Hand over your DNA.
The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students own records.
The confidential process is being overseen by Jasper Rine, a campus professor of Genetics and Development Biology, who says the test results will help students make decisions about their diet and lifestyle.
Once the DNA sample is sent in and tested, it will show the student’s ability to tolerate alcohol, absorb folic acid and metabolize lactose.
The results of the test will be put in a secure online database where students will be able to retrieve their results by using their bar code.
via UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA – News Story – KTVU San Francisco.
May 19, 2010 at 2:04 am
McN,
When I received my degree, I was handed a packet of forms and told I had to fill them out and return them. When I came to the one that asked for my mother’s highest level of education, I stopped reading, told the clerk that it was none of their business, and I refused to fill it out.
Somehow, I don’t think I’d be a good candidate for a DNA test–the most private of information–whose results were to be put online—but don’t worry because they’d be secure.
My mother did not have that “level of education,” but she did teach me, among other things, that there’s no such thing as a lock that can stop a thief.
The whole scheme souds right up oilsoc’s alley.
May 19, 2010 at 2:12 am
Berkeley = the little RED schoolhouse.
May 19, 2010 at 4:35 am
Best description yet Mary.
May 19, 2010 at 4:35 am
A wise woman indeed Mary. I can’t believe that they are actually telling students that their information will be safe.
May 19, 2010 at 7:37 am
(Hi mcnorman! Have just a few minutes to visit a few of my favorite bloggers, and to find out what’s been going on in the world.
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This is just crazy! Any student stupid enough to give a DNA sample and allow a University or ANYONE to keep it “locked away” in their database deserves what they get when that database is robbed of it’s information…and you know that it will.
May 19, 2010 at 9:34 am
Yeah, I have a lot of trust in them.
May 19, 2010 at 10:06 am
Stay safe and don’t overwork. Glad to hear from you.
May 20, 2010 at 12:42 am
McN, I’ve been thinking about this proposal and I believe where it’s going is down to younger and younger children until it winds up in the hospital nursery. No DNA sample, no identity papers, no record that you’re on this earth.
This is part of
Big Brother’sobama’s enslavement of Americans, and leftist UC Berkeley would be just the nice, cooperative place to begin. This program will go from voluntary to mandatory in the blink of an eye.May 20, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I have a strong suspicion that is exactly where this is heading Mary.