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National Student AIDS Awareness Week News Release Concordia College -- St. Paul has been throughout our life cycle in dealing Mr. Joseph Green, Director invited to work with AmFAR to with the enormous loss both in National Student AIDS Awareness New York -- With an unprecedented develop a National Student AIDS humanity and in resources. We must Program AIDS public information campaign Awareness Program. Students wish- stop AIDS now -- and until a cure is AmFAR about to be undertaken by the ing to organize an AIDS Awareness found, education is the only way to 733 Third Avenue American Foundation for AIDS Week are encouraged to work through beat this disease." New York, NY 10017 Research (AmFAR), a study released the SWORD and Student Senate to by the Congressional Select formulate a committee to mount For additional information, TEL: (800) 392-6327 Committee On Children, Youth and educational seminars, fund-raisers materials and an AIDS Awareness FAX: (212) 682-9812 Families reveals an arresting and and other activities. AmFAR will Kit, please contact: especially poignant statistic. provide students (free of charge) with Between 1990 and 1992, there was a an organizer kit for National Student 62% increase in AIDS cases among AIDS Awareness Week, including teenagers and young adults (ages 13- background material on AIDS, Climb For The Cure 24). information about the spread of AIDS among teenagers and young achilts, According to Dr. Mathilde Krim, co- concepts and organizational programs News Release The students, headed by Climb For. founder of AmFAR, "This shocking for special events and fund-raisers, The Cure Founder and Director statistic demonstrates that we must and other materials to help organize New York — A nine-member team of Alexander S. Friedman, will begin increase our efforts in education and this important campaign. AmFAR Princeton University students will their historic climb in mid-June. The prevention. The lives of our children suggests that a portion of all funds climb Mt. McKinley in June to raise a Climb is expected to last and future generations depend on it/' raised remain in the local community minimum of $250,000 for AIDS approximately 30 days. and be earmarked for local AIDS research and education and to call To help meet this challenge, nine education and support. attention to the arresting statistics Princeton University students have that AIDS has increased by 62% in CLIMB FOR THE CURE mounted an aggressive public AmFAR is the nation's leading not- two years among 13-14 year olds. Continued on page 2 information and fund-raising for-profit organization dedicated to campaign called Climb For The Cure. the support of AIDS research -- both The students will climb Mt. McKinley basic biomedical and clinical in June of this year to help raise funds research -- education for AIDS for AIDS research (to benefit prevention, and sound AIDS-related AmFAR) -- and to call attention to public policy. Since 1985, AmFAR the incidence of HIV infection among has provided over $56 million to more their college-age peers. An important than 930 research teams. AmFAR element of the Climb For The Cure mobilizes the good will, energy, and campaign will be the National generosity of caring people Student AIDS Awareness Week, everywhere to end the AIDS which takes place during the week of epidemic. April 12. Colleges and universities across the United States have been As Alex Friedman, founder and invited by AmFAR and Climb For The director of Climb For The Cure Cure to create grassroots programs of observed, "AIDS has become the lectures, workshops, fund-raising single greatest threat to our events and other activities to increase generation. Unless we continue to awareness of the spread of AIDS and take a stand against this epidemic, the fact that the disease continues to not only will we lose many of our Climb For The Cure: Nine Princeton students will climb Mt. McKinley to raise affect everyone regardless of race, sex brothers and sisters to the disease, but money for AIDS research and to call attention to the alarming increase of AIDS or sexual orientation. our generation will be strapped among 13-24 year olds. INSIDE Movie Review, A Taste of Letters to Big Ad, Aids Fact Sheet, see Arts, Europe, the Editor, see Last Page, see News see Arts, see Editorial, P . 2 P. 3 p. 4 p. 7 13. 