**Associate professor works to improve schizophrenia treatment**

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY — Penn State is uncertain how many schizophrenic patients are actually at the university, and Tammy MacAlarney, Counseling and Psychological Services case manager said college is the time when people start exhibiting symptoms of the disease, making it difficult to diagnose.

Treating the disease can also be tricky, which is the focus of research done by Penn State and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Associate professor of biology Gong Chen and a team of researchers have developed a method to turn a patient’s skin cells into brain cells in a Petri dish in order to test different medications for the patient indirectly.

“Different patients have different responses to different drugs,” Chen said. “He or she doesn’t need to take 20 different drugs to decide which one they want.”

_By Micah Wintner_
_The Daily Collegian_

**Debate on social value of religion splits panel**

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS — The representatives of four student organizations took the stage to debate whether religion is good for society.

Jay Yoon, Senior Vice President of the UNLV College Republicans, contends religion is good for society because the benefit of the good deeds it motivates.

UNLV Young Democrats President Mark Triola and Drew Pruitt, Rebel Student Secular Society Public Events Secretary, both atheists, argued religion is bad for society.

In the end, Yoon asked the audience to consider the good and the bad about religion.

“The duality of religion is not a reflection on the divine,” he said, suggesting the faults of a faith are the faults of its followers, not its founder.

_By Haley Etchison_
_The Rebel Yell_

**TUSD audits threaten culture**

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — On May 11, 2010, Gov. Jan Brewer signed House Bill 2281, the state ban on ethnic studies courses being taught in public schools.

H.B. 2281 states classes cannot be taught if they “promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote the resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed to primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group, or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”

The ambiguity of the bill lead to public schools hiring private auditors to observe classes and decide if the content being taught is too controversial.

The Arizona Department of Education hired auditors from the Cambium Learning Group of Dallas for $170,000.

_By Elisa Meza_
_The Arizona Daily Wildcat_