Students bring AIDS Quilt to MCC

For two years, student volunteers sold 50-cent candy bars and recycled ink cartridges to raise the approximate $1,700 needed to bring a portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to MCC. It will arrive for World AIDS Day on December 1.

The quilt will be displayed throughout the week of December 1 to 5 on the Brighton Campus in the MCC Forum of the Campus Center (parking is available in lot M). Activities open to the public include guest speaker Luis Lespier from the Ibero-American Action League at noon Tuesday, arrival on Wednesday of a block of quilt sponsored by Eastman Kodak to be displayed concurrently through the week, free and confidential HIV testing performed by AIDS Rochester from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, and guest speaker Steven Fine, M.D., from AIDS Community Health Center at noon Friday.

The quilt, founded in San Francisco in 1987, encompasses some 45,000 panels with new ones being made each week. Eight panels are sewn together to form a 12-foot square block, which are the portions that travel on display around the country. MCC also hosted a block of quilt in 1989.