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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 20, 1989
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Police ponder stolen KUIDs and stickers
By Rich Cornell Kansan staff writer
An unusually large number of parking sticker and bus pass thefts this semester has led KU police to wonder whether the stickers and passes are being resold for profit.
Police records show that at of yesterday, 36 parking stickers, 25 of them yellow, have been stolen. In addition, 18 KUIDs with bus passes attached were stolen between Sept. 10 and Sunday.
Yellow-zone parking stickers and bus passes purchased from the University cost $40 each.
KU police Sgt. Schuyler Bailey said that during a typical semester only a small number of students participate.
He said the high theft rate of both parking stickers and bus passes indicated they were being resold.
"Unless they're just taking them to be malicious, there's no other reason to take them." Bailey said.
He said stolen bus passes probably could be sold for between $10 and $20. Someone may have just realized their market value this semester, but they explain why so many more are being taken than in the past, Bailey said.
KU police Lt. Jeanne Longaker said the parking stickers were being stolen from several places at all times of the day.
"There's no pattern," she said. On Sept. 11, KU police gave the Parking Department a list of people who had reported their stickers stolen, Longaker said. Then, the Parking Department gave the police a list of sticker numbers to match the owners of the stickers stolen
So far, no stolen stickers have been found on other vehicles, Longaker said.
KU police officers will check the list if they see stickers that appear suspicious, she said.
Rick Trapp, an assistant district attorney for Douglas County, said stealing a parking sticker or bus pass qualified as a misdemeanor theft.
The use of a stolen sticker would qualify as receiving stolen property. The use of a stolen bus pass would be theft of services, he said.
All of these crimes are misdemeanors, punished by as much as one year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the Parking Department, said students and faculty whose stickers had been stolen could buy a replacement sticker for $3 if they had reported the theft to the police. The $3 covers administrative costs.
I really don't think that somebody could use them," she said.
Hultine said she did not know why the stickers were being stolen.
Longaker said KU police had not given KU on Wheels a list of bus passes reported stolen because one had not been requested.
Charles Bryan, director of KU on Wheels, said bus drivers were expected to make sure a rider's face matched the one on the KUID.
"It's up to the driver," he said. "Sometimes they're tough about it and sometimes they're more lackadaisical."
Bus passes are made of special paper that will deform if removed from a KUID, Bryan said. Therefore, it usually be used if removed.
A stolen bus pass can be replaced for $7.50 if the student reports the theft to the police, he said.
If a driver discovers a person using someone else's bus pass, he or she will keep the KUID and turns it in to the office of student life. Bryan said. If found guilty of falsifying or lending a bus pass, a student usually is fined $80 and is required to talk with District Attorney Jim Flory, he said.
Andrew Morrison/KANSAN
Hang Time
Mitch Wiles, Leavenworth graduate student, works to replace the backstop at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium. Wiles was replacing the old chain-link backstop with a new 'net' type yesterday.
KU to participate again in national AIDS study
Without their knowledge, some KU students' next blood sample taken at the Watkins Memorial Health Center will be stripped of all identification except age, sex and race, sent to another laboratory and tested for AIDS.
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas was chosen for the second consecutive year to participate in a national study that will research the prevailing relationship between inflammation, Charles Yockey, Watking, chief of staff.
He said Watkins was notified Aug. 13 that it would be participating in the study again. KU will begin collecting blood samples from Watkins' laboratory this week.
Wally Brewer, project associate for the American College Health Association, said that the association would conduct the study in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
He said that after five years of the study, researchers would attempt to identify a trend in the occurrence of AIDS among college students. There never has been a similar study of the national college population. Brewer said.
In the first year of the study two out of every 1,000 blood samples was HIV positive, he said.
Yockey said KU and 18 other universities were asked to contribute 1,000 blood samples for the 1988-1989 study. The universities in this year's study will contribute a number of blood samples equating to 10 percent of their student population.
The samples used will be blood that has been tested for other reasons and normally would be discarded. Yockey said.
"Nobody will have extra blood drawn for the study," he said.
Brewer said that a larger survey this year would provide more accurate results. He said he hoped 36 universities would participate in this second year of the study.
KU was chosen to participate in the study because it best represents the Midwest, Brewer said. The universities that participate also must be members of the American College Health Association and must have laboratories that students use regularly.
