UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN --- Friday, April 15, 1994 7 Earth Week Events Daily activities are scheduled around Lawrence in celebration of Earth Week Sunday. April 17 Sunrise blessing for the earth Lawrence Riverfront Plaza, 6:30 a.m. Respecting all species day Dog trisbee contest, South Park, 2 to 4 p.m. Baker wetlands tour, 35th and Haskell, 2 p.m. Monday, April 18 Quality recycling day Incredible Waste Stream Salad Show at City Hall Wal-Mart education booths Tuesday, April 19 Alternative transportation day Ride your bike or walk to work and school Tree plantings Wal-Mart energy booths Thursday, April 21 Earth, air and water day Wal-Mart education booths Community cleanup day Pick up litter where you live and work Litter clean up at participating schools Wal-Mart earth basketball for trees Friday, April 22 Wednesday, April 20 Earth arts day Wal-Mart art show Saturday, April 23 Clinton Lake clean up. 9 a.m. to noon Celebration of earth events Downtown parade, Buford M. Watson Park, 1 p.m. Celebration in South Park, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wal-Mart environmental vendor booths Sunday, April 24 KU campus concert on the hill. 11:30 a.m. Baker wetlands field day Starts at 35th and Haskell, 2-4 p.m. Sunset benediction, Haskell campus, 8 p.m. Dave Campbell / KANSAN Source: KU Environs, 864-7325 CAMPUS BRIEFS Exotic eating on menu at Taste of Cultures Swedish, Greek and Mexican foods are some of the cultural cuisine on the menu at the fifth annual Taste of Cultures tomorrow. Ron Swenson, chair for the Celebration of Cultures organization in Lawrence, said about 400 people were expected to attend the event, which uses food to display the diverse cultures in the community. More than 30 cultures will be represented. The event will last from 3 to 5 p.m. at the First Methodist Church Building, 946 Vermont St. The $10 admission cost includes 14 food coupons that can be redeemed at the food booths. The money raised from the event will help finance the Celebration of Cultures festival in October, Swenson said. Parade ends LesBiGay week Tickets will be available at the door and at the Mercantile Bank, 900 Massachusetts St., and Gill Real Estate, 901 Tennessee St. "The purpose of the parade is to allow people the opportunity to voice their support for the lesbian and gay civil rights movement," said Eric Moore, Lawrence senior and co-coordinator of the week's events. Amnesty International and other organizations are expected to join in the march, Moore said. The parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Lawrence City Hall, 6-E. 6th St., and finish at South Park with a rally and picnic. Each participating organization will be invited to speak at the rally. A human rights march will mark the end of LesBiGay Awareness Week tomorrow morning. Rain or shine, Moore said, the march will take place, but in case of rain the rally and picnic will move to Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Compiled from Kansan staff reports KU Med Center enters national study of new AIDS drug, U-90 The University of Kansas Medical Center entered into a national study of U-90 on April 6, a new AIDS drug developed by The Ujohn Co. By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer In a test tube, U-90 has shown even more activity against human cell cultures infected with HIV than ZDV — formerly known as AZT. "There have been a number of very good drugs that have been tried that this virus can become resistant to very rapidly," he said. "And if the virus does that to U-90, then it isn't going to be very good. And that's something that is going to have to be found out." The Mead Company sells Cofelon. Three AIDS drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration: ZDV, ddh and ddC, which is used in combination with ZDV, said Elliot Goldstein, professor of medicine. HIV invades healthy cells with a protein on its coat, which it uses to attach itself to a corresponding receptor site on the host cell. RNA is the virus' core material. Reverse transcriptase enzymes are brought into the cells to convert the viral RNA into DNA, which can enter into DNA and eventually replicate. 50 participants in two drug studies. The first will gauge the effectiveness of U-90 and ZDV as opposed to ZDV alone. The second will do the same with U-90 and ddi. "If you think of the virus as coupled boxcars, if you could break the links, you could separate the train and kill it." Goldstein said. The drug attacks the enzyme at a different coupling site than the other drugs, Goldstein said. "You inactivate the enzyme, and the RNA cannot be converted to DNA," he said. investigators will evaluate the drug's effectiveness using 15 to 30 patients Goldstein said he and seven co- About 250 people already have received U-90 in drug safety tests, Goldstein said. So far its most common side effect has been a skin rash. ZDV can cause anemia, a decrease in white cells and nausea. Ddi can cause pain in nerves in the legs. Rose Rousseau, executive director of the Douglas County AIDS Project, said that not all of the HIV-positive clients with whom she worked were interested in new drugs. "When you become more ill and your health is compromised, you'll have a variety of opportunistic infections," Rousseau said. "In the late stages of the disease, it is not uncommon for people to be on 20 or more different kinds of medications." Some patients have timed alarm systems so that they will remember to take the numerous medications they are already on. Event to highlight Indonesian culture By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer By Denise Nell More than a year of planning and $12,000 have gone into preparations for the Indonesian Student Association's third Indonesian Cultural Night, "Emerald on the Equator." Andi Putra, Jakarta, Indonesia, senior and president of the organization, said that the event, which begins at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Lied Center, would include a sampling of Indonesian culture. "We're going to have traditional performances, like dances and an Indonesian dinner," he said. paid for by Student Senate funds, Indonesian companies and funds donated by club members, was the main event the club organized. "We have a few basic things we want to do here," he said. "One of our main interests is to promote our culture. We also want to serve our country. This is the only thing we can do when we're studying abroad." Putra said that the event, which is The goal of the event, Putra said, is to educate the campus about the Indonesian culture. such a waste not to have that kind of opportunity for students to learn about it." "We have one of the most diverse cultures, and not many people at the University or in the U.S. know about our country," he said. "We think it's Merryanawati Anwar, Jakarta, Indonesia, senior and assistant director for the event, said that many people didn't realize that more than 200 dialects were spoken in Indonesia or that it was made up of more than 13,500 different islands that, if put together, would be about three times the size of Texas. Tickets for the event are $6 for students and $8 for non-students. They can be purchased at the Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union. WellCaterYourTeeParty NATURALWAY 820-822 Mass Stnet fiber 841-0100 clothing KMS Quit driving around for golf equipment. GOLF Unlimited is the only golf store in Lawrence. 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