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The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 3

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SACUA discusses

2 girls spotted
leaving Arbor
jicights facility
Two teenage girls walked away
from Arbor Heights correctional facil-
ity early yesterday morning, Depart-
ment of Public Safety reports state.
Descriptions of the girls were broad-
cast to DPS officers, who spotted one
of the girls using a pay phone near
Stickland's Market on Observatory
Street and returned them to staff
members on duty at Arbor Heights.
'suspect caught
with marijuana
Three male subjects were observed
'smoking a joint" outside the Fleming
Administration Building on Thursday
afternoon, according to DPS reports.
Officers took one of the suspects into
custody after a pursuit.
Woman injured by
elevator door
A woman at University Hospitals
was hit by an elevator door Friday
morning, DPS reports state. The
woman complained of pain resulting
from the incident, but there was no
visible injury.
25 lb. bag of
$aster missing
A 25 lb. bag of plaster was stolen
from the Art and Architecture Build-
ing on Friday afternoon, DPS reports
state. DPS did not report having any
suspects.
Cell phone stolen
at Angell Hall
*A cell phone was stolen from a
male student at the Angell Hall com-
puting site last Tuesday, DPS reports
state. The phone was valued at $220.
DPS does not have any suspects.
Outerwear stolen
from laboratory
A man's sheepskin overcoat was
stolen from the Harrison Randall Lab-
tory on Friday evening, DPS
orts state. The jacket was missing
along with the man's gloves, scarf and
wool cap. The stolen articles have an
estimated value of $250. DPS does
not have any suspects.
Man arrested in
UGLi bathroom
A47-year-old man was found
'tping in the first floor restroom of
the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on
Friday morning, DPS reports state.
The subject was arrested and taken to
the Ann Arbor Police Department
after it was discovered he was wanted
on alcohol related charges.
2 men refuse to
leave Yost Arena
Two intoxicated men refused to
ve Yost Ice Arena on Thursday
evening, DPS reports state. Staff at
the arena said the men had left
before and returned to the arena
"seconds later." One of the men
was eventually escorted home by a
friend.
Restroom doors

broken at Couzens
lhe doors for both the fifth floor
men's and women's restrooms at
Couzens residence hall were broken
Saturday evening, according to DPS
reports. Maintenance was contacted to
take care of the problem and DPS didI
not report having any suspects in the
incident.
Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
David Enders. I

By Jodie Kaufman
Daily Staff Reporter

Associate Provost Paul Courant visited yester-
day's Senate Assembly meeting, speaking on a
topic of great concern among faculty members
- possible changes in the way the "University
year" appointments are paid.
A University year is a nine-month appointment
paid over the course of 12 months. Faculty mem-
bers are being paid from July 1999 to June 2000
for the current academic year.
Courant proposed that "the pay be coterminous
with the academic year" and suggested two meth-
ods by which this could occur.
"The first would pay for nine months' work
over the nine months that we work, and faculty
would be responsible for managing their cash

flow for June, July and August," Courant;
Senate Advisory Committee on Un
Affairs member Peter Ward said this p
"would reinforce the fact that we are not re
ulty for three months. There is too muc
ment not to manage finances and to splurg
SACUA member Jack Gobetti saidt
bigger deal than it appears.
"The University would only coverf
months. The top sounds like frosting, bu
you're cutting much deeper here," Gobett
The other option that Courant propos
change the University year from Septe
August.
"Those who were appointed under
rules would be paid under the new rule
they wanted to. New appointments will
under the new rules," Courant said.

faculty payment
said. SACUA Vice Chairman Louis Kleinsmith said situations, and ha
iversity he doesn't think current faculty members are the SACUA Chairwon
proposal constituency that Courant needs to be concerned "We are pushing ha
Bally fac- about. ences Institute is b
h entice- "The real constituency is the new faculty who parking, having th
e." come in. We need to see if this is significant to crunch. This is a 1
this is a recruiting' Kleinsmith said. inable problems."
Faculty members said they also were con- Kossoudji report
for nine cerned about continuing benefits coverage while casual census of th

plans

ave taken a lot of actions,"
man Sherrie Kossoudji said
ard because when the Life Sci-
eing built, we will lose a lot of
ree to four years of parking
ong time to deal with abom-
ted that SACUA conducted a
he Thompson Street Blue Lot
n.
t at 1:20 p.m. there were seven
ers in the lot, four of which
ervice vehicles. SACUA also,
ts in the lot.
will be holding an hourly cen
ots on Church, Thayer and
well as at the School of Busi-
n and the Law School.

.

t I think
i said.
ed is to
mber to
the old
s only if
be paid

not being paid.
Courant said he would look in to offering early
coverage for faculty who would be without cov-
erage due to the payment change.
Courant added that another issue is the increase
in disability rates which will be coming soon.
SACUA also discussed the parking crunch on
Central Campus.
"We are especially concerned about parking

yesterday afternoon
She reported that
cars without sticke
were University se
found six open spot
Today SACUA w
sus in the Blue L
Fletcher streets, asN
ness Administration

