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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 15, 1991
Sevier dance to aid inquiry
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Abenfitdance for the Gregg Sevier Memorial Fund will be held at 8 tonight at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 138 Alabama St.
The family of Sevier, who was fatally shot in April by Lawrence police, is trying to raise $15,000 to pay for an investigation into the shooting.
The family sold T-shirts and hats at the Kansas Union lobby with the Native American Student Association on Sunday and Wednesday to raise money.
Willie Sevier, Gregg Sevier's father,
and they had raised about $5,000 in the country.
Gregg Sevier, then 22, was shot in his home by two Lawrence police officers
April 24. The death was ruled a justifi-
tionary homicide at coroner's inquest
Messrs. Seymour and Baldwin.
Sevier said the family wanted the police to change its shoot-to-kill policy.
"We're just thinking about the younger generation that's coming along," Sevier said. "That's my main concern."
Sevier said he was not sure they would be able to cause the change.
"I have hopes," he said. "But I don't snow."
Lance Burr, attorney for the Sevier
Lance, said the family's independent
influence is strong.
He also said the Justice Department with the investigation was almost was done with its investigation.
Depending on what the Justice Department does, the Seviers may file
a civil rights action against the city, Burr said.
He said that another option was to have the city respond to the charges, which it has not done.
"The family is very disappointed," Burr said. "I'm disappointed, too. I really thought the city would do something."
He said the city commissioners had been very concerned and expressed their concern.
"But we want those policies changed so that Gregg's death means something," Burr said. "The question is whether he continues with the sheet-to-klip policy?"
Burr said Gregg Sevier was not doing anything wrong. He was sitting in his locked bedroom and he was depressed, he said.
chief, said that Sevier had a butcher knife and would have wounded an officer.
But Ron Olin, Lawrence police
The shoot-to-kill policy is used when an officer's life is in danger, he said.
Olin said he did not know of a pouce department in the country that had a shoot-to-wound policy.
Raymond Dloxsm, Topea police legal adviser, said he could not think of a department with a shoot-to-wound policy.
"It's not possible to shoot to wound," he said.
Once the bullet leaves the gun, the officer has no control where it strikes.
He said that Topea police were trained to shoot for the center of the body when they thought their lives were in danger.
KU social welfare program helps inmates
Students give ex-convicts support group, employment information
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
A School of Social Welfare program aimed at helping people released from prison lead normal lives is developing slowly but in track, a professor said.
Five students from the school began work on the project about a month ago, said Lane Davis, profes-
Students help former inmates from Kansas prisons and out-of-state prisons find resources available in Topeka, Davis said. Resources range from employment information to support groups.
to rehabilitate former inmates, Davis said.
Most of the progress depends on what the clients want to achieve, she said. One of the goals is to keep employees happy.
The program may be used as a model nationwide
The program's uniqueness lies in its approach, she said. Instead of focusing on the weaknesses of the former inmates, the program concentrates on their strengths.
Patrick Carpenter, the program's coordinator and a former inmate, said response to the program from former inmates had been excellent. One reason might be that students do not charge for the services they provide, Carpenter said.
Students have worked with 12 former inmates since the program started, he said.
The program also is sponsored by the Stop Violence Coalition, a Kansas City area group, and the Kansas Department of Corrections.
The Stop Violence Coalition was formed 10 years ago when prison inmates suggested the program
was needed. The coalition works inside prisons, counseling inmates.
The program is being supported by the Kansas Department of Corrections in Topeka, Topeka residents and the Kansas Child Abuse Prevention Council, he said.
The future looks bright for the program, Carpenter said.
John Pierpont, Topeka doctoral student in social welfare, is one of the students who works with ex- inmates.
"It has been a positive experience for both students and ex-members." Perlpont said.
"So far things seem to be going well," he said. "We are very hopeful about the future. We are confident we have a lot to offer."
Proposed definition would double AIDS cases
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The number of U.S. AIDS cases could nearly double under a federal proposal yesterday that would expand the definition of the disease to include 160,000 people infected but not yet seriously ill.
The case count stands at 195,718, but one million more Americans are thought to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes the disease. Health officials estimate 160,000 of those, many of whom don't know they are infected, would fall under the new definition.
The current definition, adopted by the national Centers for Disease Control in 1987, is based on conditions that
AIDS activists said the expanded definition would make more people qualify for disability payments, but warned that more officially recognized AIDS patients could mean a bigger battle for treatment resources.
The proposal goes out today for comment from health experts. The CDC hopes to release its final version in January, with state and local health officials using it to report AIDS cases by April.
prey on HIV-infected people, such as a rare pneumonia and a rare skin cancer.
The new definition would add patients who are not necessarily sick, but whose immune systems are under severe attack by the virus.
"We recognized that the current definition was missing people who had severe HIV disease," said John Ward, reporting and analysis chief at the CDC's Division of HIV and AIDS. "To get a more accurate representation of those affected by HIV, we are adding people, we are adding this immunologic criteria to the case definition."
