Alcala Yearbook 1992-1993

ALPS= ALCALA LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Another program offered through the Al– cohol and Drug Education office is the Alcala Leadership Program, designed specifically to strengthen confidence and and to open the participants' minds to new ideas. Approxi– mately twenty people attend each weekend retreat, experiencing leadership activities and group discussions. What kinds of activities, you ask? Well, I could tell you... but then I'd have to kill you. ALPs veterans are reluctant to discuss the retreat in much detail, offering positive, enthusiastic, and very vague state– ments. "If I had to sum up the weekend in one phrase, I'd have to say 'an eye-opening experience,"' says junior Michelle Watson. From the discussionwithMichelle, one could conclude that the ALP retreat is one intense experience not to be missed.

Some more of them pesky ALPers! Try as I did, none would succumb to the pressure to reveal the retreats' secrets.

This is one tight-lipped group! Threatened with all varieties of tor– ture, the ALPs veterans wouldn'tcrack, safe-guarding the retreat traditions.

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • AIDS AWARENESS WEEK Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome -- spelled out, it seems quite impersonal and distant. But "AIDS" strikes a more ominous tone. It has no respect for religion, race, age, or gender; this disease truly knows no bounds. Awareness is our best and only defense. And that is the goal ofAIDS Awareness Week -- an attempt to educate, to put a human face on the

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suffering. Evidence of the week's educa– tional purpose was seen in the individual embroideries making up the AIDS quilt, the numerous talks given by Mary Fischer, the AIDS bracelets - each one depicting an AIDS fatality, the AIDS panel discussions, and the eye-catching t-shirts. Indeed, all the events held between February 14 and 19 created an imapct not easy to ignore. And AIDS can't be ignored. We are all equal in its shadow.

The quilt - These are just a couple of shots cap tu ring a very small percentage of the AIDS Quilt. Un– fortuna tely, these are just two panels - the quilt in its entirety is much too large.

Campus Connections

by Janet Baldwin