The Ithacan, 1987-04-30

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1986-87 The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 4-30-1987 The thI acan, 1987-04-30 The thI acan Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1986-87 Recommended Citation The thI acan, "The thI acan, 1987-04-30" (1987). The Ithacan, 1986-87. 24. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1986-87/24 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1986-87 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. --Smoking ·1aws ••• 10,000 Maniacs .•• ICAC champs ... page 6 page 10 p~ge 20 THE -The Newspaper For The lt_l,tac~ College Community -~Issue-,~ .... ---------------------------------------- April 30. 1987 20 pa9es*Free Interview: Official urges IC P-ark's to heed AIDS risk portrait Students are high risk group of-success BY PAM BENSON In addition to college students be BY CHRIS SWINGLE Anyone can get AIDS and the col ing at risk, Coyle listed five other '' Your college experience can teach lege student is no exception. groups: Gay and bisexual men, in you how to think, and it can broaden "We can no longer face the disease travenous, drug users who share your own vision," says Roy H. Park, with the attitude of 'it's not my pro needles, heterosexuals with multiple Chairman of the Ithaca College Board blem,''' said Barbara Coyle;Director partners, hemophiliacs, and babies of Trustees, commenting on his of Education at the Southern Tier born ffom infectious mothers. philosophy towards higher education. AIDS Program. "It's not who a person is that "Any student who wants to apply This was the message given to makes them at risk, it's the behaviours himself and has a reasonable ability about 130 people at a program last we have to start looking at," Coyle can lift himself up, if he wants to work Wednesday entitled, "Risky Business: said. at it." AIDS and the College Student" in the The film, entitled, "Sex, Drugs and Park has followed his own Egbert Union Multi-Purpose Room AIDS" focuses on the transmission of philosophy, traveling from childhood A. A brief discussion was follo\ved by AIDS, who is at risk, and how on a Dobson, North Carolina farm to a film and questions from the everyone can participate in safe sex head of a communications empire audience. through the use of a condom during right here in Ithaca. At age 76, he is Immune system any kind of sex. Chairman of the Board of Directors AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficien It presented actual AIDS victims and Chief Executive Officer of Park cy Syndrome, is a disorder that at who gave a straight forward account Communications, Inc., a company. tacks the body's immune system. It is about how they received the virus. whose 1986 revenue was nearly $137 caused by a virus called human im The film pointed out that AIDS is million. The company owns and munodeficiency virus or HIV, The hard to get. It's only transmitted from operates seven television stations, 19 virus strips the immune system of its one person to another through in radio stations and 73 newspapers, natural defenses and the body is fected semen or blood. The virus has spanning 22 state~:----- · ' -- unable to fight off infection that a to come in contact with blood. AIDS ,. · ---·· The office· · · ' normal functioning immune system cannot be transmitted through could fight without any problems. holding hands, sharing cosmetics, or From his fifth-floor Terrace Hill "College students are at risk sharing shower facilities or other office, Park looks out over downtown because of sexual experimentation," casual contact. _,,; Ithaca. The view includes Cornell Coyle said. - - "Any activity where the opportuni University's bell tower ·and Cayuga The largest percent of all AIDS vic- -:;ty of infected semen to enter the · Lake's south shore in the distance; the tims are in the age group between bloodstream exists causes risk,'' Coyle skyline is definitely not one of a big ITHACAN/ ADAM RIESNER 15-30 and 15-30·percent in that age said. city. Why is such a powerful company -PRIEST-OF PEACE: Rev. Jose Alas, fonner aide to.the late Archbishop group have four or more sexual part Oral sex based in a city of fewer"than 50,000 Romero of FJ Salvador, spoke Wednesday at Mueller Chapel on the U.S. ners, Coyle said. "The fear of sexually people? A student asked if the virus can be role in Central America. He warned that the United States is setting up ·ror ,,,, ,,transmitted diseases has by-passed the transmitted from oral sex. "We do "Ithaca is or.e· of the few towns another Vietnam. fear of nuclear war," she said. where the student