VOL.101,NO.56
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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
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at the center, said he already had发展规划.
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 are seeing an increase in the 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 appointments and receive test results within two weeks.
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 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 ten 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.
- 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/KANSAN
- Anti-viral drug therapy can slow significantly the progression of HIV.
Airborne
Kansas center Greg Ostertag hold of a loose ball in an exhil
Team says coach deserves recognition
Instructor says mi leadership import
Veteran
By David Mitchell Kansan Sportswriter
After three years, a Big Eight Conference Championship and a trip to the Final Four, Coach Roy Williams was inducted to the Kansas Hall of Fame in October.
When World War I ended in 1918, 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th r
Today, Veterans Day is a tribute erans, past, present and future, sai ROTC major.
Ray Rhod, army instructor, sai-
sars Day was important because i
ed the importance of leadership in
tary.
This day was known as Armistice it originally was intended to recog who died in World War I.
The Hall of Fame consists of more than 100 former University of Kansas athletes,
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
A year later, President Woodru-
proclaimed Nov. 11 as the date to
more than 100,000 Americans who
live fighting the war.
"We have military veterans beca hae cared enough to protect th live." Rhbdod said.
The purpose is to maintain visi-
importance of the military, he said.
Rhodd said that ROTC taught us
what civilian world as we build
world military.
Though the Kansas women's basketball team is proud of the accomplishments of the men's team, the women on the team take exception to Williams being indicted into the
coaches and administrators. Their portraits circle the arena in the hall. Allen Field House.
Rhodd said the military was an ex the will of the people.
"American people need to be proud of the veterans," he said. Rhodd said that veterans today
Marian Washington
These are leaders who influence cal process and leaders who make happen, he said.
Hall of Fame before Coach Marian Washington.
Mons said that Veterans today alive, were people of all races.
That might be an understatement, considering Washington has been the women's head coach for 19 seasons. Teams that Washington won in 322 games and four Big Eight championships.
"I don't think there is any excuse for that lack of recognition," senior forward Danielle Shareef said.
Senior forward Tanya Bonham echoed her teammate.
She should be in that Hall of Fame," Bonham said. "She's given lot of her choice to KU."
Her experience at Kansas has not been limited to the basketball court, either. She has been involved in every aspect of women's athletics.
Washington was the women's athletic director from 1973-79, before the men's and women's programs merged. She also began coaching in 1980, and served as the team's first head coach.
To be inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame, a basketball coach must win a national championship or guide a team to top four finishers has not met either of those criterium.
However, assistant athletic director Richard Konzem said Washington would enter the hall before the season's end because of her work as women's athletic director.
The ground floor
Washington's milestone victories
50 Jan. 5, 1978 vs. Iowa State
75 Jan. 5, 1979 vs. Neb.-Omaha
100 Dec. 12, 1979 vs. NW Oklah. St.
150 Mar. 15, 1981 vs. Minnesota
200 Jan. 16, 1985 vs. Iowa St.
250 Dec. 2, 1987 vs. Wichita St.
300 Feb. 14, 1990 vs. Missouri
83-64 Lawrence, Kan.
78-58 Wichita, Kan.
68-52 Lawrence, Kan.
67-61 Minneapolis, Minn.
85-66 Lawrence, Kan.
60-59 Lawrence, Kan.
60-59 Columbia, Mo.
The move, which coincided with the adopt-
ment of the Title of the Education Amendment
of 1972, was approved by the Senate.
TITLE IX states that people involved in an educational program that receives federal funds must have a job.
"She provided significant leadership at the time and has been an inspiration to other women's coaches," Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick said. "It means a great deal to the University to have that kind of stability over the years."
Washington began her college coaching career in 1973 at the age of 27. She was the Lady-Jayhawk's third coach in the program's six year existence. Nineteen years later, only men's coaches F.C. "Phog" Allen and Ted Weaver coached more Kansas basketball games.
Joseph Lies/Kansan
Washington taught at Martin Luther King Junior High School in Kansas City, Mo., for two years before coming to Kansas in 1972 to earn her master's degree in education.
Source: Kansas 1990-1991 Basketball Media Guide
against on the basis of sex
"It wasn't until Title IX made an impact that our approach to women's sports changed," she said. "In the 1960s and '70s women's sports were a sophisticated intramural program. It wasn't anything like the way men's programs were being run."
Slowly but surely, the disparity between men's and women's sports programs began
Along with her duties as basketball and track coach, Washington became the women's athletic director in 1973. She began running eight winters athletes were entitled to by law.
"We went from having no scholarships to providing scholarships to all sports," Washington said. "We went from having very embarrassing salaries to providing enough money for part-time coaches to spend the necessary time with their programs.
Though the women's program is relatively new, Washington said the team was an important part of the program.
"If someone had placed a crystal ball in front of me, there no way I would have felt so safe."
"I'm starting my 1910 year," she said. "That number 19 means an awful lot to me. We don't have the history the men have, but I think we have the pride of what we have accomplished."
"I can honestly say I'm thrilled to death about the excellence of our men's program, especially Coach Williams," she said. "I do wish more people could identify with our festivals, and I do wish there could be greater attendance support for the women's program."
Though her players resent the lack of recognition that Washington has received, Washington said there was room for both the men's and women's teams.
A new tradition
tant time in women's athletics. I was on the ground level."
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"They are men, and they are women. They "When you put on the uniform,you do what St.,as part of the Veterans Day.