University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 9. 1989
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National board denies Alpha Phi's appeal
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
The Executive Board of Alpha Phi International on Monday night denied the sorority's formal appeal for charter reinstatement.
The sorority's charter was suspended Jan.
24, and the chapter was given 30 days to appeal.
On Feb. 19, Patricia Rogowski, president,
Dawn Tabinsky, vice president, and Rhonda
Newcomer, rush director, traveled to Evanton
to board its sorority's appeal to be
They also took several letters from KU trainees and sororites in support of Alpha Psi.
in's attempt to get his shirt back withdrawn at
the charter will be officially withdrawn at
the end of this semester.
Joyce Shumway, spokesman for the executive board, has said that the charter was suspended because of low membership and financial obligations that the house was unable to meet, such as a mortgage on the house, 1602 High Drive.
According to Panhellenic Council figures, Alpha Phi received 13 pledges during informal fall rush, which was a decrease from last year. Alpha Phi has 103 members, 75 of whom live
Alpha Phi has 103 members, 75 of whom live in the house.
Karen Ohmnes, Panhellenic council adviser, has said that the University of Kansas' average sorority house has 160 to 170 members and the largest house on campus has 200 members.
Shumway has said that the house's membership size has not been competitive with the market.
Tabinsky declined to comment on the status of the sorority.
Shumway was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Trisha Harris, Panhellenic vice president, said she could not comment until Panhellenic had received a press release.
All initiated members of the house will receive alumnae status at the end of the semester.
Fall semester pledges the opportunity to choose whether they want to be initiated. If
they are initiated, they will receive alumnae status.
If pledges decide against initiation, they may be released from their pledging and, under the terms of the National Panhellenic Conference, may pledge another sorority immediately.
Alpha Phi International plans to reorganize the building. Tim Sullum has said. The house will be key to the future.
"All I can say is that I feel very sad about Alpha Phi's situation," said Mary Wagner, Sigma Kappa president.
Alpha Phi received its charter March 25, making it the 13th on岸 the ORKU.
State Senate OKs AIDS-related bill
Plan mandates tests of suspects in some arrests
by Alan Morgan
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Kansas senators passed a bill yesterday that would require a person who tells police officers during an arrest that he has AIDS to submit to a court-ordered AIDS test.
The bill, passed by the Senate 39-0,
also would require the arrested individual
to take an AIDS test if any
detected and attached to an officer during the arrest.
The results of the tests would then be made available to the arresting officers, the individual arrested and the court to review. The court fitted needed to know for protection.
Physicians who perform medical or surgical procedures on AIDS patients also would be covered by the bill.
The bill states that physicians who disclose the information in good faith and without malice will be granted access to their records filed against them for disclosure.
It would give physicians the right to disclose that information to other health-care providers or emergency workers in a case of contact with bodily fluids of the patient.
"I think this is a big concern of physicians," he said. "The argument against this is that you should treat everyone like they have AIDS and be
Michael Geist, a physician at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said the proposal would be more of a threat than a precaution were reported in the Lawrence area.
equally careful with all of your patients. But you're going to be extra careful with an AIDS patient."
State Sen. Edward F. Reilly, R-Leavenworth, told the Senate that police officers had a legitimate right to be informed.
"When they make a declarative statement that they have the AIDS virus to an arresting officer, that officer needs to be informed of their situation and the virus," Reilly said. "They need to know to be able to protect their own family."
Chris Mullenven, Lawrence police spokesman, said the police department had fewer than six cases in the county and no one individual contending to have AIDS.
"This has not been a problem yet for the Lawrence Police Department, but we probably would expect more," Mulvenon said in the future."
Mulvenon then the proposed bill would provide Lawrence police with an extra safety measure when dealing with possible AIDS cases.
n would probably add to the safety factor for officers by allowing them to know in contact with it, they actually wear in contact with it. Mulaney said.
Mulvenon said that Lawrence police were required to take continuing-education courses, which have included officer-protection training when dealing with AIDS. He said the officers had insisted they protect themselves against contact with bodily fluids that might carry the disease.
"Protection from AIDS has been at the forefront of our training in that sense, but we simply haven't had many cases, and we're involving
The bill will go to a House committee for discussion.
Protesters of Riverfront plan have not-guilty plea entered
In the midst of supporters, a plea for not guilty was entered yesterday for four protestors charged March 1 with trespass at the Riverfront Project.
by a Kansan reporter
Lance Burr, attorney for the four protesters, entered a not guilty plea to the class B misdemanions for Dierdre Goldfarb, Frankfort, Kan., junior, and Keith Abrams, Michael Riehm and Kermitt Gilbert, whose defamation sentence for the misdemanions is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The protest was prompted by the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the citizen's group, Protect Our Eagles' Trees. POET had filed a lawsuit against the city of Lawrence and developed a plan for defending the building of the trees, which were a resting ground for the bald eagle
The four were arrested March 1 for their protest against the felling of cottonwood trees in the Riverfront Project area.
