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Former student to speak on Studentsturnout to support AIDS at Cabrini spirit day annualRed Crossblooddrive by Rosanne Carfagno staff writer It is.estimated that in the year 2000, 40 million people will have AIDS. The three most common ways to contract AIDS are by unprotected sexual intercourse, blood transfusions with infected blood and sharing intravenous needles. "The only 100 percent effective method to prevent AIDS from being sexually transmitted is by abstinence," said Kevin Koknar, social worker and recent Cabrini graduate who will be speaking at this year's Spirit Day about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). "Realistically it's not monogamy but being choosy that's important. The one night stands have to stop," Koknar said. Koknar said he feels that AIDS has slowed some people's sexual activity down because the thought of AIDS is in their mind. Koknar said they still have a long way to go. According to Koknar, college students are not as aware of AIDS because they do not think it affects them. "People still view AIDS as something the middle class doesn't get. It is still thought of as a lower class, homosexual, intravenous drug user disease
to some people," Koknar said. Koknar said that women are more aware of AIDS than men are and also have to be the aggressor when it comes to safe sex. The risk of contracting AIDS during sexual intercourse is higher for women because it is easier for a woman to get AIDS from a man than a man to get AIDS from a woman. HIV, (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) the virus that causes AIDS, is present in high quantities in blood, semen and vaginal discharge in infected people. The most common way of transmitting the HIV virus is through blood-to-blood contact, intravenous drug users and sexual intercourse. French kissing and deep kissing are also possible ways to contract AIDS if there are open sores in the mouth. Koknar pointed out that men and women's views on sex also play a big part in relationships. "Men see sex more as a function. Women see it as something emotional," Koknar said. "Women have to take control and demand that he wear a condom before she'll have sex with him," he said. Koknar said that most college students are in the denial stage when it comes to AIDS because they are healthy people who
photo by Lorraine Marie Lill
Junior Amy Wechsler donates blood to The American Red Cross during the annual semester blood drive. Wechsler, who has been donating blood since her freshman year said it is her social responsibility to do so.
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Miscommunication: Campus~-=-•"'l Clinton'changes'America electionspostponed
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andtheworldproclaiminghlsvictory , ..a new beginning for America." The campaign of change and a "new covenant" for America ended in a democratic landslide with Ointon receiving 44 percentof the popularvote and, as of3 am Wednesday, 345 of the needed 270 electoral votes, Earlier in the evening,Cabrini watched as George Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot both conceded def eat to the young democratic leader. Students watched history beirtg made on campuses all over America. At Cabrini's own Wigwam. Chris Conrad .renior,made the best of it and watched the votes tally in on a old black and white Zenith TV. He sat glued to the TV, flapping his hands in disgust "I'll give him (Clinton) a chance, but it was not Bush's fault, it just happened that he
staff writer The first year-studentelections were held on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3. The electionwas postponed due to a Jack of communication between the StudentGovernmentAssociation(SGA) and the freshmanclass. A meeting was held on Oct. 27 in the SGA office where a secret vote was taken to include new people on the ballot,or to keep the original electionballot and hold the electionsthe following week. The freshmancandidatesvoted by a 7 - 6 count to keep the originalballotand to proceed with the elections the following week. The elections were originallysupposedto take place the third week of October. MatthewGallaro,first-yearstudentandcandidate for vicepresident,saidthatthe reasonthatthe electionswere postponedwas due to the fact that "not too many studentsknew about the election because of a lack of publicityfrom SGA." Gallaro also said that a few of the candidates did not hand in their platformson time and that many of the candidates did not show up at the meetings. "There were posters put up and information about the meeting was put in our mailboxes," Gallaro said. "If I knew about the election how come no one else did." Kim Marshall, SGA president, said that the reasonforthe mis-communicationwas that Amy
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Wechsler,vice presidentof SGA and director of TAXJ, had a conflict in scheduling variousmeetings. Wechslersaid,"It can~ very confusing in tryingto schedulemeetings.Therearetoo many things going on all at once." 'There were two meetings that were scheduledonthesamenight,"Marshallsaid. The reasonmanycandidatesdidnot show up at the first meeting was because it was rescheduled on a different night and not everyone was notifiedof this occurrence. Marshall said, "We put notices in their mailboxes also, but that there may have been a problem with those too." According to Marshall, there was a shortage of volunteers to help promote the election. Marshall apologized for the confusion at the meeting. Marshall said she hopes that such an unfortunate incident will not discourage students from joining Student Government. There are positions that are still available for the freshman class office. If you are interested in any of the positions contact Kim Marshall or Amy Wechsler in the SGA office at 9718415.
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