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AIDS awareness a must in the ‘90’s_" By Flavia Testa AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease that everyone should be aware of in the 1990’s. It has the potential to touch everyone in our society and everyone in a community. Last Thursday, a group of students from the OAC Business Administration class at Georgetown District High School organized an assem- bly for roughly 400 attending stu- dents. They invited, as guest speak- er, former G.D.H.S. graduate, Dr. Leonard Landry. Landry is a gener- al practitioner from Milton. He dressed the students, gave them some information about the disease and answered questions. The OAC students hoped to raise the aware- ness of AIDS among the student *population. “It is becoming a big- ger issue in the society”, said Lindsey Smith, one of the organiz- ing students. Landry’s seminar touched on the medical point of view, regarding AIDS. It gave the students a better look at how AIDS and the HIV virus affect our bodies and our lives. His talk was based on a sur- vey the Business Administration handed out to students between the ages of 13 - 19. Some of the ques- tions were: Do you know the differ- GDHS may By Bryn Davies The government’s recently announced cutbacks to education are going to be felt at Georgetown District High School. Last week the Ministry of Education informed us it was amending its formula for funding and staffing our schools. School systems get grants based upon the number of full-time stu- dents in attendance. Until this year, a full-time student was one who took 151 minutes per semester (i.e. two classes per semester). Under the new definition, in order to be con- sidered full-time, a student must be in three classes per semester (210 tes minutes). Since there are many students who will now be counted as part- time instead of full-time, the school system will receive less government support. Tt is certain the ration of classes to students will go down. Hence, there will be fewer classes than we origi- nally planned for, and many classes will be larger than normal. Man: more classes will be filled more quickly, leaving students with less flexibility to change: or add courses later on. Some courses may have to be canceled. This was explained to senior stu- ence between AIDS and the HIV virus? Where did you get the infor- mation about the disease? Surprisingly, the survey showed most responses came from the younger es (ages 13-15). The seminar explained the differ- ence between AIDS and the HIV virus, it explained some of the ms of AIDS, how you get it and how you can avoid it. It gave. American and Canadian statistics about how many people have con- tracted AIDS.-In Halton Region alone, it has been confirmed that 22 people, under the age of 25, are infected with the HIV virus. One hundred and thirty-six people have been confirmed since 1986. The four major causes of AIDS are sexual intercourse, intravenous drug use, blood transfusions (although now rare) and at the time of birth. Landry stressed you get the virus by a direct exchange of bodily fluids; in other words, the sickness is not spread through air or water, or by sharing things (e.g., phone glass, toilet) with a person who has It seems that people are begin- ning to understand AIDS and that it ual population because they are cut classes dents in an assembly on Friday, fol- lowed up by a letter to parents. It was also explained that only full-time students will be eligible to participate in school teams and other forms of co-curricular activities. According to many of our gradu- ates, this may be a blessing in dis- guise. 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