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Dean of Students Susan Art has announced in a press release that the College plans to enact an annual \u201cPDS Awareness Week.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe University of Chicago cares about its student body,\u201d Art said in the document. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re starting PDS Awareness Week \u2013 in order to make PDS awareness a top priority on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penile Deficiency Syndrome, also known as nodicktosis, is a chronic disease resulting from a mutation in a fetus\u2019 Y chromosome. Individuals with the condition are born with concave rather than convex genitalia, and fail to develop externalized gonads at the age of puberty. Sufferers are characterized by generally being shorter and weaker than their healthy counterparts, and possessing pectoral abscesses. Forty-seven percent of the incoming freshmen class claim to suffer from the condition. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing from a lot of our students that the administration doesn\u2019t really understand the challenges this genetic condition presents for its victims each day,\u201d said Art. \u201cAnd PDS Awareness Week, or \u2018PAW\u2019, is our answer for those students.\u201d<\/p>\n
PDS Awareness Week will be held during Eighth Week in Ida Noyes, and will present a number of educational events and information sessions designed to help sufferers find means of mitigating side effects. <\/p>\n
\u201cHeightened emotion, blood loss, depression, even pregnancy,\u201d said John Manlipants, student coordinator for the event. \u201cThe side effects are truly astonishing. I think it\u2019s humbling to know that people fight and live with this disease every day of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, there\u2019s stigma attached to the condition,\u201d said Charles Witherington IV, member of the Board of Trustees. \u201cBut I, for one, admire PDS survivors, and sympathize with their difficulties. I can\u2019t even imagine trying to read The Republic while simultaneously not having a penis. Truly unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There is hope on the horizon. \u201cWe at the University of Chicago Medical Hospital are working on a drug that will not only halt but entirely reverse the effects of PDS,\u201d said Dr. Shawn Burgerberg. \u201cWe\u2019ve engaged in a few tests on grad students and have seen a lot of positive results.\u201d <\/p>\n
Art concedes that the research is promising, but said it doesn\u2019t change the present. \u201cThat\u2019s why in addition to PAW we\u2019re working on long-term projects,\u201d said Art. \u201cWe are going to have weekly meetings for those with the disease, to talk about their feelings and about their condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weekly meetings will be held in the Student Health building, conveniently located next to the Alpha Delta Pi fraternity house. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Michaela Cross Nov. 11, 2013 Dean of Students Susan Art has announced in a press release that the College plans to enact an annual \u201cPDS Awareness Week.\u201d \u201cThe University of Chicago cares about its student body,\u201d Art said in the document. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re starting PDS Awareness Week \u2013 in order to make PDS awareness a top priority on campus.\u201d Penile Deficiency Syndrome, also known as nodicktosis, is a chronic disease resulting from a mutation in a fetus\u2019 Y chromosome. Individuals with the condition are born with concave rather than convex genitalia, and fail to develop externalized gonads at the age of puberty. Sufferers are characterized by generally being shorter and weaker than their healthy counterparts, and possessing pectoral abscesses. Forty-seven percent of the incoming freshmen class claim to suffer from the condition. \u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing from a lot of our students that the administration doesn\u2019t really understand the challenges this genetic condition presents for its victims each day,\u201d said Art. \u201cAnd PDS Awareness Week, or \u2018PAW\u2019, is our answer for those students.\u201d PDS Awareness Week will be held during Eighth Week in Ida Noyes, and will present a number of educational events and information sessions designed to help sufferers find means of mitigating side effects. \u201cHeightened emotion, blood loss, depression, even pregnancy,\u201d said John Manlipants, student coordinator for the event. \u201cThe side effects are truly astonishing. I think it\u2019s humbling to know that people fight and live with this disease every day of their lives.\u201d \u201cOf course, there\u2019s stigma attached to the condition,\u201d said Charles Witherington IV, member of the Board of Trustees. \u201cBut I, for one, admire PDS survivors, and sympathize with their difficulties. I can\u2019t even imagine trying to read The Republic while simultaneously not having a penis. Truly unbelievable.\u201d There is hope on the horizon. \u201cWe at the University of Chicago Medical Hospital are working on a drug that will not only halt but entirely reverse the effects of PDS,\u201d said Dr. Shawn Burgerberg. \u201cWe\u2019ve engaged in a few tests on grad students and have seen a lot of positive results.\u201d Art concedes that the research is promising, but said it doesn\u2019t change the present. \u201cThat\u2019s why in addition to PAW we\u2019re working on long-term projects,\u201d said Art. \u201cWe are going to have weekly meetings for those with the disease, to talk about their feelings and about their condition.\u201d The weekly meetings will be held in the Student Health building, conveniently located next to the Alpha Delta Pi fraternity house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}