VOL.101, NO.56
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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HIV testing expected to increase in Lawrence
Watkins and health department offer free screening options
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
After Magic Johnson announced last week that he had tested positive for HIV, local health officials predicted an increase in the demand for HIV testing at the University of Kansas and in Lawrence.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he already had seen an increase.
Watkins had several patients walk in Friday and request to be tested, Yockey said.
"I think we have done more today than we have all month," he said Friday.
Johnson, who played as a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 seasons, announced Thursday that he was retiring from basketball because he
had tested positive for HIV, the virus that precedes AIDS. Johnson led the Lakers to five NBA championships.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department reported that requests for HIV testing had not increased on Friday.
"I do think there will be an increase in the near future," said Kay Kent, director of the health department. "We have to work with the evacuation, we were seeing an increase."
Health department statistics reveal a 39-percent increase in HIV tests administered in July, August and September of 1991 compared to the same months in 1990. October's statistics were not immediately available
The health department provides HIV testing to the public in which patients do not have to give their real names, Kent said. She said patients
received pre- and post-test counseling appointments and receive test results
Blood samples are tested for free by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka, Kent said.
Students can be tested two ways at Watkins. Yockev said.
Watkins performs anonymous testing, which is done the same way as the health department's testing.
However, appointments for anonymous testing at Watkins are booked through the middle of the spring semester, Yockey said.
The other form of testing is confidential testing. Patients can walk in and request to have an HIV test. The results are returned within five days.
Confidential testing requires that
personal information be given, but Yockey said the results of the confidential test could not be revealed to anyone unless the patient signed a release form.
"We do have HIV-positive students who know it and who are being treated for it," said Janie Demo, coordinator for "Mikks" health education department.
She said from 50 to 60 KU students probably were HIV-positive if national statistics that reported that one in every 500 college students had HIV were accurate.
Watkins' health education department provides pamphlets and brochures about HIV testing and AIDS, and health educators also are available to answer student questions. Demo said.
Spectrum of HIV infection
Being infected with HIV is not the same as having AIDS. HIV causes a spectrum of conditions and symptoms.
Infected No symptoms Mild symptoms AIDS
- The scientific name for HIV is human immunodeficiency virus.
- There is the most survey, the increasing form of HIV. AIDS attacks the body's immune system and decreases the body's defense against infection. People with AIDS develop a group of related symptoms and disorders, such as cancer or pneumonia.
- On the average, it takes about 10 years from the time HIV is diagnosed to the time when serious symptoms develop.
- HIV may progress slowly or quickly along the spectrum of HIV infection.
- Source: American College Health Association, The Associated Press
- Anti-viral drug therapy can slow significantly the progression of HIV.
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By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
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Today, Veterans Day is a tribute erans, past, present and future, sai ROTC major.
A year later, President Woodrow proclaimed Nov. 11 as the date to more than 100,000 Americans who fought the war.
When World War I ended in 1918 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
"We have military veterans beca have cared enough to protect the live" Rhudd said.
UNC regains lead in victory standings
The purpose is to maintain visi-
 importance of the military, he said.
Rhodd said that ROTC taught eu-
teriors to the civilian world as we
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Rhode said that veterans today alive, were people of all races.
Rhodd said the military was an er the will of the people.
"American people need to be proud of the veterinars," he said. Rhodd said that veterinars today, "people of all color."
The NCAA added the victories to North Carolina's record, giving the Tar Heels 1,513, a 12-game edge over Kentucky. Kansas is third with 1,459.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — College basketball season hasn't even started, but North Carolina has already added five more wins to its win streak. Kentucky in the all-time victory standout.
Kentucky athletes director C. M. Newton did not mind that North Carolina's lead had dropped to 20 points.
"They are men, and they are women. They
"I'm glad they got their records straight," he said, smiling. "I have every confidence there is no monkey business."
And Kentucky coach Rick Pitino shrugged it off.
"I don't pay any attention to those things," he said. "To me, they are insignificant."
Kentucky also lost its lead in all-time winn-
ing percentage according to the NCAA re-
sults.
Nevada-Las Vegas has won a percentage of, 763, with the Wildcats second at, 752.
UNLV claims the top spot for the first time because NCAA statisticians lowered the qualifying standards from 25 to 20 seasons of Division I play.
"Who cares, really," Newton said. "Some fans will care greatly. I don't. They've had a very good winning percentage, but they haven't been at it quite long. That's significant."
Gary Johnson, assistant statistics coordinator at Oryx, said the standard was to respond promptly to telephone calls.
Jim Van Valkenburg, the NCAA director of statistics, ordered the change, Johnson said.
North Carolina's five-victory discovery came a year after the NCAA granted Kentucky approval for a previously "lost" game — a 26-1 victory against Louisville in 1914.
"People wanted to know where does UNLV fit in," he said. "We lowered it to 20 years to end the calling. It was so close, and I got a lot of calls."
That allowed Kentucky to enter last season with 1,479 tying North Carolina's total.
Dave Lohse, an associate sports information director at North Carolina, said the school began its research in 1987 to fill in sites and dates for games from 1911 to 1938.
The research uncovered unrecorded victories in 1920 (22-16 over Durham YMCA), 1925 (46-27 and 51-12 over Durham Elks) and 1927 (40-5 over the Durham YMCA). Newpaper accounts also showed a previously 29-23 loss in 1922 to a victory against North Carolina.
The researchers also found a 41-18 loss in 1921 to the Durham YMCA.
"I guess I'll have to spend next summer in the University Archives research," he said. "I'll need a significant athletic director for communications and its official basketball victory counter.
Former OSU star sidelined after failing NBA drug test
PHOENIX — The one rookie who had a chance to make an impact with the Phoenix Suns has been suspended for the season.
But the tragedy of Richard Dumas' story is in the waste of a life, not the loss to a team, according to a scout who took part in the 1987 Alabama state year-old former Oklahoma State player.
"Decisions are made in this life for many, many reasons, whether you retaking politics or basketball, and choices are made based on getting the best particular person. Just because a person has something in his background which is flawed doesn't eliminate him," Dick Percudani said.
"We knew the risks, and we went ahead and took him," Percudani, the Suns' chief scout, said in a telephone interview. "The Phoenix Suns haven't been hurt by this as long as we've been an organization we're concerned about a young man who has to straighten out his life."
Dumas, whose college career was cut short by alcoholism, was suspended by the NBA on Thursday for failing a drug test. The league administers randomly to rookies.
Readmission to the NBA is possible for the 1982-83 season, and that is Dumas' (1983) goal.
*Richard is in Phoenix, is cooperating fully with the league, fully supports the team.*
*Bryant is not in Phoenix, is not cooperating fully with the team.*
working with the NBA and the players
association to resolve this issue, "James
Brown" was a great player.
The Suns placed Dumas on the suspended list, trimming the roster to the top.
Bryant said Dumas hoped to return to Tampa and he drained him in the second round as the team's No. 1 forward.
He hung on with the team longer than twoother draft choices. Chad Gallagher of Creighton, drafted 10 spots ahead of Dumas, is playing in Spain, and Joey Wright of Texas, drafted 50th, was waived this week.
Bryant and Percudani said they didn't know if Dumas had reverted to alcohol abuse.
Percaudi said he and others studied Dumas' background from all angles prior to the draft and decided "that this was a player with our standing ability, notwithstanding that we had known problem, and we were willing to take a risk and give him a second chance."
A player who fails the initial test or one of three others given during his rookie year may be reinstated after treatment, abiding by the rule. A request for approval from league-hired counselors.
"He is a fine young man, extremely talented, and he is going to work through this."
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