Gumbo Magazine, Spring 1991 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons Gumbo Yearbook University Archives Spring 1991 Gumbo Magazine, Spring 1991 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gumbo Recommended Citation Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, "Gumbo Magazine, Spring 1991" (1991). Gumbo Yearbook. 111. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gumbo/111 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gumbo Yearbook by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GUMBO Louisiana State University Spring 1991 There’s an IB M PS/2 made for every student body. When you said you wanted an affordable mouse. Some selected models are preloaded computer, we listened. with Microsoft Word for Windows and Excel to And we responded. So, as a college student; help you create impressive papers, graphics and member of the faculty or staff you can now get spreadsheets. Also, great tools like a notepad, an IBM Personal System/2 Selected Academic calendar and cardfile are provided. Solution at a special price. What's more, the IBM PS/2 Loan for Learning You'll find that all the PS/2 Selected Aca is also available to help make paying for your demic Solution have preloaded DOS 4.0 and PS/2 easier. Microsoft Windows 3.0, a color display and a Visit the LSU Union Bookstore or contact an IBM Collegiate Representative for a demonstration. 1-800-222-7257. ‘ This offer to available only to qualified college students, faculty and staff members that purchase IBM Selected Academic Solutions through participating campus outlets or IBM 1 800 222-7257 or participating IBM Authorized P C Dealers. Orders are subject to change and IBM may withdraw the offer at any time without written notice. “ Word for Windows and Excel are the Academic Edition. IBM, Personal System/2 and PS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Microsoft is a registered trademark o f Microsoft Corporation. Windows, Word forWindows andExcel aretrademarks ofMicrosoft Corporation. LSU TABLE OF CONTENTS l i b r a r y Cover Story LIVING WITH AIDS 4 Kathy Brister examines die trials of coping with AIDS and the possibility of AIDS at LSU. F e a tu r e s FROM A FEMALE'S POINT OF VIEW 9 Paula Dale reflects on her feminine thoughts during a bath. IN LSU WE TRUST 11 Does research prosper at the expense of education? Robert Wolf finds out PARKING ON CAMPUS 15 Lori Kimball and Garilyn Ourso take us on tour of the submarine race sites on campus over the years. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION 24 Paige Dronet uncovers spontaneous combustion and other mysteries. L A S C 2 7 Stephanie Spielman explores the Louisiana Arts and Science Center. WHAT IS THE BIG BUDDY PROGRAM 30 Paula Dale examines the benefits of the Big Buddy program. LOVE CONNECTION: THE LOST PILOT EPISODE 33 Garilyn Ourso Productions presents the original episode of the popular dating game. W HAT YOUR PARENTS NEVER TOLD YOU ....O R D I D T H E Y ? 3 6 Pat Kelly goes cm a flashback tour of activities on the LSU campus over the decades. Departments C a le n d a r UNION SPRING EVENTS 18 A r t THE SCULPTURE PROGRAM AT LSU 20 Ivy Restitute looks at the strengths of the newly reorganized LSU sculpture department. E d i to r ia l CUTTING THE CLICHES 23 Wendy Yvonne Lavender examines the nature of difficulties between men and women. F ic tio n I , E V E 4 0 A fairy tale by fiction contest winner, Ronlyn Domingue. WRITER PROFILES Kathy Brister, the writer of the cover story, is a Lori Kimball, a senior majoring in general senior in news-editorial journalism. She keeps studies, wrote the parking spots story in 1987 (it busy with her writing, her job and school. In her was updated by Garilyn Ourso). Lori is a Chi sparse free time she enjoys shopping at resale Omega alumna. shops and traveling. Garilyn Ourso, our humorist-in-residence, was Paula Dale, a Gumbo regular, is a broadcast a creative writing major who graduated this past journalism major who is minoring in Theatre. December. Due to poverty, she currently sup She will graduate (we hope) in May and plans to ports herself by collecting shoe tongues and enter the real world without losing her sense of selling them to leather wholesale shops. humor. Iv y Restitute is an interior design major. She is Paige Dronet, a first-time contributor, is a a first-time contributor to the magazine. Because creative writing major minoring in Spanish. She of her interest in the arts, she enjoyed research plans to go to graduate school in broadcast ing the sculpture story. journalism. Robert Wolf is