Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom E 1311r Ipa IEtaIIQ SUSPECT High winds, freezing rain, snow showers and a chance of thunderstorms. A high of 30. Have a nice day. Vol. XC1I, No. 93 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday January 23, 1982 Ten Cents Eight Pages Chairmen lament LSA faculty cuts By MIKE McINTYRE The recently proposed LSA faculty reduc- tion plan, which calls for a 7 percent shrinkage of the college's faculty, will seriously compromise the University's teaching effort, according to several LSA department chairpersons. The reduction will include the loss of more than 50 full-time teaching positions and is to be implemented over the next five years. Departments have known of the impending cuts since last June. Details of the plan, however, were not officially reported by LSA Dean Peter Steiner until this month's faculty meeting. UNDER THE college-wide reduction plan, some departments are slated to lose as many as five faculty positions. The reduction is to be carried out on a "non-replacement" basis as positions become vacant, Steiner ex- plained. "We're not contemplating dismissals for the purpose of meeting this cutback," he said. Department chairpersons contend that the effect of the faculty reduction plan wiht be larger lecture sections as well as reduced course offerings. "We're very, very unhappy about it," said Professor Frederick Gehring, chairman of the department of mathematics. "It's going to cause a lot of problems." In recent years the mathematics depar- tment, which will lose five positions as a result of the cutback, has worked at getting more of its doctoral faculty into the lower level math courses, Gehring said. "There's now much less chance of an un- dergraduate being taught by one of our doc- toral staff. Years of work have been swept away by one cut," Gehring said. "YOU CAN'T fight the weather," said History Department Chairman Jacob Price, referring to the state's poor economic climate. "The whole point is to pass the har- dship around as equitably as possible, and -I think the administration has tried to do that ...they've hit everybody with the same meat ax." The "meat ax" came down hard on the history department, as the reduction plan calls for four faculty positions to eventually be cut from the program. "There was no long- range planning," Price said, citing the fact that his department was given only a few weeks early last year to indicate to the ad- ministration which areas of study were to be vacated. As a result, the department will not be able to offer courses in either Southeast Asian or Latin American History. "Sooner or later we hope to restore some of these cuts," Price said. The reduction plan "will have an impact on our teaching program at the freshman and sophomore levels," said Professor Thomas Dunn, 'chairman of the chemistry depar- tment. Courses such as Chemistry 123, 125, and 126 have traditionally been offered in both Fall and Winter terms, Dunn explained. The three faculty positions that are to be eliminated, however, mean that such multiple offerings will no longer be possible, Dunn said. DUNN INDICATED that if the department were to take additional measures, such as eliminating the honors program, it still might be able to meet only 80 percent of the student demand. The chemistry department is in the process of preparing an impact statement for the administration, Dunn said, to show what effect the faculty losses will have on its teaching program. According to Steiner, the Faculty Redme- tion Plan does not translate into bigger classes. Rather, it will "provide relief to * students by shifting resources around to meet demand." Departments that have urgent teaching needs and experience high enrollment See PROFESSORS, Page 3 LSA DEAN Peter Steiner proposes Faculty Reduction Plan. I Annual inflation rate drops to,8 89% From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Plentiful food and a painful recession combined to lower inflation to 8.9 percent last year, the slowest pace since 1977 and a drop of 3.5 points from 1980. A White House spokesman welcomed the figures as "substantial progress" against the wage and price spiral. In Detroit, where retailers are hard- pressed to ask unemployed auto workers to pay more for goods, in- flation last year was just 3.2 percent, the Labor Department reported yester- day. In other cities, it ranged up to 153 . percent. BY HISTORICAL standards, the 1981 increase in the Consumer Price Index, was still very high- the fifth highest in three decades. But it was a significant reduction as. measured against the clips of 12.4 per- cent in 1980 and 13.3 percent in 1979. In- flation was 9 percent in 1978 and 6.8 percent in 1977. Nearly all economists expect even smaller increases this year, especially if management and labor can settle wage contracts at moderate