University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 26, 1987
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Campus buildings can't beat the heat
Staff writer
By JORN KAALSTAD Staff writer
While cool weather offered relief during the first days of the semester, some KU students still may face hot and mudgy days in the classroom.
Despite some improvements last year, the air conditioning systems on campus are not designed to handle temperatures above 95 degrees, said Richard Perkins, associate director for utilities.
"We try to keep the room temperature at 78, but when the outside gets hotter than 95, the room temperature will increase proportionally," he said.
Most campus buildings have central air conditioning, but a few old buildings, such as Strong Hall, have small window units, Perkins said.
Martin Hanna, associate professor of mathematics, said those window units were inefficient.
"They haven't helped much since they were installed a few years ago, and they make a lot of noise," he said.
High humidity is another problem. Air conditioning systems mainly regulate temperature, not humidity, said Bob Porter, associate director for plant maintenance.
"Even when the temperature is low, you'll still have a humidity of 50 percent, and that might feel uncomfortable for some," he said.
Perkins said the department of facilities operations had requested money from the University to install a central air conditioning unit in Strong Hall.
But Steve Green, assistant director of information systems at the department, said in July that facilities operations would receive $1 million less than its expected outlays for the fiscal year that started July 1.
He said facilities operations would concentrate on generating revenue by doing paid work for other departments rather than maintenance and new installments.
KU on Wheels, Secure Cab offer students transportation
By LINDA WARD
Staff writer
KU on Wheels made several changes in the fall semester bus schedule but will continue to provide 13 routes for KU students.
Staff writer
One route was added to accommodate about 800 students living in Colony Woods Apartments, 1301 W. 24th St. Colony Woods petitioned for the route at the annual hearing last spring.
Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels coordination, said that on Monday more people wanted to ride the Colony Woods route than could fit on one bus,
and some students had to be left behind.
Bryan said a second bus would be added to the route this week. However, the buses will run a few minutes late until construction on the intersection at 23rd Street and Naismith Drive is completed.
The Heatherwood route was also altered to include Orchard Corners, 1401 Apple Lane, a new apartment complex where about 350 students live.
Two routes that run until midnight will continue to serve on and off campus. But a night route to Mea-
dowbrook apartments, 15th Street and Crestline Drive, and Heatherwood Valley apartments, 2040 Heatherwood Dr., was discontinued because few students used it.
Bryan said he expected between 7,000 to 7,500 passes to be sold. Last semester 7,300 passes were sold.
The Secure Cab program, offered by the Union Cab Company, provides free rides home with a current KUID The operating hours are from midnight to 3 a.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Union restaurant will reopen
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas Union Corporation discussed the future of the continuing renovation of the Union food service and elected officers at a meeting Saturday morning.
The $6.5 million renovation has been under way for 24 weeks. When it is completed, three rooms on the third level of the Union will seat about 950 people, slightly fewer than in the past.
“Construction is a bit behind,” said Jim Long, director of the Union. “We are going to open in January, but we have a lot to get done. Hopefully by September they will pick up, but we may have to come up with a contingency plan.”
When the renovation is complete, changes will be made in the food service, said Bob Richeson, manager of union food services.
with a logo, and soups and salads will be sold by the ounce so people don't dig out all the vegetables and still pay the same price as people who take fewer vegetables," he said.
"We will have china, white trays
The corporation also elected a new president and two new members of its executive committee. Mary Loveland, Lawrence resident and member of the Lawrence school board, replaced Greg Bengtson as president.
Decrease in legal abortions puzzles health researchers
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — In the wake of the nation's first reported decline in abortions, federal health researchers have set out to learn why.
A new report from the national Centers for Disease Control says 1,268,987 legal abortions were performed in the United States in 1983, the latest year for which figures were available. That total was down 2.7 percent from the 1,303,960 reported in 1982.
It was the first reported decrease since national abortion record-keeping began in 1969.
ng begin. The CDC, in its latest Surveillance Summaries report, drew no conclusions about the decrease.
"We're now working on analysis," said CDC reproductive health specialist Dr. Hani Attrash. "We can't
conclude anything on the basis of just the numbers we had."
