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Friday, April 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Groups can have computers installed
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
Students and faculty now have to come to the Computer Center to use computers. Soon, the computers may be coming to them.
Computing Services is offering 13 Macintosh Plus microcomputers and a laser printer to student, faculty and departmental organizations that might want computers for their members to use.
The computers, printer and software, together worth about $25,000, will be installed free for any groups that apply and qualify.
The Macintosh Plus has software for word processing, graphics and illustration to publish newsletters, brochures and other publications.
Herb Harris, director of academic user services at the center, said the center had no restrictions on applicants, users or types of uses.
"I think the people would have to use their own creative juices in figuring out how to use these things." Harris said. "The clientele would depend upon who submits the proposals. We haven’t ruled out any users."
There are, however, some limitations.
"We're looking for more public kinds of things, and we probably would shy away from secretarial use in the departments, for example," he said. "They're not meant for that."
The computer center will deliver and install the computers and provide seminars and consulting on their use.
is no real deadline, Harris said.
Thirteen other Macintosh Plus computers are already available to students 24 hours a day at the computer center.
The second group of 13 computers and the laser printer will arrive in June as the second shipment in a buy-13-get-13-free contract between the computer center and Apple-Mintosh, Harris said.
Recipients will provide laboratory and table space for the computers, chairs, paper, maintenance on the computers and the printer, a supervisor and a system for distributing
However, Harris said applicants who could not afford all those accessories could work out a deal with the center.
software.
So far, only the Student Senate has applied for the computers. The Senate has asked for two computers for student use.
Brady Stanton, out-going student body president, said he hoped to install the computers in Watson Library's typing room or in the Kansas or Burge unions.
"I think it's fantastic. Especially in the recession where everything is being cut back, here's a department that's actually offering something extra. It's like a breath of fresh air." Stanton said.
Women unaware of AIDS risk, study says
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The proportion of women getting AIDS from male sexual partners has doubled in five years, indicating that women may underestimate their risk of getting the fatal disease, a new study says.
Meanwhile, the cost of the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating AIDS threatens to put the medication out of reach for many patients, the American Medical Association's weekly newspaper says.
Only 12 percent of women diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome in 1982, the first full year U.S. medical authorities
tracked it, got it from male sex partners, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said.
By late last year, 26 percent of women getting AIDS were contracting it from men, physician Mary E. Guinan and public health specialist Ann Hardy reported in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Drug abuse remains the largest single way the viral disease spreads to women, accounting for just over 50 percent of cases, the study said.
More than 80 percent of women contracting AIDS are in their childbearing years, the researchers said.
Many women may be unaware of their risk of catching AIDS from men during sex, and they need to learn about that risk and the possibility of passing the disease to their fetuses, the study and an accompanying editorial said.
Seventy percent of the 1,819 women in the study were black or Hispanic, the researchers said, but an accompanying editorial said news stories dramatizing the AIDS risk typically picture whites.
By focusing on whites, minorities may be receiving "the misimpression that AIDS in heterosexuals is a white disease, just as previous reports conveyed the false impression that AIDS is a gay disease," said the editorial by Constance B. Wofsy of the University of California at San Francisco.
As of Monday, the CDC had counted 2.285 U.S. women with AIDS, representing about 7 percent of adult cases, and 479 children under age 13 with the disease, with 79 percent of the children getting it from their mothers, said spokesman Chuck Fallis.
The AMA's newspaper predicted that the drug azidothymidine, or AZT, may be too expensive for thousands of people with AIDS.
Ringleader teaches group of N.Y. boys the art of shoplifting
NEWARK, N.J. — A shoplifting mastermind organized about 75 New York City boys into a gang of thieves and gave them a manual which targets expensive designer clothing at suburban malls in four states, authorities said yesterday.
New Jersey and New York City police said children from a Brooklyn neighborhood made weekend trips to shoplift up to $800 worth of clothes apiece in exchange for money and drugs from the ringleader.
Since January, 150 ploilifting arrests have been made in Paramus, Wayne and Livingston involving boys from New York City. Authorities think that many are repeat offenders and that about 75 boys may be involved, said Paramus police Chief Joseph Delaune.
In three cases, authorities found boys carrying a four-page typewritten manual that explains how to shoplift. Attached is a list of 27 stores in suburbs in northern New Jersey, in cities like Rockford and Connecticut, Delaney said.
Daleyne said authorities had some very good leads on the leader. Members of the New York City fraud commission went yesterday to aid in the investigation.
The latest arrests came Saturday when 10 boys were nabbed at the Paramus Park mall, where 42 children have been arrested in the past four months. At the Livingston Mall, 50 boys have been arrested, and at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne 50 boys have been arrested, Delaney said.
Many of the thieves carry knapsacks full of old clothes and exchange them for new ones in store fitting rooms, he said.
The manual tells them to take alarm devices off clothes and how to spot store detectives.
"If you see someone pick up a phone on your way out of the store and then hear some bells, those bells are for you," it reads. "Don't run or panic. Just calmly walk out of the store."
If a shoplifter gets caught, the manual advises, they "will be out in several hours. The juvenile justice system will not you will not be held for very long."
The shoplifters return with $500 to
$800 in clothes, Delaney said, and the
ringleader pays them $300 to $500 or
gives them drugs.
The boys have told police that their leader has threatened them with severe beattings if they don't meet quotas on each trip.
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