Campus/Area University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 26, 1989 3 Aaron Rittmaster, Overland Park junior (left), Karen Meyers, LaGrange, Ill., senior, and Deborah Gerner, assistant professor of political science, look at a guilt containing AIDS victims' names. Quilt pays tribute to 24 victims of AIDS by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer Pieces of material, various personal possessions and individual comments, such as "We will miss you," decorate three 12-foot by 12-foot quilt panels forming the last tribute to those who have died of AIDS. Michael Foubert, Eudora graduate student, said the three panels on display outside Stauffer Flint Hall yesterday each included the names of 24 people from the Midwestern Region who had died of AIDS. The region includes Colorado, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. Foubert said he admired the effort and care family, friends and other loved ones had taken to create the final tributes to people who had died of AIDS. Foubert said the panels, which are composed of eight different 3-foot by 6-foot sections, would be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. He said the panels portrayed the reality of the AIDS epidemic and that its repercussions affected everyone. "Seeing the effort carried out through these various individuals indicate that the impact is much larger and brings home a message," Foubert said. Lauren Crain, Lawrence senior, said the panels personalized the disease. "The panels place names to the disease, and they do not make them fictitious" memorial to those who had died of AIDS. characters, Crain said. Crain said the panels served as a living memoiral to touch "I think these the quit is an emotional experience and increases awareness of the disease by leaving a mark of remembrance." Crain said. Foubert said he arranged to rent the panels from the Names Project in San Francisco, which deals with the assembly, storage and preservation of such artifacts throughout the country. The project's quilt exceeds 900 yards in length. Condoms are topic for panel by Stan Diel Kansan staff writer The effectiveness of condoms and the social ostracism of lesbians is one of the factors that lasted long night at an AIDS clinic. The forum, at the Kansas University, was sponsored by the Student Senate AIDS Task Force. Elizabeth Tolbert, director of Gay and Les- bian Affairs at NASA, expressed concern about the treatment of women. One panel member cited a public opinion poll that said 30 percent of those polled favored a quarantine of AIDS victims, and 29 percent favored tattooing the victims so that they could be identified by prospective sexual partners. "One of my best friends died of AIDS in January," said Tolbert, Lawrence junior. "He was just like everybody else, from a small town in Kansas. "When I think of Gordon, I think of his life. 'I don't want anyone of you to die the hour before.'" Donald Hatten, Lawrence physician and panel member for the forum, said safe sex could help prevent the spread of AIDS. "When the gay population in San Francisco changed their behavior (practiced safe sex), the instances of syphilis and gonorrhea declined. Our hope is that this will also happen with AIDS. The peak of AIDS cases is not pere vet." Joseph Reitz, associate dean of business and panel member, said he thought the fact that condom use was not 100 percent effective in preventing the spread of AIDS was "In the sense that you say. 'If I use a com- munity condom, do not pre- vent ADTs.' Rettz said." Reitz said studies done by the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and other organizations did not prove conclusively that condom use prevented AIDS. "Field experiments just aren't feasible." Reitz said. Chuck Fallis, CDC spokesman, said the CDC advocated the use of condoms. Muslims fast during Ramadan to observe holiest time of year "We recommend that if people engage in sexual intercourse they are MDS and not HIV positive." Feliis said. by Brett Brenner Kansan staff writer You may not have noticed, but the holiest of Islamic holidays is more than halfway finished. Ramadan, one of the two religious holidays of Islam started at sunset April 7 and ends with the 'Id al Fitr on May 8. The holiday recognizes the month in which Mohammed received his first revelation from Allah, said Robert Minor, professor of religion. The celebration is marked by fasting and abstinence during the daylight hours. "We can't eat, smoke, drink, have sex, even with your wife, or take prescription drugs unless I'm on Turf Mohabalah Lawrence senior. It is very just. The observance of Ramadan is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam, the five required tasks of the religion. "The fasting started really early in the tradition," Minor said. Myahbutt said it was an introspective. Mohabbat said it was an introspective time for the worshiper. "It is a time to be with wife and family," he said. "A time to find mental peace. That is important in a society like ours." Jeffrey Lang, professor of mathematics, has been a Muslim for the last seven years. He said that all of the rituals in Islam had three things in common: the ability to unify Muslims, help them to identify with their fellow man, and refine their own consciousness. "Nearly a billion Muslims are doing the same thing." Lang said. "The slight suffering we go through us helps to relate to our fellow man." When Ramadan ends there is a three-day feast, 'Id Al Fitr, which begins with a visit to a mosque followed by social activities. United States. "It is very tough," he said. "Nobody recognizes that you're on fast. It makes it hard to practice it the way it is supposed to be practiced." Mohabbat said it was difficult to follow the regimen of Ramadan in a non-Muslim society, such as the United States. Black enrollment echoes national trend by Cynthia L. Smith Kenan staff writer Kansan staff writer Milton Scott was one of 358 black men at the University of Kansas in 1968 when he walked down Mount Oread to graduate. Today he's working to ensure that more black men follow his path, but the national and University trends are against it. "The students have to take control of their lives as far as their goals — not waiting for someone to say, You have to apply your knowledge of admissions." Most of the black male students are not applying at all. The number of black males enrolled in colleges nationwide also The number of other minority students has increased while the number of black males decreased. Black male enrollment at KU decreased from 409 in 1890 to 304 in 1988. The number of black women enrolled decreased by 67 during that same period. Reflecting a national trend, the number of black males enrolled at KU has decreased during the last decade. nas decreased, while total minority enrolment increased by 8 percent during the eight-year period, according to the American Council on Education's seventh annual status report on Minorities in Higher Education. Nationally, black male enrollment fell from 470,000 to 348,000 between 1976 and 1986. The number of black women slightly increased. saean Saffold, Cleveland graduate student, said the national decrease in black male enrollment reflected society's attitudes about black men. "It just seems most black males in now, either new their families have money or they are athletes." Saffold said. "The average Mr. Black American — the odds are against him." Safford said students should voice their concerns about black issues, such as the enrollment trend. "Fortunately, the black colleges like Howard (University in Washington, D.C.) are still pretty strong and are turning out black leaders," he said. "But the colleges anyone can go to white, they're turning the clock back." Scott said the main problem was a Over the last decade, the number of black males enrolled at KU has declined. However the number of minority students in all groups has risen. Black enrollment at KU A declining number of students Black enrollment Minority total enrollment Fall Male Female 1978 614 561 1979 * * 1980 690 671 1981 690 671 1982 667 649 1983 * * 1984 746 711 1985 * * 1986 797 835 1987 732 808 1988 764 833 Source: IPEDS Fall Enrollment Reports, various years Dave Eames/KANSAN lack of scholarships. "I came from a family of 11," he said. "Imagine my mother trying to put all 11 of us through college. Safford, a 1982 graduate of Ohio State University, said the federal government was more concerned with minority students when he was an undergraduate. 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