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Wednesdav. Aug. 19. 1987/University Daily Kansan
Sexual health workshop scheduled for Hawk Week
By DEBRA A. PETERSON
As concern about AIDS grows across the country, the University of Kansas, like other universities, is working to educate students about sexual health.
As part of Hawk Week activities, the KU office of admissions will present a workshop called "Relationships: Safe and Satisfying" at 8:30 a.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union and at 3 p.m. Friday in 402 Wesco Hall that will focus on several sexual health issues, including AIDS.
Lovely Ulmer, coordinator for student orientation, said she was asked a month ago to add the workshop to Hawk Week festivities in anticipation of a state mandate on AIDS education. Both the Kansas Board of Regents, which governs state universities, and the Kansas Board of Education established AIDS policies this summer.
"It's not a closet issue anymore," said Janine Demo, a health educator at Watkins Memorial Hospital and coordinator of the workshop. Demo said six workshop panelists would discuss date rape, physical abuse, pregnancy and sexually transmitted
diseases. The film, "Sex, Drugs and AIDS, the Final Addiction," narrated by actress Rae Dawn Chong, will be shown at the beginning of the workshop.
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"The theme of the workshop is healthy relationships." Demo said. "But we will talk about AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in general." A workshop like this hasn't been presented before, because no one has been scared enough, she said.
"We're trying to avoid hysteria about the disease." Demo said.
As of last month, 79 cases of AIDS had been reported in Kansas. Residents of Salina, less than 100 miles from Lawrence, were shocked this summer when the Saline County attorney announced that a man carrying the AIDS virus had had sex with a Salina high school girl, who then had sexual relations with as many as five high school boys. All are being tested for AIDS.
In June, the Kansas Board of Education approved a policy that required all public school districts and accredited private schools to begin human sexuality programs by fall 1988.
policy that said Kansas universities "have an obligation to help educate faculty and staff about AIDS and to help assure prompt, confidential and non-discriminatory treatment of those individuals diagnosed with AIDS."
A spokesman for the office of student affairs said Monday that the new executive vice chancellor, Judith Ramaley, would be forming an AIDS task force at KU.
Also in June. the Regents adopted a
Concern about the disease is showing up at universities nationwide. Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., recently issued a "Safe Sex Kit" to all incoming students. The kit included two condoms, a tube of lubricant, a three-inch square rubber called a "rubber dam" to make oral-anal homosexual sex practices safer and two brochures, one discussing AIDS and the other giving explicit information on sexual practices and categorizing them as safe, risky or dangerous with regard to the chances of contracting AIDS.
Demo said KU health officials had heard about the Dartmouth kit and discussed a similar kit for KU students but rejected the idea because the Dartmouth kit didn't mention abstinence as an alternative.
Scholarship recipients may face taxes on funds
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Recipients of big scholarships might not have much to complain about when they stand in line to pick up their checks, but they may when the time comes to pay their 1987 federal income taxes.
Thanks to the federal Tax Reform Act of 1986, scholarship money in excess of the costs of tuition, fees, books and supplies now is treated as taxable income.
"This is the craziest thing yet," Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said Monday. "To him on a scholarship we seem unfair."
Rogers said that most of the awards given out by the University of Kansas would be taken up completely by the cost of books and tuition but that some students undoubtedly would be affected.
People not seeking degrees and those doing post-doctoral research also must pay taxes on their grants and scholarships for the first time, Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services for Students.
Exempt from the new rules are scholarships awarded before Aug. 17. 1986.
Hardesty said students probably would have to start saving receipts for tuition and books, just like any taxpayer. For University officials, too, the new rules might mean more work.
"If they give a scholarship, I assume the University is going to have to report money that is in excess, but I don't know how it will work exactly." Hardesty said.
Many details of the law still are vague, such as whether the University will have to send income reports to students, or whether renewable scholarships given out before the law went into effect are taxable. she said.
"I'm assuming that when fall rolls around and the IRS publishes instructions for preparing (taxes), I'm sure they'll go into things in more depth."
A book explaining the tax code is due to come out Nov.1.
Hardesty said that few students had been asking for information
about the new law and that she didn't expect many to be affected.
"Probably not too many get a scholarship that has a huge excess," she said.
But even those who receive large amounts don't need to worry too much, she said.
"I don't think they need to panic," she said. "They need to be aware that there are changes in the tax code."
Hardesty suggested that students with questions go to a tax expert for advice.
John Scarffe, director of public relations for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said the Endowment Association had not been advised that it would have to issue income statements.
"Currently, the only thing we're doing is to put statements on the bottom of the checks," Scarffe said.
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