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THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 2011 VOLUME 85 ■ ISSUE 94

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Project aims to prevent breast cancer HSC’s Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health receives $1.65M in funding for program launch By BRIAN HOWARD STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health recently received a community grant of $1.67 million to help fund its new Access to Breast Care for West Texas project. The project launched officially at a press conference Wednesday in the Health Sciences Center. Dr. Steven Berk, dean of HSC’s School of Medicine, introduced the new project, which allows the Laura

W. Bush Institute to provide breast cancer screenings and preventive care in the underserved populations of the Panhandle and South Plains. “We have more than 500 physicians that provide care to West Texas,” he said, “and we are always looking to improve healthcare and promote preventive medicine.” The grant was given to the institute by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Berk said. “The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has produced a grant that will allow us to offer training

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and breast cancer screenings to women in this area,” he said. Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, executive director of the Bush institute, said the grant will continue to fund the project for three years. “It is wonderful for us to receive the grant, and we are so proud to be a part of the Health Sciences Center,” she said. “We hope to improve the lives of women and their families with this new project.” The project’s team, comprised of all women, then was introduced by Jenkins.

DR. STEVEN BERK, dean of the School of Medicine, announces the threeyear $1.67 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to launch the Access to Breast Care for West Texas project.

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Ideas of GSA, others form blueprint for organization By ROCIO RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER

With such a diverse group of students in the Texas Tech community and in Lubbock, OUTwest has undertaken the task of uniting these factions. “OUTwest is essentially a community extension of a lot of orga... the idea nizations like is to take the (Gay Straigh ideas and the A l l i a n c e ) desires of GSA a n d o t h e r like-minded and those groups that like-minded were started organizations on campus,” out to the said Andrew community.” Husband, Andrew Husband public relations officer PR Ofﬁcer, of the group. OUTwest “(OUTwest is) both an invitation and kind of inclusive acceptance to the fact that, yeah, Tech is really

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big and nice and all, but there’s a whole town around it, so the idea is to take the ideas and the desires of GSA and those like-minded organizations out to the community.” OUTwest advocates for equality, regardless of gender, race, sex, sexual orientation and class, said Husband, a graduate student in English literature. Tricia Earl, coordinator of the women’s studies program at Tech, said the fusion of women’s studies and OUTwest is important as it helps blend two different backgrounds together. “What’s the best way we can merge what’s happening in the classroom, as well as what’s happening in their daily lives?” Earl said. “With OUTwest, Lubbock’s help and us coming together as a community in an academic environment, as well as maybe a co-curricular environment, it helps blend and merge that what somebody might be learning from a textbook or another source into real life — into real, lived experiences.” OUTWEST continued on Page 3 ➤➤

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“We didn’t invent the button, but a duck did walk into my kitchen and eat my blue cheese.” Jonathan Whitfill is not the average West Texan. With his various art projects, including the Button Project, which entails quirky and random quotes like the one above, and his extensive experience in just about every field, the Texas Tech alumnus is a prime model of the talent that stems from the university. Whitfill attended Tech for a few courses during his undergrad in biology and chemistry and received his master’s in fine arts from the school. “I took an undergrad art class in metal sculpture,” the local artist

said, “mostly because it wasn’t offered at Wayland (Baptist University) in Plainview, and because I had found that art classes were the perfect antidote and complement to analytical chemistry lab.” Backed by an education in art, chemistry, EMT and printmaking, Whitfill currently teaches physics at Estacado High School. Although he has dabbled a little in everything, the artist and teacher said he has known what he wanted to be since a young age. “Ever since a grade-school class discussed the Renaissance and the ideals of that time, I have wanted to be a Renaissance man — a master of all trades,” Whitfill said. “Unfortunately, in our age of specialization, there is not much of a job market for that type of person.”

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