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MINNEAPOLIS — The largest
Inurses’ strike in the nation’s history
fspread to a 16th hospital in the Min-
Uneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area
Monday and most hospitals per-
iformed only emergency surgery.
About 300 nurses at Mercy Medi
cal Center in suburban Coon Rapids
Iwalked off the job at 6:30 a.m. Mon-
Iday, joining about 6,000 other mem-
bers of the Minnesota Nurses Asso-
Iciation who walked off the job
|;Friday.
Bob Weisner, a labor relations
^representative of the nurses, said
ikey issues remain the same — em-
Iployment and economics.
Mercy vice president Michael
Johnson said the hospital reduced its
patient load to 102 from a capacity
|of288 in preparation for the strike.
“We are not admitting patients to
the hospital,” Johnson said. “Only
emergency surgery is being done.”
Meanwhile, about 60 nurses were
picketing outside the hospital.
The strike has affected 16 of the
33 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St.
Paul area. Other area hospitals are
not involved in contract negotiations
because they are not in the same bar
gaining unit.
While most of the hospitals are
still restricting admissions, some
have again begun to accept elective
surgeries.
“Prior to today, we were only
doing emergency surgeries,” said
Nancy Gustafson, spokesman for
Fairview-Southdale Hospital in sub
urban Southdale. On Monday, they
began to schedule a few elective sur
geries, but only those that are one-
day electives.
Metropolitan Medical Center also
reopened its one-day surgery center
to do elective surgeries. But a
spokesman at Abbott-Northwestern
Hospital said staffing levels would
determine how much surgery will be
done.
The hospitals are operating at 30
to 40 percent capacity, reducing pa
tient loads by restricting admissions.
Patients who can be moved are being
sent home or transferred to skilled
nursing homes.
The strike has increased patient
counts at hospitals not included in
the walkout.
The nurses are striking for im
proved benefits and a seniority
clause in their contract protecting
them from layoffs or forced reduc
tion in working hours.
Activists protest arsenal
United Press International
Rock Island, Ill. — More than 100
protesters were arrested Monday for
i crossing police lines at bridges lead
ing to the Rock Island Arsenal and
trying to halt vehicles of employees
on their way to the Mississippi River
island.
Another 200 demonstrators
showed support with signs and songs
critical of military weapons produc
tion at the century-old plant and the
[sending of arms to the Middle East
| and Central America.
“We know what the arsenal’s for
- murder in El Salvador,” they
!chanted.
The nation’s largest conventional
weapons plant was guarded by 300
Army soldiers, who were not needed
because none of the protesters
! reached the island facility.
I Arsenal spokesman Paul Powell
I said several departments reported
I that work attendance was up from
usual Monday figures. Employees
were urged to arrive at work several
hours early and to take guarded
buses into the installation.
“I think our employees were mak
ing a profound but quiet statement
by showing up in such numbers,”
Powell said.
Most of the more than 100 people
arrested were igiven citations and re
leased, said police. Collections taken
at a planning rally were used to bail
out the rest of the protesters.
The arrests started at 5 a.m.,
w'hen five people darted into the
heavily guarded roadway leading to
the Rock Island bridge. They were
immediately taken away by police.
Brian Terrell, one of the first ar
rested, said some demonstrators
were arrested twice.
“As soon as they were released,
they ran to Rock Island as fast as
they could and got arrested again,”
he said.
More than 400 police officers
from several departments were sta
tioned at the three bridges leading to
the island.
The protest was organized by the
Chicago-based Project Disarm, an
umbrella group that coordinated the
protest with peace groups from sur
rounding states.
Among the 35 arrested at the Mo
line, Ill., entrance to the island were
eight people who chained them
selves together. They held up traffic
temporarily while police with bolt
cutters separated and arrested them.
Cary Eklund, a Davenport peace
activist involved in a federal court
appeal of draft registration laws,
stayed on the sidelines, fearful that
an arrest would jeopardize his case.
Eklund has been convicted of failure
to register for the draft.
“We’ve been protesting at the ar
senal for years. It’s great to see so
many other people join in and make
this a national issue,” Eklund said.
CASE report gives colleges
ideas for raising revenue
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Colleges raise and save revenue
lots of non-academic ways these
days. An inkling of what goes on is
between the covers of a new report
from the Council for the Advance
ment and Support of Education,
CASE.
“New Sources of Revenue: An
Ideabook” brings up bingo and bar
tering, oil and gas wells, among
other old ways of raising revenue.
Consider. The gym at Lake Erie
College in Painesville, Ohio, has re
sounded with bingo calls Thursday
and Friday nights for five years.
Games net $160,000 a year, half for
scholarships and half for community
organizations, such as American
Field Service, that furnish the volun
teer staff.
Lake Erie also generates $1,000 a
month selling natural gas pumped
from a well it drilled on campus. In
summer, the school picks up around
$80,000 by renting buildings for
such things as camps or single par
ent retreats.
