Patient overload a problem for
By BOBBY SWANSON
battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University Health Center must raise more
nds or reduce student use if the center is to keep up with
greasing enrollment, student legislators say.
Dr Claude Goswick, director of the A. P. Beutel Health
enter, said the center has not been able to keep up with
Sreased student use and University growth so there are two
peal solutions to the problem:
-f.Increase funding through student use fees, student services
esor increased University support.
-I Reduce student use.
ifirad Smith, student body president, said the student senate
;an to study the center last year after students complained
out the long waiting lines.
fhis complaint resulted in the formation of the Health Advisory
umittee, he said.
anet Golub, graduate student senate member, said the com-
ttp studied Texas A&M University’s health center for: facilities,
aff, services offered, price to students and number of students
F l
Ajstudy and report done by the State University System of
Dip, which Golub said the committee reviewed, showed
xas A&M’s center near the top for number of students served,
it hear the bottom for services offered and number of doctors
dprses employed.
The University facility has beds for 44 in-patients, which was
isecond largest number of beds for universities with over
1)00 students, the Florida report said. The University of
mia at Berkeley ranked first with an in-patient capacity of
Ofthe nine universities with over 20,000 students, Texas A&M
Staff photo by Jeff Kerber
The A.P. Beutel Health Center employs seven full-time a day. A shortage of physicians sometimes causes the
doctors and 18 nurses to serve an average of350 students waiting period for treatment to be more than two hours.
University is the only one with its own ambulance service,the
report said.
Goswick said the center employs seven full-time doctors and 18
nurses. He said the center sees an average of 350 students a day,
and a shortage of physicians causes waiting lines that are often
over two hours.
The University of Texas at Austin employs 22 physicians and
only Texas Tech University employs less full time physicians
than Texas A&M University, the report said.
Dr. Reagan Gibbs, director of student health at Texas Tech
University, said a well balanced physician-student ratio, com
puterized records and medical files enable a student to see a
doctor in fifteen minutes.
“We have less physicians than A&M, but we have fewer stu-
center
dents so ours only have to see 30 to 35 students a day,” Gibbs said.
“I understand the physicians at A&M see over 50 students a day. ”
“A physician shouldn’t have to see over 35 patients a day,”
Gibbs said. “I don’t care how competent a doctor you are, you are
going to miss something with a load like that.”
Texas A&M University’s health center had a patient count of
more than 84,000 last year, Texas Tech University had 30,000 and
the University of Texas had more than 154,000, the report said.
Dr. Jack Crosby, director of University ofTexas Health Center,
said the average waiting time at the walk-in clinic is “usually no
more than 30 minutes.”
“Our doctors work two five-hour shifts and this helps their
concentration,” Crosby said. “They see about 35 patients a day
and that keeps them very busy.”
Hiring more doctors is no guarantee of shorter waits for stu
dents, but “certainly helps physicians give more time to the
patients they see,” Crosby said.
Goswick said the Texas A&M University health center con
tracts a urologist, orthopedic specialist and surgeon who are on
campus one day a week. A gynecologist is also contracted to
handle health center cases but does not come to the center,
Goswick said.
“It’s obvious that we need more physicians,” Goswick said.
“We moved into this building in 1973, a building that was de
signed for six physicians and a student body of 20,000.”
“Today we have 32,000 students, seven physicians and we are
growing every year,” Goswick said. “Our job is to provide quality
medical care for this University, and I question how well we’re
doing that.
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vocation of hostages still mystery
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ALGIERS, Algeria — A high Iranian official says the
Rican hostages are split up and are being held “in
Berent places,” deepening the mystery of their where-
wuts.
In the diplomatic go-between aimed at freeing the
Itivcs, Algeria delivered another U.S. letter to Iran,
id a diplomatic source said the intense negotiations were
Rowing” the differences.
