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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5
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treated differently or the legis-
lature shouldn't be able to tell us
something because of our con-
stitutional autonomy, we risk a
bad decision," Scarnecchia said.
"Instead of getting what we want,
we get a decision that says the
(University) does not have auton-
omy in this area, and it narrows
the definition of autonomy, so it's
always a risk."
TASK FORCE AIMS TO
IMPROVE RECREATIONAL
FACILITIES
Later in the meeting, the Sen-
ate Assembly's Advisory Task
Force on Faculty Involvement in
Health Plan Incentives discussed
the reasons for establishing a
health promotion program that
would benefit students, faculty
and staff, along with its recom-
mendations on how to implement
the program.
The task force was formed
in September 2010 to identify
incentives for faculty to exercise
and become healthier in order to
drive down costs of health care,
and ultimately save money for the
University. The task force cited
the poor state of the University's
recreational facilities as the major
deterrent for students, faculty and
staff to stay active and healthy.
"If youlook at the facilities here
at (the University), we aren't the
leaders and best. We're not even
in the middle - we're at the bot-
tom," faculty member Charles
Koopmann said.
Koopmann said the issue of
recreational facilities has large-
ly been ignored by the admin-
istration which focuses more
on renovations of athletic and
academic facilities and that
the suggestions put forth by
the Advisory Task Force would
move the administration in a
positive direction.
"The problem with the Cole-
man administration is they really
did not address this like they did
the luxury boxes at the stadium,"
Koopmann said. "They put those
on the high priority list and I
think it's time we put the health
and well-being ofthe faculty, staff
and students at the top of the list,
and this would hopefully be a
guide to do so."
Koopmann said despite the
priority that the Division of Stu-
dent Affairs has placed on rec-
reational facility improvements,
it is not on the administration's
agenda until February, which is
why he hopes the suggestions of
the task force will speed up the
process.
SACUA Chair Kate Barald, a
professor of biomedical engineer-
ing and cell and developmental
biology, said, in an interview
after the meeting, she believes
the recreational facilities need to
be improved for the benefit of the
University.
"We need new and more mod-
ern facilities," Barald said. "We
need them not only to increase
the chances the people will use
them and actually benefit from
them if we mean to be a competi-
tive university to attract the best
students."
Barald said she is optimistic
that new recreational facilities
will be built, especially since it
is a major concern for E. Roys-
ter Harper, vice president for the
Division of Student Affairs.
"It's a major agenda item for
her office," Barald said. "She's
looking at this as part of a student
problem, but there's a synergy
between the students and the
faculty."
Katarina Borer, a professor of
kinesiology in attendance at the
meeting, raised the concern that
rather than focusing on the facili-
ties themselves, it is more impor-
tant to focus on how people use
the facilities. She reasoned that
because behavior change is dif-
ficult, people themselves should
be the greatest concern, not the
buildings.
"I don't think the issue is the
facilities, which are adequate if
people want to go there," Borer
said. "The issue is how many
people will utilize them and how
many of those who utilize them
will show significant changes in
their health."
HERO
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quarter, when he began to feel
extremely exhausted and his
arms became achy. As the pain
intensified, Staudacher knew
somethingwasn't right.
"In the back of my mind I'm
going,'EverythingI'mfeelingI've
read about, and it's been describ-
ing a heart attack,' ... and that's
the last thing I remember," Stua-
dacher said.
Staudacher's heart stopped,
causing him to collapse onto
Sonne in the row in front of him.
Sonne said he immediately gave
Staudacher mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation, believing he had
passed out. But when he saw that
Staudacher's condition wasn't
improving, he switched to CPR.
"I was doing chest compres-
sions while others around were
screaming for the ushers and
other Michigan people to get
the emergency people to come,"
Sonne said.
One of the fans screaming was
Tardiff's husband. Confused at
first by her husband's behavior,
Tardiff said she turned and saw
Staudacher had collapsed a few
seats down from her in row 60.
As chaos in the section erupted as
people attempted to reach out for
Staudacher or get out of the way,
Tardiff said she was determined
to use her training as a nurse and
assist the fallen stranger.
While Tardiff attempted to
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wanted to cut back benefits by
limiting overtime pay, reducing
paid vacation time and requir-
ing union members to contribute
more to their health insurance.
In a speech in front of the Uni-
versity's Board of Regents at its
monthly meeting last month, Keri
Bokor, a nurse who works in the
UMHS Surgical Intensive Care
Unit, said the benefit reductions
essentially amounted to a pay cut
for the nurses.
reach Staudacher through the
crowd, Sonne placed Staudacher
flat on the bleachers as hegave him
CPR. When Tardiff reached the
scene. she started giving him com-
pressions as well, hoping to see a
change in Staudacher's bleak state.
