Routine gyn exams hard to get
By PATTY NEWMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
A woman student cannot receive a
gynecological examination at
Ritenour Health Center unless she
wants birth control or has a medical
emergency, according to a leaflet
printed by Women United.
The role of a regular medical
practice is to heal the sick, said
Corinne Zupanick, a Women United
representative and member of the
Ritenour Student Advisory Board.
But it is important to see a
gynecologist as a preventative
measure; this is the difference be
tween the two practices, she said.
“I know for a fact that women lie to
get a Pap Test at the health center,”
Zupanick said.
Through becoming a member of the
advisory board, Zupanick met Dr.
J.A. Hargleroad, director of the
health center. Zupanick said Dr. Har
gleroad would be willing to change the
present policy of seeing only grad
students 25 and older for a Pap test.
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*iA group of Temple Univer
sity students rallied and
marched across Temple cam
pus at noon yesterday to pro
test a fall tuition increase.
Between 50 and 100 students
met at the student activitiy
center and marched to the of
fice of University President
Marvin Wachman to express
dissatisfaction with the $l5O
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Zupanick also said gynecologist Dr.
W.R. Clark feels it is wrong to set an
age limit.
Another fault Women United found
with the Health Center was the small
and unvaried number of hours
available for a woman to pick up
pregnancy test results. If a student
has no free time to check her lab
results during its specified hours, she
must neglect other important ac
tivities just to find out the results,
Zupanick said.
Then, if she is unfortunate enough
to have an unwanted pregnancy, a
woman is offered no counseling or
even a room where she can take
refuge and sort out usually
tumultuous emotions, Zupanick said.
Ideally, Women United hopes to
have a room set aside in the Health
Center where women can provide
support for each other in the event of
an unwanted pregnancy. They also
feel that a woman from the Peer
Contraceptive Education Program
could provide a counseling service
students protest tuition increase
increase, according to Cliff
Goldstein, student senate vice
president.
Such a price hike would
boost Temple’s $1,300 tuition
about 11 per cent. Penn
State’s tuition is expected to
rise 9.9 per cent this fall.
Goldstein said Wachman
discussed the situation with
about 30 students for nearly
emissions,
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska,
lost by a 61-31 vote on his
amendment to ease air
standards in park and
wilderness areas to allow for
construction of a coal-fired
power plants and other
development.
Stevens argued that a
“slight increase” in allowable
levels was needed to allow
development of natural
resources in Alaska and other
still pristine areas in the
West.
Stevens’ proposal was
similar to a provision in the
bill already passed by the
House, which would allow
pollutants in clean areas rise
immediately after a woman hears her
test results, Zupanick said.
Women United has volunteered to
take over this responsibility them
selves if PCEP cannot provide a
counselor, Zupanick said.
Zupanick said she worked out a
possible savings plan that would
enable students to buy contraceptives
at the Health Center at a lower price
than those available downtown.
She said the Health Center does not
sell contraceptives because it could
not work out a way to benefit the
student.
Yet, Zupanick said, by selling
condoms and diaphragms wholesale
at the Center, a student would save
money. A package of condoms could
sell for 70,cents at the Health Center
compared to $1.20 to $1.25 downtown,
she said.
“Dr. Hargleroad said people can
get things done in their hometowns,
but a gynecologist appointment costs
at least $25. We are students and we
don’t have $25 to throw around,”
an hour. Wachman expressed
concern over the increase but
said he could do nothing about
Goldstein said that when
students asked Wachman if
another tuition increase
would be needed winter term,
Wachman said he was not
sure.
The rally was organized by
from 2 to 25 per cent of the
maximum level that is con
sidered safe.
But Sen. Edmund Muskie,
D-Maine, leading opposition
to the amendment, said it
would “completely destroy”
the legislation of which he is
chief sponsor.
Earlier, the Senate ap
proved 77 to 16 an amendment
by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-
Wis., to give American
Motors until 1982 to meet
nitrogen oxide emission
standards that the Big Three
automakers would have to
meet in 1980.
Muskie also stoutly opposed
the proposal to relax tailpipe
emission standards.
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several student groups, ac
cording to Goldstein, in
cluding the Tuition Action
Coalition.
Mark Dressier, a Coalition
representative, met with
Penn State’s Undergraduate
Student Government
President Grant Ackerman
Wednesday to discuss a state
wide tuition rally planned for
As originally offered by
Griffin and Riegle, the in
dustry-backed amendment
would have allowed highef
nitrogen oxide and carbon
monoxide levels than called
for in the committee-ap
proved bill.
But the Michigan senators
later backed down on the
proposed higher levels of
carbon monoxide pollution
because of objections by other
senators.
As revised, the Grif
fin-Riegle amendment would
limit carbon monoxide
releases to 3 grams per mile
beginning with 1980 model
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Zupanick said.
Dr. Hargleroad and Dr. Clark were
unavailable for comment on the
issue.
Another charge made by Women
United against the University was the
lack of a clause in University Affirm
ative Action to guarantee homo
sexuals and single persons freedom
from discrimination in hiring.
An Affirmative Action officer
William Asbury said the issue is a
sensitive one.
“At this point we are discussing an
appropriate response to the
homophiles’ inquiry,” he said.
Tony Silvestre, chairman for
Pennsylvania Council for Sexual
Minorities, said that state univer
sities have been told by the Depart
ment of Education to change the
clause.
He said that because Pehn State
has never been formally declared a
state university he does not know if
the Department of Education’s order
will have any effect.
the fall. Dressier said he also
was planning to speak to
representatives from the
University of Pittsburgh.
“A rally is constructive for
focusing ' attention on an
issue,” Ackerman said. “But
we have to go beyond that.”
Ackerman urged students
to express their concern by
writing to their legislators.
mittee bill,
However, nitrogen oxide
emissions would be limited to
2 grams per mile-double the
level allowed in the pending
bill.
Muskie, although admitting
that the committee bill would
allow higher nitrogen oxide
emissions than called for in
the 1970 law, said the Grif
fin-Riegle amendment would
have “a severe adverse
impact on public health, fuel
economy and cost to the
consumer.”
The amendment also has
drawn fire from President
Carter, who said he is “firmly
opposed” to it because of its
impact .on public health.
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Rows of bicycles, impounded by police services over break, await their owners in
an unidentified location. The police, fearing thefts, ask students contact their main
office in Grange Building.
184 bicycles impounded
Approximately 184 bicycles were im
pounded by Police Services during the first
week of June, according to Thomas R.
Harmon, Police Services manager.
Harmon said that the police impound
bikes annually in order to rid the campus
of abandoned bikes. Any bikes not bearing
a 1977 registration sticker left on campus
during Spring Term break was im
pounded, Harmon said.
Students may reclaim their bikes by
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presenting a student I.D. at Police Ser
vices, located in Grange Building, and
describing the bike and its storage location
during the break.
Harmon said that the impounded bikes
are stored by police for six months and
then sold at an auction. He added that 35 of
the bikes have been claimed since the
students returned to campus for Summer
Term. In past years, a majority of the
bikes were never claimed, Harmon said.
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