Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 2, 1988 Study: nursing homes are poor 4 WASHINGTON - Inspectors found unsanitary food service or poor provision for personal hygiene in about one-fifth of Michigan's full- service nursing homes visited as part of a federal study released yesterday. However, Michigan nursing hales provided better care than the national average in nearly all of the categories used to assess the quality of their performance, the study show- ed'. Over 400 nursing homes in Michigan were covered, and the fa- cilities were rated on whether they met 32 criteria for quality of care. These ranged from freedom from mental and physical abuse to everyday items touching on the quality of life, such as the cleanliness of residents' quarters and the sanitary condition of toilets. The study found 74 skilled nursing facilities in Michigan that failed to give residents the daily personal; hygiene needed to assure cleanliness, and 60 of the facilities stored,, prepared, or served food under less than sanitary conditions. In 60 of the, skilled nursing facilities, drugs were1 administered without the written orders of the attending physician. "We certainly welcome this 'report because it is the first national report card on nursing homes," said Florence Meiers, chief of the licensing and certification division of the Michigan Public Health Department. "We feel the data will be useful to current and future patients." Charles Harmon, executive vice president of the Health Care Asso- ciation of Michigan said the survey's reliance on the individual judgement of 3,000 surveyors make its results variable. "We feel the report is an over- simplified assessment of nursing home care, and that people will misguidedly turn to it as a complete guide, which it is not," Harmon said. The Four Seasons nursing home in Bad Axe was marked down because of "the manner in which a patient was awakened in the morning," said Kay Peruski, social services director. "It didn't harm her physically." The rating may be misleading be-, cause "it makes you look like you'rei beating your patients, which is not1 the case," she said. Rackham student Jenny Guranian Armenia. Vigil1 Continued from Page 1 nians want fair representation in in the Soviet Union, but the government has failed to even protect the Armenians in Azarabaijan, he said. "It is a problem with no ambigui- JESSICA GREENE/Doily I talks about her experiences in Soviet ties. It is just a question of basic hu- man rights," said Ronald Suny, pro- fessor of Armenian and Soviet history at the University: "It is somewhat hard to relate to the conflict which is happening in Armenia, and it seems even more ob- scure to people when it is pictured as a Moslem-Christian conflict," he said. 3 k CRIEF ompiled from Associated Press and staff reports Wind delays space launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Weather permitting, NASA will tryagain today to send the space shuttle Atlantis on a secret military mission after1crubbing yesterday's attempt because of violently shifting winds. Officials said they would took at the forecast last night before giving a go-ahead to fuel the spacecraft again for a launch today in a three-hour period beginning at 6.32 a.m. EST. If the weather looked bad, NASA will wait until tomorrow. "We're going to take a hard look at the weather again," said launch di- rector Bob Sieck. "If it is clearly a no-go (today), we don't want to exer- cise the launch team, the crew and the systems." Navy Cmdr. Robert L. Gibson and his four-man military crew, dressed in uncomfortable, bulky flight suits, had been lying on their backs in 'ca- bin seats for nearly five hours yesterday when the decision was made to scrub. Mexican election protested MEXICO CITY, Mexico - President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office today as opponents protested in congress and in the streets. He promised to push for political and economic modernization. Salinas, a 40-year-old economist, succeeds President Miguel de la Ma- drid for a six-year term. He inherits an economy threatened by both reces- sion and inflation, growth squeezed by a 8102 billion foreign debt and a population impatient after six years of austerity treat reduced earnings about 50 percent. About 140 delegates from the National Democratic Front walked out of the Legislative Palace just before Salinas was inaugurated, and mem- bers of the National Action Party held up signs declaring "Fraud". The opposition maintains that Salinas' Institutional Revolutionary Party cheated to win the July 6 election and that the real victor was Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. U.S. refuses to let Arafat speak at United Nations UNITED NATIONS - The United States refused a request by the General Assembly to issue a visa to Yasser Arafat so the PLO leader can speak to the world body on the Palestine issue, a U.N. spokesperson said yesterday. The State Department denied the visa last Saturday on grounds that the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization was an accessory to ter- rorism. Arab diplomats said they would introduce a resolution this morning to move the General Assembly from U.N. headquarters in New York to Geneva to hear Arafat. A ranking U.N. official said a vote to move to Geneva could be taken Monday and approval was certain. Earlier yesterday, a rally outside the U.N. headquarters intended io wel- come Arafat became a protest by about 400 people at which Palestinians and a few dozen anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews