They need this so they can determine "who's yo daddy" for child support.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:55 AM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA > | > | from the gullibility-gene dept. > | > | posted by StoneLion on Wednesday May 19, @11:39 (Education) > | > | > https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/19/1311211/UC-Berkeley-Asking-Incoming-Students-Fo|<https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/19/1311211/UC-Berkeley-Asking-Incoming-Students-Fo%7C> > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > peterofoz writes "The students will be asked to voluntarily [0]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." No word in the story on just what "confidential" means — > who will have access to the results, how long they'll be kept, or what > else they might someday be used for. Will the notoriously liberal > Berkeley campus see this as a service or an invasion of privacy? > > Discuss this story at: > http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/19/1311211 > > Links: > 0. http://www.ktvu.com/news/23592937/detail.html > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> * It's active > and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the > latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
