Collegian
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AIDS
Talk
by Carl Dabler
He reaches over and brushes her
hair away from her face, letting his
hand trail down her back as he
whispers in her ear. She giggles,
casting a self conscious glance
around the bar.
Looking up again, they're
walking out the door, hand in hand.
"Can you believe that?" asks
Mark, his eyes following them out,
then darting back to the table. He
lowers his voice: "Two hours ago
they didn't even know each other."
Two years ago nobody would
have noticed.
But with everybody from the
Surgeon General on down talking
about AIDS and condoms and safe
sex, some people are being more
careful about with whom they share
their beds.
Mark is.
"There’s just no sense in taking a
chance when your life is at stake,"
says the 26-ycar-old engineer, who
has long, blond hair and a nice tan.
He has a nice smile, too, but he’s
not smiling now. Not while we're
on this topic.
He has a friend a heterosexual -
- who was tested for AIDS not long
ago. The test was negative, but the
point was made: It could happen to
anybody.
So he hasn't had sex since he
came to Erie a couple of months ago
to work on a construction project.
And he probably won't, until he
goes back to Atlanta, where he
knows with whom he’s sleeping.
"I don't know what the chances are
of getting it here in Erie, but with
CAMPUS
VOICE
by Nanette Quatchak and
Vail Weller
Entertainment Editors
. Welcome back to school. For
those of you who have been reading
the Collegian in the past, you
will notice that the Student
Voice is now called Campus
Voice. This year we will not only
be talking to the students on
campus but also faculty and staff.
We hope that this will show a more
broad view of opinion at Behrend.
The question that we asked in
this issue involved other ways that
the Collegian can be improved.
Here are the answers we received:
Dr. Louanne Barton
3 years
Personal Counselor
"I don't see that any
improvements are needed. I like the
new format a lot and I like the fact
that you can include controversial
subjects. It is very important to be
able to say what you want to say
without being censored."
Bill Gallenz
9th semester
Management
"...more interaction with
students to get their opinions. I
like the idea of Campus Voice
but I think there should be more
things like it,”
Ellie Richardson
2nd semester
General Arts
Td like to see more for non
traditional students, like myself,
because they are increasing so
much.”
Chris White
9th semester
MIS
”1 like to stay informed about
local and campus news but I
wouldn't mind seeing more
international news and sports. I
would like to see a format similar
to the one used in USA Today.”
Deedee Zubal
6th semester
Management
”1 just transferred here and I
would like to see more about
campus activities and student life.
I'm not interested in local things
and world events because I can get
that in other wavs."
my luck I'd run into the person who
had it. It's just not worth the risk."
A few feet away, a woman with
shoulder-length hair sips her drink
and surveys the scene. She likes
what she sees there are lots of
attractive men here at The Brown
Derby but she says she’s not
looking. She’s got a boyfriend.
Not that she hasn't cheated on
him before.
"But I’m a lot more careful now,”
says Amanda, a 23-ycar-old
schoolteacher.
"You know, I went back and
visited some college friends not too
long ago, and two of them ended up
having one-night stands while I was
there."
"They didn’t seem concerned about
whether they might have gotten
AIDS, or anything else for that
matter. I couldn't believe it. Nobody
said a word.”
Amanda says she and her
boyfriend recently agreed to tell each
other if they sleep with someone
else, so that they're aware of the
risks they may be taking.
But she doesn’t plan on having
sex with anyone other than her
boyfriend for quite a while not
unless she gets to know him very
well first.
"I don't go much for that safe-sex
stuff. It's too boring. And you can’t
tell just by looking at a person
whether he might have AIDS or not.
I mean, I may have it and not know
it.”
She might. While only a small
percentage of the AIDS cases
resulted from heterosexual contact,
it’s possible she has slept with a
bisexual or someone who received
an infected blood transfusion at
some point during the past few
years.
And even though she's certain
she's never slept with an intravenous
drug user, who's to say her past sex
partners haven’t?
Not surprisingly, most young
singles are worried about catching
the AIDS virus, according to a
national survey conducted this year
by the Westport, Conn., research
firm of Yankelovich Clancy
Shulman. And with good reason.
The estimated number of-new cases
by 1992, the year this freshman
class graduates, is 365,000 in this
country alone and at least 1 million
worldwide. The biggest increase
will be among heterosexuals.
They also believe, says another
survey of sexually active young
singles, that it is OK for women to
ask their partners to use condoms to
help prevent the spread of AIDS.
Nonetheless, only 48 percent of
the men and 38 percent of the
women who responded to the poll,
conducted by Research and
Forecasts Inc. of New York,
reported they have used condoms
within the past year.
They should. It's hard to know
how many people might be
carrying the virus. People who
say, "it can't happen to me,” arc
just kidding themselves.
Randy, a 26-ycar-old salesman
with thinning brown hair and
brown eyes, says he uses condoms
as a means of birth control, not as
protection against disease.
He’s never quizzed the women he
sleeps with about their sex
histories, either he usually just
kind of "feels the situation out."
"I don’t think I’m going to get
AIDS," he says. "But Ido wish
there was more information
available... How are you supposed
to know what to believe?"
He shakes his head, and picks up
his Bud longncck. "What about
oral sex?" he asks his cousin Mike,
who's accompanied him to the
Brooksidc.
"Well,” says Randy, "I saw on
TV where some call girls arc asking
their clients to use condoms for
that, too."
"But what about oral sex with
women? What arc you supposed to
do about that?"
"Boy, I don't know," says
Randy. "That's a good question.
