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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 26, 1973
Founded February 23, 1893
Rescue
operations
tested here
Four area hospitals held a cooperative
disaster drill to test their preparedness in
case of an actual large-scale emergency on
Saturday, July 21.
Beginning that morning at 9, a
simulated disaster was staged at the New
Hope Volunteer Fire Department with
rescue workers acting as though a
grandstand had collapsed.
More than 50 volunteer "victims'
were taken to area hospitals including
Duke, Watts, N.C. Memorial and the
veteran hospitals in Durham.
Dr. William Radcliffe, associate
professor of radiology and chairman of
the disaster committee at The North
Carolina Memorial Hospital said it was
the first time a disaster drill of this
magnitude had been conducted involving
hospitals and public safety staffs of both
Orange and Durham counties.
"What we did is jump in and get our
feet wet to see where we're weak as far as
disaster planning is concerned," said Ted
Badger, disaster plan coordinator at Duke
Hospital.
"Often it takes a major disaster to put
a comprehensive plan such as the one
we're working on into gear," he said. "We
want to be ready for the emergency
before it happens."
Observers were on hand afterwards to
tell rescue workers and hospital personnel
how the situation was handled and what
problems must be overcome in order to
develop effective emergency procedures.
A joint critique was held on Monday
afternoon at the VA hospital, with N.C.
Memorial holding another critique on
Tuesday.
In addition to the four hospitals,
agencies cooperating in the drill included
the rescue squads in Durham and Orange
counties, the Chapel Hill Funeral Home,
the Scarboro-Hargett Funeral Home, the
Chapel Hill and Durham police
departments, the New Hope Volunteer
Fire Department, the campus police of
UNC and Duke, and the Orange County
Sheriffs Department.
Poll: Nixon
acts 'wrong9
Most Americans feel President Nixon's
refusal to testify before the Senate
Watergate Committee is wrong according
to the most recent Harris Poll.
When asked "Do you think President
Nixon was more right or more wrong to
refuse to testify personally before the
U.S. Senate Watergate Committee?" the
public responded in the following
manner: SI per cent felt he had been
more wrong, 37 per cent said he was
more right, and 12 per cent were not
sure.
The credibility of the Ervin
Committee remains high. Sixty-two per
cent of those polled felt the committee
had been doing an excellent or good job,
29 per cent felt the job was only fair or
poor.
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No dorm rooms left
by Linda Livengood
News Editor -i
"Many small towns and rural
communities in our state are without
adequate medical facilities or medical
personnel ... we have a serious
maldistribution of our medical
capabilities," Dr. Christopher C. Fordham
III, Dean of the UNC Medical School,
told a joint meeting of the State Senate
and House Health Committees
Wednesday morning.
The joint meeting of the health
committees was held to discuss the
problems of providing health care for the
citizens of North Carolina.
An increasing population, increasing
medical capability, and a growing
awareness on the part of the American
people have created an enormous increase
in the demand for medical services,
Fordham said.
Dr. Wallace R. Wooles, dean of the
one-year medical school at ECU. also
spoke to the committees. ECU has been
trying to expand their medical school
into a four year school with the hope that
rural eastern North Carolina could have
better medical care.
While both Fordham and Wooles
agreed that there was a problem in health
care for rural North Carolina, they
seemed to disagree on the solution.
Dr. Fordham spoke first and prefaced
his remarks with the explanation (that)
"North Carolina continues to be a highly
rural state. North Carolina has a higher
population concentration in towns with
under 2,500 persons than any other state
in the union."
"When population density is overlaid
with physician-population ratio, it is
easily discerned that the physicians are
disproportionately distributed into the
cities," Dr. Fordham said.
The map also shows the impact of
medical schools on the distribution of
practicing physicians. According to Dr.
Transfers without housm
by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
More than 400 junior transfers recently received
notice that no University housing is available for them
this fall.
Several factors created an unexpected "crunch" on
dorm spaces, said sources in the Student Affairs
department.
