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Thursday. November 1 9, 1987

Legislator, father of AIDS victim, presents blood-donor bill

By CHARLES WOLFE
Associated Press

FRANKFORT — A legislator
whose daughter allegedly was given
AlDScontaminated blood during
surgery presented a bill yesterday
that would make it a felony to allow
transfisions of untested blood.

Knowingly donating contaminated
blood also would be a Class D felo-
ny. punishable by one to five years
in prison, under the bill proposed for
the 1%8 General Assembly by Rep.
Paul Mason, D-Whi tesburg.

“This measure is not directed at
the majority of the medical profes-

sion," but at “those few who bla-
tantly disregard life and health and
safety," said Mason, who appeared
with his daughter, Belinda Mason,
before the interim joint Health and
Welfare Committee.

Belinda Mason. 29. and her hus-
band, Steve Carden, have filed a $10
million federal lawsuit against the
Regional Medical Center of Hopkim
County in Madisonville.

She allegedly received a transfu-
sion tainted with the virus for ac-
quired immune deficiency syndrome

on Jan. 17, following the birth of the
couple‘s second child, a son.

The transfusion followed an unusu-
ally rugged delivery in which Ms.
Mason’s uteris ruptured. She suf-
fered a stroke, lapsed into a coma
and was temporarily paralyzed. The
suit contends that, although her
plight was an emergency, the do-
nated blood had been in storage long
enough to have been tested.

“Belinda’s story is one of horror
—- should never have happened,”
Mason told the committee.

Mason’s bill, which also would
apply to organs for transplant, cov-
ers the spectrum of health-care fa-
cilities, including blood banks, nurs-
ing homes and hospitals. It would
make administrators of the facilities
responsible for the purity of blood
and organ supplies.

The bill provides an exemption
when death or serious injury is im-
minent and no tested blood or organ
is available. It also makes allow-
ances for people donating their own
blood in advance of surgery — an in-

 

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Home economics more than just sewing

By MONICA CLARK
Contributing Writer

Contrary to popular belief, there
are some home economics students
who never sew a stitch and never
concoct a single casserole dish.

“Unfortunately, because many
people's only experience with home
economics is through junior high or
middle school or high school, they
tend to think that we are the same,"
said Sarah Henry, assistant dean of
the College of Home Economics.
“What we do at the college level is
not like it is at the high school
level,“ Henry said. “At the college
level, we are more specialized. "

Several specialized programs 0
crate under the home economi
umbrella: housing and interior de-
sign; individual and family devel-
opment; applied child development;
vocational home economics educa-
tion; dietetics; food service; human
nutrition; family resource manage-

 

“When I teach home
economics in junior
and senior high, I will
be discussing issues
such as AIDS with
kids.”

Rolando Littrell,

UK graduate

ment; and consumer studies and
merchandising, apparel and textiles.

Home economics or domestic sci-
ence. as it used to be called, was
first incorporated into UK's curric-
ulum under the College of Agricul-
ture in 1910, according to a history
of thecollege.

Since the University‘s first two
home economics majors graduated
in 1917, the program has undergone
tremendous change.

In 1910, a home economics major
would take courses primarily re-
lated to the home, but could take
some agricultural offerings as well.

Today a home economics student
might learn to design nutritionally
sound menus for hospitals and
schools, collaborate with architects
to create an office environment that
is both functional and aesthetically
pleasing or design and manage pro-
duction in a textiles factory.

The photos on Henry‘s office wall
offer a chronological progression of
home economics since 1913. For ex-
ample, the mock wedding receptions
once required of students have been
replaced by the more science-
oriented studies of nutrition and di-
etetics.

“We have gone from generalists to
specialists in order to meet the
needs of society," said Henry, who
is a graduate of the UK College of
Home Economics.

Rolanda Littrell, an interior de-

Balloons launched at game Saturday
to help fund arthritis foundation

By EVAN SI LVERS’I‘EIN
Staff Writer

There will be something special in
the air at Commonwealth Stadium
Saturday.

The Bluegrass branch of the Ar»
thritis Foundation plans to release
atom balloons before the UK-Ten-
nesseegame.

