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, (Editor'.s note: Tqday's CM LIFE features the first article in a
four-part series on the University Health Services (UHSK Today's
installment deals with the history of the UHS and the duties and
qualifications' of its personnel Wednesday's installment will
covxpare CMU's health care with other Michigan universities. Part
three on Friday will describe how skyrocketing health care costs
affect the UHS budget and the final installment will discuss
whether or not Central has a responsibility to offer full-time in-
patientcare to its students.)
bySUEBERG
and
DAVID N.BRAB0Y
LIFE Staff Writers
Foust Hall, which houses CMU's University Health Services
(UHS), was built for students who never came to Central.
The UHS was constructed in 1973 at a cost of $2.4 million for a
student enrollment the Administration anticipated would grow to
20,000. Foust Hall was built when the original UHS facilities in
Sloan Hall became too cramped for the then-increasing student
population.
However, after Foust Hall was constructed, Central's enrollment
figures slacked off and have stabilized to the current 16;287 figure.
UHS, Director Dr. Howard L. Varney said Foust was constructed
Students did not reach CMU projection
for higher
in anticipation of this student increase which never materialized
and because the entire Mount, Pleasant medical community would
have been unable to handle CMU's student population.
As UHS director, Varney works under the supervision of Dean of
Students James Hill and is responsible for ensuring the UHS
provides high-quality health care to students and their spouses.
The director also supervises the medical, nursing, laboratory, X-
ray staff," clerical personnel and student employees in the UHS,
according to the 1976-77 Annual Health Services Report.
The administrative aspect of Varney's job entails' interviewing
for position vacancies, reviewing purchase orders for equipment,
supplies and drugs, assisting in budget preparation by supplying
information of UHS needs to the Administration and formally
evaluating the performance of UHS personnel annually to ensure
high-quality health care.l
Varney also supplies information to the Office of Student Affairs
and to the student body, confers with students who are interested in
health-related careers and communicates with other universities
regarding their health practices and problems.
Varney's job originally was designed to consist of half administrative and half clinical duties— seeing patients on a daily
basis. Now however, his time is divided 60-40, more administrative
than clinical, he said.
He attributed the increase of his administrative duties to more
paperwork prompted by the demand for more documentation of
medical services and actions.
In the view of the Administration, a person with budget and
administrative experience is needed to work with the $1.5 million
UHS budget on a full-time basis.
"We may acquire a full-time administrator to work with this
(UHS) money," Hill said. "The operation is just too vast for a halftone administrator," he added.
Although the health center provides inpatient care, it does not
have the same status as a hospital.
Termed an "intermediate" care facility by Varney, the UHS is
confined to serving students while general hospitals are expected to'
provide health care'to all persons in a community.
The UHS usually cares for short-term illnesses, while hospitals
concentrate on chronic and long-term care, Varney said. The UHS
has no intensive care or cardiac care units and has limited facilities
and a smaller staff compared to a hospital's more extensive facilities
and larger staff, he added.
Also1, the UHS nurses and aides usually work on a 10-month
contract, as opposed to general hospital nurses who have 12-month
contracts. (gee „UHS background_" page 6)
Volume 59 No. 40
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Monday, Dec. 5,1977
FA again seeks
salary offer hike
Heralding the Christmas season with festive song are Mary Jo Thompson, Traverse City senior, and
Tammy Paul, Flint sophomore,*©f the CMU Concert Choir. They took part in the Fifth Annual Community Christmas Sing conducted in downtown Mount Pleasant Sunday. The event was sponsored by
the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce (LIFE photo by Mike Thorsby).
by TONY DEARING
LIFE News Editor
They bargained long and hard
Sunday, but when they were
"done CMU and Faculty
Association (FA) negotiators
found themselves in the same ?
position as when the day had
begun".
For    if    talks    are    to    be
prevented  from disintegrating
Students 'sayed'$6,000 last year
SA organizing book referral
byJOEGITTER
LIFE Staff Writer
Plans are being finalized for
CMU's second Student Book
Referral Service, which
organizers hope will save
students about $7,000 in buying
and selling used text books.
A two-member committee of
the Student Association (SA)
Board of Directors, consisting of
Chicanos Organized for
Progress and Action
representative Lupe Valdez and
Claudia Doll; Panhellenic
Council representative, has been
working on the project for three
weeks. /
Last year's referral, coordinated . by Dave Bradke,
Richmond senior, was estimated
to have saved 'participating
students $6,000 by allowing
students to buy- and sell used
books directly from each other.
Organizers hope to top that
figure this year.
"Last' year a $300 SA investment saved the students
$6,000. We expect at least $7,000
in- savings this year," Doll,
Birmingham junior, said. The
SA Board of Directors has
budgeted $800 for the book
referral this year.
The Student Book Referral
Service is a non-profit service
designed to bring used textbook
buyers arid'sellers together and
eliminate the extra expense'of
buying from local bookstores.   .
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for Winter Semester
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This year's program will be
Jan. 16 to 19 in the University
Center Ballroom.
By eliminating the "middle
man," student book sellers can
make as much as a 50 percent
rebate on their used books,
while buyers can save as much
as 50 percent off the price of a
used book, Bradke said.
