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New faces appear at Health Services
By Libby Ramsey
Staff Writer
There are new faces at the infir
mary and a new director of Health
Services will come to UNCA after
the Christmas break.
Dr. Bruce Kelly, director of UNCA
Health Services, will be leaving his
position the first of next year to
enter private practice in Asheville.
"This decision was very difficult
to make," said Kelly, "because when
I accepted this position three years
ago I wanted to be involved with
the goings on of a university setting
to meet the needs of a changing
and grovsring university community."
Dr. Eric Pyeritz will become UN-
CA’s health services director on Jan.
1. Pyeritz has a doctorate degree in
family practice from Duke University
and has been in private practice in
Bryson City.
In an introduction of Pyertiz, Dr.
Eric lovacchini, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said Pyeritz "had a
personality and background well
suited for the college health area."
Kelly will continue to be a part-
time faculty member with the Moun
tain Area Health Education Center
(MAHEC) and hopes to be involved
in sorae capacity with health ser
vices at UNCA.
"Since comf.leting my residency.
I’ve done public health, college
health and have been a faculty
Nurse Cynthia Van Deusen
member with training jnis.
"I’ve never been able to spend as
much time as I would like working
with families. Being a family doctor
with Asheville Family Medicine will
give me this opportunity," said
Kelly.
UNCA’s health services began an
affiliation with MAHEC four years
ago when the two institutions joined
forces in submitting a grant proposal
to the Kellogg Foundation for a
health promotion program. Two goals
of this grant were to develop an
academic health promotion class at
UNCA, and MAHEC’s part was to
train family doctors.
Kelly’s time has been divided be
tween 60 percent at MAHEC and 40
percent at UNCA under this cooper
ative agreement. UNCA health ser
vices will still contract with MAHEC
for clinical services.
In addition to a new director,
there are two other new faces at
health services. They are Cynthia
Van Deusen and Myra Zeller. Van
Deusen is a full-time equivalent
family nurse practitioner and will be
working four days a week primarily
as a clinical provider. She has
worked five years with the
Buncombe County Health Department.
Zeller will be working mainly in
the development of a health educa
tion program for our campus. She
has nurse practitioner training and
also holds a master’s degree in edu
cation in health.
In addition to the new staff mem
bers, health services has developed a
new form for the immunization in
formation the state requires for all
university students.
Last summer the state legislature
mandated a law that requires all
new and returning students at North
Carolina universities to have proof
of vaccinations for red measles,
German measles, and tetanus/dyph-
theria.
According to the minutes of the
faculty senate meeting on Oct. 9,
1986, 43 students have not complied
with turning in their health records.
They will not be given grades until
they comply with the law, and a Ust
of the students will be sent to de
partment chairmen so they’ll know
who (hey are, lovachinni reported to
the senate.
The new form which will include
all immunization information will
automatically go to all new students
and should alleviate the immuniza
tion dilemma, Kelly said.
Car stereo thieves strike campus again
By Angela Pickelsimer
Staff Writer
They’ve been at it again. It’s not
the first time, and it’s not likely
that it will be the last.
Thieves recently broke into seve
ral cars on campus, taking car ste
reos and other valuables, according
to campus police.
The culprits stole a wallet and
four stereos from cars parked on
campus. The wallet was in a purse
under the car seat, said Charles
Carreno, chief of campus police.
"That occurs about every six
months or so," said Carreno.
"Three or four vehicles get broken
into and stereos are taken. Basically
that’s all they steal," he said.
Thieves pry a sunroof loose, break
out a window or use a tool like the
one security uses to help people who
are locked out of their car, Carreno
said.
Senior resident Karla Johnson said
someone broke into her car while it
was parked on the hill beside the
Highrise. At about 12:30 ajn. on
Nov. 24, thieves broke into her car,
taking her stereo and damaging her
car.
"They tried to jar the door open
where there were dents in it," said
Johnson.
When they couldn’t, they broke
out the window, she said. The thi
eves also broke the dash, damaged
the metal supports holding the car
and bent the gearshift, she said.
All the damage had to be repaired,
Johnson said. "I haven’t gotten my
stereo back, and I don’t expect to,"
she said.
Other resident students also found
thefts from their cars on the same
date.
Highrise roommates Mark Simmons
and John Spratling, seniors, said
they left their room at 2 am. to get
something to eat.
Spratling said he found that thi
eves had broken out a window in his
car juid took his graphic equalizer.
They broke a window in Simmons’
car and stole his radar detector, he
said.)
Both had parked their car in spac
es on the hill adjacent to the High-
rise just after midnight.
"No one saw or heard anything
that we know of," Simmons said. "I
think they just looked in the cars
and saw something to steal," he
said.
After stealing the goods, the thi
eves have an outlet for selling them,
according to Carreno. "We are in
contact with the Asheville City Po
lice in hopes that some of this stuff
will turn up in a pawn shop or flea
market," he said.
Retrieval of the stolen items is
difficult, even if a serial number is
inscribed on a stereo, because thi
eves are aware of the inscription
and remove it, said Carreno.
Other law enforcement agencies in
this area have reported similar inci
dents.
"We’re fortunate. We don’t have
nearly the problems other universi
ties have. Even though we’re in
Asheville, we’re not in the center
and we don’t have a large thorough
fare running through the campus,"
he said.
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