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Many Students Question
Infirmary Confidentiality
By Charles Bolton, Sherry Frye.
Galyn Fulton. Dr. Naney
Gilliland
Byers Lecture
Women’s Movement
Divided in Britain
By Margaretta Yarborough
If the British women’s
movement prides itself on
autonomy, it is succeeding with a
flourish. At the second national
meeting, the delegates nearly
ripped the whole place apart.
They demolished the
coordinating committee, and
different factions agreed to meet
separately as much as possible.
In her recent lecture on the
British women’s movement
|cday, entitled “Victoria, You’d
Hardly Know Us,” Dr. Inzer
Byers presented the findings of
uer research last summer in
Great Britain. Having located
only two articles on the subject in
ms country. Dr. Byers received
a special grant which allowed her
m take her work to Britain.
In two generations, the
movement has come from the
ouse with the blue door on
ower Street, decorated with all
the quintessential furnishings, to
an apartment in a run-down
section of London, in chaotic
disorder. But, as Dr. Byers noted,
much of the movement’s history
can be illustrated by the
transition from suffragette
Millicent Fawcett’s classic
interior to the flat of Sheila
Rowbotham, a radical theorist
for the present-day movement.
The movement has lost direction;
it has become disorderly.
On the surface, great
legislative achievements have
been made in behalf of British
women: an equal pay act an
equal opportunity act, liberalized
abortion, a new family allowance
plan. But the effectiveness of
these laws is another matter.
Some people say that things are
being done backwards. It is good
to have an equal opportunity
commission, but it can do little to
solve the job segregation
inherent in the market. Roughly
20 percent of working women
have jobs equivalent to those held
by men. But the commission
works out of Manchester, which
is, removed from the political
mainstream, and has hired only
two lawyers in two years of
existence. “Does it matter. Dr.
Byers asks, “to have an equal
pay act on the (books if the equal
opportunity commission has only
two lawyers for all of Britain?
The British women’s
movement is composed roughly
of both radical and moderate
elements. Nothing exists
resembling a coherent moderate
theory to counteract the radical
views of those persons agreeing
with Sheila Rowbotham.
Radicals believe that current
advances are pyrrhic victories at
best, while moderates think that
change can occur without
extremes. At this point in both the
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Editor’s note; This article resulted
from a study conducted by Dr.
!\ancy Gilliland last spring. Results
from the sociological medical survey
were included in a paper entitled
“Factors” Affecting Utilization of a
College Infirmary. ” For further
statistics or a complete copy of the
paper, please contact The .Salemite
editor.
Once a person decides from his
.symptoms that he is ill, he must
then decide whether to seek
medical care or choose some
other alternative li.e., do
nothing, go to a faith healer,
etr'.). According to Franklin and
MeLemore (1970), this is called
the primary ,symptom-response
decision. Having made the
decision to seek professional
treatment, one must choose from
the available resources what best
suits both the illness and personal
preference. 'I’his • secondai's
symptom-response decision" is
the focus of this paper. In the
case of college .students, the
secondary symptom-response
decision would be to cboose
treatment at the college
infirmaiy (.Student Health
renter) or to go off campus for
profe.ssional care.
A number of .social factors fiave
been found to be lelated to
satisfaction with and utilization
of college health centers. King
(197,‘i), for example, found that
women students tended to be le.ss
.satisfied witb the University
Health .Seiwices at Harvard than
the men. Burke (1974) reported
that in a coeducational
environment wnmeii liad more
days of restricted activity during
the year than male students did.
and they also utilized the health
services more.
Given the nature of the Salem
.student population, the proximity
of the infirmary to student
housing, and the fact that the
infirmary is paid for by .student
fees, this investigation focused on
social-psychological variables
such as attitudes toward and
Thanksgiving
Service Planned
Monday, Nov. 21, the YWCA
will host a Thanksgiving
Communion Service. Dr. Clark
Thompson will deliver a devotion
followed by Communion. Special
music will be provided. Everyone
is invited to the Club Dining
Room at 7 p.m.
satisfaction with the seiwices at
the infirmary as the major
determinants in deciding
whether to use the college health
center.
On the basis of a review of tne
literature aiul explorator\
interviews witb selected
students, two hypotheses were
formulated. 'I’he first is that
students with positive attitudes
toward the infiriiiary will be
more likel> to utilize its sei"vices
than students with negative
attitudes.
Expressions ol fears and
concern regarding lack of
confidentiality and invasion ol
privacy were evident on this
campus and proni|)ted the second
hypothesis, that students with
gynecological [iroblems will seek
care off campus rather than
utilize the infirinaiw
The .Salem infirmary is located
near student housing, is open ;>
days a week, and is equi[)ped w ith
10 beds. Nur.ses are on duty 2!
bours a day, 5 days a week, and
are on call on the weekends The
Salem college physician a
surgeon) comes 9 afternoons a
week'unless there are no patients
to be seen. This is determined b>
.the nursing staff who treat
patients if, in their professional
.judgment, the doctor is not
needed. 'I'lnis. not ever> .student
who goes to the infirmary sei's
the doctor
Mb mOD
A sampk of nil was randoml\
selected from the 159 Uiardiiig
students at ,Salem The sample
was limited to boarding students
because of tin infirmaiw s close
proximity to the dormitories.
This controlled for ease of access
and convenience i It also limited
the age range, since college
policy places the upper limit of
age for boarding students at 22. i
.Since the study was done at the
end of th(' school year, all
students, iiuluding freshmen,
liad had adequate time to use the
services of the infirmary and to
form attitudes toward it
Data collected by means of a
per.sonal interview imdueled 11
l ollege ( lass. 21 age. 91 religion,
4) ( huridi attendance,, 5) birth
order. 6) whether the r('spondent
has a family doctor, 7i whether
the re.spondent views herself as a
healthy person, and 8) whether
she has utilized the infirmary.
General attitude toward the
college health service was
measured by the Student Health
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