Profit Is Top Priority in Some Hospitals Says ND Professor

Aloha Bowl- page 14 VO L. X IX , N O . 7 4 (Iiv independent student newspaper sv r\ ing notri dame and saint man 's THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1984 Campus student store offers price alternative; set to open doors today By FRANK J. \1 ASTRO “This is a victory for the student News Staff government. We worked hard on this project and gave them (the ad The Notre Dame Student Saver ministration) every reason to say Store, designed to meet the needs of ‘yes’,” said B row ne. the “cost conscious” student, opens Inventory problems were cited as at four o’clock this afternoon in the reason the store did not open Room 2-C of the LaFortune Student yesterday, as originally planned. The Center, adjacent to the Chautauqua supplier for the store is Broadmore B allroom . Pharmacy in the Scottsdale Mall. The For the shopper’s convenience, pharmacy’s distributor in Ohio suf the store will be divided into two fered a strike during the semester categories — school supplies and break. The goods were scheduled to health/beauty aids. School supplies arrive last night so the store could include: notebooks, legal pads, pens, open today. pencils, paper, tape and envelopes. Schimpfs and Assistant Manager Items such as shampoo, hair spray Keith Spatz’s duties include filling and cotton swabs w ill be found un out a daily report sheet, placing in der health and beauty aids section. ventory orders and counting inven tory each week. They oversee the The O bserver/ Johannes Hacker “I want to emphasize that this is workers and write what has to be Notre Dame senior and The Observer’s e d ito r-in - not a generic store,” said store Gen pate in the foreign studies program at Oxford Uni done each day. chief Bob Vonderheide was named one of 32 eral Manager Rick Schimpf. “ We sell v e rsity in E n g la n d . See s to ry below . There w ill be ten general workers Rhodes Scholars from the United States to partici- what is known as second label prod in the store, each receiving a salary. ucts. These are products that are These people were chosen from brand names but not top of the line nearly 70 applications received. The brands. main qualification for prospective ND senior named Rhodes Scholar; “When I think of generic prod em ployees was to be registered w ith ucts," said Schimpf, “ I think of black the Financial Aid Office. Jobs were and white labels. We have maybe given to those who needed it the four or five of those labels in the one of the 32 U.S. students chosen m ost. store and it ’s fo r ru b b in g a lco h o l and Long-range plans for the store ex B y THERESA G U ilR IN O tion of several small colleges, each medical stories because their tech cotton swabs and other products tend until the end of the semester. It Assistant News Editor with dorm and classroom facilities. nical aspects are difficult to under- where brand names don’t matter.” will remain in Room 2-C of Students meet with a tutor in their LaFortune throughout the spring se and scientists are not always Because store items w ill be priced A Notre Dame senior has become field once a week, who gives assign mester. After the remodeling of o communicate what they are almost at cost, Schimpf said large one of 32 Americans named Rhodes ments and directs them through LaFortune, Room 2-C w ill no longer vo lu m e sales are needed to make the Scholars this year. their course of study. Tests are ad S store a success. All profits, if any, w ill exist. The store’s managers hope to Bob Vonderheide, a chemical en ministered by the University. “As a sdteatist, I can participate in go directly to the Student Activities move the store into the basement gineering major from Lexington, Vonderheide said medical school the public debate over technology Board. which has been designated as an Ky., is the first Notre Dame student that we do,” he said. area where all student businesses after Oxford is a possibility right The concept of a student run in seven years to win the scholar w ill be located. now. He plans to become a bio The application process began store was an outgrowth of a survey ship, given on the basis of “quality of “I’m very optimistic about the engineer, and “ if I have to go to med last semester. Students first conducted by Student Body Presi both character and intellect.” Von possibilities of the store, ” said school for it, I w ill." nominated themselves to win the dent Rob Bertino last year. The sur derheide is also editor-in-chief of Schim pf. endorsement of their school. At vey revealed that 88 percent of the The Observer. Vonderheide sees opportunities Both Browne and Schimpf have Notre Dame, a committee chaired students would support a student- Vonderheide will be studying fo r h im s e lf n o w th a t he never w o u ld stated that the Student Saver Store is by Rhodes Scholar and English Pro run store. As a result, a committee biochemistry at the University of have had otherwise. “I have the op not competing w ith the Bookstore. fessor D o n S niegow ski chose s ix stu was formed to investigate the pros Oxford in England next year with portunity to travel, and to study a Tyson has informed the store that it dents. The students then applied for and cons o f such a store, said stu den t Rhodes Scholars from 14 different highly technical field at a university is not permitted to sell any items the scholarship either in their state senator Pat Browne. coun trie s. that thrives on the humanities. identical to those in the Bookstore. of residence or in the state of “I’m slowly getting used to it,” “I’ll be earning a technical degree The committee was originally The store w ill be open fro m 4 p.m . Indiana. Vonderheide applied in said Vonderheide. “It was over at a place that encourages good chaired by I.ee Broussard before to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Kentucky and was interviewed whelming right when it happened. w riting and good thinking. ” being passed to Browne. The com “This whole project was under there in December. The Kentucky The award seemed far bigger than I mittee submitted an 86-page report taken to meet the student’s needs. Vonderheide said he thinks this interview committee was com am.” to the administration and the store T he y w a n te d a store lik e this. W e p u t type of background w ill be advanta prised of seven members of different was eventually approved by Father in a lot of time and effort. I hope the Vonderheide will be leaving in geous. With experience in backgrounds, primarily former David Tyson, vice president for stu students respond to it,” Schimpf October to enroll at Oxford’s Uni journalism, he sees a problem with Rhodes Scholars. dent affairs. said. versity College. Oxford is a federa the press “sensationalizing” many see RHODES, page 4 Profit is top priority in some hospitals says ND professor Special to The Observer fessional Employees, AFL CIO. Craypo and Lehman fear that as w ill be affected. “Privitization and predictable rates of return from Profit-making health care chains more and more hospitals (which ac centralization of health care during a declining facilities and were quies Profit making hospital chains and are, according to the authors, “large, count for 40 percent of the nation’s period of hospital cost containment cent in the face of mounting foreign health care services may be hazar diversified concerns. structured health care expenditures) are so are likely to further polarize the competition. In the end they scaled dous to societal health, according to like the integrated manufacturing stru ctu re d , h e alth care d e liv e ry is in labor force, not only in terms of dif back domestic production activities Charles Craypo, chairman and pro corporations that have long creasingly a “ two-tiered system. At ferences in direct earnings but also in the traditional product lines and fessor of economics at Notre Dame dominated American basic industry. one are those Americans fortunate in the distribution of job opportuni diversified into other businesses, and Mary Lehman, graduate student Like them, investor-owned chains enough to be fully i nsured or have ties, economic security and work abandoning the secondary firms and in economics from Cornell Univer exist to make money for their the ability to pay for quality health satisfaction,” according to the paper. communities that depended on the sity. owners; the things they produce and care ... At the other end are the uni basic industries. Investor-owned Craypo and Lehman conclude Craypo and Lehman, in a recent see are incidental to the main pur nsured and inadequately insured, health care chains are structured that the most ominous potential paper titled, “The Impact of pose. Just as steel, and more recently the elderly, the indigent, and those and managed ... for the same mone results of “investor-owned control” Investor Owned Health Care Chains oil and chemicals, happen to be other Americans who exist outside tary purpose. There is nothing to of American health care are sugges on Labor and Community,” argue co m m o d itie s U.S.

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