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The $7 increase in the student s,
medical fee will provide students u
with extra coverage and services, iv
according to Isao Hirata Jr., d
Student Health Services director. g
Part of the increase will provide n
the student with insurance ji
covering him for any injury on p
campus or resulting from a s
campus related activity that a
requires outside referral :. h
Hirata said previously if a y
student was sent to a hospital or
doctor off campus, he was liable
for all costs. If the student was not b
covered by insurance then the bills n
could force him to drop out of
school. s
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Hirata said one case involved a s
USC cheerleader who was injured c
and sent by the infirmary to a s
hospital. She did not have in- n
surance and no one would take c
responsibility for the bills. She was d
forced to drQp out of school. Under tl
the new system all bills up to $500
charged by any off campus
medical service would be paid for. p
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The rest of the increase goes for n
the many improvements in student s,
health services. Hirata said 75 per p
cent of additional costs were fc
salaries for additional personnel. r
62 full-time staff including four
general physicians, one
psychiatrist and one gynecologist v
are now working compared to 21 s
staff personnel present before p
Hirata arrived in 1972. These 2 full- a
time staff included no full doctors. T
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more liberal than expected in their
attitudes toward the problems and tt
issues facing the U.S. and the si
Nixon Administration, according tI
to a survey conducted by the USC e
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In addition, nine part-time staff
-om the Columbia area visit and
?e an average of 220 students a
eek. These part-time staff
iclude specialists in orthopedics,
ermatology, internal medicine,
ynecology and psychiatry. The
umber of outpatient cases has
imped from 22,000 in 1972-73 to a
rojected 32,712 since the 1973 fall
emester. The number of x rays
nd pharmaceutical prescriptions
ave doubled from the previous
ear.
Hirata stresses the student is not
eing charged other than in the
iedical fee for these additional
hysician's services. "This health
ervice in the last six months has
one from one of the worst I'd ever
en to the top 10 per cent in the
ountry. As for cost, there is no
:hool that I know of that can
iatch us," Hirata said. "We
harge $57 for two semesters and
eliver the same general services
iat Yale charges $130 for."
M.D. Tavenner, director of
ersonnel and Institutional
,esearch, said he is proud of the
ew policy added. He said the
ipplementary student insurance
Ian will also increase coverages
r major hospitalization while
?ducing the premium $4.
"We've taken the health ser
ices out of the mickey-mouse
:age. It will be really
rofessional, and I'll compare it
gainst any plan in the country,"
avenner said.
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titudes
The study was given to the
partment's International Studies
1 and 102 students, mostly fresh
en and sophomores.
According to the report, students
iought the U.S. should not use its
iperior military power to force
ie Arab states to end the oil
nbargo. They also agreed the
,1 crisis was caused in a major
art by hidden manipulations of
ie giant oil companies.
majority of those polled also
hought the U.S. should not reduce
s support of Israel in order to win
he friendship and support of the
rab states.
"It (the survey) shows student
pinion is a bit more liberal on
ampus than might be expected,"
aid Mark DeLancey, assistant
rofessor in the department and
ne of the administrators of the
urvey. He added one must also
eep in mind the classes over
epresented the business school
nd freshman-sophomore levels.
Concernmng American govern
nent and Watergate, students
oted 66-58 for an immediate vote
y the U.S. House of Represen
atives on whether or not President
richard Nixon should be im
eached. The majority also agreed
hat Nixon was incorrect in his
efusal to testify before the grand
ury investigating Watergate.
U.S. trade with Russia and
american aid to foreign nations
~ere two additional areas students
esponded to. They agreed in a
oter of 108-17 that the efforts to
xpand trade with the USSR should
e continued. The report also
howed students voted 69-59 that
de President should immediately
rder an embargo on the sale of
od grains overseas.
The primary concern of the U.S.
ongress at this time, according to
ie survey, is solving the enery
-isis. Second highest priority was
iven to consideration of possible
residential involvement in im
achable offenses.