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Central Florida Future. 1201. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/1201 • • ·' entra uture© Serving The University of Central Florida Since 1968 • Vol. 25, No. 57 THURSDAY April 22, 1993 . 20 Pages with base their opinions on false Students, sex and AIDS: 'It stereotypes, such as only homo­ . sexuals and drug users get the disease. ''I try to bust the st.ereo­ types people have," she said. will never happen to me' UCFssecondAIDSawareness • program is the Responsible Edu­ AIDS continues to spread among young heterosexuals cationin Campus Health.REACH became an organization on cam­ by Ann Marie Sikes will be before she finds the right disease. pus in 1990. Members routinely person for her. She wonders how With Florida quickly accumu­ • CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE visit classrooms, fraternities, so­ many sexual partners she will be latingAIDS patients, the threat of rorities and other campus organi­ Breaking up is hard to do. with before she finds him. the disease hastily creeps closer to zations. Trained peer educators Twenty-one-year-old Jannett Today, finding the right guy is university students and others. like Katherine Woody conduct Sanders knows this all too well. only one worry Sanders will have But the question arises as to rus and practicing safe sex. AIDS and sexually transmitt.ed The UCF student found herself to deal with along the way. whetheruniversitystudentsknow Sharon Douglass, executive disease presentations on campus • single again, after a two-year mo­ AIDS has become an increas­ and care enough to take precau­ director of the UCF HIV/AIDS about twice a month. nogamous relationship with her ingly dangerous threatamongcol­ tions when having sex. Institute, said most students take In addition, the Wellness Cen­ boyfriend ended two months ago. lege students. AIDS awareness UCFhas two AIDS awareness thepositionthattheyknowenough ter distributes condoms to those Sanders, who wished toprot.ect among them remains just as un­ programs on its campus aimed at about the disease to get by. She her identity, worries how long it certain as finding a cure for the educating people on the AIDS vi- said most students she has dealt AIDS continued page 3 ELECTRIFYING . Theater remembers Papa Don by Heather Asche major Hope Howard said, "Papa White involved himself in Don was totally for the students several community theater ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR and their ideas. If something groups in Cleveland. Commu­ Donald Edward White, went wrong or ifyou had a prob­ nity theaters ofOhio named him. known to many in the Univer­ lem, we all knew that we could "Best Actor." He worked at • sity of Central Florida theater go to him to fix it." Karamu Theater where he department as "Papa Don," died White was born acted, directed April 6. in Cleveland, Ohio ========~ and worked as White began attending the on March 14, 1931. "Papa Don was house manager. • University of Central Florida in During his chilc~. - In his spare time 1979attheageof48.Hedecided hood he often spent totally ror the he did radio spots to pursue his interest in techni­ the summers in students ... " an~ "voice overs." • cal theater and earned his de­ New York City with White moved to gree at UCF. his aunt and uncle Orlando in 1978. After graduation, the univer­ at a Broadway the- - Hope Howard He enjoyed listen- sity employed him as produc­ ater. There his ob- THEATER MAJOR ing to jazz tion manager for the theater. session with live instrumentals Working there gave him an op­ theater began. and the record- • portunity to use his creativity Shortly after graduating from ings of Billie Holiday, reading and attention to detail. high school,· the U.S. Army scripts and spending time with White was always very drafted him. He served in Ko- family and friends. proud of the accomplishments rea. During that time, White The Stage, a theater in Win­ of the students he supervised. took a European discharge and ter Park, is planning to dedi­ He admired and respected spent a year in Germany work­ cate a show to the memory of their talent, vitality and en­ ing for Radio Free Europe. He Don White. White co-founded thusiasm. The students felt the returned to Cleveland and The Stage with Lyn Ellison, same way about him. worked for the public school UCF student and theater system. WHITE continued page 3 BASA raises funds to save student's life by Bill Cushing support from several Greek organizations, the International Student Association,. the Carib­ EDITOR IN CHIEF bean Association, the Muslim Student Union Every year members of the Hispanic-Ameri­ and the African-American Student Union. Debra Kemnitz and Terry Waldorff, seniors majoring