University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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AIDS task force to focus on living groups
By Janell Good
Kansan staff writer
Students this semester will receive one item less than they received during fee payment last spring: $10.
Last spring, students received a safe-sex information packet which included a condom. More than 10,000 condoms were distributed during two days of fee payment.
Fam Holley, student body vice president, said the project had been effective in making students
"The second time might not be as effective," Holley said. "The Student Senate did"; want to diminish the effect by passing out information packets again.
"It was definitely controversial. Anytime you have that much controversy and media exposure over an issue, the public needs to be educated to avoid the rumors."
Last year, some students protected the condon
didn't believe they thought it promote
promiscuity and steal.
The distribution of the information kits and condoms was the third phase of an effort by the Department of Health to raise the immune deficiency syndrome. The first phase was AIDS Awareness Week 16, Nov. 10-28, 1987.
people."
The second phase was the development of a support network on campus to give presentations.
Menees said that he wanted the task force to work with living groups to deliver information about AIDS, and that the task force would try to increase their fraternities, fraternities, sororites and off campus housing.
Brooke Menees, student body president, said that the AIDS task force would take recommendations from members of last year's group, but the focus this year would target specific living groups.
"We need key representatives in each living group to educate students." Menees said. "The great thing about this plan is that these groups will be able to work together and will be distributed quickly and to a large number of
Hollow said the task force be re-established this semester after the first the Senate meeting to set a course for this year. Each task force convenes students about AIDS will be led by the Senate.
"AIDS will be an issue for years to come," he said. "AIDS is a student problem too, and it can't
As part of Hawk Week, an information panel will discuss college students and sexuality at 2.15 p.m. tomorrow in 3149 Wesco Hall. The workshop has been organized by Watkins Hospital with assistance from the Campus AIDS Task Force and the Student Senate Task Force.
Fulbright grants offer students chance for school, travel
Combining scholarly research and travel abroad scholarship does not have to be a missed opportunity.
Kansan staff writer
Sponsored by the study abroad office, a introductory meeting will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday in Alderson Auditorium to acquaint students with Fulbright grants.
good students out there. With a student body of 29,000, 20 applicants is not much."
"I'm always disappointed at the low number of applicants," said Mary Elizabeth Debich, direc-tor for the program.
Fulbright grants are awarded nationally to seniors and graduate students who plan to spend a year researching a project overseas. The projects require students to be interested in the country the student is studying in and the U.S.
The application deadline for the Fulbright grants is September 16.
To apply, students must submit a research transcript and three letters of recommendation.
"As much as we want students to start planning a year ahead for this, some of them have very good projects in mind and can get their applications together quickly," Debcik said.
Last year, eight KU students received Fulbrights. Approximately 700 are available each year nationwide. This year, KU students on the Fulbrights program are in Poland, East Germany and the Fiji Islands.
Debicki said that spending a year on a Fulbright grant can give a student an idea of what direction to go in his life.
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