More returning students signed up for dorm rooms
next year than expected said Elizabeth Noll from the
Housing Department. She cited over-enrollment and a
larger freshman and junior transfer class than originally
expected as other reasons for the squeeze.
Glenda Slack, a junior transfer from Greensboro,
termed the situation utter disaster.
It seems so late to tell us," Mrs. Slack said. "The
money was sent in three months ago. If we'd known a
little sooner, we could have done something."
A lot of "iffy" factors cause uncertainty each year in
accepting students, said Richard G. Cashwell, director of
Undergraduate Admissions. Not all students who are
accepted will attend UNC.
Federal funding for financial aid was not finalized
until May, Cashwell said. 30 per cent of UNC students
depended on the aid to pay college expenses and were
not sure of their return until the money came in. The
enrollment projection was previously 100 freshmen men
short, so students were taken from the waiting list. If
enrollment projections are not met, Cashwell said, UNC
must send the over-budgeted funds back to the state.
"We make what we feel is the right decision at the
time. If we're over, we're over," reasoned Cashwell.
Meanwhile, the Housing Office dispensed sympathy,
maps, suggestions and information on real estate
agencies, according to Noll. She said absolutely no dorm
.spaces are available to male transfers, but earlier had a
little flexibility for transfer women students.
A student crisis also arose with apartments, Noll said.
Construction on many complexes scheduled to open
before school has been delayed.
More rooms were tripled than originally planned, said
James O. Cansler, assistant dean of Student Affairs. 600
rooms are tripled for this fall, 250 with upperclassmen
who had received assurances this would not be done.
"We have tripled all the space we have and used every
bed we have," Cansler remarked.
Once they recognized the tight situation ahead it "was
too late to buy more furniture, Cansler said. The
University has to make bids, a "process that takes
weeks," he added.
A letter was sent to all continuing students who have
paid the balance of their room rent, Noll said, to
determine if the students actually wanted rooms, and if
not, to open more dorm spaces.
Robert Kepner, former director of Residence Life,
will devote time to provide services to off campus
students.
Kepner will prepare an inventory of all housing in the
area, Cansler said, and will assist displaced students in
finding roommates with whom to share apartments and
rents.
Ruby Peele, a psychology major transferring from
UNC-G, found an apartment, "but it's too expensive!"
She then learned she was closed out of her courses.
"I talked to Admissions about my chances for next
year," she said. "Everybody's shaking their heads, saying
there's nothing they can do ... I can't attend UNC," she
sobbed.
Mrs. Ottway B. Burton, class of 4S from Asheboro.
remarked on her daughter's plight. "She was accepted in
April and sent her money in. Two days ago she received
a letter refusing her a dorm room."
"You can't put a 19-year old girl on the street!" she
exclaimed. Mrs. Burton added it is too late to return to
the old school.
All the parents interviewed agreed they would try to
find a way for their children to attend UNC. For most, it
means buying a car and paying "exorbitant rates'' for (
apartments.
John Meeker, assistant director of Residence Life,
said his office had received many of Housing's calls.
'The only good I see is that they get to come to
Carolina," he remarked.
More students means less privacy through
overcrowding, Meeker added, which creates friction.
"Let's face it - three is a crowd."
Meeker sees a lack of "reasonably priced - not plush
- apartments that undergraduates can rent" as Chapel
Hill's biggest housing problem.
"We don't know how many students are coming to
UNC until they get here," said Dr. Lillian Lehman,
registrar.
Noll notified the Cashier's office to refuse any checks
except those from freshmen and graduate students a
month ago. She said an untold number of junior
transfers were refused housing because no records were
kept on check returns.
Fordham, "The map demonstrated what
has been sho-n statistically; that is, when
the distribution is corrected for the
urbanization factor, medical schools havt
little or no effect upon the distribution of
physicians into nearby counties."
Dr. Fordham listed some
improvements that may alleviate the
shortage of physicians in the state and
highly rural areas.
