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---- ... ■ — ■ - ... - — — - - Speakers stress ‘ AIDS education By Sarah Baker Assignment Reporter A room was filled with silence at the World AIDS Day presentation “Positive Living: Living with HIV/AIDS” in the Nebraska Union Monday night. Darren McCarty, a panelist who has lived with HIV for the past 13 years, said he thought it was good the audience was quiet throughout most of the presentation. “I know you are all think ing about AIDS,” he said. “If I had the knowledge that you have nowadays, I don’t think I’d be up here saying ‘I’m HIV positive.’” The rest of the panel con sisted of Marta Hartley, an AIDS educator who has lived with the disease for seven and half years, and Steve rvaaaemacner, one or inree AIDS doctors in Lincoln. The discussion was spon sored by Peers Encouraging Responsible Sexuality at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Hartley stressed the audi ence to take advantage of AIDS education with the young. “If you wait too long to educate, it will be too late,” she said. “There is no magic age.” McCarty said that if people are educated, they are more likely to be a good support system if one of their family members contract HIV. . . “I have seen families who 66 If you wait too long to educate, it will be too late. There is. no magic age.” Marta Hartley AIDS educator were not there for support until the last few weeks of the patient’s life,” he said. “It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.” Raddemacher said educa tion was important, and com pared it to playing golf. “If you teach a child to golf when they are 5 years old, they are much more pliable,” he _! J UTL_ _____ aaiu. i uc) ait liiutn mui^ willing to learn.” Pat Tetreault, University Health Center sexuality edu cation coordinator and PER SUNL supervisor, said UNL offers many resources con cerning AIDS and HIV. “This is such a complex issue, and it encompassesr what affects all of us,” she said. “It is a challenge to respond and deal with these issues.” Tetreault said communica tion was important when deal ing with AIDS. “Sometimes it 4ft£sn’t seem like it affects us, but it really does.” Dog-napping Puppy love turned to heartbreak Sunday morning when a Lincoln family found its dog had been stolen. Mitch, an 8-month-old registered border collie, was found missing Sunday morning from his kennel in the 2800 block of N Street. The victims reported that the dog was taken between 3:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. The chain-link that locked the kennel had been cut. The value of the dog was estimat ed at $650. Medical emergency A man putting up Christmas dec orations was found by neighbors after falling from a ladder. Neighbors found Dwayne Rice, 50, in the back yard of his home in the 5800 block of Baldwin Avenue. Rice was not breathing, so the neigh bors began cardio-pulmonary resus citation until paramedics arrived. Rice was taken to Lincoln General Hospital where he was listed in fair condition. BLOOD PRESSURE' PILLS GW WORK/1ROU TAKBtHEM. American Heart Association © 1992, American Heart Association Use your noon hour to RELAX” For more information, cad Sue at 472-7450 Counseling ^Psychological Services • December 2 Trouble Bubbles & Heavy Autogenic Relaxation Tuesdays * December 9 Cruise & Transformation 12*10-12*45 •December 16 TrainotThought/ UBC-Room 45Rwitatotto" State rejects Williams appeal WILLIAMS from page 1 He was convicted by a Nebraska jury for raping and shooting to death Brooks in McGarry’s northeast Lincoln duplex. Williams’ attorney, Paula Hutchinson of Lincoln, Monday filed the amended application ask ing for a clemency hearing and that Williams’ sentence be commuted to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Hutchinson said she had new information about Williams’ child hood that would favor a new hearing and possible clemency.. - " Nelson acknowledged the appli cation had been received by the Secretary of State’s office, but it had not - and would not - be accepted. “Maybe it’s new,” he said of Hutchinson’s claim of new informa tion, “but it’s not enough.” Hutchinson also told reporters an appeal bad been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court asking to review a Lincoln district judge’s rul ing last week that denied Williams’ civil-rights violation claim. During a morning news confer ence, Hutchinson said letters from the governor to Williams’ sisters indicated he would be willing to participate in a new hearing. 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