Western Front - 1975 September 30

              Health center surviving/but not cured
FRANKLY SPEAKING... .by phil frank
STUDfrfT HEALTH CEHTCR
by CONNIE TEDROW
For another year at least, there will be an
on-campus health facility available for
students.
This year, like last, through the maze of
budgetary predictions, the health center has
nearly held its own ground.
The health center has officially received
$24,000 from student tuition. The money pays
for doctor hours only, enabling the center to be
manned by physicians for five hours each day.
Last year the center was funded with
$31,000. During fall quarter there were four
daily hours of doctor care available, which was
increased to six hours a day during winter and
spring quarters.
C.W. "Bill" McDonald, vice president of
student affairs, said, "This year, the health
center will have to carry on as best it can by
watching their supplies and Gutting corners."
A new funding method will be discussed,
chosen and implemented for next year, McDon­ald
said. Those looking into the problem with
him will be Vice President and Provost Loren
Webb and College President Paul J. Olscamp.
They will be looking toward a total revamping
of the $52.50 taken from each student's tuition
for service and activities fees from which the
health center is funded, McDonald said.
Many of these changes will occur with the
adoption of certain recommendations found in
the Goltz Report, he said.
The Goltz Report is a study at making funding
and expenditures at Western more efficient. As
of yet, its proposals are still under discussion in
committee.
For example, McDonald said, the report
pointed out that although $52.50 comes out of
each full-time student's tuition, only $5 comes
out of a part-time student's tuition —- no matter
how many credits are taken.
This amounts to a loss in service and
activities fees of between $30,000 to $40,000, he
said.
In addition to the Goltz Report, there are a lot
of other areas needing study before a final
decision on the health center is made.
"One of these is the trend toward national
health insurance," McDonald said.
Another is the conditon of Edens Hall, where
the health center is currently housed.
"Edens Hall is in such a state it may have to
be torn down within the next four to five years,"
he said.
This, McDonald said, would entail construc­tion
of a new health facility and "I don't think
the state wants to do that."
The sentiment of some legislators is 'why
should a college provide health services to
young people just because they're attending
college when communities generally don't
provide them free of charge,' McDonald said.
"This is the complaint we get when request­ing
state funding," he said.
Right now. the center doesn't do X-rays or lab
work. One of the questions in need of
clarification is the health center's role on
campus, McDonald said.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1975 VOL.68 N0.2
A participant in Project Per-
FECT, Bellingham's Prison Ear­ly
Relese Training Program at
Western, was arrested early
Saturday morning.
The paticipant, Donald Loy
Broner, 29,, was charged with
the possession of a controlled
substance, assault and battery
and a parole violation.
Broner, a resident of High­land
Hall, was arraigned yes­terday
morning on the assault
charge. An attorney was ap­pointed
to represent him.
He was also fined $50 on the
controlled substance charge. -
The parole violation charge
is being handled by Peter
Musselwhite, head parole offi­cer
for the program, according
to a Bellingham Police Depart­ment
spokesman. J
House-hunting subsides,
nearly all find homes
by SUKID ARD ARIAN
The great student migration to Bellingham
is over, and for now, the mass search for
housing has subsided.
Although the students have weathered an­other
storm on housing, many of them have
found residences which leave them little elbow
room.
Rumors of students holing up in the Leopold
Hotel due to a lack of space on campus were
denied last week by Pete Coy, campus housing
director. He said rooms in the hotel were
reserved in case there had been an overflow of
students on campus, but there was no overflow
and the rooms were not needed.
'We were afraid we'd get a surge of 150
students (who had not applied for housing) the
week before school started, but the surge never
came," Coy said. "To make sure we'd have
space, we also doubled up students in residence
hall rooms."
He said there were only a few single
occupancies offered in residence halls this fall.
The pattern in recent years shows a three to
four per cent increase in the number of students
living on campus, and the number of on-campus
residents is higher this fall, according to Coy.
He predicted the number of on-campus resi­dents
v-Duld be between 3,300 and 3,400
stude»- Sf which would mean 35 to 36 per cent of
Western's student body.
Most of the residence halls are filled and
have waiting lists of about 20 to 30 people. Coy
said there are 100 vacancies in Fairhaven
residence halls, but that Kappa and Beta-Gam­ma
are two of the most desirable halls.
Steve Kadow, student manager at Kappa,
said the only problem he could see in Kappa
was the waiting list of 32. He said these people
will have to wait a week to discover their
housing fates.
In the three years Kadow has been at Kappa,
he said this was the first time he'd seen such a
high percentage of applicants who have shown
up on the residence hall registrationn date. He
said there was only one case of a student not
showing up in Kappa this fall.
In off-campus housing, the situation seems
the same — most students have roofs over their
heads, but may be a little cramped. Some
students have reported having six or seven
roommates in a three or four bedroom house,
and others have had to make low-ceilinged
basements or small studio apartments their
homes.
An employe in the AS Housing and Employ­ment
Office, Klay Singhrs, said things had
cooled off in off-campus housing, and it seemed
like most people were settled in their diggings.
He said there was still a trickle of people
looking for homes and homes looking for people,
though. Homeless students may still find what
they need on the bulletin board in the housing
office in VU 216.
"It's not as frantic, and it seems like the worst
is over," Singhrs said. He said many people have
resigned themselves to the fact that they'f e going
to have to stay where they are.
Student housing . . . room for one more?
Hoop coach suffers setback
Hoop coach Charles flandall \photo at left] will be unable to re-assume
his duties this year. See story on page 15.
Scuba diving thriving
Front reporter Gary Johnson takes a look at scuba diving in the
Northwest. See story on page 5.
Concerts reviewed
Photos and reviews of last weekend's Steve Goodman and Chuck
Mangione concerts are on pages 12 and 13. J