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Page 2 The Point News November 21,1994 AIDS Quilt arrives in Southern Maryland, promotes awareness CINDY KING staff writer Portions of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, a tribute to all those who have died of AIDS related complications, will be displayed in Somerset Hall on November 30 from 1 lam-9pm and on December 1 from 9am-4pm. This display will be the highlight of a number of events taking place on campus from November 27 through December 3 inhonor ofWorld AIDS Day. The bringing ofthe AIDS Memorial Quilt to Southern Maryland has been a tremendous task involving both the college community and organizations from Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary’s Counties. The Project requires the help of about 200 volunteers, who will be acting as greeters, readers, quilt monitors and volunteer coordinators. Currently, the organizing committee is still seeking volunteers. (Call 862-0202 for more information.) The first square of the Quilt was made in the 1980’s in San Francisco by Cleve Jones. Jones spray-painted the name of his friend, Marvin Feldman, onto a piece of cloth in protest ofthe AIDS epidemic. Others in the area, driven by the tragedy of AIDS, joined the effort by making their own panels. Soon, people around the world began to learn of the quilt and thousands sent in panels of their own. Today, the Quilt has more than 27,000 panels that cover 16 football fields when fully assembled. The St. Mary’s display will consist of 528 of these three-foot by six-foot panels. Panels come from 29 different countries and were made by family members, friends, and other loved ones. It was Umar Hasan who began the Umar Hasan, who recently passed away due to AIDS complications, initiated the efforts to bring the quilt to Southern Maryland. effort to bring the AIDS Memorial Quilt to St. Mary’s College. Over the summer, Hasan organized a committee to help bring the Quilt to SMC. The Quilt display has now become a tri-county, as well as campus-wide, project. Almost all the offices on campus are involved in the Quilt display, fom Community Service to Athletics and the President’s Office to the Physical Plant. The community has also been supportive of the Quilt display, volunteers working on the project range from high school students to families to the elderly. The display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at St. Mary’s is dedicated in loving memory of Umar Hasan and all those in the tricounty area whohave died of AIDS related complications. Students have also played a large role in bringing the Quilt to St. Mary’s. Lisa Voso, Chair of the Fundraising P r e s i d e n t i a l P r o c l a m a t i o n It used to be the custom~and in some communities it still is--that, when someone died, a single note o f the church bell would be rung, slowly, for many minutes. The tolling was announcement that someone had died. Everyone within sound of the bell would send a family member into the street to ask who had passed away. It was known as “the passing bell,” and it was a strong and simple method o f communication. In 1624, the English poet John Donne used the passing bell in a reflective meditation on our common humanity. We are all connected to each other, he wrote, and the death of even one o f us is as important as if a piece o f a continent were to break off and fall into the sea. The death o f any one person reminds us that each o f us must also die. “Therefore,” he wrote, “send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” The passing bell has tolled for Umar Hasan whom we remember today. He would have us remember that we are all connected, thatnot one o f us lives on a separate, safe island, that AIDS is as final as it is ravaging, and that it impartially infects black and white, male and female, gay and straight, mother and unborn child. Now, therefore, I, Ted Lewis, President o f St. Mary’s College of Maryland, do designate November 30th and December 1st as AIDS Awareness Days, and further ask that all who read and hear this proclamation take it upon themselves to reach out to those who blind themselves to danger and comfort those for whom the realization of our connectedness has come too late. Edward T. Lewis, President St. Mary’s College of Maryland November 17,1994 Committee sees her contribution to the project as a “last gift” to Hasan. The fundraising committee’s goal is to raise $6,000 dollars and although many people have said she will not be able to raise