Brewer said that this year's study might begin to show a slight trend.
Results of this year's study will be available in May 1990. he said.
Originally the association intended to break down the study's results into national regions, he said. The results will not be regionalized, however, to avoid prejudices that might occur because only one or two universities make up a region.
Brewer said that because study participants remain anonymous, researchers could not notify participants whose blood samples tested positive.
He said survey results that allowed participants to be identified would not be accurate.
"Some students will self-select and you get a skewed sample," Brewer said. "You will have people coming in who think they have AIDS or who know they don't."
Koop touts morality in fight against AIDS
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Retiring Surgeon General C. Everett Koop urged the public on Monday to return to old-fashioned morality to battle AIDS.
Koop also said that some teen-agers were ignoring AIDS warnings.
But Doug Alagna, Overland Park sophomore at the University of Kansas, said there was no way that would happen.
"It's been proven among many generations that the postponement of sexual activity not only prevents the diseases that we're talking about but makes for better lives, and I think it's also what the book said in a brief appearance before the international AIDS commission in W.D. Washington D.C.
"The trend is not going back to old-fashioned morality," he said.
Alagna said if he were going out with someone he did not know, AIDS would be one of his biggest concerns.
He said the fact that students were voting to have condom machines on campus showed that they were concerned.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said people have heard about AIDS and prevention of it.
"Knowledge does not always translate into behavior. If that were true, nobody would smoke, everyone would wear a seat belt, and everyone would wear a condom." he said.
Aaron Auspitz, Chicago senior, said condom use had increased.
"I'm speaking from personal experience when I say people are being more cautious," he said.
Henry Buck, head of gynecology at Watkins, said that a return to old-fashioned morality would help prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
"If you don't want to burn your finger don't put it in the candle," he said.
But, he said, behavior modification was very important.
Jason Padula, Houston freshman, said he had been educated about AIDS in high school.
"It helped me. It made us aware," he said.
Resident assistants at Gertrude Sellars
Pearson-Corbin Hall made an effort to
educate residents about condom use, Stefanie
Umpheon, Blue Springs, Mo., freshman,
said.
"They had us put condoms on bananas. Then we made banana splits with the bananas." she said.
Umphenour said teen-agers thought they were invincible and that they would not die, think a return to an old-fashioned
"I think a return to an outward morality is commonplace," she said.
► The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
1990 alumni convention may boost area economy
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
National exposure and economic benefits for the University of Kansas and Lawrence may accompany the influx of approximately 80 visitors for the 1990 Student Alumni Association/Student Foundation national convention next September.
KU's Student Alumni Association on Saturday won the honor of being heralded.
Laura Graham, president of the KU Student Alumni Association, said delegates from around the country representing more than 200 universities would descend on Lawrence Sept. 12-16, 1990.
chancellor, said the convention would provide excellent exposure for Kansas and the University.
"It should be a very positive impact," she said. "I'm delighted to host students from all over the country."
Judy Ruedlinger, adviser for the association, said the convention be significant for KU because most of its staff would not otherwise visit her.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice
The 1989 national convention was held Thursday through Sunday at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
Don Edwards, owner of the ECU University Book Exchange, said his store, which sells ECU merchandise, had an increase in sales during this
year's convention but not as much as he expected.
"We were anticipating a lot more business than we got," he said. "We had probably a 25 percent to 30 percent increase in Friday and Saturday sales."
Edwards said that his store's location, a 10-minute walk from campus, and not setting up a booth in the room, only kept sales lower than expected.
Mike Coston, general manager of the ECU Student Store on the ECU campus, said that the store wasn't open on Saturdays unless there was a home football game but that it was open from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday for the convention delegates.
Understanding what a pre-business student encounters at the University of Kansas influenced one business student to attempt to rebuild the Minority Business Student Council this fall.
Sharmani Lowery, president of the newly formed council, said, "Our goal or mission is to increase and maintain the number of minorities interested in business and business-related fields."
The council, which was inactive during the 1988-89 school year, received funding from Student Senate this fall, said Michael Diggs, chairman of the Student Senate minority affairs committee.
"If we focus mainly on the needs of pre-business students, then we are see more of these students admitted to the business school." Lowery said.
Currently, the council has about 40 members, she said. The council is made up of students from all classes, although the majority of the members are at the sophomore or junior levels.
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