The balloom are part of a fund-
raising effort by the Arthritis Foun-
dation to strike a blow against the
crippling disease. .which
afflictsnearly 500,000 Kentuckians of
all aga. This event will end the
foundation‘s Up and Away with Ar-
thritis campaign.

This branch of the foundation of-
fers assistance to 35,000 Fayette
Oomty residents who have the dis-
ease which attacks and inflames

joints, causing swelling, stiffness
and pain.

The balloons, symbolic of the thou-
sands of Fayette County residents
with arthritis, can be purchased
with a $1 donation.

Proceeds will go to the foundation
for expanding scientific research
and upgrading patient services.

UK's 37 fraternities and sororities
and the UK athletic committee have
teamed up to help in the fight. Other
contributors include The Kroger
Company, the Hyatt Regency and
Uniglobe Bluegrass Travel Agency.

Lexington Mayor Scotty Baesler.
in honor of the campaign. has wo-
claimed Saturday as Up. Up and
Away. . .wtth Arthritis Day

"I am very pleased that we are
goim up, up and away with artfri~

tis,“ said Carol Abuzant, coordina-
tor of the project.

“We surpassed our goal from last
year . .. and are very pleased that
the 20,000 balloons that are launched
will benefit 35,000 people in Fayette
County with arthritis.“ she said.

Another goal of the fund-raiser is
to increase public awareness and ed-
ucate the public, Abuzant said.
“Many people have misconception
that only the elderly have arthritis.
but this is not true," she said. “We
have a girl 22-years-old (who volun-
teers here). She has rheumatoid ar—
thritis which is very serious. “

Lisa Folks. a junior speech, lan-
guage and pathology major, has
rheumatoid artll’it‘is. She said that it
is important to "let people know
that there is an artll'itis founda-
tion."

sign graduate, said the program has
grown even since she graduated in
1977.

Littrell, who is planning to return
to UK next fall to pursue a vocatio-
nal home economics education de-
gree, said the changes in society
have mandated the change in home
economics.

“When I teach home economics in
junior and senior high, I will be dis-
cussing issues such as AIDS with
kids," she said. “There are some
important topics discussed in home
economics now."

The shift in American values has
placed more responsibility on
schools to teach social issues. In
many schools, home economies has
become the primary vehicle through
which young people learn about is-
sues such as corsumer education,
food and nutrition, abuse, forming
and maintaining family
relationships, career preparation
and the changing roles of men and
women in society.

“I think every high school student
should be required to take at least
one home economics class," Littrell
said. “Moms are working nowadays
and have little time to teach kids
these basic skills that everyone will
needeventually."

Carol Byrne. a merchandising. ap-
parel and textiles senior, hopes peo-
ple will realize the importance of
home economics.

“People who state that home eco
nomies is unnecessary are pe0ple
who are very short-sighted and unin-
formed about what (home econom-
ics) can do." Byrne said. "It's un-
fortunate that home economics ever
got the stigma of stitching and sew-
ing."

The College of Home Economics
currently has 504 students enrolled,
91 percent ofwhom are women.

Byrne would like to dispel the
image' of home economics as a field
of study primarily for women who
wanttobehomernakers.

“Afta‘ graduation I'll have the
training to do jut about anything I
want," Byme said.

crleasingly popular option in hospi-
ta 5.

“We've been lulled into a false
sense of security about (the safety
of > the blood supply," Mason told re-
porters after the committee meet-
ing. “I was the girl next door. I was
living in small-town America. . . . If
it can happen to me, it can happen
to you."

Mason, a former newspaper re-
porter who also has a 4-yearold
daughter, said she is infected with
the AIDS virus, but has not been di-
agnosed with the disease.

She also said she had “unbounded
hope" that a cure would be found for
AIDS, adding: “I don‘t think I‘ll die
of AIDS."

The bill was approved by the in-
terim joint committee for prefiling
in the 1988 General Assembly, which
convenes in January. That potential-
ly gives the bill greater weight.

Finding she had been infected
with AIDS was like “a terrible. ter~
rible nightmare. she said, but
"we're not quitlcrs As long as
there's something we can do. we‘ll
do it."

SGA to publish
its evaluations

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Staff Writer

The Student Government Associa-
tion unanimously passed a proposal
last night to publish teacher evalua-
tions by students.