denounced the refusal of a visa. Israeli parties vie for control JERUSALEM - The left-of-center Labor Party yesterday secured the backing of half the Israeli Parliament, enough to prevent a right-wing Likud government from coming to power but not enough to seat a government of its own. With the 120-member Knesset split between the left and right blocs, it remained unclear a full month after the elections who will govern for the next four years. In the Nov. 1 ballotting, Likud had a small edge of Labor, with 40 seats to Labor's 39. Each must woo smaller parties to form a majority, . and Likud's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir planned to do so with the backing of right-wing'and Orthodox religious parties. But the defection of an ultra-Orthodox Likud ally to Labor's ranks has thrown a wrench into the works. Now Labor leader Shimon Peres has the backing of 60 members, limiting the Likud bloc to 58. Class Continued from Page 1 their first two years. However, there may have to be additions and alterations to the LSA course curriculum if students are forced to take a course on racism because too few current courses meet the criteria. Jack Meiland, LSA assistant dean for curriculum and long range plan- ning, said he does not know if there are current courses that could fulfill thecourse requirements, and a spe- cial board has been formed to de- termine if any current courses do. Proponents of University Course 299 were generally pleased with the decision by the curriculum commit- tee, although most have not had the chance to look the exact proposal. Philosophy Prof. Elizabeth An- derson, a proponent of UC 299, said many of the supporters were sur- prised the committee moved so quickly. "This means the committee is taking this seriously," she said. Anderson said that since the Uni- versity has no current courses that could fill the requirements, the pro- posal could effectively force the University to recruit more faculty who are people of color to teach the new courses. "We want to use this graduation requirement to make the University aggressively recruit faculty to teach these courses, most of which will be minority faculty," Anderson said. Tracye Matthews, a UCAR spokesperson, said "It is indeed a victory for us... we just hope the faculty will follow the lead." "I'm surprised it went this far so fast, but there still is a long way to go," she added. English Prof. Buzz Alexander, another proponent of UC 299, said though he has not had the chance to look closely at the idea, he is pleased. "We're pleased that they took our criteria," he said. "That's a positive step." It's time for MIDNIGHT MADNESS! f t 1 t J t E f i 10 Look for Mad,* Mad Savings on State Street Area, Main Street Area, and South University In Today's Daily Soviet Continued from Page 1 The reform also creates a strong presidency in place of the largely ceremonial post Gorbachev assumed Oct. 1. Earlier in the week he said that without the political reform, "The drive for perestroika inevitably will begin to skid.' He said in a speech yesterday, concluding an extraordinary three-day session on his proposals to restructure the government, that the revised constitution was temporary, and further changes would respond to demands for expanded power for republic and local governments. But he emphasized the rest of his reforms will be considered by the new lawmakers. Gorbachev also told the deputies that a storm of controversy over the reform package -including 250,000 letters to the Kremlin- could have been reduced, and he took the blame. "...All of us are now learning our lessons. All of us are in a school of democracy, _and we shouldbe good pupils in that school," Gorbachev said: f Jt "J F: F ter.. "c.. Read aNd u68 DaFy CF"5qie4 t.- r ' Er.-. ( ."-- .- -- . - -., --- .-._ PIC... 'I -'-U .- L 1 V r::Y: : t ::. Fr .x. i.: r. r Informat i*on is our middle name. The Library is a bigger place than you think. And Peer Information Counseling can help you make the most of it. We can give you a personal tour of the Undergraduate Library, show you how to find periodicals and other research materials, even introduce you to a variety of word processing programs. Having trouble with that term paper? PIC can show you some useful indexes and reference books. 1 Religious Services American Baptist Campus Center First Baptist Church Huron St. (between State and Division) Across from Campus Sunday: 9.55 Worship Service 11:15 Church School Classes for all ages Wednesdays: - 5:30 (beginning September 14) Supper (free) and fellowship and Bible Study A get acquainted supper will be held Sunday, September 18, at 5:30. Please join us. Center open each day For information call 663-9376 Robert B. Wallace, pastor CANTERBURY HOUSE (Episcopal Church Chaplaincy) 218 N. Division Sunday Schedule Holy Eucharist - 5:00 p.m. Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. 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For Wilson, it was love at first sight, although he waited until Nov. 21- of this year to pop the question. Rafko said she was equally smitten but needed a little prodding from her mother. "She said, Why don't you go over and talk to him?"' Rafko recalled. "I ended up going back three times that day to pick strawberries and I gave him my phone number." 4 loan. 143a7 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $25.00 in-town and $35 out-of-town, for fall only $15.00 in-town and $20.00 out-of-town. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. 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