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Bigotry
patients
To quote Maya I mv
Angelo, "If s the rust HI
on the razor that
threatens the throat.
It is an unnecessary
insult."
Persons with the
AIDS virus have a ~
death sentence, not
immediate, but one shoi
that will assuredly
come sooner than desired..AIDS
patients
must suffer unbearable
pain and sick
ness. Blood becomes
familiar, night sweats their con
ions. That is the razor that thre
the throat.
But with the physical pain c
emotional agony. Not only must
people face death, they mus
dure raging myths and ill-info
beliefs about AIDS and AIDS pal
some people still Deiieve tne
catch AIDS by touching someon*
the illness. Others won't drink
them. Former friends may avoi
iting. AIDS is sometimes a s
plague. That is the rust, the u
essary insult.
Why are AIDS patients shi
by the general public, and mon
mately, by neighbors and friend
sometimes even family? Do thes
pie not deserve the same kind oi
World lo
with Mo
The Capitol
Newsstand on Main
Street takes its job of ,
bringing the news to ^
people pretty seriously,
evident with
the recent Princess
Diana tragedy.
Last Friday, -A
scotch taped to the of ?
windows of the store
were various newspapers
announcing
Diana's death, chronicling
the progress of
the situation.
Passerby's stared at the st
reading the words and gazing j
pictures. In the late afternooi
clerk running the store opene
door and spoke to the window w
ers.
"Did you see this?" he asked,
ing to a white piece of paper taj
the door. In blue felt tip pen,
was a message that Mother T
had died.
"We're losing all our sainti
said, shaking his head.
Yes, sir, we are.
It's very hard to digest th<
that Mother Teresa died. Shew
the things we as humans kno
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ignorant J
jlj M. passion we show the ?|p
woman with breast &&
irnc * i cancer or the child
\1L)& pCLtlCTltS with leukemia? Peopie
with cancer have
a chance, however <^v7/7/vyfy
slim, of survival. '/////'//i If
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id kindness 1
kind, almost no hope. rTfffTT^WPTiTtTTTtTI
They deserve as
much compassion
and love as, if not
ipan- more than, patients with other illatens
nesses. Yet they are shunned.
Why, in this age of knowledge, do
?mes some people still harbor beliefs as stuthese
pid as old-wives tales? One can not ^
it en- catch AIDS or HIV by the simple hu- W I
irmed man touch. One can not catch AIDS I I .^1
ients. by drinking or eating after someone
y can afflicted, or sharing the same sheets,
j with or any other kind of non-sexual conafter
tact. Sexual intercourse is the only
d vis- way this disease is transmitted.
ioci al Do not be afraid to touch an AIDS ^^Asst^iewpoin
nnec" patient. Do not be afraid to show kindness
with a hug, compassion with a USC post office bo
inned visit. We can not all go to the local friend. Heck, it isn't e
s inti- AIDS hospice and volunteer all our Rather, if s more lil
s, and time, but if there is someone you know lost faith in the USC1
epeo- suffering, a simple visit and hello can I check my mail tw
fcom- make all the difference in the world. turning the mystical coi
bers and letters that ai
>ses altruism time, I don't get mail. I
and thaf s not a plea foi
g ? -f . g Actually, I get a lot of
ther s death
?4.; ..
appicuiatc Mic anwqu
^^3nwrrMH| should be but rarely writing, will send me a
ever attempt to be- they tell me they sent i
t ,, m , come. I can anticipate it's ar
Mother Teresas shehelpedthe suchthecal
death illiterate, the sick, of mine said they had
the poor and the ter and had mailed it 1
poorer with her self- an Atlanta post office. I
, . . founded order of pened, I received the le
humanitarian nuns in India, afternoon. After all
he truest sorts known as the Mis- that far away.
1 7 r. sionaries of Charihas
left us ty She sacrif1Ced
her life so that thousands
of others
could live a little of
theirs in comfort. M>M,JLJL^'
ories, Sure, she won the adoration of
it the thousands and prizes such as the No1,
the bel Peace Prize. She was, in her own
d the right, a cultural icon whose reputaratch
tion will far proceed her legend gen- I
erations from now. Strangely enou
point- But, more importantly, Mother thought about it.