that much money, Voso is still hopeful. Some of the fundraising efforts include the sale of NAMES merchandise, a 50/50 raffle, a car wash, and a bike-a-thon to Point Look Out. Events in coordination with the Quilt display begin on November 27, the Sunday on which students return from Thanksgiving Break, with the showing of the movie And the Band Played On, a film about the history and politics behind AIDS. On Monday, November 28, two films, Common Threads: The AIDS Memorial Quilt and Talking About AIDS: One Man’s Story, will be showing in Lower Charles Hall throughout the day. Monday will also be “One in 250 Day”, look for the red shirts! A program entitled “AIDS: The Effects and How Society Reacts” will take place on Tuesday, November 29 in Library room 321. This program will include a reading of Hasan’s poem “Hurricane Elijah” by the Fomesics Team followed by the movie “Philadelphia” and discussions lead by the Peer Health Educators and the Multicultural Student Advisory. On Wednesday, the Quilt will open in Somerset Hall with a short ceremony at 1 lam and remain open until 9pm. Along with the display will be an AIDS/HIV Education Display and Resource Table. That evening there will be a presentation on “Living with HIV/AIDS” at 8pm in Montgomery 25 and “Philadelphia” will be shown in Library shown in Library room 321 at 9:30pm. ThursdayDecember 1 is World AIDS day and the Quilt will open at 9am in Somerset Hall and remainopenuntil4pm Again, the HIV/ AIDS Education Display and Resource Table will accompany the Quilt display. At 7 o’clock Thursday evening the Forensics Team will be presenting, “A Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Umar Hasan,” in Lower Charles Hall. “Philadelphia” will be shown again onThurs-day evening at 8pm in Library 321. Finally, on December 3 at 8pm in Montgomery 25 Lynne Wolf will be dedicating her Senior Voice Recital to Umar Hasan and the NAMES Project. This week’s sign th a t th e Apocalypse is now u p o n u s: The Ku Klux Klan visited the College last week. After exmember Floyd Cochran finished speaking, cards with a KKK message and artwork were found littering the walkways and roads around Lower Charles Hall. Such an obvious attmept at intimidation is deplorable, that much is clear. It was a blantant attempt to intimidate a man who delivers a powerful anti-Klan message. Perhaps what is less clear is how to respond. Even I grappled with how to cover the issue; accoding to Cochran, race group love to use incidents like these to influence the public agenda. But I doubt they really will, at least not in this instance. Race relations in St. Mary's County appear to be no better or worse than the rest of the country. In the aftermath o f Mr. Cochran's visit it is important to remember thatthe cards left last Thursdayrepresent a certain fringe in the area, and not how a majority o f area residents feel about Mr. Cochran's message. Editor-in-Chief Production Editor Evan Christman Brooks Scoville Assistant Editor Production Assistants Jonathan Allen Bethany Leddy Vice President at Large Andy Kitchenman Aaron Garnett Staff Writers .Sports Editor Cary Fentzloff Cindy Davenport Aaron Koos Sheep Herder Katie Edwards Scott McCormick K.C. Culver Rebecca Miller Graphics Editor Katie Bomstein Mark Smythe Barbara McLean Photographer Rachel Sussman Steve T. Smith Stephanie Edwards Cymantha Governs Advertising Manager Jamie Manfuso Chris Heun Keisha Reynolds Advisor Angela White Judy Landau Typist Carleen Treppe The Point News is published weekly during the academic semester by the students o f St. Mary’s College o f Maryland. The ideas and opinions expressed on its pages are not necessarily those o f the college. We welcome all readers to submit commentaries and letters to the editor. Submissions must be sent to The Point News or dropped o ff at our office in Lower Chaiies Hall. We reserve the right to edit submissions in order to correct errors in spelling and grammar, to shorten length, orto remove libelous statements. The opinions expressed in commentaries and letters to the editor are solely those ofthe writers. Anyone may place advertising in The Point News. For current advertising rates, please call our Advertising Manager at (301) 862-0213 orx4213. Advertisements represent no endorsement by The Point News orthe college. L i q u o r L o c k e r 112A Millison Plaza Lexington Park, MD 20653 (301)863-7990 10% O ff All Wines Tuesday and Wednesday Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-9 Thur.-Sat. 10-10 Sun. 12-8
