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UNC Students to Join Protesters in D.C.
By Rachel Elizabeth Leonard
Staff Writer
In December, it was Seattle. This
weekend, it’s Washington, D.C.
People from across the country,
including more than 75 UNC students,
are gathering in Washington to protest
Sunday’s meeting between the
International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank.
FLIRTING
WTH FIRE
Free Love Gives Way to Safe Sex
Asa Generation Lives With AIDS
By Katie Abel
University Editor
The announcement stopped daytime televi
sion. It made people stop, too.
Just weeks before the 1991 NBA season, bas
ketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson
announced he was retiring from the league
because he was HIV-positive.
The press conference pre
empted the soaps on
television.
Here was Johnson, an NBA
All-Star and at the top of his
physical prime, retiring from
the game with HIV, contract
ed through heterosexual
activities.
The ripple effect was pro
found. Professional athletes,
the fittest people in the coun
try, could get HIV.
Heterosexuals could get HIV.
Johnson, with his magical
smile and charisma, could get
HIV.
At the time, these were not
the people Americans expected to have the
virus. At the time, people with HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS, were drug addicts, homo
sexuals and not nearly in the physical condition
of an NBA star.
But as Johnson exemplified through the next
decade -a time in which he played profession
al basketball and continued to lead a produc
tive, active life -Americans’ perceptions of HIV
and AIDS were beginning to change.
Suddenly, groups who hadn’t worried about
HIV needed to. And gradually, people who
were ready to die from AIDS, needed to worry
about living with the disease.
Reading
Honors
Victims
Students and community
leaders took part in the
Reading of the Names,
which ends at noon today.
By Harmony Johnson
Staff Writer
Josef Schlesinger. Ernst Brunner.
Pauline Gutmann. Emma Haan.
Most students have probably never
heard of these people, but they are
among those being recognized during a
24-hour ceremony in the Pit that began
at noon Wednesday.
Schlesinger, Brunner, Gutmann and
Haan are just a small fraction of the
Holocaust victims honored at the fourth
annual Reading of the Names.
The 24-hour commemoration, spon-
Both the IMF and the World Bank
were established in 1944, with the pur
pose of alleviating worldwide poverty
through economic readjustments, loans
and international trade expansion.
But critics claim the organizations
have made matters worse. They say
IMF and World Bank policies lead to
massive deforestation as well as the
trampling of human rights and the cre
ation of sweatshop labor conditions,
The impact on the youth of America was
profound. President George Bush named
johnson to the President’s AIDS Commission,
which attempted to fight the war on HIV with
information.
“Safe sex” has become as common an edu
cational catchphrase as “wear your seat belt.”
And like refusing to wear a seat belt, if we do
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By 1997, the figures had jumped to 38 per
cent for girls and 45 percent for boys.
“If we delayed sexual activity by three or
four years, STD rates would plummet,” van der
Horst said. “The question is, ‘How do you
empower girls not to have sex?’”
Van der Horst said the key to preventing
early sexual activity was boosting outreach in
schools and introducing sex talk at earlier ages.
“I think it has to start in elementary schools
as a biology lesson, be reinforced in middle and
high schools and then incorporated with behav
ioral education,” he said.
According to a recent Centers for Disease
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Junior Tracy Hager reads the names of Holocaust victims Wednesday
as part of UNC's Holocaust Remembrance Week.
sored by the Carolina Union Activities
Board and N.C. Hillel, was the corner
stone of Holocaust Remembrance
Week, said senior Deborah Long, co
coordinator of the week’s events.
“When these people died in the
Holocaust, they were stripped of every
thing, including their individuality,”
Long said. “When their name is read,
I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
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pushing countries further into debt.
Activists have promoted this week’s
demonstrations as a sequel to the large
scale protest against the World Trade
Organization held in Seattle late last
year. UNC sophomore Mary Bratsch is
helping organize for this latest round of
protests.
“It’s a movement that brings together
environmentalists, people fighting for
human rights, even religious purposes -
engage in risky sexual behav
ior, it is not from lack of infor
mation. But some say that the
information hasn’t flowed fast
enough.
“We haven’t acted on it,”
said Charles van der Horst,
associate professor of medi
cine in the UNC School of
Medicine.
A December study by the
National Center on Addiction
and Substance Abuse at
Columbia University reported
that in the early 19705, less
than 5 percent of 15-year-old
girls and 20 percent of 15-
year-old boys had engaged in
sexual intercourse.
you are recognizing that individual.”
About 300 people were scheduled to
read names at the event. UNC-system
President Molly Broad, women’s soccer
coach Anson Dorrance and Chapel Hill
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf were sched
uled to read names, with Waldorf slated
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and all these people are coming to
protest,” she said.
Demonstrations by various groups
began Sunday and continued Monday
with seven arrests. On Wednesday,
more than 10,000 union members
marched to protest a pending U.S. deci
sion to grant “normal trade relations” to
China. Union leaders reject this move
on the grounds that China must first end
human rights abuses and grant workers
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Control and Prevention report, 75 percent of
high school students are sexually active but less
than 50 percent use condoms regularly.