A job well done

Journals doctors ponder
press' coverage of HMOs

DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily
Ensign Township volunteer firefighter Jim Wilson rests on the side of a
pumper truck after fighting a house fire in Rapid River, Mich., last night.
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By Undsey Alpert
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly one hundred physicians, journalists and communi-
ty members attended "Covering Managed Care: the Press
and Public Policy," yesterday in the Michigan Union Ball-
room to discuss how the media portrays HMOs.
Panel members included keynote speaker Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean, NBC Chief Medical Correspondent Bob
Arnot, Central Region Director General of Health Canada
William Pascal, WXYZ-TV health reporter and anchor Car-
olyn Clifford, as well as other medical experts and journal-
ists.
The program featured a panel discussion between the
medical experts and the journalists. While opinions were
occasionally similar between the two groups, sparks flew
during the discussion.
Event coordinator Charles Eisendrath, director of the
Michigan Journalism Fellows program, said journalists and
medical experts have opposing perspectives about each
other. "The experts are considered frauds by the journalists,
while the journalists are considered hacks by the experts,"
Eisendrath said.
The main issues discussed by the panel was the quality of
HMOs, the costs of health care and how the media covers
HMOs.
"The theory of HMO management is a wonderful idea'
said Robert Weinman, president of the Union of American
Physicians and Dentists. "But, the management of it has
been heinous."
The idea behind an HMO is to cut down costs for
employers as well as to control the amount of waste, said
Ezekiel Emanuel, chief of the National Institutes of Health's
department of bioethics.
"There is a lot of waste in physicians who are not man-
aged, because of doctors incentives to do tests," Emanuel
said.
But while physicians might be performing too many pro-

cedures on a per-cost basis, there are claims that HMOs do
not perform enough procedures.
"In the end, I think the American consumer deserves the
vote to decide how much they pay for health care, Arnot
said. Medicine is about "the best possible result for the
patient."
Health care costs have skyrocketed in the past few years
and now account for more than 10 percent of the gross
national product, Dean said.
"I'm troubl d by the fact that our expenses are enor-
mous," he said. When legislators passed several bills,
including one for insurance to cover the costs of birth con-
trol pills and chiropractic services, people were upset when
they had to foot the bill, Dean said. "Other things get hurt,
including education, welfare, he added.
Pascal admitted many of the media stories in Canada
focus on how poorly HMOs in the United States are man-
aged. "The public policy folks believe that the media should
cover HMOs in an unbiased way," Pascal said. "The two
worlds don't understand the pressures on each other."
The journalists responded by saying they appeal to their
audience. "At first glance, HMOs are not one of those tanta-
lizing issues," Clifford said. "But there are fewer issues that
are so important."
"I don't go out everyday thinking, 'How can I change the
world,"' Wall Street Journal health and medical reporter Ron
Winslow said. "We're just out looking for good stories"
Experts argued that since the journalists catered to their
readers, they will focus on the negatives. Emanuel referred
to an editor who told him, "We're not interested in when
HMOs do the right thing, we're interested in when they do
the wrong thing."
"I think our job is to be fair, balanced and equal," said
Jeff Forster, editor of Medical Economics. "We need to
police ourselves, the doctors need to police themselves, and
the HMOs need to police themselves. The real challenge is
to be able to give the picture in a fair, accurate and balanced
way."

By Jodie Kaufman
Daily Staff Reporter
Uni, ersity veteran Timothy Killeen,
associate vice president of research
and professor of atmospheric, oceanic
and space sciences, ,k ill be leaving the
University after 22 year, to become
director of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colo.
NCAR last week announced it had
chosen Killeen for the position after an
extensive search.
"We are extremely pleased that Tim
Killeen has agreed to serve as NCAR's
director," Richard Anthes, president of
the University Corporation for Atmos-
pheric Research, which manages
NCAR, said in a written statement.
"Tim has a distinguished record of sci-
entific achievement, educational inno-
vation, management and leadership.
He has shown a deep understanding,
desire and excitement to lead the cen-
ter into the future."
NCAR was created in 1960 to pro-
vide a research institution with the
resources that no single university
could have on its own, such as com-
puters, aircraft and Doppler radar.
Hundreds of scientists visit the facil-
ity each year to meet and map out
future research projects. NCAR is
funded primarily by the National
Science Foundation, said Bob Hen-
son, editor in the communications
group at UCAR.
Killeen said he is "reluctant to leave
Michigan but NCAR is such a pre-
miere organization, and to have the
opportunity to lead it is a once in a
lifetime opportunity."
He added that he will miss being at
the University, but "NCAR has a
tremendous capacity to make major
contributions in the future, and this is
an important job. I am flattered."

Killeen has been at the University
since receiving his postdoctoral
degree at University College London
and has gone "up through the ranks,"
he said.
"I certainly feel like I have made
contributions in teaching and inte-
grating research and education, and
in my own research in space sci-
ences, a lot of which I am going to
be able to retain at NCAR," Killeen
said.
Killeen currently leads a group of
15 researchers who are investigating
the upper atmospheres of the Earth
and other planets. He also directs the
Global Change Laboratory.
Killeen has received both the Excel-
lence in Research and Excellence in
Teaching awards from the University
and two achievement awards from the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
"I have been very happy here,
and I enjoyed teaching and invest-
ing in educational innovations -
part in an administrative function
and part as a laboratory director,"
Killeen said.
He said he plans to keep his close ties
with the University despite the distance.
"I hope to retain my investments
at Michigan," Killeen said, "I hope
to be an adjunct professor, coming
back and teaching, and I should be
able."
The University and more than 60
other institutions are members of
UCAR, which allows them to share and
work together on research projects.
Killeen said he is looking forward
to his new position, which begins
July 1.
"Environmental problems are only
becoming more important with time,
and it is a really exciting time
because of this ever-growing need,"
Killeen said.



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