VOL. 59, NO. 9 , LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY,
Red Barn to sponsor
two dances as part of
Homecoming events
By KENN~TH HARDIN
News Editor
nover\lty of Louiwolle 'tuderot'
will have the option of attendong
two \Cpamte mver\ity· 'JX'"'nred
lfumecummg dance' dunn~ th"
car\ Town and Gown lc\tovuoc\ .
The Red Ram' executove ,raft
recently detidcd tn e'tabl i'h a 'cc­uml
d:once. whoch woll be held at
the Flam un Oct 24.
The traditional homecoming
gathenng will be held the -.moe
evening at Rcllarminc nove"ity.
ol' u'u~ol nll -campu' lncatoon
George Howe. the Bam' execu­tive
direl:tor. 'aid the nt!w ar­ro.
mgcmc:nt " tiC\IJ;ncU tu ac~nmu­datc
'tudcnl\' dolfcring nno,ocal
la\te\
A ti"c J<><: ~cy lmm WLOU. a
luc:ol 'nul ration \lallllll , will pro­votic
tnU\IC tor the Harn ti.once.
whole the Top 40 group The Swre
woll perform at Hcllarmme
"We arc lr) ong tn gove 'tudent'
a' mul:h cntcrtammcnl ~" \o\-C pu,,l
hly can." Howe 'aid "I w"h we
cou ld provode lor everyone' pref ­erence'
at nne locmoun . hut that
IU't "n t f"'"'hlc
The 'econd dance wa' proJX"ed
hy the Minority Programing Com­monee
. a 42-member student panel
which con, ult' with the Bam's ex­ecutive
staff concerning minority­orrentcd
actovitie,.
Cathy McElvaney , MPC c hair,
\aod the o mmittee's motivation
wa' to create a University function
which would e ncourage more mi­nority
stude nts to panici pate in
Humewming .
"It wa,n't a raci al thing; it was
mainly the music issue ," she said .
"Minori tie' usually don't get in­volveti
becau-.e of the music si tua­tion
We wanted to ~e t more mi­nnnty
people out and mvolved . •
Howe \aod he expect' M!veml ln­doviduab
woll read racial connota­lonn'
mto the two-dance arrange­ment.
but that \UCh implication'
would be ill -fo unded .
"People can take an inference.
hut that i' not what th is i' about ."
he 'aid . 'We are trying to respect
people\ la,te in entenainme nt and
govc them a choice. and nothing
cl,e.'
Howe noted that a number of
campu' organizations, including
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• ar 1 OCTOBER 15, 1987 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Staff photo by Tom Thompson
Digging in
Construction on the new Student Activi­ties
Center has begun in the Floyd Street
parking lot. As a res ult, a section of the
rest of I he lot has been closed off.
$32,000 in
hunger aid
raised by
relief walk
By TAMMY FREDETTE
Staff Writer
Over I .000 people Jomed to ""'e
$32.000 for local hunger relocf and
oversea' development dunng the
ninth annual Hunger Wal~ .
The 6 .2 mile wal~ on Ot:t. I I
wa' 'JX'"'ored by Louowolle llnotcd
Again' l Hunger. an intcrfao th
coalition of 13 area religiou~
groups .
"Early thi ' year we 'howell
Louiwi lle united to hnng the Prc'­byterian'
here. and in plannong thl\
walk we're hoping Ill -.how thut
Louiwille b united agJ'"''
hunger." 'aid Marolyn Mar~well .
co-chair of the event.
Funds rai,ed from thl\ year\
walk will be divoded between local
and ovef\ea' hunger reloel group'
Half of the fund' will he u'eti hy
Dare To Care. Inc .. a non prntit
organ o1.a11on that Jlrnvidc' emer­gency
fot><l in Louiwolle .
The other half will go Ill an Ox­fam
chicken-rai,ing proJeCt lor the
Indians of Bolivia , one of the
JXl<lrCSI South Amerkan countnc'
U of L AIDS policy emphasizes prevention, education
A LUAH brochure 'aid the ulto­mate
goal for the Rnlivoan projeCt
" ' ..elf-sufficiency' lnr the lndoan'
Through Dare To are. L AH
hopes to feed over !15 .000 people
this year. an increa\1.! from 10.000
in 19RO. LUAH need' tn 'crve
more people becau~c the c oty cut
over $ 1 million of human-need'
agencies' budget' due to a I"'' of
federal funds.
By GREGORY HARRIS
F eatures Editor
Though AIDS will koll an e'ti­mate<
l 220 people on the Uni ted
State' thi' week. \tu<lent' at the
Unover..oly nf Loui,ville are not de­fe"'
ele" again't the di,ea,e. ac­cnr<
ling to Kathy Wardrip. U of L's
hclllth an<l alcohol ctlucation coor­dinalllr.
Wartirip ,aitl the he't defcn'c
a~ain't Ac4uoreti Immune Dcfi­coency
Syndrome b education. and
the tudent Heu lth Service 'rand'
reatiy In he lp.
