The Carolinian [December 5, 2006]

              THIS WEEK: DEC 5. 2006
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SPARTANS SEND TWO TO MLS
COMBINE SPORTS PAGE 8
WEBJUNKIE: A LITTLE ADVICE FOR
THE GUYS LIFE PAGE 10
STAFF EDITORIAL: HATE THE LIFE
SECTION? OPINIONS PAGE 4
2007: A NEW YEAR, AND A NEW
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National AIDS Week ended in Greensboro with the Winter Walk for
AIDS, a community event beginning at War Memorial Auditorium
and winding through downtown.
Iraqi general speaks
about WMD's, Iraq War
Kevin A. Purcell
Staff Writer
Iraqi General
Georges Sada,
a lead consul-tant
for Iraqi
military recon-struction,
gave
a heavily adver-tised
speech in
the auditorium Sada
of the UNCG Science Building last
Thursday evening. The event was put
on by the College Republicans and
was sponsored by multiple off-cam-pus
organizations.
Daryn Iwicki, the president of the
College Republicans, opened by giv-ing
thanks to a list of organizations
and a brief introduction for Sada.
Sada began his speech by thanking
UNCG for having him as well as the
audience of about 100 for their atten-dance.
"It's a great honor for me to be
here," he said.
He continued by giving a short his-tory
of his homeland, Iraq, and told
a little about his accomplishments.
Among these were his book titled
"Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi Gen-eral
Defied & Survived Saddam Hus-sein,"
his studies in the United States,
Britain and the U.S.S.R., and his mili-tary
history.
He then told detailed stories of his
relationship with former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein. Sada served as an
advisor to Hussein and was the head
of the Iraqi Air Force during Husse-in's
reign. These stories ranged from
giving unwanted military advice to
Hussein to almost being killed by U.S.
forces while at Hussein's residence.
Sada then touched on the issue of
WMD's in Iraq. Sada spoke of his
knowledge of the transportation of
Iraq's WMD's to Syria in 2002 before
UN investigations as well as threats
from Saddam to attack the US with
biological and nuclear weapons.
During questions, Sada gave the oft
avoided answer for a plan in Iraq.
"It is possible to establish democ-racy,"
he said. He suggested Ameri-can
troops should stay in Iraq only
until the government and military are
strong. "Americans should get out
from Sunni and Shi'a (fighting] and
leave it to Iraq... if there are sacrifices,
let us make them."
The night concluded with refresh-ments
and a book signing by Sada.
After several controversial choices
for events over the last few years, stu-dents
from all political parties agreed
that Sada's speech was appropriate.
"His qualifications, expertise re-garding
military tactics and local his-tory,
and personal relationship with
Saddam made him a superb choice,"
said UNCG student Keegan Smith. "I
gained quite a bit from hearing him
on Thursday night."
AIDS week hits home for
black community
Luke Mclntyre
Life Editor
The crowd in the EUC Auditorium
Wednesday was lively and respon-sive,
until Jason Robertson dropped a
bombshell.
"One in 250 people in the United
States have HIV. One in three people
who have it don't know it."
The crowd's sudden silence revealed
how serious the issue being discussed
was: AIDS in the black community.
As part of World AIDS Week, which
culminated on Dec. 1 with World
AIDS Day, the Wellness Center and
the National Pan-Hellenic Council
co-sponsored a presentation on HIV
and AIDS awareness, emphasizing the
diseases' outbreak in the black com-munity
in past years. The presenta-tion
was given by Robertson, Wellness
Coordinator for the Wellness Center
at UNCG.
"[AIDS] went from a gay, white
male disease in the 1980s," said Rob-ertson,
"to something more affecting
the African-American community.
"African-Americans make up 13
percent of the population, but they're
48 percent of the AIDS population."
This is a problem on a national
level, explained Robertson, but also
a problem on college campuses. He
referenced a study done by UNC
Chapel Hill which demonstrated that
between 2000 and 2003, 84 cases of
HIV were diagnosed among college
students in North Carolina. Of that
84,73 were black males.
Robertson also stressed education
about the spread of disease by intra-venous
drug use.
"One of my areas of specialty is
sexual health. The other is substance
abuse. You can't look at one without
the other." Intravenous drug use is
the third-leading cause of HIV infec-tion
among black males, and second
among black females, said Robertson.
There are other risk factors apply-ing
to students in North Carolina as
well.
"The South is the largest demo-graphic
of AIDS cases [in the Unit-ed
States]," said Robertson. Part of
that, he added, can be attributed to
education.
"When you're in high school,
what form of sex education do you
get?" he asked the crowd. Several
voices from the audience answered,
"Abstinence-only."
Robertson pointed out that absti-nence
is the most effective method
of preventing sexually transmitted
diseases, but said the damage is done
SEE AIDS PAGE TWO
Christmas tree contest merges
campus, community
Jeff Loslus
Staff Writer
On Sunday, Dec. 3, the Student
Alumni Ambassadors hosted a Christ-mas
Tree Decorating Contest called
"Branches of Love, From a Spartan,"
in the Faculty Center.
The inaugural event was sopho-more
and Director of Campus Pro-grams
Amanda Peck's idea.
"In my hometown we used to give
trees away to the homeless," said
Peck. "I wanted to bring the idea to
UNCG."
The competition featured 10 tree
decorating teams, competing for
prizes in three different categories:
Best Homemade, Spartan Spirit and
Overall Tree.
The Best Homemade ornaments
tree award went to team Circle K, a
group made up of community ser-vice
club members, like a college level
Kiwanis. Their tree featured colorful
paper chains with popcorn and cran-
SEE TREES PAGE TWO
PHOTOS BY JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN
UNCG student organiza-tions
turned out Sunday
(left) to decorate trees
that would then be do-nated
to needy fami-lies
around the Triad.
The tree pictured above
won the award for most
Spartan Spirit.
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