European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 12, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 11 teens ignoring aids warnings cd says Atlanta apr the sexual behaviour of american High school students is like a playing russian Roulette a with aids with the typical student having sex by age 16 and one in five having four or Shore partners researchers said. The National centers for disease control reported that 19 percent of . High school students have had four or More sex partners the percentage jumps to 29 percent by senior year. Male students were More Likely than females to be sexually Active 27 percent to 12 percent. For Black males the figure was 60 percent compared with 21 percent for White males. The nationwide Survey conducted in 1990, shows a a substantial proportion of students engage in Behaviours that place them at risk for his infection a the cd concluded. His or human immunodeficiency virus causes aids. A the Best Way to explain it to kids is that its like playing russian Roulette and not knowing How Many live bullets Are in the Chambers a said or. Lloyd Kolbe director of the cd cd a division of adolescent and school health. A if you pull the trigger once it can cause you to become  the cd cd a 1990 Survey of High school health habits was its first but the findings Are dramatically higher than in similar previous studies of sexual behaviour. For instance a 1970 Survey of females Ages 15-19 found 29 percent had Ever had sex by 1990, it was 54 percent Kolbe said. It is too Early to Tell if teen age sexual behaviour has changed since november when basketball superstar magic Johnson announced he has the aids virus Kolbe said. Such studies Are under was but incomplete. Only a moderate number of sexually Active students Are protecting themselves against aids and other sexually transmitted diseases the cd said. Of students surveyed who had engaged in sex in the three preceding months Only 45 percent reported using condoms. Among the students with four partners or More it was Only 41 percent. Condom use was virtually identical among Black and White students but dropped steadily As age increased. Fifty one percent of sexually Active ninth graders reported using condoms compared with just 42 percent by senior year. Through february 808 cases of aids were reported in americans Ages 13-19 and 8,402 in the 20-i4 age group. But it can take 10 years for a hidden his infection to develop into aids and thus Many infected Young americans do not yet show up in the Case counts. In addition to sex aids is transmitted most frequently through sharing of drug Needles the cd found fewer than 2 percent of american High school students had Ever injected illegal  to sender Elvis Impersonator Mike Memphis of Brooklyn is adding his voice to the Campaign to pick a stamp for the King of Rock v Roll. Memphis showed up recently at a Post office in Hicksville n.y., and got a postal Patron into the swing of things. Ballots for the voting must be postmarked by april 24. They can be picked up at your local Post office. If none is available you can use a postcard on which you should write the word a a Young or a a mature to express your preference. Ballots should be sent to Elvis poll . Box Elvis Memphis Tenn. 38101-1001. Boy sues for divorce citing abuse by father Tavares Fla. Up an 11-year-old boy who allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of his father has filed a lawsuit asking for a a a divorce from his parents so he can be adopted by his Foster family. The boy told attorneys and state health and rehabilitative services officials that he does not want to live with his biological parents. Hrs officials have been considering a request from the boys parents to return the child to them. Circuit judge Mark Hill issued a temporary injunction last week ordering the parents not to have any Contact with the fifth grader or his Foster family. A the father has had alcohol problems he a been violent a said Jerri Blair the boys attorney. A a he a thrown this child through a Glass window. But the child does not hate his parents. He feels More love for his Foster  Blair said the boys father who court records show has forcibly removed his children from Foster Homes in the past threatened to take the youngster. The child a two younger Brothers had been in Foster care but were recently returned to the parents. The child welfare league of America the american civil liberties Union and the american bar association said the lawsuit May be a first in the country. Jane Carey an attorney for the parents said a child should not be allowed to choose his parents. Hrs officials said they try to keep families together but would not comment on specifics of the Case. A a it a like a child seeking to divorce his parents a Blair said. A this is a constitutional right for the child to  the names of the boy his parents and the Foster parents were not released. Lutheran Leader resigns after testing his positive Plymouth Minn. A the head of a conservative lutheran denomination has resigned because he is infected with the aids virus and has acknowledged having homosexual relationships Over the last 20 years Church officials said. The Rev. Richard Snipstead 63, president of the association of free lutheran congregations also told Church leaders that his wife Leone has aids said the Rev. Robert Lee the denominations acting president. A this is very tragic a Lee told the St. Paul Pioneer press. A a we re a very conservative Church body. We re hoping that Well grow through  the association based in suburban Minneapolis has about 220 congregations around the nation with a nationwide membership of about 24,000. The denomination considers homosexual activity sinful Church officials said. Snipstead has been removed from the denominations clergy roster. Snipstead and his wife have had medical problems since last summer but did not learn he was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and she had aids until last week Lee said. Church officials were notified shortly afterwards. The couple have sue grown children and Many grandchildren. A Friend who answered the Telephone at the Snipstead Home said the family does not want to  irked because school orders holes in class Beer mugs Springfield a. Up seniors at Springfield High school were hopping mad when the Beer mugs they ordered As class mementos arrived with anti Beer holes drilled in the Bottom. A i was shocked when i saw the Hole in my Mug a said Mark Gaudiosi a senior class officer at the suburban Philadelphia school. A they told us we could use them As Pencil holders. Yeah  but officials at the suburban Philadelphia school said they had the holes drilled to discourage students from drinking Beer. Principal Joe of Brien said it would be hypocritical for the school to sell Beer mugs to High school students. In Light of the outcry school officials have offered refunds to students who done to want the Leaky mugs. About 75 of the 200 seniors purchased the $14 Ceramic Beer mugs. A we sent the seniors a letter of apology and offered to refund their Money a assistant principal Joe Hook said. A so far nobody a asked for their Money  the seniors who voted to buy the Beer mugs instead of Coffee mugs said that the school had no right to tamper with their property and that drilling holes in the mugs wont Stop anyone from drinking. Buying Beer mugs adorned with a seniors name and school logo has been a practice at Springfield for years. But administrators said the custom has come under fire started to get said. A so this in recent years. A the controversy started when people serious about Drunken driving a Hook s year the class sponsors took the position that we did no to want to sell Beer mugs. But the kids still wanted them. The holes in the mugs was a  Guadiosi said class officers convinced administrators that the mugs were nothing More than souvenirs for the Coffee table or mantel and that students  use them to drink Beer. He said nobody told the seniors anything about drilling holes. Senior Tana Peifer said she does no to drink Beer and did no to care that a Hole was drilled in her Mug. But she said she resented the administrations sneak Ness