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Wednesday, January 16, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Condoms available in residence halls
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Photo illustration by Michelle L. Myers/KANSAN
Condoms now are available in campus residence halls for 50 cents for a box of three from vending machines, such as this one in McCollum Hall.
There is a new item between the Grandma's fudge chocolate-chip and oatmeal cookie in the kitchen of Selields Pearson-Corbin Hall.
By inserting 50 cents and pressing button "F2," residents now can receive a box of three Sheik Elite spermicidal, lubricated condoms.
GSP-Corbin is not alone. As of last week, machines in all KU residence halls now have condoms available for sale
For nearly four years, Student Senate has encouraged the University of Kansas to make condoms widely available on campus, said Mike Schreiner, student body president.
The idea of condoms in residence hall vending machines is modeled after a similar program at the University of Minnesota, Schreiner said. Last year, Senate passed a resolution urging the University to study and implement a program like Minnesota's.
"We are very pleased and excited that the resolution the Student Senate passed in April is being implemented. Schreiner said, "The student who who don't realize that ADS is prevalent among college students."
Bob Derby, KU concessions man-
aer, said his department operated vending machines for the Kansas Union. The Union buys the condiments at Walktown Memorial Health Center.
Cathy Thrasher, a pharmacist at Watkins, said Watkins would continue to sell three Sheik Elite condoms for 50 cents.
The question of KU's liability if the condoms should fail was discussed last year, Derby said.
"The liability would go back to
Some students were not sure whether residents would buy condoms from the machines.
the manufacturer, similar to any other product," he said.
Ken Baker, St. Louis freshman, said that some people might be too shy to use the machines.
"It depends on the way people are," Baker, an Ellsworth Hall resident, said. "But even if they get much use, it is a good idea."
Federal grant will expand AIDS info in area schools
Information also expected to benefit other local groups
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence is the site of a disease control center that will serve eight counties and provide AIDS information and materials to area schools.
The center, one of eight AIDS resource centers in Kansas, is at the offices of the Douglas County Citizens' Committee on Alcoholism, 2200 25th St. DCCCA is a substance abuse prevention and treatment center.
The Centers for Disease Control, a federal agency, has given DCCCA an $11,000 one-year grant to finance the grant. The grant period began in August.
Peggy Till, center coordinator, said that the regional resource center would localize AIDS education and offer the special needs of area schools.
"For this type of function, the state has a catalog that all schools can order from," she said. "But having a success and makes things run smoother."
Till said that the challenge for the Lawrence region would be to offer the right materials for both urban
'People don't want to believe that we have AIDS in Kansas and in Lawrence.'
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas president
- Karen Cook
and rural schools.
"Different regions have different needs," she said. "But we do have urban schools such as Topeka and rural schools where people might have a set of different values. So we have to balance our materials."
The grant will allow the center to give area schools video tape, pamphlets, computer software and other materials based on surveys from public and private schools. Till said, the materials will not be distributed until fall.
"We've sent out needs assessments to schools and gotten many back," she said. "Then we'll have the advisement, and approve the assessments and approve any purchases."
The panel includes representatives from each of the eight counties the resource center serves. The counties include Boca Raton, Miami, Linn, Osage, Anderson and
Coffey.
Karen Cook, president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said she was glad regional resource centers were focusing on local AIDS issues.
"It's been a long time coming," she said. "People don't want to believe that we have AIDS in Kansas and in Lawrence. This will help."
Cook said GLSOK would examine the materials the resource center would offer.
"We're always in the market for updated information on AIDS," she said.
Till said that although the center was established to give materials to schools, other groups and services would be welcome to use its library.
Researcher fighting to uphold confidentiality of AIDS research participants
"We're initially targeted for public and private schools, but the materials all will be available to everyone." The library is one of the library available to all groups.
The Associated Press
DENVER — A scientist trying to find a cure for AIDS is struggling to keep the identities of those who are participating in his research from state officials, who want the information to help spread the disease.
Researcher Robert T. Schooley has refused to comply with a law that requires him to turn over to the state health department the names of patients who are taking part in work on experimental AIDS drugs.
Under Colorado law, physicians and other health-care providers must report the names of people who test for COVID-19. They also must report the health department. Failure to
comply with the law is a petty offense punishable by up to a $300 fine.
Schooloy, chief of the infectious diseases department at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, heads an AIDS drug research program established as part of a nationwide network financed by the National Institutes of Health.
Launched in August, Schooley's study has fewer than 50 patients. It focuses on experimental drugs that attack AIDS and that may impede the spread of the HIV virus that usually leads to AIDS. One of the drugs is ddf, dideoxyinsoine, an antiviral drug.
Schooley maintains that the participants' right to confidentiality could
be breached if their names were logged into a state computer.
"Although the health department does a very good job of maintaining confidentiality, people say, 'Good grief, what if somebody gets those names?' What effect could it have on me?" Scholey said last week.
"I don't think it's appropriate for names of individuals in research studies, just by virtue of being in a research study, to be subject to being identified to the state. It's an issue of mutuality of research records." he said.
Colorado Department of Health officials say they need the names to help them track the disease, find people who could be infected and stop
its spread.
They note the state computer is self-contained — not linked to a telephone line or a modem — and is kept in a highly secure room.
The argument that names could be accessed is "like the sun won't come up tomorrow argument," said Fred Updike of department's AIDS testing program.
In addition, state law prevents health department employees from disclosing the names under penalty of jail for $5,000 fine and up to 24 months in jail.
The debate about whether the patient's rights to protect his or her identity should take priority over the public health agency's right to inform-
mation to help control the spread of AIDS has smoldered for years.
Scholey's actions could well bring it to a head.
Schooley has asked the National Institute of Health to seek a certificate of confidentiality from the Department of Health and Human Services that would allow him to keep patients' names secret legally.
Rayford Kyle, deputy news director for HHS' Public Health Service, said Schooloy's request was under consideration. The final decision will be made by Louis Sullivan, but officials were not sure when the decision would come.
was launched in the 1970s to protect the identities of drug and alcohol abusers and mental health patients who wanted help but feared repercussions from law enforcement agencies.
Wolf said the certificate program
About two dozen states require some kind of report on the identities of AIDS and HIV patients, Schooloy said, though some of the states exempt research participants from the reporting requirement.
Last spring, Colorado lawmakers ordered the health department to open a clinic in Denver that offers anonymous testing, a loophole into which Schooley hopes to fit his program.
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