19th annual Sexual Health Awareness Week is Feb. 8-15

Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former surgeon general of the United States, will give the keynote address for the 19th annual Sexual Health Awareness Week, Feb. 8-15, sponsored by Cornell's Department of University Health Services' Clinical Volunteer Program.

Elders will speak Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Tickets are free and available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.

Other events for the week include:

• The fourth annual Health Fair, Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall, sponsored by the Clinical Volunteer Program. More than 20 community service groups and alternative medicine specialists as well as 15 campus organizations will present demonstrations, information, activities, games and prizes. Co-sponsors for the fair are the Willard Straight Hall Program Board, Student Health Alliance at Cornell and University Health Contraception, Gynecology and Sexuality Services/Level 6.

• Monday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, "Transgender Health," Alejandro Marcel, director of the Trans-gender Education Network at the Justice Resource Institute in Boston; sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center.

• Tuesday, Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m., 122 Rocke-feller Hall, "How Alternative Is Alternative Medicine?" Andrea Parrot, associate professor in policy analysis and management, sponsored by the Student Health Alliance.

• Wednesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., Art Gallery at Willard Straight, a faculty "fireside chat" titled "Why Relationships Are Good for Us," featuring Cynthia Hazan, associate professor of human development, and sponsored by the Willard Straight Program Board.

• Thursday, Feb. 11, 5 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Rita Ann Calvo, senior lecturer in genetics and development, will present "Screening Healthy Adults to Determine Whether They Are Carriers for Recessive Genetic Disease"; sponsored by Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-medical honor fraternity.

• Sunday and Monday, Feb. 14 and 15, 7:30 p.m., Big Red Barn, "The Vagina Monologues," by Eve Ensler, a staged reading presented by Cornell students, faculty and staff is sponsored by Cornell Advocates for Rape Education. Free tickets will be available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office beginning Feb. 8. This dramatic performance is one of approximately 48 taking place around the country on Valentine's Day.

For more information on Sexual Health Awareness Week, call Janice Saidla, coordinator of the University Health Services Clinical Volunteer Program, at 255-6935.