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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, Yockeysaid.
"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're not going to situation, 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
appointed by the receiver to receive test results
twosexams.
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. Yockey said.
However, appointments for anonymous testing at Watkins are booked through the middle of the spring semester, Yockey said.
Watkins performs anonymous testing, which is done the same way as the health department's testing.
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 Janine Demo, coordinator of Watkins' health education department.
She said from 50 to 60 KU students probably were HIV-positive if national statistics that reported that one in three 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.
- IF AIDS is the most severe, the earliest 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.
- Anti-viral drug therapy can slow significantly the progression of HIV.
Source: American College Health Association, The Associated Press Joseph Lies/KANSAN
--importance of the military, he said. Rhodd said that ROTC taught us leaders in the civilian world as we military warfare. Rhodd said leaders who influence cal process and leaders who make happen, he said. Rhodd said the military was an er will of the people. "American people need to be a proud of the veterans," he said. Rhodd said that veterans today alive, were people of all races.
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proclaimed Nov. 11 as the date to
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lives fighting the war.
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By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
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Instructor says m leadership import
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Veterans
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Texas A&M suffers two-year probation
The Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M's basketball program escaped the death penalty from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. Butto Coach Tony Barone, the punishment the Aggies received had the same effect.
"If the NCAA wanted to shut us up and close us for two years, they did a good job. "Barone said this week. "But I don't think we should be unbably not supposed to make observations."
The NCAA placed the Aggies on two years probation Monday for what it called major violations under former coach Kermit Davis and as a member of the team at Chapula Junior College in Mariana, Fla.
In addition, the infractions committee accepted the university's elimination of off-campus recruiting for men's basketball during this past spring.
The Aggies will not be permitted to participate in postseason play this season. They also will be limited to two scholarships for the 1992-93 season and can have only eight instead of the usual 15 expense-paid official visits for the 1992 calendar year.
"There are kids out there right now who want to come to Texas A&M and can't because of what somebody else did."
The committee said it had the authority to impose lower penalties if it determines a case is
"Those actions, combined with the swiftness, thoroughness and decisiveness of the university's response to the matters in this current case, led the committee to determine
The university's efforts to gain full presidential control over the intercollegiate athletics program affected the punishment A&M received, the committee said.
Tony Barone Men's basketball coach
that this case merited less than the required full range of penalties, "the committee said.
"Had the university's president not responded as he had in both instances, a broader ranger of penalties would have been imposed."
Barone, who was named as coach in March to rebuild the Aggies' basketball program, said he would spend the summer there.
"I'm stunned by it," Barone said. "The scholarship situation is far more devastating than anything else that could have been done as far as I'm concerned.
"When you're trying to build a program, one of the options you have to have is numbers, and they've effectively taken away the recruiting process for our basketball team."
"There are kids out there right now who want to come to Texas A&M and can't because of what somebody else did." Barron wrote in a 2015 interview. The cult time trying to make a logical connection
Barone is starting his first season as coach with 11 scholarship players and four walk-on
with what happened in the past and the future of our basketball team."
University officials contended that Davis and assistant coach Fletcher Cockrell furnished A&M false or misleading information seven times in the course of a school investigation about recruitment of Syracuse transfer Tony Scott and talent scout Rob Johnson.
Davis contended that Scott made up the allegations to get A&M on probation so he could be released.
S Scott told the Syracuse Post-Standard that his transfer was arranged by Johnson and said he was promised extra benefits prohibited by NCAA rules. The allegations against A&M included illegal travel and lodging inductions.
"The NCAA acknowledged the fact that Texas A&M is committed to compliance, initiated strong disciplinary and corrective action in investigating charges, maintains institutional control of its athletic programs, and is clearly accountable to its board of regents," Texas A&M president William Mobley said.
"I regret that Tony Barone, our men's basketball coach, as well as members of his team will have to bear the burden of the penalties brought on by the inappropriate actions of his predecessor. However, we have the utmost confidence in his dedication."
Barone didn't take the news quietly.
"When you look at the big picture here, the only people hurt are the kids in this program who had nothing to do with the imbecile who was being nurses who were here before me," Barone said.
Barone said he had three commitments for scholarships and now would be to tell one of them about her work.
"I'm not sure I should have to do that," he said. "I'd like to see some of the enforcement people go to these kids' homes and tell them they don't have a scholarship."
Mobley said an appeal was unlikely, and Barone agreed.
Mobley said the whole thing was a Rob Johnson case. There were six violations and one assault.
Southwest Conference Commission Fred
Jacoby said A&D's punishment was appro-
ved.
"The NCAA has termed this a 'unique' situation in that the university took substantial action to gain full presidential control." Jacoby said Monday. "There was immediate institutional control and commitment to compliance.
The Aggies will be ineligible for the 1992 SWC Postseason Classic, due to its exclusion from the 1992 NCAA men's basketball tournament, Jacoby said.
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