One possible reason is that the demand for abortion may have simply peaked, Attrash said. "A higher number of women have been sterilized over the years; and they don't get pregnant anymore, so they have no need for abortions." he said.
The CDC report said that another abortion statistic began falling two years earlier: The nation's abortion rate peaked in 1980 at 25 abortions for every 1,000 females age 15 to 44, slowing to 24 for every 1,000 in both 1981 and 1982 and slowing again to 23 for every 1,000 by 1983.
"It could be that more women are using contraceptives these days, so there are less unwanted pregnancies." Attrash said.
In the coming months, CDC researchers hope to further analyze
their statistics about the women who had abortions in 1983 to draw further conclusions, he said.
The District of Columbia reported the nation's highest abortion rate in 1982 and 1983 — more than 100 abortions in every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. West Virginia reported the lowest rate — six abortions in every 1,000 women age 15 to 44.
Although data were received from health officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the CDC said that the number of legal abortions reported to federal officials was probably lower than the number actually performed. In 1982, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which does its own studies on abortion trends, reported 17 percent more abortions than did the CDC.
Foster parents of AIDS children face ostracism
The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — A nurse who counsels foster parents of children with AIDS tells of a woman who asked her minister to pray for a baby. She wound up banned from her church.
"They are taking a lot of risks, emotional risks," Joyce Simpson said of people who take in AIDS children.
Simpson, a nurse and researcher in Yale-New Haven Hospital's AIDS program, works with the state Department of Children and Youth Services and knows of three foster families who have returned children because of the ostracism they encountered, often from their own relatives.
She said the three families reported being told: 'You can't live with us anymore with that baby.' 'We're not bringing our kids to visit you any more.' 'Are you nuts having that baby in the house?' He's going to infect everybody.
The youth services department has so far been able to place all AIDS children needing foster homes, but officials are worried about what will happen as the number of AIDS children increases.
"We've been very fortunate so far, but sometimes we hang by a thread," Simpson said.
Officials of DCYS and the state health department met Monday to plan a recruitment campaign for families willing to care for the growing number of AIDS children in Connecticut, said Sharon Cooke, a supervisor in DCYS who will coordinate the effort.
She said the drive likely would concentrate at first on health-care workers because they understand that the fatal disease cannot be transmitted through casual contact.
AIDS is most often transmitted through sexual contact. Other means of transmission include transfusions of tainted blood or blood products, and the sharing of contaminated hypodermic needles by drug abusers. AIDS can also be passed from mother to child at or before birth. There is no known cure for AIDS.
The department has already raised the stipend for foster families caring for AIDS children from $240 to $1,000 a month as an incentive.
The youth services agency has placed in foster homes 22 children who have tested positive for the AIDS virus.
The program started in 1984 with one AIDS child who died before a foster home could be found, Cooke said. The number under foster care could reach 100 by next year, Walter Pawlekiewicz, the department's director of research and evaluation, said.
Yale-New Haven's AIDS program is seeing about 50 children, including some of those in foster homes, who have tested positive for AIDS.
Nationally, 562 of the 40,532 diagnosed cases of AIDS, are children, the Centers for Disease Control reported Monday. Most were exposed while in the womb; some are hemophiliacs who received contaminated blood-clotting agents before screening for AIDS became widespread.
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Pawelkiewicz calls people who volunteer to care for AIDS children "heroic."
"People go to extremes to protect the kids," said the only foster mother who agreed to be interviewed, and then only on condition of anonymity. "Others would like to kill them all."
The woman, a nurse, volunteered to take a baby who has tested positive for AIDS antibodies, but who remains healthy.
She doesn't worry about being infected herself and takes no special precautions such as wearing a mask and gloves when changing diapers.
She said her neighbors have not been told the baby has tested positive, but some suspect and have started to shun her.
Simpson said, "I usually tell our families that they should tell only people that they can really trust, who have the same ideals and ethics as they have."
In New York and Boston, some AIDS children have been placed in group homes because of a shortage of foster families. Simpson finds the solution unacceptable.
"There is absolutely nothing that can replace the one-on-one relationship of an adult and child," she said.
One study found that 65 percent of all children who tested positive for the AIDS antibody would develop full-blowed AIDS, Simpson said. Children born with the disease have a life-expectancy of four years.
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