University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 18, 1988
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AIDS testing is free to all Education is priority
By Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
Although free AIDS testing for high-risk persons has been available through the Douglas County Department of Health for more than a year, now anyone can be tested.
Kay Kent, head of the health department, said that more money became available in February from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which allowed Douglas County to test anyone who requested the test for the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS.
Ann Alnor, a health department nurse, said that a grant from the Center for Disease Control in Chicago would allow state health department, also helped.
Allor said that last year the high-risk persons being tested in the study were mainly homosexual and bisexual men, and intravenous drug users.
Ailor said that she hated to put people in groups, but it was impossible not to classify people in groups when dealing with AIDS.
"We're zeroing in on high-risk
groups," she said.
The main purpose that the test serves is education, she said. If people test positive for the AIDS virus, they can seek medical care. If people test negative, they usually end up changing their sexual behavior to lower their risk factors.
AIDS testing at the health department is free and done by appointment only. Only first names and ages are used.
Testing includes a counseling session that includes information on how AIDS is transmitted and prevented, an explanation of the test and results, and an explanation of how risk factors can be reduced.
A blood sample is drawn, and after 10 days, the person tested must come back to the health department to get the results in person.
If a person tests positive for the virus, the person is counseled by health department and referred to a physician.
"It's a pretty big emotional upset when you're told that," Ailor said. "We make sure they have someone to talk to."
Movie on street gangs draws protests, crowds
By Kevin Dilmore
DeEllen Holt, a homeless mother from Kansas City, Mo., explains the needs of the homeless to KU architecture students.
Kansan staff writer
The film "Colors" opened Friday in 425 theaters nationwide amid protests in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York. But according to area theaters, the only color in front of box offices for the street-gang drama was the color of money.
Theaters showing the film in the Kansas City area reported sell-out crowds and long lines without violence or protest.
The film did not open in Lawrence because of previous booking agreements, said Elden Harwood, city manager of Commonwealth Theaters. Instead, "Colors" will open this weekend, and Harwood he did not expect any abnormal reaction to the film.
The film has drawn mixed reactions from critics and film makers. Some law enforcement officials and members of the Guardian Angels claim the film will incite violence and glorify street gangs. But Hopper and executives of Orion Pictures, the film's distributor, call "Colors" an honest and socially responsible portrayal of the street gang problem.
"Colors" stars Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as members of the Los Angeles Police Department's antigang CRASH unit. Members of two real-life rival gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, served as extras and technical advisers for the film, which was directed by Dennis Hopper.
Heather Mathews, Overland Park junior and employee of the Oak Park Plaza Theaters, said that Friday and Saturday night showings of "Colors" had sold out. But Mathews said the crowds were not unruly.
"It was just your typical Johnson County movie crowd," she said.
Dick Walsh, divisional vice president of American Multi-Cinemas, said there had been no negative reaction to "Colors" over the weekend at AMC Theaters in Kansas City or St. Louis.
Students work on homeless shelter
"What's happened here is that a movie that would have grossed $20 million has turned into a $40 million picture because of all the media hype," he said.
New design will include place to play
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wilheimima Whats wanted a place where her two children could play during the winter months.
The Salvation Army Headquarters, where she and her two sons are living until Whats finds a job has no indoor play area.
With the help from 12 KU architectural students who are designing living space for 20 families at the Salvation Army Headquarters, 101 W. Linwood Blvd. in Kansas City, Mo., children such as What's could have a place indoors to play within two years.
"You can't make children sit still because it's raining or cold out," Wilimera told a few of the architecture students, who listened to the needs of several homeless people at the headquarter. "They need a place to run around when it's not nice outside."
The students are enrolled in a fifth-year design studio, taught by Dennis Sander, associate professor of architecture and urban design. They are redesigning the third floor of the headquarters to comfortably accommodate about 100 homeless people, which is 60 more people than it already holds. The studio also is redesigning a two-story building at 18th and Prospect streets in Kansas City, Mo., to accommodate about 60 homeless individuals.
The designs should be completed bv Anril 30.
The Kansas City project is part of the American Institute of Architects" "Search for Shelter", a national program designed to bring architecture students, education and community members together to address the issue of homelessness, said Ted Pappas, president of the AIA.
