"the cord" 1991 march 21, Thursday issue twenty-f,ve volume thirty-one Savagery and sorrow in Steeltown Part 1 14 page "the cord" 2 Thursday March 21,1991 POSITIONS | AVAILABLE I i UNIVERSITY AFFAIRSI | University Affairs Coordinator 1 Legal Resources Director § BACCHUS Director J Safety & Equality Commissioner Tutorial Services Co-ordinator Operation Outreach Co-ordinator Health-Plan Co-ordinator 1 Campus Clubs Co-ordinator Campus Clubs Bus. Manager 2 Researcher j Central Resource Archivist | Election Chief Returning Officer I Deputy Returning Officer 1 MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS STUDENT ACTIVITIES 1 Public Relations Manager COMMITTEES: Public Relations Assistants Orientation Account Executives Boar's Head 1 Graphic Artists/Copywritcrs Oktoberfest SummerSocial 1 Charity Ball 1 1 Accounts Receivable Manager | Winter Carnival Board of Student Activities 1 Positions Close This FRIDAY! Bmn Carter sTWf^MON Wis 2Ahamk GET INVOLVED! i i i \v I 6*30 ai is ./ 112 l r C 3CT k. 112 \ \ t C \ \ I March 22 $1.01 2»m 112 WLU Anti-Calendar in the works Course Calendar Supplement candidly rates the classes Melissa Blease. Pesce explained that the reason it was decided to by- Cathy-Jo Noble The Cord The surveys include questions on the instructor's teach- pass professor's permission was so that students would not level of and feel intimidated their to ing abilities, difficulty, interest, reading by profs. LAURIER STUDENTS may have a better way choose material. There are also open-ended questions Kay also had concerns about the late next concerning running so classes year. survey features the students like and/or dislike about the course. in the year, when class attendance is The WLU Students' Union course evaluation project is generally very weak. be done outside of class time of The surveys are to so it He felt could be in the works to provide students with candid reviews that the open-ended questions also a prob- will interfere with the class nor the not require professor's lem since the resulls will be to different courses offered at WLU. open interpreta- volunteers permission to do it. tions. Pesce said that this should The success of the project counts heavily on not be a problem, since so from the university community. far the results of the surveys have been quite consistent. has been tried A test-run of the "This is the first time such a programme survey was done with the Political has been said In I think student evalua- Science earlier this The at Laurier, and so far the response great," principle department year. actual survey in WLUSU President Stuart Lewis. place now is the result of an analysis of the test-run results, tions can be a good idea if it is in The aim of the project is to make a "WLU Course which found the questions that yield the best results. which will contain the of undertaken "We handled the of the Calendar Supplement", opinions fact properly organization programme very This will the students about courses they have taken. help professionally by having test-run. We also had a law- to and check other students decide which courses they want take, yer out the survey before distribution," Pesce said. "It is fact that the ten minutes between classes the what to expect from them. a For past week the programme has had a booth set out to inter- to nobody, and can be used to fill out the the Info Booth in the Students Union To gather opinion, surveys are being given belongs survey," up by Building. The Lewis said. in ested students to take to their classes and get filled out by surveys are available the Students' Union offices on the in of Political Science chair, Dr. Barry Kay, second floor of the S.U.B. classmates. The results of the surveys will be compiled Department and the for feels that this of must be with a The deadline for the March the summer booklet should be ready Septem- type survey approached proposed surveys was 28, deal of caution. but Pesce said the ber. great 1991, date will be extended to ensure a "In I think student evaluations can be a It is uncertain at this time as to what form the calendar principle good good response. idea if in fact it is said. "The is not out hurt will finally take, but WLUSU hopes it will be a booklet to properly undertaken," Kay survey to anyone, but I can under- also said that it of for stand how be provided free to all students. Kay was a case poor judgment some profs may feel threatened," Pesce said. and the committee to state that the is "But in the run it will save students and hassles "We want to cover as many courses as we can, professor's permission long profs all will not For the first at least, the deci- over for, hopefully in time courses be in the calendar supple- necessary. year, prof's registering and then dropping courses." should be added. ment," said Dana Pesce, co-organizer of the project with sion respected, Kay Both Lewis and Pesce said "this is not a witch-hunt." Statistics show 10 at WLU are HIV+ "It that in was something I was not 1 500 US students Fraser Kirby The Cord college survive long outside the human ensure safety. used to, or felt I needed," he said. are HIV positive. If that carries body. It is not, therefore, possible The rolled condom should be I TALKED with a today young Rob to says having HIV on through Canada then 10 stu- to get HIV off surfaces or through placed on the head of the erect I'll man. call him Rob. Rob dents may -- campus is not a problem no one at Laurier are HIV positive. dry contact. penis. The air at the top should be in one of classes. He your may knows. According to further studies, 8 of High risk behaviour includes: then be pinched out to leave room be your friend, even live you may to the draft of them won't even know it. According needle blood blood for sharing, to the ejaculate. Then the con- with Rob. He's WLU student. a WLU's official "Aids Policy", Some more medical facts about contact, or exchanges of semen dom should be rolled the Rob is HIV positive. He do down may students not have the right to AIDS (Acquired Immune and blood through anal or vaginal one contract AIDS. length of the penis. day know if a WLU community Deficiency Syndrome) and HIV intercourse. The that AIDS and thing may or may not member is infected with HIV groups Gay groups or (Human Immunodefiency Virus); or is that have attempted to the surprise frighten you has AIDS. - promote AIDS is a new disease in North The best to Rob way of is not a drug user, a Rob has been eroticizing sex with condoms celibate since America, first appearing in 1978. homosexual or a hemophiliac. He he found he has avoid AIDS is to with the use of erotic and out HIV. - sugges- AIDS is caused by the virus, is a heterosexual male in his tive pamphlets, hoping this will According to the K-W area Human Immunodefiency. The use a condom twenties. He had has unprotected Centre for increase the use of condoms. AIDS Information virus lowers the body's ability to vaginal intercourse with as Here on there is small many most people have not been taking battle infection. campus a According to recent studies, anal as five of women in the past few amount AIDS literature. I was proper precautions. "Many people - Approximately 30-35% of sex is more dangerous than years at WLU. He's not sure know the risk able to find only two but don't practice people who HIV will pamphlets get get vaginal sex because the walls of when he the HI from in both Health Services and the got virus or safe sex," says Mark Davis of the AIDS. the anus are not designed for pen- whom. He tested for it K-W S.U.B. positive organization. - The HI virus is a very complex etration as well as the vaginal late last summer. The The Bookstore now carries con- fact is there is a and great fragile virus. It carries its walls are, consequently they may I doms. found out about Rob through deal of information The blue boxes of Trojan on AIDS proteins on in the surface the tear more easily. friend. Lubricated a He knew Rob from a available and can be purchased at yet in a recent arti- form of small ab- spike-like extru- The best way, besides he in. Rob had the front counter for the of support group was cle in the New England Journal of sions. price This allows it to easily fool stinence to avoid infection is the $1.29 of gone twice. He didn't feel com- for a pack 3. Medicine (Nov. 90) the Centre the It bodies immune system. also use of a latex condom. fortable in the setting with the for Disease Control in Atlanta means that the virus is very 'Double Bagging', a practice of other members all being SEE "AIDS" PAGE 4 gay. published a which stated and will study fragile not, consequently wearing two condoms will further "the news cord" 4 Thursday March 21,1991 Man cleared of rape Shannon Aldinger showed that both the plaintiff and boundary [between consent and The McGill Tribune the accused had been drunk at the rape] has been crossed," time of the incident.