University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 6, 1991
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Herpes has not been forgotten by the many who suffer from its effects
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
Herpes may have faded from recent conversations, but it has not faded from affecting people.
"We see a lot of cases of herpes," said Henry Buck, gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center. "We have a high incidence of Papillomavirus (and Chlamydia."
Candyce Waitley, educator of the health education department at Watkins, said about 80 percent of the population was exposed to the herpes
virus by the time of adulthood. But only 15 to 30 percent had an outbreak of herpes.
Kathy Guth, charge nurse for the Douglas County Health Department's child and STD clinic, said an outbreak consisted of lesions or sorbs in a person's genital or mouth area. It can sometimes be painful, but if it is difficult or visible, the person might not realize the outbreak is occurring.
The frequency of outbreaks depends on the individual.
"Some people have it and don't have any symptoms for a long time." Guth said. "Some people's bodies can come out." They may not have any outbreaks."
Even though some might not have
an outbreak, they still could have the virus, she said. The virus can be dormant inside a person's body for years.
"Anytime that there is just a change going on, that can activate it," she said.
Stress, tiredness and a menstrual cycle are some of the changes that can activate the herpes virus, she said.
where the outbreak occurred. But the outbreak might not always be visible.
Buck said medication could be used to reduce the length of an outbreak and also decrease the number that occur.
Buck also stressed the prevention of the virus itself. The combined use of a condom and a spermicide containing nonoxynol-9 is a way to greatly reduce the risk of contraction.
Waitley said exposure to the virus did not mean a person would contract
herpes.
"If you kiss someone with herpes, you're not necessarily going to get her," she said. "If you have sex with someone you're not necessarily going to get it."
Guth said that because herpes was a virus, it could be contracted anywhere on the body where there was an opening in the skin.
"It can be gotten anywhere," she said. "It doesn't have to be sexual contact."
Slow but steady
Alp Tiritoul, Istanbul, Turkey, senior, tests out his new mode of transportation, 'Copperhead,' a project for his Advanced Problems and Design class. Trittoulgo and Kim Hedden, Thayer, Mo., senior, built the machine and tested it yesterday near the Art and Design Building. Victor Papanek, professor of architecture and urban design, said his students were asked to build a mode of transportation that did not have wheels and did not require its operator to touch the ground.
Water fight still simmering
Steamed residents want better service
Kansan staff writer
By Vanessa Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
Tenants of a Lawrence mobile home park may soon have the water pressure that they have been fighting for.
Lawrence city officials said last night that they would arrange a meeting between the tenants association of Green Acres Mobile Home Park with E. 23rd St, and its landlord. The water on main lines would be turned on.
City workers installed the 3-inch main lines in the park last week to increase water pressure. However, residents complained last night at the City Commission meeting that the stations still had not been installed.
"As of tonight there's still no water," said Bill Carter, member of the Green Acres Mobile Home Park Tenants Association. "We invite you to the trailer park to take e firsthand look at the progress."
Members of the tenants association not only decried the lack of water pressure but also criticized the commission for not responding to their pleas at the Jan. 8 commission meeting.
However, Rod Bremby, assistant city manager, said the city staff had met with Wade and Joann Qandil, landlords of the mobile home park, several times since Jan. 8 to arrange the installment of the new lines.
"You just threw us out on the road like a dead cat." Carter said.
Bremby said that the lines were ready to be used but that the Qandils had said it was the tenants' responsibility to notify the city water department to hook up to the lines.
According to city staff reports, the previous 1-inch main lines had not provided enough water pressure for the mobile homes. Tenants complained that they sometimes had enough water sometimes to wash clothes or take showers.
Bremby contended that the Qandils were responsible because the city had an account only with the Qandils and not with individual tenants.
Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith said that although the city did not have any legal authority to force the Qandilis to install the water meters, it would arrange a meeting to resolve the dispute as soon as possible.
Discriminatory article incites area leaders
The problem escalated Jan. 21 when the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department advised residents not to drink the water because the lack of pressure could induce the growth of bacteria.
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
The last time Marilyn Bread saw her son Christopher was in church.
"Mama, I'm going to live a good life," he said.
But he didn't get to.
But he didn't get to Christopher Bread's body was found March 19, 1990, about a mile east of Lawrence on 15th Street.
