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Dance to be held ^ht Pendulum in the Chandler Hall large meeting room on Oct. 23 from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Volume IX Number 8 Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244 Thursday, October 21, 1982 Young lifestyles adapt to herpes epidemic by Doug Norwood Managing Editor “I don’t just hop into bed with anybody,” was one comment offered in a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey that found nearly one quarter of the respondents had altered their sexual be havior because of the now- epidemic herpes. Of the unmarried people ages 18 to 37 who partici pated in the poll, 22 percent agreed with the statement, “I have changed my behav ior to avoid the risk of contracting herpes.” Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2, not to be confused with Type 1 which is com monly known as “fever blis- tc-s” or “cold sores,” is an incurable venereal disease that causes painfully burn ing, itching lesions around the genital area. These blis ter-like sores are often ac companied by swollen lymph glands, fever, aching muscles and a general sickly feeling. Unlike syphilis and gonor rhea which are spread by bacteria and are curable, this sexually transmitted disease is a viral infection and like most viruses cannot present ly be cured. Estimates of the number of Americans plag ued bv the disease range from five to 20 million, and it is claiming about one- quarter million new victims every year. Cases of herpes are not reported to health officials like other venereal diseases because herpes is incurable, Sandy Marshall, Elon’s nursing consultant from the public health department, said. Very accurate statistics therefore are impossible. She said, “Diagnosed cases of herpes increased greatly during the Vietnam War; it has become much more widespread since then.” She added, however, that the disease was known here before the war. There is no cure, but the disease does go into a pwnod of remission after the initial outbreak of symptoms. Af ter that, the disease may reactivate at any time. This reactivation, Marshall said, could be caused by a person changing environment, stress, illness such as taking cold or any of a multitude of other reasons. She agreed that something as minute as a bad day at the office could precipitate a renewal of the symptoms. Only at these times when the symptoms are present, can the disease be transmitted to the afflic- ted’s sexuJil partner. Marshall said that the disease could remain in a state of remission for an entire lifetime, but that is very unlikely. She said that in 1981 researchers placed herpes germs on doorknobs and toilet seats to determine how long the germs would sur- cont. on p. 5 by Shelby Bowman Staff Writer What do biblical scholars know today that they didn’t even guess in yesteryear? Lyceum speaker George Schweitzer, philosopher of religion and professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, attempted to answer this question last Wednesday night as he stood before an audience in Whitley Auditor ium. “When one carefully and cautiously looks at the New Testament, one finds that Jesus believed in a God, as John Wesley put it, of pure unbounded love. The gospel sounds like this. What is the good news? The good news is that there is nothing you can do to make God stop loving you. That is the new idea. “Theologians therefore have put in our hands a marvelous possibility, be cause if that is the nature of the God of Hebrew-Christ- ian tradition, that is a God of pure unbounded love who seeks us all out, who desires to return all men, women, and children to him, and bring that love of his into all human relationships on this planet, if that is God’s desire, then perhaps this heaven and hell ideal (of old) needs to be looked at again.” Continuing his speech, Schweitzer explained how the old and new beliefs concerning heaven and hell differ. “If you look in the back ground of most theologies that you and 1 have to deal with today, you will find some very difficult things in the ideas of heaven and hell. Let me talk about the old belief. “This is a medieval scheme that was largely developed way back in the Middle Ages and pictured us upon our death going into one of three places. Those people who believed in Jesus, and carried this belief out to some extent in their hves went to a place called Heav en. Those people who didn’t believe in Jesus, regardless cont. on p. 5 Schweitzer: God lives, loves in modem world Varsity Grill burglarized Long Center’s Varsity Grill was broken into on Oct. 13 sometime between the grill’s 11 p.m. closing time and 7 a.m. the next morning, when the grill was re-opened. The intruders stole approximately $175, according to Scott Ownby, Elon’s food service manager. “They got in through the side door leading from the patio,” Ownby said. He said there was no sign of forced entry.' Normally money has not b^n kept in grill overnight, he said, since a break-in last semester. “We usually take it to the night deposit at the bank,” he said. “Someone breaks in twice a year, once a semester, like clockwork,” Ownby said. The break-in occured after a “reason ably good night,” Ownby said. He said that $75 of the stolen money was from sales Wednesday night. The other $100 was for making change. Ownby said that both he and the police are still conducting investigations.
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