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Vol. 39 No. 22 Jacksonville State University March 5,1992 Faculty question DSS gets division move positive review ments would be resurfacing the track Deborah Martin Petty of the Uni- Eric G. Mackey and building a new baseball field. Editor in Chief versity ofTennesseecommunicates Kennamer said he was not aware if with JSU's deaf students through there was a need for a softball field. the use of sign language. Petty JSU Trustee Bob Kennarner, though a report released earlier by visited JSU last week as part of a Anniston, met with the Faculty Sen- the athletic department called for one. peer review program with the ate to discuss the University's move JSU's present baseball field is con- Postsecondary Education Consor- to NCAA Division I Monday. sidered unsafe because of its loca- tium, which provided $65,000 for The senators asked Kennamer to tion. Kennamer helped halt the con- Disabled Student Services' pro- meet with them to answer prepared struction of a new facility several grams for the hearing impaired last questions which Kennamerreviewed years ago, but said he now under- year. The peerreview did not affect earlier and answered Monday. stands the problems of the current funding for disabled students, but Kennamer also took some spontane- location by Bennett Drive if a fly ball allowed the department the oppor- ous questions. were to hit a passing car. "I was in tunity to learn what it can do better, Most of the questions dealt with error when I stopped that process as well as what it does best.The the financial implicationsof themove. earlier and regret it now," he said. consortium serves schools in Ala- Kennamer said the athletic depart- Kennamer said fund-raising is now bama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia . mentneeds toraise $250,000by June the key to the move. "If the fund and Tennessee.JSU is the only four- 1 for JSU will resign from the Gulf raising doesn't come through, and year program currently receiving South Conference and pursue the we don't get support, then we'll have funding from the consortium. Be- move to a higher division. to stay where we are in Division 11." sides funding, the program pro- However, Kennamer said the sta- One of the questions referred to the vides DSS with access to monthly tus will cost the University between rumor of a "gag rule" to assure no telephone conferences on services $100,000 and $200,000 the first year, coaches or administrators spoke out for the deaf and information on the $250,000 to$500,000 the second year against the move. American Disability Act. DSS and possibly an additional $1 million He said he only wanted University currently serves 38 hearing impaired by the third year. See Faculty page 3 students actively. He said the only capital improve- Former JSU athlete makes AIDS reality mented cases of AIDS in Calhoun County." and vaginal secretions. This usually occurs Tim Hathcock Skidmore said he, too, had misconceptions "The only safe sex is abstine,nce, during sexual contact, both heterosexual and Sports Editor about AIDS and HIV transmission. "I was just homosexual. Also, the sharing of needles can like everybody else. We get in this invincible the rest is safer sex." transmit the disease. Haney pointed out most "My name is Mike and I have AIDS." and immortal thought that what happens to --Barbara Hanna people associate this with drug addicts, but it Mike, not his real name, is a former JSU other people can't happen to us." ASK Inc. can be any kind of needles, including those athlete who is dying of AIDS. He spoke to a Mike echoed those thoughts. "You don't see used in steroid use. gathering of about 300, mostly athletes and all those people with AIDS and you probably The two least common ways are from mother athletic staff, at a sy mposium on HIV infection think if you don't know anyone with AIDS, it most other states," Haney said. She also added to child and in blood transfusions and organ held Monday night at Montgomery Audito- can't happen to you. I want you to know the Alabama has had at last report about 15,000 transplants. Haney said transmission through rium. disease is here." known cases of HIV infection and 1,339 cases blood transfusion is becoming less and less of The symposium was put together by Jim Also speaking at the symposium were Jane of AIDS. About 11 percent of those were con- a threat. "Our blood supply in America is safer Skidmore, head trainer for JSU athletics. Haney, the Area IV public health educator for tacted through heterosexual use. The national than it's ever been," she said. Skidmore decided to put together the sympo- Alabama, and Barbara Hanna, the medical average is 6 percent. Haney ended her speech with an appeal. "If sium due to what he