Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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Get fh facl» Brochures available on campus attempt to make students aware of the problem photo by S i Peze Taking lima Students are now spending more time getting to know each other belore becoming intimate photo by S ri Peze AIOS 19

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Students face the problem of AIDS on't worry, be happy” seemed to be the words of the student majority as they attempt to surmount the pressures of classes and social life, but when it comes to the issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) worrying became a factor of life Although a very serious issue, AIDS is becoming second nature to many individuals as they learn to accept the facts and persons with the disease Radford University and the Radford City Task Force on AIDS has worked together to maintain awareness on campus and the surrounding community. One event sponsored by Student Life and the Task Force was a lecture given by Dr Margaret Bridwell, the Director of Student Health Services at the University of Maryland. People are becoming AIDS-out by all the information presented on the disease. This statement is mainly due to the fact that the majority of the people being exposed to the information are educated and very much aware The tar- CAMPUS D get group are those that are serious about the issue One senior pointed cut t he doesn’t let it bother much because of the known fact that AIDS wil o initely be around for a vsf We're going to have to I-with it ... like an extra root mate. he said. AIDS means death As this writing there hasn't beer reported case of recovery Although many people a taking advantage of opp? nities to learn more ab: AIDS, some still feel that vast majority of people i campus and community-w are not really informed ate the disease. According Bridwell and many RU s' dents, education is that h factor to becoming knot edgeable of AIDS In a report by the Virgr Epidemeology (VAEPI), as August 1. 1988 there 69.366 reported cases of AC in the United States. Virgr had a reported case o' 8 with Southwestern Virgr supplying 51 of those cases There is not a prevalent fc that there are persons w AIDS at RU The odds, ho ever, are too high to bew otherwise about RU or air, a lege campus. Learn the fao and establish relations based on caring more than; sex was the message suppk by the VA Department Health via the AIDS hotline hard fact to face, but nol i possible, is that living ■ AIDS is becoming a necess and no longer a choice by Tony Philpott Which brand to uta? Student! concern themselves with the safev sex photo by Swi Peze 18 Campus Life

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Steven Wright cracks people up at Homecoming ‘TfC to me earing a black leather jacket, corduroy jeans and Reeboks, Steven Wright entered his dressing room where we were anxiously waiting to interview him. Not knowing how he would act because of his stoic personality on stage, Wright proved to us that he was a down-to-earth, friendly man, who actually smiles. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Wright became interested in comedy when he was young I watched the Johnny Carson show night after night until I got hooked on stand-up comedians I wanted to make people laugh, Wright said. Wright's monotone delivery developed during his first per formance. I was nervous, that's what came out. People thought it was funny, so I kept it. Wright said. During one of his performances at Ding Ho's Comedy Club and Chinese Restaurant, in Cambridge. Mass.. Wright was discovered by Peter Las sally, producer of the Tonight Show . Wright was booked immediately to make his first appearance. Since then, he has been on the Tonight Show serval times. Saturday Night Live , Late Night With David Letterman and HBO specials. Wright said he was never the class clown. I was shy and still am to a certain extent. I thought I was funny with the two or three people I hung with. I never wanted the attention of the class. Wright says he takes his jokes from real life experiences I can't just sit in a room and write I have to go around day by day and I see or hear something and it makes me think — comedy is twisting reality. I can't think of setting a joke up; I have to see something and that will click something in my head. What I can make up is the second half, which is the joke part. by Elian Crapser and Susan Rembecki CAMPLS w 20 Campus Life