"Leo was not responding,
his colors were not good, so we
continued to do compressions
because at that point, compres-
sions were what we needed to do
to try and get that heart going,"
Tardiff said.
While Staudacher's heart
failed to respond to CPR, Tardiff
said the EMS team moved into
the section, which Tardiff's hus-
band had cleared out, and placed
an automated external defi-
brillator on Staudacher. After
shocking him four times, Tardiff
said she noticed a miraculous
improvement in Staudacher's
condition.
"His color's starting to come
back, he raised his head, looked
around in a sense of;'What just
happened?"' Tardiff said.
Staudacher said he remembers
regaining consciousness in the
stadium, where his sons assured
him he was OK. The Huron Val-
ley Ambulance team then assisted
him out of the stadium to the Uni-
versity of Michigan Cardiovascu-
lar Center for treatment.
At the center, a stint was placed
in Staudacher's heart, and it
returned to normal conditions.
Staudacher watched his beloved
Notre Dame lose during the last
30 seconds of the game from his
"If you take away all of those
things, including making us pay
for more insurance, we're pretty
much taking a pay cut," Bokor said
in a Sept.15 Michigan Daily arti-
cle. "We have nurses that come
from Davison, Flint, Lansing,
Toledo - we service the entire
region. Those nurses aren't going
to want to work here if they don't
have those kinds of benefits."
In June, the MNA filed a griev-
ance with the state against thehos-
pital, claiming it violated state law
and collective bargaining rights
when it unilaterally changed the
work schedules of a handful of
hospital bed, but his own victory
in overcoming death supersedes
any football win. He added if he
had been at home instead of in the
Big House during his heart attack,
he may not have been so lucky.
"My heart stopped, so I was
technically dead for a half a min-
ute," Staudacher said. "Only about
8 percent of the people survive,
and the reason is there isn't a
Marvin Sonne (at home) or a defi-
brillator there to get your heart
started again."
Staudacher, who is now in good
health, couldn't attend the AHA's
heart ball to present the awards to
Sonne and Tardiff due to a busi-
ness trip, but he said he is grate-
ful for their assistance and for the
help of everyone at the University.
For Tardiff, receiving the award
from the AHA was an "over-
whelming" experience, and she
said Staudacher is here today not
just because of her actions, butthe
efforts of everyone in the section,
who either assisted Staudacher
or moved out of the way to allow
room for those who could help.
Though Tardiff has yet to for-
mally meet Staudacher since the
incident, she has learned that they
are both from the same city and
have mutual connections through
her co-workers, friends and family.
Sonne said he was "humbled"
by being invited to the ball, but he
added he doesn't need an award,
as doing the right thing in that
situation is expected of everyone.
"I don't look at this as about us
that helped him, I look at it that
nurses.
Additionally, the MNA orga-
nized a march through Ann Arbor
earlier this month as a means to
rally support for its cause. Hun-
dreds of nurses and supporters
marched from Liberty Plaza on
East Liberty Street to the Univer-
sity Hospital, where they picketed
in front of the building.
Tom Mallon, a UMHS nurse
since 2004 who participated in the
march, said he supported the union
because he didn't like how the hos-
pital was treating the MNA.
"I've historically never been a
pro-union guy, but when I see the
this man was saved, and he can
spend many more years together
with his family and friends,"
Sonne said.
While Sonne heard Stau-
dacher's son making negative
comments toward Michigan at
the start of the game, he said the
rivalry between the fans did not
have any bearing when it came to
assisting Staudacher during the
second quarter. Sonne plans to
meet Staudacher for the first time
on Nov. 11, when Staudacher and
his wife Marge visit Sonne's home
and family.
Staudacher said he received
personal "Get Well" notes from
Michigan coach Brady Hoke and
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly
after the incident, echoing the
importance of his victory in the
stands over a victory on the field,
and highlighting a happening that
transcended team rivalries.
Staudacher added that the
care from the Michigan fans, the
medical team and the Univer-
sity hospital when he was in need
has made him a Michigan fan
- except when they play Notre
Dame - and has allowed him to
develop a greater appreciation for
human compassion.
"We're all humans and when a
crisis occurs, we come together as
the human family to care for one
another," Staudacher said. "In the
end, we gotto remember it is just a
football game, and there are more
important things in life, and one of
those things is just caring for one
another."
University giving their adminis-
trators and giving their executives
substantial pay increases and then
asking me - as a staff nurse - to
work more hours but reduce my
access to overtime and increase
my health care cost, it's a slap in
the face," Mallon said,in an Oct.12
Michigan Daily article.
The Michigan Student Assembly
also passed a resolution last month
voicing its support of the MNA in
its negotiations.
- Daily News Editor Joseph
Lichterman contributed
to this report.
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