- - ~" ~O9~* 'HL MICHIGAN DAILY --v ODERN MEDICINE AT LOW COST: Health Service Cares For U' Students 9 * * * * ** k j Looking after the health of Michigan's 20,000 students is the job of the University Mealth Ser- vice-one of the first and best stu- dent health centers in the U.S. The Health Service provides necessary medical care and treat- ment without charge in its build- ing a half block off campus on Fletcher St. BEFORE A STUDENT can reg- ister for the first time at the Uni- versity, he or she must receive a thorough physical examination, usually lasting about two hours. X-rays are also taken to check for tuberculosis. Records are made of any de- fects in posture, of past illnesses and minor complaints. But it is entirely up to the student whether or not he takes ad- vantage of Health Service fa- cilities. Each student is assigned to a physician medical adviser whom he may feel free to call on for advice or treatment of a cold, headache or minor symptoms. ** * IF THE SERVICES of a spe- cialist are required, the student will be referred to one of the Health Service's speciqlly equipped departments, which include: Minor surgery (cases requiring intensive surgery are referred , to the University Hospital). A physiotherapy clinic for ul- tra-violet light treatments, and with whirlpool baths to aid stu- dents to regain the use of limbs kept in casts or stiff for other reasons. A mental hygiene department with a full time psychiatrist tak- ing care of situations ranging from questions of general personality adjustment to psychological and emotional problems of a more complicated nature. * * * AN EYE CLINIC that offers complete refractions and then en- ables students to buy glasses made by private colpanies at significant savings. A dental clinic for examina- tion and treatments (most den- tal repair work is referred to the Dental School or private dentists). A clinic nurses station for dress- ings, general treatments, and+ HEALTH SERVICE-The pace to go for medical advice and treatment is a half block off campus opposite the League on Fletcher Street. * ** * * * emergencies that also handles vac-l cinations and injections. Should a student be involved in a local ac- cident and taken by friends or police to an Ann Arbor hospital, the Health Service will in certain cases carry the bill. Clinics of dermatology,- diet therapy, and ear, nose, and throat. Student patients are never used as clinical subjects for 'medical student instruction or expei'imen- tation. * * * A 60-BED INFIRMARY is lo- cated on the third floor' ,of the Health Service. However, Dr. War- ren E. Forsythe, director of the Service, pointed out that it is sel- dom that more than half the beds are used at any one time. Cases that cannot be handled by the Health Service are gener- ally referred to the 1,029-bed Uni- versity Hospital. In cases of seri- ous illness parents are notified'by special delivery letters. In the "good old days" when a student became ill in his room, his roommate usually provided all the medical and nursing attention which he might receive.. * * * IF THINGS GOT BAD, the roommate usually put his buddy on a train and sent him home. If someone came down with a contagious disease and an epi- demic developed, the college us- ually declared an unexpected two-week holiday. No students, no epidemic. The first University Health Service was organized in 1913. It was staffed by three physicians, a nurse, a clerk, and had a budget of $10,000 with which to assist the University's 5,520 students. * ~* * LOCATED ON the third floor of the modern $500,000 four-story Health Service building first open- ed in 1940 is an infirmary with 20 full or part time nurses, where stu- dents requiring bed care are hos- pitalized. STUDENT ELIGIBILITY for Health Service facilities is auto-: matic with the taking of four hours or more of credit hours (in- cluding fellowship teachers), while those with less than four hours can obtain privileges by paying a $10 fee at the beginning of a semester. Though faculty and student's wives are not included in this eligibility list, they may be given certain injections at the HealthI Service. Services offered to students without charge include 15 days of general hospitalization during each semester at a daily expense allow- ance of $9.75, surgeon fees and operating expenses for acute surgi- cal conditions, simple drugs and dressings, and medical atteption at the various university summer camps. * * * CHARGES (in most cases at re- duced rates) are made for special nursing, some hospital service, tests for refraction, some drugs, physician room calls, x-rays, den- tal fillings, most dermatology and allergy treatments, and certain uses of physiotherapy. That the Health Service ranks high among health programs of its type set up by universities to provide medical care for students is shown by a look at its guest book. Not only does it include the names of people from all over the United States, but doctors and educators who come from Brazil. India, Finland, New Zealand, and other parts of the world to study the Health Service setup, and then return to their country to organize similar health programs. University Bands Plan Fall Audition Auditions for positions in the University Bands will be held dur- ing registration week at Harris Hall with the first meeting sched- uled for Sunday, Sept. 17. The Bands, which are active from registration to Commence- are regarded as among the finest ment, are regarded as among the finest in the country. DURING FOOTBALL season, the spotlight is concentrated on the celebrated Marching Band, but after the traditional Ohio State-Michigan tilt, the Symphon- ic Band presents concerts and the Varsity Band performs at home basketball contests and in the spring, in concerts. First-semester freshmen are eligible to participate in the Bands' activities. Those interested should write for applications and further in- formation to Prof. William D. Re- velli, conductor, Harris Hall. THE MARCHING BAND, which this year will make the journey to New York for the Michigan-Army football game among its road trips, will also play at all home football games. The Symphonic Band, though practicing during the football season, begins intensive work in November. It usually has a membership of about 100 pieces, differing somewhat in size and instrumentation f r o m t h e Marching Band. Membership is open to women. Equipped