"What I m tindong " the more
people who knuw that we're here
and have re,uurce,. the more rc -
4UC\I\ were gcttong fmm all 'on'
of gmup' on campus .' Wardrop
\aid .
"I'm really plca,eti people are
"'king 4ue,toum. ,' \he said. "That',
the only way you can get the in­rnrmatinn
nut. ..
SHS making litemturc nn high-r
"~ grouP.s and safe sexual prac­tice'
avaolable is in accordance
wi th a set of guidel i ne ~ suggested
hy the American College Heuhh
A'MlCiation , which ha' been infor­mally
adopted as U of L's AIDS
JXllicy .
The guide lines call for an em­phasi'
on education. and suggest
ad miniMratio ns handle s tudent'
with AIDS on a case-by-case bas is.
T he ACHA said people infected
with the AIDS virus should not be
prevented from attending class or
living in a dormitory. nor should
universitie' imptlse screening pro­g
ram ~ .
The ACHA guidelines include
reminder\ on safe handling of con­taminated
needles and the confi­dentiality
of medical reJX>ns .
Wardrip said U of L recognizes
this confidentiality. The University
has no sc reenin~ program . not does
it '"k for medocal recortls of stu­dents
with AIDS.
• As fur a' we know. we have not
Alcoholics Anonymous
dispels misconceptions
during information fair
By BE Kl MILLER
Staff Writer
The Louiwollc chllpter uf Akn­holic'
Anonymnu' came h> the
Uno vcr"IY uf Louowille', Belknap
l.'~lll1PU' Tue,tiay tn d"pcl myth'
a\\llCiated wtth alcohol 1\m ami
AA.
'We r.: tryong to en loghtcn e'pe­coally
the 'tudent,. hut aJ,o the
pmfe"iunal people here of what
we an: not. " 'aitl rmnk. AA mem­her
anti coortionalnr nf the program
We want people tu know that
we are not a rclogiou' organitation .
not a pnlolocal nrganilalinn. he
\aoti . "II', ju't one alcnhnloc trying
tu he lp nut another alcuhnlic •
Fra n~ an<l ~mother memher.
Terry . organi1ed 11n tnt ormation
!otC"ion to 'pread th1' mt:,'iagc .
where they tii\CU\\cd the dl\ea..e nl
alcnholi,m .
• AA " "' ter the fact ." Fran~
'aod . • Member\ ' hare their experi ­ence'
with each other to try and
overcome their problem of alco­hnli,
m ."
Frank 'aid that the drinker is the
only nne who can determine if he
i' an alcoholic .
"That'' the thing about alco­hnll\
111. ot \ the unl~ self-diagnu..ed
di-ca,e ," he 'aid . If you came in
here wi th alcohol on your breath all
the tome . I could suspect you of it.
but I woulti not be able to tell you
that you are an alcoholic .'
AA offer\ a 'elf-examination to
pinr><1int warning 'ymptoms of al­cohol"
l11· 'uch a' the urge to drink
early in the morning.
One student attending the semi­nar.
Stcwan . said he was uncom­fnrtuhle
with some aspects of the
te't.
"Thi' te't . I don't know about
Mlme nl these questions. · he said .
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heard of anyone on campus who
has the vi rus. ' she said. ' That's not
to say no o ne has it: it has just not
come to our attention. The o nly
way we would know is if a student
volunteered that information .'
State law requires doctors to re­JX>
n A IDS cases to no one except
health officia ls in each county.
Ellen van Nagel. director of
health education and public infor­mation
for the Louisville and Jef­ferson
Coul)ty Board of Health .
'aid the state will notify others
about a person with a communica­ble
disease only if they are in im­mediate
danger.
Whether the state notifies others
i' largely dependent on the nature
of the disease. "Every disease has
its own rules." van Nagel said . "If
it is a disease that can be transmit­ted
through food, we might test
family members , and if they work
in the food service industry. we
might restrict them from working
with food. '
Information about people who
test JXlSitive for the AIDS viru'
remain' confidential becau-.e the
disease i' relatively difficult to
transmit. according Ill van Nagel.
Unlike c hicken JXlX or mnuenza.
AIDS i' not known In be 'pread
through casual contact.
Wardrip stressed that SHS's ma­jor
role on combatting AIDS i' to
provide information . "One day.
what we hope to have is a reMlurce
center set up for all kind. of infor­mation
on alcohol. drugs and AIDS
and sex ually tran~mitted diseuses.
where people can come in and look
at video' and browse through liter­ature
and ask questions." Wardrip
said .
She 'aid that providing informa­tion
to all of the high- ri sk groups is
difficult . however. She said people
who take illegal tirugs in­travenously
are among the fastest­growing
hogh-ri sk groups becoming
expt1sed to the AIDS viru>. but are
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For extra credit in her h ealth and wei/ness class, Andrea
Turner ta lks to an AA member in S tricker Aduitorium.
Medical School to offer top students guaranteed entry
By JAMES D. HINES
AssiUlJ:lt News Editor
The niver,ity of Louisville',
chuul of Medot:me has initiated a
prugram wh1ch will gmnt ten out ­Manding
high school graduates au­tomatoc
admi\\llln In the School.
