Page 4-Thursday, August 9, 1979-The Michigan Daily Michigan Daily Eighty-nine Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109 Vol. LXXXIX, No. 62-S News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan ''Hospital: Round tWo T HE REGIONAL health planning council's second review of plans for a new University Hospital could be as unproductive as the first one, if University officials are not ready to reduce the size and costs of the planned facility. Ip terms of legal obligation to change the plans, this review is no different from the first one. At worst, the University could reject all changes and the Comprehensive Health Planning Council (CHPC) could repeat its negative recommen- dation to the state department of Public Health, which has final say on approval of the hospital plans. The CHPC has no other ammunition in the battle against soaring health care costs. The regional planners should produce specific, reasonable suggestions for the $241 million blueprint to be pared down to a relatively cost- effective design. Unlike the first review, however, the University should alter the plans in response to the CHPC's welt-researched suggestions. A stumbling block in the first review was whether University Hospital should be regarded as a community or state resource, in view of its educational/research function. University officials used the phrase "educational/research mission" as a shield during the first regional review in order to resist cutting the hospital's size and cost. They put the burden on the regional planners of demonstrating that proposed cuts will not damage the hospital's educational/research function. The University should share this burden with the CHPC by demonstrating that eliminating specific programs in the hospital will harm the state's efforts to carry out medical teaching and research. It is impossible to quantify the educational/research needs of Michigan, especially as questions about such needs surface more frequently. The need for more doctors and whether expensive health care technology ac- tually results in healthier people are questions that cannot be ignored in planning a better facility aimed at operation in 1990. With this obserVation in mind, the University should put aside its pride and admit that despite the sophistciated planning techniques it has em- ployed, it may not have all the answers. SUMMER EDITORIAL STAFF ELIZABETH SLOWIE Ediorin-Chie JUDY RAKOWKY ........................Editorial Director JOSHUA PECK A P .........E. ... .................ArsEditor SPORTSSTAFF 6 OIF -LA COM S.. ...... ... ......Sports Editor To the Da Regeni letter (Mi concerni photograj black st Michigan of justifi( formed a to differ other for} Long b letter a editors ar we saw a: book. No commun coveredi but few students Life secti yearbook curately Universit such a se in part fi which pla The Ed changed' publicati dividual adequate groups. photogral not thoug photograp the com Arbor lift Letters to the D ily: tentional omission, albeit a a Lumbard's recent serious one, and not the conscious chigan Daily, August 2) effort to exclude black students ng the "paucity of which Ms. Lumbardimplies. phs or mention . . . of However, Ms. Lumbard's udents" in the 1979 criticism is unjustified with ensian is a combination respect to the coverage of black ed criticism and unin- student organizations. Each Sep- llegations. I would like tember, we contact more than 200 entiate one from the student groups (including all your readers. those officially recognized by iefore Ms. Lumbard's MSA) concerning coverage of ppeared, the senior their activities in the yearbook. nd I had discussed what As a self-supporting publication s a major flaw in the '79 receiving no subsidies from the t only was the black University, the Michiganensian ity not specifically has traditionally asked each n any meaningful way, organization to pay for the pages photographs of black it requests in the yearbook. The appeared in the Campus majority of fraternities and ion, that portion of the sororities have been pictured in which is intended to ac- the yearbook for many years, and reflect life at the those whose photographs do not y. The explanation for appear simply chose not to pur- rious ommission stems chase any pages. Black student rom editorial problems organizations are not ignored, igued the book all year. nor does the yearbook staff itor-in-Chief position "choose .., to believe that black hands inthe middle of fraternities and sororities on this on, preventing one in- campus are invisible." Rather, from overseeing the those black organizations, along coverage of all campus with other white and minority In addition, organizations, chose not to phers and editors were allocate their sometimes limited htful enough in selecting funds for space in the yearbook. phs and copy to convey -Trish Refo ete gamut of the Ann Editor-in-Chief estyle. This was an unin- 1980 Michiganensian WEtRE NOT-COCrisTS B3ROTHERf To the Daily: WE'RE P FEEVOD- If Lorraine Beebe had accused WE LO/E YOu.t those who protested against the -execution of a man in Florida a - TELL tiE.., few weeks ago of trying to deny is -EE the executioner the right to em- ANYTHlN, ployment, it would make as much YO0 sense as her recent charge that 00t4'T pro-life advocates want to deny LOVt? women the right to control their own bodies. Abortion kills as surely as the electric chair. Unless a living, human fetus is destroyed, there is no abortion. This destruction of life is the BROTgER... WE LovC EVERYThIING THAT DM5 YOU SEE THE LovE IN EVER)YWIN& T HAT I S. U H- HOH. OH, HY CYNICAL. HAVEN T. BROTHER..- HAVE YOU EVER CON- SIDERED HOWMUCH IT COSTS rOR% U5TO - PP5 PEAD OUR DOCTRINE. t 4 ally point of objection in both instan- ces. The Supreme Court has erred in other instances in denying rights to certain segments of humanity. Their 1973 decisioq denying any protection under the law to babies before birth is but another proof of their fallibility. When Ms. Beebe speaks of women being denied the right to make "this choice," let her in fairness spell out what this choice is: the right to destroy their un- born children. -Patricia Rose To the Daily: There's so much wrong with" the correctional system in this state that it isn't easy to com- prehend. There's very little appealing or sympathetic about criminal types, but if the approach to their treatment is immoral, cruel, and illegal, then the Department of Corrections must share respon- sibility for the crime committed in Michigan. People are sent to prison for guilt of a crime - they must then abide by the prison's rules and regulations or suffer the con- sequences. The conduct of Civil Serviceemployees is likewise circumscribed by statute, policy directive, etc., but those circum- scriptions are violated daily! Seeing and being subjected to that, is it any wonder there's so little reformation in prison? The result is a degree of human suffering and waste of lives paralleled only in totalitarian societies. It won't be corrected until those employees of the Department of Corrections who are cruel and callous are prevented from prac- ticing their anti-humanitarian impulses on prison iesidents. -Tom Watson WAIT 'I' CON F5E D WE LOVE TH-AT, TO. HOW MUCH 'DO TROBE LIGHTS RUN THESE DAYS FORI VE HIM, LEST0?