Page 2-Friday, May 28, 1982-The Michigan Daily Blood pressure scam draws in big money NEW YORK (AP) - Shish Kebab violation of city law, which requires vendors, pamphlateers for porno that they be licensed if they charge for parlors and shell game sharks have a sevice and are not working on behalf new company on midtown Manhattan of a religious group, said Gary Walker streets - scores of operators who of the city Department of Consumer Af- charge a fee for taking blood-pressure fairs. readings. Manhattan police Sgt. John Murphy Many operate illegally, authorities said his men issued summonses to two say. blood-pressure testers on Wednesday. Some are members of the Hare Krishna sect. Others are free-lance en- HEALTH officials raise other objec- trepreneurs. Still others say they work tions to the street testers. for outfits that furnish them with red- and-white card tables, posters and "It's amost not ethical to do that," blood-pressure devices. said Sonja Hedlund, assistant director SOME ASK for "donations," but of the state Health Department's others charge $1 or $2. Estimates of in- hypertension program. come run as high as several hundred "Our position is that blood pressure dollars a day in midtown locations with measurement should be done by bustling pedestrian traffic. qualified people," she said, with proper Most are not licensed. That is a follow-up and treatment. U'offiIs defend student loan default rates (Continued from Page 1) hurts future students," Grotrian said. collecting . . . There were some schools Both Butts and Grotrian claimed that never sent bills," he added. students are not high credit risks. Harvey Grotrian, director of the Eighty-five percent of all students University's Office of Financial Aid, at- have not missed one payment, accor- tributed lower default rates to growing ding to Grotrian. student awareness-of the obligation at- "I'm not sure we can criticize studen- tached to a loan. More students now un- ts for paying back their loans at the desand, he said, "that t (oans) same rate students' parents pay back are indeed borrowing against future their personal and business loans," earnings." Grotrian added. A school can be penalized for having "On the whole, especially, right now, a high NDSL default rate. If a school's student loans compare favorably with rate is between 10 and 25 percent, the other types of loans," Butts said, citing school may lose new funds on a dollar- mortgage and small business loans in for-dollar matching basis. If the rate is particular, above 25 percent, the school will "I can't understand why people want receive no new funds according to to pick on students," he said. "It's not federal regulations. fair to single that group out." "A DEFAULT in that program only Government cracks down on delinquent doctors Today The weather Thundershowers will make a most unwelcome visit to campus today. Temperatures will be in the muggy 70s. El Beak to beak MEDICAL science for barn- yard animals was advan- ced this week with an amazing veterinary breakthrough - the world's first beak transplant. The operation was performed upon Beep the goose, whose beak was partially bitten off in an encoun- ter with a large dog. Once a suitable donor bird was found, a healthy bill was grafted onto Beep's badly damaged beak with an epoxy and fiberglass attach- ( ment. The transplant, performed at the Grand Avenue Pet Hospital in Santa Ana, Calif., was a com- plete success. Beep, pictured here with owner Diane Day, is recovering nicely and will be up and honking in the next few days. Happenings Films CFT - Fists of Fury, 1:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m., The Chinese Connection, 2:45 p.m. & 6:30 p.m., Enter the Dragon, 4:45 p.m. & 10:30 p.m., Michigan Theater. AAFC - King of Hearts, 7 p.m. & 10 p.m., Morgan! 8:45 p.m., Lorch. Cinema Two - Remember My Name, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. Miscellaneous Ark - David Bromberg, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m., 1421 Hill. Museum of Art - Art Break, "Leonardo's Return to Vinci," 12:10 p.m. Student Wood and Craft Shop - power tool safety class, 6 p.m., 537 SAB. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. The Michigan Daily (Continued from Page1) professions students." "MORE THAN 3,000 new loans could have been made if these loans had been repaid on time," he said. The problem concerns nine percent interest loans for health professions students and six percent interest loans for nursing students. More than 313,000 people have $639 million in loans under the two programs. The loans, for which HHS provides 90 percent funding, are administered by schools. The audit found 80 doctors who work for the government among the debtors. Forty are civilian HHS employees and 21 make more than $40,000 a year. The others are Public Health Service com- missioned offices, with base pay ranging from $22,000 to $39,000. SCHWEIKER said 25 have brought their loan repayments up to date as a result of the crackdown, and the other 55 will be disciplined unless they act quickly. The audit found 83 overdue doctors on the staffs of 19 medical schools; 25 of them at Harvard University. Depar- tment officials have contacted the schools and some, including Harvard, have begun taking steps to collect. Kusserow said six medical schools have recovered $230,000 since stepping up collection efforts/in February. If all schools achieved similar results, the overdue $5.2 million could be recovered in a year, he said. The audit also turned up 442 delinquent doctors who collected $12.4 million in federal funds from Medicare and Medicaid patients in 1980 and 1981. One doctor, past due on $931.24 in principal and $121.76 in interest at New York Medical College, got $99,109 from Medicare and $252,563 from Medicaid in 1980 and 1981, the audit said. Schweiker said his department will issue new regulations by the beginning of the next school year setting delinquency rate ceilings and penalties for exceeding them, with automated systems to keep track. THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE A GREATy WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS CALL 764-0557 Vol. XCII, No. 18-S Friday, May 28, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- sity of Michigan. 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