Tuesday, November 8, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Local hospitals study health care attitudes by Leslie Yoder Battalion Reporter Three local hospitals are nittingpaying the Texas A&M De- advoaBP ment ^ r h an an( i Re* id rent P ona * Planning almost .ir JlJl L000 to investigate the i ‘ U tealth needs of Brazos Valley utizens. le 1 ' Donald Sweeney, associate and ti professor of the department, and pi ays Greenleaf, Humana and ue LebatiSt. Joseph hospitals are be- the M :oming more aggressive in the mu ; heir marketing approaches he sake ^ ecause P e °pl e ' n the com- munity aren’t utilizing the , available health care services. .ebanom The department mailed T tl'Ct'several thousand question- )speroiii(iaires to Texas A&M stu- weentlitdents, physicians and other see thi residents of Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson and Washington counties. •Of the 500 surveys re turned, Sweeney said some re- spondants seek health care services outside the Brazos Valley region. Respondants gave several reasons for this including the following: • They were advised to do so by a physician. • The service needed was not available in the seven county region. • They wanted to return to a previously used physician or hospital. • The needed service was available in the area, but the waiting time was too long. • They receive financial assistance from an institution outside the area. • Need for care occured when they were outside of the area. • Better care could be obtained from outside the area. • Residence is closer to a physician or hospital outside of the area. • Personal privacy. “Out-migration can be ex- f >lained in part by people’s ack of confidence in the health care system itself,” Sweeney said. “Although this lack of confidence means a lack of awareness as to what health services exist.” Research assistant Russel Clarke said the purpose of the project is to identify the gaps between the health services available and the services wanted by people in the com munity. “This involves looking at the health status of indi viduals,” he said. There is an unusually large porportion of students (one person to every six) in the seven county region which is in a healthy age bracket, he said. Studies indicate, however, that health care services in the area wouldn’t be utilized to capacity even without the large student population, Sweeney said. “A significant number of the questionnaires from the general population, exclud ing students, show that they perceive a lack of quality to ward health care in the seven counties,” he said. “The area may have been typified in the past as not having good health care, but this is not certain. “If people perceive a lack of ? uality in health care services or whatever reason, they know there is an alternative to go somewhere else.” Nearly 400 student ques tionnaires have been com pleted and returned to the De partment of Urban and Re gional Planning while fewer than 100 have been received from residents in the com munity. “More response to the sur vey will of course help the validity of the health planning project,” Clarke said. A summary report of the information will be sent to the three hospitals funding the project, the Brazos Valley De velopment Council, health and social service agencies as well as to all physicians. Retailers to hold symposium at A&M \&M lawyers keep busy by Shawn Behlen Battalion Reporter Retailers and academicians will evaluate retailing stategies at the Symposium on Profitably Serving the Value Conscious Consumer at Texas A&M Wednesday through Friday. Dr. George Lucas, sympo sium chairman, says consumers now are realizing that price advantage alone is not enough when buying merchandise. Retailers must respond to the new, more aware consumer, he said. The symposium will follow a two-part format. The first part will consist of lectures on successful retailing strategies. Speakers include Ira Cohen, executive vice president of merchandising for Mervyn’s; Carmen Lovell, consumer affairs specialist for The Kroger Company; Dennis Reaves, re gional vice president for Sanger- Harris; Ronald Stampfl, con sumer science and business pro fessor from the University of Wisconsin; John Drake, market ing development manager for The Southland Corporation; and Gary Klein, senior vice pres ident and director of stores for Palais Royal. The second part will consist of igiesat particip; fitably se b wh six workshops at which retailing ideas will be discussed and possi ble solutions evaluated. The ants will work on how to sell when not on sale, store brand stategy, the role of ser vice, convenience and emerging technologies in value retailing and how to get beyond scram bled merchandising. “We’re going to learn from each other instead of being talked at for a day and a half,” Lucas said. “In the workshops, we’re going to roll up our sleeves and get to work.” Lucas said a great deal of in terest has been shown in the symposium and that most of the registrants have been high level executives. “This is an opportunity for re tailers to sit down together and share information about possi ble solutions to dealing with the value conscious consumer,” Gresham said. Gresham said about 40 to 50 participants are expected. £-(2CLf2i cJ-fciir AGGIE SPECIAL $3.00 Discount on your haircut/style 4343 Carter Creek 2551 S. Texas by Kimberly Dauhon Battalion Reporter The lawsuit concerning the : of Texas A&M logos is one many cases that General un^elTedJ. Hajovskyjr. and sociate General Counsel Jerry Cain have encountered while rking in the Office of Legal fairs for Texas A&M. Hajovsky, promoted to gen- 1 counsel for the Texas A&M tern in September, says he has ind his new position very illenging. “We have about 15 new cases ming into the office every mth, so the work load is very avy,” Hajovsky said. “There : four staff attorneys in addi- n to Jerry and myself, and the of us do all the legal work for xas A&M, Praire View, Tarle- i State and Texas A&M at Gal veston. Many of the cases concern land transactions, such as gas and oil wells, Hajovsky said. The office does not handle cases that directly involve students unless it involves the University as a whole, he said. Hajovsky, 35, said one of the most interesting cases he has handled was one last summer in volving the Milwaukee Brewer’s and a Texas A&M athlete. Hajovsky, Class of’70, said he joined the Texas A&M system as a senior staff attorney in 1981 when former general counsel James B. Bond contacted him in El Campo. “I had a law practice there and was serving as mayor of the citv of El Campo when Jimmy called and told me about the position,” Hajovsky said. “I had always wanted to come back to opp seemed very ch or al- area someday and the tu nity lenging. After earning his jurispru dence degree at the University of Houston’s Bates College of Law in 1974, Hajovsky had his own law practice in El Campo. He also served as a city council man and mayor pro-tem there. Hajovsky, who served as asso ciate general counsel last year, said he was pleased to have someone as qualified as Cain join the staff as the new associate general counsel. Cain, who has served as assis tant attorney general of Texas since 1979, said he is very famil iar with state university systems. “While working in the attor ney general’s office, I handled many cases concerning state uni versities,” Cain said. “As a mat ter of fact, I was working on a case involving A&M when I was appointed to my position here — the Giovanni case, about the lion that was attacking one of the vet students at the vet school. “It is a serious case, but I found it rather ironic that the student’s name was Daniel.” Cain said he also handled liti gation, civil rights cases and va rious other education related cases while serving in the attor ney general’s office. Cain earned his bachelor’s de gree from the University of Texas at Austin and his juris prudence degree at Southern Methodist University Law School in 1965, he said. w SECRETARIES t 25*%> »ff Fast, Light, Festive Salads & Cold Luncheon Plates mon-fri 11-2 at he terra ;r grieve! nd i» olice beat rying.til mind' The following incidents were nly hal ported to the University Police ken foi rpartment through Monday: BURGLARY: m to Ail * University Police found it a lock had been pryed off e wooden doors on the east d of DeWare Field House. Dthing was discovered stolen, ss INDECENT EXPOSURE: jue • Two women were jogging i the track when a man ex- ,y>sed himself to them. The >men said they saw the man ice before reporting the inci- nt, University Police said. p°eW OTHER: Id you • a student reported that the t ck windshield of his 1977 Chevrolet Camero had been broken. 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