FRIDAY,NOV.16,2001
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
TRAVELING SHOW
Randy Foster, Lawrence senior, leads his band to the delight of Jayhawk fans at the Wheel, 507 W. 14th St. Some members of the KU band travel around from one bar to another on Friday nights before home football games playing the fight song and other Jayhawk favorites.
WASHINGTON - Federal AIDS-prevention money is paying for workshops that encourage sexual activity and meet the legal definition of obscenity, government investigators said in a report obtained yesterday.
Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of a House Government Reform subcommittee, had asked for the investigation.
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asked for the investigation. One program that was studied, "Great Sex Workshop," examined ways of reducing the spread of HIV but also explored sex that was "safe, erotic, fun and satisfying." Another, "Booty Call," included material on the taboos of erotic sex along with information on avoiding injury and disease.
Both workshops included information that "could be viewed as directly promoting sexual activity" and as obscene, Health and Human Services Inspector General Janet Rehnquist concluded.
Report says AIDS workshops obscene
Rehquist's report reviewed $698,000 in AIDS-prevention funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, awarded to the Stop AIDS Project of San Francisco. The findings were obtained by The Associated Press, which has previously reported on questionable AIDS-prevention funding.
Rehnquist said that as a result of the findings, she now would expand her audits to all CDC funding for projects that identify themselves as AIDS-prevention programs.
The secretary of health and human services, Tommy G. Thompson, said the department would separately review all department-funded HIV/AIDS
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activities that include a program for treatment of low-income AIDS patients.
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AIDS professionals Officials at the Stop AIDS Project said they had no immediate comment. However, community AIDS organizations in San Francisco and city health officials have said that course materials have to be provocative to attract gay men at risk of disease. They have insisted that the programs do stress AIDS prevention.
Some AIDS activists have criticized the prevention workshops, contending they promote gay sex rather than try to prevent disease.
The CDC's guidelines for prevention programs state the material used cannot promote sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse, and cannot be obscene under standards set forth by the Supreme Court in 1973 in Miller v. California.
University of Kansas students will be photographed for publication in the 2002 Jayhawker.
Off Campus Students:
10:00 - 2:00 4th Floor Kansas Union Lobby
On Campus Students:
4:00-7:00 Banquet Room of Mrs. E's
Please bring your KUID.
Support the Families of Freedom Fund and Be a Responsible Tailgater!
UNITED WE STAND
By Regents and university policy, alcohol may be consumed at KU-sponsored fund-raising events. "Proud to be a Jayhawk" fund-raising in the designated tailgating areas at Saturday's game benefits family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
And don't forget these key tailgating guidelines:
Proceeds from the $10 T-shirt featuring KU's "Fighting Jayhawk" from 1941 will go to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund. Purchase the T-shirt from volunteers in the designated tailgating areas or at KUstore.com at the south end of the stadium or at the KU Bookstores.
Alcohol is allowed only during the 3 hours before kickoff. No drinking after kickoff—including halftime or after the game—while you are on university premises.
Alcohol is allowed only within designated tailgating areas (a perimeter around 10 parking lots adjacent to Memorial Stadium).
No underage drinking or other unlawful conduct will be tolerated. Laws will be enforced!
No alcohol in Memorial Stadium.