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FullText | Page 2 The Point News November 21,1994 AIDS Quilt arrives in Southern Maryland, promotes awareness CINDY KING staff writer Portions of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, a tribute to all those who have died of AIDS related complications, will be displayed in Somerset Hall on November 30 from 1 lam-9pm and on December 1 from 9am-4pm. This display will be the highlight of a number of events taking place on campus from November 27 through December 3 inhonor ofWorld AIDS Day. The bringing ofthe AIDS Memorial Quilt to Southern Maryland has been a tremendous task involving both the college community and organizations from Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary’s Counties. The Project requires the help of about 200 volunteers, who will be acting as greeters, readers, quilt monitors and volunteer coordinators. Currently, the organizing committee is still seeking volunteers. (Call 862-0202 for more information.) The first square of the Quilt was made in the 1980’s in San Francisco by Cleve Jones. Jones spray-painted the name of his friend, Marvin Feldman, onto a piece of cloth in protest ofthe AIDS epidemic. Others in the area, driven by the tragedy of AIDS, joined the effort by making their own panels. Soon, people around the world began to learn of the quilt and thousands sent in panels of their own. Today, the Quilt has more than 27,000 panels that cover 16 football fields when fully assembled. The St. Mary’s display will consist of 528 of these three-foot by six-foot panels. Panels come from 29 different countries and were made by family members, friends, and other loved ones. It was Umar Hasan who began the Umar Hasan, who recently passed away due to AIDS complications, initiated the efforts to bring the quilt to Southern Maryland. effort to bring the AIDS Memorial Quilt to St. Mary’s College. Over the summer, Hasan organized a committee to help bring the Quilt to SMC. The Quilt display has now become a tri-county, as well as campus-wide, project. Almost all the offices on campus are involved in the Quilt display, fom Community Service to Athletics and the President’s Office to the Physical Plant. The community has also been supportive of the Quilt display, volunteers working on the project range from high school students to families to the elderly. The display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at St. Mary’s is dedicated in loving memory of Umar Hasan and all those in the tricounty area whohave died of AIDS related complications. Students have also played a large role in bringing the Quilt to St. Mary’s. Lisa Voso, Chair of the Fundraising P r e s i d e n t i a l P r o c l a m a t i o n It used to be the custom~and in some communities it still is--that, when someone died, a single note o f the church bell would be rung, slowly, for many minutes. The tolling was announcement that someone had died. Everyone within sound of the bell would send a family member into the street to ask who had passed away. It was known as “the passing bell,” and it was a strong and simple method o f communication. In 1624, the English poet John Donne used the passing bell in a reflective meditation on our common humanity. We are all connected to each other, he wrote, and the death of even one o f us is as important as if a piece o f a continent were to break off and fall into the sea. The death o f any one person reminds us that each o f us must also die. “Therefore,” he wrote, “send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” The passing bell has tolled for Umar Hasan whom we remember today. He would have us remember that we are all connected, thatnot one o f us lives on a separate, safe island, that AIDS is as final as it is ravaging, and that it impartially infects black and white, male and female, gay and straight, mother and unborn child. Now, therefore, I, Ted Lewis, President o f St. Mary’s College of Maryland, do designate November 30th and December 1st as AIDS Awareness Days, and further ask that all who read and hear this proclamation take it upon themselves to reach out to those who blind themselves to danger and comfort those for whom the realization of our connectedness has come too late. Edward T. Lewis, President St. Mary’s College of Maryland November 17,1994 Committee sees her contribution to the project as a “last gift” to Hasan. The fundraising committee’s goal is to raise $6,000 dollars and although many people have said she will not be able to