2/PSH NEWS ™.,™ s
Health screenings examine condition of student body
Candy Franks
Special to the Capital Times
Faculty, staff and students lined up in
the Gallery Lounge on April 14 to find
out how healthy or unhealthy they are at
the annual health screening sponsored by
Health Services.
"Part of my goal was to add wellness
programming to promote wellness among
faculty, staff, and students," said Marylou
Martz, coordinator of Health Services. "I
found a real need to have something done
to complement my wellness programs.
Last year's screening went so well, I
thought I'd start them up again.”
The screening offered advice about
breast self-examination and colorectal
cancer testing, and provided booths to
check blood pressure, cholesterol levels,
height and weight, body fat percentage,
lung capacity, and colorectal cancer.
A Community General Osteopathic
Hospital physician answered participants'
questions about their results.
The American Cancer Society
volunteered a new booth to teach women
breast self-examination, to catch signs of
breast cancer. Health America provided a
booth that gave participants an overall
health risk appraisal, listing the
individual's major health risks, such as
heart attack, car accident, or stroke, and
what to change to stay healthy.
Whether healthy or unhealthy, the
See Screenings, page 13
Ethnic groups clash during campus debate on conflict
Lawrence Bates
Capital Times Staff
Former Yugoslav ambassador, Cvijeto
Job addressed students, faculty, staff and
members of the community at an evening
discussion sponsored by the International
Affairs Association, in the Gallery Lounge
on April 8.
The discussion, "A Study on Conflict,"
presented Job’s personal views about the
conflict which is destroying his country,
Yugoslavia. A reaction panel featuring
Frank Colak (Croatian) and Elizabeth
Tolmachev-Packer (Serbian) represented
two of the conflicting ethnic groups.
Job, a Croatian communist, once
fought for Tito's partisans during World
War 11. From 1944 to 1989, Job was an
active member of the former Yugoslav
communist party. He was also the former
Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nation
delegation. Since the collapse of
communist rule and the beginning of the
ethnic conflict, Job has been a lecturer and
columnist.
Susquehanna Institute
Comprehensive Counseling, Psychological and Educational Services
Dr. Edward S. Beck, Director
Dr. Ronald Bonner, Psychologist Associate
Rosemarie C. Holland, MA, Counseling Associate
Dr. James Walters, Psychologist Associate
Joseph MandllChi, MS, Psychologist Associate
Dr. Diane M. Bonner, Psychologist Associate
Michael Faulkner, Certified Massage Therapist
We ore pleased to announce our
relocation and expansion of staff & services
i 1
* l
Karl Martz gets his lung capacity measured by Mimi Humphrey of the Cardiopulmonary Division of Community
General Osteopathic Hospital as Gedeon Mudacumura awaits his turn on the machine.
During the discussion Job stated his
position during the conflict.
"While I was a diplomat, I was attacked
verbally for supporting each side," he said.
Job also said "a small group of Serbs
and Croats are fighting. Not all of
Yugoslavia's people are supportive of the
war. Let's bind our wounds and forget our
cause and begin to rebuild our country."
Job partly blamed the collapse of
Yugoaslvia on the promises of democracy
and the betrayal of law: first by monarchy
dominated Serbian Yugoslavia, and then
by the communists.
"The tolerance and rationality that
helped bind us together during the war
V |l
4
slowly frayed," Job said. "Instead of hating
the regimes oppressing them (Yugoslavs),
our peoples resumed their hatred for each
other."
Job added that "the ethnic conflict is a
result of constant foreign rule which
denied Yugoslavia the processes of
building a nation." Job said the experience
of the terrible slaughter during World War
II is still present in the Yugoslav people.
Elizabeth Tolmachev-Parker, lecturer in
Russian Language at Harrisburg Area
Community College and Serbian
representative on the panel, charged
Croatia with war crimes against the
Serbian people during the World War 11.
Parker said, "The Serbs were treated like
the Jews during the second world war. The
Croatians never apologized for those war
crimes."
After Parker's comments, Frank Colak,
(717)545-5500
24 hours - 7 days
East Shore Medical Center
2405 Linglestown Road
Harrisburg, PA 17110
president of the Croatian Democratic
Union, countered that "because of the
conflict (present), Croatia is covered with
blood, churches destroyed, and thousands
of Croats are now refugees."
Colak also said the Croats have been
stereotyped as killers by the Serbs, who
were really responsible for the number of
Serbs slaughtered during World War 11. In
response to Colak's charges, a member of
the audience asked Colak what the total
number of deaths was to date. Colak said
he did not have the figures.
"We did not start the war," Colak
continued. "The Yugoslav Army (85
percent Serbs) planned the war. Since all
guns were moved out of Croatia (by the
Army), how could we start the war?"
Reactions from the crowd were mixed.
Both Serbians and Croatian members and
supporters confronted one another with
questions and allegations. At one point,
the discussion became very emotional for
some members of the audience who were
survivors of either World War II or the
current ethnic conflict. Some shared their
personal experiences with the group.
Job summed up the discussion by
expressing his hope that die Yugoslav}
"will learn from the past and once again
live in peace with each other. Will we ever
exist in peace?” he asked. "Not before each
side attempts to answer the crimes against
each other.”
Bill Woodworth, lAA member and a
senior majoring in behavioral science,
called the program, "the most lively and
interesting program we have ever had.”