Behrend Beacon February 26, 2010 www.thebehrendbeacon.com LOCAL NEWS Erie Police Chief Steve Franklin defended Erie’s Bureau of Police use of over time after meeting with members from Erie City Council. Council members ques tioned the Police Chief after a recent investigation by Erie Times-News that found that $1.44 million of the city’s $2.38 million overtime budget bill went to firefight ers and police. Franklin said that he has taken measures to lessen the need for overtime, such as asking if overnight inci dents, outside normal hours, can wait until morning. “But,” Franklin said, “we cannot anticipate all events that will require overtime.” Two residents from Erie were arrested on Tuesday on drug charges. Police found over 342 marijuana plants in two rooms, complete with lights and ventilation, in an upstairs apartment at 533 E. 23rd St. after the police recieved a tip. The two suspects were charged with manufactur ing, possession of drugs with intent to deliver, pos session of drug paraphena lia, and conspiracy. NEW WILMINGTON A Mercer Country woman was injured Tuesday in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. A police report found that the woman, who was travel ing north on Route 158, had swerved into the south bound lane after being dis tracted by texting. This Week In History... 1919- Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. 1924- Trial against Hitler begins in Munich, Germany. 1930- First red and green traffic lights installed in Manhatten, New York. 1935- New York Yankees release Babe Ruth. He signs to Boston Braves. Military coup in 1936- Japan. 1938- First passenger ship equipped with radar 1942- Werner Heisen burger informs Nazis about uranium project “Wunder- Waffen”. 1962- US Supreme Court disallows race seperation on public transportation 1975- First televised kid ney transplant on Today Show. 1983- Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks. 1984- Pak Awang marries 80th spouse. 1990- U.S.S.R. agrees to withdraw all 73,500 from Czechoslovakia by July 1991. 1999- Ophrah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial 2009- Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War. 1. SeaWoiid Trainer killed by whale In Florida ORLANDO, FL. - 40-year old Dawn Brancheau was killed on Wednesday, Feb. 24, around 2pm. The senior animal trainer fell into the 35ft. deep holding tank in Shamu Stadium which held a killer whale that was named Tillikum. This is not the first time that the park, and even Tillikum, has been involved in an inci dent such as this. EDUCATION Is a college diploma worth It? When some of us arrived as freshmen, we saw ourselves walking out with a diploma in hand and jobs lined up, just waiting for us. But after our country’s re cent economic troubles, what can graduate students really expect to encounter in the ■; job market today? During the 19705, the number of high school students who went on to college was only 47%. In 2008, though, the number rose to a staggering 70 percent. “There is a tremendous effort to push kids through,” says Marty Nemko, a career and education expert who teaches at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. “As a result, students who aren’t skilled be come degree holders, promoting a percep tion that among employers that higher education doesn’t work.” Some attribute the high number of col lege graduates to the recently high number of grads with a diploma, which rose to a record high of 10.6 percent. But others say that a college diploma hasn’t lost it’s value. John Pryer, the director of the Higher Ed ucation Research Institute, says that col lege students need more than just a diploma. “Years ago, the bachelor’s degree was the key to getting better jobs. Now you re ally need more than that.” NATIONAL HEALTH Major health breakthrough on micro-scale If anyone can give an example of “great things come in small packages,” it would be Prof. George Whitesides. On Thursday, the Harvard Professor intro duced the public to a new way of diag nosing patients: A mini-’labratory’ that’s the size of a penny.” This “mini-lab” prototype developed by Whitesides can be used to diagnose patients in Third-World countries. The diseases that could be diagnosed in clude HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepati tis, and gastroenteritis. The ideas behind this new way of medical treatment were borrowed from the simple designs of mini-technology mentioned in comic books and com puter chips. A patient takes a drop of blood and places it on one side of the mini paper, which is actually made up of several layers of paper. The blood droplet saturates the ink on the paper, which then flows into “tree like channels”. The ink then reacts with the paper to create the diagnostic colors. Besides telling what diseases the per son has, it also says how much the dis ease (s) have progressed. “The test can be compared to a preg nancy test,” said Whitesides, “but these paper chips are much smaller and cheaper and can test for multiple dis eases at once instead of just one.” How World News In 1999, a man who hid in the park and climbed into the hold ing tank after park hours was killed by the whale, who was unaccustomed to people being in his enviroment at that time. An investigation into this inci dent is ongoing. 2. Guantanamo Bay prisoner taken by Spain MADRID, SPAIN - A former Guatanomo prisoner was al lowed into Spain on Wednes- ERIC PEIRCE asst, news editor Employers stress that while there are more graduates, that doesn’t mean a de gree is worth less. Instead, graduates are encouraged to continue their education, but also gain more experience in the work force. do people get results in countries where healthcare is minimal and the nearest doctor’s office could be miles away in another town? ERIC PEIRCE asst, news editor Whitesides has solved that problem too. Since cell phones are exploding in popularity all over the world, the Har vard Professor has designed the chips to work in synch with cel phones. A patient would take a picture of the chip after re vealing its’ colors, then send the picture via text to the doctor’s office. White sides is also working to develop a cell phone application that can automati cally diagnose a patient’s results in the event that a doctor is unavailable. “After all,” Whitesides said, “doctors are as scarce a resource as money is.” And besides doctors, countries that are still developing have one resource that is usually taken for granted: Elec tricity. Besides the testing chip being simple and easy to use, the cost of these chips are an eye-opener for not just poorer countries, but Western countries as well. “Today, many people don’t get the necessary diagnosis that will lead to ac cess to the right treatment because di agnostic tests are, most of the time, out of pocket.” stated Dr. Caby Vercauteren, coordinator of diagnostics and labratoiy technologies of the World Health Organ ization “People don’t have the money to buy that. Therefore, often, diseases Local/National News Graduates may have more competition than they first thought Daniel Pink, an author on motivation on day. This is one of five prison ers that are being relocated due to Pres. Obama’s effort to close down the prison. According to Interior Minis ter Alfredo Rubalcaba, the man identified as a Palestinian will be allowed to work and move around freely in the country, but not allowed to leave it. 3. Police clash with youth in Greece ATHENS, GREECE - Greek youth faced police and tear gas while demonstrations took are not diagnosed or only diagnosed far cauteren says that these challenges can too late.” Yet problems could arise, such easily be overcome. This breakthrough as the testing chips molding and result- in medical technology can put a new ing in a wrong diagnosis. But Dr. Ver- perspective on affordable health care. \ \ (7 place on Wednesday. The violent confrontations with police were not connected with the massive protests and strikes that occurred in re sponse to an austerity program designed by the Greek govern ment. The program, which would trim pay and benefits to public workers, and include higher taxes, was met with fierce op position from younger workers, who say they already pay high taxes. The violent clashes with police were reported to have been caused by "anarchists.” the workplace, says companies are looking for workers who can’t be “outsourced” and “don’t require a lot of handholding.” Pink also goes on to say that companies are now looking for applicants that have cognitive skills and have a sense of self di rection. Doctors may soon have a new way to diagnose patients. BEACON ONLINE The Beacon website, the behrendbeacon.com, is your online source for campus news. Constantly updated with new and breaking news sto ries, the website will feature immediate coverage of events as well as an archive of past articles in the Bea con. We also offer a Twitter ac count, (<i behrendbeacon, which will be used to let stu dents know of breaking news happening at the col lege: notification of impor tant events about to begin, police reports at the cam pus, or developments not yet released to students by the college. 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