The new definition will mean thousands more AIDS patients will qualify
for disability, either from their jobs or with Medicaid, said Peter Uitdenbosch, treasurer of the National Association of People With AIDS. That, he warned, could mean even more of a battle for treatment dollars.
"What the government is trying to create in this case is people who have the disease fighting among each other, all fighting to the last dollar." Uitdenbosch said. "People declared with full-blown AIDS can go disability, which is automatic for Medicaid. And there are no more dollars available."
But Ward said the new definition is driven in part by the cases of people already under treatment for HIV but not included among AIDS patients. Doctors can now treat infected people such as AZT to try to delay illness.
The new definition would include any patient whose blood shows a laboratory count of less than 200 CD4 lymphocyte cells per cubic millimeter. Those cells are the primary target of HIV.
"They (the newly recognized patients) are out there already," he said. "Part of the job of a surveillance system is to identify how great a bur-
The CDC did not add any new symptomatic illnesses to the list of what constitutes AIDS. AIDS activists have called for adding more AIDS-related illnesses, including gynecologic problems seen in some HIV-infected women.
A CDC statement said those conditions, such as cervical cancer, are also commonly diagnosed in other women$_{n}$ so adding them could skew the AIDS count. Ward said the new definition is not expected to dramatically alter the male-female ratio of AIDS patients, now 8-to-1.
ON CAMPUS
The KU kujingg club will practice today at the main lobby in Lewis Hall.
The geography department will sponsor a colloquium at 3:30 p.m. today at 317.Lindley Hall.
The Vietnamese Club will meet at
p.m., today at 202仁博学院
- The Baha'i Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
The African Affairs Student Association will meet at 7tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The Rho Eta chapter of Omega Sfi Phi will sponsor a Founder's Day program at 7onight at Alderson Auditorium and event is free and open to the public
- The astronomy department will have a public viewing from 7:30 to 9 tonight at the observatory in Lindley Hall.
An alto saxophone valued at $2,200 was taken between 9:30 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Wednesday from an unsecured in Murphy Hall, KU police station.
A person entered an unlocked room in Olive Inter between 2:10 and 2:25 p.m. Tuesday, vanalized the room in the door of the middle of the room. KU police reported.
ON THE RECORD
A KU employee was struck by her son, 21, about 3:55 p.m. Tuesday in her car at the southeast Computer Services parking lot, KU police reported. The woman was struck when she refused to let her son use the car, police said.
**Jewelry, a billfold and baseball and football cards valued together at $4,895 were taken between 6:30 p.m. and midnight Tuesday from a residence in the 300 block of 15th Street, Lawrence police reported. Forced entry was made through a back door, police said. No arrests were made.**
■ Compact discs valued at $450 were removed between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday from an unlocked Ellsworth Hall, KU police reported.
A person cashed two worthless checks for $748 about 1a.m. and noon Wednesday at Dillons, 1015W. 23rd St., Lawrence police reported.
Boy shot at from car
A 14-year-old boy told police Wednesday that he had been shot at from a passing car at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at 11th Street, Lawrence police reported.
LOCAL BRIEFS
The boy told police that he noticed a car following him and that three gunshots were fired from a black four-wheel drive vehicle with tinted glass, Sett, Mark Warren said.
The youth also said he heard one shot strike a trash can.
Police officers checked the area but did not find bullets or bullet holes, Warren said.
The youth told police he had a fight Monday with another boy, 15, who told him he was going to send the "crips" or the "folks" after him, Warren M.
Those terms are gangterms.
The incident might have involve gangs, Warren said. However, he also heard he thought it probably was a case of kids playing as if they were in gangs
New building approved
The Board of Regents yesterday approved the architectural program for a new bioscience research building at KU.
The building was named the Dolph Simons Sr. Center for Biosciences Research, after the former head of the University Endowment Association.
It will become part of the Higuchi center of Excellence on West Campus.
The center will cost almost $7 million. A federal grant provided $4.9 million for it. Revenue bonds will provide $2 million, and the rest will come from private money and gifts.
The center will house laboratories for molecular biology, drug design and pharmaceutical chemistry in cancer research.
Research targets will include developing new technologies to diagnose and treat cancer, drug addictions and neurological disorders.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he proposed naming it for Simons in 1983.
"While chairing the KU Endowment Association, Mr. Simons was committee member and Oread a world-class center for the pharmaceutical sciences," Budig said.
Finnev to hear concerns
Gov. Joan Finney yesterday announced that a council would report to her the concerns of university students.
The Student Advisory Council will hold its first meeting with the governor tomorrow at Fort Hays State University.
The student representatives to the council were chosen from Board of Regents universities and from three communitycolleges
The 11-person council includes Margaret Hu, representative from KU.
Hu said she would like to discuss with Finney what legislation could be passed to benefit the University of Kansas.
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