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FRIDAY, May 26,2000
The Western Front Western Washington University Volume 112 Issue 17 Bellingham, Washington
Rally garners gay pride support
By Siobhan Millhouse
THE WESTERN FRONT
The theme was self pride,
forming a community and giving
a voice to people that don't follow
mainstream ideas regarding sex- -
ual orientation.
The Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/
Transgender Alliance hosted its
second annual <*ay Pride Rally
Thursday in the Performing Arts
Center plaza for a crowd of
approximately 90 people. The
rally is part of the events for Gay
Pride Month.
"(The rally) is to create an.
awareness that there are queer
people on this campus," said
Darci Teveliet, Radical Queer
Cheers cheerleader and LGBTA
volunteer, adding, it's "to cele­brate
and be thankful for the
communitywe have."
Western students are fortu­nate
to have the LGBTA and
See PRIDE, page 7
Jonathan Simmons/The Western Front
The "Radical Cheer Queers" pump up the crowd at the beginning of the rally.
Committee appointments anger students
Foundation's committee for socially
responsible investing slap in the face'
Bronlea Hawkins /The Western Front
Victor Cox, Patrick Taylor and Shane Powell discuss the
Western Foundation's newly-formed committee.
By Bronlea Hawkins
THE WESTERN FRONT
Associated Students Presi­dent
Victor Cox is angry.
So are Western students
Patrick Taylor, Seth Vidaiia and
Planet editor Shane Powell.
They are upset about the
Western Foundation's choice of
Dennis Murphy,' Dean of the
College of Business and
Economics, to serve on a three-person
Finance and Audit sub­committee
in charge of deciding
whether or not to implement a
policy of socially responsible
investing.
"We already know Mr.
Murphy's position on this,"
Powell said. "It seems like a
slap in the face that he is on the
committee."
In the Winter 2000 edition of
the Planet, Powell wrote an
article questioning the nature
of the Western Foundation's
investments, which Murphy
responded to by saying, "I am
taken aback by the tone, lan­guage,
assertions and outright
mistakes of the publication."
Murphy said the problems
See COMMITTEE, page 6
Women with HIV focus of conference
Terrill Simecki/
The Western Front
Michelle Dever of the Ever­green
AIDS Foundation.
By Stephanie Kosonen
THE WESTERN FRONT
An estimated 160,000 women
in America have inV, according
to HIV Plus, a magazine that
covers HTV treatment.
The Evergreen AIDS
Foundation put on a conference
providing information on HIV
and women Thursday at St.
Luke's Community Health
Education Center.
Jonathan Hoskins, executive
director of the Evergreen AIDS
Foundation, welcomed about 70
women and men to the confer­ence.
He said the purpose of the
conference Was to educate
women in rural areas about HTV
and AIDS.
"By 2002 or 2003, everybody
will know somebody who has
HIV or AIDS," Hoskins said.
Artwork by women, living with
HIV was displayed at the con­ference.
A colorful painting of a
naked woman lost its seductive­ness
when the red lettering
along the border was read:
"What will I do without you?
Your death is my inspiration."
Women can progress to an
AIDS-defining illness at a lower
viral load than men. Viral loads
measure the number of repro­ductions
the virus has made in
the body. Women are also more
likely to develop rashes from
drugs like Virimune, and when
they do get rashes they are usu­ally
worse than the men's.
Speaker Brian Colledge gave
information on treatment
options for women called Highly
Active Antiviral Retro
Treatment.
The options include several
combinations of drugs. Short-term
side effects of most HIV
drugs are nausea, diarrhea,
rashes, depression, fatigue and
flu-like symptoms. Diarrhea is
especially dangerous because it
can flush out drugs that a
patient is taking before they are
fully metabolized.
Long-term side effects of HTV
drugs include fat accumulation,
fat loss, blood fat increases and
hair loss, which sometimes
causes patients to lose their toe­nails.
Impotence among men is also
common, so Viagra is frequently
prescribed for men living with
Hrv.
Colledge said women should
See HTV, page 6
ATUS tests
software to
limit pages
per student
By Liam House-Doyle
THE WESTERN FRONT
In an effort to control "waste­ful"
and rising volume of print­ing
in campus computer labs,
Academic and Technology and
User Services is testing a soft­ware
program that will limit
the number of pages students
can print per quarter.
"We need to put a lid on it,"
said Rob Galbraith, assistant
director of ATUS.
The page-counting software
is being tested on an offline
server to determine its compat­ibility
with Western's environ­ment.
The system could be used
as soon as fall quarter,
Galbraith said.
"I think we have found some­thing
workable without being
onerous to students," Galbraith
said.
The University of Idaho
implemented a print quota in
fall 1997 with the same com­puter
software — called P
Counter — that ATUS is test­ing.
U.I.'s technology services
studied the amount of printing
in labs after the first year and
found less than 2 percent of
users printed more than their
allowance.
Students who used more than
their 500-page-per-semester
limit were asked to pay 5 cents
per page in increments of 20
pages. The students could mon­itor
their page usage.
See PAPER, page 8
IN THIS ISSUE
Quack of the bat
Intramural softball team,
Ducks on the Pond, fought
for the title in the champi­onship
game Thursday
night. ,
See page 14. .
Macaroni Mama
Pat Oleszko,
world-renowned
performance
artist, dis­played
"ped­estrian
sculp­ture/'
which uses her body
as a medium for fanciful
interpretations of dress.
See page 10.
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