As for the hostages themselves, Swedish Radio, in a
(port from Tehran, quoted official Iranian sources as
i yins' the Americans, who have been held 398 days,
tally have been turned over to the government.
jTht Swedish report appeared to back up a similar
Rnent by an unidentified Iranian government official
ty before the Thanksgiving holiday that the hostages
ere in government hands.
But Behzad Nabavi, head of the Iranian commission
evaluating the U.S reponse to Iranian demands for the
captives’ release, indicated otherwise in a cryptic state
ment.
“When the government receives the hostages, it
accepts the responsiblity of safeguarding them, too,” he
was quoted as saying by Pars news agency. “So, they are
being kept in safe places and treated well.”
He said said the hostages were being held “in different
places for safeguard.”
The hostages, who were seized at the U.S. Embassy
Nov. 4, 1979, had been kept in the embassy until the
abortive U.S. rescue mission in April, when the militants
said they had dispersed them to 13 different cities to
prevent another raid.
Later reports have said they were returned to Tehran.
In another remark that puzzled observers, Nabavi said
the hostages would be turned over to “judicial author
ities” unless the United States replied “on time” to Iran’s
four demands for freeing them. The United States has
warned Iran of “grave” consequences if any of the captives
are tried as spies.
Shortly after Nabavi addressed a news conference, the
Algerian delegation arrived in Tehran with a U.S. letter
clarifying the original American response to Tehran’s four
hostage demands.
It was delivered to Nabavi’s commission less than 24
hours after a U.S. delegation led by Deputy Secretary of
State Warren Christopher finished discussing its contents
with the Algerians.
The latest U.S. message proposed the two sides submit
the legal and financial complexities posed by three of the
Iranian conditions to international arbitration after the
hostages have been released, diplomatic sources said.
iirowsmith to speak at conference
Dr. William Arrowsmith of Johns Hop-
§ lUniversity will be the keynote speaker
Texas A&M University System’s
ference on Quality in Teaching, sche-
Jl for Jan. 8-9.
[About 300 faculty and staff members
all four System campuses are ex-
d to participate in the conference,
ich Chancellor Frank W. R. Hubert bills
pfirst-of-its-kind effort to “spotlight the
ortance of teaching. ”
rowsmith is professor of classics at
Hopkins. He has also taught at Mas-
lusetts Institute of Technology, Yale
the University of Texas at Austin,
ile at UT, Arrowsmith received four
ds for teaching.
rofessor Arrowsmith is the ideal per-
to set the tone for a conference such as
iave planned,” Hubert said. “He is a
imic person with stimulating ideas —
that he has put into practice —- to
other people can readily relate.”
Hubert said objectives for the confer
ence include: 1) increasing the level of
knowledge of effective teacher evaluation
procedures; 2) encouraging more and bet
ter support services for teachers; 3) de
veloping mechanisms for the continuing
improvement of teaching, and 4) addres
sing the question of student expectations
for quality teaching.
“We simply cannot overemphasize the
importance of the teaching function to the
students of the four academic institutions,”
Hubert said.
Those four institutions — Texas A&M,
Prairie View A&M, Tarleton State and
Texas A&M-Galveston — have more than
43,000 students and about 2,500 faculty
engaged in 1.2 million semester hours now.
Participants will include 150 faculty
members from all four System campuses;
each will be chosen from within respective
academic departments. An equal number
of administrators — deans and academic
affairs personnel — will comprise the other
150 participants.
Arrowsmith will present his address at 10
a.m., Thursday, Jan. 8, after Hubert opens
the conference at 9:45 a.m.
The keynote speech will be followed by a
four-member panel discussion on “What I
Would Like to Say to the Faculty and the
Administration about Quality Teaching.”
Dr. Rod O’Connor, Texas A&M chemistry
professor; will moderate the panel, the
other members of which will be named
later.
Thursday afternoon and Friday morning
activities will be devoted to small work
group sessions. Each group will discuss the
areas set out in the conference objectives..
Hubert said 20 groups of 15 members each
are planned.
