Program sheds light on sex truths, lies

Two Greek organizations teamed up with three peer health instructors from Southern University to provide sex education to a full audience Thursday in Stewart Hall’s auditorium.
The program A.D.I.D.A.S. was sponsored by the Beta Psi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Beta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, with a goal to “make people aware of HIV,” said chapter president Bobbye Mathews, a senior from New Mexico. Mathews served on both the welcoming committee and on the panel for questioning.
Peer health counselors Nona Stewart, a junior from New Orleans, Jackie Rhine, a senior from Jeanerette, and Jaymes Durriseau, a senior from Lake Charles, along with six female volunteers, led a short play, with a theme : “It only takes one time to get infected.”
In the play, a ‘hot shot’ college male and his less than popular roommate go on a series of dates and while the former, played by Rhines, gets “lucky” three consecutive times, his geeky roommate, portrayed by Durriseau, only does so once. True to the play’s theme, the ‘geekier’ friend becomes infected with HIV.
“We want people to know that it does not matter if you have sex with one person or 20,” Mathews said.
The question and answer portion of the program drew multiple students to get involved once the role of responsibility with contraception was presented for debate.
Many of the female attendees were angered at the thought of a man not being prepared with a condom. A majority of the men who participated in the discussion stressed the fact that if a woman did not demand a condom, it was not a priority in their mind.