Harold Hodgkinson, senior fellow
at the Institute for Educational
Leadership, believes schools should
put campus assets to work full time.
“One of the most productive and
overlooked resources is the equip
ment storehouse,” he says in the re
port directed to colleges and univer
sities.
“Most institutions have a vast ar
ray of expensive equipment that sits
idle for long periods. Many small
firms do not have the capital to buy
all their equipment in their start-up
days.
"Access to your equipment
could be a great asset to them. In re
turn, they might offer you any num
ber of resources in exchange, rang
ing from typing services to
research.”
Hodgkinson also recommends
that schools look into bartering.
Consider a school that needs word
processors but has no money to buy
them.
“It does have a fine physical edu
cation facility,” he says. “Across the
street is a rapidly growing business
that has plenty of word-processing
equipment but no health mainte
nance program for the people on its
staff.
“The solution? The company staff
swims in the college pool during off
hours, and the college uses the com
pany’s word processors during the
company’s down time. Neither ... in
vests dollars, but both get what they
need.”
Opportunities in land promise to
yield big revenue for the University
of Texas at Dallas. Over the last 15
years the school was given about
1,100 acres of land, for starters.
Now the school intends to sell or
develop 600 acres — at least 100 to
corporations that want to put re
search and development or com
puter facilities on campus.
Richard Ceyer Jr., UTD’s vice
president, believes the venture may
eventually yield $60 million to $80
million from sale proceeds, options
and leases.
On a smaller business scale there,
is evening rental of classrooms and
Study warns runners of anemia
other facilities to individuals and
groups. Maria Regina Colege in Syr
acuse does this, as do numerous
schools.
The Menual School in Albuquer
que, N.M., leases its facilities to the
University of New Mexico for a mi
crocomputer school for students age
9 years through high school. Facili
ties also are leased for a four-day
yearbook workshop.
Marylhurst College in Marylhurst,
Ore., remodeled dorms into offices.
Tenants include 25 non-profit agen
cies. Gross income: $500,000 a year.
Xavier University’s recreation fa
cilities in Cincinnati, Ohio, are
rented by hospitals and other health
agencies for patients’ physical the
rapy sessions. Memberships in the
recreation facilities also are available
to alumni and corporations for exec
utive use.
Here are some other non-aca
demic ways the report suggests
schools make money:
• Renting tennis facilities to a lo
cal municipality or tennis pro who
will run a program in the summer.
• Selling records, tapes, books,
prints, other artwork, and school
supplies if the community needs
such services. “You can easily turn a
bookstore into a community re
source and increase the inventory to
include items of interest to more
people,” the report said.
• If the publications unit has slow
periods, a contract arrangement can
easily carry that office through lean
times. “Even the production of large
mailings represents a capacity many
others would wish to make use of,”
the report said.
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Washington — Many of the na
tion’s 10 to 30 million marathon and
long-distance runners suffer mild
anemia because they bleed internally
while racing or training, doctors said
Monday.
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic
and Yale School of Medicine said in
an interview that two studies showed
the bleeding tends to be mild and its
effects can be offset by taking iron
supplements.
“My hunch is there is probably not
a lot of importance to this,” said Dr.
Douglas McGill, a Mayo Clinic gas
troenterologist and co-author of one
of the studies. “If you run, forget it.
Your knees are going to go first.”
McGill said researchers have
known about running-induced ane
mia for some time, but the condition
apparently has not had much effect
because “people keep running, and
records keep falling.”
may bleed internally
Anemia is a shortage of red or ox
ygen-carrying blood cells, causing
slight weakness and pallor in mild
form.
The two studies, published in the
June issue of “The Annals of Inter
nal Medicine,” showed that up to 30
percent of runners who completed
marathons, half-marathons and
other long-distance races showed
signs of mild bleeding in their gas
trointestinal tracts.
The runners for the most part
were healthy. But for a few people
blood loss during running could be
more severe, causing a more serious
form of anemia and — rarely —
death from a heart attack.
McGill advised runners to keep in
touch with their doctors and take
iron supplements. Iron is vital to
blood production and is a compo
nent of oxygen-carrying blood cells.
In an editorial to appear in July,
Dr. Maire Buckman of the Univer
sity of New Mexico Hospital in Albu
querque, N.M., said the reason for
the bleeding is unknown, but the
problem may be caused by the jos
tling of internal organs during long
runs.
McGill said it could originate in
cells lining the small intestine, which
are sensitive to reduced blood flow.
Blood supply to the intestines is re
duced during running.
In the Mayo study, researchers
measured the level of hemoglobin,
the oxygen-carrying component of
red blood cells, in stool samples from
24 long-distance runners before and
after a 26.5-mile marathon, 13-mile
half-marathon, and a 6-mile race.
The researchers found that after
the race, runners had lower hemog
lobin levels and high gastrointestinal
hemoglobin levels than a group of
non-runners.
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