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University of Michigan
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The Master's Degree is designed to provide students with a deeper
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dary that Jewish groups must
face. "If a person with AIDS
comes to me and asks me to
open up my congregation for
a monthly support group,
what do I say? This is why I
say that the Jewish communi-
ty has to come to grips with
its own homophobia, its own
fears."
Despite his frustrations
with Jewish institutions,
David Green's disease has in-
tensified his Jewishness. "I go
to services more than I did,"
he says. "We had Passover
here in our apartment for the
first time in years. I've also
explored a little bit the
aspects of dying as a Jew. But
I found I got tired of exploring
that. I had never been to a
Jewish funeral until one of
my support group members
died. It was very hard. But I
discovered I knew what I
wanted to do; I had some
ideas about what I wanted for
me. That was instructive, but
not pleasant."
Dealing with the deaths of
friends and loved ones is an
ever-present part of living in
the vortex of the AIDS
epidemic.
"You know a lot of people
who've died," Green says.
"That's something you have
to live with. You try not to
become completely numb to
it; you grieve a little bit, you
go to the memorial services,
and that's all you can do. But
it's very frightening, because
you know it could be you. But
you can't sit there and say,
`when is it going to be?'
Because then, you are
wasting your life."
David Green vigorously re-
jects the terminology of vic-
timization. Like most AIDS
activists, he avoids terms like
"AIDS victim," preferring the
more neutral "People with
AIDS."
"The language can put
them in a helpless, hapless
position of pity, not to men-
tion scorn," says Rabbi Joseph
Levine, the NIH chaplain.
"We don't call people with
diabetes 'diabetes victims.' A
victim is a person you see
squashed on the street by a
truck."
One of the cruelest aspects
of AIDS is the almost primal
fear it has generated in the
general population — a fear
that quickly gets mixed up
with traditional scorn for
homosexuals.
"You're in'a group that peo-
ple fear a lot, and that doesn't
feel good," Green says. "You
can do nothing about it — or
you can stand up and say, 'I'm
a person living with AIDS;
you have to hear that word,
and know that I'm a human
being, and I have feelings.'
People don't think about it
this way. They see this stuff
on the news, most of which is
sensationalistic. They always
show people in hospital beds
who look terrible, and they
reinforce these preconceived
notions and stereotypes. Peo-
ple need to see walking, talk-
ing, functioning people with
AIDS; in a way, that's one of
the things I'm trying to do."
Green has developed an ar-
ray of coping mechanisms to
deal with the shattering turn
in his life.
"Thank goodness, I'm fair-
ly healthy now, for a little
while, - at least; I realize
things can change very quick-
ly. But I'm active and happy
right now, and I really have to
accept that. I guess accep-
tance is the main concept.
The only way you can live
with any of it is to accept that
you might not be here the
next day — and yet not live
like that. You have to live
positively."
"So I've evolved. Many,
many people don't last long
enough to go through all
those parts of the journey. I
have no idea what the next
part will be. So I do what I
can, I try to show my face as
much as possible. The public
speaking helps; I do a lot of
socializing, a lot of resting.
Day in and day out for three
years, you can't be paranoid
about it; you'd go crazy. I
know newly diagnosed people
who are saying, 'I'm doing
okay, but I'm waiting for that
cure.' Well, I'm waiting for
that cure, too, but in the
meantime, I have things to
do."
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NEWS immi
UNESCO Says
No To PLO
Paris (JTA) — The head of
the United Nations Educa-
tional, Scientific and Cultural
Organization says he has ad-
vised Yassir Arafat not to
press for the admission of
"Palestine" to the U.N. agen-
cy, because "his bid is
premature and will not suc-
ceed at this time."
Federico Mayor Zaragoza,
director general of UNESCO,
told the Madrid daily El Pais
that he expects the applica-
tion by the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization to fail
when it comes before
UNESCO's General Con-
ference in October.
He said one reason was that
admission of the PLO would
kill any chance of the United
States returning to UNESCO.
The Americans quit the agen-
cy in 1984, accusing it of anti-
Western . bias and
politicization.