Focus on AIDS Cook Speaks on Self-Esteem and Disease

i-u. Housing accommodations George Conneil; the An interview with one of adequate for next year. missing link. the "other" Connells. News, page 2. Features, page 6, Features, page 8. ONCORDI A Student Newspaper for the Concordia Community Concordia College, Moorhead MN April 15,1994 Volume 91, Number 11 The computer crunch: What will be done, and what can be done now creating a humanities computer Amy Gillespie classroom on campus. This NEWS REPORTER classroom would make use of the computers which were taken out magine the following of Old Main last spring, and are scenario: You have a paper currently being stored. I due for English class on Funding for the lab has been Thursday, but because of the nice approved. The only problem is weather you decide to wait until that there seems to be no space on Wednesday night, when you campus to put the new classroom. frantically rush to the computer Different locations were looked lab figuring that you'll have just into, such as the basement of enough time to write it before the Fjelstad, the faculty lounge in the lab closes. But, to your dismay, library, and in East Complex, but there aren't any computers open, none of these seemed to work out. and there's a line of people ahead It was also thought that a of you. classroom could be converted into The night turns stressful and a lab, but in order to fit computers you wonder what you're paying- and printers, and set everything tuition for if there aren't even up, a larger classroom would need computers open to use. to be used. However, under that This is a familiar scene which scenario a classroom that holds 40 many students at Concordia have students would become a experienced and been frustrated classroom that holds only 20. by. There seems to be a definite Concordia's student body is lack of computers available on currently over-capacity; therefore, campus for students' use. a 40 person classroom cannot Students, faculty, and afford to be lost. Shari Hetland, administration all have different the registrar, stated that, "within opinions about the computer the next two to three years space photo/Jessica Olsen situation on campus, and what should open up, partially due to Debbie Myrvik works in the computer lab. How much "work" can be done, and the capacity should be done about it. But there the addition of four new of Concordia computer facilities, has become the object of campus discussion. is much information and many classrooms in the Olson Fitness Forum." Deborah Sullivan-Trainor be like an oral discussion only have more computers and related decisions being made that believes it will be beneficial for written on the computers. It technology available on campus, students, and perhaps faculty, are A humanities computer classroom opening up will serve her French composition students allows the students to compose This year a technology committee unaware of. to conduct class with the what they are going to say, and has begun, composed of several One area of interest concerning several purposes. It will be used for Discourse, and other English computers. Trainor would be able promotes participation from different staff and faculty the computer situation on campus to present students with a students who are too shy to speak members. Susan Gammill, lies in the departments of English classes, and also for French and Spanish classes. During the situation on the computer, and out." coordinator of academic and foreign languages. Several students would respond to her and Concordia is also preparing for English, French and Spanish evenings it will be open for use to • Computing all students. French instructor to each other. Trainor said, "It will the future and making plans to _ professors are working toward please see page 3 Focus on AIDS Cook speaks on self-esteem and disease nsecurity or low self esteem can According to Cook, individuals could product. She also pointed out that kill you. put themselves at risk for a number of often times advertisements refer to I That was one of the main topics reasons; at the core it boiled down to a insecurities that adolescent girls might covered in Joan Cook's address on poor self esteem. She pointed out that have such as looks, popularity, hair T\iesday night, April 12, which focused an individual with high self-esteem styles and fitting in. In doing this, the on AIDS. The address was sponsored would ignore the peer pressure to have advertiser hopes to influence the reader by Concordia's Peer Health Educators. sex without protection because they into buying the product, but often times Cook started the talk with some basic would be more concerned about their it can cause an individual with many information on the HIV virus itself. life instead of what others thought. She insecurities to homogenize. She She gav*. oasic information on how the also mentioned that persons with low explained this when she said, "It is HIV virus was Spread through body self-esteem would be more likely to put when you do what you see, not what fluids and how to avoid contracting themselves at risk, in order to please you know." HIV. others, rather than people who really Cook explained that the danger in Cook explained that there are only believe in themselves. She emphasized this is that the reader never can see the a few ways an individual could be the importance of the individual consequences that go along with exposed to HIV and emphasized the making bis or her own decisions and engaging in these practices but instead risk factors in participating in brought the responsibility of end up dealing with problems such as unprotected premarital sex. She unprotected sex back to the individual. alcoholism, unwanted pregnancies, covered psychological data that would One of the main factors that destroy STDs, and a low self-esteem. cause an individual to put themselves an individual's self-esteem, according Six months after being exposed, the at risks. to Cook, is the media. She showed individuals, through a blood test, can Commenting on the AIDS issue, she examples of magazine advertisements said, "Focus not as much on how you in which the advertiser would use QAIDS sexual situations in order to sell a put yourself at risk, but why?" please see page 3 THE 2 NEWS cONCORDIAN Concordia College Alison Weis, News Editor THE CONCORDIAN a s Flav-o-ri te oriental "A friend is one Would you i flavor rameh noodles have 202 calories before whom I think out loud." per package while Campbell's oriental give your right arm to flavor ramen noodles have only 190 calories per package. Ralph Waldo Emerson be ambidextrous? Dorms are filling up fast shorter than rirevious years. the students staying in the hotel," everyone back to the main though some men wanted to stay Natalie Diehl "I was really surprised that remembers Jim Meier. "By mid- campus as spots opened in in the hotel." STAFF WRITER with a number as high as 317 that year, we were able to move Livedalen and Erickson, even sn't it funny how a lottery my group got into Brown," said num1 er can change a person's one first-year female. I life: Whether you're the Despite various rumors about recipient of Ed McMahon's Erickson Hall filling up before «" -^pstakes or the number one Brown, the order in which dorms person in line for residence hall filled was, for men, Brown, sipn-up at Concordia, one little Erickson, and Livedalen, with number can change the way you some rooms remaining in live. Livedalen. For women, the order was Brown, Fjelstad, Hallett, with Despite the illusion of housing openings still in Hoyum and Park being an easy process (as Region. presented by the residential life brochure), housing sign-up is "All in all, the evening went always a confusing time. smoothly," claims Jana Swick, Hallett Hall manager. "We had a "There are always a new system this year where we combination of reactions," says handed out cards to groups Jim Meier, Director of Residential interested in signing-up for quads Life. "A lot of people are elated and triples. It really minimized with how things turn out, and confusion in lines for Fjelstad and quite a few students always leave Brown." disappointed with potential arrangements. Some people are Concordia always finds a way forced to tentatively live in study to house each student during his rooms; others end up on waiting or her sophomore year, even if lists." there aren't rooms available in the dorm for them. "About ten years Due to additional space for photo/Jessica Olsen sophomores being made in Hallett ago, we had to move 80 sophomore men into the Madison Not enough dorm space has posed a problem in the past for Cobbers. Students still and Hoyum this year, waiting lists have to be put on waiting lists when housing sign up takes place, but the waiting does for dorms are considerably Inn. We provided everything from transportation to RA's for not last long. Concordia faculty concerned about South Africa Dr. Ralph Hoppe, an English Tri-Coliege recognizes department faculty member, is South Africa. the ruling party, if ousted. As* Earth Week Togba Norris retiring <at the end of the current The professors witnessed first result, churches in the area are Jessica Olsen school year* He has been a hand the beating of a fourteen trying to aid in voter registration. meteber of the Concordia ; Robert L« Herbst, NEWS REPORTER year old boy who was then left to African National Congress faculty since 1960.

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