Se Te THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, June 30, 1977 Planned Parenthood to stay open By RON DeKETT 72 hour marathon session in The Washtenaw t_'0o u n t which the staff aired their grie- League for Planned Parenthood Jvances against Executive Direc- Board of Directors narrowly far Jack Singleton. averted a massive resignation bvyseveral of the Planlned Par'- SI N GLEFT ON WA S enthood center's staff Tuesday hired as the Executive Director when they agreed to meet staff for the Planned Parenthood cen- demands. The walkout would ter 18 months ago. have critpled the clinic's oper- The staff accused Singleton ations. of mismanagement and alleged The board agreed to hire a that he violated grievance pro- third - party consultation firm cedures, harrassed employes to examine the administrative and allowed improper medical procedures of the clinic and decisions to be reached with- make appropriate recommenda out proper consultation. tions Many of the staff failed to the point where it caused defic- iency in medical care. They re- turned to work Monday after the Board agreed to meet with them. AT TUESDAY'S special meet- ing unhappy s t a f f members aired their grievances before the Board. They were followed by a number of staff speaking in de- fense of Singleton, who argued that the dissension between Sin- gleton and the disgruntled staff was to a lack of communications and the heavy work-load shoul- dered by Singleton. Following the staff presenta- tion, Board President Peter Heydon cleared the meeting room of all staff and the Board heard Singleton's rebuttal. The staff had presented the Board with three alternatives to the status quo. 0 Singleton would resign or be fired and the staff would stay. * Singleton wD-,d stay and the staff resign en mass. 9 Singleton would stay and the Board would hire a third- party to examine the adminis- trative procedure and make rec- ommendations. The Board chose the latter. THE PLANNED Parenthood clinic, 912 N. Main, provides a variety of services for family planning including vasectomies, counseling, referral services, dissemination of birth control in- formation and abortions. Staff and administration rela- tions had been strained for some time but apparently reached the breaking point over the s pension of Dr. Johan Etiot the clinic's medical director. an Singleton's efforts to itcrease the clinic's aliartion capabilities As a result of Sigletosns ac- tions, several key mtedisxa per sonnel resigned. Last 'Thr.d5 the general walkout Cssed Should the staff decitl nt accept the Board's terms nod stage a massive resoigs1,nn the clinic could face the psibitv of losing funding from -te tat Board of Health for heing o. able to provide cOntr,ts1 ,, ices. HIOWEVER THERE were some disputes between the staff and Board over the terms of the decision and the naming of the firm to be hired to conduct the survey, protest spokesper- son Debra Lipson said. Spokespersons for the staff met yesterday with the Board to resolve those differences. Following the meeting the staff held a conference to determine whether they should accept or reject the Boards offer of re- conciliation. The decision came after a show up for work last Thursday and Friday because they felt Singleton's administration had lowered the staff's morale to New birth contro device seen BR(OKLINE, MAss. Ai - A birth control device that makes the rhythm method as reliable as the pill should be on the market within tw years, its de- velopers say. The -device, called an ovos- timer, tells a woman when she is most fertile and can also be used by w o m e n trying to achieve pregnancy, t h e re- searchers say. "THERE ARE no side ef- fects," said Dr. Louis Kopito, a research scientist at Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. "It's like putting in a thermo- meter and taking it out again." The rhythm method is a birth dontrol technique in which wo- men avoid intercourse during ovulation. Since the time of ovu- lation often vaires, however, the method fails about 30 per cent of the time. The ovutimer is a seven-inch- long plastic device that looks like a tampon inserter: It makes the rhythm method accurate, the researchers say, because it tells women when sperm can get past their natural defenses and make them pregnant. IT WORKS by placing a sam- ple of cervical fluid between two small, plastic plates engraved with microscopic grooves. The two plates either stick together under light force or they do not, providing an indication of fer- tility that day. "It will determine exactly when the sperm is penetrable and when a woman will get pregnant," Kopito said. kpito and two doctors have worked on the device for 11 years. They plan to ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval this fall to begin testing its reliability on women who are members of family planning organizations. IF THE TESTS are success- ful, Kopito said, the device should-be on the market in the United States in early 1979. An- other version will be available to gynecologists in Europe by the end of this year. "Our first market ii be a men who are trin so get pre nant," Kopito said. "There are six million women is the Usited States who want to hare babies but cannot, and ties ie hmt ely motivated. "Another group r, those who cannot take the pill bit wat to limit family size." Kopito cautioned iha sohirth control device is absolutely ac- curate. "We want to be some- where within the range of the pill," which is said to be shlt 93 per cent effective. The ovutimer will ru :ihoa the same as birth contiasi pills, he said, selling for aboat $1 with disposable testing plates marketed at about 25 cests each I We're tellini 44 milien .pn-dfeN~ Unto States hsw to escape. 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