University Daily Kansan / Thursday. November 19. 1987
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THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
"Good heavens, Mr. Farley, is that the end of someone's nose I see down there?"
Barkis says he'll back Marqin of Excellence
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Board of Regents program to increase financing for state universities gained the endorsement of a Democratic legislative leader yesterday, and Gov. Mike Hayden was described as being somewhat sympathetic toward its arms.
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis said he would support the "Margin of Excellence" program during the 1988 Legislature, which convenes in January. The plan calls foising increased spending at the Regents institutions by $47 million over the next three fiscal years.
"We must be careful that we do not only support what the program can do. We must support the tough choice of providing the money to make the plan work." Barkis, D-Louisburg, said in a speech to the Lenexa
Chamber of Commerce.
Kathy Peterson, Hayden's press secretary, said the governor has met numerous times with Regents officials to discuss the plan and has acknowledged that the Regents universities need more money to keep the state's higher education system competitive with that of other states.
"He wants to do something for education, and there's broad bipartisan support for that," Peterson said. "He'd like to see more done."
Hayden's budget staff is still in the process of compiling a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 1989, which begins July 1, 1988, and Peterson said the Regents budget probably will be one of the last items completed. She said Hayden has not decided yet whether to fully finance the proposal or just part of it.
Campus/Area
Don Hermesch, right, Seneca graduate student, listens as Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student, gives a differing view on safe sex. Hermesch is a member of a student organization, the Great Commission Students, which was outside the Kansas Union last night to protest an AIDS lecture by Richard Keeling.
Task force leader says public needs more AIDS education
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Information about AIDS has to be publicized and taught, even if that information offends some people, the chairman of a national task force on AIDS said last night.
"Nobody's sensitivity is worth a life," Richard Keeling, chairman of the American College Health Association Task Force on AIDS, told about 800 people at the Kansas Union. Keeling also is an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Virginia.
He said AIDS was not a punishment for certain sections of society.
"AIDS is not somebody else's disease, and it's not somebody else's problem, he said. "It's your disease and my disease. AIDS is everyone's disease."
A little before Keeling spoke, a group of about 15 people demonstrated outside the Union, holding signs such as "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." The demonstrators were members of the Great Commission Students, a student
organization.
Evers said that promoting the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS was wrong because it condoned homosexuality and casual sex.
"Homosexuality is a sin, and AIDS is the consequence." Greg Evers, St. Louis senior, and a demonstrator, said.
La Donna Tate, a Lawrence resident who also was demonstrating, said condoms addressed the symptom of the problem rather than the cause. She said abstinence should be emphasized.
Keeling said that more than 45,000 people in the United States have AIDS. Experts estimate that by 1991, between 290,000 and 385,000 people will have died of AIDS in the United States, he said.
"It is unrealistic to think that because you talk about abstinence everyone will abstain. There are several surveys, such as teen pregnancy, that show that people are having sex. We need to talk about how to make sex safer."
He said AIDS education should be balanced and include both discussion of abstinence and safe sex precautions.
AIDS discussion should be free of debate about morals and values, he said. Discussion of either abstinence or safe sex will be against someone's values, he said, but preventing the spread of the disease is most important.
In his speech, Keeling discussed ways people could practice safe sex. People who have sex should always use condoms, he said. The spermicide Nonoxynl-9 also may help prevent the transmission of AIDS. However, he said, tests now being conducted indicate that Nonoxynl-9 may cause condoms to deteriorate.
"People who choose not to have sex should get our support," Keeling said. "However, we know some people will.
Keeling also spoke to the University Task Force on AIDS, Watkins staff members and food services employees while at KU.
Student senators approve AIDS plan
By a Kansan reporter
Student Senate last night passed a resolution explaining how it thinks administrators, students and faculty should treat students who have AIDS.
The resolution said that students who have tested positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or who have contracted AIDS related to the virus were entitled from enrolling at the University of Kansas and attending classes.
The resolution also lists other rights that should be granted to student AIDS victims, including: ■ the right to become members of student organizations and to attend various social functions.
- the right to seek, obtain and hoo,
employment at the University.
- the right to live in University
or University-sanctioned
housing.
The resolution also said that victims of AIDS should be accorded all necessary support, both psychological and medical.
Amy Randles, Nunemaker senator, was the only senator who voted against the resolution. One senator abstained. Randles said she did not feel comfortable telling those involved with the University what their reaction to people with AIDS should be.
"Research is still being done." Randles said.
But Kathryn Anderson, off-campus senator, supported the resolution, saying, "We have to act before we react."
As part of AIDS awareness week, which it sponsored, the Senate handed out information pamphlets this week on campus.
authorized to coach the senior
allocation $320 for its supplemental
in funding to the KU Men's Soccer
Club Glenn Shirtliffe, the club's
coach, said the club had nearly
doubled in size this semester, creating a need for more equipment.
■ allocated $1,610 in supplemental financing to the KU Lacrosse Club.
■ allocated $277 in supplemental financing to the Study Abstract Club.
allocated $277 in supplemental financing to the Study Abroad Club.
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