University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 30, 1986
AIDS education draws local support
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Professors, students and local clergymen yesterday supported Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's recent recommendation for AIDS education at "the lowest grade possible."
They also agreed that his recommendation was a response to the increasing number of AIDS cases in the homosexual and heterosexual communities.
An Oct. 15 report from the state Department of Health and Environment showed that 104 people in the state had the disease. Fifty-one have died. Of those, only 42 are Kansas residents who contracted the disease in the state.
Of the 42, who contracted the disease since 1982, 23 have died.
Of the 42 cases, 34 were transmitted through homosexual activity, three were transmitted through blood transfusions, and one was a *bilirubin*. Only one of the group was female.
At the national level, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported this month that
26,875 Americans had been diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome since 1981. Since January 1, 2,225 Americans have died from AIDS.
The report also indicated that the total AIDS cases in the United States included 1,789 women, 43 children ages 5 to 12, 32 children under 5, and 297 babies born with AIDS because their parents had or carried the disease.
William McKnelly, professor of psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said the spread of AIDS into the heterosexual community said the theory that homosexuals were being punished for their immoral behavior was not correct.
"AIDS will blow the top off of the fundamental religious objection to sex education because now it's a matter of not wanting their children to die." McKnell said.
McKenny said he admired Koop for taking such a straightforward public health approach.
"Many people — especially our youth — are not receiving the information that is vital to
their future health and well-being because of our reticence in dealing with the subjects of sex, sexual practices and homosexuality," Koop said last week. "This silence must end.
"Education about AIDS should start at an early age so that children can grow up knowing the behaviors to avoid to protect themselves from exposure to the AIDS virus."
The risks involved with casual sex were so blatantly devoid that Koop's position on AIDS and human rights calls for intervention.
Mknelly also commended Koop for saying that the best protection against infection, barring abstinence, was the use of condoms.
McKenny said before the development of the birth control pill, the condom was the most widely used form of birth control. Now, use of the condom was uncommon among men under
McKnelly said the drastic decrease in the number of smokers was a prime example of the effect of good educational programs.
Kevin Nelson, a former member of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas and
spokesman for the Lawrence Lesbian and Gay Political Caucus, said that he thought information was reaching the public but that society refused to listen to it.
The public had the misconception that AIDS was a purely homosexual disease, he said.
"The majority of people with AIDS are gay,
but AIDS is not a gay disease." Nelson said.
Society's own ignorance was putting it at risk, he said.
Dick Orr, director of the American Baptist Campus Center, 1629. W 19th St., said parents naively imagined that their children were learning about sex outside of the home.
"I think schools and churches need to be aggressive in their presentation of sex education that is biological, relational and emotional," Orr said.
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare and adviser to the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said sex education to children should include AIDS education, but it would be terribly unnecessary and unfair to make it the focal point.
Counselor attributes two Indian problems to 'cultural trauma'
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
Alcoholism and diabetes, two chronic problems among American Indians, are partly the result of 150 years of cultural trauma, a psychologist and a nurse at Haskell Indian Health Center said yesterday.
harmful in certain contexts. Al Rolland, a counselor for Haskell's Chemical Abuse Prevention Program, said alcoholism among native American Indians had evolved because the Indians had become a "people without a country."
"Long-term family trauma started with the wholesale slaughter of native American families and tribes — genoise, that is." Rolland said.
"And then tribes were forced onto reservations and became puppets with impotence.
"The desolation of reservations allows for the proliferation of alcohol and drug abuse. They feel dispossessed, without direction. Their goals seem to be without purpose. There is nothing to reinforce the setting of goals.
"Their survival skills became wrought with alcohol and drug abuse. These behavior patterns have since become inter-generational."
Contrary to popular thought, Rolland said, research had not proven that American Indians have a higher biological susceptibility to alcoholism than other population groups.
Arlene Wahswasuck, a nurse at the center, said American Indians had probably developed diabetes because their diets significantly changed after they were forced onto reservations.
Rolland said about 250 American Indians would be counsel through Haskell's program this year. The center provides free care to American" Indians in the Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City area, but primarily serves Haskell students.
American Indians tended to develop a type of diabetes that usually appeared between ages 35 and 40, but the incidence of complications of the eyes and heart
Women with diabetes tend to give birth to oversized babies. These babies often have immature, undersized lungs and will be likely to develop diabetes themselves. Wahwasuck said no known reason explained why women with diabetes often produced oversized babies.
The center assisted about 6, visitors each day, Kay Wolfe, the center's director said. She said most of the problems treated were day-to-day health needs such as colds, respiratory infections and birth conditions, and diarrhea, two the most common diseases the Center treated.
Any American Indian can receive free care at the Center. The Department of Health and Human Services is considering a proposal that would limit American Indian health services to American Indians who could prove that they had at least one quarter American Indian blood.
The proposal, if adopted, would also restrict the Haskell Indian Health Center to serving only American Indians in Douglas County.
Buloads of American Indians from Kansas City who received medical care at the Center would then be ineligible, Wolfe said.
Hess enters guilty pleas to securities fraud counts
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Former Kansas state Sen. Paul Hess, already imprisoned for forgery, pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of securities fraud and was sentenced to one year in prison on each count.
Hess, 37, agreed to make restitution of $33,000. He was sentenced by Wyandotte County District Judge Leo Moroney, who said the sentences will run concurrently with the one- to five-year term he is serving in the forcery case.
The securities fraud charges accused Hess of swindling Dr. Robert Novak, a Kansas City, Kan., captainperson who lent him
$3,000, and Alma Berry, a 65-year-old widow from Shawnee who lent him $20,000.
The prosecution said Hess issued stock certificates for a holding company called First Finance and Investments Inc. after he no longer held a legal interest in the firm.
At atestday's hearing, Hess acknowledged that he had pledged stock when he had no right to do so and certificates belonged to someone else.
Hess, who spent 14 years in the Kansas Legislature, was sent to prison in July on his conviction in Linn County for forging the names of his former wife and her mother on a promissory note
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