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Heroes?). Never mind / always get those two guys
mixed up. Here we go again with 0. <5 A. fun.
1. What kind of shoes does the Pope wear?
For most high and holy ceremonial occasions, Catho
lic Popes wear red slippers traditionally called ‘the
shoes of the fisherman." a tribute to the big fisherman,
St. Peter. Morris West wrote a novel in 1963 called The
Shoes Of The Fisherman. The Pope's badassed Pope
hat is called a mitre. I wonder if Pope John Paul will be
replaced by Pope George Ringo. By the way, the
current Pope was just named “sexiest man alive" by the
editors of Papal magazine.
Z. The new space shuttle took off the other day. How
much does each shuttle cost?
Each shuttle costs around a cool $2 billion, and
shuttle launches can cost as much as a half billion
dollars per flight. Shuttles will probably be in use for the
next25 or 30 years, when it is hoped something simpler
and less expensive replaces it. Plans are m the works for
an “Aerospace Plane ’ that can take off and land on a
conventional runway much like an airliner. The new
shuttle, Endeavor, is a replacement for the orbiter Chal
lenger that exploded after laurtcn in 1986, killing its crew
of 7 astronauts. The other shuttles are Columbia, Dis
covery, and Atlantis. All are named after Nstoric sailing
vessels. There is an Athens connection to the new
shuttle Endeavor. On board is Astronaut Pierre Thuot.
brother of Athenian S>eve (Steve-O) Thuot. Bon voyage,
tuchy Pierre.
3. Where are all these ‘Andre The Giant* stickers
coming from?
I've seen one of them pasted to a wall but have no
idea where they come from. Maybe the anthropology
department is putting them up in an effort to show that
the “missing link “ lives even if Elvts doesn 1. Pro wrestler
Andre has a lot of fans. Then again, there are people
who think the moon landing was fake and wrestling is
real. Who can figure it?
Send your Questions to EDS ANSWERS. P.O. Box
1027. Athens, GA, 30603.
May 13, 1992
We Get Letters: P.O. Box 1027, 30603
Adolescents: the new face of AIDS
A couple of weeks ago, I called the Covenant House in i tw o
City The Covenant House provides services to homeless you ,
runaways, throwaways, etc I asked the hotline worker how many kids
who requested services, were infected with HIV 9 He guesstim<. e
that the majority of the kids were infected, probably about eig
percent EIGHTY PERCENT? 7 " That is absolutely amazing and
incredibly sad t
We have an epidemic in this population, and it did not s^an
yesterday! 7
Regardless of you" views, opinions, or beliefs about Govemer zeii
Miller. I encourage you to write him and say THANK YOU for the veto
of House Bill 1837 if this bill nad passed. I predict that even more
adolescents would have become infected with HlV This bill would
have limited AIDS/sex education m the schools, ie <t prohibits
taachers from "encouraging" premarital sex or other illegal sex acts.
Believe me when I say that I know firsthand that our public school
system sucks when it comes to sex and AIDS education By not
providing this information, the phrase "societal neglect comes to
mind Because of the fact that we are censoring, many of our
adolescents are not getting the full picture of AIDS and sexuality
When I say censoring, I am talking about the people who think talkng
about sex means only talking about abstinence We shou'd talk about
oKctin£vrw~Q hi it \A/a chm i!H tnll< nhnut nravsnlion and risk reduc*
tion as well
Ttie fact remains that our adolescents are sexually active and
need this information We need persons who are role-monels, speak
kids’ language and are not afraid to demonstrate condom use with a
banana or say "anal, oral or vaginal" when descibing sexual activity
I am sick of hearing that the school system has no right to talk with "my
kids" about sex and AIDS-related issues How many of your parents
sat down with you and talked with you about the 'birds and the bees 9
Did they talk "with" you, or did they stick a bock under your bedroom
door in hopes that you would read it 9
Society in general is uncomfortaoie with sex and death Unfortu
nately, AiDS covers both topics If we could somehow encourage our
school systems to play an active role in this topic. I bet vie could help
a lot of kids reduce their chance of becoming infected I really don't
see the tragedy in talking about AIDS In my mind, there is no tragedy
unless a person becomes infected, and there is reason to believe 1
could have been avoided
Times are different !l would be nice to think that the only thing we
have to worry about is becoming pregnanl, but now we must think
about our lives and the tact that our behaviours tooay may influence
the quality of life that we may or may net have in the next decades to
come. Remember, the estimates say that every 13 minutes someone
is infected with HIV. Every 13 minutes, a person could learn some
thing about HIV. I choose education and life. Which do you choose 9
Write your legislators. Vote. Wear latex condoms. Talk about
AIDS Attend the next AIDS 101 (call 872-0600). Love someone wi:>
AIDS Fight AIDS, not people with AIDS.
Terri L. Wilder
Beware the Flagpole...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a letter concerning my views cr J -
Greenia s writing (Dissin the Movie Dope). I was appalled to fina •• .•
instead of addressing my points, you chose instead to criticize m y
"lack of intestinal fortitude" for keeping my name anonymous A v .
later, you announced that you would not accept any more anonym:
letters, calling them “spineless."
I left my name anonymous for very deliberate reasons I feel that
muen of Greenia's woik is self-aggrandizing - he seems to write only
to amuse himself and to draw attention to his pseudo-hip Athens
smugness By not attaching my name to the letter. I wanted to stress
the criticisms, not who wrote them.
What is so “spineless’ about not leaving your name 9 Are a buncr'
of guys in Flagpole T-shirts going to hunt me down and kill me 9 Exact'y
what do I have to fear here, fellas?
In the future, please be professional enough to understand why a
person would write anonymously. Just because Flagpole is run by
Greemas doesn't mean that all of them should write for it And if you
must know, my name is....
Scott Tob.as
Yeah, right. Like we re supposed to believe that “Scott Tobias' s
your actual name. Do you take us for fools? Are we really expected to
swallow the idea that your mother would name her child after an
infamous eighteenth century serial killer? Come on "Scott," you'll have
to be more creative than that. Please don't ask us to give an explanation
for your insufferable cowardice. Only you you can tell us why you must
hurl your childish taunts and insults from behind the cover ot an
obviously transparent pseudonym. You and your kind make me sick
But have no fear 'Scott." we wouldn ? waste any of our Flagpole mus cle
on such a craven, sniveling, little milksop as yourself — ed
Flagpole likes letters more than anything They should be con
cisely written, typed, signed, and include a phone number. We w Unot
print anonymous letters without good reason (spinelessness does not
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