With “World AIDS Day” on Thursday and the opening of the movie Rent this week, knowledge about the deadly virus is being proliferated, to the delight of many doctors, educators, and health activists. Jesse Schreiber ’08 spent his afternoon on Wednesday at a lecture by a Johns Hopkins University AIDS researcher and then at night took his girlfriend to see Rent.
“She used to listen to that soundtrack all the time,” said Schreiber. He added, “You bet I didn’t get laid!
This week has seen a profound decline in sexual activity and, curiously, usage of public bathrooms.
”You can never be too safe,“ said Kira Rawls ’05, outside of an AIDS benefit concert, to which her boyfriend of three months, Scott Golden ’05, murmured something unintelligible under his breath that sounded like ”trailer hitch.“
Giant red ribbon displays are the only erections being seen this week, as the campus is awash in social awareness and abstinence.
”I never really thought about it before,“ said Ricky Sanchez ’05, ”but AIDS sucks.“
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