Volume 71, N um~r 18
'1teportin1 Midwut.ern Statt! Uni~ersity News Since 192Z'
Wh ite kicks off AIDS Awareness We ek Whtie slressed educaI10n Sever•I warm rounds ol ep· By Jean Hall plaiUH puoctuatad lhe remain- and reading 10 her son from an and Linda WUaon Scott age bec.lus-e ii was eWhe earfy IC)eeCh Mt ot der Reporten Whet• said Ry•n wi1s diag• ooukt ~iv on, ah• sad. The WMk before her aon 19&4, foUowing • aurgery In wtt.n hemoph1ha h wrl nosed White JeaMe Ryan White died, only ltwM days old He be- to remove pel1 ol hit lung due to watched a lelev1510n special Ryan WH dieg• about h1rn wIlh e group of gan reeeMng l ransluSJOn, ol pneumonia, AIDS and given .,. l nendl She laughed W nng the lac1or 8, Iha ~ clotllng nosad wrth H• wH 13 yNrs show whlle the others cnad prodocl wh,ch .-.,en1ually u, . month& 10 We lor more lhan because, she Nid. she had oriy l.cted htm and Ryan' s perenc1 old He survived were 10kt he colJkj never pi.y fiv• years happy rnemonea of het son !amity didn't lhe s,11d WM• car a survrve or sports contac1 A posIINe •n,tude Is 1he know al !he ttme to keep her n"IOSI •"1)0f1anl pain of INing With accdenl ----, --, AIDS, wrth AOmeone and loving Whtie IOld lhoH who crowded the Clark S1udent Center &llroom Feb 23 to hear her 191P 8~ '•· ..;:"' :": :• presentat10n on Ryan Wh1t•s I 'JA•, 1 ..... ., , legacy during AIOS Awarene5s • rtO • Weo~ at Mtdwe5tern The presenIaI,on began
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son's dilelM • sec,_ Because SM knew thet II was impo5Slbl• to ap,eed AIDS Ihlough casual contact, she lhoughl everyone elN knew. loo The tam,ty faced immediale INr end hoshlfy from one-lime fnends and acquainlances The school Ryan attended voled to bet him from attending, and onty a nin•monlh court banHI lon:4td lhem to ~ him re1um , she said One• in achoo!. Ryan was subjected to constanl avoid· anceand ridicol• He h9d touse a aepa,•le drinking fountain and eat from dlllpOMble dishes His locker was vandalized He was called• i ag• and Jeanne While wet iat>efed •an unfi1 molher"' Vlck>u1 letters arnved al their
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Ryan's posl· trve eniluct. and h,s ebihty to take the 1n1uh1 as iokes got them through the OfflNI -We ot1en aaked for a mira cle to save his ltfe: she stud "8'A I lhink we hed a miracle 1us.1 ,n who Ryan ..-..: Whlle Int reehzed the ,mpact Ryan cou6d hllv• on AIDS
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Jlyan'1hope ... Jeanne White, moLher ~ I.he late Al06 victim Ryea Whit.a. told MSU ltudon.. .i-1 ho, ...,., ica<J Feb. 23 m ti.. Chu\ Studcmt <Anter S.Uroca.
By Linda Wil.oo Scott a nd Jean Hall
Reporeen Sept. 16, 1991 is a day lhal
MSU junior Steve Johnson (nol his real name) will never forget II IS l he day that health officials a1 the Wtehita Counly Health unil told him he 1H1ed positive for IM HIV virus.
When Johnson learned ol his diagnosis, he cried tor an hou,, lhen wiped the leers away and headed back to clau et MidweSlern. Although he was
slunnad and tr,ghlened , J ohnson was determined 10 conlinue his da1ty routine of dassesardwo,k
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lected sex. you are placing yourself a nd you, partner at risk," he sa,d Unfortunatety. Johnson lea.med thts lesson too lale Johnson expf,aw,ed that he became sexually ectNe dl.wing a
lime thal AIDS Iust started to make the hNdlines •tt c;oukf be anyone yo u
know who has AIDS." Johnson u.d. "No one wears a tattoo on his forehead tMt wam s others d lhe Yin. We loolc no different ttw, anyone elH."
