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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 18, 1989
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Campus AIDS survey results late in release
by Jennifer Corser Kansan staff writer
Results from the national study of AIDS on college campuses will not be available until mid-May, a delay of five months may have been line, a health official said yesterday.
The University of Kansas is participating in a five-year national study sponsored by the American College Health Association and the national Centers for Disease Control. The study seeks to determine the prevalence of AIDS on college campuses. and to identify universities took random samples from blood tests and sent them to the CDC
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he learned the study results had been delayed at a conference he attended Thursday and Friday in Atlanta
"What's really disappointing was they were supposed to have the results in before now," Yockey said.
Yockey said the release date could be moved up because many of the participating college's newspapers stopped printing before mid-May, leaving students without access to the information.
Miguel Garcia-Tunon, the ACHA's national coordinator of the study, said an earlier completion date was not possible. The last of the data were collected at the end of February and are now being analyzed.
Yockey said the test was important because there was no other way to know how prevalent AIDS was among college students.
"We know what the high-risk populations are, but what we don't know is why college students sometimes participate in high-risk behavior," she said. "And we don't know what the AIDS incidence is in low risk populations."
Ten universities with the highest number of positive tests will be chosen to participate in another study, Yockey said. In that study, students with the HIV virus will be asked to fill out questionnaire as to why college students participate in high-risk activity.
Yockey said he should find out at a May conference if KU was one of the ten universities.
The study is imperfect because only four percent of KU's population was represented during a three-month span, Yockey said.
Clinton Lake shores awash with dead fish of winter kill
Dead fish annually wash up on Clinton Lake's shores.
by a Kansan reporter
The fishing has been good at Clinton Lake, if you don't mind picking them up dead off the shore.
The dead fish washing up on the shores of Clinton Lake are a natural occurrence, said Dave Rhodes.
park manager.
"It is a natural cycle," he said. "If they didn't die off, we would have an overpopulation, which would threaten the other sport fish."
Richard Sanders, district fisheries biologist, said the dead fish, called gizzard shad, were normal winter fish.
"They are a fragile fish, and the stress of winter can kill them," he said. "In years where there is a lot of ice cover, we see more because they freeze in the ice and then float ashore."
He said that more dead fish were visible this winter because of the weather and the age of the fish.
"We would have a cold snap that would kill some, and then the ice would melt and I would be out to treat it with a little aid that would start over again."
"Something else that contributed to the kill was that the population was composed of more older fish. These fish are short-lived, and they are more susceptible to stress when they are old."
"The gizzard shad is useful as a prey item for the largemouth bass, crappie and walleye, as long as they are small enough," he said. "The kill won't hurt others at all."
He said fishermen did not have to worry about the sport fish in the lake.
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Rolling Stone editor talks of travels
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Dangerous places shake confidence
What if you got the chance to go to another planet? Wouldn't you like to see what makes it tick?
P. J. O'Rourke would, and the planet he wants to see ticking is Earth.
"The planet you get to visit is Earth, O'Rourke said. "The planet's features are chaos and war. You can't tool not to take the chance to see it."
P. J. O'Rourke of Rolling Stone recalls his travel experiences.
O'Rourke said that after visiting Beirut, he no longer felt good about
O'tourke spoke to about 400 people regarding his travels last night at the Kansas Union. He is the international affairs editor of "Rolling Stone," has been a writer for "National Lampoon" and has written three books.
“It’s surprising to see how small the gun barrel is and to realize how much it would change my social life,” O’Rourke said “I wondered, What am I doing here? It seemed like such a cool idea at the time.”
After the gun experience, O'Rourke decided to pretend he was vacationing at a regular place. He had a hotel worker named Nakib take care of him and picked out one of his 1972 guide, "Berat." The Paris of the Middle East."
traveling planet Earth, especially after having a gun pointed in his face
"I'd see these 15-year old militia men with T-shirts say, 'Kill American Satan Devil', and they weren't acting to friendy toward me in my little blue blazer and my jeans. No, they wouldn't tell them something in Arabic and they'd laugh and let us pass through the check.
point.
"I asked Najib what he said. He said, "I tell them you travel for pleasure."
In a later interview, O'Rourke said he always goes shopping and gets drunk to meet people for his stories.
"You see people doing what people really do in market places and bars," he said.
He said he never interviewed world leaders because he wasn't interested in them.
"Does she really think he's going to say, 'Hey Babs, mum's the word, but just between you and me, I'm going to blow up Jerusalem.' It's never going to happen. These people are professional liars."
Wichita medical school dean named defense job candidate
"They don't get there by telling the truth," O'Rourke said. "I'll never understand why Barbara Walters gave me permission to be to Yasser Arafat to tell her the truth.
Kansan staff writer
by John P. Milburn Kansas staff writer
William Reals, dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, has been named one of five candidates for a top-ranked position with the U.S. Department of Defense.
The person in that position oversees the administrative duties of the defense department hospitals.
Reals said yesterday that the nomination was for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. He would be the principal medical adviser to the secretary of defense.
medical research and the training of new physicians, Reals said.
"Obviously, I am pleased by the nomination. Reals said, 'I'm taken back by my neighbors, who heard me call with an official except for contact with newspaper people.'"
Reals served in the Air Force during World War II and during the Korean War. After the wars, he served in the Air Force reserve. He then worked in the Air Force's surgeon general's office in
He said he had not been asked for an interview yet but that he had sent information to the defense department at its request.
He became dean of the Wichita branch in 1980 and vice chancellor in 1988.
Washington, D.C., until his retirement as a brigadier general in 1890.
Reals said his name was given to the defense department for consideration by the Air Force surgeon general's office.
Officials with the Air Force and the White House would not comment on the nomination. Officials at the Defense Department said they would comment when the appointment was made.
BSU has new constitution
by Cynthia L. Smith
Kansan staff writer
The Black Student Union ratified a new constitution last night and Rosita Dorsely, director of the office of
the president, announced it on Wednesday.
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity also resigned as a BSU voting organization. No members of Alpha Phi Alpha were available for comment.
Jersey also was WARM, pressed with the outcome of tonight's meeting, said Frencette Garth BSU treasurer.
Kelle Paris, BSU president, appointed an ad hoc committee to determine election procedures under the
the newly ratified constitution reinstates individual voting rights in BSU. Both individual members and member organizations need to register before 5 p.m.
The new regulations come on Tuesday. Membership is open to all KU students.
Paris nullified a constitution on April 10 that was ratified Dec. 12, 1988.
Paris said that because the 1988 constitution was not ratified according to procedures stipulated by its predecessor, she had to nullify it.
The 1985 constitution stipulated that three-fourths of the BSU general assembly had to vote to consider any amendment to the constitution. Then a written proposal had to be distributed to all voting organizations before the meeting, and two threes of the general assembly had to approve it with the recommendation of the BSU Executive Board.
Because the ratification occurred without the distribution of the proposed constitution and without the recommendation of the executive chair, the 1881 constitution owed, said Lisa Thompson, BSU corresponding secretary.
BSU re-enacted its previous constitution, which took effect June 14. The constitution did not allow members to vote.
Janice Turner, an individual member who lost voting rights when BSU reinstated the 1985 constitution, said she was unhappy about losing voting rights initially but would re-register as a voting member before elections.
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