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University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, October 2, 1991
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AIDS task force wants $3,000 to attract speaker
Group asksSenate to help bring Ryan White's mom
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
The KU AIDS Task Force wants Jeanne White, the mother of AIDS victim Ryan White, to speak at the University of Kansas this spring.
But the task force has one problem:
It is more than $3,000 short of securing the $4,000 speaking engagement.
Although the task force has sought outside financing, only Student Union Activities and the Douglas County AIDS Project have offered help, said Patrick Dilley, head of the task force and a graduate student senator.
SUA has offered to pay for travel and expenses, and the Douglas County AIDS Project has offered to help pay for White Atherosperm Dllesy said.
He said that because the task force had exhausted its resources, it is turning to Student Senate for financial assistance as a last resort.
"There are very few organizations that deal directly with the dissemination of AIDS information." he said.
Dilley is the co-signer of a bill
requesting $3,000 from Senate to pay White for speaking.
In the bill, the task force also is seeking about $1,300 for AIDS awareness stickers, weekly advertising in the University Daily Kansan and condoms.
The bill will go before the University Affairs and Finance Committees tonight.
KU Student Senate Rules and Regulations state that the bill needs the approval of three-fourths of Senate and committee members to pass.
Bills requesting supplemental financing require more than a simple loan.
The task force received financing for this year during last year's budget hurdle.
Dilley said that during the budget hearings, the task force had not been sure how it would fulfill its 1991-1992 requirements and requested too little money for them.
Troy Radakovich, head of the Student Senate Executive Committee, said the task force could have a problem getting Senate financing for the
speaking engagement.
He said that Senate was being strict about allocating money for speakers and that the task force already had to meet targets last year's Senate budget hearings.
"I think the speaker has enough merit, though, that the bill will be passed." she said
Nicola Hesket, liberal arts and sciences senator and co-signer of the bill, said she thought there would be quite a bit of debate about the bill.
Ryan White was an Indiana teen with hemophilia who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion
White died in the spring of 1990, Dilley said.
"He was the best-known regular person who had AIDS." he said.
Dilley said White's mother lectured throughout the nation to raise people's consciousness about AIDS.
"A lot of people that we have speak about AIDS talk about the medical aspects, the physical aspects," Dilley said. "Jeanne White will put AIDS on a personal level that everyone can understand."
Commission OKs aid application
Salvation Army hopes to receive emergency funds for expansion
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission gave its support last night to an application that could help the local Salvation Army build a year-round shelter.
The commissioners voted unanimously to authorize the mayor to sign the application, which will ask the agency to fund 300 in emergency shelter grant funds.
The commission made its decision only after learning that the Salvation Army and area residents had spoken with each other about the shelter.
Jolene Andersen, a representative for East Lawrence residents, told the commission that because of crime that might accompany the shelter, the people who lived nearby did not like the idea of it being open year-round.
She also said they were concerned that they had not received a letter from the Salvation Army about its recent plans.
The shelter, at Ninth and New
Hampshire streets, is open between
November and April.
The Salvation Army and East Lawrence residents reached an informal agreement before last night's commission meeting that allows the Salvation Army to continue the inquiry concerning the expansion.
George Windham, captain of the Salvation Army, said he had not contacted the residents because the applants were at a steep step toward the shelter's expansion.
The Salvation Army will have to receive funds from the United Way in addition to the state's funds to keep the shelter open all year, he said.
The grant money would be used to pay for an air conditioner for the gymnasium, movable partitions, and additional bedding and cots. Windham
Windham suggested that the residents form a neighborhood advisory council. A member of this group also led the Salvation Army advisory board.
Jo Takaes, Salvation Army advisory board member, said the Salvation Army had opened a safe house that was closed on April 13 because of a lack in funds.
He said the Salvation Army would tend to the residents before any defiance.
The Salvation Army wants to make sure it can finance the expansion before plans for the project begin, Takacs said.
Joseph Lies/KANSAN
Let it roll
Lisa Vilaythong. Wichita freshman, concentrates on perfecting her strike-seeking form. Vilaythong was practicing at the Kansas Union Jaybow yesterday.
National labor leader Cesar Chavez to speak on campus Friday
Farm-workers advocate is leading grape boycott
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Bobby Kennedy once called Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, one of the heroic figures of our time.
Chavez, who founded the first successful farm workers union in U.S. history, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Kansas Union ballroom as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
He currently is leading the third international groe boxvoytitled "The Wrath of Graves."
The title symbolizes the dangers of pesticides that are sprayed on the grapes for vineyard use.
The purpose of the boycott is to gain protection from chemicals and to pressure grape
growers to support fair elections for union certification
"Farm workers will never again be treated like agricultural implements to be used and discarded." Chavez said. "We hawtaste freedom and dignity, and will light on the end
before we give it up. We have come too far and we have too much (urher to go to give us now."
After 36 days, he passed the fast on to religious, labor and political leaders, celebrities and even the president.
In 1988, Chavez began his third water-only fast to share the suffering of farm workers who had been the victims of cancer and birth-defect causing materials.
Chavez. 64, grew up in the shacks of the farm
laboratories. He attended about 30 different
labourers before attending about 80 different
While working in 1852 at the apricot orchards outside San Jose, Calif., Chavez met Fred Ross, an organizer for the Community Service organization that was forming among Mexican-American.
Within months, Chavez became a full-time organizer with the CSO. He coordinated voter registration, battled racial discrimination and run the CSO chapters in California and Arizona.
Chavez served as CSO president in the late '50s and early 60s, but he dreamed of creating an organization to help all farm workers. He held several meetings with his wife and eight children to Delano, Calhoun.
While his wife worked in the fields, Chavez traveled to farm communities. He built a farm complex.
"If you're outraged at conditions, then you
can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that," Chavez said.
Since 1976, the UFW has won more than 78 percent of its secret ballot elections conducted in California. The union has signed more than 160 contracts with growers.
In 1965, 1,200 families belonged to Chaver's National Farm Workers Association. The NFWA joined the Agricultural Workers Organization against area table grape growers.
The NFWA and AWOC merged in 1960 to form the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO
Chavez lead a national strike-boycott for five years that forged coalitions and drew millions of dollars.
The UFW adheres to the non-violence principles of Ghadi and Martin Luther King Jr.
pits in church and the Burger King? In 1988, Chavez fasted for 25 days to reaffirm the non-violence commitment of the organization.
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