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See pagepage 1010 dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 72 ● SINCE 1908 Information age could lead to rewired thinking Increased time spent with become weaker, he suggests. That may lead to social technology, on Internet awkwardness, an inability to interpret nonverbal messages, may cause social problems isolation and less interest in traditional classroom learning. Malcom Ritter Small said the effect is Th e Associated Press Science Writer strongest in so-called digital natives — people in their NEW YORK — What does a teens and 20s who have Christine Galligan / THE DAILY GAMECOCK teenage brain on Google look been “digitally hard-wired like? Do all those hours spent since toddlerhood.” He USC’s SHARE held a forum with both a movie and a speaker to alert students of the statistics related to HIV/AIDS. online rewire the circuitry? thinks it’s important to help Could these kids even relate the digital natives improve better to emoticons than to their social skills and older real people? people — digital immigrants These sound like concerns — improve their technology Groups advocate HIV tests from worried parents. But skills. they’re coming from brain At least one 19-year-old scientists. Internet enthusiast gives World AIDS Day coach 15 percent of the new HIV in the black community. While violent video games Small’s idea a mixed review. Free chance to check chair , said people should be cases last year were in young More than 50 percent have gotten a lot of public John Rowe, who lives near accountable for their actions. people from ages 17 to 25. of all new HIV cases in status offered in order attention, some current Pasadena, Calif., spends six to “It’s something everyone Columbia has the sixth America are within the black concerns go well beyond 12 hours online a day. He fl its to keep students aware should know. There’s no highest AIDS rate of all community, eight times the that. Some scientists think from instant messaging his reason for anyone to be metropolitan areas in the number of new cases in the the wired world may be friends to games like Cyber embarrassed about going to nation, according to the white community, according Kyle Moores changing the way we read, Nations and Galaxies Ablaze STAFF WRITER get tested. It’s the responsible South Carolina Council on to the forum. learn and interact with each to online forums for game thing to do, and it’s important HIV/AIDS. African American women other. players and disc jockeys. USC is doing its part to to be aware,” Gull said. “It is pivotal to know your are 33 times more likely to There are no fi rm answers Social skills? Rowe fi gures help with the state’s HIV Michelle Eichelberger, status,” Eichelberger said. contract HIV than white yet. But Dr. Gary Small, a he and his buddies are doing problem by giving free HIV the interpersonal violence AIDS is still an epidemic women. psychiatrist at UCLA, argues just fi ne in that department, test. In South Carolina program coordinator in the in the United States, where Guill said a lot of people are that daily exposure to digital thank you. But he said he alone, there are 14,600 cases, Sexual Health and Violence more than 1.2 million people unaware of their status and technologies such as the thinks Small may have a currently ranking the state Prevention Office, said the are infected with HIV. that testing is important. Internet and smart phones point about some other as seventh in the nation for main problem stems from Worldwide, the estimated “A lot of people say one- can alter how the brain people he knows. newly diagnosed cases of being uneducated. number of reported HIV fi fth of people don’t realize works. “If I didn’t actively go AIDS. “HIV/AIDS is not cases rose by 2.5 million they’re infected,” Gull said. When the brain spends out and try to spend time Today the Sexual Health necessarily the problem,” from 2001 to 2007, from 29.5 “If you’re going to participate more time on technology- with friends, I wouldn’t have and Violence Prevention Eichelberger said. “The million to 32 million. in risky behaviors, you need related tasks and less time the social skills that I do,” offi ce, in collaboration with problem is not knowing. So Yesterday, USC SHARE to know your status.” exposed to other people, it said Rowe, who reckons he the South Carolina AIDS/ many people go through life hosted a forum addressing — Statistics from South drifts away from fundamental spends three or four nights a HIV Council, will be hosting infected and don’t know it.” the AIDS epidemic Carolina HIV/AIDS social skills like reading week out with his pals. “You free HIV testing on the third The testing is part of specifically in the African Council facial expressions during can’t just give up on having floor of the Russell House SHARE’s World AIDS Day American community. At the conversation, Small asserts. normal friends that you see from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at USC campaign. RHA forum, SHARE discussed So brain circuits involved Alison Guill, a third-year and Student Government some alarming statistics ● Comments on this story? 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Comics................ 9 Classifi ed.................. 12 See page 11 See page 7 63 42 51 35 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008 pageTWO Q & A with Freshman Council PIC OF THE DAY 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. student leader of the Greene Street Healthy Carolina Task Force meeting 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Russell House, Rooms eek 322/326 W Female Graduate Student Issues Committee Stacie Millere 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Carolina Marching Band President RH, Room 301 ACE Coach meeting 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Q: What do you most enjoy about RH, Room 348 your organization? Young Entrepreneurs, A: Performing for 89,000 fans on game Joel Putoff 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. day. RH, Room 309 Christine Galligan / THE DAILY GAMECOCK NPHC meeting Q: If you could travel anywhere 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, where would you go? A mural of the Hulk, rendered by late artist Richard Lane, covers part of the outside RH, Room 348 A: Hawaii wall to an abandoned building that once housed the counterculture group GROW. 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