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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 24, 1992
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AIDS-quilt tour visits KC
More than 900 panels make up Midwest part of memorial
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
What started as some scraps of fabric and colored thread has become a national symbol of the effects of AIDS.
More than 900 panels from the AIDS memorial quilt will be displayed in the National Museum of American History.
vehicle to reflect the humanity and the extraordinary cost of the disease."
Marna Courson, member of the steering committee responsible for bringing the quilt to Kansas City, said the squares represented people from around the country — particularly the Midwest — who died of complications from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
"The quilt is a memorial to those who have died of AIDS, "Courson said. "It is a way of expressing grief for the survivors, and it is a consciousness-raising
The quilt was begun in San Francisco co in 1987. When people from other parts of the country heard about it they quickly began to recolonize it, quickly grew in size and recombination.
The quilt has more than 15,000 panels and is the size of five football fields. Courson said.
As part of a national tour, the quilt will be displayed at Municipal Auditorium today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Each panel is the size of a grave, Courson said. The quilt will cover the Municipal Auditorium floor, and people will have opportunities to present more panels.
Pat Sinclair, secretary for the
School of Social Welfare, worked on the quilt several years ago when she lived in Boston. She will volunteer at the display this weekend.
"It's a very life-affirming thing, and it's not a sad thing," Sinclair said. "I think that the quilt shows a great deal of diversity, and most people in Kansas don't know anyone who has died from AIDS. This is a way to make it real for them."
Patrick Dilley, head of the Student Senate AIDT Task Force, said the quilt was an important reminder of the individual lives represented by the panels.
"It really brings it home for a lot of people, to see all of the names of people from all over the country and see all the work that went into the individual panels from someone who loved that person very much," Dilley said.
Study increases rape estimate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A government-financed study released yesterday found that 683,000 women in the United States were raped in 1990—a far higher number than other government reports have said—and that 12.1 million women have been rape victims at least once.
"Rape does seem to be a tragedy of youth in America," said Dean Kilpatrick, co-author of thereport, "Rapein America."
In addition, the National Women's Study said that almost 62 percent of the rape victims said they were attacked when they were minors, with about 29 percent saying they were younger than 11.
The study, financed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, involved female interviewers talking to some 4,000 women by telephone about rapes in the previous year and earlier. Findings have a margin of error of 1.5 percent.
The survey also found that:
Of the estimated 12.1 million women who have been raped, about 6.8 million were raped once, 4.7 million more than once, and 50,000 were unsure of the number of times.
Twenty-nine percent of perpetrators were nonrelatives known to the victim, such as neighbors or friends. Twenty-two percent were strangers, 16 percent were relatives other than immediate family, 11 percent father or stepfa-
other, 10 percent boyfriend or ex-
boyfriend and 9 percent husband or
exhusband. Three percent were not sure or
refused to answer.
Rape victims' most important concerns after the assault were the family finding out, being blamed by others for the attack, and others knowing about it. The victims also feared having their names become public, getting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and becoming pregnant.
Seventy percent of rape victims were not physically harmed, while 24 percent suffered minor injuries and 4 percent were seriously hurt. The survey did not account for rape-murder victims.
KANSAS CITY AREA STUDENTS DESERVE SOME CREDIT THIS SUMMER.
Earn some credit this summer!
When you come back to the
Kansas City Area, take a class
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