4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 2, 1987 Residence hall staff receives AIDS training By ELIZABETH ATKINS University resident hall staff are for the first time being trained to deal with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. "It's important to discuss the myths and establish a good, honest awareness about AIDS," said John Heidke, associate director for Housing Education. All resident staff attended a two- hour inservice last August to prepare them for this year's students and the growing AIDS panic. Jim Potter, a Rackham graduate student and resident director at East Quad, said the inservice gave him a thorough education about the disease. "It educated our staff to deal with the worries and rumors about AIDS," Potter said. Although resident staff were not trained to diagnose or treat the disease, Potter said the inservice prepared them with valuable resources to which they could direct students concerned about AIDS. Potter said he has not dealt with any students with AIDS. Polly Paulson, an AIDS education coordinator and health educator at University Health Ser - vices, said she conducts hour-long AIDS workshops in residence halls at the request of resident staff. She has conducted workshops in Mary Markley hall and Baits housing, and has been requested to do several more. In her AIDS workshops, Paulson shows a 20-minute film called "Sex, Drugs, and AIDS," distributes "safe sex" brochures, and holds a lengthy question-and-answer session. Paulson said 14 cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in Washtenaw County, but that number could be higher if students or other residents are diagnosed by doctors in other counties or states. Only one University student has been diagnosed with the disease. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports Veto affects Michigan roads WASHINGTON - The $88 billion highway and mass transit bill that was vetoed by President Reagan contains the $312 million a year in long-awaited dollars for highway construction and improvement; projects in Michigan. Planned road work would generate 19,000 direct and indirect jobs in the state, according to Michigan transportation officials. The state Transportation Department supported efforts to override Reagan's veto on grounds that delays in passing the legislation have brought the nation's highway program to a near standstill. But Michigan has not been as severely affected as some states,, because transportation officials have been able to proceed with roadwork, plans by relying on short-term borrowing authority. Reagan issued his veto last week, declaring that the bill was a budget-buster that was larded with wasteful pork barrel projects. Banks raise interest rates NEW YORK - Major banks are raising their prime lending rates in response to broad financial pressures that signal interest rates have bottomed out for the near term on loans ranging from home mortgages' Several of the nation's biggest banks increased their prime lending rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5 percent, following Tuesday's increases by New York's Citibank and Chase Manhattan bank. The prime - a benchmark used to set interest on a variety of corporate and consumer credit - had been 7.5 percent since August. The jump to 7.75 percent was the first since banks raised the prime to.: 13 percent from 12.5 percent in June 1984. GM plans temporary closings DETROIT - General Motors Corp., fighting slumping car sales and loss of market share to its two top U.S. competitors, will shut down six plants for a week, temporarily laying off 21,600 workers, GM officials said yesterday. GM will close plants April 6-13 in Wentzville, Mo., Pontiac, Flint, North Tarrytown, N.Y., Oshawa, Ontario, and the Detroit enclave of Hamtramck, said GM spokespersons Jim Smitlebush and Betsy Hayhow. Despite widespread and varied buyer incentives, industry leader GM's depressed car sales consistently dragged down the U.S. industry's" performance in the first quarter of 1987. "They're not even close to solving the problem with those production cuts," said Michael Luckey, analyst with Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York. "I'm sure you can look for more temporary plant closings in May and June." Reagan asks schools to educate children about AIDS PHILADELPHIA - President Reagan, in his first major speech op, the health crisis, said yesterday that local schools and parents rust. decide how to educate children on the threat of AIDS but also must stress morality and avoid a "value neutral" approach. "All the vaccines and medications in the world won't change one basic truth - that prevention is better than cure," Reagan told the Philadelphia College of Physicians. Reagan said the federal role amounted to giving "educators accurate k information about the disease." But, supporting statements by Education Secretary William Bennett, he also said the dissemination of -such information "must be up to the schools and the parents, not government." I 4 ,4 Associated Press Papal blessing Pope John Paul II greeted and blessed invalids after a mass yesterday in Montevideo, one stop on his 13-day South American trip. Anonymous APS 4 C lit Copy Sale ! Order any number of reg. copies, full or self serve and receive an equal number for just1w/copy. Feedable originals. 201b. paper. Coupon can be used 5 times. Expires 4/30/87 5 test offeret (Continued from Page 1) dealing with this is limitation." Students will sign up for the anonymous testing service on the urgent care list in the Health Service lobby. They will go directly to a room in Health Service where they will be asked to identify themselves as students, and then proceed to counseling. Instead of calling in for test results, students wishing to remain anonymous will have to schedule a return visit to find out the results. AIDS has caused 285 deaths in Michigan and the National Center for Disease Control estimates the virus will infect 1 to 1.5 million people in this country by 1991, ten years after the first AIDS case was reported. Washtenaw County Health dby U' Department Director Dr. John Atwater said the county is nego - tiating a program of free or low- cost AIDS counseling and testing for Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, to be run in conjunction with Health Service. The, program would be like one the county has with the testing and treatment of venereal diseases, in which the cost and staff are coordinated with Health Service. "Health Service is the most obvious place in Ann Arbor," Atwater said, because of the testing and counseling services available. Briefer said the possibility for a program has been discussed but no agreement has been reached because Health Service cannot use student fees to provide free, testing to county residents. 0oupon 1 coupon 2 cou on 3 coup n 4 coup n American Indian Law Students Association Presents NA IVEAMERICAN Topic: Indian Education - The Reagan Years Friday, April 3, Rm. 250, Hutchins Hall, Law School, Ann Arbor 12:30 pm - 5:30 Reception Following, 6 - 8 pm For more information call: 763-9044 Be Our Guest at The University of Michigan-Dearborn Students in good academic standing are invited to take advantage of spring and summer by enrolling in course- work at our easily accessible campus. We offer University of Michigan credit through a full array of day and evening classes. Spring/Summer Term Registration Term Length Spring Half-Term Registration Term Length Summer Half-Term Registration Term Length EXTRAS Gay Blue Jeans Day draws near; students: what to wear Tension mounts as Friday, Gay Blue Jeans Day, approaches: students wrestle with the question of what material that day's trousers will be made of. Do you wear denim, and support gay rights, or do you wear your corduroys, and be labeled a "homophobe"? You could "wear what you normally wear" to avoid making a statement, as members of the Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus organization- the creators of Gay Blue Jeans Day- suggest. But then you'd still be making a statement, because you either will or won't be wearing denim. "Basically you have no alternative," said LSA freshman Jeffrey Veach. "It's a double-edged sword. You can't win." "I'm, in fact, almost going to go out of my way (to not wear jeans)," said LSA freshman Jerry Klopfer. But LSA sophomore Julie Schecter said she will wear jeans specifically to support gay rights. "I would have worn it even if it was a band around my arm," she said. Jeffrey Kronman, an LSA sophomore, took a practical approach to the issue. "I'm gonna wear whatever's clean," he said. -By Edward Kleine April 29-30 May 4-August 31 April 29-30 May 4-June 27 July 1-2 July 7-August 31 See your registrar or call the Office of Admissions at (313) 593-5 00 for a guest application and tuition information. u~m The University of Michigan-Dearborn is an affirmative action/non-discriminatory institution. J GO FROM COLLEGE TO THE ARMY WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT. OfIhe Michigan Unazig Vol. XCVII -No. 125 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. 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