Campuses Confront AIDS: Real Voices From the Real World
An Intercollegiate Conference at UC Riverside

Saturday December 1, 2001 World AIDS Day

Sponsored by:

Associated Students (UCR)
Biology Department (UCR)
Chancellor's Standing Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS (UCR)
College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences - Dean's Office (UCR)
County of Riverside Department of Health
Desert AIDS Project "Golden ARCHES" Peer Health Education Program (UCR)
Environmental Health and Safety (UCR)
Inland AIDS Project
Learning Center (UCR)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Resource Center (UCR)
Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California
Office of the Chancellor (UCR)
Piano Music Center of Riverside
Storehouse (UCR)
Student Recreation Center (UCR)
UC Regents Lecture Series
Vice Chancellor Student Affairs (UCR)

Registration

UCR students, faculty, & staff – Click here for a printable registration form*
Cost if FREE with an optional $8 box lunch

Non-UCR attendees – Click here for a printable registration form*
Cost is $25, including parking and a box lunch

*These forms are in PDF format. To view PDF files you will need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download Acrobat Reader Click here and follow the online instructions.

Complete directions and parking instructions are enclosed with the Registration Form.
UC Riverside is located along the 60 Freeway, three miles east of the 91/215 Interchange.
Campus Map

Speakers

• Shawn Decker & Gwen Barringer
  “A Boy, A Girl, A Virus, and the Relationship
  That Happened Anyway”
  
  Shawn Decker, a hemophiliac, acquired the HIV virus through tainted blood products at age seven. Much like Ryan White, Shawn was expelled by his school is rural Virginia when his status becam known. He grew up surrounded by fear and ignorance, believing he would die of AIDS-relate causes before he could even drive.
  
  As the years passed, the possibility of a normal adult life became less remote. While his peers began dating and experimenting with sex, he worried if a kiss at the end of a date could pass along the virus. Would a girl want him, knowing he was HIV positive?
  
  Gwenn Barringer, a professional AIDS educator, answered that question. The two met at a seminar, and soon fell in love in spite of Shawn’s challenges with the virus. They are bringing a new twist on HIV awareness to college campuses.
  
  
• Steve Schalchlin
  "Living In the Bonus Round"
  
  Steve, a professional songwriter, said goodbye to his friends and family in 1996. Death from AIDS-related causes was only weeks away. Rescued from the edge of death by ground-breaking medications, Steve began writing songs about his experiences. These songs became the framework for the award-winning musical, The Last Session. Steve, and the musical, went on to play off-Broadway in New York City and recently swept the Los Angeles Theatre Critics awards.
  
  
• Cleve Jones
  "The Politics of the AIDS Epidemic"
  
  Cleve, founder of "The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt," has a unique perspective on the funding and support, from a political vantage point, for this worldwide epidemic. Through his experience as a worldwide activist, he is also able to address issues of access to treatment, pharmaceutical patents, socials forces and status of women in developing countries.
  
  
• Chris Sandoval
  "AIDS in a Multicultural Society"
  
  Like with most social health issues, people would like answers and characteristics about HIV and AIDS to fit in a "nice little box," where the same thing applied to everyone. But we all know that this is rarely the case. As Director of the Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California, Chris discusses the importance of cultural competence and sensitivity in dealing with an already difficult issue to talk about. In fact, he has an international reputation as an expert in the field of managing diversity and cross-cultural communication.

Conference Agenda

 

An Information and Resource Room will also be open during the entire conference
in the International Lounge.