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University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, November 19, 1991
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Saxo-fun
Paul Haar, Fremont, Beb., Junior, warms up on his saxophone before Jazz Ensemble I class in the rehearsal room in Murphy Hall. Haar was rehearsing yesterday afternoon for a performance.
Lecture urges practice of safe sex to avoid HIV
AIDS task force will speak to six campus groups
ByKerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
If students are comfortable with having sex, then they need to be comfortable with condoms. KU AIDSTask Force educators said last night.
Jill Fritzmeyer and Gaywyn Moore spoke to about 25 members of the Black Student Union at the Big Eight conference. Students will be safe sex, HIV transmission and AIDS.
Moore said the lecture was the first of six that the task force had scheduled for various campus groups this week. Interest has peaked in response to Magic Johnson's announcement last month and had tested positive for HIV, she said.
Moore and Fritzmeyer began their presentation by citing statistics and information that revealed that 80 percent of college students are sexually
active. But only 3 to 5 percent of those students use a condom every time they have sex.
"If you are sexually active, a con-
trol of protection against HIV. Moore said."
Fritzmeier went on to explain characteristics of HIV and how it is transmitted through bodily fluids, especially blood and semen.
Moore and Fritzmeyer demonstrated how to use a condom and how to make a dental dam from a condom for practicing safe oral sex.
During the presentation, audience members asked questions about HIV and AIDS
One spectator asked about the transmission of HIV between basketball players who are bleeding from injuries.
unless both players had open and bleeding wounds.
Another student suggested that sharing healthy might be a way to avoid
Moore said good health could not prevent HIV transmission. She cited a case of meningitis that occurred in a
Other students asked about possible cures for AIDS.
"From all of the statistics, right now 100 percent of HIV-positive people will develop full-blow AIDS. Fritzmeyer said. "At this time, there is no cure."
Both presenters again emphasized abstinence or safe sex as ways to avoid
Moore said that if monogamous couples did not want to practice safe sex, she tested for HIV three times. Each test should be scheduled six months apart.
Sneaker-clad librarian faces demanding work schedule
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first in a series of articles about some of the people who make the University of Kansas work.
By Ranjit Arab Special to the Kansar
Yvonne Martinez has carefully picked out her wardrobe.
Dressed in a navy blue skirt patterned with white boxes and a white blouse with the same pattern in blue, she has come prepared for another day of work at the School of Journalism library.
She wears them because she is constantly on the move.
However, her outfit would not be complete without her size 6 1/2 sneak.
The 4-foot-11 librarian does not wear them simply because they help maintain a quiet atmosphere. That is just one of the added benefits.
Whether it's searching for a student's request for the last two years worth of *Folio* magazine or sorting through the seemingly endless stack of newspapers the library receives daily, she rarely has time to sit down.
Recent cuts in the library's budget and staff have only increased Martinez's work load. The sneakers are crucial.
"I'd rather be comfortable than in pain" she said.
KU gets grant to start kids' academy
Her duties have grown during the two years she has been with the library. She began working behind the desk and her duties include repairing the copy machine.
It is the only copy machine the library can afford on its budget. Martinez said. Overuse causes it to overheat and unneeded to break down at least once a day.
immediately
greeted by a professor who says the machine is out of ink
he reaches under
the desk and pulls out a bottle of black ink
As she returns to the counter, she is
As she pours the bottle slips and ink covers
Yvonne Martinez
students arrive at the counter who need to be helped.
Kansan staff writer
Martinez stands by the machine staring at her hands as if she were auditioning for the part of Lady Macbeth. She sighs and runs off to the rest room. She quickly returns to the counter and apologizes to the students.
After all, she is the only librarian on duty.
By Mauricio Rios
The Children's Academy is a program that will combine classical liberal education with computer technology, said Gene Ramp, associate of KU's Educational Systems Associates.
The University of Kansas has earned a $202,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education because KU education specialists came up with what they think is the perfect idea for the perfect school — The Children's Academy.
"It is an experiment to see, based on what we know, what works for education," Ramp said. "A children's academy seems to capture the direction we hope this will go."
Ramp said education in the United States needed reform because it did not change much from the time of the agricultural revolution.
He said the project would be in a design phase for the first year. Most of the work designing the project is going to be done by parents and teachers.
"What was good for us 30 years ago is not good for our children today," he said.
Ramp said education needed to be an ongoing activity.
emphasize learning how to think.
Children need to be educated at school, at home, in the neighborhood — almost every day.
He said the children's academy would
The two goals are that children in the United States will start school wanting to learn and that children will learn to use their minds for learning about subjects from English to mathematics.
The Children's Academy also will try to achieve two of the six national education goals announced by President Bush last month, in "America 2000: An Education Strategy."
America 2000 will offer $531 $1 million grants nationwide to school districts that want to serve as models for others. Ramp said.
"We are about two years ahead of this plan," he said.
Ramp said that if the Children's Academy worked, he expected that Lawrence schools would be eligible for grants from America 2000.
"We have anticipated what the federal government was planning to do," he said.
Ramp said the program was looking for an elementary school in Lawrence that was older than the current school.
Dan Neueswander, superintendent of schools in Lawrence, said he sent letters to principal of 17 local elementary schools yesterday.
Enrichment of American Indian program urged
*This is the biggest grant in terms of potential for educational reform.* he said.
Neuenswander said he did not know which school would be chosen for the project.
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
American Indian studies are a process of unlearning and relearning, a University of Montana professor said last night.
"That's what life is about," said Henrietta Mann, a Rolling Stone magazine Top 10 honor roll professor for 1991.
Mann, director of Native American studies at the University of Montana, spoke to a crowd of about 90 people at Woodruff Audit and Tribal Affairs. The speech was a part of Native American Heritage Month.
Mann said she was the first person from her Cheyenne tribe to obtain a bachelor's degree.
When she started teaching 21 years age, she realized that students did not learn about Native American history until they attended college.
NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH
The KU Native American Student Association sponsored the speaker and is circulating a petition to the legislature. The Indian studies program at the
University of Kansas.
Mann said the program at KU should be enriched.
hopefully, American Indians would teach the courses, Mann said.
She said American Indian studies should not be just beginning at the college or university level.
Henrietta Mann, director of Native American studies at the University of Montana, speaks about the courses she teaches.
Students should learn that American Indians were the first people that were in North America, Mann said.
In her courses, she said she taught students what being American Indian was about.
"I can teach them about values, history and the spiritual view of the world," she said. "There is a lot in the philosophy of our ancestors that could help us in the future."
*Children are taught to lie when they are asked who discovered America. Christopher Columbus
did not discover America. By saying that our history began in 1492, we are really short-changing our selves."
But Mann said that next year's quincentennial celebration of Columbus "discovery" did not amount to mourning for American Indians.
She said she was going to give thanks to the Great Spirit that American Indians still existed in the United States.
"I think that we as American Indians can celebrate life," she said. "And we can celebrate it with, I hope, a mutual respect."
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