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World AIDS Day CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 straight,... young, old, male or fe male,” Wood said. “As people, we must take total responsibility to know our HIV status and to know that the sexual decisions we make impact us and our loved ones. HIV is pre ventable. It begins with us — each one of us,” he said. Before the program, a group of USC students marched from the Russell House patio to the State House, carrying quilt panels cre ated by various student organi ► zations, including sororities and fraternities, University 101 class es and the Residence Hall Association. The quilt patches decorated panel tor the quilt. “Our president really likes us to get involved in other activities outside of the sorority, so we wanted to come out today and sup port World AIDS Day,” Tomar chio said. Tomarchio also said she hoped she might become better educated about AIDS through the event. “I really don’t know that much about AIDS in general, and I real ly wanted to come out here to ed ucate myself and learn a little more about it,” she said. Marcous Gardner, program di f rector for the Health and Wellness Programs at the Thomson Student Health Center, coordinated USC’s participation in the World AIDS Day events. “The primary purpose of this event is really just to raise cam pus awareness and education about the devastating impact that HIV is having on young people, es pecially teenagers and young adults,” Gardner said. He said the march and rally, which are annual events, help get students involved in the cause by inviting student organizations to use their own “creative design to somehow express their view about this epidemic.” Health and Wellness Programs also conducted an HIV/AIDS Orasure testing campaign last week as part of World AIDS Day programs. More than 130 students came to the center for HIV test ing. Coble said World AIDS Day was “designated to increase awareness and understanding of mv/Aiua as a global chal lenge,” and he encouraged Columbia resi dents to “take part in HIV pre vention activi ties and pro grams” and to “join the global effort to prevent further spread of HIV and AIDS.” The event con tinued with other features, includ ing Christmas carols sung by members of the Bibleway Church of Atlas Road; a Panamanian dance; rapping by the hip-hop artist Allen Rauch, aka Good-Sun; and tolling of church bells in remembrance. Fourth-year electronic jour nalism student Shawn Skillman said he enjoyed the program but that he would like to see events like this more frequently. “I think it’s an outstanding thing that they’re doing, but I would like to see it happen more often,” Skillman said. “If it was more constant thing, more people would be aware of it, more people would try to help out more.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com me aiaie nouse steps, bordering a giant red rib bon. Students lined the steps with commemo rative objects that supported friends and fam ily affected by the AIDS virus. Meghan Tomarchio, a second-year biol ogy student at - USC, said she 9 was there be cause her soror ity, Alpha Chi Omega, made a “As people, we must take total responsibility to know our HIV status and to know that the sexual decisions we make impact us and our loved ones. HIV is preventable. It begins with us - each one of us.” DONALD WOOD CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE MIDLANDS HIV PREVENTION COLLABORATION High court takes on admissions lawsuits BY MEGAN HAYES AND JORDAN SCHRADER MICHIGAN DAILY (II. MICHIGAN) (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, MICH. - A new national prece dent clarifying the use of race conscious admissions policies is forthcoming, with the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments for both lawsuits filed against the University of Michigan’s admissions poli cies next spring. The Court’s decision will mark an end to five years of le gal wrangling over the univer sity’s admissions policies and resolve conflicting opinions is sued in the nation’s lower courts. “We are ready to defend our selves vigorously,” university President Mary Sue Coleman said after the Court announced its decision Monday to hear the cases. The university was sued in 1997 by two white applicants, Barbara Grutter and Jennifer Gratz, who were denied admis sion to the Law School and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, respectively. The plaintiffs say they were reject ed from the university, while less-qualified minority appli cants were admitted. The Supreme Court will hear the Law School and un dergraduate admissions cases, although the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has yet to rule on the undergraduate case. The 6th Circuit upheld the university’s Law School ad missions policies in a decision in May. Despite previously asking the Supreme Court not to hear the cases, university officials said they were optimistic about the chances of a favor able Court ruling. “All along, we have devel oped our legal strategy with this possibility in mind,” Alger said. “We do believe we have very strong cases here — we are ready to go.” The Center for Individual Rights, a Washington, D.C. based law firm, represents the plaintiffs in both cases. CIR attorney Larry Purdy said they welcome a new Supreme Court standard on the use of race in admissions that will affect the entire nation. “I would hope that they’ll agree unanimously that the use of race and the manner in which the university uses it is inappropriate and wrong,” Purdy said. “Such a ruling, particularly a unanimous rul ing in that regard, would be... wonderful for every student of every race.” Purdy said he was always confident the Supreme Court would hear the admissions cas es, given the division between the lower courts that have ruled on cases challenging the admissions policies of other public universities. “These are clear splits in the approaches taken, and that is one reason the Supreme Court will step in to resolve these cases,” Purdy said. While it is rare for the Court to hear a case not yet ruled onby a fed eral appeals court, it chose to hear Gratz v. Bollinger because it paral lels and supports Grutter v. Bollinger, Wayne State University law Professor Robert Sedler said. “The Court wants to make clear that its decision will not be limited to law schools,” he said. A group of intervenors repre senting the interests of minority high school students, who they said would be denied admission if the university’s policies changed, also defend the use of race in admis sions, but for different reasons. They will argue before the Supreme Court that societal dis crimination can be remedied only by admissions policies that take race into account. “Michigan currently has policies which, without affirmative action, would have a discriminatory effect on minorities,” said Ted Shaw, lead attorney for the intervenors in the undergraduate case. “This is a question of whether we’ll continue to progress and not regress,” he said. 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