University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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 and talking about safety and evolves, fi- nally. into action ' We., here at KSC, may see AIDS as something that is only a threat in other states, states with a much higher popula- tion. Not so. In an August 31, 1987, issue of the Kearney Daily Hub, an article on AIDS stated: “A Nebraska Health De- partment draft report estimated that Nebraska could record 672 cases of AIDS by the end of 1991. 35 AIDS cases have been diagnosed in Nebraska -------------------------- since 1983 ' Gloria Tye, head registered nurse and direc- tor of the Stu- dent Health Ser- vices office at = KSC, indicated that Student Health Services has be- come actively involved in educating stu- dents, faculty and staff to the risk of AIDS HiTS HOME AIDS through the programs they have developed in the last two years. Some of the services that Student Health offers include: providing educa- tional sessions to residence hall direc- tors, residence assitants and peer health counselors; loaning educational videos out from the video library to instructors for use in the classroom and giving bro- chures and bookmarks to the library and bookstores. Student Health has also worked with other KSC departments, such as: physical education, home eco- nomics, school of nursing, residence life, counseling and many more by providing information or furnishing a speaker to help educate others about AIDS. “We’ve targeted on the freshman class this year with informational pack- ets on sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS,” Tye said. She also says that there has been a lot of interest in their programs but the demand is more from faculty and staff. She said that KSC isn't all that much dif- ferent from other colleges and universi- ties across the nation. “They’ve shown average concern as compared to others ' According to Tye, many young people don’t really have a great deal of concern about AIDS, or any other disease, be- About half of all college stu- dents say the threat of AIDS has caused them to change their sexu- al habits. ” —Glamour cause they have a hard time seeing them- selves becoming infected with a disease. We all, however, must face AIDS, no matter where we live or how old we are. This is what students must realize now, before it's too late. AIDS is here and it's not just going to go away if we ignore it - so face it! As far as age is concerned, the AIDS victims are almost all young. The report in the August 10, 1987, issue of Newsweek, included a photo display of 302 men, worn- --------------------- en, and children, all who died of AIDS in the pre- vious 12 months. “They are only a small frac- tion of the 4,000 known so far to have died during that time the article read. But taken to- gether, they form a mosaic portrait of the face of AIDS in America. It is a young face, for the most part; the people pic- tured ranged from an infant of one year to a widow of 87. The mean age was 36, and their common lot was the loss of their best years.” Newsweek goes on to say: “The census of the dead stands at 22,548 now, by the govern- ment’s conservative count. As many as a million and a half more Ameri- THE FACE OF AMDS iS YOVXG cans are thought to be infected with the AIDS virus. No preventative medicine except prudence is any- where in sight, and neither is a cure. The toll, accordingly, has nowhere to go but up; how high remains a matter of educated guesswork, but one re- sponsible estimate is that the body count will have reached 179,000 by 1991. Since the AIDS epidemic has hit America, one fact is certainly clear now in 1988: we certainly have come a long way since the sexual revolution was launched in the 60s. “The mass shedding of erotic inhib- itions that began in the mid 1960s was the product of several important histori- cal coincidences: The Pill became com- mercially available; large numbers of sin- gle, self-supporting women poured into THE POWER OF CHOICE MS COSTEY the nation’s cities; the baby-boom gener- ation hit its libido-crazed adolescence, according to the August Cosmopolitan, “High on their youth, rebellion, rock mu- sic and pot, the boomers undressed in re- cord numbers to the slogan 'Make Love, Not War Looking back now, one can’t help but wonder if it ail was really worth it Sure, it increased openness, but how much did we lose because of the sexual revolution? We now have AIDS, and ac- cording to Cosmopolitan (August, 1987), a need for making love in a fully commit- ted and loving relationship seems to have been “missing since the sexual revolu- tion when sex became “just sex. These two factors are key reasons why our sexu- al attitudes must and are starting to change. “So many Cosmopolitan readers wrote negatively about the sexual revo- lution, expressing longings for vanished intimacy and the now elusive joys of ro- mance and commitment, that we began Sexual Attitudes UEN MM EM 1 ULkril In tfmiofendo you imiftact N MT 2m 25% 20% 12% Usstfanonuimorth 20% 30% 21% 17% OnceortMtoMinorth 28% 12% 22% 13% Uott U»n Mot i north 2 % 33% ; 36% I 51% mmmwmM Y« 28% 32% 40% | 33% tStel It about right 80% 72% B3% | 55% H ft mores ! 17% 22% 33% 43% rtf nee in 3% -i e% 4% 1 2% 43% Y« I 43% to sense there might be a sexual counter- revolution underway in America, the article read. Have we learned anything since 1968? Let’s hope so, and let's also hope that those who haven’t, learn fast. The sad part about AIDS is that the power of choice, which encompasses making the wrong one, could cost you your life. For many it is already too late. Vyj 7

