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Thursday July 7, 2005
Civil rights students reunion
The Charlotte Post
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Forty years
^o, when college students
v/ere recruited to come South
to help register black voters,
the volunteers stuck togeth^
for their own safety
Last weekaid, a dozen of
them gathered again — this
time to remember.
Now grayer and heavier,
they came fiom places like
New York, California and
Illinois to remember that
summer of hope and resis
tance. Their memories of can
vassing slices of the Deep
South have always stayed
with them, they said.
“For 20 years, I was
enraged. It showed me the
country I didn’t know edst-
ed,” said Dick Reavis, 59, a
former volunteer who is now
an English professor at North
Carolina State University
Reavis was one of about 500
college students recruited by
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and
the late dvil ri^ts leader
Hosea Williams
The decision to bring in
Northerners proved pivotal
in the dvil rights strug^e.
Where some native blacks
had battled segregation for
decades in obscurity, the
mostly white college stud^ts
attracted media attention
and the nation’s outrage
when they were attacked for
trying to help black
Southeme:s vote.
“Most of you were taking
your lives in your hands by
assodating with us,” former
U.N. Ambassador Andrew
Young told the volunte^.
‘It made us truly a national
movement when the students
came,” he said. “Their pai'-
ents had to learn about the
South.”
The reunion rang with
extra poignancy in the after-
math of the conviction of
Edgar Ray KiHen, the 80-
year-old Ku Klux Klansman
who was found guilty two
weeks ago of orchestrating
the 1964 Mississippi slaying
of three dvil ri^ts workers,
James Chaney, Michael
Schwemer and Andrew
Goodman.
Dming those days, the
rules were simple, said
Judith Van Allen, the dele
ter of a Sacramento, Calif,
pharmadst who was a gradu
ate studfflit when she spent
her summer in Georgia’s
Taliaferro County
The volimteers had to get
as many black people as pos
sible to undei'stand the legal
ri^ts they had. But they also
watched their backs because
their presence was resented
by those in power, she said.
“We stayed away from the
white people,” said 64-year-
old Van Allen, who is white
and now senior fellow at the
Institute for the African
Development at Cmell
University in New York.
Make a point to stick to diet while on vacation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS -
Hearing the words “travel”
and “diet” in the same sen
tence makes five out of seven
tourists in this dty of sump
tuous restaurants burst out
laughing, an uttoly unsden-
tific survey finds.
Those include Deborah
Gray “We eat whatever. We
try to diet before we come. It
doesn’t work,” said Gray, a
sodal worker fium Chicago
who was headii^ into a T-
shirt shop on Bourbon Street.
Nevertheless, an hour up
tire road in Baton Rouge, the
Pennington Biomedical
Research Center has come up
with a list of 10 tips for not
blowing your diet while on
vacation.
There arai’t any hard fig
ures, but the numb^ of peo
ple following diets is consid^-
ably smaller than the num
ber who oi^ht to-and the
number who follow diets on
vacation is tiny said
Katherine Lastor, a research
dietitian at Pennington, a
campus of Louisiana State
University
It really isn’t any more diffi
cult to diet on the road than
at home, Lastor said, but peo
ple say ‘“It’s not realistic for
me to do that and I’m just
going to eat whatever.’ If they
would just plan ahead, it
would be a lot easier than
they think it would be.”
In the Garden District,
Helen Causey of St. Gabriel,
near Baton Rouge, was taking
occasional sips fi^>m her
bright blue (to match the
restaurant’s turquoise paint)
25-cent Commander’s Palace
Martini while her husband
and sons finished them crab
and com soup.
“Lots of cream in this,” said
Andrew, who just finished his
third year at LSHs medical
school in New Orleans.
His mother had ordered the
“Good and Hearty” lunch
entree du jour—on this day
seared fish with roasted oys
ter mushrooms, local Creole
tomatoes, grilled sweet onions
and summer gre^is with a
truffle-citrus vinaigrette.
She said she always checks
for healthy entrees. “If it’s
something really good — the
ingredients really appeal to
me — I’ll order the good,
heart-healthy choice. If not
she shru^ed.
Which brii^ us to Tip No.
2; “Understand the menu. ...
Ask questions.” Watch out for
a(^ectives like: fiied, buttery
au gratin, etouffe, sauteed,
creamy, breaded. Inquire
about sauces and toppings;
ask for food grilled without
basting and for sauces not
based on oil or butter.
“Just for your information,
that was not approved by
Weight Watchers,” Gisela
Smith, a toned and slender
Californian, joked to a worker
as she left La Madeleine, a
pastry shop on Jackson
Square.
She’d had puff pastry filled
with chicks in an “incredible
mushroom cream sauce.”
“But I had a vegetarian
omelet this morning, made
with egg whites,” said Smith,
of Healdsburg, Calif She and
her husband, Andy, are tak
ing an eight-week cross-coun
try RV trip with th^ chil
dren, Kirsten, 11, and Eric,
13. Breakfast had been at
Denny’s.
