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 Vockey, chief of staff at said he already had seen an increase.
Watkins had several patients walk in Friday and request to be tested, Yockev 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
lacked a vaccine. Lakers to five NA 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 seeing an increase in the evacuation, we were seeing an increase."
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
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.
received pre- and post-test counseling appointment 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. Yockey said.
However, appointments for anonymous testing at Watkins are booked through the middle of the spring semester. Yocvék 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 15 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.
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
Spectrum of HIV infection
- The scientific name for HIV is human immunodeficiency virus.
- AIDS is the most severe, life-threatening 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 Joseph Lies/KANSA
- Anti viral drug therapy can slow significantly the progression of HIV.
Airborne
Kansas center Greg Ostertau hold of a loose ball in an exhil
This day was known as Armistice it originally was intended to recog who died in World War I.
"We have military veterans because he cared enough to protect the live." Rhodo said.
Veteran
Ray Rhod, army instructor, saiars Day was important because led the importance of leadership in tarv.
Today, Veterans Day is a tribute erans, past, present and future, sai ROTC major.
Instructor says mi leadership importa
When World War I ended in 1918, 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th r
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
live, are people or animals.
"They are men, and they are wome
"American people need to be a proud of the veterans," he said.
Rodd said that veterans today
proud of the veterans', he said. Rhodd said that veterans today alive, were people of all races.
A year later, President Woodrow proclaimed Nov. 11 as the date to more than 100,000 Americans who lives fighting the war.
These are leaders who influence cal process and leaders who make happen. he said.
Rhodd said that ROTC taught stu leaders in the civilian world as we military world.
A weary group of Crimson Girls listens to Spirit Squad coordinator Elaine Brady, right, and relax after the Kansas-Oklahoma game.
Cheerleaders fight to end stereotypes
By David Mitchell
Kansas Sportswriter
Kansan Sportswriter
At 6 a.m. that Saturday, the Kansas Spirit Square gathered in the darkness at Allen Park.
On Oct. 25, the Jayhawk football team left Kansas on a chartered jet headed for Norman, Okla. The team would have plenty of time to get to the Sheraton Hotel where it would rest before its 1:30 game the next day.
Two vans were crammed with seven Crimson Girls, six cheerleaders, five yell leaders and their adviser, Elaine Brady. Kansas City Star sports correspondent Rob Wheat, a Kansas City, Kan., senior, also tagged along for the ride.
"I asked if they had an extra space, "Wheat said with a laugh. "They said, 'Yeah, it's the space.'"
Wheat drove the lead van carrying seven Crimson Girls and two cheerleaders through the early morning, guided by the headlights and the sparks of the van's backfires.
Some of the women were unsettled by the frequent sparks. The upperclassmen were more irritated.
"We're used to it," said Janie Kobett, senior
cook of the restaurant. "These are the
kind of cooks we always have."
The 1985 Ford had racked up more than 96,000 miles and acted as though it didn't have too many left in it.
But, by 7:30, the women were as sound asleep as the bunny ride would allow. The rain kept the sun away, and they made up for the hours they lost in waking up at 4:30 a.m.
Captain Kobett
It was hard for her to talk about. She knew his name, but she would not give it. It was all too embarrassing, she said.
Janie Kobett simply was doing her job. She had tried to telephone Joe Zielinski, better known as Captain Jayhawk within the confines of Allen Field House. The cheerleaders use Zielinski, a Kansas City senior, and his band of "Super Fans" to introduce new cheers.
However, Zielinski was not at home, and the person who answered the phone did not making her job any easier.
Shed too explain.
"This is Janie. the cheerleader."
She said she remembered that he was not impressed.
"He said, 'Oh, yeah, you're the one that shows your crouch off to 40,000 people.'"
Kobette shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. After three years on the varsity squad, it
was too absurd to be funny. There had been other stories of harassment and confrontation, stories she would have liked to forget.
For Kobett, a s. Joseph, Mo., senior, it has been a constant struggle to be taken seriously. It seems everyone has a preconceived notion of what a cheerleader was or should be.
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