European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday Nova Berzi 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 education news i him by Chi Mhz he a Mhz Hub huh ii we woman carrying aids virus tells human Side of epidemic by Dave Walcza education writer Aschaffenbur West Germany Lynn has been on the ads education stump for nearly two months. It s a lonely Campaign waged before serious Audi in pcs who carry no banners or placards. Usually her speeches end with lots of questions a Tew lean and she Hopes More understanding about acquired immune deficiency syndrome. "1 would speak every Day and All night if i could afford it said he 28-year-old Mother of one. If i save a 17-year-old, maybe hell be the Genius that finds  there is no known cure for aids and the latest medical evidence indicates that those who have tested positive for the his virus inevitably will fall victim tothe disease. Lynn and her 30-year-old husband tested positive in june. Aboul 75 people attended Lynn s latest presenta Tion an ads cd Calion seminar organized by the european Congress of american parents teachers and students. Lynn set the tone for 30 minutes of unrehearsed remarks with her opening sentence when i die you won t forget  r she was equally Blunt about How she contracted the virus. My husband is bisexual she said. We were tested for aids before we got married and he tested negative. But it can take months for the virus to appear. Thai s what  she then recounted her ordeals when others found out about her condition first her co workers and later her friends. I noticed that nobody was using the toilet where 1 worked except me and the office Coffee fund which used to have six people in it went Down to one  the tue list blow came from her son s godparents the couple Lynn had hoped would care for the child if she and her husband fall victim to aids. The boy is not infected with the aids virus. I thought who better to Tell than the godparents of my son?1 but the Man told me that he needed time to Deal with this in their life. So i had a meeting with him. And 1 told him that the one thing i Don t have is  since then Lynn and her husband both americans living in Germany have found two other couples who have tested positive. I needed a support group in order for me not to be totally ruined for the rest of my life. I needed some one who understood what was happening to me she said.-. It was a feeling of being alone. I guess everybody has a feeling of immortality. All of a sudden i realized i was going to die but if was not her own mortality but hat or Chil Dren that prompted Lynn to speak out. Today we have 10-year-Olds having babies. And i they re having babies they re having sex. They re not Aji Virgin marys she said. I have never been a naive person i know a lot about sex and the homosexual life. I have no hang up sexually. My hang up  your children Start dying. Lynn has spoken before a variety of american audiences in Germany including health workers child car providers and doctors. She Hopes to speak before Stu Dent audiences before the school year ends. Lynn often is accompanied by Heidelberg Community health nurse Pat Rich Bare who outlines the aids epidemic with charts and slides. But Lynn said that itis unlikely that another aids victim will seek a Public podium to put a human face on the aids threat before american military audiences in Europe they re ashamed and i m not. That s Why 1 can stand up there and do this. I be never done anything Worth dying  Lynn said she will not use at in attempt to delay the disease should she get aids because i m not an ape. I m not a Guinea pig. At the Only drug approved by the Federal drug administration used in fighting aids costs 500 Marks. $290 a bottle which lasts seven Days Lynn said. So you figure a is 2,000 Marks a month until you die ? Lynn said so still loves her husband of three year despite what happened. She hinted that he has begun to show Early signs of the disease. My husband is a person who does t talk much about  Lynn who has worked in health care for 9 i years still goes to work but she said everything else in he life has changed since the Day she found out that she had the his virus. I would waste my time with people who i thought were my friends and who weren to just to be  i live every Day As if it were my  agencies conduct College aids study Atlanta Al preliminary results of a study of 20 . Colleges suggest about three out of every 1,000 College students Are infected with the aids virus according to Federal health officials who Cau Tion that final numbers May be either higher or lower. ". The National centers for disease control along with the american College health association is testing 1.000 Anonymous blood samples from each of 20 . Colleges As part of a group of surveys to assess the prevalence of the aids virus in the . Population cd spokeswoman Ann Simms said. The Survey is not expected to be completed until february 1989," she said. Until february we really Don t have any kind of meaningful estimate of his human immunodeficiency virus infection on College campuses.". -. About 5,000 of those samples have been i cried she said,.showing a rate of about three cases per 1,000 College students or 0.3 percent. A she said she did not know where the 5,000 Sam Ples came from whether they were from All 20 col leg Chin