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              see women page a6 were pregnant intravenous drug users and for non-drug users the figure was as low as 0 to 3 percent overall 66 percent of men who get aids contract it through homosexual practices while 50 percent of the infected women are intravenous drug users according to weitz weitz said lesbians and prostitutes have the lowest rates of contraction for all sexu ally transmitted diseases and aids the virus is transmitted three ways through blood semen and vaginal fluid in order of ease of contraction of the virus inprostitution aids is not a likely risk she said when it is not linked to drug use prostitutes are professionals and more likely to use condoms to protect their tools of the trade weitz said drug users in the profession would tend to be more willing to do anything to get the drugs including un safe sex lesbian sexual activity is not a good mode of transmission but there are lesbians with aids she said weitz joked if people condemned gay men as the object of god's wrath then lesbians must be god's chosen people weitz said the u.s health care system see little page a8 it is now time there is more readiness to hear and view malcolm without the setbacks of vividly portrayed racism there is in creased interest because of the movie and books little said little said people can now identify with malcolm x because his commitment to change coalesces with the current need for change lee's movie gets an eight on a scale of one to 10 little said i have nothing but respect for the man according to little the movie however has caused an overcommercialism of malcolm x as is evident by the abundance of x hats t-shirts and other paraphernalia b&w photo by ross bell robert little robert little the brother of malcolm x dispelled some of the popular myths about his brother and presented the story of his family at packard laboratory auditorium tuesday in the lecture little a social worker in new york city reminded the audience to consider the time difference between theirs and malcolm x's many people apply current day events to earlier periods doing so causes people to lose sense of what really happened little said according to little the story of malcolm x is the story of evolution he told of the evolution of malcolm x's name which pro gressed from his birth name to malcolm x when he joined the nation of islam then to malik shabaz he was only called brother malcolm by people who were either moslem or black spike lee's movie version of malcolm x's life has caused a new awareness not only of the man but of the true movement this is the reason for the family's recent interest in educating the masses about malcolm x by jenella young news writer vol 100 no 42 the brown and white friday april 23 1993 greek week games begin with pomp lehigh university b&w photo by rob gutman sigma chi fraternity places first in the greek week banner competition held at sayre park field monday with their back from the dead theme brother dispels myths about malcolm x see greek week page a8 according to tom frost 96 a pledge at chi phi fraternity open ing ceremonies were a blast you can totally go out there and make a fool of yourself frost said but who cares it's all forfun if you win you win all banners were critiqued by a panel of judges for the sororities alpha chi omega sorority took first with an aloha theme fol lowed by gamma phi beta sorority in genie outfits delta gamma sorority came in third with a yeehaw ride with the best - round up the rest cowboy theme for the fraternities sigma chi fraternity took first with their b ack from the dead"banner delta sigma phi fraternity tooksecond with their by annabel lukins news writer crowds of students cheered for their favorite fraternity or sorority during the parade ofbrightly painted banners that marked the beginning of greek week monday in sayre park field the warm weather combined with a large turnout of enthusiastic fans helped to produce a charged atmo sphere that pervaded the ceremonies according to jennifer kasch 93 ofdeltazeta sorority opening ceremonies haven't changed much since she was a freshman the events are more structured now kasch said there used to be more room to play around and it was easierto get away with things but from a freshman's point of view things are still fun and games women with aids ignored by system rose weitz professor of sociology at arizona state university said the govern ment and health community have mis treated women who acquired hiv the virus that causes aids if you are a woman and you live outside the epicenter of the disease most of the support you will find will be with gay men weitz said weitz said 10 percent of aids cases in the united states are women while 13 percent of the new cases last year were women she noted that these statistics only include people affected by the last stage of hiv the new definition accepted by the fed eralgovemmentincludesmorewomensince they have some different symptoms from men such as pelvic or cervical disease weitz said the statistic was dramati cally underestimated you can take that 13 percent and multiply it by a lot weitz said the places where we get the best sense of how women get the disease are the inner city communities."these women are usually very poor and much more likely to be a poor minority she said 1 1 to 30 percent of the cases in these studies by deirdre o'connor news writer lohioh's buildings 3re full of history pbqg b1 yj *** * z—l