black-women.html. There are also different types of breast cancer and black women face a higher probability of developing fast-growing breast cancers, like triple negative breast cancer or inflammatory breast cancer. Cheryl Holloway, PhD, and program director for the Bachelor of Science in Public Health program at South University in Novi, Michigan, is a two-time breast cancer survivor whose book, "The Black Woman’s Breast Cancer Survival Guide, Understanding and Healing in the Face of a Nationwide Crisis," was just published by Praeger, ABC-CLIO. Holloway also teaches courses on women and minority health issues and public health and wellness.
Dr. William Pickard
Hall. Archer. Pickard.
Cheryl Holloway
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Holloway discovered that black women have a higher risk than women of other races and ethnicities for aggressive forms of breast cancer that can occur before a woman’s 40th birthday. In fact, Dr. Holloway was first diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 39 years old. A longtime volunteer for the American Cancer Society and a fervent supporter of mammograms for women, Holloway decided to investigate how breast cancer affects black women. As a black woman, she understands that some women are fearful of the health care system and reticent about asking questions. Yet black
See SURVIVOR'S TALE page A-4
Three names etched into legacy at Western Michigan University By Keith A. Owens Senior Editor
Three college buddies who met at Western Michigan University nearly 50 years ago made a promise to themselves and to each other — their friendship would endure, they would all succeed, and help each other to do so, and they would all give back to their communities. Last week, the power of that promise — a promise kept beyond all of their imaginings — was honored at their alma mater with a dormitory naming ceremony. Thanks to a tremendously generous contribution to WMU from trustee William Pickard, founder and CEO of Global Automotive Alliance, the unveiling revealed not only Pickard’s last name above the entrance of the two companion dormitories, but those of his two close and longtime friends, former Detroit Mayor and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Dennis Archer, and the late Ron Hall, founder, chairman and former CEO of Detroit-based automotive firm Bridgewater Interiors, LLC. “Dad would just love knowing that he’s a part of this important recognition,” said Ron Hall, Jr. at an earlier luncheon where both he and Archer spoke to a large and appreciative crowd. “I can share with you that those stories and adventures from when Dr. Pickard was still Willie [and] when Mayor Archer was the guy they teased as the guy from Cassopolis that
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Dr. William Pickard, Ann Hall and Dennis Archer – Montez Miller photos nobody had ever heard of are pretty legion in our family and the fabric has become the tapestry of our family over the years as Dad would pass on the lessons that this group learned together to myself and my brothers. “Dad very much appreciated the education he received here at Western. He was a very proud Bronco. As long as I can remember, he talked about the importance of education and academic attainment and how it was really the foundational rungs on the ladder that anybody from any group needs to climb to get toward greater opportuni-
ty for themselves. Not just economic, but the whole person — mental, emotional, spiritual. He was a big believer in that. “He was also fond of that Mark Twain quote of not letting your schooling get in the way of your education. He talked about all the things he learned away from the classroom with these individuals who you heard were growing up in a very tempestuous time in the country ... They were in crisis. America was in crisis. It was very gratifying to him to look back de-
See WMU DEDICATION page A-4
Will slaughter in Las Vegas wake us up?
No, this pause is only intermission until The Next Time. By Keith A. Owens
ous white guys with a whole lotta guns in a hotel room who are just, well, crazy. To be an actual, card-carrying domestic terrorist you apparently have to be responding to a higher calling when you snuff out all those lives. You have to be crazy with a purpose.
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First of all, can we just please dispense with the perversely comical description of Stephen Paddock, the guy who just finished killing 59 people and injuring 527 more in Las Vegas before killing himself, as a ‘lone wolf.’ That hardly describes the man and practically portrays him as sympathetic and socially awkward. A nerd with a dark side.
COMMENTARY
But the bloody tragedy by this man’s hand, and the horror he inflicted, from his 32nd floor perch, on so many innocent civilians at a Sunday evening country music concert was committed domestically. It was an act that wreaked sheer, unadulterated terror on more than 20,000 music lovers and onlookers alike. Not to mention all of us who witnessed this nightmare on the news as it was unfolding.
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Domestic. Terror.
Not just anybody gets to be a terrorist in America. These things have to be earned. If you’re going to be an American terrorist, then for goodness’ sake do it right; at least yell “Death to America! (Good)” or “Death to the Great Satan! (Better)” or “Allah be praised! (Best!)”.
Photo courtesy of Slate So… to me? This sounds like it should logically be classified as domestic terrorism. Which would make Paddock a domestic terrorist. But according to the online Merriam Webster dictionary, the true definition of terrorism is “the unlawful use
or threat of violence especially against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion.” In other words, terrorism isn’t something likely to be committed by crazy lone wolf murder-
But here’s the other thing, and it’s kinda delicate, but since this was a country western music concert, then my guess is a significant number of those 22,000 attendees in the audience were Trump’s base. And if I were a member of that base, I think I’d want more from my Chosen Guy than a tweet saying how awful Paddock is, because I would al-
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