8 Monday, March 22, 1993 p. 2 The SWORD Higher Education Can Train AIDS Executive Editor: Leah La Dassor Better to Prevent Violence, Abuse A & E Editor: Anne Roth News Editor. Deb Zimmerman Fact Sheet Variety Editor. Tracy Zachary News Release Education Coordinating Board Sports Editor. Leah La Dassor (HECB) surveyed 1168 recent News Release Staff Writers: Chris Dahle Erica Johnson While concern over violence in graduates now employed as educators Mark Niebuhr society is increasing, a study released and school administrators and As of July 1992 the World Health Jen Schulze this month indicates that counselors, social workers, 1 a w Organization (WHO) estimated that Jason Walker 2.5 million people have had AIDS, Wendy Wedo Minnesota's higher education systems enforcement and probation officers, Cartoonist: Jody Wirth should be doing a better job of training child protection workers, mental including 1/2 million children. Photographer: Jamison Stepan key professionals. health professionals and members of Typists: Sheryll Trittin 13 million people world-wide are Jen Tesch the medical and legal communities. infected with HIV, the virus that Business A comprehensive study of recent causes AIDS; 40% of those infected Manager. Stephanie Kalgren professional program graduates who "I was hoping the study might arrive Ad Manager: are female and 1 million are Copy Editors: Leah La Dassor are likely to encounter perpetrators at a different conclusion," Ranum children. Erica Wentzel and victims of violence and abuse in said. "But it wasn't surprising to Faculty Advisor: John Solensten their work found that violence learn that most higher education By the year 2000, WHO estimates prevention curriculum is viewed as professional graduates in the past that 40 million people world-wide The Sword is published by Northstar Media Inc. d/b/a The Cambridge Star, Cambridge, inadequate in several areas. five years found their study program will be infected with HIV. The Minn. All articles are the property of the inadequate in several ways when it Harvard AIDS Institute calls this Sword and may not be used without Responding to an initiative proposed comes to issues of abuse and violence." estimate conservative, believing expressed written permission from the by State Senator Jane Ranum in the editors. there will be 100 million cases by 1992 Anti-Crime Bill, the Higher Respondents rated violence, abuse 2000. and harassment education in several categories as "inadequate," As of January 1992 WHO estimates "adequate" or "better than that 71% of all HIV-infected people Legislative Relations adequate." In numerous instances, a were exposed to the virus through majority of respondents indicated heterosexual sex. Over the next 5-10 years, WHO estimates that women News Release students enrolled in higher education. that they viewed curricula a s will make up the majority of new This increased funding for need-based inadequate. A few examples of the infection rates. Governor Arne Carlson has included a financial aid will be financed findings follow: major increase in need-based through a redistribution of the state 230,179 Americans have been financial aid in his proposed budget appropriation for higher education. 59 percent of medical professionals diagnosed with AIDS, as of June 1992. for 1994-95. The Governor's proposed Public college students are expected to described their training in If the CDC revises the criteria by budget calls for spending $125 million receive the overwhelming majority of identification of violence, abuse and which it diagnoses AIDS, this in new dollars for need-based the new financial aid dollars-- $89 harassment as inadequate; number may nearly double. financial aid for qualifying low- and million, or approximately two-thirds middle-income students during the of the total. About $36 million is 63 percent of child protection workers The first 100,000 cases of AIDS in the biennium. This would increase the expected to go to students who choose indicated that their assigned classes United States were diagnosed in the number of State Grant recipients from to attend a private college. did not adequately prepare them to first nine years of the epidemic. The 62,000 to 72,000, and would lower the deal with issues of child neglect and next 100,000 were diagnosed within cost of attendance for students whose The Minnesota Business Partnership abuse; 18 months, and the next 100,000 will families earn less than $45,000 per be diagnosed in a single year. year--these families make up about 63 percent LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS of the law school Between 1 and 1.5 million Americans half of all Minnesota families with Continued on page 3 graduates surveyed said they were are infected with HIV. not adequately trained to work with victims; 152,153 Americans have died of AIDS as of June, 1992; exceeding the total Climb for the Cure 66 percent of teachers indicated that deaths in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Continued from Front page their training in the prevention of Panama, and the Gulf War combined. violence, abuse and harassment was The CDC estimates as many as inadequate; 340,000 Americans will die of AIDS- "Mt. McKinley is the tallest peak in Friedman. Its Board of Advisors North America, and climbing it related causes by the end of 1993. includes Senator Bill Bradley, 68 percent of social workers described symbolizes the challenge of Princeton President Harold T. AIDS is the second leading cause of conquering AIDS," explained their education as inadequate when Shapiro, author John McPhee, country it came to working with offenders; death among men 25-44 years old, Friedman.