11-27-1991

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November 27, 1991

Harnessing the winds of change

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Volume 104, Number 12

Holland High charged Former hostage comes with discrimination home for Thanksgiving HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) _ Tim Rohr is 6-foot-6 and loves basketball. Bui when the varsity coach threatened to bench him for not playing in Friday night games, the 17-yearold forsook the court and cried foul. Rohr on Monday filed a religious discrimination complaint against the Holland Public Schools with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. "After I was cut, they asked me if 1 could handle being the 11th or 12th man," the Holland High School student told The Grand Rapids Press in Thursday's editions. "They told me I could be on the team, but be just a practice player," he said. "I told them I couldn't handle that on the grounds they put it." Rohr belongs to the Worldwide Church of God, which advocates inactivity during the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Observing the Sabbath kept Rohr out of Friday night games last year, too, but he still played on the varsity squad and in Tuesday night games. But Brian Bee km an replaced Mike Clark as coach this year. According to Rohr, Beckman told him prior to tryouts that no spot was reserved for him and that if he did make the team, he would be a benchwarmer. "In the past, I think 1 helped the team a lot," Rohr said. ' T h e y told me they cut me because of Friday nights. But I should still

have the equal opportunity to make the team. They didn't give that to me." The high school senior now manages the girls' volleyball team. Although Rohr started the process of filing the civil rights complaint, department spokesman Jim Horn said more information would be needed from the student before an investigation would begin. Superintendent Ronald Rolph told the Holland Sentinel that an internal investigation showed there was no religious discrimination. Beckman cut Rohr after interviewing the prospective players about their commitment to the team, Rolph said. The coach asked each player if he would support the team despite having only limited game time. ' T i m apparently said, 'No, I can't agree to that.' So with that response, that was one consideration the coach made to who would stay and who would leave," Rolph said. While Rolph said he has not been contacted by the stale, he met on Friday with Holland High Principal Gary Feenstra to discuss the matter. "(Religion) didn't come into the discussion," Rolph said. ' T h e y ' r e interpreting it that way. I don't kno w on what basis. If they want to make that charge, they certainly have the liberty to, but

DALLAS (AP) _ A smiling Thomas Sutherland returned to the United States today, a week after his six-year ordeal as a hostage in Lebanon finally ended. Sutherland was the first passenger off a Delta Air Lines jetliner after an 11-hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany. He smiled as he walked with his family down a glassenclosed hallway to a U S . Customs inspection rwrtfr.

lederhosen, or leather pants. Earlier today, Sutherland left the U.S. military hospital in Weisbaden. Sutherland and British hostage Terry Waite were freed Nov. 18 by Shiite Muslim

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kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon. The Iranianbacked hostage-takers have said they plan to release the three remaining American captives soon. Sutherland had hoped to leave Ger many on Thursday, but his hospital stay was prolonged because of treatment for gastritis and an ulcer. On Sunday, U.S. Air Farce spokesman Capt. Ray Cornelius said Sutherland was in "very good condition." Sutherland, of Fort Collins. Colo., was dean of agriculture at the American University in Beirut when he was kidnapped June 9 . 1 9 8 5 . At least six Westerners are still missing

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Johnson heightens campus AIDS awareness (CPS)"The nation's 13 million college students, mostly young adults savoring a newfound independence, are more likely to engage in sexual experimentation, yet still

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to AIDS. Johnson's disclosure HIV disease has jolted the country, leaving students sobered and telephonesat university

sociation, and there is worry among AIDS officials that risky sexual behavior will soon drive that figure upward. Current statistics on university students must not lead tocomplacency, said Dr. Mervyn Silverman, president of the American Foun-

health centers ringing dation for AIDS Research. "Twenty percent of 200,000 AIDS cases off the hooks. Johnson, 32,con- arc between ages 13 to 29, and we know that sidered by many as the for half, it lakes ten years for symptoms to finest basketball guard show up, so a number of them were infected of all lime, revealed that as teens. "Sadly, there tends to be a great deal of he contracted the virus during a sexual liaison denial practiced by that age group," he said. "We have three epidemics," Silverman with a woman. He is retiring from basketball said. "The first is the viral epidemic; it is and will become an greater, and more silent. The second is the AIDS epidemic, which is the terminal phase AIDS spokesperson. T h r o u g h o u t the of the disease, and the third s the epidemic of country, AIDS testing ignorance, bigotry, discrimination and apasites near universities thy." Others think Johnson willchange things. "I think fear is breaking through the denear universities have been flooded with re- nial. Magic Johnson makes it hard to keep quests, in some cases denial going," says Andy Winzelberg, assiscreating a three-week tant director of health education at the Unito one-month waiting versity of California at Santa Barbara. " I ' v e noticed that students will use period. One in every 500 condoms with a new relationship, but when students is infected they fall in love, they stop using condoms. It's with the HIV disease, like they use condoms, and then tell their according to a study by feelings, and then they say 'OK, I'm going on the Centers for Disease the pill.'" he says. Dave Rompa, the director of AIDS eduControl and the American College Health As- cation and outreach at the University of Wis-

consin, thinks the C D C statistics regarding college students are loo conservative. "This number is, in reality, much larger," he says. Rom pa points out that students often have a different definition for "monogamy" that older citizens. "Wc think of monogamy as one person for a long lime, but a sludenl thinks in terms of one person for two weeks," says Rompa. The University of Wisconsin boasts one of the most aggressive AIDS programs in the country. Its AIDS center is funded by the general student fund and employs two fulltime workers. Wisconsin's AIDS headquarters is linked up with an already existing Madison AIDS center that offers testing, counseling and In Orlando, students from the University of Central Florida act as volunteers at CENTAUR, one of several AIDS resource centers. Director Frank Richards says they are learning about AIDS on the front lines. "Students don't realize that one person could be doing sex for drugs, and that person could spread it throughout the school," said Richards, who says he is particularly concerned about female students. "Women need to realize that they have a 14 to 15 percent greater risk of infection." Richards also says that abstinence is an ideal, but not realistic when it come to college students. He warns young adults that "you have sex with every single person your partner has had sex with."


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