For example, Bradke said, a
new $10 textbook has a resale
value of about $5 at local book
stores, Typically, the bookstores
will mark the book up 50 percent
to $7.50, he added.
By using the book referral,
student sellers can ask
anywhere from $5 to $7.50 for
such a textbook, while buyers
will realize a savings over the
bookstore price.
Coordinators stressed the
lowest   priced   book   will   be
referred first. The program will'
operate on a first come; first
serve basis, they added.
Book selling forms will be
available beginning Friday.
Forms can be picked up where
CM LIFE is distributed. Ballot
boxes will be set up in dorms
and the lower level of the UC for
the completed forms to be
deposited by Dec. 16.
(See "Books—"page 6)
into stalemate, CMU must once
again today improve its
economic proposal to prevent
impasse, just as it did early in
Sunday's session.
FA negotiators opened
Sunday's session of the sentiment unless CMU could up its
faculty compensation offer, the
teams would be at impasse.
CMU did produce a new offer,
but the FA said it was riot
enough and maintained its,
position that until CMU makes'
bigger money concessions, there
can be no progress at the table.
In response, CMU poured
over its budget in caucus with
Arthur Ellis, vice president for
Public Affairs; and Jerry Tubbs,
vice president for Business and
Finance, but produced no answer as to whether it has yet
made its final offer.
FA bargainers have said if
CMU indeed can increase its
latest economic
proposal - particularly   by   an
swering the FA's demands for a
10 percent salary increase in the
first year of a three-year contract - the teams would be
extremely close to agreement.
However, FA team member
Joyce Pillote added if CMU
chooses to stick by the new
economic proposal, it could be a
"long time" before the teams can
settle a contract.
CMU chief negotiator John
Weatherford said after Sunday's
session he could not predict
whether his team would be
returning to the table today
with a new economic proposal.
He did say the teams had
made progress Sunday and his
team was interested in seeing
that progress continue.
"I don't have a sense of impasse at all," he said. "I have a
sense both sides would like to
make a major try to reach
agreement very soon."
(See "Bargaining—" page 6)
Can flinging objects
bring peace of mind?
by Jlk FISHER
LIFE Staff Writer
What began as a challenge has become a
compulsion for Steve Hagle - he finds peace of
miad juggling objects at his fingertips.
"When I was in tenth grade I watched a juggler
perform in our school, talent show. I thought if he
could do it, so could I," recalled Hagle, Midland
sophomore.      \
/Hagle knew he was hooked on the artt of
juggling when he returned to the same talent
show two years later as a contestant and captured first prize.
His ever-increasing repertoire now includes
more than 100 variations, including juggling as
many as four balls ■ or pins simultaneously.
Maneuvers such as behind-the-leg catches, over-
the-shoulder grabs or bouncing balls off the
ground have become routine for Hagle.
"My biggest crowd pleaser is when I eat an
f apple as I juggle it with two other balls. When I
am finished with the act, I throw the core into the
crowd." , ,
While Hagle never has been paid for performing, he regularly juggles in talent shows and
often receives prizes or free meals for his efforts.
He recently teamed up with a former high
school juggling partner, Tom Leddy, Midland
,* freshman, and the pair performed in CMU's
campus-wide talent show Oct. 28.
While Hagle is at a loss to explain the qualities
of a good juggler, he "guesses" it has something
to do with good hand arid eye coordination, plus a
lot of practice. *.
t"I pick up something to toss around every day,
for anywhere from five minutes to two hours.
Sometimes while I am studying I will juggle a few
pencils to see if I can do it," Hagle said.
While he prefers to practice alone, Hagle finds
inspiration in performing before a crowd. He
admits to possessing the heart of a clown.
"I do* my act to music because it keeps the
audience interested and it looks better, I try to
keep the audience entertained by joking or
making faces when \ drop something."
, One Hagle's favorite.tricks is to juggle several
eggs and "accidentally" splatter one on the stage.
As the audience breaks into laughter Hagle hurls
the remaining hard-boiled eggs into the crowd.
, "Sometimes I let kids try to juggle on stage.
When they think it is funny to drop a ball, I hand
them a few and they learn fast to appreciate it."
Claiming he can do "anything" with two balls,
Hagle currently is perfecting the use of five balls
in his act. ,
"I read where some guy can juggle 10 balls at
once*. Every time I add a ball it is like starting all
over," Hagle said. r
Hagle would like to continue as an entertainer
after college but is skeptical of the juggling
market.
"People always love to see a juggler but they
never want to pay," he laments.
While he waits for a professional juggling
career to.materialize, Hagle. has his hands full
trying to flip, toss arid bounce anything thrown
. his way.       ' . ,
Steve Hagle, Midland sophomore, practices one of over 100
Varieties of juggling which he attempts to master when per-
formirig at area talent shows. Aside from the straightforward
form of juggling seen here, he also does such maneuvers as
shoulder catches and bouncing the bails while juggling, Hagle
would like to continue as a juggler professionally if possible
(LIFE photo by David Fritz).     \ '■
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