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Barnard
and Columbia Students to Participate in Student Global AIDS
Walk, April 12
 On
April 12 at11 a.m., students from New York City will gather
at 116th St in Riverside Park to participate in the Student
Global AIDS Walk. The event will occur simultaneously in 10
major U.S. cities, with the New York City walk organized primarily
by Barnard and Columbia students (Columbia Global Justice,
Earl Hall's Community Impact-AIDS Support, and Columbia/ Barnard's
Amnesty International chapter), along with students from other
New York City colleges and high schools.
The walk
will proceed from 116th St. to 83rd St., where speakers and
students will speak on the effects of the pandemic worldwide.
Speakers include Sara Sievers, the Executive Director of the
Earth Institute's Center for Globalization and Sustainable
Development; Alan Berkman, the Assistant Professor of Clinical
Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health; John
Kiwanuka Ssemakula, the HIV/AIDS program manager at The Africa-America
Institute in New York; Andrew Velez from ACTUP New York; and
a statement written for the walk by Joseph Stiglitz. The presentation
will be followed by a performance by Columbia's dance group
Orchesis.
All proceeds benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
and its International Call to Action Project, which provides
HIV/AIDS treatment to mothers and children in over 250 clinics
in 17 countries.
Registration and optional donations can be done online at
www.studentglobalaidswalk.org.
On-site registration is also available for $20 at 116th St.
Individuals wishing to walk can join the Columbia/Barnard
Team or create their own team.
Barnard
College, a distinguished leader in higher education for women
for over 100 years, is today the most sought after private
liberal arts college for women in the nation. Founded in 1889,
the College was the first in New York City, and one of the
few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the
same rigorous liberal arts education available to men. Independent
but affiliated with Columbia University, Barnard maintains
its own administration, trustees, faculty, curriculum, endowment,
budget and campus. Barnard students may take classes at Columbia,
as Columbia students may do at Barnard. Barnard alumnae include
pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead and Judith Kaye,
the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York, along
with prominent cultural figures such as choreographer Twyla
Tharp, writers Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Gordon, and Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalists Anna Quindlen and Natalie Angier.
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