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Indians back health act
Warped
by Scott McCulla
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The unmet
health care needs of Indian
people continue because the
government never has spent
enough money to keep its
promise to make Indians as
healthy as the rest of America,
tribes said Thursday.
In testimony before the
House 1 Interior Committee,
tribes from across the nation
urged Congress to reauthorize
the Indian Health Care Im
provement Act but to include
provisions ensuring tribal input
and that programs be funded at
their proper levels.
“Recognition and authoriza
tion are not enough,” said Gil
bert Pena, vice chairman of the
All Indian Pueblo Council rep
resenting New Mexico’s 16
pueblos. “Sufficient appropria
tions to accomplish the goals (of
the Act) have never been real
ized.”
Roger Boyd, Navajo Nation
Jegislative director, said Cofi-
gress in 1976 “promised that
the health status of the Indian
E eople would be raised to the
:vel of the general U.S. pop
ulation and that there would be
maximum participation of In
dian people in Indian health
programs.”
However, Boyd said in reality
“very little” has happened since
then.
“Instead of increasing appro
priations to match recom
mended authorization levels,
the Reagan Administration has
consistently sought to have In
dian health care dollars re
duced,” said Boyd in behalf of
the nation’s largest Indian tribe.
“Congress has been more
sensitive to the health care
needs of our people, but Indian
Health Service appropriations
continue to be woefully inade
quate for the purposes of meet
ing service delivery levels iden
tified as necessary to raise the
health status of our people,” he
said.
The Health Care Act, passed
seven years ago in response to
reports the health care needs of
Indians were unmet, will expire
Sept. 30 unless Congress reau
thorizes it. Bills have been filed
in both the House and Senate to
renew the act, but differ on
some points.
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Both bills, however, call for
elevation of the head of the In
dian Health Service to a posi
tion of assistant secretary in
Health and Human Services “to
give it more clout.” The Reagan
administration opposes the pro-
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Pena said the commitment of
the law must be continued in or
der “to eliminate the unmet
needs in the treatment of dis
eases and illness, the staffing in
adequacies in Indian health fa
cilities and to upgrade hospitals
and facilities.”
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Retailing is a very exciting
business for people who are not
cowards. There is never a dull
moment. It is a business that
pumps the adrenaline. If you
aren’t busy, you are getting re
ady to be busy.
This is how Stanley Marcus,
chairman emeritus of Neiman-
Marcus, describes the retailing
business. He spoke Thursday in
Rudder Forum on his experi
ences with the retail industry.
“Retailing offers opportunity
for travel and offers great op
portunity to meet people,” he
says. “If you don’t like people,
there’s no place for you in the
retail business. It requires a
sense of excitement about deal
ing with people.”
The two fundamentals of re
tailing are customers and
goods, Marcus says. If you treat
customers well they come back.
If you treat goods well they
don’t come back. You must pay
attention to these things if you
want to be successful."
The retail industry is a very
competitive business.
“I think competition is won
derful,” he says. “I have learned
that I must take the chance that
I can be as good as my best com
petition.”
Retailing is the most compet
itive trade in all markets. The
public benefits from this retail
competition because they are at
tracted and entertained, he
says.
Marcus says that retailing is
facing changes. Retailers aren’t
really worried about a Japanese
invasion into the retailing mar
ket because the Japanese
haven’t been able to figure out
the American retail market. Re
tailing doesn’t cross interna
tional borders well. He says he
doesn’t know of a retail depart
ment store that has successfully
taken their store to another
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country.
“These continually changing
conditions of the retailing mar
ket are what make it interest
ing,” he says.
Marcus says that the job of
the retailer is to sell satisfaction.
The customer has expectations
of the store he shops. The re
tailer uses his ingenuity, his love
for the business and his love for
people to meet these expecta
tions.
Customer satisfaction also
depends on the quality of the
merchandise. If the president
of the store knows the customer
is not satisfied, he will do some
thing about it.
“The store should stand be
hind what it sells,” he says.“If
you have a complaint, send it
not in a letter, but in a box. Sec
retaries have more respect for a
box than a letter. Invariably, the
customer gets satisfaction. I
know, be cause I have received
several boxes with complaints in
them.”
Marcus says that he has
learned from his mistakes. He
has bought merchandise that
won’t sell no matter what price
is put on it, and has misjudged
people, which are the worst mis
takes you can make, he says.
Something that Marcus has
found frustrating in the retail
business is the poor buying edu
cation of the buyers.
“Many buyers don’t know
enough about the merchan
dise,” he says. “Buyers don’t
need to be trained. Training is
someting you do to bears and
dogs.”
Marcus says buyers
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to teach them. The peopleij
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Student
FEE REFERENDUM INFORMATION
■FINANCIAL SITUATION SUMMARY-
The University Center is currently operating at a deficit of $160,000.00.
The reserve fund presently supporting the University Center will be
depleted by August 31, 1984.
■REASONS FOR FINANCIAL INSTABILITY-
y
1) Legislative mandated salary increases.
2) Rapidly escalating costs of providing low cost facilities and free
meeting rooms for student usage.
3) General inflationary developments, particularly general maintenance and
utilities.
4) Stabilization in revenue generating capacity.
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FACTS CONCERNING THE UNIVERSITY CENTER
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The present fee of $10.00 is one of the lowest in the state.
Since the University Center was built in 1973* there has been no fee
increase, nor has the fee kept pace with inflation.
The University Center provides a majority of the facilities and
services available to students.
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check cashing, electronic games, hotel, lost and found, bowling and games,
craft center, bookstore, rooms in rudder tower and the MSC, theatre and
auditorium complex, beauty salon and barber shop, food services, student
finance center, print 6 copy, main lounge. Rudder Exhibit Hall
OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS
I. INCREASE IN THE STUDENT CENTER COMPLEX FEE
A. Vote for a $6.00 increase over a period of 3 years:
This will allow the University Center to maintain the current
levels of services for the next 6 years. This increase will not
result in long term stability for the University Center, nor will
it increase the amount of student input into the existing services.
B. Vote for a $10.00 increase over a period of 3 years:
With this type of an increase, $6.00 will go to the University
Center as in option A while the additional $4.00 will continually
be placed into a reserve fund. The reserve fund will provide a
neans for student input into the services the University Center
provides, as well as establish a means for long term additions or
improvements to the Center.
II. NO INCREASE IN THE STUDENT CENTER COMPLEX FEE
A. "NO" vote on the fee increase will result in numerous price hikes
and a cut back in the services the University Center provides.
1) User fees for students and staff would double in price ( i .e.
bowling and games, hotel • . .)
2) Meeting rooms will no longer be free.
3) A surcharge of 5% wi11 be collected on all ticketed events.
4) Hours of operation may have to be reduced.
THE MAJOR CAMPUS LEADERS SUPPORT OPTION 1 (b):
Greg Hawkins, MSC President Joe Jordan, Student Body President
Kevin Goodwin, OCA President Kelli Kiesling, RHA President
Dayan Adhihetty, ISA President Preston Abbott, Corps Commander
WE DESERVE ONLY THE BEST! VOTE OPTION 1(b)
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