April 17,1997
BUSY,
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and bring in a world leader
(F.W. de Klerk), you don’t decide
the dates, they decide them for you.
“And then you say ‘yes we
accept.’ But I think all months are
busy months at Elon.”
Here’s a roundabout look at
just some of the different activities
at Elon starting last Thursday:
Thursday, April 10, West
End Station — Communications
professor George Padgett and his
senior seminar class raised more
than $750 for the NAMES project
in a benefit class “West End Aware
ness.”
The Scott & Co. band played
from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Saturday, April 12, Whitley
Auditorium — Despite the rain,
the show went on. The Student
Union Board originally scheduled
Earth Pest to be an outdoor concert,
but a cold, rainy morning forced
the event indoors.
At its height more than 100
played games and listened to three
bands.
The featured band was a group
from Richmond, Va„ callcd^the Pat
McGee Band.
Saturday, April 12, Moseley
Center 215 — A small group of
people who wished to make panels
to add to the AIDS Quilt showed up
Saturday afternoon in the Moseley
Center. The event was open to
people of all ages.
The panels will be added to a
section of the AIDS Quilt, a na
tional symbol of the fight against
the AIDS virus, when it comes to
Elon April 24-26.
Sunday, April 13, McKinnon
Hall — Sixty students attended a
showing of “Cry Freedom,” a movie
about Steven Biko, an antiapart
heid lead, and his friendship with
journalist Donald Woods.
The movie was part of South
Africa In Context, a week-long pro
gram in honor of former South Af
rican President F.W. de Klerk’s
visit to campus, which is scheduled
for April 21.
Sunday, April 13 — The all-
Greek meeting officially started
Greek Week, a series of games and
activities promoting unity among
campus Greek organizations.
Overall, there will be 14 orga
nizations competing in 22 events.
Nonathletic highlights of
Greek Week includes a time cap
sule ceremony, a penny drive and
trivia bowl.
Monday, April 14 — The
Greek Week games started with
men’s football at 3 p.m. atFirehouse
Field.
Campus News From Arouiid the Nation
OU Students Incite Brawi
ATHENS, Ohio (CPS)—A brawl involving about l,OOOpeoplebrokeoutafter a cluster of bars that cater to Ohio University students closed
early April 8 because of daylight-savijig time.
The crowd, mostly OUstudents, shouted obscenities atpolice and threw liquor bottles, eggs and toilet bottles when the bars closed, according
to reports.
About 70 officers sent to the scene ftred four rounds of wooden pellets into the crowd.
Thirty-four OU students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
At least three people were injured in the brawls and one required hospital treatment, authorities said.
The 21/2-hour melee was not the only disturbance of the night, police said. About an hour before the bars closed, a fight broke out between
30 members of Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Kappa Tau fraternities.
Chad Miller, a 1992 graduate, told OU’s student newspaper that the fracas proved the university has not lost its reputation for being wild
and crazy.
“It’s as nuts as it’s ever been,” he said.
AIDS-Preventlon Programs FaOing The Young, Study Claims
SAN FRANCISCO (CPS)—AIDS-prevention programs.targeted at youth are failing, and the disease is becoming a disease of America’s
young, said a new study.
The report, entitled, “Dangerous Inhibitions; How America Is LetUng AIDS Become an Epidemic of the Young,” attempts to explain why
half of all new HIV infections occur among people under the age of 25 and why AIDS is now the sixth leading cause of death among 15 to 24
year olds.
Current HIV-prevention methods donH work because they fail to “deal honestly with the sexual realities of today *s young people ” according
to the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and the Harvard AIDS Institute, the report’s authors.
“Misguided prevention policies are literally costing us the lives of our young generation/* said Thomas Coates, director of the AIDS
Research Institute and Center for AIDS Prevention (CAPS) at the University of California at San Francisco.
Coates said that every hour, there are at least two Americans under the age of 25 whobeconfie infected with HIV. One in four sexually active
teens acquire a sexually transmitted disease annually.
“All youth—particularly young people of color, young gay males and young women who may have sex with BlV-positive men need
prevention messages that speak directly to their lives, values and sense of self-worth,” he said.
Ittthe report, the researchers say more can done by the government, the entertainment industry and big business to stop the spread of AIDS.
They say iJiat the government should spend more money on AIDS prevention programs on teens, “especially young gay men and young
people of color.'" One key way, the researchers said, is to expand the number of schools with condom-distribution proems.
The experts also would like to see an end to the ban on condom advertising on network TV^ and they’d like film makers to send a safe-sex
message when filming those Hollywood sex scenes. .
We need to get out the message about condoms,” said Paul Reyes, a 21 -year-oldfrom Tlie Hetrick-Martin Institute who attending a meeting
where the study was presented.
. Teensspend somuch time watching TV that condom advertising on TV could beoneof the most effective ways togetthe message through.”
The two groups at greatest risk for HIV infections are young men who have sex with men and heterosexually active young women. Among
men with a known risk factor, gay or bisexual men account for three-quarters of infections among young men.
The proportion of females among adolescents with AIDS has tripled from 14 percent in 1987 to 46 percent in 1995, the most current year
for which data is available.
Feud Over Name Settled
MEADVILLE, Pa. (CPS)—Two universities that claimed an equal right to use the name “Allegheny” have settled their feud out of court.
Allegheny College, a 181-year-old college in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, earlier this year sued the newly named Allegheny
University in Philadelphia for trademark infringement.
The college claimed that the similar names caused confusion. Students wouldcall the wrong admissions offices, and even scholarship checks
were sent to the wrong school, the college reported.
Allegheny University is actually short for Allegheny University of the Health Sciences—the name Hahnemann University and the Medical
College of Pennsylvania came up with last June following their 1993 merger.
According to the terms of the settlement, the university can use its full name or “AUHS,” but would be baned from using “Allegheny
University,” Also, the university agreed not to object if the college ever seeks to change its name to “Allegheny University.”
The university must also change its Internet address, currently “www.allegheny.edu.''
Allegheny College President Richard Cook praised the settlement, calling it a good way to prevent confusion. “With the end of litigation,
we also look forward to redirecting all our time and money to educating our students, rather than to the suit/’ he said.
AUHS Vice President Thomas Chakurda said he was glad the dispute ended in a “businesslike and constructive fashion.”
Fashion Show Raises Awareness About Sweatshops
ITHACA, N.y, (CPS)™-As part of a “Sweatshop Fashion Show,” Cornell University students strutted along a catwalk March 28 to protest
abuses in the garment industry.
The students n^odeled trendy jeans and shirts niade by companies that reportedly employ sweatshop workers, said Patricia Campus, a
member of Cornell’s Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, a student group that sponsored the event.
“High school and college students are the biggest market for the major brand names in the fashion industry,” she said. “By raising awareness
about the practices of fashion producers, we hope to help students become educated consumers.”
Because of their buying power^ students can pressure the fashion industry “to clean up its act," she added.
Last October, the Labor Department cited major retailers, including Sears, Macy^s West and Guess, Inc., for having received merchandise
made in sweatshops. .
The Students Stop Sweatshops campaign, organized by nation^s largest union for garment factory workers, also has criticised The Gap, Nike
and Disney for using sweatshops to manufacture products.
At CorneU, a portion of the fashion show’s proceeds benefitted the Melida Anaya Montes Women's Education Project in El Salvador, a
group attempting to unionize female woikers who make clothes for many U.S. clothing manufactuiers.
“We chose to do a fashion show to highlight the differences l^tween those who wear the stylish brand-name clothes and those who make
them ” Campos said.
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