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Show WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2001 THE SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE 3 Shut Down Student inline Survey Assault Hospital Could Co st $25K WYNNE PARRY Chronicle Asst. News Editor aged. The boys were warned about their actions and the wheelchairs were returned to the hospital. CHRIS CAVIN Chronicle News Writer Bummer, dude. Allegedly assault some more folks, why doncha A Salt Lake County deputy brought a - man to the Universi ty Hospital ER for treatment and notiREPORT fied the University Police of Utah that the Department man had an outstanding warrant for his arrest for aggravated assault with bail set at $25,000. When the man was released from the ER, UUPD arrested the man on the warrant and took him to jail. in the HPER complex Someone has been placing stickers on lenses of security cameras in the HPER complex, so the view that the cameras have is Hide-n-Go-Sne- ak blocked. Hacker with loose morals From a computer off campus, someone logged on to a U account and from there went to a Web site and used a stolen credit card number to buy access to the Web site. Trouble with his schnoz? A piece of medical equipment used to examine nasal passages was stolen, from Primary Children's Medical Center. Sore beak, sir? And don't do it again Two boys were detained briefly for riding wheel chairs across a green on the U golf course. The green was not dam- - continued from page 1 "We're not sure exactly what it will do, but we're optimistic about it...The mechanism of action is completely unknown now. That's why we're doing the study. We feel an obligation to make sure the drug is being produced under high standards." The cancer institute sent representatives to China last April to learn more about the Chinese results and inspect Kainglaite's production facility in China. One of the visitors was Dr. Richard Wheeler, principle physician in charge of the study. "I think the Chinese did a credible job at evaluating the drug," Wheeler said. "FDA standards are still a lot tougher than Chinese requirements." The phase-on- e trial will clinical study daily injections in iS people and could last six months or longer if the studies encounter any problems, Prescott indicated. Kainglaite will import the injections over the course of all the phases of the trial at an undisclosed cost. According to Kainglaite spokesman Glen Willardson, Kainglaite China formulated the daily injection extracte ed from coix seed, a seasonal seed China. The to plant indigenous has been used as a food staple and healing herb for centuries. According FDA-mandate- d, rice-lik- Weasel A car stereo was stolen from a vehicle parked in the Primary Children's ER parking. The thief smashed a window to get into the vehicle. A window was broken on a vehicle parked three stalls away from the aforementioned, burglarized car. Nothing was taken from this vehicle. Different weasel, same loser-typ- e weasel action A TVVCR was stolen from a conference room at the Red Butte Clinic in Research Park. See above for pithy weasel com- the U A woman went to mentary Hospital cafeteria to get breakfast. She had set her purse down next to her while eating. At one point she turned away and when she turned back, she discovered her purse was gone. She could not point to anyone in the immediate area who might have taken her purse. Ditto A man rode his bike to his home in the University Village to have lunch. He parked the bike out in front of his apartment. When he went back out after lunch, he discovered the bike was missing. The bike had not been locked up. Can't we all just get along and keep our stuff, too? This article covers police reports from June 6 through June 11 2001 cca vinchronicie.utah.edu to Willardson, Kanglaite's China location has been studying the seed for the past 20 years and has reached "encouraging" results. "This is the first time a drug derived from traditional Chinese medicine will be FDA tested," Willardson said. "And the Huntsman Cancer Institute is the only institution in the nation in phase one." Willardson says the first phase of trials will determine safety profiles, dosage and effectiveness of the botan-icall- y based drug. "We'll be using the drug on large tumors liver and lung cancer," he said. "Two things have come out of Chinese efforts, tumor necrosis that tended to kill off the cancer cells, and it appeared to have some immune enhancements. It also seemed to improve the patient's quality-of-lif- e signs." Willardson said since the drug is not a chemotherapy agent, it has fewer side effects than existing cancer treatments. As for the validity of the Chinese results, he said that they need to be supported in the current cancer-institut- student went public with his accusations of censorship and unfair treatment by the University of Utah administration when a statement he wrote hit the Internet June 6. A 1 trial". e "It's a process at best," Willardson said. "It just doesn't happen overnight, which is the hard thing...this is just a bell weather test. If it has some of the same results here as in China after FDA scrutiny, it will have widespread credibility." mg roes beck chronicle, utah.edu three-yea- r Dan Flickinger, a mechanical engineering student, said he was forced to censor the Web site he managed for the Associated Students of the University of Utah. He wrote his statement after the site was shut down indefinitely, and he faced student behavior code violations. Last fall, Flickinger launched the Student Opinion Survey Web site for ASUU. His intention was to create a forum to discuss issues affecting students, he said. the administration However, objected to some of the messages appearing on SOS. "I was forced to implement strict posting guidelines and adopt a censorship policy for the site," Flickinger wrote in his statement. These accusations date back to when Stayner Landward, dean of students, asked that SOS be shut down temporarily after he learned of anonymous libelous comments posted on the site. Landward's intent was to demand accountability from the users, he said. "I wasn't going to have students threaten other students under a cloak of anonymity," Landward said. In addition to posting user guidelines, Flickinger was required to remove anonymous messages. He did not oppose the request for "accountability," Flickinger said. But he objected to how it was implemented deleting comments was unnecessary and inappropriate since the site allows people to rank each comment. Comments receiving a poor rating are dropped to the bottom of the comment list, j. Regardless, the SOS site resumed operation with these alterations. At the end of May, ASUU President Ben Lowe received an email that threatened to shut down the student government's computer network. Flickinger's signature appeared at the bottom of the email and computer mid-Marc- r Stuoi-n- t A FORUM FOfl -, -- ,r . 