And that tendency toward unprotected sex
has led to a sharp rise in AIDS cases among
young adults. HIV is now the second leading
cause of death among Americans between the
ages of 25 and 44, with one-fourth of all new
HIV cases occuning in this age group.
New segments of the population are begin
ning to feel the brunt of the disease - black
women in their early 20s are the fastest growing
group with AIDS. Two men or women under
the age of 25 are infected with HIV every hour
of every day of the year.
Even more daunting than the statistics are the
symbols that have come to represent the wide
spread recognition of this modern-day plague.
What began as a local initiative in San
Francisco, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has
Old East, Old West
Prepare for Women
By Jessica Joye
Staff Writer
Department of University Housing
officials are scurrying to find rooms for
the first female residents of Old East and
Old West residence halls.
After housing contracts were submit
ted last week, officials held a meeting
with residents to discuss the most sensible
hall areas for women and ways to facili
tate the controversial transition, which
came about after a series of contentious
forums and discussions last spring.
Dean Bresciani, associate vice chan
cellor for student affairs, said the process
had been positive so far. “What we found
out is that most men were not against
women moving in, but ... opposed to
being kicked out of their room.”
After examining housing contracts,
Bresciani said officials found that fewer
than half of the men were returning to
Old East and Old West next fall.
the ability to join unions
In Washington, officials are bracing
themselves for the weekend. At George
Washington University, city police and
school officials canceled classes, banned
overnight visitors and required students to
carry university identification at all times.
GW freshman John Mayer said the
school was going overboard with pre-
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ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES PHARR
become an international symbol of awareness.
The quilt’s panels of wedding rings and con
doms tell the stories of victims such as tennis
star Arthur Ashe, who died from AIDS in 1995
and 18-year-old Ryan White, an AIDS activist
who died from hemophilia in 1991, but not
before becoming the first young face of AIDS.
The teenager’s death sparked Congress to
launch the Ryan White Care Act, which pro
vides funding, education and health care for
AIDS patients. The Clinton administration
reauthorized the act in 1996, pledging support
of more than $730 million for AIDS outreach.
Tinseltown’s elite now dress up their design
er gowns with red ribbons for AIDS awareness.
And asjohnson continues his public and private
fight against the disease 10 years after his reve
lation, Hollywood and professional sports are-
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Bresciani said officials chose the floors
with the fewest returning men, placing
women on the second floor of Old East
and the third floor of Old West.
Most men are simply being moved to
a different floor, Bresciani said.
However, not everyone is finding the
process to be this easy. Freshman Cutler
Andrews is being forced out of his sec
ond-floor Old East room.
“Because I’m going to be a sopho
more next year, I’m pretty much at the
bottom of the rung,” Andrews said.
“The housing department has been
unsympathetic of my situation - they’ve
basically told me ‘tough luck.’”
Freshman Jason Kemp is also being
asked to move from his Old East room.
He said housing officials had been very
willing to listen but could not do much.
Most residents described the process
as an inconvenience. “I do have a room
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Admissions
Plan Heads
To Board
The Board of Governors
is set to consider boosting
admissions standards at
all 16 UNC-system schools.
By Gavin Off
Staff Writer
UNC-system officials are preparing
to consider several new initiatives at
Friday’s Board of Governors meeting.
Items on the BOG’s agenda include
raising admissions standards and
approving funding for campus con
struction projects, such as a freestanding
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
The BOG will meet today and
Friday at the Carolina Inn.
Joni Worthington, UNC-system asso
ciate vice president of communications,
said higher admissions standards at the
16 UNC-system campuses would be
discussed in a committee Thursday.
She said students would benefit from
the proposal, which would increase the
number of required high school science
and math courses from three to four and
require two years of a foreign language.
“An argument that is very compelling is
(that) the more math and sciences you
take in high school, the better students
do on the SATs and college courses,”
she said.
Gary Barnes, UNC-system vice pres
ident of program assessment first pre
sented the increased standards propos
al to the BOG in February.
Worthington said the higher math
standards would take effect in six years
and the foreign language in four years.
Judith Pulley, UNC-system vice pres
ident of planning, said the Planning
Committee would also review a report
of the ongoing attempt to increase
enrollment at seven system campuses.
She said the five predominandy
black UNC-system schools, as well as
UN C-Pembroke and Western Carolina
University, undertook plans several
years ago.to boost enrollment rates.
At that time. Pulley said the Planning
Committee allotted sl2 million to
enhance the quality of facilities and
enrollment standards at the seven
schools. But Pulley said it might still be
a few years before results were seen.
Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice presi
dent of finance, said the Budget and
Finance Committee would discuss sev
eral proposals involving campus con
struction and renovation projects.
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Thursday
Actress Turned Activist
GROWISE has successfully lured Jane
Fonda to Chapel Hill. The exercise
guru and social activist will talk about
women’s issues, education and the
environment. See Page 2.
Streak Struck Down
The Duke men’s tennis team snapped
North Carolina's I I -match winning
streak with a 4-3 win. Down 0-3, UNC
rallied to tie the match, but couldn’t
complete the comeback. See Page I I.
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Rain;
High 56, Low 40.
Friday More rain;
High 60, Low 48.