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...political. These days, students can pick up a cause like they pick up laundry, with T-shirts meant to support Darfur (“Save Darfur”), Obama (“BaRock My World”), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive?? tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts of Mao Zedong,” says Justine S. Chow ’10, another student who attended the T-shirt making event...
...narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted a campaign that was, in every sense of the word, effective, with the recent “HIV Positive?? stunt, praising those behind the latter for resisting the “inflated sense of self.” A hunger striker is many things, but self-indulgent isn’t one of them. Most Harvard students would be hard pressed to name three of the 11 strike...
Earlier this term when a number of students from the Harvard AIDS Coalition donned “HIV Positive?? shirts around campus, it was a sight that could have sent former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist into a state of panic. And it also sparked a campus-wide debate about the merits of wearing such a controversial slogan...
...confused—freshman asked Julie Goswami ’08 of her new t-shirt. Soon the whole campus would realize that either a serious epidemic had flooded Harvard, or there was something else behind the 144 shirts emblazoned with the words “HIV Positive??. “The shirts originated in South Africa,” explained Tanuj D. Parikh ’09, chair of the South Asian Men’s Collective. “We wanted to bring them here because it addressed the stigma toward HIV victims, and after more...
It’s worthwhile to compare the “HIV-Positive?? campaign to the incredibly successful “Live Strong” campaign of recent years, particularly since both are meant to be fund-raising tools. True, the T-shirt troupe does not enjoy the benefits of Lance Armstrong-scale publicity, which brought the bracelets instant notice. But what really distinguishes the movements from each other is that Live Strong referred to a mantra—although it was a means of raising awareness and funds for cancer research, the bracelets stated...