a junior in journalism major Pat Kelly, another first-time contributor, is a with a minor in history. He enjoys cooking, psychology major with interests in art, music biking and playing the drums. This is his first and theatre. She is currendy a second-semester contribution to the magazine, and he is looking freshman who’s gotten off to a flying start with forward to writing for the Gumbo next semester. her well-researched flashback story. -J Got any questions, comments, or ideas concerning the Gumbo Magazine? Drop us a line at: GUMBO MAGAZINE Louisiana State University Hodges Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 2 Gumbo Magazine Spring 1991 LSU STUDENT GUMBO HEALTH CENTER P u b lis h e r LSU Office of Student Media "W e C are For You" E d ito r M edical Clinics • X - R a y Wendy Yvonne Lavender Hours: M-F 8:00-5:00 • Laboratory Managing Editor Sat. 8:00-11:30 a.m. • P h a r m a c y T ro y K ing Information: 388-6271 •Specialty Clinics Appointments: 388-6716 Design Editor Dave Curley Copy Editors M ental H ealth Service Allison Farr, Ann Cowden, Lolita Johnese, Hours: M-F 8:00-4:30 Mary Cummings, Tina Thompson Margaret Ponder Appointments: 388-8774 Design Assistants W ellness Program Courtney Coats Health Education Todd Palisi Hours: M-F 8:00-4:30 Illustrators Information: 388-6271 Danley Romero Lauren Young Photographers Wayne "Gonzo" Schexnayder DELTA W OM EN'S CLINIC S teve F ran z Louisiana's FIRST Health Care Center Ad Representative Devoted Exclusively to the Needs of WOMEN George Laughlin We Offer Personalized, Quality Services Consultant And A Caring Stall! P at Parish • Abortions to 20 Weeks • Routine GYN Services Contributors • TWILIGHT SLEEP • Social Services & Physician Referrals Kathy Brister, Paula Dale, Lori Kimball, • Pregnancy Testing (Blood • Assure ConfidenUality Garilyn Ourso, Paige Dronet, Stephanie and Early Urine Tests) • Pregnancy & Birth Control • Ultrasound Spielm an, P a t K elly, Iv y R estituto, Counseling • Reasonable Fees Wendy Yvonne Lavender, Ronlyn • Birth Control & Domingue, Kristina Jeansonne, Lonnie Family Planning Camaggio, Mindy Stichweh IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENTS The Gumbo Magazine is written and edited by DELTA W OMEN'S CLINIC students of Louisiana State University. The opin ions expressed in the articles are those of the au thors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor^ I magazine Department of Student Media, or the University. Gumbo Magazine is not. NEW ORLEANS BATON ROUGE connected with the M anship School of Journalism. 1406 St. Charles Ave. 4829 Bennington Ave. 581-2250 9 2 3 -3 2 4 2 m a g a z i n e Toll Free in La. 1-800-551-9340 Volume 2 Issue 2 Spring 1991 Spring 1991 G u m b o M agazine 3 Copvright Gumbo M agazine IDS is a stranger to most college First, Al had to study the enemy, to learn Ac a m p u s e s . about the creature that was eating away at Not because the disease hasn’t infiltrated his immune system. the robust bodies of people of collegiate age “I was so naive that I didn’t even know - mgre than 500 cases of people with AIDS there was a difference between an HIV- a ge 20 to 29 were reported in Louisiana by positive person, a person with AIDS-related August of 1990 - but because students with complex and a person with full-blown AIIDS usually stay silent about their sick- AIDS ,” Al said. ness, or quit school. There are differences. B u t this wasn’t the way it happened with Al. HIV infection has four phases, according to Keeling’s report. Al tested HIV positive during his last year When a person is initially infected with of graduate school. He was not a student at HIV, he may have flu-like symptoms for a L$U, but he could have been. , few days. However, he will feel healthy According to a report presented by Dr. again. An infected person may not test Richard Keeling to the American College positive for HIV for three years. Health Association in February, a campus The second phase occurs when the person with 20,000 students may have an average actually tests positive for the disease. of 36 to 44 students who are HIV positive. Months or years may go by before a per With more than 25,000 students, LSU is son reaches the third stage of the disease, likely to haye a greater number of students symptomatic AIDS-related complex. A who are infected with the disease. person with ARC is weakened by an im In October of last year, Al’s doctor, a mune system that is deficient in fending off family friend of fifteen years, hesitantly told viruses, infection and disease and may often him hewasHIV positive.