Love and Awareness

Happy Valentine’s Day!

"Students make a formation in the shape of a heart and a red ribbon during an H.I.V./AIDS awareness campaign on Valentine’s Day in Chandigarh, Punjab." Source: New York Times

“Do you like your friends enough, to tape them up?”

Dean Elmore tapes Valentina to the wall of as a part of BUDM11's 50 Days Countdown fundraiser.

 

In past years, BUDM has done a “Tape Your Friends to the Wall” fundraiser as a part of the 50 Days Countdown Celebration–and guess what? It’s back! On Wednesday, February 15th Jason Feldman, Eva Gach and Alex Shadrow will stand on chairs against a wall of the hallway down in BU Central, patiently waiting to see if they will stay up! Starting at 6:30pm, Feldman, Gach and Shadrow will have one hour to recruit their friends to buy one-foot strips of duct tape ($1) and strategically place it on their bodies. After the hour is up, we will remove the chairs beneath their feet and see who stays up!

While this is going on out in the hall, we will have laptops inside BU Central so you can register for Dance Marathon.

18 Hours of Dance and Entertainment

Wondering how you’ll stay entertained for 18 hours at Dance Marathon? Here’s a (working) list of some of the groups that will be performing!

• BU Dance Team
• Dear Abbeys
• Edge
• Fighting Friday
• Fusion
• K-Soul
• Liquid Fun
• Treblemakers
• U-Pro
• X-Ception

 

Register or Donate Now!

World AIDS Day

Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day!

“World AIDS Day…is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.”

More than 1,000 children are infected with HIV every day, and without treatment, almost half of newborns will die before their second birthday.

 

Get educated. Get involved.

You Are More Than Just a Number.

World AIDS Week

About 25 million people have died from AIDS since its discovery two decades ago. In an effort to raise awareness and support the cause, several organizations on campus collaborated to kick off World AIDS Week today, November 29.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five of the roughly 1.2 million people infected with HIV are undiagnosed. To counter this, BU World AIDS Week offered free HIV testing today at the GSU from 10am-1pm, and will be providing the free testing the remainder of the week at Student Health Services.

Campus World AIDS Week Events:

Tuesday, November 29
Free HIV Testing
10am-1pm
GSU

Wednesday, November 30
Free HIV TestingStudent Health Services, 3pm-7pm

Thursday, December 1 - World AIDS Day
Free HIV Testing
Student Health Services, 3pm-7pm

GSU Link Takeover
GSU, 9am-5pm
Free condoms, information, and stickers to represent children infected with HIV every day.

Global Meets Local
Law Auditorium, 7:30pm
First person testimonials from HIV/AIDS-infected people in South Africa will be performed.

Friday, December 2
Free HIV Testing
Student Health Services, 2pm-5pm

Coffee and Conversation
Howard Thurman Center, 3pm-5pm
Discussion on HIV/AIDS lead by Dean Elmore and MTV’s Staying Alive campaign senior vice president of social responsibility Georgia Arnold.

 

Read more at BU Today.

Candy (and) Cane’s

Come visit us at the GSU Link this week (November 14-18) for a chance to win five meal coupons to Raising Cane’s! All you have to do is guess how many M&M’s are in the jar for $0.50!

RSVP on Facebook!

All proceeds will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and One Heartland.

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