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Officials in Peking have acknowledged the AIDS epidemic, but they are apparently convinced that the disease is a foreign scourge. Public health authorities confirmed last week that foreign students have been asked to undergo tests for exposure to the virus. In addition, beginning next month, visitors who plan to study in China for a year or more must prove that they are free of the AIDS virus. There are currently about 10,000 foreign students in the country...
...must you hiss every time a professor says "Yale" in class? Hiding behind The Joke's inherent anonymity, hundreds. of Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...
...easy at first--many students will surely undergo severe withdrawl symptoms. Ambulances must be stationed round-the-clock outside lecture halls, and electro-shock therepy should be available at UHS. But if we all work together, maybe one day, perhaps even in our childrens' lifetimes, we will at last be able to walk fearlessly into a lecture and hear a professor say "Yale" in passing. With any luck, the only reaction will be the heavenly silence of a thousand undergraduate sneers...
...menstruation, for example. At that age, she says, children do not need to know about birth control. Sex educators agree that girls should understand in advance the most important and indeed shocking physical changes that will affect their bodies during their lifetimes. And boys, who mature more slowly and undergo less dramatic physical changes, should nonetheless be told what is about to happen to them. It may also be appropriate to describe the changes in the opposite...
...will undergo surgery next week and is expected to be on crutches for several months...