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Clackamas Print
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
lock to benefit cancer research
’indsey Decker
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’Put on your favorite
jtloween costume, and get
dy to rock out for the cure!
Alongside Adidas Original,
¡7 Alternative Portland will
st Rock for the Cure, a
j loween benefit concert, on
;. 30.
Tekdlining alternative band
ty| Martini, with modern
»-rock ensemble Throwback
furbia and special guest Art
xakis of Everclear, will
performing at Portland’s
ddin Theater to help raise
ireness for breast cancer,
proceeds will go to the
fan G. Komen Foundation.
Tara Dublin, the host of
7, Envisioned the idea for
ck for the Cure.
Tin the daughter of a
ast cancer survivor, and
i in a fortunate position
lefll can make a differ-
:e, so I thought it would
a great way to raise money
ile having a good time,”
Jblin said.
This isn’t the first time
t 94.7 has put on Rock for
Aire; last year, the sta-
1 hosted a small-scale show
ich raised $5,000.
‘94.7 is as committed to
al causes in Portland as
are to supporting the local
sic scene,” Dublin said. “It
makes sense for us to raise
money for the local affiliate of
the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Race for the Cure.”
All of the bands performing
are from the Portland area and
are very enthusiastic about the
event, she added.
“I wanted to keep it local,”
she explained. “My first e-
mail was to Art Alexakis of
Everclear. His mother is also
a breast cancer survivor, and
his band is still one of the best
local bands.
“Dirty Martini has done
shows for 94.7 before, and
puts on a great show.
I have known
the guys in
Throwback Suburbia for a
while, and I’ve been want
ing them to play a 94.7 show.
Everyone on the bill is com
mitted to the cause and are
all donating their time to be
there.”
Dublin feels that raising
awareness for breast can
cer is a very important
topic, and she hopes
to make Rock for
the Cure an
annual
event, each year bigger than
the year before.
“One day, I hope to host
Rock for the Cure at the Rose
Garden,
if a cure still
hasn’t
been found,”
she
said.
“Everyone
knows some
one whose
life has been
touched by
breast can
cer,” she
added.
The
American
Cancer
Society
esti
mates
that, in
2007,
the Cure
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Hitz Clackamas Print
178,480 women will be diag
nosed with breast cancer and
40,460 will die. One out of
eight women either has or will
develop breast cancer in her
lifetime.
At the concert, Dublin will
encourage female attendees to
do self-exams and get a mam
mogram.
“It’s essential that all women
do the self-exams,” she said.
“I am going to stand on the
stage and let everyone know
that getting a mammogram is
as painless and easy as getting
an X-ray. It is so important for
women to take control of their
health and well-being.”
Dublin has been working on
this project since last spring,
but she is always looking for
ways she can improve it.
Local newspapers and other
media outlets will soon feature
a press release about the con
cert. -
“I talk about Rock for the
Cure as much as possible on
my show,” said Dublin.
Tickets for the concert are
on sale now and may be pur
chased through 94.7’s main
Web site, http,7/www.947.fm,
or via Ticketmaster. The price
is $9.47.
The show will begin at 7:30
p.m. at the Aladdin Theater.
The capacity of the theater is
600. 94.7 hopes to see the show
sell out and attendees dressed
in their Halloween attire.
logs being bred with transparent skin for science purposes
'¿dents hop at the
inlion of the inven-
m\of clear frog by
ientists as an alter-
itive to dissecting
known to have recessive traits
that turn the normally ochre
colored frogs pale. Crossing
the offspring of these pairs
produced frogs with skin that
stays translucent for life.
However, Sumida’s frogs
are not perfect yet.
Third-generation transpar
ent frogs die soon after birth.
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T’sRust a frog.
t’slthe proper size, typi-
shape, slimy and normal
ugh that one would assume
a normal frog - except for
fact that this frog’s skin is
isparent.
In Sept. 22, the University
Hiroshima presented its
st I research project, an
ihibian with transparent
1, also known as “the see-
l>ugh frog.”
Itesfearchers, headed by
saluki Sumida, a professor
he Institute for Amphibian
logy, relied on recessive
ts and artificial insemina-
. to produce the aforemen-
ed! see-through frogs.
)riginally, the team crossed
s of Japanese brown frogs
na Japonica), which are
Theoretically, because they
have too many pairs of reces
sive traits, something goes
wrong and the frogs die.
Sumida’s team is confident
that genet
ic engi
neering
will
fix
this prob
lem and
even allow
them to
create
glowing
frogs.
The
team
hopes
that
the
frogs will
be
use
ful in the
research
of diseas
es, such
as cancer,
by allow
ing
the
researcher
to observe
the prog
ress of a
disease
through
out
a
frog’s life.
Transparent frogs could
also be used in place of dis
section someday, with animal
rights groups continuing to
push for more humane meth
ods.
Life Science Instructor
Rich Rueb is a little skeptical
about the frogs replacing dis
section. Computer dissections
are, after all, easier and less
expensive.
As to the issue of morality,
“the same people would still
object,” Rueb said.
Rueb says the frogs would
be much more useful for dis
ease research.
“As long as it has a pur
pose, it’s fine,” said biology
student Ben Ripplinger. “At
least it’s not a glow-in-the-
dark mouse.”
Morality aside, the idea of
being able to see and study the
growth and development of a
frog’s insides from the tad
pole stage through adulthood
is still enticing and alluring.
“That would be awesome
to have in the classroom,”
said David Alexander, another
biology student.
To Alexander, the idea of
the transparent frog is “pretty
freaking cool!”
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