18 - The Michigan Daily - Summer Orientation 1995
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UHS offers walk-ins,
specialists to students
An Ann Arbor parking attendant writes a ticket on Maynard Street.
The ultimate challenge:
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By Debralee Dembling
For the Daily
For every student who has ever sneezed, coughed
or wheezed during the long winter months, the Uni-
versity offers a haven for the sick: University Health
Service.
UHS, located on Fletcher Street, is attempting to
increase campuswide knowledge about the health ser-
vices offered.
"We provide comprehensive outpatient care that
is totally covered by the students' health service fee,"
said Dr. Cy Briefer, UHS director.
Specifically, UHS offers general medical clinics;
gynecology; specialty orthopedics; rheumatology;
neurology; ear nose and throat; dermatology; al-
lergy/immunization; physical therapy; optha-
mology; optometry and radiological services. These
services are free to all enrolled students and there are
no additional fees for laboratory work, such as blood
tests.
The only fees at UHS are for pharmacy items, or-
thopedic devices, such as splints, and certain immu-
nizations.
UHS also offers educational programs through
their community relations department. These pro-
grams focus on contraception, eating disorders and
body image, substance stress and time management.
Many of these programs are offered in the residence
halls.
Briefer suggests that students use the appointment
system.
"This way students can be guaranteed to be
seen on time," Briefer said. "(We take students)
usually within 15 minutes with the clinician of their
choice."
Trudy Borset, a UHS receptionist in urgent care,
said that many students are pleased with the service
the University provides, although there are some frus-
trations with the wait.
"Overall, we are committed to respecting the con-
fidentiality of patients and the quality of health care,"
Borset said.
Briefer said that by making an appointment, stu-
dents can see a man or woman, a specialist or general
practitioner.
"With the walk-in system, you're playing Russian
roulette," Briefer said.
Briefer recommends that if urgent care must be
used, students should come early in the moming, so
they can be seen within 15 minutes.
During the day, there is an electric light board in
the urgent care reception area displaying the estimated
time of wait.
"This way the student can make his or her own
cost benefit analysis, whether or not they want to
wait," Briefer said.
As far as antibiotics, Briefer said he thinks th.
students often enter UHS with "inappropriate expec-
tations."
"Students may be used to their doctors at home
always giving them an antibiotic when they are sick,"
Briefer said. "We know that that is incorrect. For vi-
ral infections, antibiotics are not effective."
Lauren Fisher, an LSA junior, said that for colds
and the flu, UHS will tell students what they already
know - a cold is viral and needs to run its own
course.
"Unfortunately many people don't know this anb
blame health services," Fisher sad.
Anne McMullan, an employee in the clerical di-
vision of UHS, said part of the problem between stu-
dents and health services is that people do not pay at-
tention to UHS during Orientation.
"We're not what people think about because
we're not exciting," McMullan said. "Suddenly when
people are sick they think about us."
UHS is open from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and Saturdays from9 a.m. until noon.
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Students complain of
multiple parking tickets,
shortage of available spaces
on campus
By Adam Mesh
Daily Staff Reporter
While at Orientation, students might be consider-
ing whether to bring a car up to school. Warning: Do
not be deceived by the empty parking lots and many
available parking meters.
Because it's the summer and everything is
empty right now, the parking situation does not
even enter into the decision-making process. How-
ever, parking availability should be the crucial fac-
tor.
Parking at the University is severely limited.
When asked if anything was being done to remedy
the situation, Parking System Manager Michael
Scott said, "There are no plans to do so. .I don't see
any relief."
White envelopes on the front window of cars
have become a familiar sight. A $7 ticket is the price
to pay for failure to put money in the meters, but this
;ean be reduced to $5 by paying in person within one
hour of the violation. There is also the option of con-
testing the ticket with the "parking referee."
Revenue from parking violations is the second
leading source of funds in the city after taxes. "(A
parking violation fee) goes into the general fund and
is probably two million a year," said Scott.
Ann Arbor parking meter attendant Jerry
Perrine said, "There are five different parking
meter attendants working at a time and each one
gives out 150-200 tickets a day." Perrine said atten-
dants do not stand next to the car waiting for the
meter to run out.
In addition to meters, there are several different
parking garages on campus. They offer low rates, but
the spaces fill up fast.
"When faced with the option of paying $600 for
a parking permit or not being able to find a space, I
chose to buy a pair of rollerblades," said Dan Worth,
an LSA senior.
Some people are able to obtain handicapped per-
mits under false pretenses, but those who can't have
to find other ways of dealing with the parking situ-
ation. "It's easier for me to manipulate one of my
friends to drive me into town than find a parking
space," said LSA junior Peter Kaye.
A $17 ticket is the prize for parking in a staff paid
lot. However, these lots do open to the public after six
in the evening.
If a student decides not tobring their car, they will
save themselves a lot of frustration and get good ex-
ercise in the process.
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By Frank C. Lee
Daily Staff Reporter
At large universities, teaching assistants - typi-
cally recent graduates working on advanced degrees
- instruct smaller sections of courses, affording
them the opportunity to work with highly regarded
professors and research-
ers.
Moreover, the ha to wor
teaching assistants are had
supposed to be more ac- harder to unde
cessible to undergradu-
ates because of their the teaching a
similar age and the ,,
smaller class size. saying."
However, some stu-
dents have criticized
teaching assistants. Only
25 percent of colleges
using teaching assistants- including the University
- have campuswide training programs, according to
a recent report presented at the annual National Con-
ference on the Training of Teaching Assistants in
New YorkCity.
Also, the increased use of foreign teaching assis-
tants, whose native language is not English, has fu-
eled the debate over the quality of the classroom
teaching.
"I had to work a little harder to understand what
the teaching assistant was saying," said transfer stu-
dent Jose Perez, speaking of his encounters with for-
eign teaching assistants in science and math courses.
"I think they need a little more training in terms of
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teaching skills to get their points across ... Students
have to put in the time and effort to go their office
hours and get to know them."
But some students said that they like teaching as-
sistants. "A teaching assistant is nice because usually
most of them are younger and closer to your age," sat
Jimmy Fugazzi, a Unt-
versity graduate student.
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for them to relate to the
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On campus, the
Graduate Employees
-Jose Perez Organization, the col-
Transfer student lective bargaining insti-
tution for teaching assi4
tants, has continually
been at odds with the administration over working
hours, class size, wages, benefits and insurance issues.
"We have some different changes and proposals we'd
like to make to improve the quality of undergraduate
and graduate education," said Rob Penney, secretary
for GEO. "We hope that the University will see the
benefit of working with the GEO."
Recent graduate and former philosophy teaching
assistant Joe Zalabardo said he agreed that young
teaching assistants help students. "Students apprec
ate having a teaching assistant to go to, if they had
questions they felt uncomfortable approaching a
professor with, because we are less intimidating," he
said.
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