Brown and White Vol. 105 no. 11

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 105 no 11 friday october 17 1997 all the lehigh news first miss america speaks on aids and hiv awareness by lisa a jones news editor miss america 1998 kate shindle came to campus this weekend to visit her brother mickey 01 the visit was an offi cial stop on her year-long national speaking tour which recently kicked off in chapel hill n.c shindle 20 sang the national anthem before the football and soccer games saturday shindle spoke on monday about hiv and aids awareness in various classes and that night in neville auditorium hiv and aids awareness is the platform of shindle's speak ing tour i'll also be doing some talk ing about projects for youth vol unteer work shindle told the brown and white but i will pri marily be talking about hiv i'm just trying to raise awareness about the disease the topic is an important cause to shindle the epidemic is really shift ing she said there's a miscon ception that it's mostly among gay men but now it's among different communities like women and minorities people tend to think that there's a cure because of some new treatments that have been developed there are fewer people dying now but more and more are contracting hiv everyday shindle said during her speech shindle urged an audience of mostly stu dents to protect themselves against hiv infection it's really important to work on prevention she said without a cure and without a vaccine it's the only thing that can protect us shindle said a person living with hiv or aids is constantly taking drugs to stay healthy and worrying about how to pay for the drugs it takes over your entire life she said we have better things to do with our lives than sitting around and taking drugs all day always be prepared shindle said get tested the miss america title comes with many responsibilities shindle said i got into it to speak about hiv she told the brown and white there's also a responsibility to clear up misconceptions about the miss america program they pro b&w photo by ashley merun miss america kate shindle sang at saturday's football game technology van rolls in for career counseling by kelly height news writer jobdirect's jobdrive an internet resource for students stopped at lehigh tuesday to aid students in their search for the perfect job jobdrive's 32-foot technology vehicle parked on packer avenue near packard laboratory from 10 a.m to 2 p.m three recent college graduates set up computers outside the van and consulted with students as they passed by each student was asked to register by entering their name and e-mail address into one of the computers jobdirect then sent the students an e-mail with a direct link to the jobdirect homepage at the homepage students can enter their credentials into a resume template as well as browse through listings of available jobs every 24 hours jobdirect cross-refer ences the resumes with the available jobs and looks for correlations between students credentials and characteristics that employ ers are looking for jobdirect posts job listings from a van ety of fields and encourages students from all majors to register with their online ser vice according to jobdrive's margaret fitzgerald students have found jobs in all parts of the country and even the world fitzgerald said we are a matchmaking service that deals with a whole range of companies from ibm to the peace corps when it finds a match jobdirect will send an e-mail to both the student and the employer giving them information on how to get in touch with each other student response to the technology bus was enthusiastic iliana rivera 98 regis tered with jobdrive i think the best part about it is that they focus on entry-level jobs that we might actu ally have a chance to get rivera said phil prassas a 1997 graduate of miami university of ohio and one of the drivers of the vehicle said that students all over the country have benefited from jobdrive it's so much faster and easier than searching through a newspaper for some job you didn't even really want prassas said this year's jobdrive is sponsored by visa and will visit over 300 universities b&w photo by jimmy brom field scott troutman 99 and erin mcgill 99 took advantage of the resources the career bus had to offer see related story on page 3 see america page 1 h_ll||ks__n&kib bh-s-fli h-_£_§__i__l quick | women's soccer new york times indigo girls w*^^m§aw*m ..' t ' es la^yette 2-2 columist speaks discuss their songs a l8_rlif in double overtime on public image and inspirations when opossums are tsa see p a s e 24 - 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