The program. labelled Guaran­teed
Entrance onto Medical Sehoul.
wrll be offered to 4ualified mem­bers
of the class of 198R. accordmg
to David Wiegman. vice dean of
admis ion for the medical -.chool
GEMS rectpient must be Ken­tucky
citizeM. score 30 or higher
on the American o llege Test.
mu t have •raduated on th top five
percent of the or cla,s, and must
have Jette,... of recommendation
from h1gh school coun<;elors.
S10dent. who meet these re ­quirements
will appear before a
'creening committee which will
\elect the 10 GEMS recipients.
Once admitted to an undergradu­ate
coun.e of study at U of L,
Woegman said the students will
have to maintain at least a 3 .3
grade point average .
Before their admis. ion to medi­cal
, ·hool. the GEMS students will
have to JXISt above aventge scores
on the nat1onal Medical School
Aptitude Test and be interviewed
by an admission committee .
The motivation for the GEMS
program pol icy wa.~ the case of
high school graduate who turned
down two scholarships from U
of L on order to attend Washington
University in St. Loui , where he
had been offered automatic admis­sion.
Wiegman aid the program
would be ' good for the students
and good for the University , ' be­cause
it will give the best students
an extra reason for applying to U
of L for undergraduate study .
Although GEMS will not provide
students with undergraduate or
medical school scholarships.
Wiegman said the . tudents who
will be eligible will probably al­ready
be on sc holarships.
"GEMS doesn't allow for schol­arship'
in anyway ." he said. "But
the students which we will attract
would probably get them anyway,
and I assume that they would be
eliJiible, for medical school schol­arhlps.
Wiegman said a prime advantage
to the GEMS program for panici­pating
students is that they will
come into contact with the Medical
S hool fac ulty over four years as
an undergraduate student.
"The students will come into
medical school with a better unde r­standing
of medic ine as a career ."
he said. 'We would hopefully be
able to arrange some summer re­search
jobs for those students who
qualify.'
There are only 124 medical
school JXlSitions available hi ap­proximetly
265 applicant~ every
year, a cording to James Moore.
as~ociate dean for admissions.
"We've only taken 124 student;
for about the last five years, • saiJ
Moore. ' Roujlhly one-half of those
applying get rn . It's not as bad now
as it was in the mid 1970's, when
only one out-of-three were ac­cepted.
but its still tough.'
U of Lis one of only 15 medical
schools in the country to offer a
progr_am such as GEMS. according
to w,egman.
KATHY WARDRIP
Alcohol and Health
Education Coordinator
The Loui,ville Ta,k Force on the
Homeless wa' c ited in the brochure
as finding Loui,ville\ homelc"
JXIpulation to number over 3.500.
One-founh of Kentucky\ choldrcn
live below the JXlveny level.
' People think that it happen' Ill
somebody el~e. somewhere el,e ."
Sublett !>aid . ' It\ unbelievable . the
amount of hunger right here in
Loui sville. ·
People of all age,, intere''' and
religious denomination' walked
from the main entrance of the
Belknap Campus to the Relve<lere
and back .
' I think this say' a great deal
about the Louisville community 's
concern with hunger." said Rock
Axtell, direc tor of LUAH.
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U of L students march in
Washington to promote
equality for homosexuals
By GREGORY HARRIS
Features Editor
Students from the Univef\ity of
Loui,ville joi ned in a march l>Up­JXlning
e4ual right' fur gay' and
lesbians Sunday in Wa, hington .
D.
Greg Workman. co-chairman of
the Progre"ive Student>' League
who helped plan the stude nt,' par­ticipation
. ~a id he was delighted
with the number of people who
marched down Pennsylvania Av­e
nue from the E ll ip~e In the Capitol
building .
' It wa' like being at WoodMock
or !.omething." Workman \aid . "It
wa~ an amazing sea of people. •
Workman estimated the crowd at
650.000 and c hallenged news re­pons
which placed attendance fi g­ures
as low as 20.000.
'The media numbers 'eemed to
be e rroneoulo ,' Workman said .
"The official estimate at the march
wa' 650.000. and that i' much
closer to reality .' Cagle said the
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up to 750.000 .
Gay and Le,bian Student Union
trea!.urer Joe Cagle -.aod he wa'
also happy with the large tu rnout
"It was moving." Cagle -.aid "It
wa' abo a confidence htKI\tcr for
all of us who are work ong on the
local level .'
The marcher\ advocated a broad
agenda of MlCial reform. which.
according to Workman . wa' rc ­Oected
in the diver\e bac~groumh
of the marc her\ .
"The demand' stre"ed the unity
of this stryggle. the 'tnrggle fnr
legbian and gay equaloty. with the
struggle to end racl\m and 'exl\m
in general ." he said . For example.
the demands of the marcher\ on­eluded
an end to racism hoth at
home and an end hi apanheid in
South Africa . •
The marc he rs also advtlCated a
"massive increase" in funtiing for
research for a cure for Ac4uircti
Immune Deficiency Syndrome. ac-
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