Miami Hurricane, September 13, 1974

              Health Center Complaints Hea
By LYNNE SCHEWE
Of The Hurricane staff
UM’s Health Center has been the focus of much criticism over the past years A committee is being organized to hear students' complaints to improve the Health Center.
"Undergraduates Debbie Fink and Scott Huvsy will head the committee,” said Ken Gardner, Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) president.
"In addition, other students who pay the health fee will be appointed. We also hope to have graduates, and medical students on the committee also," Gardner said.
Dr. William Butler, vice jresident of Student Affairs, initiated work on the committee.
I felt there was a great need for such a committcp after talking with a number of people. Dr. Flipse, director of the Health Center, agreed with me and is very enthusiastic about the idea," Butler said.
There are two major goals I hope this committee accomplishes, Butler said. "One is to educate and bring about a better understanding on the part of the student body about their health fee. This will help students see what they are getting for their money. Students have to understand that we've had to cut back on our over-all coverage over the past five to six years because of inflation.
Secondly, I want the committee to examine those aieas of Health Care which the Center does not now provide and the possibility of ketting them on campus. This also includes investigating the means of financing new services."
This year, students paid .55 increase in their activity fee for health care.
"The $5 increase in the health fee is being used to keep the Health Center open longer as well as hiring more technicians and more help in the pharmacy,” Dr. Flipse said.
More doctors are working at the Health Center between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and less during the early and late hours. A doctor is there until 9 p.m., Monday through Friday. After nine, a doctor is on call for emergencies.
On weekends, a doctor is at the Health Center from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. for emergencies only. After that, a nurse is there for emergencies with a doctor on call.
“During holidays the Health Center closes down because most students leave,” Flipse said. If there is an emergency the student has to call Campus Security for help.
"We used to have a doctor in residence a few years back,” Butler said. "It worked out pretty well, and we got more for our dollars. It became too expensive though, and after a few years we had to eliminate the program."
Students will be able to take any complaints about the Health Center to the committee.
“This way serious mistakes will come t ight to the surface," Flipse said.
Thp committee is going to set up a computerized questionnaire with questions similar to the following: Are you 100 per cent satisfied with the services you received? Would you be willing to pay $2, $4, $6 for extra services?
Do you think females should pay extra services? Would you be willing to pay extra for dental care?
"In the past, most complaints have centered around the long waiting time, mis-diagnosis and that the rooms are dirty,” Flipse said.
“I’ve hired more people this year, so I hope to speed things up. There are still only six doctors, and they have to take care of approximately 200 patients a day. This can be hard on them, especially when an epidemic breaks out."
"We’re using the time clocks to survey how much time is spent in difterent places. The management science students are going to conduct a study to determine where
bottlenecks of traffic are occuring.”
"I know the doctors are competent. Out of the five or six thousand cases that the doctors handle in a year, there may only be two or three valid cases of mis-diagnosis,"
Flipse said.
"All doctors do not treat all patients alike,” Flipse added. "Some students may be treated differently for the same problem by another doctor.
"I would like to see standardization in treatments and .more time spent with a patient. Sometimes the doctors are not as thorough as they could be.” Flipse admitted.
“The Center definitely needs to be kept clean. I’ve
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In the past, the Band of the Hour has accompanied the team for televised games including the 1869 encounter with Houston.
"$40,000 seemed like a lot of monev for a few hours of glory,” Donald I. Kubil, Secretary of the university said "My wife was in ihe band once and it didn’t cost that much."
He said the trip would cost approximately $25,000 and if the hand remains overnight, it would he an additional $2,000 for meals and housing
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under the windshield wipers of ears parked around the circle by the Student Union.
Clark explained that a few years ago there was a fire on campus and the fire truck was unable lo gel through the circle because of parked vehicles. I he area is clearly marked as a fire lane.
1 here are similar No Parking areas around the campus and drivers are advised to beware of the warnings. Approximately six vehicles have already been towed away in two days and a
spokesman for the wrecker service, The Body Shop, said that the average generally runs about six per day.
"We don't mind thp business, hut the problem can he eliminated if everybody just observes the No Parking signs,” said the spokesman.
A parking ticket constitutes a $5 fine. If a vehicle is towed, the cost to regain possession of the car is $15 for the firsi day. After a 12 hour period, the price jumps to $20 and $3 for each additional day.
By JIM HOLLANDER
Associtts Editor
The Student Rights Commission (SRC), has established a vast network of student representatives in campus dormitories and off campus apartments and will now be able to handle any student complaint within two days, said Allan Harris, Undergraduate Student Body Government (USB(i) vice-president and chairman of the Student Rights Commission.
Harris, who derives his authority as secretary of student rights in the USBG executive cabinet, said the commission has representatives on each floor of all the dormitories and at any off campus residence that houses al least 25 UM students.
The commission was appointed by Harris and is composed of nine commissioners. There are two each from the 960 and ’68 Complexes and one from Eaton Hall, Mahoney Hall, Pearson Hall, fraternity row and . off campus.
In addition, each dormitory and represented off campus residence has several representatives, also appointed bv Harris. Presently, the entire commission totals about 200 people, but Harris said he hoped to expand to 410.
A student harboring a complaint of any nature, Harris said, need only obtain a green complaint form
After action has been taken, the complaintant is notified. Harris said he personally checks over all the cases, which are not duplicated, before the file is closed.
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Is the UM Band of the Hour getting ihe shaft bv ton UM officials?
On September 21, the Hurricanes will play the University of Houston in a regionally televised game on ABC television.
