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Dinners to focus on Latin politics
By Leah Shaffer
Kansan staff writer
Latin American Solidarity, a campus group, has scheduled a month-long series of rice and beans dinner discussions in April that deal with issues ranging from eco-feminism to the Cuban trade embargo. The group's mission is to educate students about Latin American issues and politics in the United States.
"We've been trying to do beans and rice dinners all year but nobody could commit to anything until April, so we decided to do a whole month," said Rebekah Moses, Great Bend senior and LAS treasurer.
The first dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. April 1 at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread. The discussion will be about U.S.-Mexico border relations. Brent Metz, associate
"It's a fun way to learn instead of just reading a book or going to a lecture."
Amanda Cott
President of Latin American Solidarity
director of the Center of Latin American Studies, will speak at the event.
Metz said he would like to examine free trade and the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"NAFTA has not lived up to its promises so far," he said.
Metz, who taught in Mexico and worked for Mexican migrant legal aid, said that in most cases, free trade was not free because one country was usually more powerful than the other.
Moses said the dinner was a
warmup for a globalization conference from noon to 6 p.m. April 7 at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. The conference, "Corporate Agenda vs. People's Agenda," will focus on educating participants about groups such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and their effect on corporate-centered globalization.
Amanda Cott, Topeka junior and president of LAS, said the workshop would educate students about how the world is increasingly becoming a global community.
"It's a fun way to learn instead of just reading a book or going to a lecture," Cott said.
Other events in April will include Zapatista, a film showing at 6 p.m. April 14 at Alderson Auditorium and three other rice and beans dinner discussions at ECM.
Derrick Jensen, author of the
book A Language Older than Words, will speak about environmental philosophy at 6:30 p.m. April 16.
Ron Thornburgh, Kansas secretary of state, and Ken Cott, professor of Latin American history at Washburn University, will discuss the trade embargo on Cuba at 6:30 p.m. April 30.
Moses said many Kansans were in favor of lifting the embargo on Cuba because Kansas wheat could be sold to the country. Moses said students should attend the events to become more educated and defy the stereotype that Americans were ignorant about what's going on in the world.
For more information about any of the dinners contact Amanda Cottat 785-841-9776.
Contact Shaffer at lshaffer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brandon Stinnett.
Study: Drinking could benefit heart
"The benefit of drinking can be true, but unfortunately alcoholism and the effects of alcohol are complicated," Robson said. "Whereas some individuals can drink and gain a benefit, there are also likely to be genes that can cause certain individuals to be so susceptible to becoming an alcoholic, although the exact genes are still being searched for."
New research suggests that having one or two drinks per day can help prevent heart attacks in one-fifth of Caucasians who have a specific gene combination.
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"Red wine is actually implicated as giving a positive effect
Brandon Henry, Sterling second-year law student, said he usually drank on the weekends. Henry, a Caucasian, said he was more concerned about the negative effects of drinking every day than the benefits.
Robson said that even if moderate drinking helped prevent heart attacks, other issues usually blocked the benefits.
"Even if a study says that I will have a smaller risk of a heart attack by having a couple of drinks every night,I would still be concerned about alcoholism." Henry said. "I have heard that moderate drinking can be beneficial, but I think there are other ways to prevent heart attacks."
much more than alcohol alone, and a lot of research is currently in progress to identify those protective substances in wine," she said.
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The study found an 86 percent reduction in heart attacks among moderate drinkers who had a specific variation in a gene, compared to light drinkers who did not have that variation. The gene, ADH3, is involved with the breakdown of alcohol.
Robson also said that red wine had been found to benefit the heart more than other types of alcohol.
A study of more than 1,000 Caucasian men found that genetic variations account for the difference in how people respond to the same amount of alcohol. According to the study, conducted by Harvard University researcher Lisa Hines, a moderate drinker was defined as someone who consumed one or two drinks per day.
Tina Robson, instructor and research associate of genetics at
If a person metabolizes alcohol slowly, the alcohol has time to benefit the type of cholesterol that helps prevent heart attacks.
Contact Lewis at slews@kansan.com. This story was edited by Eve Lamborn.
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The study found that one-fifth of Caucasians who inherited two slower processing copies of the ADH3 gene gained extra cardiac protection from alcohol if they drank moderately.
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the University of Kansas, said ADH3 was one of several genes responsible for producing enzymes that break down ethanol, the main ingredient in alcohol.
The gene is present in two variations in Caucasians. One variation produces an enzyme that quickly breaks apart ethanol, and the second variation's enzymes process ethanol much more slowly. Everyone receives two copies of the gene.
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If a person metabolizes alcohol slowly, the alcohol has time to help prevent heart attacks.
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