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At Last the new SINCE 1968, MANY THINGS HA VE CHANGED: THE YOUTH’S MUSIC, SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND PEOPLE’S VIEWS TOWARD THEM- SELVES. BLUE GOLD RETURNS TO THAT YEAR VIEWED AS ROMANTIC TO FIND HOW OUR PERSPECTIVES TOD A Y COMPARE TO THOSE OE 1968. The 1960’s will likely be remembered as a decade of great change and un- rest. The year 1968 was the highlighted year during that restless decade which seemed to pinpoint exactly where America stood. That year marked the end of America’s illusion of being a world power in control of itself and on the rise. It also represents the beginning of the realization that the United States was losing the war in Vietnam, a war that many said we should not have been fighting in the first place. Thus, 1968 not only became a year of great political protest, but it as also a year of social and moral change. The civil rights movement was stronger than ever; young men burned their draft tickets to protest the Vietnam War; the youth of America re- belled against authority with many creating their own lifestyle, an approach to life that did not include moral codes or ethics. The youth became the “voice’1 of America as they listened to their acid rock, experimented with various drugs, and included casual sex in their way of life. The year 1968, a time of restlessness, turmoil and change may seem so far away from us now - yet it is not. It is a part of us, a part of our American history and we cannot forget it. We cannot forget all those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War; we cannot forget all those, including a great number of musicians, who died of drug overdoses; we cannot forget the open decline of morality which was creat- ed by the sexual revolution. The important question today we must ask ourselves 20 years later in 1988 is: “Have we learned anything since 1968?” The news stories, the headlines, and the faces of AIDS victims or those who have died of their addiction to cocaine don’t indicate that we have learned our lesson. Yet, according to August 1987 Glamour survey of 1,200 college stu- dents across the nation, “Students today are surprisingly more traditional.” The survey also said, “About half of all college students say the threat of AIDS has caused them to change their sexual habits.” Is AIDS the only catalyst for change? Is AIDS the rea- son why the youth of the 80s see sex in a different light than the generation before them did? Not entirely. The August, 1987, issue of Cosmo- politan printed an article titled “Whatever Happened to Great Sex (and the single girl)?” which discusses the subject of the sexual attitudes of the 80s in comparison to those of the 60s. The article quotes Stephen Josephson, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Cornell Medical Cen- ter in New York, “For the single women I know, both personally and in my practice, sex has become more mundane and infrequent. Partly this is attributable to anxiety about sexually transmitted diseases, but it’s also due to changing values. Increasingly, women want sex exclusively in the context of a fully committed and emotional rela- tionship.” Evidence from the article shows that single women and their lifestyles have changed in the last decade, but it is also evident that the same holds true for most bachelors too. Even the “meeting” place of a potential mate has changed. The health clubs of the 80s seem to have taken the place of the erotic singles bars of the 60s. There still are, of course, those who ignore all risks, especially health risks, and participate frequently in casual sex, but the number of those who do so seems to be growing smaller. In a September, 1987, issue of Glamour an article titled “Sex, Aids, and Pillow Talk” reported that something good did come out of all the terrible news about AIDS. “People are at least beginning to think about their sexual behavior and are trying to talk to their partners about it. People hold AIDS responsible for the death of hard- won sexual freedoms; as with any death, the grieving takes time and always includes some denial. Coming to grips with AIDS is, for many, a process; it begins by thinking Morality 6

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 ROCK- Alive and Kickin'! The generation of today still look back on the 1960s in awe. It was an era that still has a powerful hold on the imaginations of today. Americans grew up in a rush of history that included the student-protest movements and civil rights movements, the drug culture, the rock n’ roll explosion; the war in Viet- nam, the assassinations of its political heroes; the rise and fall of Richard Nix- on, the unbridled growth of nuclear weapons; the birth of the environmental movement, and the liberation of sexuali- ty. Rock 'n’ roll was no longer consid- ered teenage dance music; it tried to con- vey the concerns and opinions of a gener- ation that was prepared to question ev- erything. Bruce Springsteen once said, '‘Because of the naivete of the era, it’s easily trivialized and laughed at. But un- derneath it, 