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Germ an profe ssor relives WWI I ordea l By Cbriatinr S . Pu1b Editorial Anisuat Al!Mtd bombs were expb:ting a/I-aro und, destroying • German c,ty as three young boys ran lo the rescue of injured sdd1ers who lay waiting lo be lranaferred to a hosPlta' One of lhe fearless young boys was Or Audoff M Kle,n. as.sociele profe550r of German al Mldweslern, who experienced first-hand Ihe herd and sornehmes gruesome roeblies of WortiWar ll ·1n the last 1wo years of war. all the young men had to go once a week tor param1l1tary IraImng. a yo uth orgamzatto n Ilka Boy Scouts.· Kkun said Klein remembers hav,ng lo learn how lo mrlk a cow al the young age of t 2 and to deliver the mdk along wllh rood and sus>phes to 1ho German women who wa re h1dm9 from the Ausslan soldiers who invaded Germany dum'lg the las! year of Che war "That was q urte a re spons1• b,lly lo, • 12 year old, but ii sure g,v, you a good feehng ol ac• comphshmenl aherward • Klein
said. Forty-eighl yeer3 later. Klein can .speak ol his expenences
dunng that rufbulenl lime u if it happen«f y"1..-day. "The end o l lhe war was v&ry trautM!ic becaUM you had refugees cOffWng by !he t hou•
·1 have IN.med IOcalm down when I hear lhern because I lhink. well, this time they're not he said coming to get Klein recalled Iha! even !hough living conditions were harsh. few peop6e complained "The morale (of the people}
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Bolsheviks from taking over," he said One particular image ol the alrocilies of the war stands out tn Kklin's mind "When the war was over. some of the anll-communlst Russians fighling on our side
lo !he wHlem prison camps - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - , ran lo llae l he inevitable punish• menl (Soviet dictator Joseph) St alin would admlnisler." he said ·utt,melely. lheH Russlan citizens were rel urned l o Stelm via cattH9 cars which ran through lown. I'll n evM forget lhe!r laces They knew exactly whal was going to happen 10 lhem. • Klein was bom m Bensen, Germany ,n 1933. The l own is bcated in a province wh1eh fell under the dominalion of the Iron 19~6 wh en in urt ain sands: he said 'They knew was surpris.ingty good unhl lhe C occupied lhe Czechoslovakia what was waifing lo, them If they very end, bec.ause they knew regten know lo ia Ruu aboUI enough by over-run been would have able lo eswas family Klein's comthe R ussian army People lrom that !hey didn't Wini !he said. cape to l he Wes! through the Easl and Wesl Prouia fled from munists Liking OYer," Klem Czechoslovakian a of m as~af'IC4t know · v ery lew people !he advancing RIA-Wn 8rrrf'f and officer . whose life was Iried ro get Into lhe weslern· this country, tha1 ev~ when lhe police war was lo&I on the German sde. saved by Klein's fal her during cenlral part d Germany· nahons 16 to 12 from anywhere lhal admits Klein day s To lh1 ■sc• S cltolar,hip, PK, 2 foughl on a simple tornado siren bnngs had volunleers who the German side l o prevent lhe back chdling memones ~
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"When the war was over, some or the anti-communist Russians fighting on our side ran to the Western prison camps to flee the inevitable punishment Stalin would administer." • Dr. RudolfM. Klein
Dr Rudotf'M. Klein, auociat.e profeeao, .tGennan, ditplays a frarmeor. al the Berlin Wall p.-..,ted to him by a former 1tudi1111. , DeVff thoucht the ..U woul IDCDe down in my liflti11N,. he Hicl..