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"K * t jc&SA HHHhIM BS^ftl 'IMP 1 1 r x " . ^ 1 ^ USC met By Susan B. Lynch Staff Writer Are house calls a thing of the past? USC. . If an on-campus student is sick and go to Thomson Student Health Cent center sends a medic to the student'! after regular hours, according to W< Caruthers, the center's business man; He said the medic goes to the sti room and communicates with the reg: nurse on duty with a walkie-talkie. I THE MEDIC treats the student instructions from the nurse, he said. ' This service is free. Ken Corbin, a full-time medic, work 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. This is the first sei the center has employed a full-time m Six part-time medics each work 1 hours a week on a rotating shift. The at the health center from f? p.m. to mi and from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays also work from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. IV through Thursday at the physical edi center. Caruthers said the part-time medic one night at the health center and on< at the P.E. center each week. Medi also required to work the late shi weekend nights a month. "WK DON'T ASK our medics tc those late hours more often becaus are students, and the burden would great," he said. 1-4 ^11 r\l Of ii i uuLuan jjiayt from page 1 were F* II i <;' guess words were exchanged between the girls and Car fellows, and there is a both minimum of what you can "It w put up with." ties," IMarey Edmunds. Ellen thoug McLeod and Caroline Ward ineid< B3M^ The Ke hOFG To QX[ yl-:-x-:g^MWBpWWB^HBBHMBpS?Mja)HMBMMSr K^Ht / - " - ' P._4L??: rZmt.'S**..... Wc.fi m akp^ prr Three standby medics are available work when necessary. Not at The medic team at the health cen consists of one female and five male U cannot undergraduates. er, the Three medics are studying medical fie s room ~ pharmacy, nursing and biology. >odrow 0ne medic is studying pre law, and t ager. are computer science majors. ident's The health center employed milit; istered medics who had served in Vietnam fr 1972 until 1975, Caruthers said. After the v ended, these medics became scarcer, i under the health center began hiring emerger . medical technicians. s from EMTs MUST pass a course offei mester statewide in various technical schools, edic. examination must be passed before 2 to 15 EMT receives a state license. y work Midlands Tech offers the EMT cour idnight Caruthers said. The 100-hour class consi They 27 sessions and a weekend internship londay emergency room treatment, Caruthi ication said. Caruthers stressed that a medic s work qualified only to administer first aid. e night "A registered nurse is on duty af cs are hours," he said. "She is the responsi ft two medical person. The RN makes a necessary medical decisions. The me* . merely assists the RN. work ARTHUR YEH, a computer sciei e they major, received his medic certificat be too from Midlands Tech in September 1979 i. has worked at the health center since 2r arrested after figl the three women in said yesterday that Ellis I car, Carlen said. not been suspended from len said he thought fo?M>allteam. parties were at fault. Raymond Hudson, 52 'as dumb of both par- in satisfactory < he said. Carlen said he at Richland Memo ;ht drinking caused the Hospital. Larry Hudson 1 ?nt. treated for an eye injury university spokesman released. mnedy years, Vietnam, tht Vatergate era are very vagi nariannf* thetm_ . _ Missiona to life in A 1* m n jT\ ajter z$j-\> By Robert Reeves Staff Writer The Rev. Steve Lynch of St.. Thomas Catholic Center calls himself "a mode Van Winkle." He has spent much of hii life away from American culture missionary in Japan. Lynch, 54, left for Japan in the sumi 1957. With the exception ot tour short home, he was out of touch with Am |g life until his return in 1977. "There was so much that I missed i 20-year span," Lynch said. "The Kc years, Vietnam, the turbulent '6 general and the Watergate era are vague to me because I wasn't here M perience them and just saw them tt !|| the newspapers." | LYNCH SAII) returning to the IStat.es produced a type of reverse c shock. "It was culture shock to America and go to Japan, but after sp< so much time there it was another sh come back," he said. After returning to the United ! Lynch went to graduate school at B for a year and earned a master s dej bioethics. I I went to Berkley to try to conden year of graduate school some of wha missed in the previous 20," Lynch s chose bioethics because there are sc questions today in regard to such thi birth control and abortion." Lynch took over at the Catholic Ce the fall of 1978. "I saw a real need v\ Berkley in campus ministry in tha students are very goal-and career-n religion just isn't their bag," Lync "Students have a very broad concept and religion, but those concepts ar< very important part of their lives." IN THAT CONTEXT, Lynch s lergency h to 1980 spring semester. Before being employed by the ter center, Yeh worked as a volunteer SC with the Richland County Erne MoH ipal Spruipp Ids Yeh said most of the injuries after i health center hours occur at the P.E. wo Intramural sports, especially f< result in frequent accidents, he said, ary "It doesn t really make any dif] om what day of the week it is for a grea var injuries to occur," Yeh said. "For ex ind I worked one night when all the tre Jic ice ^n^a ion 9 ind the lad ^ the m . . on- ' ;\. rial Emergency Medical Technic ,vas McENeen's throat. The stude and by John Parnell) > turbulent '60s in general te to me because / wasn 't -the Rev. Steve Lynch ry readjusts imerica <ear absence considers the college campus as much of a mission field as Japan. More Lynch said he spent his first three years in n Rip Japan learning the language at a Tokyo adult school. Then he spent the next 17 years as a working with the small groups of Japanese Catholics, running a Japanese kinlerof dergarten, working with a leper colony and visits teaching in a Japanese university. irican Lynch said the ancient Japanese culture is still strongly entrenched in some areas, n that but Japan is greatly influenced by Westcn medy culture, especially that of the United States )s in "The young people are much the same as very they are here in that they like the Westeri, to ex- styles of clothing and music and don't seem rough to have a strong desire to cling to the old traditions,'' Lynch said. Jnited "IN THE '50s and '60s especially, the ulture Japanese had a great love and respect for leave America," Lynch said. inding To illustrate this point, Lynch said he first ock to learned of the assassination of John F. Kennedy from a teary Japanese farmer Itates, high in the mountains. *rkley ree in "I was surprised that he had even heard of J.F.K., much less be in tears about it," ;e in a Lynch said. "It was one of the very few I had times that I ever saw a Japanese man cry. lid. "I They just don't do it." many For a week after the assassination. Lynch ngs as said, the people of the town where he was working came to him and offered sympathy, iter in Lynch has written a book about his exhile at periences with a Japanese title that tranwhile slates "The Lord of the Heavens." The book inded, has been sent to New York publishing \ said, houses. of God "I get letters saying they like the book but not a want me to rewrite certain parts of it," Lynch said. "But I'm so busy here catching up with life in the present that it's hard to go lid he back and relive that past again." ouse calls rooms were filled. The next night was health calm." inetuc 'gency For serious medical problems, an ambulance is often needed to take a patient to egular the hospital. Caruthers said the health center. center pays for ambulance fees when the otball, center calls the ambulance service. He estimated the center calls four to five erence ambulances a month. many Ambulance services are most often ample,.. needed at night because a staff physician is itmeni not on campus, Caruthers said. ByiljL J W&Z :Jjr': *>& H rap^ ttk MP ^^Br^-''^1*^'-'; :&2&- < ': v^HHk^^HF : an Steve Dry den checks USC student Angela it health center staffs several EMT's. (Photo