)ed to Teresa gave us hope that, despite our frjen(j had a go
there religious differences and our cultur- ?tt j 1 u
eresa al ties, we could appreciate the sim- u ?T eJfpie,
uniiltered elements of pure hu- vaults to
3?he man kindness. "Maybe they brea
This past Monday, another sign sticks, I suggested, st
appeared on the door of the Capital "No, they can't beci
Newsstand. Scrawled in the same bend," he answered bf
3 faclj cursive script as its predecessor, this I struggled with thi
33 sign said something along the lines male cheerleader dash
^ nf "all nf nnr nncrpio have roturnpH liL a1__ I /-i.
ui ~zune, wiui uieiiuge kic
to heaven." ping in the wind. Tt
had just scored a toucl
My first Gamecoc
JMyUUUii^HHIHH was
I House USC Columbia, SC 29208 ?izJarre' occurrenc^s-'
had a great time. But
Suaan Meyers EUen Parsons episodes inundated th
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ephanie Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager wag jn from German
** Viewpoint'mtor c?^/A?u^Zr Charleston because he
""MSS"" Carolyn Griffln ed information about 1
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Einard Anderson of Baptist Hospital, on an AIDS patient's dealing with tl
mail trapped in c
By Friday, the letter had not arrived.
t^EditO^^I Okay, I thought, maybe it's just a little
1 slow in getting there. No letter on Monix
82320 isn't my day, cause for concern. Finally, I peered "Last week, all t
iven my ally. through the hazy, tiny window on the ., ~ T> j
. . . nfmn W Ti.oo/lon oftornnnn IIldlI...OU 1 VC UCV]
tee a symbol ot my " ""*U1 J ..
3ost Office and the letter was there, stuffed in the mail C(
. , ' ? back of the long, hallow box.
ice daily, silently
mbination of num- Maybe myfriend lied 311(1 sent the
e the key to open- letl;er a^er Tuesday. No, the post mark,
toe percent of the "I haven't received any mail
Nobody rates me, reported the letter was sent Sept. 2. week No junk mail. No ma,
r pity or anything. It's really funny because I sent a let- fetter from my grandmother (
e-mail. ter out on the same day and it's arrival EmUie almost weekly)."
mv parents write was confirmed in Atlanta last Thursday
friends, who still afternoon. Last week, all three of u
ated art of letter I'm not the only one who has these ims 0 camPus m or
note. These days, problems. Yesterday afternoon, my friend we are mem rs o a a 111
ne a letter so that Emilie and I were sitting outside on the tbe Prefldent bad seat out 1
rival. Russell House Patio, analyzing the re- dflys Pnor to the meetmg.
ast week. A friend construction of the Golden Spur Corri- We didn't get the letters
written me a let- dor. The door near the mailboxes flew days after the meeting,
ast Tuesday from open and our friend Erin burst out. go j>ve devised the th
jast time this hap- "Why don't I ever get mail anymore?" there must be a mail conspi
itter by Thursday ghe asked, her face sculpted with gen- onhere. IknowI'llpro
, Atlanta is not u^ concern. damned for trying to exposi
Emilie had mentioned the same thing ' ceive lots of letters from peopl
only a few minutes prior to Erin's arrival, at the University Post Office
leaves lasting (sort of)
House three times, hit a dog, passed its
remains four times, watched a train
1 hit a dog, and flashed that camera that
gh, I had never takes "scenic" views of parking lots and My 1 irs^ Oamecc
alleys on Channel 51, we were well on insightful, yet biz;
> . nnr nrou fn ^riirinrr omnnrl onmn mnro fn ? ?
od point. ? w en?had a great ti
. , try and screw someone out of a parking ?
rs carry their pole place . ir
, , , After cutting some people off in traf
k down like pool c j . . ? 1 . .
r nc and emptying our bank accounts to
pay for parking, we were well on our way
ause they have to to dodging cars in pre-game congestion, Then, because everyone
ick. in which two of us didn't make it. their assigned seats, we stoo
e riddle while the Onwards through the SDlendor that most ^wo Quarters because p
ed across the end through the splendor that standing where their seats \
ed across the end was (is) Tallyho. My friends and I mm- neoDle who were in their seal
imecock flag flap- -th th frateniitv truvs watched i
le football team g , , , ' r hind them" Well>as PeoPle
hdown a C0UP 0 bands play, looked for one seating became available anc
of my friends' little brother, and drank section was blessed with the o
:k football game a i0t of, uh water, yeah water. It was i3 coid aluminum
nsightful, yet g00d water. ^ .. ,
Oh believe me I That was about the tame f
; minor-unusual- Well, my friend's brother was sup- ed breaking out. No, not in tl
e game P?sed to meet us there, but we never did the stands!