The small groups will each include a mix
of administrators and professors from va
rious disciplines.
“We think people in engineering should
have dialogue with people in liberal arts,”
Hubert said.
Four randomly selected groups will pre
sent their evaluations and recommenda
tions to the conference in a final session on
Friday. Hubert said time limitations would
prevent the presentation of all groups’ re
commendations. Hubert will close the con
ference with a summary and projections for
the future.
“We will be formulating ideas here that
participants can take back to their respec
tive campuses and use to revise policies and
procedures, if need be, to enhance the
teaching process,” Hubert said. “There
should be some exceptionally good ideas
advanced because the best minds we have
in the Texas A&M University System will
be assembled here.”
The general sessions, including the
keynote speech, will be open to the public,
Hubert said. Individuals may also audit the
small group sessions, but may take no ac
tive part in the group discussions.
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allege students have a jargon all their
But the terms change with the times.
Here is a glossary of campus terms (con-
id from Thursday’s Battalion) which
ay help parents understand their
Dlspring and students at one campus
> Rrstand those at another:
-atoring — A dance emulating an alliga-
umed on its back.
Jeek or Grind — Study.
| Jet Off My Case — Leave me alone,
let Nailed — Get caught.
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Great — Useless.
Guts — Easy courses.
Heavy — Dramatic and having great re-
^ance.
c High Wire Act — Staying awake on
l; pphetamines for more than ten consecu-
^l£days.
’istory — Dead, ended and over with,
ockey Pucks — Cafeteria steak patties.
Hose — Getting shortchanged, ripped-
[ tOccurs in degrees; mega-hose and total
Use are the two higher states.
I Hear Ya — Used to express an under
standing of what someone says.
Information bank — A filing cabinet.
It’s Been A Slice — Short for It’s Been A
Slice Of Life.’
Jazzed — See Stoked.
Kneeling (Sacrificing) To The Porcelain
God — Throwing up.
Later — 1. See you later. 2. Used deri
sively to suggest something is best for
gotten.
Left Yet? — Rhetorical question shor
tened for ‘Have we left yet?’ (Can be used
as an insult).
Libes — Library.
Lightweight — 1. A light drinker. 2.
Anything that doesn’t require a great deal
of effort.
Lizards — Very studious students.
Lost — A person who is out of it.
Max — Maximum. The most. The best.
Mega— Prefix used to enhance the size
or impact of something, such as “mega-
baked. ”
Motor — Same as to “Book.”
Munchies — Hunger; used especially for
the hunger experienced after smoking
marijuana.
Munch Out — Stuff yourself with food
rapidly.
Nerd or Nurd (Spelling varies) — A per
son dedicated to academics with little or no
social life.
Nerding Out — Studying.
New Wave — The latest, upbeat music.
Number Cruncher — Calculator.
Nunnery —• Female dormitory.
Pig Out — Stuff yourself with food.
The Pits — When something or some
place is very boring.
Played — Over with, ended. Same as
History and Spent.
Power Booting — Throwing up.
Power Tooling — Driving around.
Psyched — Pepped up or emotionally
ready for something.
Pumped — Greatly excited over some
thing or someone.
Punk — 1. New type of music; part of the
New Wave rock’n roll. 2. Strange mode of
dress. 3. Type of person adheres to the
Punk culture; an elitist group.
Pup Squeeze — A one-night stand.
Rack or Rack Out — Go to sleep.
Rank — To verbally abuse someone.
One “Ranks out” another person.”
Relate —- Used to express a mutual
understanding.
Rents — Short for parents.
Scoping—Check out good looking girls.
Shine It On — Ignore something that
could cause duress or discomfort.
Shrooms — Mushrooms.
Slimy — A clever political opponent.
Space — Describes a person who is
crazy, as in “Space Case” or “He’s spaced. ”
Space Out — 1. To spread things out
over a period of time. 2. To forget some
thing.
