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Volume 117, Number 24 Dalhousie University, Halifax March 14, 1985 Feds say less meds OTTAWA (CUP) - First-year enrolment in medical schools across Canada should becutby20 per cent next fall, a new federal provincial report says. The report, obtained by the Globe and Mail last week, says the supply of doctors in Canada doubled between 1961 and 1980, while the population increased by only 33 per cent. More than 300 doctors who are not needed enter the medical system each year, and if nothing is done, there will be a surplus of 6000 doctors by the year 2000, according to the two year study. The report also recommends reducing post-graduate training in general practice and medical specialties, lowering the oumber of foreign medical school graduates accepted and the number of doctors practicing in Canada with work visas, and ensuring doctors practice only where they are needed. Dr. Jean Dupong, the director of health manpower at Health and Welfare Canada, who worked on the study, said it had " been presented to the provinces in November and they have to Dalhousie professor Toni Laidlaw and science student Nancy Cameron link 1 s - Don't Need Radar" and decide what to do with it." arms in the International Women's Day march held Saturday, March 9. Women "Still Ain't Satisfied" - paraded through downtown Halifax in celebration The provinces will decide Photo: John Davie, Dal Photo whether to make the report seven storeys down a garbage alcohol consumption contri public, he said. · chute. His body was covered with buted to his death. In a recent interview, John mustard, whipped cream and fire Student council support for Bennett, director of professional Dal student dies extinguisher foam. (See story this drinking contests was withdrawn affairs at the Canadian Medical By DAVID OLIE "It's once of those horrible, page.) at Laurentian University in Association, disputed the ,~~1':¢:. ..:_~'"3:-::'(~ ~ stupid, senseless accidents. Those University officials revoked Sudbury, Ont., following the numbers the governments used in A TRAGIC ACCIDENT THE stairs have been there 20 years liquor permits for residence death of Greg McEvoy, a second the report. night of a Howe Hall party has without incident," said Pat parties for one month as a result year student. McEvoy was killed "Lots of physicians are on claimed the life of a Dalhousie Donahoe, the dean of men, to The of the incident. when the car in which he was a doctoral lists as doctors but are in student. Chronicle-Herald. Wouter Van Stralen of the passenger crashed into a administration or research," Michael David McAuliffe, 19, a DSU president Alex Gigeroff University of Guelph was struck telephone pole. He and the driver Bennett siad. "A surgeon could be second year biology student, died says the student council is by an impaired driver who was were returning from a drinking listed as a surgeon but only doing early the morning of March 9 as shocked by the tragedy. being pursued by police on Sept. spree at an off-campus bar. surgery 10 per cent of the time." the result of a three-storey fall "Council has asked me to write 16. In Canada, an alcohol-related Bennett said the CMA has through a stairwell near his a leller expressing our On Sept. 5 Jeff NeMarsh fell off accident occurs on average every established a committee on Cameron House room. condolences to the family," he a ferry on Lake Ontario and 17 minutes and results in 57 medical manpower which is The accident occured at about says. drowned during a frosh picnic for deaths each week. putting together a new, accurate I :~0 a.m. McAuliffe was rushed to Gigeroff says he expects an students of Ryerson Polytech With files from Canadian employment data bank of doctors hospital, but died on the investigation of the accident, but nical Institute. Police said University Press. in Canada. operating table a short time is unsure if any action will be afterward. The cause of death is taken to restrict the use of alcohol believed to have been cerebral on campus- a measure taken at Inquiry reveals details of U of S death haemorrhage. other universities after alcohol- SASKATOON lCUP)- The 18- Murphy said Reineke went Barrett wrote a mock death tag "It was a real shock to Cameron related deaths or injuries. year-old man who died in a down the chute feet first, while for Reineke and taped it to his toe. House," says Jean LeBlanc, a A funeral service for McAuliffe University of Saskatchewan Corporal Arnie Mainland of the Another unidentified student fellow resident. "It could have was held March 12 in his home residence last Sept. 28 underwent Saskatoon police said it is performed "last rites", and happened to anybody." town of Saint John, N.B. There a bizarre mock funeral before unlikely Reineke dimbed into another took a picture of him. McAuliffe was attending a will also be a memorial service being stuffed into a garbage chute the chute himself. Wall and Barrett then carried party hosted by residents of Smith Mar. 14 in the study hall at Howe by unknown persons, a coroner's Several witnesses testified Reineke to the elevator, hoping House. Hall. inquest has revealed. Reineke was extremely drunk and security would find him. McAuliffe worked in the A number of students and passed out on the twelfth floor One hour later, the two went Although McAuliffe was production department of The experts were called to testify couch. searching for him. "Like an attending the party, test results Gazette in last spring term. before the inquiry in hopes of Two residents, Carey Barrett unseen force, we decided to go released afterwards showed that McAuliffe's is the latest in a reconstructing the night's events, and Timothy Wall, doused looking for him," Wall said. he was sober at the time of the string of deaths on Canadian which culminated in Shawn Reineke with wine, shaving When Reineke was not found accident. campuses this year butthese other Reineke's violent death. cream and mustard, covered him on the elevator, the two followed According to witnesses he was accidents were alcohol-related. Reineke died after plummeting with newspapers and put a pickle a trail of sh;~ving cre·tm to the talking to a woman when he fell Shawn Reineke, 18, of 20 metres and, in the words of on him. ninth floor garbage chute, into over a railing and into the Hodgeville, Saskatchewan, died pathologist Dr. Fergus Murphy, No explanation was given for which they assumed Reineke had stairwell. He was unconscious in hospital on Sept. 29 after a sustaining "severe skull fractures, this strange behavior. thrown up. when reached. Two students with residence party at the University fractures in the pelvis, thigh and "I don't know what made Barrett said he thought lifeguard experience gave first- of Saskatchewan. He was found ankle areas, lacerations on the Carey and I do what we did," Reineke had fallen down the aid McAuliffe until an the morning after the party in a forehead, abrasions and Wall said. 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