inside: Special Graduation A Senior Olympics - page 6 - page 3 Goodbye Refreshing - page 2 Summer Top Ten things Recipes! to Buy with a - page 6 DOLLAR! - page 5 Are You Really Safe? A Very Deadly School Day STD Rates Rise Rapidly in the Metro Josh Stroeher some of these incidents Reporter may have been avoided. next few years. The vac- vent STDs are to avoid “No, schools across Holly Nicolosi cine will prevent three out sexual contact with other Everyday across the the country aren’t doing Reporter of four women from get- people, and delay having globe, stories are created. there best to protect the In Douglas County, ting the virus. However, any sexual relations. Ac- Stories of horror and cha- students,” said freshman in Omaha, Nebraska, the the vaccine, GD2, will cording to www.unomaha. os; stories created for the Brittany Sanford. “If STD rates for teenagers not work in men. edu, people, ages 15-18 sole purpose of inflicting they were then people and adults ages 15-29 Dr. Lawrence Stan- are more likely to develop fear upon the readers. wouldn’t be able to be years old are the highest berry at the University an STD than people over But some of these stories, drugs on guns on campus, they have ever been. of Texas Medical Branch the age of 19 years old. which were imagined for and yet it continues.” STD is an abbrevia- tested the vaccine on 978 If you think that you the purpose of fear, are Most students tion for a Sexually Trans- women and 1,736 men might have an STD, then not as terrifying as the will say that they feel mitted Disease. The six whose partners had Geni- get tested. Most of these real ones that we now pretty secure in their most common STDs in tal Herpes. STDs can be treated with face everyday as a na- schools and that the ac- Nebraska are HIV Infec- After nineteen antibiotics. For testing and tion. tual thought of someone Columbine, Nickel coming in and shooting Mines, and now Vir- fellow peers very rare- ginia Tech; some of the ly, if ever, crosses their worst school shootings minds. in American history, Some schools could and it seems every time take a few extra steps Issue 7 May 2007 we turn on the news in updating security there are new reports for schools. Security Lewis Central of a murder, or a threat. guards, metal detectors, People can sit and blame and cameras could help anyone they want but tremendously. High School when it boils down to “I feel pretty safe it, these things cannot at school, but I think we be avoided. But, we can need some officers on make a good effort. duty,” said junior Megan In the case of Cho Turner. “We have secu- Seung-Hui and the rity guards but I would shootings at Virginia feel way more at ease if Tech, people have laid we had real officers.” blame on many things. For Lewis Central Upcomi ng cartoon by Amanda Berg Some have blamed a gun security is taken as a se- tion, AIDS, Chlamydia, months of following the treatments, you can visit salesman for selling a rious issue. So far cam- Events Genital Herpes, Gonor- men and women around, any one of these places gun to the shooter when eras have been installed rhea, and Syphilis. Infor- they found that the vac- listed, and they will make it was perfectly legal, in not only the parking mation found on www. cine prevented about sev- sure your visit is kept con- they blamed teachers lots but in hallways in unomaha.edu. enty-five percent of those fidential. for not placing him in school as well, the school AIDS was the first who have never been ex- * Creighton Women Com- a mental institute after is being patrolled by our reported STD in the Unit- posed to the virus. munity Center knowing something was very own security guard ed States in 1981. It is The cost for this vac- 5420 NW Radial High- wrong with him, and and new rules have been caused by the HIV virus. cine is not yet known, way they blamed his parents, placed into effect to cut May About 900,000 people but doctors say it should Omaha, NE to the point where they down on deviant behav- living in the U.S. have range from about $200 Call for hours had to go into hiding due ior on campus. When it HIV/AIDS. to $300 dollars for three There is no fee to threats on their lives. comes down to it, LC is 23: Seniors’ Last Day Chlamydia is the shots of GD2. * Planned Parenthood of However if the schools on top of things and con- most common of all STDs There are approxi- NE & Council Bluffs could’ve taken a few tinues to improve in the in Nebraska. Around four mately 400,000 cases of 4610 Dodge Street extra steps in security area of security. 