Spent — Finished, over with, ended.
Spraying — Throwing up.
Stain— A person disliked by just about
everybody.
Step Out — Go on a date or outing;
especially with a member of the opposite
sex; particularly when dressed up.
Stoked — To be immensely pleased.
Ted — A turkey, nerd, computerhead (a
n incompetent).
Tighten Up Your Backstroke — Get your
act together.
Tunes — Music.
Turkey — A Ted.
Ultimate — A game of disk, (see Disk)
V-Ball — Volleyball.
Vegged Out or Veg Out — Hang around
and do nothing.
Wail — To verbally or physically abuse
someone or something.
Wedgie — Process of pulling up under
wear being worn by another person; usual
ly attempted from the rear.
The Week in Review — Sunday night
leftovers.
Wench — An ugly woman.
Wenching — Looking for girls with the
guys.
What’s Happenin? — What’s new with
you?
Wimps — Persons who are extremely
studious.
Wired — 1. To have something mas
tered. 2. To be overly tired and keyed up.
Za — Pizza.
Photo by Carolyn Cole
Lieutenant Jim Bland of the Bryan City Fire Department inspects the
damage from the fire that started at the Twin City Mission Thursday.
Fire causes damage
at Twin City Mission
By BOBBY SWANSON
Battalion Reporter
A fire at the newly-remodeled Twin
City Mission in Bryan Thursday morn
ing gutted the upstairs mens’ dormitory
and caused smoke, heat and water dam
age to two other upstairs rooms and por
tions of the lower levels.
Deputy Fire Chief Robert Blinka said
the mission caught fire shortly after
10:30 a.m., and fire crews arrived at
10:40 a.m.
“One-fourth of the upstairs received
heavy damage and there was smoke and
heat damage throughout,” Blinka said.
“We had six units there and had the fire
under control at 11:15.
“There wasn’t anybody in the room
where the fire started, and so far we
haven’t had any men report a scratch or
anything,” Blinka said. “We were very
fortunate.”
Shortly before noon, Bryan fire inves
tigators and a gas company official began
to check for gas leaks and try to deter
mine the cause of the fire, which sent
smoke several blocks into downtown
Bryan.
Weldon Watkins said the investiga
tion would not be complete until today
and would not speculate as to the cause
of the fire.
Lloyd Sanderson, acting director of
the mission, said the damage will take
“several weeks” to repair, but “it Could
have been a lot worse.
“Since we have two mens’ dormitor
ies, we can continue without too much
difficulty,” Sanderson said. “The part
where the fire started is the transit dor
mitory, for over-nighters, and there is
usually 20 men or so in there during the
night.
“If this would have happened at night
... well, it just would have been much
worse,” Sanderson said.
A man staying at the mission said, “I
left here for work about eight or so and
when I came back I saw all this smoke.
“There wasn’t that much flaming, but
I never saw that much smoke before,”
he said.
Fire in chute put out
Residents of Aston Hall in the Commons
complex were awakened early this morning
by fire alarms triggered by a small fire in a
first-floor trash chute.
The College Station Fire Department
received the fire alarm call at 2:16 a.m.
today and responded with three trucks and
an ambulance — the standard first re
sponse squad, Capt. Dave Giordano said.
No injuries or damage were reported in
the incident, Giordano said.
Aston Head Resident George Carstens
said: “We had the fire out in less than a
minute. The general (fire) alarms went off,
but the dorm was not evacuated. The fire
department response was immediate.”
Giordano said there were no flames
when the fire department arrived, but “it
was still smouldering.” He also said the
fourth floor of the dorm was “partially eva
cuated for a few minutes because of
smoke.”
Giordano said the fire was started by a
cigarette butt dropped down the chute.
Carstens said trash chute fires are not out
of the ordinary.
“It’s nothing — just a trash chute fire,”
he said. “It happens a lot. Sometimes it’s
mischievous and sometimes someone just
empties an ashtray down the chute.”