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Show Page 2 The Signpost Tuesday August 3, 2004 At A Glance News Editor: Shane Farver PAUL BY BILLY 0 KEEFE Phone: 626-7655 WWW.MRBIUV.COM suce or HAVEPIZZA. A CHEESE THAWS. Tuesday, August 3 •3-5.— Men's Basketball Camp Session Three; 9-1 p.m.; Dee Event Center or Svvenson Gym; $100 per person. NOT ME. JUST 6IVE ME A PLATE O f EXTRA CHEESE ANt> PEPPERON/ ANt> SAUSA6E WJTH A FEW SLICES OF SAMM FOB THE CRUST. NO BREAD FOR ME/ WELL OF COUU&t YOU ARE Fewer deaths make young people complacent about HIV By Emily Ramshaw Knight Ridder Tribune They learned about condoms in gym class and took Magic Johnson's messagefromTV commercials and highway billboards. The slogan "Practice safe sex" was as common as "Buckle up for safety" and "Say'No'to drugs". Yet people younger than 25, who make up just one-third of the U.S. population, account for about 50 percent of all new HIV infections in this country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Young adults are particularly vulnerable, because they're under ihe false impression that HIV is a manageable disease, said Adele Webb, executive director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. "They see it as a chronic thing, they think they can take a pill so what's the big deal?" she said. "The only person they know with it is Magic Johnson, and as far Crossword ACROSS 1 Labor leader Eugene V. 5 Simpson judge 8 Fire from a lowflying aircraft 14 Cinder ending? 15 Forthwith 16 Demosthenes or Cicero 17 Borodin's prince 18 Alliance 19 TexorThelma 20 Fortress 22 Verse rhythm 23 Trap 24 Hold dear 27 Whole number 29 Scare word 30 Friendly contests 34 Meadow in poetry 35 Coastal bird 36 Graven image 37 Furnished with footwear 39 List-ending abbr. 40 Flames' surface 41 Spigot 42 Fine-grained corundum 43 Afternoon affair 44 Twenty Questions classification 47 Married man 49 Make less severe 54 Sharp-tasting 55 Slim 56 Become obvious 58 Greek letter 59 Information 60 More extensive 61 Corral 2 ^ 3 as they know he's doing fine." Most young patients are infected through sex, the CDC reports. Young white gay men Continue to make up a significant number of those patients But blacks are disproportionately affected, accounting for more than half of these new infections. The median age when an HIV patient is first diagnosed with the disease has fallen steadily from 35 in 1978 to 25 in 1990, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers haven't tracked the median age since then. But CDC epidemiologists say the trend persists, and they continue to see younger and younger patients. For example, last year in Dallas County, Texas, nearly 30 percent of new infections occurred in people ages 13 to 29, according to the county's Health and Human Services Department. But local AIDS specialists say that figure is too low. Closer to 45 percent of their newly infected patients are under 25, they estimate. And most come from poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Dallas. Raeline Nobles, executive director of • 4 5 10 HIS 17 ^ H 18 21 23 J_L 32 33[ 36 12 13 4/ & Submissions ••44 1 •Talent in the park presents Public Domain/ Steve Capner & Friends; 7 p.m.; Ogden Amphitheater; free. Thursday, August 5 •5-6 — Child Abuse Conference; 8-5 p.m.; Shepherd Union Building; $150/non-credit students, $175/for college credit. For more information call 626-6516. •WYVERN club meeting; 6- 10:30 p.m.; Shepherd Union Building, Lair; free. For more information, call 451-7356. Friday, August 6 •Campus wide class work ends. •Miss Weber County Scholarship Pageant; 7 p.m.; Browning Center Allred Theatre; $4/ in advance, $5/ at the door. For more information, call 399-8268. •Friday night at the movies presents "The Count of Monte Cristo"; 8:30 p.m.; Ogden Ampitheater; free. Corrections Letters • 40 43 •Freshman Orientation; 9:30-2:30 p.m.; Shepherd Union Building. Tuesday „. , 20 31 Wednesday, August 4 See Solutions page 8 14 30 AIDS Aims, said young adults are part of the reason Dallas is the No.l city in Texas for new infections. "We've talked about AIDS for 20 years now," she said. "But we're still dying out here." Most people whose infection is diagnosed early and who receive treatment live more than 16 years from the day of infection, according to the CDC. Yet one in four infected people doesn't realize he or she has HIV until it's too late. Don Maison, president and chief executive officer of AIDS Services of Dallas, said education can do only so much. Young people are always going to experiment. "It has to do with the mentality you have when you're 18 years old," he said. "You think you're bulletproof. You're healthy; you're vibrant." And the difference with this generation is that they haven't watched their peers die in the same numbers they did 20 years ago, said Paul Scott, executive director of the Resource Center of Dallas. "It used to be, you had 10 friends and you were lucky if you had one left at the end of the year," he said. "They're not seeing the death." •WSU weekly Swing Cats dance session; 7-11 p.m.; Shepherd Union Ballroom; $1. For more information, call 644-1909. 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