This whole thing is pretty scary."
It's getting late. Back at The
Brown Derby, Mark's drinking
buddy has left him alone with the
waitress, who’s playfully dropping
popcorn in his hair.
Mark agrees to buy her a shot,
but when she comes back he hands
her $2 and stands up.
She's not bad looking: got a
big nose, maybe, but still kind of
cute, and maybe some other time he
would wait for her to get off work.
But tonight, Mark leaves alone.
EDITORS NOTE: The
people and events in this
article are fictitious. The
situation it dipicts, however,
is real and important.
This Breakfast in Review
by Our Man With Vision
Brett Taylor
Collegian Staff Writer
I believe it was Voltaire who
declared, "Breakfast is the opium of
the people.” Or was it, "Opium is
the breakfast of the people."
Regardless, several revolutions in
Western attitudes and technology
have afforded the modem consumer
a far healthier and diversified field of
breakfast food options than those
offered to our friend Voltaire. The
unprepared shopper of today is easy
prey to choice anxiety each time he
stumbles into the cereal aisle of his
favorite store. With new offerings
arriving on the supermarket shelves
each week, it becomes more and
more difficult to make the right
choice.
Confusing the issue even more
is the latest entry from Ralston
Purina, a concoction called
Dinersaurs. The motif is,
obviously, dinosaurs who operate a
diner. Judging from the front panel
illustration, these pastel-colored
reptiles specialize in a cereal
designed in their own image. The
obligatory giant-spoon photograph
appears to contain several melted
gumdrops. Don't let this dissuade
you: Dinersaurs are a crunchy,
four-grain compound. To be
honest, they are nothing but Froot
Loops twisted into more interesting
shapes if I were a certain toucan,
I'd be following my nose straight to
my lawyer.
Close inspection shows that the
cereal comes in five distinct shapes,
Poll Finds Next
Generation Of Collegians
Will Be More Liberal
(CPS) The next generation of
college freshman appears to be
more liberal than its predecessors.
Fifty-one percent of the 600 high
school student leaders attending the
annual conference of the National
Association of School Councils
(NASC) in Albuquerque, N.M., last
month said they supported
Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis for president.
Forty-eight percent, on the other
hand, favored Vice President George
Bush.
Perhaps most significantly,
only 21 percent of the students at
the conference all of them were
elected leaders at their school
described themselves as
"conservative."
Four years ago, 60 percent of
the student leaders called themselves
conservative.
The majority of student leaders
54 percent this year say they're
"liberal."
"These student leaders represent
a real important segment of our
country," said Lew Armstead,
NASC’s director of public
information. "It is important to pay
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each of which corresponds in both
color and anatomy to one of the
dinosaurs illustrated on the box.
The attention to detail, is quite
amazing, right down to thee plates
on the back of the stegosaurus. In
my opinion, Dinersaurs is the finest
example of representative molding
in a cereal ever.
Bui how does it taste? . The
packaging claims that the fruit
flavoring is all natural. Although I
usually consider this a drawback, in
this case the sporadic, chancy
quality of natural flavoring lends the
little reptiles a certain palatability
lacking from other fruit cereals.
The porous texture helps the cereal
to stay crunchy in milk for up to
twenty minutes as well. In a dry
test, the five fruit flavors blended
well, although I noticed a slightly
attention to what they say, because
10 years from now they will be our
state legislators and senators.”
The survey findings aren't
surprising to Kevin Harris of the
United States Student Association,
which represents elected college
student leaders.
The Reagan administration's
economic policies, he said, have
hurt more than they helped young
people, spurring them to reject
conservative philosophy.
Students suffering from poorly
funded schools and social programs,
Harris said, are again embracing
more liberal politics as a solution
to social problems.
"the conservative label has
been blurred," countered Greg
Rothman of the College
Republican Committee. Students,
he added, may not label themselves
as conservatives, but still support
conservative solutions to most
issues.
Dukakis’s lead in the NASC
poll, he said, is "not surprising. As
we get closer to the election, people
will sec more of Bush."
And young people will like
what they see, he predicts.
"Dukakis pales in comparison on
education. Bush plans to be the
elected president"
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antiseptic aftertaste. This effect is
quite subtle, though, and shouldn't
bother anyone who brushes his
"Dinersaurs.... are
nothing but Froot
Loops twisted into
more interesting
shapes—if I were a
certain toucan, I'd be
following my nose
straight to a lawyer."
teeth after every meal.
The bonus prize on the review
box was four free dinosaur trading
cards. Actually, these were just
printed on the back panel and
required careful removal with an X -
acto knife. Though the illustrations
are quite striking, I am disturbed by
the industry-wide proliferation of
"back-panel prizes." It should be
obvious to the manufacturers that
anyone who eats a cereal with this
much sugar does not plan on living
forever. Discriminating cereal
connoisseurs demand instant
gratification something tangible
that they may have to dig for, not a
cheap, superficial thrill pasted on
the box.
I have only two complaints.
First, though the flavors are all
natural, the fruit colors are not of
this world. The intense hues,
particularly the lemon yellows, may
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Apathy Cancels a
Class on Activism
New York, N.Y. (CPS)
A course designed to explore
the increase in student activism
during the past two years has been
cancelled on account of apathy.
No one registered for the class,
offered by the Adult Division of the
New School for Social Research,
Dean Gerald A. Heeger said last
week.
Heeger saw little irony in the
cancellation. "I wouldn't draw the
conclusion that students are
apathetic. There are a lot of students
interested in activism, but we just
didn't reach them."
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