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Yale prof not impor By l.OKRAINE CALLISON Gamecock Staff Writer People, not doctors, keep ? 1.1-.. :J ? ? ? uiciimcivcd nccttlliy, 5U1U cl 13IG University associate professor in a lecture Tuesday night. I "It is a myth," said Dr. Lowell S. I Levin," that doctors have made a i significant contribution to society. Diet, hygiene and education are more important than professional t people can ever be." Levin teaches / nublic honlth r? l iho Voin University School of Medicine, and i he delivered his speech in the Belk < Auditorium of the Business Ad- i ministration building. i "Health care should not rest in 1 the hands of professionals alone, he said. Levin's lecture was titled 'Self-Care: Lay Initiatives in | Health." : mam - university i totaling mc ltv CEIL KAKFIELD \ t.amecock start Writer I I During the 1976-77 year USC received bad checks totaling more than $200,000, Howard Rhodes, r USC's treasurer for the accounting c office, said. Rhodes said he feels s this surprisingly high number of f back checks is a result of student ; carelessness. i About 75 per cent of the checks 1 returned are from students paying i tuition fees. The Camnns i Hookstore encounters the same i problem. Returned checks to the t NEED ! FEMININE HEALT e Problem i i Birth coni Abortion 24 HOUR HOTl.l crnnu i HMMMII BIB TBK Columbia PI Is spot* ?? ?msoma mum ID jpa? Prix Winners featura showing Shooting Rick up your c Coteabian 2912 Devi waaamt |gyi^aZBHP83Wjfl!s^> 55 ofSfe? CrgaB says do< tant to h THE GREAT AMERIC romance with medicine is ove Levin said. "We care finally see the limits of medicine, and it becoming less religion and m< ousiness. ine proDiem with put health workers is that we have faced what is really happening us." Levin, who said he has not be o a doctor since 1949, si \merica is pouring great sums noney into the health professi< .vithout getting anything back, quoted a study which showed tl nany patients leave a hospi .vith a disease they did not come A'ith. "THE MORE health care so: people get, the sicker they get," >aiu. "ece/ves t >re than j wok store are more frequent at t jeginning of each term and beft lonaays. THE TREASURER'S offi lotifies the student that he has lays to correct the returned che situation. If the student fails to ;o within this time, a collecti igency is notified. Rhodes said t iniversity usually has no problei because most students will i nediately deposit the money ii heir account or pay the univers n cash. For each returned che hat one writes, a fee of $5 IELP? H EDUCATION ireqnancy trol info * * MA I1VE 2S()-8'II0 mw I WW WW ioIo Supply raring ROWIBf iln Negater Gtftevy ntiybhnk at Mii& fingpfpHy ne Street 962 BBBbJS :tors lealth i\N Families that have a bloo r," pressure gauge, a reference boo ing on illness and a thermometer ar is nrarti^ino c^lf.nopo i n.iU , .w K UV.I V.UI V, JLAJVAII dail ore Approximately 500,000 self-hel )lic groups exist in America today, an not the number of self-care books i ; to also skyrocketing, he said. "THE ROLE of a doctor shoul ?en not be a god-like one," he saic aid "We must share our knowledg of with (he public and all of us will b )ns better off." He lat The lecture was the first of si tal designed to provide a forum fo i in public health issues. They are ct sponsored by the School of Publi Hpalth thp S C Pnhlir> HnoH me Association and the Department c he Health and Environmental Cor trol. tad checks 5200,000 he charged by the university. >re The treasurer's office no> employs a fulltime clerk to handl the problem with returned checks " HOWEVER. ACCORDING to th ? Treasurer's Office, the cler ^ resigned the position and could nc uu be reached for comment. "g - PROBLEM mPREGNANCY t_ NEED HELP? Columbia 254-7817 Charleston 722-8318 MfC r?M L1EIBI | i tie v**" * The New' Thur., Pri. & Sa 6-7-8 Oct. ? ; Oct. 13-14-15 ? Monday ? ] Tuesday ? Wlr Wednesc Draft i I The Gam? d k I keeps you ir a | s 1 ? CRROLINfl WOmEl 'e Free Pregnancy 1 e Free Rbortion Ref Confidential fTled r Pregnancy can t ? blood test before Call 256-0128 2< 1 Columbia. S.C. y " THE PIZZA EXPRESS V f FREE nFI IVEDV TA I ? ?' w ?_ % 1 k Get a FREE 10 oz. _ a REAL submarine Minimum order % Cedar Terrace Shopping Center Phone 783-2116 Hours: I j H3U-1XOI2 Mon.-Thui J | **30-li00 M.'lttf. xS~n 2701 Ro ^ "Stoney I Bant "Crackar Ladles' Nite, drinks $ ie Nite. 2.00 nnxrop "p ? 7 ? ? wwvvyx JL' X ' lay. ? Beer Nite, 2.0C Free Draft. CR-im V? ^ J leer 25* every lappy Heer 4-1 ?cock (formed N'S SERVICES ] resting erral to ical Facilities >e detected by > missing period. 309 Hampton St. 292Q4 "T" IC/** /"AAIBI v.Hmruo Pepsi with sandwich >2.30 A HOT NVMBHI x - 9s=> >WNER! sewood Dr. 9-7605 Branch Smm&l : , 1.00 (8-10) 3e Wine (8-10) ) nnxr&r* v-^vy V W JL I night r I