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...read Jeff Wise's editorial of December 17 with dismay. I have spent the past semester researching AIDS and what I have learned strongly contrasts with Wise's argument for the quarantine. It is unfortunate that there are others who are also seriously considering such extreme and inappropriate measures...
...Wise wrote that it is "absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them...
Over a million people have come in contact with the virus. Wise does not seem to consider the ethics of essentially jailing a million people who have committed no crime, nor does he mention the Herculean task of testing the entire population for the antibody and forcefully containing those who test positively in certain areas. In addition, the only widespread test for the AIDS virus does not detect the virus itself, but antibodies to it. This test produces many false positives, which means that thousands of people who don't have the virus will test positively. Is Wise ready...
...More wise-butt Americans abroad. Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are State Department employees sent to Afghanistan as decoys for a pair of real spies. En route, they brazen their way in and out of scrapes, make poo-poo jokes and just about start World War III. Chase has made a career, if not an art, of strenuous japery like this, but Co-Writer Aykroyd has again neglected to give himself a character to play. So this Road to Armageddon plays more like Crosby and Hopeless. Director John Landis achieves a brisk and funny basic- training sequence, then follows...
...Crimson has done us all a disservice by printing Mr. Wise's ramblings. The Crimson has chosen to print, on more than one occasion, badly researched articles that increase AIDS hysteria, rather than inform the public. There is no excuse for this anyone. Jake Stevens...