1 think, people were trying in some sense to redefine their own lives and the country that they lived in, in some more open and free and just fash- ion. And that was real; that desire was real.” The year 1967 -------------- was a big year for rock in% roll. It was a year of astonishing debuts by Jimi Hendrix and the “Velvet Under- u I don't like MTV be- cause it changes how we ex- perience music. I don't ground” and the Rol- ling Stones “Be- tween the Buttons”. As concept albums go, “Absolutely Free” or “We’re Only in It for the Money” the two “Mothers of In- vention” LPs released in 1967, not to mention “The Who Sell Out”. Also an excellence piece of psychedelia was the Pink Floyd's “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” One of the most controversial popular albums of today’s and past gen- eration’s is the eighth album of the Beatles, which is their “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. Carol Lomicky, a mass communica- tions instructor at KSC, said “It was the first time that rock was recognized as a work of art, because of the fact that ar- tists were able to put so many innova- tions into one album.” She said that not music. think music should be watched; I think it should be listened to. ” —Lomicky only did the Beatles bring, “respect to the world of rock a9 a whole,” but many doors were opened with the introduction of this record. For instance, it was the first album that introduced an instru- mental classical sound mixed with rock. Also the lyrics were printed on the back cover. To many, the Beatles popularity still remains a mystery, but it is quite ap- parent that because of this mystery and many other factors, they will remain popular with each generation as time goes on. ROLLING STONE AND WOODSTOCK Another new innovation in rock mu- sic was Rolling Stone Magazine which first came out in 1967 with, who else, but John Lennon on the cover. Roiling Stone enlightened the world of music with a touch of politics and news mixed in with the right combination of rock ‘n’ roll. One famous event that will be re- membered in the history of rock ‘n’ roll is what was known as “Woodstock.” Dur- ing this very visible rock marathon all who came were exposed to such greats as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young and many other well- known artists. With the spirit of the fes- tivities in the air, the ----------- crowd was also ex- posed to three hot, rain-soaked days of heavy music (and sometimes even heavier marijuana), but many say they left feeling that they had shared a mystical communal experi- ence. A NEW DECADE FOR ROCK As the ’60s faded into the seventies, rock V roll seemed to lose something, maybe music lost its innocence as the drugs kicked in. Within the space of 10 months, the tragic loss of three of rock ‘n’ roll’s most distinctive voices - Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Jop- lin. Hendrix, 27, died from suffocation after vomiting while unconscious from sleeping pills. Joplin, 27, also died from a drug overdose. Jim Morrison’s cause of death was unknown, because his body was never found although speculation is that it was drug-related. Going farther and faster than any other musical show in history. Hair, the musical that had been a smash hit off Broadway, became a smash hit on Broadway. Another musical that hit the rock scene was the international phe- nomenon, Jesus Christ Superstarf a mu- sical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, that depicted the suffering and crucifixion of the savior. The Jackson Five hit it big in the 1970s years before they made their very successful world tour in the 1980s. Another big success for Broadway and rock V roll was the 1975 all-black version of The Wiz which was later made into a film starring Michael Jackson, Di- ana Ross, among many other familiar ar- tists. A new wave of rockers moved to stardom and accompanied the punk de- pression and disco’s big dance beat. Groups ranging from the Village People, to Blondie to one of the most controver- sial groups, The Sex Pistols. SUCKIN’ IN THE SEVENTIES As the 1980s began there was a burst of energy in rock V roll. New artists, new ideas, new technologies to be explored, and a whole new way to present the mu- sic. According to Lomicky, “You listen to old music for 20 years ago and it’s so simple sounding. The same chords and not a lot of instrument experimentation. With new technology, synthesizers and all that we have now it (the music) sounds bigger not louder, bigger.” With the 1980s, we said good-bye to the wizard of the music world, John Len- non, whose death was mourned and felt all over the world. But with endings also come new be- ginnings as we said hello to Julian Len- non and the rise of Michael Jackson, one of 1981’s hottest marketing products. Jackson brought with him brealcdancing and the sequined glove. Music Television (MTV), another 1980s phenomenon, was one of the most watched cable channels from the start. Its sole purpose was to show works of music to the public. So the artist not only had to worry about how his song would sound, but how it looked. Lomicky, even though she confessed to watching it from time to time had this to say about MTV, “I don’t like it be- cause it changes how we experience mu- sic. I don’t think music should be watched; I think it should be listened to.” m warn Mfl A « v'