population is more not have any documented cases where than the permanent population," , oral sex has been the root of the Park says. "You get a lot of young disease," Coyle said. "What we do people who are stimulating. You have B_ryant-Park_loses its 'roots' know is infected semen has a high a lot of concerts, speakers, and a high concentration of the virus. There is a degree of intelligence.'' stays the same. "We're the only peo the worst. "The overall situation of risk if there are any sores or bleeding last in a series ple [from the original neighborhood] the schools has gone from academic gums in the mouth." Leaning back in his chair; Park of neighborhood articles. speaks slowly but clearly, his North still here," said Boh Terry. "That's a excellence to turmoil," said Bob. This Another student asked about the Carolina roots leaving a trace of a Communities play a large role in change I don't like;· I can't even tell change resulted in the Terrys' moving virus being transmitted through saliva. southern accent. His wooden desk the lives of Americans, and just as you who the people are who live one their children from public schools to "There aren't any documented cases measures about five feet in width, American lifestyles are changing, so house away." private schools. Bob Terry blames the of AIDS, when the virus was with curved edges and gold trim. Two are their neighborhoods. Bryant Park Even the home the Terrys live in downfall of the schools on a change transmitted through open mouth kiss chandeliers hang overhead in the large is, in that way, the typical displays change. Their Worth Street in the administration. ing," Coyle said. .office. neighborhood. residence, which is beng remodeled, Many Bryant Park residents blame "There was a lot of media attention Park does not spend most of his Bob and Linda Terry moved into stands out among the more traditional the changes in their community on the about a year ago saying that the virus time here, though. His assistant Bryant Park in 1970. One of the homes in the community. expansion of Cornell University. As is in saliva. But for i>e9ple that were Walter Borton explains that Park things that impressed the Terrys was The Terrys have noticed changes in the university continues to grow, more diagnosed with AIDS, the virus was travels regularly on business, rarely the neighborhood's ''sense of roots." more than just houses and their oc students are seeking off-campus hous only found IO percent of the time· in Everyone knew everyone, and most of cupants. The parents of six children, ing. This has resulted in political [their] saliva," Coyle said. their neighbors still lived in the houses the Terrys say they have watched the see Park page 4 they were born in. But nothing ever Bryant Park schools take a turn for see Bryant page 5 see AIDS page 3 Reporter finds '60s-style idealism in Washington A personal account I participated in, and the people I talk- "This is an example of the peace in tie-dyed T-shirts, businessmen in Reagan will be sending 50,000 U.S. of last week's rally. eel with last Saturday in W;lShington, movement moving from diverse faded jeans, factory workers with troops to Honduras next month for BY PATRICK M. GRAHAM I'm convinced that the '60's-style groups to the masses," Doug Calvin, their baseball caps and hunting jackets war exercises, and those men "could Many people ~ age complain that idealism has been resurrected with the •a student activist, shouted as Peter, and grandmothers ~ tennis sh~ be used to invade Nicaragua" in con the activism of two decades ago only support of a full spectrum of people Paul and_Mary sang "If I had a Ham- came to protest an munoral war m junction with a Contra offensive. If exists in history books or comes alive who have a different vision from that mer."· "Students are out in force Nicaragua and racist oppression in young Americans are called to arms in some politics class for an hour. of those currently in power. Students, together," he added. South Africa. Some brought banners "there will be a resistance the world They see an unfortunate consensus of religious and labor organizations Around mid-morning about 35,000 that ~d, "Impeach_ ~eagan," others has never seen," he said, stirring apathy coupled with undying_pursuit agree that there is a sense of deep con- people gathered in the cold drizzle on held SIIWI that asked for ~: Sop1e thoughts of burning draft cards once for material comforts. - Indealism, flict over how the country is using its the Ellipse in front of the White people screamed for eco~~ Justice; again.

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