INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Longtime San Diego State University (SDSU) staffer Doug Case will be recognized this week at the 2012 Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA) annual meeting.

Case will receive the Robert A. Shaffer Award, one of AFA’s highest honors, for his efforts to make positive change, build partnerships and mentor professionals in fraternity and sorority life.

Writer/director Terracino makes his feature film debut with “Elliot Loves,” a crowd-pleaser in 2012 on the LGBT film festival circuit.

Terracino weaves the story of Elliot as a 9-year-old raised by a single mom who is attracted to the bad boys, and Elliot as a 21-year-old searching for love and finding the choices he makes are just as bad as his mother’s.

The Associated Press (AP) has decided to ban the use of “phobia,” particularly the word “homophobia.”

Monday’s update to the AP Stylebook, considered the bible of copy editors across the English-speaking world, says that words ending in “phobia” indicate “an irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness” and should not be uses in “political or social contexts.”

Dave Minthorn, AP deputy standards editor, tells Politico:

SAN DIEGO – Mama’s Kitchen will host its 20th annual World AIDS Day Tree of Life ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 1, to recognize and remember those affected by AIDS.

The moving event will feature the lighting of the large holiday Christmas tree that stands in the center of the ground level plaza at the Village Hillcrest shopping center. Participants have the opportunity to purchase an ornament to be placed on the tree, which can be personalized with a message to a loved one. One ornament is $15 and two ornaments are $25, with proceeds benefitting the services of Mama’s Kitchen.