raise that much money, Voso is still hopeful. Some of the fundraising efforts include the sale of NAMES merchandise, a 50/50 raffle, a car wash, and a bike-a-thon to Point Look Out. Events in coordination with the Quilt display begin on November 27, the Sunday on which students return from Thanksgiving Break, with the showing of the movie And the Band Played On, a film about the history and politics behind AIDS. On Monday, November 28, two films, Common Threads: The AIDS Memorial Quilt and Talking About AIDS: One Man’s Story, will be showing in Lower Charles Hall throughout the day. Monday will also be “One in 250 Day”, look for the red shirts! A program entitled “AIDS: The Effects and How Society Reacts” will take place on Tuesday, November 29 in Library room 321. This program will include a reading of Hasan’s poem “Hurricane Elijah” by the Fomesics Team followed by the movie “Philadelphia” and discussions lead by the Peer Health Educators and the Multicultural Student Advisory. On Wednesday, the Quilt will open in Somerset Hall with a short ceremony at 1 lam and remain open until 9pm. Along with the display will be an AIDS/HIV Education Display and Resource Table. That evening there will be a presentation on “Living with HIV/AIDS” at 8pm in Montgomery 25 and “Philadelphia” will be shown in Library shown in Library room 321 at 9:30pm. ThursdayDecember 1 is World AIDS day and the Quilt will open at 9am in Somerset Hall and remainopenuntil4pm Again, the HIV/ AIDS Education Display and Resource Table will accompany the Quilt display. At 7 o’clock Thursday evening the Forensics Team will be presenting, “A Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Umar Hasan,” in Lower Charles Hall. “Philadelphia” will be shown again onThurs-day evening at 8pm in Library 321. Finally, on December 3 at 8pm in Montgomery 25 Lynne Wolf will be dedicating her Senior Voice Recital to Umar Hasan and the NAMES Project. This week’s sign th a t th e Apocalypse is now u p o n u s: The Ku Klux Klan visited the College last week. After exmember Floyd Cochran finished speaking, cards with a KKK message and artwork were found littering the walkways and roads around Lower Charles Hall. Such an obvious attmept at intimidation is deplorable, that much is clear. It was a blantant attempt to intimidate a man who delivers a powerful anti-Klan message. Perhaps what is less clear is how to respond. Even I grappled with how to cover the issue; accoding to Cochran, race group love to use incidents like these to influence the public agenda. But I doubt they really will, at least not in this instance. Race relations in St. Mary's County appear to be no better or worse than the rest of the country. In the aftermath o f Mr. Cochran's visit it is important to remember thatthe cards left last Thursdayrepresent a certain fringe in the area, and not how a majority o f area residents feel about Mr. Cochran's message. Editor-in-Chief Production Editor Evan Christman Brooks Scoville Assistant Editor Production Assistants Jonathan Allen Bethany Leddy Vice President at Large Andy Kitchenman Aaron Garnett Staff Writers .Sports Editor Cary Fentzloff Cindy Davenport Aaron Koos Sheep Herder Katie Edwards Scott McCormick K.C. Culver Rebecca Miller Graphics Editor Katie Bomstein Mark Smythe Barbara McLean Photographer Rachel Sussman Steve T. Smith Stephanie Edwards Cymantha Governs Advertising Manager Jamie Manfuso Chris Heun Keisha Reynolds Advisor Angela White Judy Landau Typist Carleen Treppe The Point News is published weekly during the academic semester by the students o f St. Mary’s College o f Maryland. The ideas and opinions expressed on its pages are not necessarily those o f the college. We welcome all readers to submit commentaries and letters to the editor. Submissions must be sent to The Point News or dropped o ff at our office in Lower Chaiies Hall. We reserve the right to edit submissions in order to correct errors in spelling and grammar, to shorten length, orto remove libelous statements. The opinions expressed in commentaries and letters to the editor are solely those ofthe writers. Anyone may place advertising in The Point News. For current advertising rates, please call our Advertising Manager at (301) 862-0213 orx4213. Advertisements represent no endorsement by The Point News orthe college. L i q u o r L o c k e r 112A Millison Plaza Lexington Park, MD 20653 (301)863-7990 10% O ff All Wines Tuesday and Wednesday Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-9 Thur.-Sat. 10-10 Sun. 12-8 |