the study or just some of them. This number was not unexpected Simms said. We knew that there was his infection among this population. This just confirms what we already knew and in fact the final results in february May be higher or lower we Don t have any real Way of  nationwide researchers believe the infection rate is Between 0.4 percent and 0.6 percent or perhaps .1.5 million people. The government has estimated thai 20 percent to 30 percent of those infected with the aids virus will develop aids within five years although there Are differing theories on this. Cd reported recently that 76,670 cases have been reported since june 1981, with 43,027 Fatali. Ties. V  Some medical experts worry that most if not virtually All of those infected with the virus will eventually become sick and die because of evidence that the disease has a Long incubation period the Only thing we can show from these preliminary results is that there is his infection on College campuses. College students Are not immune from aids Simms said. The preliminary results come on the heels of a letter written in september by or. Robert e. Wind pm assistant . Secretary for health to University presidents and Deans focusing on the danger to Stu dents. Windom said one fifth of the reported aids cases currently occur among people 20 to 29 years old. Since the average incubation period. Is seven years or longer it s Clear that Many of the 14,000 patients in this group were High school or College age at the Lime of their infection Windom said in thelester ". -. Simms said the preliminary results reinforce health officials advice that people engaging in High risk behaviour should change . Aids is carried in blood and other body fluids and is most commonly transmitted by. Sexual con tact or by shared contaminated drug Needles. Eighty seven percent of All reported cases in the United Stales have occurred among homosexual or bisexual males or intravenous drug abusers. Preschool Aid advocated for children Likely to fail Indianapolis a children at risk of failing in school should be helped at the pre school level a group of educators said last week. The Council of chief state school officers said states must reach  children earlier and increase parents1 involvement wit their preschool children. The Council believes the single most important investment to be made in education is the provision of High Quality programs for the a lion s youngest children who arc most at risk and for their families the statement said. Good Early childhood programs Are linked to Success in school the Council said. Arckin Dergar ten programs should begin Al age 3, the statement said. Foreigners at colleges in . Set enrolment Mark new York up Accord 356,200 for eign students were enrolled in american colleges last year and More than half them came from asian nations including Taiwan Korea China and Japan according to a recent report. Despite the record figure the number of for eign students made up Only 2,7 to 2.8 percent of total . College enrolment a percentage thai Hal remained relatively constant throughout the 980s, the report open doors 1987-88" raid. Nearly half of the students were pursuing graduate degrees. The most popular Fields were engineering business management math com Puter sciences end physical life sciences in that order according to the report funded with sup port from the United Stales information Agency. The foreign students More than 241,000 of them male came from i Bufi nations. Chinese students have been the fastest grow ing group in the foreign student ranks for live consecutive years a Usia spokesman said. College ranking system hyped two groups say Washington a two groups rep resenting colleges and universities have called for an end to the hype Over school ratings based primarily on How Well incoming students score on Entrance exams. The american Council on education and the College Board said undue emphasis on such rankings is causing some College bound students to mistakenly think they Aren t Good enough for universities Wilh High scores or Overlook Fin schools where scores Are lower. Test results Are Only one indicator of the Quality of incoming students and the Quality of incoming students. Does not necessarily say anything useful about the Quality of what goes on in a College or University the two groups said in an open letter to schools and education  organizations repeated their recommendation that schools report incoming students test scores in Langta such As the highest and lowest scores of the Middle 50 coerce it of their freshman class rather than giving an average test result. Calif officials uncover state tests tampering los Angeles not education officials in California have uncovered incidents dating to 19b5 in which school personnel in 45 Public elementary schools changed answers on standardized state tests that measure a school s Prog Ress in Reading writing and mathematics. Officials said More schools might be guilty of .cheating.1 .-.-. 7 a f " a stale investigation found thai answers on the 1985-86 California assessment program test from at least one class in 38 schools throughout the stale were tampered Wilh after the tests were collected from third and sixth Gradce and be fore they were handed Over to the slate in sever Al schools tampering was found in tests from More than one class