Aware that inarching bands nationwide always accompany the football team at all televised games, UM band members assumed they would travel to Houston to support their team.
Ihe months of September through early May.
Any cars parked in No Parking areas are now it the mercy of the wreckers and the Coral fiables Police Department.
"We've just been ticketing the cars, but now we’re going to start towing them,” Coral Gables officer B.C. Clark said as he was placing citations
is required to fill out a "progress report” informing the commissioners of any ideas or problems discussed
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"I run this like a business," Harris said, "I know when the complaint was submitted, who acted on it and when. A student will never have to wait more than 48 hours."
The commission handles the total sphere of student problems. Besides everyday complaints, it has access to legal aid, a legal defense corps, a hail bond service and parking ticket appeals.
Legal aid is made up of professional lawyers, the legal defense corps is composed of UM law students, the bail bond service aids arrested students and presently has $15,000 in the bank and parking ticket appeals handles protests of parking violations.
Harris said the commis sion has already placed posters on every floor of each dorm, as well as repre sented apartments, that give names and numhers of people to call when problems arise.
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from a representative, fill it nut and return it. It is then passed on to a commissioner. The name of the commissioner and the date he received the complaint are noted as well as what action was taken and by whom.
Another responsibility of the commission representatives is to attend all meetings of dormitory government. Each representative
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The arrival of wreck-| ers early Tuesday afternoon announced the beginning of the towing ( season at UM.
Towing season is actually a full time affair on ihe UM campus, hut ; reaches its height during
For Fourth Year
Management Program Gets
By F RANK KUFROVICIi
Of The Hurricane staff
A UM program has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the fourth straight year. The Minority Management Internship Program was re cently awarded the grant of $275,000, to cover a five-year period ending lune 30, 1979.
Paul Young, special assistant to vice president for academic affairs Dr. Carl McKcnry, is program director.
"The program is designed to encourage the upward mobility of minority people within the corporate structure." said Young. "II helps to raise individuals from lower to upper management levels. II offers courses to minority members with college degrees, who want to further their business
knowledge and advance in their jobs.”
The program currently has 40 students enrolled, ranging in ages from 21 to 39. "We have had countless success stories over the last four years,” Young said.
Through these courses, and actual work experience within the business field, Ike program aims at further developing the business skills a student has already acquired at the undergraduate level. He is then prepared to assume a leadership position within business management.
Fpiiulty from UM's School of Business Administration and School of Continuing Studies teach the curriculum. Local employers also cooperate hy teaching in wjrious business-related . fiqjfh. Upon success*
fui completion of the program, the student is awarded a certificate in Middle Management. A Master’s
‘Shades Of
By TERESA DAY
Hurrlon» ReeorHr
Flappers, Edsels, hobby socks and leather jackets will all be seen during Homecoming '74.
“Shades of Yesterday” is the nostalgic theme that will be emphasized during the week. November 3 to 8.
This year, Homecoming '74 will feature a new addition, Special Events Week.
"Special Events Week, beginning October 26, is somelhing-new we are trying this year to. help build the enthusiasm of the stu-
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Special Events Week will include a “Marathon of Events" day which involves ten to eleven various events. Events include: a movie trivia contest featuring quiz questions about old movies, a beer chugging contest, a nostalgic costume contest and a Tootsie Roll licking contest. Other events will be a sock hop on the Patio, a barbershop quartet, a speak-easy at the i Rat with a jukebox playing
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Apparently, some UM officials have decided against sending the band with the team.
‘The athletic department said it would cost $40,000 to send the band to Houston." Assistant Professor of anthropology and President Stanford’s assistant, C. Bryuce Dunhan said.
"We just don’t have the funds available." 1
However, athletic Business Manager, Arthur .1. l as kpy, said the Houston trip would cost approximated $18 $20,000.
UM will be paid $145,000 for their participation in the Saturday afternoon melee.
UM Band Director William B. Russell said, “The UM Rand of the Hour has appeared on regional and national television 18 consecutive times with the Hurricane football team.
“This would be the first year in the school's history when UM officials haven’t provoked any spirit or enthusiasm for hand support.”
UM varsity cheerleaders also haven't been provided with the necessarv funds for travel to Houston.
Reserved airline seats for the hand have hern cancelled for the Houston game because of slow positive reactions from the UM Board of Trustees
Make For Nostalgic Homecoming
songs from the ,50s. an ice cream parlor featuring sodas with two straws, old flicks shown on the hall field, an antique car parade and an antique exhibit in the Flamingo Ballroom.
Homecoming week will feature the Queen Contest, house and dorrp decorations, poster contest, Miracle Mile parade, Ihe football game and the dance featuring "The Association” at the Diplomat Hotel.
"Any girl can enter the November 3 Queen Contest, although it is preferred that
she he sponsored. This year there will be a small entry fee to insure the girl will be present contest night ,” Lie-berman said
He said the total cost of Special Events and Homecoming will be $17,000 to $18,000 although only ap-nroximately $5,600 will come from the student's activity fee at the cost of 35 cents per student.
"The majority of the money will either he donat ed by individuals and alum ni or raised hy the Homr-< omingr Boosters who are sponsoring raffles. The
Homecoming dance itself is self-supporting, the cost being covered bv the admission tec," I ieberman said
He said he is looking for people to work on the Publicity and Spirit committees. The purpose of these committees is to inform students of Homecoming and to build enthusiasm for the event.
Anyone interested in working on these committees should leave their name and telephone num-her in Ihe Student Activitv Office, Room ¿36 of the Student Union.
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