"There has been remarkable expansion
of the medical school in Chapel Hill,
private schools in this state and medical
schools throughout the country ... in
response to the increasing demand for
medical services," Dr. Fordham said.
According to Dr. Fordham, a major
and innovative collaborative effort
between the medical school, health
schools and regional hospitals is
underway.
This effort involves the
development of five regional Area Health
Education Centers. "The concept is that
physicians, hospital trustees and
administrators and other citizens at the
regional centers assume the responsibility,
with the collaboration of the University,
for the development of appropriate
health training programs at the regional
centers," Dr. Fordham said.
Speaking after Dr. Fordham, Dr.
Wooles said he felt that the location of a
physician's school of medical training had
a great effect on the area in which he
would practice.
The map and explanations presented
. by Dr. Fordham tend to show that the
area medical school has negligible effect
on the distribution of practicing
physicians and stressed the development
of internship and residency programs at a
means of attracting physicians to rural
areas.
Residency
forriis ready
Students wishing to have their
residency status changed and who have
already applied for reclassification must
now reapply on a new form recently
adopted by the UNC Board of Governors.
The new long forms will be mailed to
those who have applied on the old form,
according to Richard Cashwell, Director
of Undergraduate Admissions.
Cashwell suggests that any student
who thinks he should be reclassified as an
in-state resident should go to the
admissions office of his respective school
and read the guidelines for
reclassification.
His new application will be reviewed
and judged by an admissions officer.
Cashwell was unable to say when the
rulings would start since the new forms
have not yet arrived. He expects to be
"swamped" with applications.
luie 'Cross offers new
student insurance plain
by Sth Eff ron
Staff Writer
The University has made arrangements with North Carolina
Blue Cross and Blue Shield to offer a new student health
insurance plan.
The plan is comprehensive hospital insurance paying the cost
of the hospital room up to the prevailing semi-private rates for a
period up to 70 days, full cost of in-patient services, in-patient
physicians fees, out-patient charges for accident or medical
emergency and 80 of diagnostic charges.
"In addition the plan includes a major medical coverage up
to a maximum of $10,000.00," according to a letter sent out to
students and their parents. The letter, was signed by Student
Body President Ford Runge and Frederic Schroeder, associate
dean of Student Affairs for Student-life.
The plan is being offejei'at three rates; individual, two
person (student and spouse or child) and family.
The new insurance plan consolidates the three plans that the
University recently offered. In the past there was a separate plan
for single students, international students and married students.
The international and married students coverage was handled by
Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Pilot Life Insurance Company
covered the single students.
Under the new plan, insurance will Still be required for
international students, but it will be under the same plan as
offered all other students.
Dean James Cansler, who is a member of the committee that
selected the plan said, "We felt there was a need for better
coverage than the old program provided. It was a matter of
upgrading the protection students could be provided with."
The new plan includes maternity care on all adults with
benefits paid the same as any other illness, routine nursery
charges paid in full and abortion coverage.
The cost for this increased coverage will be substantial for
the individual student.
A charge of $36.00 semi-annually will be levied on
individuals as compared with $15.00 annually on the old Pilot
policy. The rate for two persons will be $44.63 a quarter and
for a family, $63.19 a quarter.
Last year, there ere not two different rates offered to
married students. The old Blue Cross and Blue Shield policy
provided coverage for "subscriber, spouse and all unmarried
children under 19 years of age providing the children live with
the subscriber." Legally adopted children and foster children
were covered as in the certificate of insurance. The cost of this
old policy was $58.65.
Under the new policy married students have two options
under which to choose. Married students can choose to take out
the policy at the two person rate, with coverage for just a
student, husband, wife or child.
If a married student has a larger family, the family rate will
cover the student phis the entire family.
For further information about the new student insurance
policy contact the Office of Student Affairs, 01 Steele Building.
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A helping hand
How can I save you? How can I keep the night from falling
so hard for when it touches you, it hangs like a shroud from
swirls and hollows of your face? Let me mend the brokertess;
let me love you. (Staff photo by George Brown)