Which bring us to Tips No.
1 -’Tlan ahead. Scope out
your dinit^ options”— and
No. 3 - “Think “outside of the
box ... Many fast food places
have added healthy options
for main meals and even offer
fimt as a side dish.”
And one tip not mentioned:
If you eat carefully at other
meals, you get room to, ah,
fudge.
The Pennington folks do
note a flip-side in No. 8: If you
eat more than you plan,
thinking of it as a catastrophe
“will only set you up for fail
ure. Get back on track at your
very next meal.”
Tip No. 9 isn’t a problem on
this trip for Smith: “Plan
pleasures other than food or
drink and incorporate
increased physical activity
into your summer plans.”
She decided to celebrate her
45th birthday by running her
first marathon in October
and began training 10 weeks
People living longer vvith HTV
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
People living loiter with
HIV, but experts worry about
number of new cases
The Associated Press
GARY, Ind. -When Gloria
Manamela learned she was
infected with HIV, she fig
ured she only had five years
to live. She was a mother of
two, pregnant with her third
child. She was trying to rec
oncile with her husband,
fiom whom she was separat
ed when she contracted the
virus. “I was devastated,”
Manamela said.
That was 11 years ago.
Manamela represents both
the good and the bad news of
HIV treatment and preven
tion.
Those with the virus that
causes AIDS are living
longer. But the rates —espe
cially in Northwest Indiana’s
minority population — aren’t
dedinii^ despite 20 years of
education about what pre
vents the illness’ spread.
One in 2,900 Lake County
residents are either HIV
infected or have fully devel
oped AIDS. Blacks and
Hispanics comprise nearly 70
percent of HIV cases in Lake
Cbunty
A study released by the
national Centers for Disease
Control shows for the first
time since the 1980s more
than 1 million people in the
United States are infected
with HIV
“The jump reflects the role
of medicines that have
allowed people infected with
the virus to Hve longer,” said
Ronald Valdiserri, deputy
director of the CDC’s
National Center for HIV,
STD and TB Prevention.
Reaching the 1 million
marie is “a sign of both victory
and failure,” said Tbije
Anderson, executive director
of the National Association of
People Living VTth AIDS.
‘Tart of the reason the num
ber is so big is we’re not dying
as before,” Anderson said.
“But the other problem is we
have not made a significant
dent in new infections.”
The CDC had hoped by
2005 that the estimated
40,000 new infections that
have occurred every year
since the 1990s would be cut
in half
According to new data, the
goal was not met.
Recent outbreaks of HIV
and s®cually transmitted dis-.
eases in major cities around
the coimtry hint that new
infections may be as high as
60,000 cases a year, according
to Carlos dd Rio, an Emory
University professor of medi
cine.
In Northwest Indiana, the
rate of new infections has
remained fairly constant.
In Lake County, 28 new
cases of HIV were reported in
2001 and 26 new cases in
2004. In Porter County three
new cases were reported in
2001 and four new cases in
2004.
According to the Indiana
State Department of Health,
798 residents in Lake County
were living with HIV as of
March this year, and 99 in.
Porter County were living
with the disease.
John Afanador, HIV coun
selor for the Lake County
Health Department, said peo
ple aren’t viewing HIV as a
big risk anymore.
“They view it as somelhing
like diabetes—it can be man
aged,” he said
Manamda, now the mother
of a healthy HIV-negative 10-
year-old and engaged to an
HIV-negative man, has got
ago. “I ran five miles in
Houston yesterday in 103-
degree weather. That’s testing
the old spirit,” she said. “Tbn
weeks ago, I didn’t think I
coiild run five miles. This
weekend. I’ll be lunning
ei^t.”
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ten her HIV infection under
control with medication:
‘T choose not to be sick,” she
said.
Anthony Gillespie, execu
tive director of Gary-based
Broihers Uplifting Brothers,
an HTV service provider,
agrees the perception of HTV
not being a death sentence is
causing an increase in new
infections. But lack of educa
tional fimding is a big factor,
too, he said
According to Gillespie, lack
of support for community-
based advocacy programs has
hurt tile smaller organiza
tions that have better luck
influencing certain groups of
people.
The Centers for Disease
Control has placed a priority
on funding larger oi^aniza-
tions, Gill^pie said But in
certain minority communi
ties, people tend to trust the
smaller community-based
organizations made up of
their peers. The larger groufe
have not been as effective, he
said
Karen Lain, HIV/STD coor
dinator for the Porter Cfounty
Health Department, thinks
the failure to cut new infec
tions is partly to blame on
people not getting tested
“If they don’t know they
have it, they continue to pass
it,” Lain said
Most people wouldn’t guess
by looking at her that
Manamela is HIV pc^tive.
She said that works to her
advantage wh^ she gives
talks to local high school stu
dents.
Early detection is what
saved her, she said.
“HTV can be in your body
for so long and by the time
you realize it... at some point,
it’s too late (for treatment),”
she said
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