Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1987)
The' Golden } Washboard A convenient, clean laundromat HOURS 8 am - 10 pm. 7 days a week 1607 E. 19th 1 WOC* from campus UK"** Uom Sunny) Sunny! University SUNNY SERVICE Foreign & Domestic Cars Specializing in Volvo and Volkswagen • Major & Minor Repairs • ASE Certified Technicians 1905 Agate St. • 344 0869 Just a tew blocks from campus on the corner of Agate and 19th Dwtto Tmm4Hw a.M.U. Cattaral P»ntm Praam* With Special GueaU Curtii Salgado A The Stilletto* -JAN 11 EMU BALLROOM TICKETS: STUDENTS S7.50 GEN. PUBLIC $8.50 AVAILABLE AT: Everybody's Records, E M U. Mein Desk, Fees the Music, Eerth River Records. Subject to Service Charge. A I r|C Continued from Page 1 counseling if they test positive, which could help stop the disease's spread. But authors of the minority report argue that reporting the names of those carrying the AIDS virus will allow health officials to contact the car rier's partners who also may be infected. The report calls for $48.3 million in the 1987-89 biennium to combat the disease. The report assumes that 80 percent of those with AIDS will become too ill to work, and the cost to the state of each AIDS case will be; about $75,000 The anonymous testing program used elsewhere in the state has not decreased the number of people using lane County’s confiden tial testing program, health officials say. Caye Carinady. the county’s disease interven tion specialist, said the county chose not to par ticipate in the state's program because officials believed in the effectiveness of their confidential testing. "We take such stringent confidentiality measures that we felt it was not necessary to do any more,'' Cannady said. In addition. Cannady said collecting the name and address of a person taking the AIDS test will allow them to contact the person in the future if new information or a cure becomes available ‘‘Our highest priority is confidentiality." she said. But if a treatment were to become available, it would be imperative to contact those who could use the cure, she added Hut Seibert said such a move would constitute invasion of privacy "I would be outraged if someone showed up at my door after I took the tost." he said. Cannady agreed that some people may look at such contact as an infringement, but she believes the lives saved by health officials ability to get the cun* to the people who need it may outweigh an individual's rights. “Some do look at that as an invasion of privacy, but one of the reasons we've had a reduction in syphilis and gonorrhea in this country is because we do (contact people)," Cannady said. She added that while some may believe contact is important to preventing the spread of the disease, she does not believe it is wise to contact people unless a treatment becomes available. But while county officials ask the person being tested for a name and address, they do not verify the information “There are people out there who need to be tested who are so fearful of having their confiden tiality jeopardized." Cannady said. This gives the person being tested a way out if he or she wishes to remain anonymous, although it is not en couraged. she added. Some AIDS activists see this as just one more lie that gays and bisexuals, who make up 70 per cent of those diagnosed as having AIDS, are forc ed to tell. "(lav and bisexual men have been forced to lie for years and they don't want to have to lie again." Seibert said. With the county's admission that some people being tested lie about who they are. there would seem to be no need to ask for the information, said the Rev. Ken Storer. executive director of Shanti in Oregon, an AIDS support group. "If there's this tacit agreement that it's all right to lie. then why do you need to collect the infor mation in the first place?” Storer said Storer does not recommend taking the AIDS test because it only tells a person whether the an tibodies to the virus are present, not whether the person will go on to develop AIDS or ARt! Up to r>0 percent of those who develop ARC could go on to get AIDS, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. "Very often, people make a giant leap between testing positive and dying of AIDS," Storer said. Fear of public identification may be what is keeping many people, especially intravenous drug users, prostitutes and bisexual men. from taking the AIDS test, said Ken Brownell. Mid VAC vice chairman. "Just the thought that someplace is your name, address and phone number" is enough to keep many people away from the test, he said. For in stance. a bisexual man may be married or involv ed in a relationship with a woman who may not know about his other life, and he may avoid the test for fear the woman will find out. One of the arguments for having anonymous testing is to identify high-risk people, then help them change their lifestyles through counseling, which could halt the spread of the disease to others. Seibert said. “It’s traumatizing to know the results ot the test and not know what the test says,” Seibert said. By making clear the difference between being virus-positive and having AIDS, counselors can save people a lot of needless agony and keep the disease from spreading to the heterosexual com munity. he added. Despite his differences with county health of ficials. Seibert said he believes in the integrity of the people operating the county’s AIDS testing program. "There haven’t been any provable breaches of confidence, and I don't think there will be.” he said. But at the same time. Seibert said he fears peo ple an* focusing too much on the moral and political aspects of the disease and forgetting its medical implications. "It’s putting politics before people, and it's time for it to stop,” Seibert said. Suite 300 EMU ODE Offices 6864381 THE NEW YORK TIMES * USA TODAY Campus Discount: 30% Located at the newspaper dispenser box in the E.M.U. Jan. 12 through June 12 $3675 Weekend rates available on request CALL NOW! Good Morning News Service 683-1441 Continued from Page during the last few weeks of February, said Fred Tepfer, planning associate for Universi ty Planning Replacing it will be the four story centerpiece structure of the University's new science complex. Science V. which will house the entire physics depart menl, the Institute of Theoretical Science, part of the chemistry department, laboratories and classrooms. Tepfer said. Emerald Mall was originally a World War II surplus military barracks. The building was in stalled ‘‘temporarily" on Hast 13th in Besides its use as an administration building un til 1973, Emerald Hei) ha* houc ed architectural studios, the Solar Energy Center. Educa tional Opportunties Program and the High School Oppor tunities Program. Each of these programs have been relocated on campus. SALE I woot VC»» ItctM 20.50%OFF/ •I£ 5. &“£•““• 5S**’ •WTHSt down**"*** 00 1 FOLKWAYS IMPORTS RESUMES Give your resume a professional loo* by having n typeset at the Oregon Daily Emerald Graphic Services Department 300 EMU
