Students to participate in events for World AIDS Day

IU's Student Global AIDS Campaign chapter will participate in World AIDS Day today in order to enhance education and awareness of the disease.\nFive hundred luminaries will be lit today from Third Street to Indiana Avenue and then around Dunn Meadow to memorialize victims of AIDS. Some of these luminaries will have individual names of AIDS victims written on them.\nThe SGAC will also be tabling the entire week in the Indiana Memorial Union with other organizations, passing out condoms and ribbons in order to educate and protect IU students, said senior Dan O'Neill, co-founder of IU's chapter of SGAC.\n"At IU, I get the feeling from a lot of people that they do not believe that AIDS is a problem here," said Sabeen Pirani, director of SGAC recruitment. "There is still a mentality that people do not get infected here, and everyone already knows everything there is to know about HIV/AIDS."\nAn AIDS debate will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Teter Quad Formal Lounge.