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Writing help available online
University of Kansas students who don't have time to stop by Writer's Roosts can have most of the advantages of a tutoring session at home.
By Cassio Furtado Special to the Kansan
The Writer's Roosts, which assist students in writing papers, began accepting online submissions during Spring 2000. When the service was created in Fall 1998, it offered tutoring only at specific campus locations.
Rhonda Sharp, Writing Center office manager, said the online submission idea was tried first with Edwards Campus graduate students.
"Many of those students do not visit the campus often, work and live far from KU, and have few oppoortu-
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To submit papers to the Writer's Roosts online, visit www.ukans.edu/~writing/online.html
nities to meet faculty and writing consultants for face-to-face feedback," she said.
Sharp said that the Writing Center decided to open this option to all students this fall because of the positive response from graduate students.
However; more than half of the students submitting their work online are still graduate students.
Kristy Powell, Denver graduate student, is one of them.
"I think that the convenience of being able to do everything from home is great," she said. "Being in
grad school leaves very little time to make trips to the campus."
Writer's Roosts accepts a maximum of 12 pages and limits the submissions to one per student during a week. It also requires students to meet one time with a writing consultant before submitting a paper and to ask three specific questions to prompt the writing consultant.
"We like to read and respond based directly on the students' concerns and questions," Sharp said.
Students can visit them through Stop Day, Wednesday, Dec. 13.
— Edited by Clay McCuskin
- Campus Writer's Roosts are open throughout the week at Watson Library and Wescoe, Templin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson halls.
Couple to talk about AIDS
Speakers to address impact of HIV virus in their relationship
By J.D. McKee
writer@kansan.com
Kansas st writer
Shawn Decker and Gwenn Barringer are not like most couples: One of them has HIV.
Decker, a hemophilic, contracted the virus from a blood clotting factor used to halt his frequent nose bleeds during sixth grade.
The couple will speak at 7 tonight at the Lied Center about AIDS prevention and the affect the virus has had on their lives and relationship. The event is free and open to the public.
They now live together.
"We started talking to people
They met last year when Barringer, a case manager for an AIDS organization in Virginia, tried to find a speaker for an educational program about living with HIV.
Though Decker didn't fit her specifications because he hadn't contracted HIV through sex, the two became friends and started dating soon after.
After the HIV was diagnosed,
Decker was expelled from his
Waynesboro, Va., grade school.
around Virginia," Barringer said. "Then a friend recommended that we speak on college campuses. We realized we were the only couple like this out there who was talking about this."
He dealt with the situation through denial and didn't talk to anyone about it for nearly 10 years.
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"That may have been good for him at the time, but it had its setbacks," Barringer said.
Barringer said. When Decker was 20, he decided that he should talk to other people about AIDS, Barringer said.
"He didn't go to college because he didn't know how long he would live," she said. "He didn't know what to do with his life."
Decker said his decision to share his experience with other people has had a positive impact on his life.
"What would I be doing if I wasn't forced to ask myself the deeper questions?" he said. "Playing Nintendo and watching the WWF probably."
Barringer became interested in AIDS prevention when she was 18 and a 22-year-old woman with HIV spoke at her sorority.
"I thought, "This woman is like us," she said. "Why do we think we're exempt from this?" None of
"...afriend recommended that we speak on college campuses. We realized that we were the only couple like this out there who was talking about this."
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Gwenn Barringer is in a relationship with a man who contracted HIV
my friends were talking about it."
The couple, from Charlesville, Va., has been speaking to students for the past 18 months. The two have spoken about the virus individually for the past four to five years.
They have spoken at eight colleges so far, but they expect that number to rise to 20 after this semester.
The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council arranged the couple's visit.
arranged the course by Geoff Gross, IFC vice president of education and scholarship, said IFC and Panhellenic had chosen the couple as speakers because they wanted to broach a serious topic that was relevant to college students.
Edited by Clay McCuistion
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