March. 30, 2004 Online Since 1996 Vol 78 No. 44

The Appalachian | Opinion
Our Perspective ... Making good choices could save your life

HIV and AIDS struck fear in the hearts of young adults around the world in the early 1990s.

Student Health Services Director Dr. Patricia A. Geiger said new treatments have allowed us to become complacent to the threat.

This complacency could prove deadly.

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Call me crazy but,

What is it about being in a relationship that makes you feel like doing nothing?

I had a friend tell me once that you inevitably become what you hate.

By that I mean, every single thing you ever made fun of anyone about will inevitably come back to haunt you.

One of my friends has been in a relationship for over a year and the longer she has been with her boyfriend, the more her life has changed.

I used to look at them and think … scary. They would eat out every meal, go home on weekends to see each other’s parents and leave the door cracked to her room so just enough of the incessant mysterious giggling could be heard throughout the apartment.

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Do the Braves have what it takes to win it all?
Nothing lasts forever.

Not the Boston Red Sox curse, and not the Chicago Cubs 95 year drought without a World Series title, which will end this year, just so you know.

Certainly not the Atlanta Braves’ streak of 12 straight division titles.

I can already hear the bandwagon Braves fans around campus moaning and whining about how the team will come through and win the World Series. Sorry suckers, but this is the year of the Cubs.

Atlanta lost some key players in the off-season, something they are accustomed to.

But every other year, they had a player in the wings that was of equal or greater value to the player they lost.

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Do the Braves have what it takes to win it all?
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, I don’t care because the Braves are back.

That’s right sports fans, baseball season is upon us, and you know what that means: the Atlanta Braves taking the tar to the rest of the National Leagues’ proverbial bats again.

The Braves, winners of 12 straight division titles, are an easy pick to do it all over again, or some would think.

It has become very popular to gratuitously dismiss the Braves before the season, saying that this is the year the streak ends. As a life-long Braves fan, I have heard it since oh, about 1993 (after two straight World Series appearances).

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