THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Male leaders to raise
voice against assault
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Student body president Christian
Ragland wants to create a strong male
voice against sexual assault on campus.
To establish this, Ragland (senior-politi
cal science) will hold a meeting at 8 tonight
in 314 HUB-Robeson Center for men
against sexual assault.
We'll] try to go over some concrete
plans on how to be a voice from some
strong male leaders on campus," he said.
About eight to 10 men from various stu
dent organizations plan to attend the
meeting, Ragland said.
He said he decided to keep the number
of people in attendance small so it was
"concise to the leadership represented on
campus."
Bello Galadanchi, a speaker with Penn
State Men Against Violence, said he is glad
to attend the event.
"As a member of Penn State Men
Against Violence, due to the recent inci
dences we have on campus, we think it's
great to talk about it," Galadanchi (senior
bioengineering and film and video) said.
"We shouldn't be desensitized. We have to
do something."
Penn State College Republicans
Chairman Josh Crawford said he will also
attend the meeting because sexual assault
and domestic violence are problems on
campus.
"So much of the emphasis is on what
girls can do to protect themselves, but
what we're saying is that they shouldn't
have to worry about that," Crawford (jun
ior-crime, law and justice) said. "We're try
ing to basically put a face to the male opin
ion on stopping it."
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Superbug found in 3 states
Marilynn Marchione
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOSTON An infectious-disease night
mare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been
made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by
an alarming new gene have sickened peo
ple in three states and are popping up all
over the world, health officials reported
Monday.
The U.S. cases and two others in Canada
all involve people who had recently
received medical care in India, where the
problem is widespread. A British medical
journal revealed the risk last month in an
article describing dozens of cases in
Britain in people who had gone to India for
medical procedures.
How many deaths the gene may have
caused is unknown; there is no central
tracking of such cases. So far, the gene has
mostly been found in bacteria that cause
gut or urinary infections.
Scientists have long feared this a very
adaptable gene that hitches onto many
types of common germs and confers broad
drug resistance, creating dangerous
"superbugs."
"It's a great concern," because drug
resistance has been rising and few new
antibiotics are in development, said Dr. M.
Lindsay Grayson, director of infectious dis
eases at the University of Melbourne in
Australia. "It's just a matter of time" until
the gene spreads more widely person-to
person, he said.
Dan Onorato, center, Democratic candidate in the primary elections for Pennsylvania
governor, walks through the crowd before a rally for him on Monday. Former President Bill
Clinton also appeared at a rally in west Philadelphia for Onorato.
Clinton stumps for Pa. dems
Patrick Walters
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WYNNEWOOD Former President
Bill Clinton told Democratic supporters
Monday that their party leaders deserve
more time to turn the nation's economy
around because the Republican leadership
before them left such a huge hole.
Clinton acknowledged the economic
struggles of millions of Americans as he
spoke at a campaign event in suburban
Philadelphia for Democratic Senate candi
date Joe Sestak, a former Navy vice admi
ral who served as a military adviser to
Clinton when he was- president.
Sestak is in a tight race with Republican
candidate Pat Toomey at a time when
many believe Democrats are vulnerable
nationwide because of voter anger over the
economic slumber. The Philadelphia sub
urbs are often a key swing district in both
state and national elections.
Before unloading their ire on
Democrats, Clinton said, voters should pin
the blame on Republicans in power for the
eight years between the time he left office
and when President Barack Obama was
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campus sex offense cases, four resident
hall cases, two public property cases and
five non-campus cases at Penn State.
This isn't the first year Ragland has held
this meeting. Last year, Ragland worked
with the Commission for Women as the
University Park Undergraduate
Association's (UPUA) student life and
diversity chairman. As the only man who
was a part of the Commission for Women,
Ragland said he spoke to members about
how to get more men involved in spreading
awareness about sexual assault.
As a result, Ragland decided to hold a
meeting for men against sexual assault
last spring.
Karin Foley, chairwoman of the
Commission for Women, said Ragland
"stepped up and did a lot in his role as the
UPUA diversity chair"
"He was active in getting male leaders
engaged in the conversation, and I'm
happy to hear that he's doing that again
this year, so I'm very impressed and very
thankful for his efforts," she said.
Though Graduate Student Association
President Jon Lozano did not attend last
year's meeting, he said he is looking for
ward to attending the meeting tonight and
showing the "solidarity between the grad
uate and undergraduate students on the
sexual assault issues."
"By promoting awareness, especially
this early on in the year, it shows that we
don't tolerate that type of behavior at Penn
State," Lozano (graduate-law and student
affairs) said. "It's not just female students
that care about this issue. There are male
student leaders that take this as a high pri
ority to make sure there's awareness
about this issue."
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Grayson heads an American Society for
Microbiology conference in Boston, which
was buzzing with reports of the gene,
called NDM-1 and named for New Delhi.
The U.S. cases occurred this year in peo
ple from California, Massachusetts and
Illinois, said Brandi Limbago, a lab chief at
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Three types of bacteria were
involved, and three different mechanisms
let the gene become part of them.
"We want physicians to look for it," espe
cially in patients who have traveled recent
ly to India or Pakistan, she said.
What can people do?
Don't add to the drug resistance prob
lem, experts say. Don't pressure your doc
tors for antibiotics if they say they aren't
needed, use the ones you are given prop
erly, and try to avoid infections by washing
your hands.
The gene is carried by bacteria that can
spread hand-to-mouth, which makes good
hygiene very important.
It's also why health officials are so con
cerned about where the threat is coming
from, said Dr. Patrice Nordmann, a micro
biology professor at South-Paris Medical
School. India is an overpopulated country
that overuses antibiotics and has wide
spread diarrheal disease and many people
without clean water.
"The ingredients are there" for wide
spread transmission, he said. "It's going to
spread by plane all over the world."
inaugurated. "We all know we're in terrible
economic trouble," Clinton told about 150
supporters "It is my opinion that the 20
months the president and Congress have
had to dig out of the hole was not enough."
The former president said Obama's eco
nomic stimulus package has created 1.5
million jobs and saved 2 million more.
In response to Clinton's visit, Toomey's
campaign released a statement calling
him a congressional liberal.
"Joe Sestak likes to bring in politicians
from other states to endorse him because
he wants to run away from the fact that his
voting record, while 100 percent in line
with Nancy Pelosi, is vastly more liberal
than most Pennsylvanians, including more
liberal than many of his fellow
Pennsylvania Democrats in Congress,"
the statement said.
Republicans, Clinton said, want to
repeal the financial stabilization bill and
health care legislation and private Social
Security and Medicare. Democrats, he
said, are voters' best bet for doing things
that need to be done to get the economy
going growing jobs, balancing the budg
et and bringing back manufacturing.
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