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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004
Community focuses on
fighting sexual diseases
BY SAM SHEPARD
STAFF WRITER
In an effort to combat the rise in
North Carolina’s confirmed cases
of HIV, the University and the
community are working to raise
awareness of the issue and to fight
irresponsible sexual behavior.
There were 2,100 new HIV
diagnoses reported in the state in
2003, up from 1,700 the previous
year. This figure marked the third
consecutive year the state faced an
increase.
And two-thirds of STD trans
missions occur in people 25 or
younger, according to the American
Social Health Association.
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uals in the United States live with
incurable sexually transmitted dis
eases, according to the association.
In 2001, North Carolina ranked
in the top five among all states in
the number of people from non
metropolitan regions who became
infected with HIV.
“HIV is not going away. It’s far
from over,” said Jerry Pipoly, HIV
counselor for the Orange County
Health Department.
Pipoly works both in the commu
nity and at the department’s clinic
in Chapel Hill to help raise aware
ness and promote safe, responsible
sexual behavior.
He said the county health
department offers free and con
fidential HIV and STD testing to
help achieve those goals.
Services are available by walk
in or appointment from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday at
the department’s locations in both
Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
Walk-ins and appointments are
also offered from 10:30 a.m to 7:30
p.m. Tuesdays in Hillsborough and
Thursdays in Chapel Hill.
The test process includes a
counseling session in which Pipoly
helps patients develop a plan that
will prevent future infection as weli
as an outline for future practices of
responsible sexual behavior.
“Our ultimate goal is to help
people change unhealthy, risky
behavior,” Pipoly said.
The University also offers free,
confidential HIV and STD test
ing by appointment. At the Center
for Healthy Student Behaviors,
the Carolina Health Education
Counselors for Sexuality are trained
to discuss any sexual health topic.
Beth Burt, an employee at
Student Health Service, said the
health services clinic administers
an average of 50 HIV tests for stu
dents each week.
But Pipoly said he has seen a tre
mendous drop-off in the number of
individuals tested each week in the
past four years.
As the number of tested indi
viduals is decreasing on the state
and county levels, the number of
HIV cases is increasing, according
to the N.C. Department of Health
and Human Services.
Pipoly said the number of tests
administered has declined because
of an “epidemic of complacence,
apathy and indifference regarding
HIV.”
Health officials urge anyone
interested in more information
to visit the University’s Student
Health Service Web site at http://
www.shs.unc.edu, and the coun
ty’s health site at http://www.
co.orange.nc.us/health.
Such information can only serve
to help students, Pipoly said.
“Everybody thinks they’re an
expert; the fact of the matter is
they’re not.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
News
Limbaugh decries liberals
BY LORELLE BABWAH
STAFF WRITER
A crowd of students packed
into the rotunda at UNC’s School
of Law on Monday night to hear
David Limbaugh, brother of radio
talk show host Rush Limbaugh,
speak about what he said is a
left-wing discrimination against
Christianity.
The trip also helped Limbaugh
tout his book, “Persecution: How
Liberals are Waging War Against
Christianity.”
Limbaugh began by asking if
there were any liberals in atten
dance, then thanked the few raised
hands that peppered the crowd for
adding diversity to the room.
He then set a religious, conser
vative tone that carried on through
out the evening.
“God bless George Bush.
God bless the troops,” he said.
Limbaugh went on to bless vari
ous other members of the Bush
administration and finally Iraqi
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
He said he believes the free
dom of religion does not mean the
country should have to be free from
religion.
Although Limbaugh conceded
that the separation of church and
Global center set to break ground
BY LINDSAY.MICHEL
STAFF WRITER
Five years ago, Raymond Farrow
was asked to imagine a building
that would bring together UNC’s
international components.
After years of planning, officials’
efforts will come to fruition as con
struction of the Global Education
Center breaks ground Nov. 12.
“It will be a destination point
on campus for all things interna
tional,” said Farrow, development
director for the University Center
for International Studies. “(It’s) the
concept of one-stop shopping.”
The center, which will replace
the parking lot on the corner of
Pittsboro and McCauley streets, is
expected to open its doors by 2007.
The 2000 Higher Education
Bond Referendum is providing sl9
million for the project, and private
fimd-raising initiatives will provide
$7.5 million.
The center will house offices for
international affairs, study abroad
and international student scholar
state is written into the Constitution,
he also said the nation has achieved
success because of its Christian
foundation.
“I think our freedom tradition is
rooted in Judeo-Christian values,”
he said.
University law student Tinu
Akintola said she agreed with
Limbaugh’s sentiments of
Christianity’s involvement in
America’s development, but admit
ted to some internal conflict.
“There is a lack of response to
social issues. When it comes to day
to-day life, sometimes the church
is silent.”
Limbaugh also said Christians
are being attacked by liberals and
the media, creating heated conflict
within the country.
“We are in a culture war,” he said.
“Christians are the primary target
of the secular culture warriors.”
Limbaugh said he believes sec
ularists are trying to undermine
America’s moral and social foun
dations in “the schools, the media
and in Hollywood.”
He also said pro-choice liberals
are, in fact, pro-abortion.
“If they are pro-choice, why do
they keep pregnant women from
counseling about the potential
ship services. It also will allot space
for foreign researchers at UNC.
In addition, students and faculty
will benefit from many seminar
rooms, a lecture hall, a 250-seat
auditorium and a student-run
coffee shop to serve international
beverages.
Administrators said they hope
the environment will provide an
ideal venue for discourse among
UNC’s diverse population.
“The programming there should
be so exciting that it will kind of
whet their appetite either to go
abroad or to meet international
students,” said Peter Coclanis,
associate provost for international
affairs. “It will be a lively hive of
activity.”
Administrators also said they
hope the center’s location will link
the health affairs buildings with
the rest of the academic areas of
campus.
“The site location will be a won
derful symbol of the weaving of inter
national programs and initiatives,”
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Author
David
Limbaugh
spoke about his
new book at
the law school
Monday.
harm in abortion?” he said. “They
don’t want you to know about that
because you might choose life.”
While Josh Diver, a first-year
law student, sympathized with
Limbaugh on most points, he said
the attorney-cum-author brushed
over some important issues.
“He should have touched more
on slavery,” he said. “It’s a double
standard when talking about the
value of human life.”
Limbaugh closed by taking
questions from the crowd, though
a few liberals in the audience said
they resisted the temptation to
comment for fear of ruining the
good mood.
Matt Cordell, a first-year law
student, said, “It’s refreshing to get
a view that you normally don’t hear
on campus.”
Contact the State £2 National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
said Marjorie Crowell, assistant
provost for international affairs.
Andrea Leers, the architect behind
the center’s design, is also responsi
ble for facilities at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard
University. She designed the center
so that it would reflect UNC’s tradi
tional architecture while at the same
time giving it a modem flare.
“We felt it was really important
for an international building to
have a modem form,” Farrow said.
“We want it to be a building of its
own time.”
Administrators said the new
building should spark serendipi
tous actions within the interna
tional community on campus.
“It will be a really nice cross
roads for research and teaching,
UNC students and international
students, health affairs and aca
demics,” Coclanis said. “It should
be really exciting.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.