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Funding is an urgent matter, as researchers are racing against the clock to save those who are infected. And as Murray noted in his Peninsula article, "mere behavior modification" could make all the difference in the rates of HIV-infection. This, however, requires a great deal of education simply not available in every American community. We are fortunate to live in a highly educated and informed community, but it cannot be taken for granted that every American is exposed to the same level of information regarding AIDS as we are in Cambridge...
Intensive education must now be targeted to the dangerously unconcerned heterosexual community. Furthermore, the "60 partners or more" statistic used in Murray's article is from 1983--don't you think that there is a reason that Murray could not find a more current statistic? Our knowledge of the disease has changed a lot in eight years. That there is no longer any "average" AIDS sufferer means that the statistic today, or one close to it, is untrue and simply not applicable...
...felt that Peninsula's sophistry were worth 56 pages of effort, (and if the Crimson permitted editorials of that length) we would point out that almost all of B. Murray's statistics on AIDS may be considered invalid, since they date from a decade ago. We would suggest that M. McDonald should remember, as does his colleague R. Landry, that Freud's psychosexual theories defining homosexuality as a neurosis are but theories, without much current support among contemporary psychologists. And above all, we would inform C. Brown that Plato in the Symposium does praise homosexual love, saying, (among other things...
...article entitled, "AIDS Is Not Just a Gay Disease," Murray claims to dispell common "myths" about AIDS. These "myths" include the belief that the government is not addressing the problem, that the Catholic Church is obstructing the fight against AIDS and that condom distribution is an ineffective way to prevent AIDS...
...Murray's article also alleges that members of some radical homosexual advocacy groups have "carried out a campaign of lies and half-truths...to benefit their political agenda...