World AIDS Day

I forgot to mention this in the last post. Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. A student group here on campus, SGAC [Student Global AIDS Campaign], is raising money for Iambi Hospital in Tanzania. They're also encouraging the student body to write hand-written letters to Representative Jim Nussle, the person who is in charge of divvying up U.S. funds in regards to AIDS. He is also a Luther alumnus. He has recently boosted funding, but only from much pressuring, especially from Luther students. Last year, a number of students signed a petition asking for the president of Luther to revoke a distinguished service award that Nussle was given earlier in the year. It was more like "distinguished disservice" (from this article).

So I guess what I'm saying is that if someone comes knocking on your door asking you to give money to help AIDS funding, do what you can.