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To address the mys-teries about the AIDS virus, while creating awareness on the UM campus, K	World AIDS Day was
presented to students on Wednesday.
Sponsored by Aware, SHAC (Students Helping to Advance the Community), GLBC and various health agencies. World AIDS Day also addressed new research and treatment methods of the disease.
"I hope students will learn new information. Students who take the time to look the information are going to get something out of it," said senior Tim Morrison, president of Aware.
With free AIDS tests, pamphlets, condoms and a candle-light vigil, students on their way to and from class automatically became a part of the event.
"I was just passing by and they stopped me," said senior Debbie Guzman. "I think it's a reminder that keeps us all aware.”
Many took advantage of the goodies being handed out in the breezeway such as the condoms and red ribbons.
"They were giving out free condoms, which is very good because college students are having sex," said senior Lauren Reiner. "I think students know what to do, but not everyone is smart with it."
Senior Dawn D'Antonio agrees, "I think everyone is aware, but they are not as concerned."
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that the facts surrounding the issue of AIDS can never be stressed enough.
"I think it has to be an everyday thing, but that would be too much to ask," said junior Nicole Barth.
Although the number of AIDS cases are increasing among students, according to the Department of Public Health, some students think that the information should be available to the them, but not forced.
Freshman Phil Prisco feels that with a good conscience, students will make the right deci sions.
"You hear different people talk how they use condoms. I think they all know how they have to act. You shouldn't have to force it upon them. If they want to do the right thing, they'll do it." he said.
According to Lori Jordahl, manager of counseling services at the Department of Public Health, over 100 students participated in the free AIDS test. Throughout the testing, students were able to ask questions about AIDS.
"They are nervous, anxious, relieved and shocked. Not everyone was aware the ways you can get HIV. They were shocked to find out that you can get it from having oral sex," Jordahl said.
Morrison thinks that even though some students chose not to take advantage of the literature or services being offered, their awareness was increased in some way, even if they just walked on by.
"Just by the fact it's happening, they are learning," he said.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: Lindsay Hurd (right) helps Natalie Wauker light a candle for a campus World AIDS Day Vigil held on the Eaton Terrace. They had prayers and shared stories of friends and family that have died from AIDS.
AIDS Day volunteers could not help but feel
‘Student X’ speaks out
Scott tells his side of Law files story
By KELLY RUANE
News Editor
One year after David ^cott found a plain manila envelope in his mailbox at the Res Ipsa Loquitur, the University of Miami Law School's newspaper, the Law School is still caught in a maelstorm of unresolved issues.
Scott, a law student and former editor of the Res Ipsa, was disciplined by the Law School Honor Council for interfering with the rights of students to pursue their education free from any real need to justify their existence at the Law.School. The Law School has named him "Student X" to keep the matters confidential.
Scott said he feels he had been "banished from the Law School social com-
munity." He said he was forced to resign from his presidency of the Federalist Society, a national law organization, and prohibited from attending social functions at the Law School.
Scott said he is also prohibited from writing in the Res Ipsa. Scott said recently the Res Ipsa attempted to publish one of his letters to the editor. Scott said the Law School administration said he could write letters to the editor. He said professor Mary Doyle, who wrote his Honor Council conviction, refused to sign a paper prohibiting Scott from writing a letter to the editor.
"She didn't want me walking around carrying a paper with her signature denying me my freedom of speech," Scott
said.
Scott said before the Res Ipsa could publish the letter, the University General Counsel stepped in and said Scott could not publish anything.
Adam Beighley, editor in chief of the Res Ipsa, said the General Counsel's Office never told him anything directly. Beighley said he asked four deans at the Law School if he could print any material obtained from "Student X."
"I got four different answers. One dean told me he could only write a letter. One dean said he could write an article," Beighley said. "One said he couldn't write anything, and the other didn't know."
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Graduate School may face restructuring plan
By KELLY RUANE
News Editor
The University of Miami Graduate School may soon be undergoing changes proposed by the administration.
University President Edward T. Foote II and Provost Luis Glaser proposed an idea to decentralize the graduate school and to combine the position of the dean of the graduate school and the vice provost for research into one position. The person in this position would be working from the Medical School campus.
Tarek M. Khalil, dean of the Graduate School, said the plan is not yet definite.
"The plans are not clear yet," Khalil said. "It's in the stage of discussion with the different groups that are interested."
Glaser did not return several phone calls about the plan.
Susan Frauenglass, president of the Graduate Students Association, said this decentralization of the Graduate School would mean drastic changes.
"Right now there's a centralized graduate school overseeing 10 colleges," Frauenglass said. "The University would like to decentralize the Graduate School. Each department would become responsible for all of its own administrative functions."
Frauenglass said the administration's explanation for combining the dean's position with vice provost for research is that the administration “feels research and graduate studies are 'inextricably combined.'
“Since the bulk of funded research occurs at the Medical School, [the administration] feels that's where this position should be housed,” Frauenglass said.
In a letter drafted by the Leadership Council of GSA, Frauenglass and others said the relationship between research and graduate studies "is not absolute."
Frauenglass said GSA is opposed to this restructuring. She said students feel the restructuring will be detrimental to the Graduate School.
"Students are primarily concerned with the academic integrity of graduate education at UM and the ability of the dean of the graduate school to support all grad
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Spreading Holiday Spirit
HOLIDAY SPIRIT: Valerie Davis sings jazzy Christmas carols at the University Center in celebration of the upcoming holiday season.
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