Oh boy. It seems Harvard has declared this to be a campus-wide "Piss Students Off Because You Act Like You Want Them to Die" week.
First the shuttles, and now here is your University Health Services director managing to get through a whole Crimson article without calling any dudes pregnant, but that's only because he says something even dumber:
He noted to The Crimson that HIV/AIDS is "becoming less of a stigma, so there’s really less and less of a reason for being tested anonymously."Haha do you see what he did there? He said there was no more stigma attached to HIV, and then attached a stigma to it, and then used both of those as reasons to cancel anonymous testing? That is why it is funny. DO YOU GET IT?!?!?!
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In an e-mail that was forwarded to various campus lists last night, Ellison wrote that when Rosenthal was asked by one of her students "what kind of person" should get HIV/AIDS testing, the UHS director responded, "promiscuous" people.
(and btw he says that "promiscuous" comment was in a "private" conversation, which totally would have made it ok except he should have known that all the kids these days have "audio-recording Twitter bloggy thing" machines embedded directly into their rib cages, so he should just keep his mouth shut)
Well now, as students are wont to do during exams period (pun coming! get ready!), they are staging a "test-in" on Wednesday, where they will all go get tested anonymously, together, as a protest slash last chance before it ends up on every political vetting record for the rest of their lives. Hooray!

1 comments:
Promiscuous ppl are at higher risk for HIV (gasp)! Great job, you sure made him look like a jerk. If you're worried about stigma and privacy you should advocate for more patient control of medical records.
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