FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2006
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
LAWRENCE
Walk to raise AIDS awareness
BY RACHEL PARKER
rparker@kansan.com
KANSAST Writer
The 14th annual AIDS awareness walk will take place Saturday morning in downtown Lawrence to raise money for the Douglas County AIDS Project.
Geri Summers, executive director for DCAP, said she hoped for a turnout of 300 people for this year's event, "Hitting the Bricks to Stop AIDS." But because the event falls on Easter weekend, she said it could be harder for people to attend.
Summers said the walk was important for two reasons: bringing the community together to help reduce the stigma around HIV and raising money to provide necessary services.
The walk will start at 8:30 a.m. at Maceli's, 1031 New Hampshire St., and continue through downtown Lawrence. At the end of the walk, participants will receive free brunch at Maceli's. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.
Bill Smith, public health educator at the KU Wellness Resource Center, said this was the second year he was participating. Other staff members from the health center will join him on Saturday.
Smith said others from Watkins Memorial Health Center donated money in the past couple weeks to the people who are walking. He said they raised about $170 this year, which is near the amount raised last year.
DCAP provides services communicating health education concerning HIV and its prevention. It also provides free HIV counseling, testing, as well as management for those who test HIV positive.
According to AVERT, an international HIV and AIDS charity, more than 6.000 young adults ages 15 to 24 worldwide become infected with HIV each day, which makes up nearly half of the daily newly infected population.
CAMPUS GTAs still not satisfied with University contracts
- Edited by James Foley
The University of Kansas and its graduate teaching assistants have reached a stonewall in contract negotiations. The University and the Kansas Association of Public Employees, which represents the GTAs, will now seek assistance from Kansas' Public Employer Relations Board to resolve the issue.
Under the current contract, GTAs received an average 10 percent salary increase from 2003 to 2005, which resulted in a 33 percent increase in salaries. The GTAs did not receive a salary increase in Fall 2005.
"The University continues to believe that improvements in salaries and health insurance are of primary importance to most GTAs and University departments," said Lynn Bretz, KU spokeswoman. "Unfortunately, KAPE
sacrificed the University's salary offers to pursue non monetary issues."
LAWRENCE Easter egg hunt to benefit Boys and Girls Club
Kansan staff reports
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will be the host of an Easter egg hunt philanthropy Friday that will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
Andrew Sherwood, SAE public relations chairman, said it would be the third year that the event would take place, and this year, Chi Omega sorority has volunteered to help.
"Everyone in the house participates," he said, "and it's a lot of fun for everybody."
More than 200 children from the club will be transported by bus at 4 p.m. to Campanile Hill, where they will hunt for more than 4,000 eggs and play games with fraternity and sorority members.
— Rachel Parker
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Crews remove a section of stadium lights from Memorial Stadium for repair. The lights needed repair after suffering storm damage.
CAMPUS Student Senate votes breakdown of results
Thursday'sThe University Daily Kansan didn't report the number of votes cast in Wednesday's Student Senate elections. Here is the breakdown of votes cast for each item on the ballot:
President and Vice President: 5.025
President: 5,025
Referendum #1 ($46 per semester fee cut):
4.710
Referendum #2 (women's and non-revenue sports): 5,316
Architecture and Urban Design (two votes per person): 320
Referendum #3 (multicultural funding): 4,542
Business (two votes per person):313
Junior/Senior CLAS (14 votes per person): 13,849
Freshman/Sophomore CLAS (14 votes per person): 19,262
Education (two votes per person): 296
Engineering (three votes per person):
1.028
Fine Arts (two votes per person): 464
Journalism and Mass Communications (two votes per person): 438
Law (two votes per person): 246
- Grad students (10 votes per person): 915
- Non-traditional (two
Non-traditional (who votes per person): 703
On-campus (per person): 12,510
votes per person): 703
Off-campus (five votes)
per person): 126.8
■ Pharmacy (two votes per person): 62
Residential: 1,344
Social Welfare (two votes per person): 126
—Kansan staff reports
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