VMI Cadet. February 4, 1994

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VOLUME LXXXVII VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE January 28, 1994
Corps Mourns Loss of Fellow Cadet
Damon Richardson '94
Cadet Staff Writer
Upon return from
Christinas furlough, the entire
coqjs was saddened t^dietiagic
death of Cadet William A.
(Alex) Heiteit '97 of Henlon,
Viiginia. Heibeit died on Jan,
13,1994, in an automobile ac-cident
while retuming to his
parents' home.
Cadet
Herbert, who was bom in Glen-dale,
Arizona, wasa 1993gradu-ate
of Oakton High School in
Vienna, Virginia, where he was
a three-year member of the
National Honor Society.
Heibert was also a member of
the golf team for three years,
and Captain his senior year. He
also received the Coaches'
Award for Golf. He was a
three-year member of the track
team and was a member of the
school band. A brother rat and
former high school classmate.
Cadet William Edmonds '97,
commente, "everyone [in high
school] knew that Alex was
g(^g to be successful."
Much
of the success that Heibert ex-perienced
in his first semester at
VMI.in spiteof the rigors ofthe
ratline, was a reflection of his
high school achievements. He
was ranked high academically
among his peers in die history
curriculum, making the Dean's
list Heibert was also an active
participant in the Canteibuiy
Gub and earned a spot on the
golf team. His coming to VMI
was no mistake. Cadet Heibert
aspired to be a part of the mili-taiy,
much like his father who is
a Col. in the USAF. Hertwrt
was about to be contract by
the Army ROTC Dept.
Cadet
William Alexander Heibert's
presence will be missed, not
only by his family and friends
in Herdon, V A, but by **family"
and friends he's made here at
VMI. Sean Harrington, captain
of the golf team and Heibert's
dyke, thought highly of Alex,
much "like a brother".
Harrington wrote in hisremem-brance
speech, which was read
in a memorial service held in
Hemdon, Va, "overthe last few
months of his life, 1 spent al-most
every day with him and
found a bright, sensitive, car-ing,
and dedicated young man."
A Me-morial
service for Cadet Will-iam
Heibert was also held in
Jackson Memorial Hall where
family, friends, andbrother rats
gathered to pay their final re-spects.
Heibert was buried at
Ariington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va. on Jan.20,1994.
Black History Aids Spreads Among College
Month Celebrated Students
Jason Nicholls '94
Cadet Staff Writer
On Friday Febru-ary
4,1994 the Corps of Ca-dets
will march parade in
honor of Black History
Month. The parade will also
honor two of the first five
black cadetswho attended
VMI. The two men who will
be taking the review are Lt.
Col. W. Gore Jr. USAF, and
Richard E. Valentine, both
from the class of 1972.
Gore and Valen-tine
will meet cadet Third
Classman George Fountaine,
and Cadet First Classman
Adam Strickland in the Rare
Book Room. There they will
review the procedures for the
parade. Following the pa-rade
there will be a reception
on the 400 level of Lejeune
Hall.
General John W.
Knapp, VMI's twelfth
Superintendant, will deliver
a speech at the Lejeune re-ception.
Cadet Fu^t Classman
J.P. Lynch, President of the
VMI Promaji club, will also
give a short speech on the
significance of black history
month. Cadet Third Classman
Benjamin Bennent is then
scheduled to introduce Gore
and Valentine, who will each
deliver a brief address. The
entire corps is welcome to
attend the reception. The
ceremony's closing remarks
will be made by SGM Alvin
Hockaday, Sergeant Major of
the Corps of Cadets.
Along with the
Corps, students from Wash-ington
and Lee, Hollins, Mary
See "History" pg 4
Reprinted from
College Press
Service Article.
With an estimated
1 in 500 college students in-fected
with the HIV virus,
students are becoming aware
that they must leam how to
protect themselves from get-ting
AIDS, health officials
say.
The startling fig-ure
was found in a study con-ducted
by the Centers for Dis-ease
Control and the Ameri-can
College Health Associa-tion.
The experiment
was conducted by testing
20,000 blood samples drawn
at 35 college health centers.
The blood was drawn for pur-poses
other than AIDS test-ing,
and the non-identifying
demographic samples were
drawn between September
1989 and December 1990.
AIDS cases are
expected to increase because
risk factors associated with
Air\S are evident among col-lege
students. Risks, such as
having sex with a number of
partners and not using a
condom during every sex act,
exist for students on campuses
nationwide. Information from
university health centers also
indicates that students use al-cohol
and other drugs that
may impair their judgement
when it comes to sex.
"It may take 50
times before they're infected,
or it may take once," said
Sharon Douglass, director of
the HIV-AIDS Institute at the
University of Central Florida
in Orlando. "But it's going to
happen."
HIV infection and
AIDS are the sixth-leading
cause of death among 15-to-
24-year-old men and women
in the United States, accord-ing
to CDC statistics. The
only way for college students
to protect themselves from
becoming infected is to be-come
aware of the risks and
take precautions, officials
said.
Students may be
waiting longer to have sex,
but they are only practicing
selective protection, said
Joanne Auth, a health educa-tor
at the University of
Florida's Health Center.
Auth said many
students are using condoms
only when they feel their part-
See "Aids" pg 3