levels. PRESIDENT Reagan's deputy press secretary, Larry Speakes, said "We welcome the year-end result on this key indicator of progress against inflation. A X percent drop (actually 3.5) in the CPI is substantial progress. ;I The main reasons, by all accounts, for the 1981 inprovement; bountiful U.S. See INFLATION, Page 3 12 students fired in Health Service shakeup By LOU FINTOR Conflicts over the University Health Service's administrative reorganization apparently have resulted in the resignation of two Health Service administrators and the planned firing of all 12 student em- ployees in the- Medical Records Depar- tment. Students employed in the Medical Records Department will send petitions and letters of protest today to President Harold Shapiro, University Regents, Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson, and Health Service administrators, employees said. IN ANOTHER point of controversy, a health service administrator, who resigned Jan. 12 said this week he left because of conflicts with other officials over the reorganization of the student health center. Medical Records DirectorThomas Holly, who will leave officially at the end of the month, also complained of the lack ofmanmonitoring system for University Health Service and a drop in the quality of patient care. Health Service administrators neither directly informed students of the termination decision nor gave them any indication of what was behind the firings, said Jocelyn Copley, a student employed in the Medical Records unit. "MEDICAL Records Manager Becky Brown informed each of the students (in the department) this past week that there would be changes and they (the administration) would be letting go of all the students as of the second week in February," Copley said. "She told me that it wasn't a reflec- tion on our performance because she had already succeeded in weeding out inefficient workers," she added. "I really think that they would have known about this decision in Decem- ber," Copley said, adding that had students been notified earlier, they could begin seeking other employment. KIM KELLY, a student who will be affected by the termination, said Brown told her officials decided to reorganize the department to increase the quality of patient care. "They are replacing 12 part-time students with two 'full-time em- ployees," Kelly said. "I would think that the department will be chaotic." Kelly said the students affected have worked in the department from three- and-a-half months to five. years and most do not have other sources of in- come. "IT'S A REAL difficult time to find another job and I know jobs are hard to find in Ann Arbor," Kelly said. Kelly said that although she believes Health Service administrators have good intentions, dedicated employees have not been treated fairly. Thomas Wilson, Health Service building manager, said he believed that in the long term, the elimination of part-time student positions in the medical records division would im- prove the quality of patient care. "THE NUMBER of bodies in that of- fice have aggravated the problem of space," Wilson said. Ellie Puffe, director of patient care and public relations at Health Service, Colev .. protests firings said there appeared to be "problems with the efficiency of the unit." "In order to .keep up our quality of patient care," the terminations became necessary, Puffe said. "IF YOU'RE there only a few hours it's hard to keep up with new policies," she added, referring to the part-time work of the students. Henry' Johnson, vice president for student services, said he had not been See TWO; Page 3 Daily Photo by MIKE LUCAS Michigan Student Assembly Vice President Amy Hartmann, right, collects Jennifer Lo's signature on a petition protesting a state bill that would reduce student loans. The petition opposes a bill, upcoming in the State legislature, that would reduce student loan appropriations for the fall 1982 budget. "~ Nurse practitioners aid doctors "and' patients By PERRY CLARK You wake up one morning and know you need a doctor. Your throat hurts, your head throbs, and you can't eat anything. Since you've already paid for it, a health service visit awaits. Most patients expect to see a doctor, but now another possibility exists. At University Health Ser- vices-and around the country-nurse practitioners are beginning to take over many duties of doctors. NPS ARE "registered nurses with advanced training in physical assessment skills and com- munity health problems," said Arlene Loucks, NP at University Health Service. Terry Tubbs, a colleague of Loucks, said a major role of NPs is to take medical histories and conduct physical examinations. Registered nurses generally don't do this, she said. "We focus on health maintenance and health teaching," Tubbs added. Her ideas were echoed by another Health Service NP, Terry Maclean, who said, "People