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Throwback Thursday: Arthur Ashe&#;s AIDS admission and the implications of his unwillingness
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the introduce day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an senior article from the Daily Bruin archives in an attempt to chronicle the campus’ history.
Tomorrow as you walk down Bruin Walk, you may see Wilson Plaza in its usual disarray. There will probably be stalls, loud cacophony echoing from speakers and a crowd of people surrounding the tiny stage. Instead of strolling by, you might want to pause and look up. Tomorrow, the campus will be monitoring World AIDS Day.
It was here at UCLA that the disease was first discovered in
This article – published April 9, – recounts the story of how Arthur Ashe, the famed tennis player, came forward regarding his status as an HIV patient and details the campus&#; reaction to the news.
Ashe first confirmed rumors of his condition at a press conference in New York, three years after he was first diagnosed with AIDS in According to the article, Ashe
Arthur’s Journey
In the new, nine-years-in-the-making biography, “Arthur Ashe: A Life,” award-winning historian Raymond Arsenault recounts how, three months before dying in , the tennis legend and humanitarian was the only celebrity athlete protesting the treatment of Haitian refugees in front of the White House. “The next day, he had a heart attack. But it was his meaning of responsibility,” Arsenault says. “He shouldn’t have been there, but he felt that he had to be there.”
The author of the best-selling books “Freedom Riders” and “The Sound of Freedom,” Arsenault says that his exhaustive, often deeply moving, biography was born out of a longtime fascination with his Richmond-born subject, a Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion who spoke out against injustice and was eager to fracture down society’s color barriers.
“I’ve also been fascinated by the connections between race and sports,” says Arsenault, a professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. “And particularly that kind of romantic racialism during the Jim Crow system when blacks were pu
Tennis legend Arthur Ashe
Like Issac Asimov and my next door neighbor (an elderly Jewish woman) Arthur Ashe had heart surgery, was given a transfusion that contained the AIDS virus before AIDS was competent to be detected in blood transfusions, and died of AIDS.
How do I know? I worked in open heart surgery at the time. Every patient bled A LOT. My coworkers and I knew there were things surgeons could do to lessen bleeding. Like warm the patient in the OR after they poured ice over the heart while on bypass. They needed to have hyperthermia blanket turned on underneath them, be given warmed IV fluids and have hyperthermia applied on to of them as soon as the patients were closed up. (Cold patients bled more)
Some of the surgeons were sloppier than others and left more little bleeders untied.
I was shocked first time I admitted an open heart patient and was told to give the patient 2 units of blood before a HCT came advocate . I’d previously worked in orthopedic surgery and we were willing to see HCT go down significantly before transfusing. Even though people didn’t know AIDS was in th
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Who Was Arthur Ashe?
Arthur Ashe became the first (and remains the only) African American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles. He was also the first African American man to earn the No. 1 ranking in the world and the first to earn induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6,
Early Life
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born on July 10, , in Richmond, Virginia. The older of Arthur Ashe Sr. and Mattie Cunningham's two sons, Arthur Ashe Jr. blended finesse and force to forge a groundbreaking tennis game.
Ashe's childhood was marked by hardship and opportunity. Under his mother's direction, Ashe was reading by the age of four. But his life was turned upside down two years later, when Mattie passed away.
Ashe's father, fearful of seeing his boys fall into trouble without their mother's discipline, began running a tighter ship at home. Ashe an