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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1978-1979 Eastern Progress 11-2-1978 Eastern Progress - 02 Nov 1978 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1978-79 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 02 Nov 1978" (1978). Eastern Progress 1978-1979. Paper 10. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1978-79/10 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1978-1979 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 57. No. 10 Official Student Publication of Thuraday. Nonambar 2. 197S Eaatarn Kantucky Univariity A unanimous decision Student Senate joins ASF Bv ROBIN PATER 1.500 Jull-tim-time students Also, the con- Staff Writer stitunon of the ASF states that a delegate may carry proxy votes from Following a two-week delay, a motion other schools up to his 10-vote limit. ; for the University's Student Senate to One of the main beneficiary reasons join the newly-formed American ASF supporters presented was that the Student Federation (ASF) was finally student senate would be able to lobby for brought off the table, voted on. and continuing financial aid and govern- passed unanimously at the recom- mental grants for students here. mendation of Senate President Steve Membership in the ASF includes the Foster. senate's representation on the national At last Tuesday's meeting of the level and having it's input considered senate, held Oct. 31. each senator with that of othere schools represented present received an ASF fact sheet on the national level. explaining the ASF and its purposes, Approximately to to 15 schools have along with a list of the pros and cons of joined the ASF as of now. Another 20 to joining. 25 schools are currently considering According to the fact sheet, the membership. California State national association-which first met in University.'the University of Texas, late October-will lobby and deal with University of Arkansas, University df educational issues, avoiding all issues Alabama and Duke University are just s-ncial in nature. a few already claiming ASF mem- Membership costing a school the size bership. The ASF is. in fact, already of the University $50, will allow the incorporated in the state of New Jersey- member school to receive one vote per (See ASF. page 14) State aid needed to meet (Ptioto by STEVE BROWN) (Pnoto by STEVE BROWN) Bashed and stashed EPA standards Frankenstein, above left. Students got several scares out of the haunted houses Monsters invaded the campus and roamed the streets of Richmond this week around town. too. The Sigma Pi haunted house, above right, featured none other Bv H(ill IHILI.AR consulted with an engineering firm to in celebration of Halloween The Monster Bash held Tuesday night in the Keen than Dracula himself. Staff Writer determine the work to he done, cost of Johnson Building drew almost a thousand people, including an extra tall ihe project and completion dates The estimated $1.101.850 project to Powell further added that Ihe After 'close encounters' modify Ihe University heating plant and University was looking to state * * ■ ■■ • bring it into compliance with En- government to handle the problem, as it -vTfonTnehlal Protection Agency (EPA) did for Western Kentucky University standards is still without approval from about a war ago when the state spent in Quality of medical care questioned the Council on Higher Education, as Ihe urea of $800,000 to bring their well as various stale agencies that will healing plant into compliance with EPA Morris added, however, that once he were unresponsive to his problem, still provide the necessary funding, ac- standards in a similar situation. Bv ROB DOLLAR pain killer and then X-rayed, so as to cording to University President J.C He emphasized that "our problem is find the extent of his injury. was admitted to the hospital and out of being upset over the earlier incident. Staff Writ" the emergency room, his treatment and He stated that he returned to the Powell not flagrant" hut Ihat "EPA standards He said the doctors informed him that Powell stated that work on the are very rigid standards." the x-rays were negative and thus he left care was excellent. hospital a third time the following Editor's note: This is the first In a morning for treatment of his hand, proposed project, which was recently I'oweil staled that the main problem three-part series dealing with medical the hospital and went back to his dorm. Another student. Larry Duncan, also ;ipproved by Ihe Board of Regents on was with particulales. the solid pieces in Morris stated that he returned to the which had become infected. services in the I'niversitv community. required the services of the emergency Duncan said that his hand was mi 7, cannot start without approval smoke and the fact thai more were hospital emergency room later that room after he was injured in a fight on Irom these agencies, as well as the present in smoke coming from the night, because of persisting pain and operated on and that he remained in the Several recent "close encounters of a Sept 21. at the Family Dog. hospital for four days. ironing nut of several details. I'niversitv heating plant, than was medical kind" have raised the question additional vomiting. According to Duncan, his face was Powell explained the situation by liermilled by EPA standards. This lime, he said he saw a different ;is to the quality of medical service and severely cut after he was hit with a He added that as a result of the injury, recalling the fact that the University He added ihat the University did not ran available to University students doctor and again communicated the glass, hut his most serious injury turned he has lost • 10 per cent of the ef- was notified March SI. by the U.S. EPA have a sulfur problem, since it burns As University students, two main symptoms of his injury. oul to he a small tooth-like bite that he fectiveness in his little finger. ihat boilers in the heating plant were in high-iirade coal and Ihat filtering According to Morris, when he men- sources of medical attention are received on his hand, after he struck David Blackburn, administrator of viola)ion of Kentucky Division of Air equipment was necessary for correction available, these being the University tioned to the doctor the fact that he someone in the mouth. Patty A. Clay Infirmary, responded to Pollution Control regulations. of Ihe problem Infirmary and Patty A Clay Hospital experienced pain on both sides of his the two cases by saying that major He added that upon receipt of the He added. "We have done what we Both sources have been the subject of collar bone whenever he took a breath, While Duncan was having his face complaints about medical care in any notification, he advised the Council An can do and now it's a matter of the some student criticism. the doctor became suspicious and or- sewn up. he said he did not notice the cut community would revolve around Higher Education of the problem and Kentucky Division of Air Pollution The main area of criticism concerning dered a blood test and other procedures on his hand and did not bring it to the emergency rooms. then turned Ihe matter over to the Control and Ihe Bureau of Facilities to determine if the spleen had been attention of the doctors. I'attv A Clay has been the Emergency Concerning the Morris case, Black- KxecutiveaDepartment for Finance and Management to resolve the problem." Room, where a few students have ex- injured. II was reported that treatment was burn stated that after reviewing the Administration, a state agency that Powell stressed the point that the perienced situations unsatisfactory to Morris stated that the tests revealed complicated at the hospital that night deals with problems concerning state I 'niversily was in favor of the protection that he did have a spleen injury, which because of a scuffle in the hopsital case, it was determined that the spleen their expectations injury to Morris was something that the owned buildings and mechanical of Ihe environment and wanted One student. Mike Morris, injured was not determined in the first parking lot between some of Duncan's systems everything to be in compliance with while playing football on Sept 24. was diagnosis during his initial visit to the fraternity brothers and some in- first doctor would not have suspected, nor been able to prove with the available Powell stated that the two state KPA standards taken to the emergency room because of hospital. dividuals who had followed Duncan to He expressed his desire to have the symptoms at the time. iigencies that eventually became in- severe stomach pains and vomiting. Reportedly, he was operated on and Ihe hospital from the Family Dog after volved with the matter, the Bureau of problem solved "as quickly as possible" ■imeawiwn •« Ma—la h» nn riven a his snleen removed the initial fight. He said that it was a "judgment Facilities Management and the Ken- so that ihe University could go ahead According to Duncan, the nurses and matter of the doctor" and that a dif- tucky Division of Air Pollution Control. with its other programs and problems. staff of the emergency room became ferent doctor might have handled the upset over the incident, which required situation a different way depending on calling the police to quell the distur- his terms of thinking.