,e beginning My Sp?' ^ f nd A wh? wanted Us 1
a ! ? j t irate-1 thulk ^ brother was usmg his k d th i d h
id her friend, who ot,j niX guess, asKea me iaay wno i
v came un from h gh Sch?o1 cha m t0 try, a P P there to kindly move. When
r boyfriend want- S?me code?e ^ wou^d be). ly" replied no, the guy fetcht
;he music depart Anyway, we stagg...no, strolled to the ty officer to resolve the probl
ipposed to take a stadium. The officer "kindly" asked
w driver that my It was monumental. move and let this guy have 1
>clue^were Having never seen it live, I was struck this time the entire East wing
y missed the tour. ^ ^ ^ aasigned (yeah mg up ^nng at the acto
to my dorm and right!) seats behind the goal poet, about ej getting in the officer^ fao
i for the day. Any- ^n rows up. gerang in me omcer s iaci
vhich was around screaming, spitting.
informed me that Unfortunately for us, or at least my WeU, the officer, after fee
ing to the game roommate and I, we were situated next more saiiva on his face tha
ause I came home to one of those guys, you know, who nev- "kindly" escorted the lady 1
dy in a heartbeat er shuts up even if he s in a library or while the crowd started to 1
eady to go when standing in line for this week s lottery wko had made the lady leave
bey didn't have tickets in Pago Pago. fleer, but the guy who wante
This guy talked all game long, about The lady was then ordaine<
because I had for- the defense, the offense, the running back (even though she didn't die) 1
oo! So I ran back Moritz, the stadium, how Jupiter's grav- wing in memory of all thoi
d my ticket in my itational pull played a role in the as- screwed out of good seats b
sassination of JFK, the differences be- rightful owners decided to i
us crammed into tween a lemur and an impregnated the freakin'second quarter.
'allyho. After dri- Chinese orangutan, and even why flies ?f silence, please.
lutes, in which we weren't attracted to him, even though So the game went on, thi
twice, the State be neglected to shower for several talking, and my friend was s
eons, I believe. for his brother. After the ge
$ f ^ '
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notional component."
te ill-treatment of his community
onspirac
hree of us were victims of cam
ised the theory that there must
)nspiracy going on here."
in the last I haven't researched my subject;
TQ7inoa nn fVmxr urnrlr Viqtv} of fhnir inh
AAV/ HAAV/J TTV/AXA AACAA VA CAW VAAvAA JUl/i
who writes my only research is first hand
ence. And. I want to say Fm nc
s were vie- sarily damning the school po!
ganization ployees.
eeting and No, I just want to know
letters two takes so long for me to get my
don't want much. I only want m;
j until two What good is getting a letter te
of a meeting two days after th
eory that ing has taken place?
racy going I've spent almost four y
bably be USC, and I vow that by the er
e it. I'll re- time here, I will figure out the
e who work known as our postal system. Re
telling me quite a riddle.
i impressioi
>ck football game (ever) was fu
arre, occurrences. Oh, believe i
me. But minor-unusual-episode
lundated the game."
was not in crammed back into the car anc
d up for al- several minutes to screw some
eople were the long line of traffic that bloe
vere, while driveway to the parking lot.
:s stood be- Finally, after again flashing ti
left early, era on channel 51 just for fun
1 the entire hack to the Towers (it turns out
omfort that friend's little brother was waitinj
in the dorm). Having not eaten si
ights start- afternoon, my friend and I decid
le game, in der pizza. I won't tell you wh
(Roadrunner's Pizza) so as not
Ml seat, 1 age the integrity of pizza deliv,
shet '"/ C* ?r 'h0Se Wh0 ??
Sweretoca"uawh?>
I GDI. tit
la?^to (fminu^ ^ deliver;
seat % Paying golf-baaketbalHn w
iW?hh^ hV^ tPped a ^ball'and J
a, ohhing- hit it with my drum sticks in
W start- way.Wepla/edTaSuUS
s. pointing, Nocfl]] l4i5r
ling he had hun^ouHn^5 min"?es Pas?
m desired y neighbors' don
;o the exit,' NocaJ1>00
the guy Another 15 minutes passed i
(not the of- fires to, oh wait I shoffit
f1118 seat^- ^ay, this place (Road
!1maI5tyr Zf}' which r'm keeping ano
3y tha East was,3? minutes late. By then e
se who got 8ch^dimplodedofhungerm
ecausethe the brink of total destrurtion v
^howupm pizza guy finally decided to s
m0ment "Dirtv n^ay ended ^ the wa'
it guy kent ^ **00 *Pparen
<till looking over fi^4 game exPeri
ime, we all back and ^ *n * C?Uple ofyear
oack and...well, probably forg
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