can Student Association of UCF hold a party. "They all said that they would pledge dona­ in electrical engineering, work on an electrical car The party, scheduled from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. tions," Torregrosa said. After exploring several Saturday in the Student Center Auditorium, methods of fundraising possibilities, HASA ·10 enter in a competition. c0eHoog1FurnRE) has an important purpose. decided the best way was to combine whatever The purpose is to aid Kristie Willis, a 21- funds can be raised with 80 percent of the year-old Orlando resident suffering from Cys­ proceeds from the group's party. tic Fjbrosis and in need of a double lung trans­ "The easiest method we could see of getting plant operation. money to help Miss Willis is through the dol­ HASA President Miguel Torregrosa heard lars we're getting to make it (the party) a about Willis' situation at the April Knights fundraising affair," he said. "We know that Roundtable a monthly meeting held with-rep­ money that is coming from the student organi­ resentatives of UCF clubs and organizations. zations would go straight to the bank account." Torregrosa contacted a number of other cam­ He added that although Student Govern- pus groups and organizations. After only 10 days work, he has managed to get promises of WILLIS continued page 8 : . ,. CLASSIFIED~ pag~ 8 . ,. ·: 2 The Central Florida Future • April 22, 1993 • - Cash for Books • c • • B • • s • • Cash for Books • • Convenient Parking . · . • • Fast Friendly Service • Free Popcorn and Soda During Finals • • . Cash for Books • Books bought back all year. • • I Located in the University Shoppes • Shopping Center next to Domino's and Kinkos • • ' . Phone: 249-0855 • 12209 University Boulevard • • OPEN DAILY beginning Monday, April 19th • • Extended hours during Finals Week • Cash for Books • • / • April 22, 1993 •The Central Florida Future 3 . Some students apathetic or unaware ofAIDS· AIDS Morrow visits UCF about three the university's position. 'The ceived funds from the production. tim,ahet.erosexual,ahomosexual • FROM PAGE 1 times a year. She visits classrooms, media and high schools are where Douglass said theater produc- and an intravenous drug user. speaks outdoors on the university's most commuters learn about tions seem to work well as educa- 'They've got to be shocked into who ask. Woody said the campus lawnsandanswersstudentorfac­ AIDS," he said. tional tools for AIDS awareness. what AJDS can do," he said. does not have condom machines ulty invitations to speak. OnesourceoftramingLiliesaid She said the institute is trying Magarelli said AIDS commercials • inrestroomsbecausestudentscan One of the classes Morrow the university has is a program to work with Valencia Commu- ont.elevisiondonotpromoteaware­ get them free from the Wellness has spoken to is Douglass' on called Student Success. The pro­ nity College theater students to ness. 'The commercials paint a Center. AIDS. Douglass puts students gram targets first-year UCF stu­ put together an AIDS awareness pretty picture with celebrities and .. Asauniversity-fundedorgani- through experiences such as dents and teaches study and time production. It would target college ca1m settings." zation,REACHenjoysgreaterties meetingpeopleinfected with the management skills. He said the students with high-strungperfor- Magarelli thinks complacency with UCF students and faculty. disease. She has found the tech- program may someday address mances, she said. is a major problem with AIDS • The HIVI AIDS Institute relies on nique most effective in teaching healthissues,buthehasnotheard Theater students would be awareness among young people. outside funding to operate and students about the causes and of any plans to do so. trained as Infomaniac actors, ac- He said they do not feel as threat­ tends to focus more attention on effects of the disease. Chuck Michelini ofthe U niver­ tors trained in AIDS ened by the dis­ , groups outside UCF such as high "Most students start the class sity ofAlabama said the students awareness. Douglass ~~~~~~~~~ ease as when it schools and AIDS programs. thinking they know everything enrolled in the school tend to be said the productions "The majority :received more - KathleenMorrow,adirectorof about AJDS, and within two older and are better informed on wouldalsotarget.His- of students 1'ust publicity years .. CentralF1oridaAIDSUnifiedRe- weeks, they realize they don't," AIDS. Michelini said another con­ panics, African- ago . r.ources, an AIDS support organi- Douglass said. tributing factor is the school's Am ericans and oth er don 't -care. " But peop1 e are zation in Orlando, also sees the TheAIDSclasshasgrownfrom heavy involvement in AIDS re­ segments of society to still dying.