University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1983
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Gay group supplies facts about AIDS, counseling
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Wide-scale publicity and rumors about AIDS have distorted facts about the potentially deadly disease, the director of a campus gay support group
As a result, Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, which is financed by Student Senate, is working to make sure that information is available for area residents who want to know more about the disease.
“It’s something to be scared of, but the national press has exaggerated a lot of the information,” said Ruth Lightaway, director of GLOSK.
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, breaks down the body's natural defenses against disease. It often results in a person to person and in many cases is deadly.
HOWEVER, infrequent cases have appeared in other groups, and some reports have surfaced of infants being born with the disease. So far, in studies of infants with the disease, babies with AIDS were born to mothers who were AIDS carriers.
GLSKO has no set program to inform people about AIDS, but Lichtwdt said that her office had literature about the disease available for public use.
"We have several articles from national magazines on the subject, and we will give out free copies to people who want them," she said.
Lichtwardt said that the office also had a book available on AIDS, "The AIDS Fact Book," which she said was "very factual and very complete."
Lichtward said that GLSOK would also give interested people telephone numbers of support groups in the Kansas City area.
One new Kansas City, Mo., group, the Kansas City AIDS Project, is an information bank financed by area health and civic groups.
THE PROJECT, which was initiated two weeks ago, maintains a phone line for answering questions about AIDS and also distributes literature to people that are susceptible to the disease.
The project uses an office provided by the Kansas City Health Department, and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"We get calls everyday," said Ran Adler, director of the program. "And, we also operate a clinic screening program where we conduct tests to see if people should be referred to treatment facilities."
The Kansas City group does not employ full-time medical personnel, but it does have names of several doctors who have experience who are aware of雯ible about AIDS.
"They are doctors who are well versed in what is happening with new developments of the disease," Adler said.
Cases of AIDS have mostly been reported in large cities. The majority of cases have been reported in New York and California.
NO CASES have been reported in Lawrence. Adler said, but five cases of AIDS have been confirmed in the Kansas City area.
Despite the isolated nature of AIDS, many people are taking precautions to avoid catching the disease, which physicians have said could only be transmitted through the blood stream or through sexual intercourse.
or through sexual intercourse. In the homosexual community, AIDS has caused gay men to take a new look at their dating habits.
at their dialog rooms. Bryan Dickens, an office counselor at GLSK, said he had detected changes in attitudes at gay bars and clubs
Mark Bennett, 12, Princeton, marks time watching students on Jayhawk Boulevard from a window at Spooner Hall. His father was working yesterday on an exhibit for the Museum of Anthropology.
Yesterday was Orientation Day. Classes are scheduled to begin Sept. 6.
Almost half of Columbia's Class of 1987 is female school officials said.
Women break male tradition at Columbia
By United Press International
The women checked into their residence halls along with their male peers, swapping tips on courses and living arrangements.
An official said the 352 women in the new freshman class made up 45 percent
Anchor says Craft media trial broke little ground
Despite Christine Craft's successful sex discrimination suit against Metromedia Inc., women gained little from the trial in fighting sex discrimination, a reporter who covered the trial said last night.
NEW YORK — More than 300 women yesterday hauled stereos and suitcases onto the campus of Columbia College, breaking the school's 229-year tradition and bringing coeducation to the last all-male Ivy League college.
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Sue Parcel, weekend anchorwoman for WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Mo., said the Craft trial had little or no impact on women, especially women in the media. She spoke to about 80 people last night at a meeting of KU's chapter of
Women in Communications Inc. in Stauffer-Fint Hall.
Until last year, women who wanted to attend Columbia had to enroll in Barnard College, an all-female school across the street. Barnard officials last year decided the college would remain an all-female school, prompting Columbia's final decision to admit women.
"The main impact of the trial is that managers will be more careful and give more thought before they do what Channel 9 did," she said.
Scattered in the back.
The Craft trial had little to do with sex discrimination, Parcell said. The trial actually dealt with fraud, she said.
Metromedia Inc., which owns KMBC TV Channel 9 in Kansas City, Mo., was accused of discriminating against Craft because she was a woman Reportedly, the station demoted Craft from anchorwoman to reporter because she was "unattractive and not deferential enough to men."
PARCELL, 26, a 1978 graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said it was difficult not to get involved in the trial.
tria.
Covering it was hard, because it was a weird trial. It wasn't hard because of how I wanted it to turn out, but because I knew everyone involved. I knew everyone but the judge." Parcell said.
Parcell said she admired the coverage that KMBC gave to the trial. "It's a huge success," they.
Parcell has been a reporter at WDAF for five years. She began co-anchoring the weekend news almost two years ago.
couldn't ignore it. It was a major local story. It would be hard to put a story on the air about your boss," she said.
The trial was given more attention than Parcell expected. She said that if Craft had not been a television personality, the trial would not have been as highly publicized.
Since she began working at WDAF, Parcell said, she had never had any of the problems Craft had.
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