sees as an increased need director for ASK, Inc.,an AIDS clinic in Hobson "In June 1981, the first case was reported," youdon't understandanythingelse, undersrand for infomation and education on the disease. City. Haney said. "We had about 500 cases reported that it can happen to anyone. It's not who you "We will, in time, have athletes at JSU Both pelted listeners with statistic after sta- in the fist eight years, so that means there were are, it's what you do." participating with HIV," said Skidmore. "We tistic, each of them chilling. about 839 cases reported in the last two and a Hanna followed that information with a have about 275 athletes in our program, so we Haney said the number of reported cases in half years." medical description of the disease. She also decided to invite everyane. Up to now, the Alabama is rising faster than almost any other Haney listed the four ways of contract.ing the tried tp eliminate a myth about testing. "Just information on campus has been very frag- state in the nation. Also, Alabama has "more disease. The most common is through the ex- See HIV page 11 mented. At last count, there were 35 docu- female, heterosexual and pediatric cases than change of body fluids including blood, semen 2 Thursday, March 5,1992 The Chanticleer .- --., . i City awaits new stores -4nnouncement rtAll announcements and letters to rhe edltor must be typed or legrbly Dyana Blythe written and submitted by Friday before publication to 180 Self Hall. City News Editor New Store opening lnay bring more than 1 *The IAC of JSU will meet at 4 ~.m.MNC~ 27 in 333 Martin all. 100 jobs to Jacksonville. Anyone interested in international relations, laws, business or medicine should attend. Contact Chris Buhagiar for more information 782-6520. Jacksonville shoppers can look forward to a wider variety of stores in .The International Students Organization was founded to assist foreign students and form a social group. Anyone interested in joining should the near future. planned by Winn-Dixie as an oppn- alone will have attend its meetings 7:30 p.m. Fridays at the Wesley Foundation. For more tunity to build a larger store. to bring on much more help for its Consmc tion on the new 65,000- information call Suman at 782-7653. square-footJacksonvilleMarketplace The new store will have seafood, added deparunents," Strempel said. "If they bring over all of the employ- *Samuel Brown, tenor, a JSU associate professor of music, will present will soon begin, creating more than deli, bakery and floral departments. ees they already have, plus part-time a faculty voice recital at 7:30 p.m. today in the Performance Center of 100 jobs for Jacksonville, according ItwillbethelargestWinn-Dixiestore help for the holidays, it should bring Mason Hall. to Paul Strempel, representative for in Alabama. about 100 jobs to the store." Arlington Industries. Brown will be accompanied on piano by his wife, Mary Catherine "This Winn-Dixie will have all of Brown. Various periods, styles andcomposers will berepresentedincluding The marketplace will be located the things you typically find in the According t6 Strempel, the new Dowland, Purcell, Handel, Schubert, Leoncavallo, Rossini, Fourdrain, behind Central Bank at 817 Pelham largergrocerystores,"Strempelsaid. Winn-Dixie will cost $4.5 million. Wilson and Bantock. The recital is free, and the public is invited. Road South. 'They wantedcustomers tobeable to This price includes building, pur- .me 10th ~~~~~l~i~~ JSU ~~h~l~~hi~pageant will be hosted by phi chasing inventory9goods and 'quip- 'The parking lot will actually wrap do one-stop shopping." Mu Alpha March 14. The pageant is a Miss Alabamapreliminary and will around the bank," Strempel said. merit such as freezers and be held in Leone Cole Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults The Winn-Dixie store will cover of Theoffice Plaza housing Billy Isom 45,000 square feet, with the adjacent Strempeldid estimate the and $3 for students and children and will be available at the door. Contact Realty and Better Homes and Gar- stores covering an additional 20,000 the total shopping center. Darnelle Preston at 782-5045 or David Owens at 435-6257. dens, between Pizza Hut and Central square feet. Jacksonville residents will soon see -Graduating seniors should note that spring graduation and the Talladega turned Arlington Industries, the company construction beginning on the mar- 500 are on the same weekend. Since both events tend to fill Anniston intOaparkinglot contracted to build the shopping ketplace. "We have cleared the site hotels, families and visitors should make reservations a.9 SOOn a.5 possible. "If you stand right in front of Billy center, plans to make room for small already.

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