"I hold the city officials responsible for allowing the destruction of our children. Where is the justice?" Marilyn said to about 45 people at a news conference yesterday at Haskell Indian Junior College.
The press conference was conducted in response to an article written by police representative Chris Mulvenon for a recent issue of the Kansas Fraternal Order of Police magazine.
In the article, Mulvenon wrote that a Wall Street Journal reporter came to Lawrence to inquire about the deaths of several American Indians in Lawrence and Douglas County. The reporter concluded in her article that the killings possibly were committed by a serial killer.
"But, if there was a serial murderer, by God, that reporter is ready with her shocking, riveting, never-to-be believed best seller," Mulvenon notes. "Only evidence pointing to serial in the deaths was cereal malt beverage."
Bread said the police should not assume that her son Christopher, 19, was a drunk.
"You don't know my son," she said.
Bread said the news media never mentioned that the American Indians who had died mysteriously since 1880 made contributions to their communi-
"They were fine young men," she said. "Publicly you have destroyed them. My son cannot be helped now, but you can help other young Indian men and women. You can stop labeling them as drunk Indians."
Community response
American Indian Deaths Under Investigation
Daniel Wildcat, president of the Lawrence Indian Center, organized the news conference to get answers to Mulvenon's article.
John Sandoval, 19- body found in Kansas River in April 1989.
"There is no room for racial prejudice within our public institutions." Wiladat said in a prepared statement. "Yet, time and time again, the law has not abolit unwittingly, that we have just such a problem in Lawrence."
Representatives from the Lawrence City Commission, Lawrence's Jewish Community Center, the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Kickapoo tribe, the Gila Indians, the Lepidophron and the Haskell Student Senate also issued prepared statements.
Cecil Dawes Jr., 21-body found in Kansas River in October 1989
Steve Cadue, tribal chairperson for the Kickamoon tribe in Kaapsa, said
Christopher Bread, 19-body found a mile east of Lawrence on 15th Street on March 2. 1990.
Indian death unsolved investigation continues
By Mike I. Vargas
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has been investigating the death of Christopher Bread for more than a year.
About 1 a.m. on March 2, 1990.
Bread's body was found east of
Lawrence on 15th Street, according
to sheriff's records.
Last April, the sheriff's office requested assistance from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Sherif Loren Anderson said.
"We were running into a stone wall." Anderson said.
In the beginning of December, KBI suggested that the sherriff's office should interview people and ask more questions, he said.
In the middle of December, KBI offered assistance by placing four agents on the investigations of the three American Indians, he said.
Three officers from the sheriff's office and one officer from the
Lawrence police also are investigating the three deaths, he said.
There was a setback in the investigations because it was hard to contact people during the Christmas vacation, he said.
In January, a collision expert from the Kansas Highway Patrol constructed a hit-and-run scene from the Bread case, he said.
"We were able to generate some new leads," Anderson said.
In addition, the sheriff's office contacted Harvey Pratt, an artist with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation, he said.
Pratt interviewed the reporting parties and provided sketches of two people who were seen with a moped in the area where Bread's body was found, Anderson said. The two subjects presently are not suspects, but authorities want to talk to them for more information.
"Since then we have been devoted to continue to follow up on individuals," he said. "We have worked with the case and are still working on it."
"What the hell is happening in Lawrence, Kansas?" he asked.
race definitely was involved in the deaths of the American Indians.
Cadue said American Indians would not want to send their children to Haskell if something was not done.
Leo Barbee, vice president of the Ecumenical Fellowship, said the University of Kansas had seen a diminishing number of African-Americans returning because of racial problems.
"It will happen at Haskell if something is not done," he said.
Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith said the article was insensitive, inappropriate and unacceptable.
"We apologize for the article, which appeared in a recent issue of Kansas Police magazine," she said. "I think we were wrong about the community so much concern."
comment.
Mulvenon was unavailable for
Ann Weck, dean of social welfare and chairperson of the Lawrence Community Task Force on Racism, Discrimination and Human Diversity, said it was gathering information to ensure proper steps were taken.
"When circumstances like this occur, it is typical to claim that the remarks were unintentional and reflected no attitude of discrimination," she said. "However, the very act you do not realize the damage your remarks or actions have inflicted on another individual or group."
Bob Martin, president of Haskell,
said, "The loss of a child is unspeakable for any parent. For parents not knowing how their child died, this grief remains constant and insurmountable."