The University News

Issue date: 12/4/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Mohammad Al-Kassim

More than 30 students from UMKC and the University of Kansas Medical Center bundled up against the cold and gathered at the J.C. Nichols Fountain at 47th and J.C. Nichols Parkway last Friday. They did so to honor World AIDS Day.

Their mission was to increase awareness of AIDS. Activists held signs with sayings like: "World AIDS Day," "Know AIDS to no AIDS," and "10 seconds, one child."

After chanting "Eight billion dollars for Africa, eight billion dollars for us," the crowd shifted to "Do you know? Do you care? Fight AIDS."

Speaker Adam Obley, KU medical student, thought it lamentable for "children to look back 50 years from now and say, 'We had the knowledge but lacked the courage.'"

Students in attendance wore red ribbons to symbolize support for those struggling with AIDS. The ribbon has been the World AIDS Day symbol since 1991. - Danny Mathis

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