'Ufa , V l Sit Institute is delving into techniques both ancient and its pursuit to fulfill its mission against cancer. The Huntsman Cancer cutting-edg- e in BY STUr" ITS Your h, VOICE YOUR yylr4 Designed as a public opinion forum, ASUU's network security suggested pulling SOS's plug as a precaution. Flickinger claimed he did not send the email. Shortly thereafter, an altercation in the ASUU office involving Flickinger and ASUU staff occurred. The administration charged Flickinger with violations of the student behavior code that carried the penalty of expulsion. "I am already being expelled and even facing criminal charges for 'computer crimes,'" he wrote in his statement that appeared on www.slash-dot.or- g The U's official response described the report as containing "serious misrepresentations" and "significant omissions." The U administration maintains there is no connection between free- - OPINION, '.ES! Website is no longer online. speech issues and the charges Flickinger faced at the time. In retrospect, Flickinger admits his account could be misleading. "From the article, the direct conclusion is that I created a site, and all of a SOS sudden the administration discovers it eight months later, and I'm expelled," he said in an interview. "This has caused untold damage to the U," Landward said. Landward has been contacted by CNN, USA Today. The Chronicle of Higher Education and local newspapers, he said. Although Flickinger said he regrets any harm done to the U, he believed public-relatio- see SOS, page 5 Cancer Institute Acquires $2.7M Grant For Advanced Cyclotron Technology MATT GROESBECK Chronicle News Writer The Huntsman Cancer Institute's year-lon- g wait for federal help ended last week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded it $2.7 million in its continuing war against cancer. Cancer institute officials said the money will be used to purchase a $2 million machine called a Cyclotron, s used to produce key diagnostic necessary for use with the cancer institute's PET scanner. The remaining grant money will be used in related research and support. "The grant will provide the infrastructure to be able to radio-tracer- develop this technology in the next few years.. .I'm excited for the possibilities that this gives to the physicians and researchers, but mostly the patients," said Paul Christian, a physicist and director of PET imaging. As a courtesy, Sen. Orrin Hatch gave cancer institute officials advance notice of the grant approval shortly before the public announcement in June. "The combination of this grant and the Huntsman family's unprecedented and unselfish financial investment will serve Utahns and many others who will benefit by the research and treatments that are offered at this world-clas- s cancer research facility," Hatch said in a June 5 press release. Cancer institute officials applied for the grant in early 2000 after evaluating the need for expanded clinical and research capabilities. Part of that evaluation cited the need for an Cyclotron that would produce radio-tracisotopes the PET scanner needs to detect, cancer. In the past, those isotopes have been flown in from other major cities in costly charter flights. "Now we'll be able to manufacture these compounds sc -'-- opinion Survey er on-site- ," Christian said. The Cyclotron can manufacture radioactive glucose, choline and methionine used as tracers that would pinpoint metabolic activity in the cancer cell. It can also produce fluorine, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and other simple atoms that Christian said arc necessary for "simple biochemical processes used in the body and cancer cells." Christian said the science of tracing these chemicals using the PET scanner is "a huge advantage" in detecting growth or remission of cancerous tumors. It's an advantage the cancer institute will share with other local and intcrmountain health-car- e institutions who need the as well. tracers According to Christian, the Cyclotron was invented in 1938 to split the atom. Shortly thereafter, the potential medical use of this newfound nuclear technology presented diagnostic applications in brain and heart imaging. The PET's widespread use in cancer detection has only been in the past few years, Christian said, noting the University of Utah's first request for a Cyclotron was made back in 1977. "That's how long we've been working on it," he said. "Nationally, the number of PET scanners have increased 100 percent in the past two years. The U.S. had 67 Cyclotrons for manufacturing cancer imaging tracers, and there's not many more now. We're in a very small club." Only about six cancer institutes in the United States have Cyclotrons. Christian anticipates that the future of Cyclotron and PET imaging will have implications not only for cancer, brain or heart issues, but in gauging the effectiveness of gene therapy as well. Christian said Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Los Angeles are current leaders in gene expression imaging. U students in various disciplines will also be able to interact in cancer research, clinical work and diagnostics. "We have a lot of students from various departments involved with us," Christian said. "The Cyclotron gives us tremendous potential to delve into the cancer compounds and take pictures of the various cellular functions." mgroesbeckchronicle.utah.edu |