The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 11, 1980-Page 3
Local scene

Baekers of
ERA to stage
march, raily
in Detroit to
gain support

By BONNIE JURAN
Equal Rights Amendment activists
are staging a march and rally in Detroit
on Monday to drum up support for
passage of the resolution, according to
a co-ordinator of the event.
Chris Snow, who has been organizing
the demonstration for the last two
weeks, said the march and rally are
also intended to convince at least 27
members of the Republican Platform
Committee to force a floor fight
Tuesday over the group's recent
decision to drop the GOP's 40-year-old
plank in support of ERA.
PARTICIPANTS IN the march will
assemble at the Kern Block at 11:00
a.m. and march to Cobo Hall, the site of
the convention, according to Michigan
National Organization of Women
(NOW) activist Martina Myers. The
rally is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
in Kennedy Square, she said.
According to Myers, speakers at the
rally will include Helen Milliken, co-
chairwoman of ERAmerica and
national NOW President Eleanor
Smeal.
Snow said although the size of the
event will probably not be on the same
scale as previous rallies in Chicago and
Washington, D.C., ERA supporters are
still "hoping for thousands" to attend.
NOW MEMBERS will be the
"strongest and largest contingent" in
attendance according to Snow, who ad-

ded that members of other
organizations in support of the
proposed amendment are also expected
to participate. Snow said most of the
participants will be traveling from
surrounding states in the Midwest.
According to Myers, participants in
the event are being encouraged to dress
in white to commemorate thesuffraget-
tes who worked to give women the vote.
Referring to likely Republican
presidential nominee Ronald Reagan's
stance against the Equal Rights Amen-
dment, Snow said she does not believe
"a candidate who doesn't support ERA
can win (the election.)" She explained
that Reagan must draw support from
Democrats and Independents, who are
largely in support of the proposed
amendment, to secure the needed
votes.
"The purpose of the march and rally
is to show the Republican party that the
country feels ERA is a national issue,"
Snow said, addressing the platform
committee's view that the Equal Rights
Amendment should be under the,
jurisdiction of state legislatures.
Thirty-five states have ratified the
resolution, which needs the endor-
sement of three more states by 1982 to
become a constitutional amendment.
Myers said she believes it will be an
"uphill battle" to gain the needed sup-
port to ratify the ERA, but Snow said
ERA backers will not "give up until the
last hour."

HEAD NURSE KATHY DUNLAP discusses patient care at the University
Hospital's Burn Center. Due to the difficult nature of the job, she said, most
nurses who work at the facility remain there no more than 28 months.
Burn Unit: ingenious
sterile patient healer

Garbage may e used
as loeal fuel souree

By JOYCE FRIEDEN
The use of garbage as a source of fuel
may begin soon in Ann Arbor, pending
the results of a feasibility study to be
undertaken by University researchers.
University manager of Heat and
Utilities Kenneth Beaudry and his staff
will utilize a $195,000 Department of
Energy grant to study the feasibility of
installing a steam-generating plant on
North Campus using garbage as fuel.
BEAUDRY SAID the proposed plant
.represents an experiment in "co-
generation" - using one process for
two purposes. "After the garbage is
ground up and burned, the resulting
steam will be used to generate both
heat and electricity," he said, adding

the product is known as "refuse-
derived fuel."
"The government financed our
project because they're interested in
developing any source of alternate
fuel ... They want our country to stop
importing so much oil,"Beaudry said.
Beaudry said the steam-generated
plant would cut down the University's
use of natural gas. "It will save us the
equivalent of four million gallons of oil
per year worth of natural gas," he said.
"If I explain it in terms of oil, people
seem to visualize it better."
Beaudry and his team are being
assisted in the approximately year-long
study by the city of Ann Arbor and the
Detroit consulting firm of Harley,
Ellington, Pierce, Nee,.and Associates.

By JOYCE FRIEDEN
Twenty-three years ago, a 17-year-old
girl named LaVera Jones was admitted
to University Hospital with burns over
70 per cent of her body after her
clothing caught fire while she was
trying to burn papers in her backyard.
Amazingly enough, Jones lived
through that experience. The young
medical resident who guided her back
to health decided he would like to en-
sure that other burn patients be given
better odds to survive. So, in 1969, Ir-
ving Feller, now a bonafide medical
doctor, opened the University of
Michigan Burn Center in the General
Surgery ward of the University
Hospital.
A TRIP through the Burn Center
today reveals a very organized,
streamlined facility. Visitors are
required to "suit up", and everyone
from relatives to photographers must
don a mask, gown, and cap before set-
ting foot in the corridor.
Inside the Burn Unit (the medical
care section of the Burn Center), nurses
scurry around among the ten beds the
facility holds. "For purposes of con-
trolling infection, we put the less sick
patients closer to the front of the unit,"
explained head nurse Kathy Dunlap.

"The more critically ill are placed
toward the back, where they are less
exposed to visitors and orderlies
carrying supplies."
Dunlap added nursing a burned
patient requires a great deal of under-
standing. "To the patient, the nurse is a
'pain inflicter'," Dunlapsaid. "Any
movement the patient has to make
causes pain ... You can bet that once a
patient gets into a comfortable position,
he wants to stay there and not have to
have a dressing changed."
DRESSINGS ARE changed at least
once a day. The change always takes
place in a "hydrotherapy tub" where
the water is kept a comfortable 103
degrees Fahrenheit. Movement exer-
cises are also done in the tub.
Nurses and doctors are only two parts
of the "burn team" assisting each
patient. There is also a physical
therapist, occupational therapist, and a
social worker who all help the patient
make the necessary adjustments to his
or her illness. For students, a teacher is
on hand to help patients keep up with
their studies.
"Dr. Feller has always functioned
under a team approach," said Cynthia
Feller, general administrator for the
National Institute of Burn Medicine
See BURN, Page 6