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HRONICLE VOLUME 25 NUMBER 25 THE EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA MAY1J, 1992 AIDS panel gets personal By An tonio Sharp Correspotldt,r "No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity .. .l t•arn ing to love yourself is the greatest love of all ... " - Whitney Houston Unde rstanding, compassion, determination. These were only a fl·w word,; describing a highly emotional discussion by three panelists who had contracted AIDS. "The Personal Side of AIDS­ Triumph and Tragedy," took place on Wednesday, May6in Hokin rbll. The discussion, which was part of AIDS Awareness Week at Columbi«. Two men and one woman made up the panel. ·n ,ey were Dr. Fr«nk Pt'lclla, an AIDS expert and physician at Northwestern Memorial Huspital, jim O'Neill, a psychotherapist at Edgewater Health Center and Betty jean Pejko, a volunteer peer counselor of people with AIDS at Cook County Hospital. Aiding the cause. uoa Addasu.ffphotographer Dr. Frank Palella (left) and Columbia Alumnua Jim O'Nellllaten while Batty Pejko aha rea her personal axp«lence of living with HIV last Wadnaeday with a crowd of students In Hokln Hall. Tha panel, titled Jimmy Hat Fest and more on "ThePwaonaiSkleofAJOS:TrlumphandTragedy"waapartofColumbla'aannuaiAIOSAwareneaaWeek. AIDS Awaren ~ss Week-page 11 About 100 people listened in silence as the panel members told h:>w they contracted AIDS and how they are coping with the di sease. Kevin Davis, a sophomore majoring in management and a mem­ Follett's Follies b,•r of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), said that the discussion was probably the most important of all activities Bookstore hopes for a fully stocked.semester promoting AIDS awareness. By johne Cobb-Washington weeks behind in their assign­ " People might be tired. of hearing the 'safe sex' sennon" he said, S luff Writtr ments because book vouchers "But when this discussion is over I hope they will become more arc issued late. sensitized and educated." A shortage of non-book sup­ Pelella, diagnosed with full-blown See AIDS Assistant Bursar Tom Russell Page 11 plies, voucher, refund and said the three-week delay is un­ AIDS in 1987, spoke angrily of the buy-back problems have avoidable because financial plagued Columbia's Follett information ior each student is Bookstore this year. not entered into the computers While Manager Christine M. until after the add-drop proce­ Rance says the store will have dure around the third week. more art supplies and equip­ TI1is is the only time the bursars ment for other departments in know fo r sure what classes stu­ time fo r next year, she said the d e nts wi ll actually attend, other problems are not likely to Russell said. get better unless the store gets more cooperation from the After all tuiti on, charges and fees have been entered, the school. Many students who rely on grants, scholarships and loans See BOOKSTORE complain that they are three Christine Rance Page2 Mission not illlpossible By Tania Panczyk a veraging $600 weekly,' only supplied jobs, but oppor­ Staff Writrr depending on thc type of work tunities as well," said Milton thcy did, according to David Bullock, 52, a former member of The Great Chicago Flood Saulnier, Supe rintendant of the the 1950s si ng ing sensation Mission. might have left a leak in the "The Platters." city's wallet, but it also sprang a Saulnier has close ties with "I'm homeless, not helpless stream of opportunities for Service Master, a nationwide of­ ·and not hopeless," said Bullock, more than a hundred homeless fi ce cleaning company. He who has li ved at the mission men. offered the services of men from since Feb. 5, and has served as a Just a block from Columbia the mission when he heard ad­ super v isor control ling the College, 162 residents of the ditional help was needed in the morale of tht• homeless men. Pacific Garden Mission, 646 S. clean up. Opportunity struck twicc, State St., were hired to assist in According to Saulnie r, the the clean-up of the Chicago when on the sa me day Opera· company was seeking assis· tion Systt·m Service (OSS}, flood. tance from around the country another clt·an-up company, ar­ Working 12 to 24 hours a day, but jumped a t the chance to help unde r sometimes dangerous the homeless and themselves a t rived at the mission to offer jobs conditions, a ll of the men were the same time. paid over- minimum wage. " It was a blessing in disguise, Some earned $10 a n hour, a divine intervention that not L.A. isn't the only place Jenny Dervin looks at the rest of the wortd. Page 2. The Chton/clels there. Pages 6 & 7. - -- - -- - PAGE 2 . CHRONICLE - '"· . MAY11, 1992 Jenny Dervzn Spreading the word By Patricia Hyatt StAff Writ<r The World-Wide Oppression Update... Somalia, on the northeastern coast of Africa, is in the mid­ A colorfu l mass of flyers clut­ dle of a disastrous drought/famine. The Red Cross is desperately trying to get food and medicine into the cities and ter the vari ous bulletin boards townships, only to be robbed by black marketeers and placed throughout the school. governmental factions. The food, barely the minimum needed "Roommate wanted," meeting to survive, often does not reach any of the scheduled destina­ announcements, trips to tions. The Red Cross is now hiring gunmen to ride with the Florida, guitar fo r sale ... There is cargos and to protect the ports-or~ntry . The Red Cross volun­ something for everyone. teers are desperate for American interests, public outcry and donations. All items tacked up on the Does anyone know what is happening in Peru? Fujimoto boards are supposed to be ap­ di ssolved the constitutional government and imposed martial proved by Herman Conaway, law. Why? That's the $64,000 question this month. The people the dean of student services, arc terrori zed by the different factions fighting for control, before posting. and the worst part about the whole damn thing is they don't "Most of the announcements have any control over their own li ves and government. that are submitted to the stu­ Japanese prejudice toward Korean and other Asian cultures dent life offi ce are approved is reaching an all-time high. Hong Kong, an international city­ state that reverts back to China later this decade, is going and most likely can be posted," through an economic evacuation. The slums of Hong Kong said Conaway. house the peon workers of the large corporations. As always, The boards are monitored by society's outcasts pay the price. Madeline Ro man Vargas, also Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The children have a life expectancy of from the student life office. 20 years if they're lucky. Poor nutrition relegates them to a life of pain and suffering, but Brazil is in the news because of the Items posted without ap­ rain forest problem. What is more important- the life of a proval are supposed to be Impostors! Nick o:u StA!fPhotDgrophn child or the big business appetite for land, land and more removed from the b ulletin Many of the posters on the bulletin boards around school land? boards, but since an­ bypass the approval of the dean of student services' office. Northern Ireland is still under Briti sh rule. The Bri tish nouncements arc being posted leave, accord ing to Conaway. government is playing off the hatred between Protestants and every fi ve minutes, it is hard to "All announcements that are Catholics much like our government playing off the racist at­ monitor the boards throughout fraudulent defin itely do not get What happens to the students titudes they helped to create. the school. posted," said Conaway. who post things when they are Chinese students were operating under a fatal misconcep­ The school's procedure is to not approved depends on tion when they demonstrated for a new government in Most items posted are public stamp "approved for posting," whether or not the student Tianamen Square. The world watched as tanks occupied the on all fl yers destined for bul­ square and killed peaceful protestors. President Bush and service announcements or in­ d()ing the posting can be iden­ other "world leaders" mildly denounced the Chinese formation abou t the activities letin boards. In recent weeks, ti fied. In most cases government's reaction. · of student groups. Personal ads, many announcements have not identi fica tion is impossible. In America, cities ignite over the not-guilty verdict of four in good taste, are also per­ been stamped. This is bec'ause "If it is not approved then it is white police officers who were videotaped beating a black mitted.

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