Pappas said that about 30 cities were participating in the program, with more than 650 members of American Institute of Architecture Students, 150 AIA members and 350 community members. He said that nine projects were at or near construction stage.
John Churchill, the Salvation Army director of social services for Kansas and western Missouri, said that allowing the KU design team to use the facilities for learning helped the homeless express some specific concerns about the
With 12 KU architecture students designing living space for 20 families at Salvation Army Headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., homeless people's children could play indoors in two years.
"Certain basic human needs like privacy between rooms, confidentiality and not allowing the public
building
to walk through are on the list," said Churchill, who was asked by Sander in mid-January to participate in the project. "We want to compromise so we have the best of both worlds. Just because people are poor, doesn't mean they have in live crudely places."
Churchill said that the headquarters building would house families for up to three months.
A member of the design team asked one of the homeless what improvements could be made to them in the building more comfortable.
son from Kansas City, Mo., said that the rooms had inadequate space for clothes and needed drawers and more storage space.
Sander said that each family would have a room with several beds and a room to be used for sitting and reading.
"We want to make it as comfortable as we can without spending a great deal of money," he said.
Mary Antonio, a homeless per-
Sander said that with the financial assistance from area AIA chapters, the Salvation Army, area businesses and the technical department of area AIA chapters, the designs could be built in 18 months.
Curfew and old times are topics at Miller reunion
Rv Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
A lot of things have changed in Miller Scholarship Hall since 1937 when the only way Esther Tippin Laidig was allowed to descend the hall's main staircase was to go to a formal dance with her date, John.
John has become her husband since, and the main staircase no longer is reserved for use only on special occasions. Many of Miller's 49 residents walked up and down the staircase several times this weekend as they took Laidig and about 200 other women around the hall they all had lived in at one time or another in the past 50 years.
Laidig, a 1941 graduate, traveled from Holmdel, N.J., to celebrate the
hall's 50th anniversary this weekend. She was one of the 39 women who moved into the hall when it opened in those 39 call themselves the originals.
Eunice Neilson Bruce, a 1941 graduate, was also one of the originals and Laidig's roommate. The two women said they had enjoyed sharing memories about their time in Miller and attending the reunion activities.
Katie Shea, Shawnee Mission senior, helped coordinate the weekend, which included open house all weekend, a brunch Saturday morning and a dinner and dance Saturday evening. Shea said the entire weekend took a year to put together and cost about $7,000.
"It's been really great," said Shea. "Some of the stories that we have heard have been incredible."
Many of the current residents said they were surprised when they discovered that first lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Miller in October, 1940.
Bruce, who got to meet Roosevelt,
said they all were upset because the first lady said she wanted to see how underprivileged girls lived.
"Naturally, we were upset," Bruce said. "We didn't have a lot of money, but we didn't consider ourselves underprivileged."
Laura Holsh McGuirre, a 1941 graduate, she also had upset by the commissary.
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McGuire said that because of the
When the porch light flashed at 11 p.m. on Saturday nights, women would jump out of cars parked all along the street and head for Miller's front door.'
- Mary Thrapp Reele
1970 KU graduate
1970 KU graduate
lack of money, many of the women living in the halls had to work to make extra money.
McGuire said she paid $6 a month in kitchen fees to live in the hall and her four years at the University cost $1,325, including tuition, books and
travel expenses between school and her home.
The numbers that most of the women seemed to remember, though, did not have to do with tuition fees. The girls concerned what time their curfew were.
Mary Thrapp Reele, a 1970 graduate, said she remembered sitting in her date's car on Lilac Lane in front of the house, waiting for the porch light to flash at 11 p.m. on Saturday nights to signal closing hour.
Reele said that after the porch light flashed, women would jump out of cars parked all along the street and head for Miller's front door.
Anne Siemens Hula, a 1951 graduate, said she remembered climbing up the fire escape because she had
missed closing hours and was locked out of the house.
"When you have some rules, you can have some fun breaker," they say.
Hula said she was surprised that the women who now live in Miller didn't have a curfew.
"But then again, they don't even have a housemother. They have a housefather," she said, referring to the hall's male director.
However, one thing hasn't changed, past and current residents sai
"The pride and prestige of living in a scholarship hall, especially Miller, never changes," Hula said.
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