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Wednesday December 2, 1992 Universi Montana Issue 46 Campus AIDS awareness week sparks discussion housing ■ An AIDS victim, speaking as part of a OK now panel, said Tuesday that his family understands -Brunell the myths of the disease, By Linn Parish while a Native American Staff Writer speaker said educating The number of stu­ tribes about AIDS is dents who will be living crucial for their survival. on-campus next semester is not known right now, By Kurt Miller but it is not likely that Staff Writer there will be a shortage of housing like there was Administrators, a teen-ager, Fall Semester, UM’s di­ lab scientist, pastor, counselor rector of housing said and health worker spoke for Tuesday. more than two hours to about Ron Brunell said his 100 people Tuesday on a panel office has received a few addressing AIDS, agreeing applications to live in the that fear and rejection ofAIDS dorms next semester but victims are the chief obstacles does not know how many in public health and compas­ people will be moving out. sion for other humans. He said the majority of The discussion, titled “AIDS applications will come in in Montana” was part of AIDS over Christmas break. awareness week. Tim Thompson/Kaimin However, Brunell said Victims ofAIDS on the panel he did not believe there ABOUT 100 people of all ages joined the candle light march through downtown Missoula also revealed their personal would be a housing short­ Tuesday evening. The march was part of AIDS Awareness Week. frustrations in living with the age on campus. disease. Henri Robert came “I would be extremely from Arlee to speak on the surprised if there was an panel, and began by saying, “I Die-in brings home AIDS epidemic overflow next semester,” have AIDS. I’m married and he said. have two kids.” Public reminded disease exists in Montana The last person who did Robert, who was both som­ not have housing for Fall ber and good-humored during By Deborah Malarek Semester was given a the discussions, said he knew Stiff Writer room three weeks ago, he his family considered it safe to said. Even though Brunell “My name is Kip Blakeny. I live in Missoula, use the same dinner plates, does not think there will hug and kiss, dispelling com­ Montana. I was 31 years old until I died of AIDS at 8:30 p.m., November 30, 1992 .” be an overflow, he said he mon fears, but he said he still does not know whether The ending statement in Tuesday night’s has other fears of infecting his the number of dorm resi­ dramatic AIDS awareness die-in left the audi­ wife or children. dents will increase or de­ “For me, it’s my blood that ence silent. Many of the audience members knew that Blakeny’s family was there. crease from the amount scares me the most,” he said. The actor who represented Blakeny was the livingon campus after one Robert said he had been in last to speak. When the audience first entered term under quarters. In the hospital three times, suf- the Montana Theater the stage was filled with the past, the number of feringfrom the effects ofAIDS. just over 40 people who stood silent and motion­ students living in the He said he was sure he con­ less. dorms dropped 9.5 per­ tracted it from intravenous “There have been 137 diagnosed cases of cent between Fall and drug use. AIDS in the state of Montana,” said one actor. Winter Quarter, Brunell Toni Plummer, a Sioux In­ said. Performers stepped up one at a time, saying dian who speaks at reserva­ the first name of the person who was repre­ Jeff Gaudreau, head tions about AIDS, said educat­ sented, citing an occupation and naming the resident at Jesse Hall, ing tribes about the dangers town in which the person lived before dying of said he thought there and realities of the virus is AIDS. would be more students crucial for the future survival Montana towns named ranged from large to in dorms Spring Semes­ of Native American cultures. small. Many victims were from Missoula. ter than in past winter She said reservations that have Occupations ranged from students and wait­ quarters because it is still had serious problems with resses to lawyers, bankers and a deputy sheriff. hard to find other hous­ sexually transmitted diseases Ages varied. ing in Missoula. Tim Thompson/Kslmin are vulnerable to the virus. Before the statement was read concerning “I have not heard a lot “I believe that Indian people Blakeny’s death, a tape was played of a concert A DIE-IN was held at the Montana Theatre of people talking about are going to be wiped our if performed at UM by John Ellis, a UM music Tuesday evening as part of AIDS Awareness moving off (campus),” he they are not educated about professor before his death from AIDS in July. Week. Participants were portraying the 97 said. the AIDS virus,” she said. The die-in ended a day of events to com­ people who have died of AIDS so far in He also said he didn’t Chris Edwards, the director memorate AIDS Awareness Week. The events Montana. think as many people of the Missoula AIDS Council, included a Day Without Art, which left all the would take a semester off. said he would love to lose his art work on campus and around Missoula Faith Lane, a dramatist and member of More people would take a job to a cure for AIDS. draped in black, and a candlelight vigil at the Artists for AIDS Awareness said the quarter off than a semes­ “I guess my chief goal is not courthouse. Vigil participants then walked to group has been planning the events since ter because it is more of a to have to do this for a living the theater for the die-in. mid-September. time commitment, Gaudreau said. anymore,” he said. See “AIDS ” page 4 IN THIS ISSUE ■ Page 3—Loss of speech ■ Page 4—Thanksgiving ■ Page 5—The Tubes ■ Page 5—Me Phi Me’s ■ Page 7—Karate instruc­ pathology program de­ vacation forces a busy “Best of" CD provides not- debut album, "One,” recre­ tor offers workshop to prives Montana of needed agenda for ASUM tonight so-greatest hits and lacks ates rap and moves hip­ teach basic defense moves research and services, including a vote on sex the flamboyant fun of hop rap to a whole new and preventative measures research director says. deviate law. theatre rock. dimension. against rape and assault. Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, December 2,1992 2 MONTANA KAIMIN EDITORIAL BOARD Karen Coates • Mark Heinz • Bill Heisel • Kyle Wood Kevin Anthony • Mike Lockrem • J. MarkDudick Editorials reflect the views of the board. Columns and letters reflect the views of the author.________ EDITORIAL----------- Missoula's Air: Pissin' in the Wind less paving. Sexual bias And so the glacial seas return to Montana, and from my perch on the “Or inversion tours. Lead people mountain, Missoula is gone. Only the on walks up the mountain to get a lingers on peace sign survives, high and dry on gander at all the crap we puke into a grassy spit. The cottony sea of fog the air toilet. This isn’t an airshed, Sad but true, it’s still a man’s world. roils in super slo-mo, waves banking you know. It’s an air lean-to.” Just ask Patricia Williams Howard, against ancient shores. The top sur­ Methinks Spider secretly likes the an Alabama woman who recently lost face of the cloud-like fog spreads flat, inversions. her job as a disc jockey because the except for two polyps—steam from “Right on! We get to stew in our station owner’s wife (a woman, for God’s Stone Container and Louisiana Pa­ own mess. It doesn’t blow away. Our sake) didn’t want females on the air. cific—and in faith I know our city ber those ’70s tests on Missoula chil­ stagnant sewer-in-the-sky is the Last week, the state Supreme Court sprawls beneath, dank, dark, cold dren that revealed reduced pulmo­ moral equivalent to our beyond-the- upheld her dismissal. and dirty. I, however, for the price of nary function and capacity? Why don’t horizon clearcuts or distant rain for­ The justices voted unanimously to a walk, am bathed in clean warm air we take this crap seriously and do est species extinction. But instead of allow gender-based firings, although beneath a blue sky splintered by the some health studies now, do some ‘I Know Nothing!’ or ‘What, Me they deny condoning such action. Un­ sun over the Bitterroots.