25: Girls Soccer vs. to eight million new cases gonorrhea reported each Omaha, NE have occurred every year. year. The most common Open Mon-Fri 9am-4pm Riverside Genital Herpes af- or serious complications and Sat 9am-1pm fects among 60 million occur mainly in women. Appointment is required Pelosi Pushes Peace Americans today. The The most common treat- * Nebraska AIDS Project Jessica Formanek ing reporters that Assad’s major symptoms of her- ment is antibiotics. 139 South 40th Street Reporter comments to her had 27: Graduation pes infections are painful Syphilis has in- Omaha, NE been in favor of the peace blisters or open sores. The creased and decreased Call for an appointment In the past, Speak- talks. herpes sores normally greatly in the past years. Free HIV testing ers have generally been “The Democrats 28: No School disappear within two to If syphilis is untreated, Testing sites found on overlooked when it came would say that Pelosi is three weeks, but the virus it will go on to more ad- www.codouglas.ne.us to political offices. But there trying to reestab- remains in your body for vanced stages, like a rash, For more informa- since 1977, Speakers lish relations with Syria your whole life. and then eventually a se- tion on STDs or testing have been pushing their because the Bush admin- 29: Underclassmen’s According to www. rious involvement of your sites, call the Nebraska way onto the political ra- istration refuses to talk news.bbc.com, a vaccine heart and central nervous AIDS Hotline at 1-800- dar, making themselves to Syria because they Last Day for Genital Herpes could system. 782-2437 Monday-Friday known to be somewhat believe that Syria is in- be available within the The best ways to pre- from 10am-10pm. imperative to the politi- volved in terrorism. The cal doings of the Ameri- Republicans would say 29: Baseball vs. Clarinda can government. that Pelosi is trying to First joint University opens in North Korea Speakers of the make the president look House have pushed the bad,” said Global Issues lege’s website www.pust. Shelby Klepfer but delays such as build- limits before. Some have instructor Todd Johnson. or.kr/eng/default.htm, the 31: Baseball vs. St. Albert Reporter ing the campus and politi- been involved with unde- Though Speakers cal problems about recent university is a higher educa- sirable things in books, hold a prominent position If you remember any- talks about North Korea tion school to start out with interjecting themselves in the government of the thing from history class, nuclear bomb programs. classes for postgraduate stu- into the middle of for- nation, they do not have one thing you may remem- While the two coun- dents. For the students, the eign affairs, bypassing the right to make deci- ber is that North Korea and tries are getting along, the goals of the college are to their other diplomatic sions that are not desig- June South Korea weren’t exact- idea of a university is great raise future generations of partners, or just making nated to them. By law, ly buddies. This Septem- idea, according to Yahoo North Korean leaders and other people mad for Congress must keep out ber, a joint university set up News. Relations between have a first-rate faculty and seemingly no good rea- of diplomacy. 5: Double Header: Baseball by these two countries will the Koreas have improved student body with proven son. Some say that Pelosi open its doors to students. significantly in recent years, academic potential and to Nancy Pelosi, was trying to fix some- & Softball vs. Kuemper After years of hard after a meeting between the provide students with a great Speaker of the House of thing that others have work and seventeen mil- countries’ leaders in 2000. industrial knowledge. Representatives, recent- been trying for years to lion dollars, Pyongyang All of the courses When doors open ly took a trip to Syria. fix, and that she should University of Science and will be given in English, to international students, When she returned, she not have bypassed the 7: Double Header: Baseball Technology (PUST) will which will be a great there will be some inter- told reporters that she rules in order to do what & Softball vs. Red Oak start school in September in chance to learn the lan- est from LC students. had been authorized by she thinks is right. Oth- the communist capital city guage for business, which “It would be cool to Israeli Prime Minis- ers think that she did the of Pyongyang.