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...insult to my reason and my faith in medical science to read last week's reports that Dr. Vernon Mark, Harvard Medical School associate professor of surgery, has called for a massive testing of the general public for antibodies to the HTLV-III virus associated with AIDS, and what amounts to a quarantine of all persons testing positive, a step directly contradicting even the most strictly and conservatively applied sound medical knowledge. Now, in the Crimson of Dec. 6, I must endure more of this hysterical nonsense. "People are not being told a straight story," says Dr. Mark. "We should...
Good judgment, solid information, and some generosity of spirit are going to be required from all of us if the AIDS\epidemic is to be contained before it devastates a generation. Unfortunately, none of these qualities characterizes either Vernon Mark's proposals, as reported in the Dec. 6 Crimson, or the Crimson's coverage in its article headlined "Harvard Doctor Urges State AIDS Test...
...newspaper reporters do their homework when they report on Dr. Vernon Mark's suggestions about involking 18th century laws to track down possible carriers of the AIDS virus and confining people who are found to have the virus to the former leper colonies on Penikese Island off Cape Cod? The Boston Globe identified him only as a Harvard professor and so did The Crimson. More relevant than his Harvard affiliation, perhaps, is the fact that in the early 1970's Dr. Mark proposed mandatory psychosurgery (lobotomy) for Blacks who participated in ghetto riots or who were incarcerated for violent crimes...
...infamous. Wigglesworth freshman suite, the five male residents have stacked nearly 400 Budweiser cans on their mantel, according to one of the co-artists, Vernon C. McDermott...
Wilkinson's four-year stay in Texas taught him a great deal about the game he would play magnificently in later years at Mt. Vernon High School and at Harvard...