University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Blood samples are tested for HIV at the Medical School. Signs warning, Caution , Biological Hazard hang throughout the lab. Greg Emmanuel Michigan Life 19

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- ' t Take note, my friend Since the late 1970 ' s and the early 1980s, the United States has been overwhelmed with cases of Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) and it ' s result, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV belongs to a group of viruses called the lentiviruses, lenti meaning slow . By Cathleen Eckholm Most lentiviruses show appearance of the disease only after roughly one third of the animal ' s life span. HIV has two forms, HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV does not behave as a normal lentivirus in the respect of actual appearance of the disease AIDS. It may take a month for AIDS to infect the victim or it may take up to five years. AIDS is acquired because it can not be transmitted by casual contac t. An exchange of body fluids must take place, through unpro- tected sexual intercourse, mother to fetus, intravenous drug use with dirty needles, or blood transfusions. Blood that is donated is tested very extensively and it is now extremely uncommon for someone to receive infected blood. Lentiviruses such as HIV produce infections that continue for years. HIV, like the Greeks in the Trojan horse, hides in human body cells and is invisible to the body-just as the Greeks soldiers were invisible to the Trojans. At the right moment the virus emerges and spreads from cell to cell. The difference is that Troy fell in only one night, while HIV takes years to conquer the human body. The way that HIV damages the body, or in a sense takes it over, starts with invasion of the cell. After the cell has been invaded, the virus starts reverse transcription, which causes many mutations and forms many different viruses. The viruses do not differ that much, but enough to make it different and behave differently than the original virus. The ultimate goal of the virus is to get its single stranded RNA to become part of the double stranded DN A of the cell. This will in effect be replicated as part of the DNA and passed on through cell reproduc- tion to insure the replication of the virus. HIV starts with the cell, but in the end ruins the immune system of the host. It does this by destroying the Tcells of the immune system that produce antibodies, since the antibodies can not be made to attack foreign proteins, sickness will take over the body. Most AIDS patients will die from pneumonia. HIV and AIDS education became somewhat more prominent in the early 1990s. Health classes, media, and parents helped spread the word about the terrible disease. Leah Fredman, LSA first-year student, said, I learned every- thing that I know about AIDS from my parents and a little from health class. But for less- informed parents, the media served as the biggest educator. Amy Labriola, first-year engineering student, said, My parents were learning about AIDS with me. It is such a relatively new disease, they didn ' t know that much about it either. We have learned all we know from the media. Even with the spread of AIDS education, prejudice against HIV victims persisted - some parents remained fearful of sending their children to school with infected kids. Sam Dudek, LSA first-year student, dismissed that myth, saying, Knowing all that I know about AIDS, I really don ' t see going to school with an AIDS victim as a health risk. Indeed, younger people seemed a targeted and receptive audience of most AIDS-awareness promotions. Senior engineering student, Jeff Zilmer commented, It ' s ridiculous that some parents keep their kids out of school because another child has AIDS. I think people our age are aware of the myths about AIDS and dismiss them. I think the older generation has not been as exposed to AIDS awareness as the younger generation. 18 Michigan Life

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Beostie Boy Aoam Houwtfit?:, better known as AD-ROCK, croons at a concert in Michigan during the summer of ' 92. The Beasties played three shows in the area in support of their neu 1 album , as well as a New Year ' s Eve bash. Their concerts included traditional rap performances in addition to songs played with live instruments. Photo by Molly Stevens Chris Come ! of Soundgarden , one of the first bands to emerge from the Seattle scene , performs at the Lollapalooza 2 festival. Cornell also appeared in the film Singles as a performer and in a small cameo. Soundgarden ' s fusion of grunge rock and traditional metal have been very popular with alternative music fans. Photo by Molly Stevens story by greg emmanuel 20 Michigan Life from grunge to industrial to hip-hop, the 90 ' s saw the rise of so-called alternative music into mainstream popularity. Alternative groups such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana hit the charts alongside Whitney Houston. Lead by the garage band-turned-supergroup Nirvana, the city of Seattle became a hot- bed for music and culture. In an issue of Rolling Stone, the city was described as the forefront of the country ' s musical consciousness. Flannel shirts, ripped jeans, and Doc Marten shoes, all associated with the Seattle scene, became the uniform for the youth culture. The movie Singles, a comedy-love story directed by Cameron Crowe (Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Say Anything) also helped to promote the stardom of Seattle as the soundtrack broke the top ten with music from Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Smashing Pump- kins. Because of the popularity of these bands, the major labels scrambled to sign the next Nirvana offering contracts to young, virtually unknown groups like Helmet and Pavement. The Lollapalooza tour also helped to promote alternative music. The second year of the tour, headlined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who received tremendous commercial success with their ballad Under the Bridge , remained as popular as the first tour featuring the now-defunct Jane ' s Addiction. As the most successful tour of the summer, Lollapalooza 2 proved that the alternative genre ' s popularity was here to stay. Russell Levine, a U of M student who attended this summer ' s concert, said that it was the musical diversity as well as the festival atmosphere that lended to the day ' s excitement. The hard-core industrial act Ministry was widely believed to be the best act on the Lollapalooza bill. Ice-Cube, commented to Rolling Stone reporters concerning Ministry, I love this shit. Anything hard edged, anything parents want to ban and get rid of, I ' m with that. Combined with the success of Nine Inch Nails from a year ago, the loud angry beats of industrial music, previously listened to mostly by college students and alternative music fans, found its way onto mainstream radio air-play and