“This is the most important thing
we‘ve done all year and probably
the most important thing we will do
for the rest of the year." said SGA
President Cyndi Weaver. ”It‘s some-
thing SGA has talked about for a
long time."

Teacher evaluation forms will be
handed out to students in the first
week of December. Teachers will be
ranked from “poor” to “superior,"
based on the instructor‘s commu-
nication skills, knowledge of subject,
concern for the students and
fairness. The results will be pub-
lished before the Fall 1988 registra-
tion next spring.

“We’re doing it for the students.
not as a vendetta against teachers."
said Carl Baker, principle sponsor of
the bill and a member of the Aca-
demic Affairs Committee. “I've had
favorable comments from students.
I think they will be glad to get
these."

Baker said he hopes to make an-
nual publications of evaluations to
aid students in choosing professors.

“I think students will be support»
ive of this and really use it." said
Senator at Large Linda Bridwell.
“Students need to know these things
so they can gauge the classes."

Baker said he intends to target
about 15,000 undergraduates by pro-
viding evaluation forms in the resi-
dence halls. fraternities. sororities
and Greg Page Apartments. He has
not decided how to reach offcampus
students.

Weaver was especially pleased
with the bill's unammous approval
because it was part of her presi-
dential platform.

“I‘m ecstatic," she said. “I feel
like we're making ground toward
fulfilling our promises."

CYNDI WEAVER

In other business. the senate:

' Passed a resolution to create two
"free" days prior to finals by a 264
rollcall vote. In a recent survey.
69.6 percent of students polled rc-
sponded favorably to the proposal
However, opponents of free days
have said it would cause scheduling
conflicts that would interfere with
sorority rush in the week prior to
the fall semester.

- Allocated 82.000 to the Lexington
Community (‘ollcgc student body
Initially. $1.000 had been asked for.
but LCC Senator ('hris Esstd said
more funds were needed to provide
more services to LCC students.

“LCC is part of I'K. and we should
make them feel like they are.“ said
Senator at Large Penny Peavler

LC-"T students' ccs account for $4.—
450 of SGA‘S budget. but “they don't
benefit from a lot of what we do,"
Weaver said.

0 Approved a bill that established
three $1.000 scholarships. The schol
arships, provided by SGA. will be
based on academic standing. lead-
ership contribution and financial
aid.

House, Senate reps.
reach compromise

By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House and Sen-
ate negotiators forged a bipartisan
arms control compromise yesterday
which they said will maintain the
strategic nuclear balance between
the United States and the Soviet
Union while giving President Rea-
gan maximum flexibility in critical
arms talks with Moscow.

The agreement smoothed the way
to the accord on a defense bill pro
viding up to $296 billion in spending
authority for the current fiscal year.
The Senate and Home will be asked
to ratify the measure later this
week.

There had been widespread re-
ports that President Reagan would
veto the bill if it reached his desk in
the more radical version originally
adopted by the Home. But epublican
members said they now expect Rea-
gan tosign it.

The authorization bill contains two
alternate spending levels designed
to allow for budget cuts in military
spending expected to be made by
the on-going deficit reduction meet-
ing.

Sharp cuts on the military side of
the bucket ledger would result in a
spendirg authority of m billion;

.ess severe reductions would pro-
duce a $296 billion level.

The arms control provisions were
by far the most controversial and
disputed elements of the measure.
especially in light of continuing talks
on reducing US. and Soviet strateg-
ic nuclear-armed missiles and next
month's summit meeting here be»
tween Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev.

In essence, the compromise is in-
tended to produce continued US.
compliance with the general limits
and restrictions set by the Anti-Bal-
listic Missile Treaty and the unrati-
fied SALT II treaty without harming
the US. negotiating position.

"I believe we reached a fair and
balanced package of agreements in
the arms control area,“ said Sen.
Sam Nunn, D—Ga., chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Committee.
“This package fully preserves the
prerogatives of Congress to control
the power of the purse while also
giving the president needed flexibili-
ty as the negotiations on START
(Strategic Arms Reduction Talks)
and defense and space reach a crit-
icalstage."

The administration had requested
$4.5 billion which the Home reduced
to ”.2 billion. The conference
agreedonaflsbillionprice tag.