want to stay healthy and need support and encouragement to do so." Most problems NPs handle at Health Service are ailments that will disappear of their own accord, such as colds, sore throats, and stomachaches. More serious problems, requiring a detailed diagnosis, are referred to physicians. I EACH NP AT Health Service has a preceptor, a physician available for advice and guidance. This allows, for ready consultation while, freeing physicians to deal with major problems. Physician Robert Reinhardt called the health ser- vice staff of NPs "a big plus for me. It leaves more time for physicians to look at the more difficult or time-consuming things." Not only can NPs diagnose illnesses, but they also can prescribe medication. Loucks said this is done with the consent of the preceptor, whose name ap- pears along with the NP's name on the prescription form. NPs cannot perform surgery. THE FIRST NPs were pediatric nurses. Mary Burkhart, an instructor in the School of Nursing; and also a pediatric NP, said that in 1963, two pediatricians, Loretta Ford and Henry Silver, got the idea that nurses could perform some of the duties physicians had done. Because they saw healthy children for routine checkups, the work of the NPs allowed doctors to concentrate more time on sick children, Burkhart .said. The result was that more children benefited. Training for NP ,status varies, but all NPs are registered nurses. Dr. Lois Gage, professor of nur- sing, said NPs could have as little background as an associate degree, plus a year of training in a cer- tificate program. See NURSES, Page 2 Super Bowl'boosts local businesses By JASON ADKINS This weekend's Super Bowl XVI festivities mean more to southeasterri Michigan than just' good football. It means an estimated income of about $60 million to the areas around the Pon- tiac Silverdome. The impact on Ann Arbor businesses was apparent this week as hotels and inns began filling up. Susan Stony of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce said that the Chamber has been exceptionally busy during the past few weeks and that they had some difficulty relocating the forty reservations at a local motel which recently closed. THE CROWDS in Ann Arbor this week are different than those ap- pearing on football weekends in the fall, Stony said. At Michigan Wolverine football games, 90 per- cent of the people are familiar with the town, she said, but this weekend the people are from all across the United States. "This weekend, business in Ann Arbor will be three times what it was during the Republican convention," Stony said. "There has been a great boom in expectations," she added. The $60 million income estimate for the area may even be a conser- vation one, according to Debbie Hart of the Detroit-based Michigan Host Committee, a hotel booking agency. THE ECONOMIC boost is unusual See LOCAL, Page;3 TODAY Nicotine fit LEN AND HARRIET Plumlee of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, have given up on their personal cam- paign against cigarettes after wiearly a year of hanning smoking at their Good Eats Cafe. The Sayit with flowers .,.. Has your romance wilted? Say it with flowers-dead, rot- ten, reeking roses. Ron Gardner, 25, of Pittsburgh says, "Other florists think I'm crazy," of this Dump-A-Date arrangements offered at The Garden of Eden florist shop. "Most shops are owned by a husband and wife in their 50's who sit around and wait for people to come in. But I do dif- ferent things," said Gardner, whose shop is in Mount Oliver. Most of ,Gardner's business comes from the traditinna lnsorces holidavs. anniversaries wedding and and you could be in love by Feb. 14, predicts psychiatrist Morris Sklansky of Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. "Providing you are ready and the right person comes along, you will fall in love," he said Thursday. "Everyone has an unconsciuos program that helps determine to whom he or she is attracted," he said. "When we say, ' I love her but I don'tsknow why,' we are honest. In fact, the subcon- scious has done the screening for us." Though some knock "love at first sight" as romantic pap, Sklansky says in- fatuation can develop into a long-term love relationship. Romantic love, though, is more than sexual attraction, he reach the Super Bowl. Anyone who would actually want turf of one of the true "fluke" teams in professional football can reach Patrick Cassidy, of San Jose, Calif., who is marketing the boxes of turf. Cassidy noted that the buyer may even be purchasing the sod on which "Dwight Clark caught the winning touchdown" in the Dallas game. There is a precedent for the sales. In New York, after the Mets won the 1969 World Series, ambitious city dwellers took to the field and grabbed large hunks of turf. Within hours plots of grass were spotted on sale on numerous Manhattan street corners. I i I