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TH-E The Newspaper For J'he Ithaca College Commuiiify GALA plans jeans day Panel discusses The Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) is asking every student and staff member to wear a pair of blue AIDS epidemic jeans this Tuesday, April 12 to show support for lesbian and gay rights. BY BARRY RITZ In this opening address, Rhodes "Upon inspecting the statistics, one provided some horrifying statistics · Past history gets a true understanding of the mor and followed with the projection that, The first blue jeans day was held by tality and morbidity of the AIDS pro by the year 1991, it is estimated that Rutgers University in 1982. Since blem," New York State Commis the total cost of AIDS will have ex then, many gay student organizations sioner of Health Dr. David Axelrod ceeded $22 billion. have effectively used this program to said at a panel discussion last Thurs In 1987 alone, AIDS research and · bring about awareness on their college daynight, onthe eve of i..esb1an, education has cost $494 million, campuses. This is the first time the ,. Gay and Bisexual Awareness Rhodes said. The cost of treatment, event will be held at Ithaca College. Month he added, exceeds $80 thousand per The fact that practically everybody Cornell president Frank H.T. patient and is constantly increasing. owns a pair of blue jeans is a fact that Rhodes was the moderator of the He addressed the ethical and moral did not go unnoticed by GALA when .. Bailey Hall forum, which attracted elements by questioning, "How do we choosing this program. "Nobody has - over 800 people, as well as newsteams balance the rights of these suffering to really do anything to show _their from WIXT, Channel 9 Syracuse, and versus the safety of t1'e public?" support. All they have to do is get also CableNewscenter 7. The first panelist to speak was Dr. dressed that day the way they normal The panelists, Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Halfdan Mahler, who has been forc ly would" says Michael Kusek, pre:,i director-general of the World Health ed to bear the brunt of the pressure dent of GALA. Organization (WHO), Dr. Samuel resulting from the worldwide anxiety Thier, president of the Institute of surrounding the disease. For example, Supporting gay rights Medicine, and the National Academy there was a period toward the end of "It is very important for students of Sciences, and Dr. Axelrod all ex 1986 when a number of nations were to realize that if they wear blue jeans pressed deep concern with regard to planning to legislate mandatory AIDS the past, present, and future of AIDS Tuesday, nobody is going to think testing in order to gain entry into the they are gay or lesbian. Wearing blue research and treatment. country. jeans hat day shows one's support of These policy makers demonstrated In response to this motion, WHO gay rights. That's all," Kusek adds. the need for a cohesive and consistent organized a research team to deter po)icy on the state, national, and "On Tuesday students are going to mine if such a plan would prevent the make a decision whether to wear blue ~ worldwide levels to deal with the spread of HIV, the human im i,.. multi-faceted problems posed by the jeans in support of GALA or if they munodeficiency virus that is thought will not wear blue jeans. By not wear- . ~ AIDS epidemic. to trigger AIDS. Their findings in ing blue jeans that person will also be ~ The three had spent the last day- dicated that a carrier's use of public and-a-half on the Cornell campus, making a statt;ment," says Mark Jar- - transportation, restrooms, pools etc., holding discussions, meeting with ros, a GALA member. did not increase the risk for the public faculty, and visiting classes, in an ef at large, and that the mass testing A forum on gay and lesbian issues fort to share their considerable ~ would be no more than an un will be held in Textor 101 Tuesday knowledge with the school necessary inconvenience and expense. night at 7:30. Ithaca College and Cor SUPPORT: IC students are asked to wear blue jeans this Tuesday, April community. Another problem highlighted by nell faculty members will be speaking. 12, in support of gay and lesbian rights. Then, at a 4:30 press conference, Mahler is the recent development of Scott Gorenstein the experts established the high risk each WHO dollar being spread across candidates for AIDS as those engag such a wide spectrum of policy and ing in anal sex, intravenous drug use, program needs, intensified by the promiscuous habits, or sexual activi AIDS situation. Whalen declares tomorrow ty with prostitutes who have high rates "I feel with great fanaticism that of intravenous drug use. AIDS must not deprioritize concerns At the· 7:30 discussion, they ex with other diseases,".he said, noting panded on these points, and presented that, "Over 1 million children will as Bicentennial Day at IC ne.w statistics and accounts which die of malaria. this year." dramafued the blatant shortcoming of President James J. Whalen has the nation's governing document, is Review since 1960. While both his fellow panelists at current policy. declared tomorrow, April 8, free and open to the public. · In addition to teaching, Kurland tacked the United States for their lack AIDS, which on various occasions "Bicentennial Day" at Ithaca College. Since 1953 Kurland had taught at has served as a consultant to the sub of commitment to producing solu has been called a modern plague, "It is especially important that, as the Univesity of Chicago, where he is committee on separation of powers of tions, Mahler praised this nation's ef God's divine retribution to sinners and an institution committed to the notion the William R. Keenan Jr. distinguish- the Senate Judiciary Comnutiee, and forts, stating, "I personally feel that medicine's greatest challenge has kill that ~very graduate possess a ed service professor. as a consultant to the justice depart the United States has set a tremendous ed 30,000 Americans since 1981. knowledge of our cultural heritage, we "His opinions are highly respected ment. Among other honors, he has example for the world to follow in the Initiating the discussion, Rhodes set aside a time to celebrate the true by the legal community," says Ken- been awarded a Guggenheim provision of accurate information to identified AIDS "The most serious meaning of the Constitution,'' neth Lehrman, coordinator of the Fellowship and named a fellow of the as, the public." threat to our health as a nation and Whalen says. College's Constitution observances. American Academy of Arts and However, according to Dr. Thier, world." He continued, "Reactions to Among the planned events is the "Though generally considered a Sciences. He is the father of Julie what we are seeing is a series of in AIDS involve some of the most per planting of a white pine as a "living constitutional conservative, he Kurland, who graduated from IC in dependent operations t~_[ to func2 sonal issues of human life." memorial" to Native Americans for testified last fall against Robert Bork's 1985. see AIDS page 4 their contribution to the United nomination to the Supreme Court. In States' cultural heritage. This will take fact, Kurland himself was reputed to place tomorrow at 10am in front of have been on Gerald Ford's list of ALS holds a Latin Weekend the Campus Center. potential nominees to the bench,'' At 4pm, Venitt Terrace (the Lehrman says. BY STEPHANIE KURTZMAN Michigan, was invited to lecture at IC said, "I must admit it is a bad speaker's area in front of the Campus After earning his law degree from Out of the 55 percent of Puerto as part of Latin Weekend, which was weekend.'' Center), will be dedicated as a first- Harvard University in 1944, Kurland Rican and Chicano Americans who sponsored by the Afro-Latin Soc1ety Santiago said that one reason why amendment/free speech forum in served for two years as a law clerk to graduate from high school, 25 percent (ALS). Hispanics have lower educational at: honor of Raymond Kaaret, Professor · Supreme Court Justice Felix will enter college and only seven per However, the lecture became a tainment is that elementary and high Emeritus of politics. Frankfurter. A stint as an attorney in cent will complete it. Out of the 83 roundtable discussion due to poor at school teachers have lower expecta "I deeply appreciate the work of the U.S. Department of Justice_ was percent of whites who graduate, 38 tendence. Seven students and no ad tions of them than they do of whites. assistant prof~r.·of politics Kenneth followed by four years in private prac- percent will enter college and 23 per ministrators were there.