News
May 1,1997
5
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of Elon professors Thomas
Tiemann and Jeff Pugh, Arcaro was
able to train at various distances
over several weeks. The week be
fore the race he said he only ran a
few miles. He was told to run the
largest distances three weeks be
fore the race. He said he ran four
days a week during his training
period. He also swam and rode on a
bicycle on a regular basis.
“Mentally and emotionally it’s
a tough race,” he said. “You’re
trying to get your body to do things
that it doesn’t want to do for a
really, really long time.”
When the big day came, Arcaro
said he didn’t get a chance to see
the top runners because they were
separated from the regular racers.
“They warmed up in a separate
area and didn’t come to the front
until five minutes before the race,”
he said. “We were on the same
track, but it’s not like running with
them.”
Arcaro said the first 10 miles
of the race was downhill and the
last part was the steep part, called
“Heartbreak Hill.”
“I didn’t run the race I wanted
to run,” he said. “I did adequate
training up to it. But for some rea
son on race day, I cramped up.”
Arcaro finished with a time of
three hours and 36 minutes, good
for 4,400 place out of 12,000.
Despite the feat of qualifying
and finishing in the Boston Mara
thon, Arcaro said there are much
more important things in life.
“I got a chance to see the AIDS
Quilt last weekend (at Elon). I real
ized what I did was puny compared
to the struggle of other people,” he
said. “Yes (running in the Boston
Marathon) was big deal, but it was
just a race.”
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Darcie Cascone/The Pendulum
An overhead view Of the entire AIDS Quilt from Alumni Gymnasium. Six panels were added to the more than
300 on display. The entire Quilt has more than 40,000 panels and counting.
from AIDS QUILT, page 1
community and added to the
already 300 panels that were on
display at Elon.
“I thought it was a really good
way of putting names there instead
of numbers, because these people
actually died. For those students
that went, I think it brought a little
bit more reality about the AIDS
epidemic,” said senior Josh McIn
tosh.
Seeing the Quilt this past
weekend got so personally emo
tional for Ulrich that he had to
leave the gymnasium at one point
and “recover.”
Volunteers played a huge role
in all the work it took to make this
AIDS Quilt event successful.
Freshman Michelle Wideman
put in about nine hours of service
and said just being there was “emo
tionally draining” for the volun
teers.
“I have life and I’m going to
live, so I could dedicate three or
four days to the AIDS Quilt,” said
Solanes, who was there with the
Quilt from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Thurs
day through Saturday and until 7
p.m. on Sunday.
Another volunteer was senior
Kate Kennedy, who helped out
during the opening and closing cer
emonies. It was her first time see
ing the Quilt.
“It was amazing to see how
many lives this event touched. A
lot of work went into it too,”
Kennedy said.
“It took me a little while to get
used to the actual quilt being in
front of me. You never get used to
the idea of a disease that is as pow
erful as AIDS.”
Other students were equally
touched by their first sight of the
Quilt.
“It was too touching to look at
all the Quilt. When I first walked in
and saw a little boy’s picture on the
floor, tears immediately ran down
my face,” said senior Julius John,
who sang “Bring Him Home” from
the musical “Les Miserables” dur
ing Sunday’s closing ceremonies.
It was surprising to some that
the AIDS Quilt was even coming to
Elon. Wideman said it was hard
enough just to get one individual
panel displayed at her high school.
The importance of the AIDS
Quilt is the awareness it is raising at
Elon and many other places, along
with the impact it — and the AIDS
epidemic — is having on peoples’
lives.
“I think it got to me more than
I thought it would. I don’t person
ally know anyone, but seeing fami
lies leave roses helped it hit home,”
said junior Katie Ruegge.
“People can take AIDS more
seriously and how it affects people
if they saw the Quilt.”
Ulrich said Elon is hoping to
bring the AIDS Quilt back to cam
pus in five years.
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him as special “He was one
of the few male members of the
R^e Crisis Center,” his friend
said.
Elon President Fred Young
said, “It is an extraordinary trag
edy. The young man would have
graduated about three weeks from
now, and now his life has been
taken away. The Elon College
community will miss him/’
College Chaplain Richard
McBride said* “There are real dan
gers out there. However, it is best
not to focus on them and he didnH.
He wanted a broad range of expe*
rieiices from SCUBA diving to
trips to Beliz:e or working for Habi
tat. He was eager to embrace life
and it sounds like he did that
Hierefore, we should celebrate
ihatr
Excessive speed or alcohol
are not linked to the accident at
this point. Culler said.
No charges have been brought
against Beach pending further in-
vestigation» which includes a re
construction of the event.
Hiere will be a memorial ser
vice heldFriday at9:20 a.m, in the
Eloo College Community Church.
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