One Book/one College upcoming events

Hike at Lee Canyon’s Bristlecone Trail at 8 a.m. April 7.

“Get Out” screenings on the North

Las Vegas and Charleston campuses, dates and locations to be determined.

Genealogy talk with genealogist Melise Leech at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Henderson campus in room HNC 105.

A talk with Dr. Ken Rosenthal on cell line contributions at 6:30 p.m. Thursday on the North Las Vegas campus, room S110.

Floral design competition in April with date and location to be determined.

CSN Science and Tech Expo from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 28 on the North Las Vegas campus. Students can stop by the molecular biology exhibit to learn more about Hela cells.

“Sometimes as scientists, we forget about the social-emotional impact of our work,” she said. “It’s important to talk about this as society, to talk about this as citizens — do we care that we’re taking tissue samples and not reimbursing people?”

In addition to Rosenthal’s upcoming lecture, other faculty members have jumped in to host activities related to the book, including movie screenings and hikes.

“As soon as I announced it at a dean’s meeting, at the snap of the fingers we had a committee,” Lightfoot said. “Everyone contributes. It came together organically because the faculty members wanted it.”

Parallels with popular film

On a recent afternoon in English professor Laura Mcbride’s classroom on the Henderson campus, a group of about 14 people gathered to watch the movie “Get Out.”

Mcbride, and those gathered, discussed the racial and medical ethics questions raised by the movie, which are also issues that run parallel to the novel. She opened the discussion by saying it can be scary to have conversations about race.

“I don’t know what your values are, I don’t know what your experience is, I don’t know who you love, I don’t know what you ate,” Mcbride said. “And you don’t know that about me. We don’t want to dismiss race as an important quality of our identities, but we also don’t want to say that because I can see, or you can see, that you necessarily know where I come from or what I think or feel.”

Kathy Jackson, a business management student at CSN, said people have made assumptions about her based on her race, like her voting record.

“A lot of times people think, because you’re black, obviously you must have voted for Obama,” Jackson, 62, said. “They never ask you, ‘Did you?’ They just assume because you’re black that that’s who you voted for. To me, it’s stereotyping in a way.”

Contact Natalie Bruzda at nbruzda@reviewjournal.com or 702477-3897. Follow @Nataliebruzda on Twitter.