The protesters are scheduled to appear in court on March 28.
The four, who are not members of POET, were released from their $100 bond on their recognition.
Safe sex posters and pamphlets designed by Michael Brown, clinic nurse at Haskell Indian Junior College and lieutenant commander with the U.S. Public Health Service, are being distributed on campuses across Kansas. The safe sex literature is geared toward men who are sexually active.
Nurse lauds male sexual awareness
by Brett Brenner
Kansan staff writer
Michael Brown thinks men should take more responsibility for their actions, especially in bed.
In Spring 1986, Brown, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Public Health Service and a clinic nurse at Haskell Indian Junior College, began a male sexual-health awareness and responsibility program at Haskell.
As part of the program, Brown talks with new students at the beginning of each semester. He also discusses sexual health among male sexual health during the year.
"The initial thing that got to start the program was seeing a lot of unintentional pregnancies," he said. "And not just here but everywhere."
period, the male produces 4 billion sperm.
"All the others are female- oriented," he said. "When you look at the numbers, a female produces one egg every 28 days or so. In the same
Brown decided to focus his program on the males because most other programs emphasized women.
"It doesn't make sense to concentrate solely on women."
In the program with new students, Brown talks of three aspects of male sexual health: unintended early menstruation; sexually transmitted diseases; and other sexually transmitted diseases.
If the students do choose to be sexually active, Brown advises them on preventive measures to help them avoid the risk of sexual and sexually transmitted diseases.
"I tell them what works well and what doesn't," he said. "Things like spermicidal condoms are more effective than plain ones."
Brown said the program had been successful at Haskell.
"The gonorrhea rate has gone down quite a bit," he said. "The pregnancy rate has only fallen a little."
He said the constant turnover of students was the reason the pregnancy rate had not fallen further.
“It’s kind of hard to follow how effective you are unless you can keep track of them after they leave.” he said.
Brown spent his own money to spend pamphlets made for distribution at Haskell. He gives out posters, copies of the pamphlets, and informational materials, at Haskell and across the state.
Chip Wheelen, director of public affairs for the Kansas Medical Society, said that his group gave money to Brown because his effort to educate the public about the dangers of AIDS was needed.
"We are supportive of AIDS education efforts," he said. "The best way is to counsel people who may engage with HIV to educate them about the risks."
On Feb. 7, Brown was asked to testify before the House Committee for Federal and State Affairs.
State Rep. Ginger Barr, R-Auburn and member of the committee, said she supported Brown's effort to educate the public.
KU space projects grounded
by Mary Neubauer Kenson staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The KU Space Program has big plans to send its experiments into space in 1990.
But it needs financing immediately to meet NASA deadlines and to be able to continue its experiments, its president said yesterday.
Mahyar Rabbarrad, olthe学 and the program's president, said he was upset that Student Senate did not approve $10,000 in financing it had requested.
"I understand that $10,000 is a lot of money," he said. "But our members are university students. And part of our activities fees goes to the Student Senate fund. Their complete turning down of our proposal demonstrates their mismanagement of funds early in the semester."
Pat Warren, Overland Park sophomore and co-chairman of the Student Senate Finance Committee, said the program's request for financing was denied in November and that projections on future funding are no longer budgeted about the issue.
Rahbarrad said that he and other program members circulated a questionnaire this semester to students that asked if they would be willing for part of their activities fee to go to the program. Two hundred names were collected in four days from students who agreed part of their activities fee could be spent for program financing, he said.
"It's not that we didn't prove that we had student support," Rbarrad said. "The Senate is just not representing the student body."
Chris Shriling, Prairie Village senator and Student Senate treasurer, said the request was denied because the program was academic and research oriented. He said the student activities fund did not have to finance academically oriented programs. The funds should be used for non-academic, social and cultural activities instead, he said.
Larry Bellmard, space program vice president and Overland Park senior, said the group recently purchased a 2½-foot cannon to send five experiments into space on a space shuttle. The $3,000 cannister will contain five self-contained experiments, he said, so all the astronauts will have to do is flip three switches. When the cannister returns from space, the data collected will be analyzed.
Raharrard said NASA gave the program a set of steps to follow and a general time schedule. The program puts in the dates it predicts that it will finish the steps and NASA experiments to a space shuttle flight.
Bellardm said one experiment would send seeds to space in the cannister. When the seeds are returned to earth, they will be planted alongside seeds that have never experienced zero gravity. The experiment could affect the food and agriculture industries, he said.
Another experiment could affect the medical world, Bellmard said. Because elements in blood tend to separate the same way that oil and water do at a chemical level, one experiment will send oil and water to space to see how it is affected when it returns.
Another possibility for financing may come from the National Science Foundation, he said. But the processing time at the foundation takes three to four months, which would cause the program to miss deadlines.