HIV SCARE at Cheyney: HBCUs Not Immune

We've all heard the stories -- Howard U was a hotbed of herpes -- Hampton had a big rash of chylamidia or HPV, or something.

And who knows? These stories probably have some truth to them. If you have a contained population of people having sex, it is entirely plausible that an STD could spread like, well, an STD on a college campus.

Anyone who's even been on a college campus knows this is sensical -- you have horny, attractive, mostly-unsupervised young people thrown together in close quarters at their sexual prime. Makes perfect sense.

Unfortunately, we live in a day and age when HIV and AIDS is making FAST inroads into our culture.

This past week Historically Black College, Cheyney University had a big scare as a prostitute tested HIV positive and said she had sex with at least 10 men on campus -- she couldn't recall if she'd used condoms with all of them...

A woman who said she is HIV-positive acknowledged having sex with at least 10 male students at Cheyney University, and could not confirm that all had used condoms, police said.

University officials urged anyone who has had sexual contact with the woman to seek an HIV test immediately. (Full Story)

(The latest: Press Tossed Out of Cheyney Student Meeting)

The worst part about infectious diseases is that they are exponential. We've all heard those stories about you having sex with every person the person you've had sex with and so on and so on...

Suppose only five of those men didn't use protection. How many WOMEN on that campus had sex with those five men? And how many men with those women and so on and so on...

And we know how very incestuous college campuses can be!

BEING COLLEGE EDUCATED IS NOT GOING TO KEEP YOU FROM BECOMING HIV POSITIVE. Sorry folk.

Here's the bottom line on this Valentine's Day: Strap up. College students: Strap up. Men who frequent hookers: Strap Up. Women who are sexually active: Strap Up.

So what if he's an AlphakappaQSigma? So what if she's homecoming queen? This Cheyney scare has brought to light that unsafe sex practices are happening, and that people really are HIV positive, and that college ain't gonna save your black a$$.

If this has brought nothing else to light, I hope it has scared the bejezus out of folk. You've got one life to live.

Strap up. Get Tested. Black Colleges -- WAKE UP! *nod to Spike Lee*

Happy Valentine's Day.