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Harvard has not escaped the burgeoning interest in AIDS. The University last fall started a committee on AIDS and this year two undergraduate groups distributed free condoms on campus and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer and Surgeon General C. Everett Koop delivered speeches about AIDS. A student AIDS benefit committee sponsored...
Earlier this spring, the Law School Student Council drew fire from a gay activist group for urging students to be tested for AIDS without discussing the drawbacks of having the test done at UHS. Meanwhile, UHS officials are discouraging students from being tested for AIDS at UHS if they do...
Despite the increased publicity, students and administrators say AIDS has had little impact on the Harvard community. The special committee meets infrequently and is primarily concerned with the community's reaction to AIDS victims, as UHS has primary responsibility for education about the disease.
"At this point, [students] are thinking 'I know what you are supposed to do, but I can't do it'," says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom...
UHS, which determines Harvard police protection policies, currently does not consider protective garments necessary. "We don't have plastic gloves or anything else," said DeputyChief of Harvard Police Jack W. Morse. "The onlygloves we have are special white gloves forCommencement."