with a comprehensive library of concert literature, the Symphonic Band performs many new compositions and arrange- ments as soon as they are publish- ed. * * * THE VARSITY BAND, under the direction of Jack K. Lee, pre- sents several concerts in Ann Ar- bor during the spring term, in ad- dition to its performances at home basketball games. It plays many of the numbers which the prospective music teacher will use with his own band when he goes out to teach, and serves as a training ground for those students not yet cap- able of performing in the more select Symphonic Band. It also serves to give many stu- dents a valuable musical experi- ence, according to Prof. Revelli. HISTORICALLY, the Michigan Band dates back perhaps as far. as 1844, when a nine-piece en- semble assisted in the chapel ser- vices. The first group to call itself the Michigan Band was originally Les Sans Souci, organized in 1859. MARCHING BAND-The band forms a shield at halftime in a Michigan football game, part of a of its spectacular displays. International Center Aids Students THE ENGLISH Language Serv- ice, in addition to other langu- age services, is one of -the Center's most important aids in helping a strange land. It provides both a foreign studenits to make the dif- ficult adjustment to their work in general orientation with reference to American customs and the or- life, and a specific orientation with ganization of American college Students May Borrow Prints Of Paintings If you feel that you need a dash of color to liven up your room, the Student Loan Print Collection has several hundred reproductions of oil and water color paintings which are guaranteed to improve even the drabest of walls. The prints are available to any student at a rental fee of 50 cents per print for the semester. How- ever, there is a limit of one print per student. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE are many interesting reproductions of works by such artists as Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, . and Winslow Homer. In addition, the library offers works by the traditional old mas- ters of Europe. reference to the professional fields in which the student is to study. Ramifications of the Inter- national Center are the vari- ous foreign students' clubs - Chinese, German, Turkish, etc. - which are designed to ac- quaint the student with those of his own nationality. Each club International Student Associa- annually sends a delegate to the tion. To augment the program com- plete recreational arrangements are provided. These includes par- ties, picnics, movie programs, mu- sic programs, and dances, all of which both foreign students and others are invited to participate in. In a very real sense, the Center the University to its students fi stands a gesture of welcome fi other lands. Most certainly, ot students are invited to particip in its activities. Try FOLLETT'S First USED BOOKS BARGAIN PRICES im U Welcome to Michigan and Ann Arbor from . I B BEER KEG LOOKING BACKWARD: Haven Hall Blaze Enlivens Examination Week DRIVE THROUGH. > i (Continued from Page 11) May 8. An open petition address- ed to the chairman of medical school admissions. and circulated by the Committee to End Discrim- ination attracted large crowds of students on the diag. The petition asked that the information per- taining to religion, nationality and a request for a photograph required on Medical School ap- plications be eliminated. May 9. Walter Rea, Associate Dean of Students, was honored at a surprise dinner for his 23 years of working with students in the Office of Student Affairs. May 12. President Ruthven launched a verbal attack on a State Legislature move to slash next year's University appropri- ation to $11,572,945, representing a substantial cut from Gov. Wil- liams recommended $12,500,000 appropriation. May 14. The showing of the film, "The Birth of a Nation," scheduled by the speech depart- ment, met with strong objections from a student-faculty group be- cause it was anti-Negro. May 16. The speech department cancelled its showing of "The Birth of a Nation" because of pro- tests from a student-faculty group branding the film as "slan- derous" and "viciously anti-Ne- gro." May 17. The State Senate ap- proved the decreased University appropriation grant, which arous- ed Democrats struggled in vain to increase. The cut came as a part of the Republican-sponsored eco- nomy drive aimed at reducing Gov. Williams' proposed state budget by $73,000,000. The Student Legislature :of .the University sanctioned the' show- ing of "The Birth of a Nation" by the Michigan Forum, as student letters, both for and against the showing poured into The Dlaily. May 18. The Gothic Film Soci- ety reversed a plan of showing "The Birth of a Nation" to its members although the SL did not abandon its plan to present the movie. May 22. The Museum of Modern 'Art in New York refused to re- lease "The Birth of a Nation" for the use of the Student Legislature because the SL is not a profession- al film study group intending to show the movie as an educational project. This development was not a retraction of the SL's initial stand against the suppression of the showing. May 24. James H. Robertson, newly appointed assistant dean of the literary college, announced that he would attempt a "human- ization of the literary college rules and regulations." June 6. Fire-prevention talk and action proved misdirected when the interior of the Univer- sity's 87-year-old Haven Hall was completely destroyed in a $3,000,- 000 blaze. The fire raged for four hours while professors saw years of their work disappear in the flames. Several professors lost ir- replaceable research data and master's these and doctoral dis- sertations weer destroyed. The origin of the fire was undetermin- ed. * BEER 0 WINE 114 E. Williams *SOFT DRINKS( I, BUSINESS and SECRETARIAL TRAINING ACCOUNTING - TYPING BUSINESS MACHINES SHORTHAND - STENOTYPY Single Subjects or Complete Courses HAMILTON BUSINESS COLLEGE Approved for Veterans William at State IIschifa oL ; > r ,:, a': U Al "YOUR COLLEGE BOOKSTORE" NEW and USED STUDENT SUPPLIES "'II Welco'pne4 lgOu Plan to spend your leisur meeting place enjoying o and Dinners. STEAKS an HAMBURGERS and FRENCH MALTS and AT POPULA Open daily 10 A.M.-10 P.M. Sundays noon to 7 P.M. e hours at this student ur delicious Luncheons d CHOPS CHEESEBURGERS FRIES SHAKES R PRICES _w i