[CIMC-work] re: features/UIC anthrax

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

I think I agree with Garth.  We should have greater "peer review"
as far as Center Panels go, perhaps just a wee more structured.  After 
all, peer review helped us catch the error in my UIC Anthrax center
panel (thanks Rita!).  But there are exceptions to this "rule" of
course; e.g., breaking stories like Miami.

On that note, I've made some revisions to the UIC Anthrax center
panel.  See below (the language is tweaked some, in light of the points
Rita made).  Please take a look and let me know if it's okay; if no one
objects, I'd like to post this sometime tomorrow, probably in the evening.

WMDs at UIC: University Lab Wins Record Grant To Work with
Cipro-Resistant Anthrax Bioweaponry
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.uic.edu">The University of Illinois at Chicago</A> won
the largest grant in its history--to use for developing weapons of mass
destruction.   A team of ten UIC researchers won a $15.7 million grant 
to work with a strain of <A
HREF="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm">anthrax</A>
resistant to the antibiotic
<A HREF="http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/cipro/">ciprofloxacin</A>
(cipro).
<P>This research has raised serious ethical and
security 
questions, and is moreover <A
HREF="http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_ihl_biological_weapons?OpenDocument">a
violation of longstanding international 
law</A> (including the 1972 International Biological Weapons Convention 
and the 1925 Geneva Protocol). 
<P>A public hearing was held November 19 at UIC to air concerns 
and protests from the university community and concerned citizens.  Listen
to excerpts 
of the meeting <A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33568&group=webcast">here</A>.
<P>
<B>Additional Reports</B>:
[ 
<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33445&group=webcast">1</A>
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<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33434&group=webcast">2</A>
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<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33261&group=webcast">3</A> 
|
<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33996&group=webcast">4</A>
] 
<P>
<B>Additional Links</B>: <A
HREF="http://www.uic.edu/depts/biodefense/">UIC National Center for
Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases</A>

(thumbnail: see post 33561)

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Garth Liebhaber wrote:

> our decision making on what becomes a feature seems to have defaulted to whom has the ability to paste it up.
> 
> can pasters at a minimum put the feature up as a proposal, as mitchell has been doing?  second, if it's put up in an 
> emergency, still email the list?  I think we should have a little bit more group decision making on what becomes a feature 
> and not....
> 
> gracias,
> garthio