$1 Million Infirmary Nears Combletion
The Student Health Service,
now housed in cramped quartern
across 13th Ave. from the Stu
dciit Union, will probably be mov
im; to a building with twice the
present space before fall term is
over.
Dr Russell Rlemkcr, director of
the Health Service (called just
“the infirmary” by most stu
dents) hopes that tie and his staff
can move into the University’s
new $1 2 million Health Service
building by sometime in No
vember
The infirmary handles a mas
sive case load sometimes 200 or
300 students during peak hours,
according to Dr Hlemker.
Record Year
During the 1963 64 academic
year, the Health Service set a rec
ord by treating 02,000 outpatient
cases alone.
He acknowledged that things
will be ‘mighty hectic for a
while” during the first of the
term when the hordes of new stu
dents file into ttie Infirmary to
make last minute additions to
their health records, turn in phys
ical exam slips and complete oth
er registration duties.
This Is not to mention those per
sons with illnesses who go to
the infirmary for help
Sparc Larking
The present infirmary, like
some other campus buildings, has
been long since outgrown by the
student population explosion. Be
cause of lack of space to house*
needed equipment and treatment
facilities, the Health Service has
to send some student cases to
Sacred Heart Hospital, which is
also crowded as Eugene’s largest
hospital.
IHh I nlversitys new 37,000 square-foot quarters for the Student Health Service wil! hold 44 beds, provide modern facilities for every
thin!! except surgery.
I)r Blemker says that the now
infirmary will hi- able to handle
' everything hut major surgery."
The 37,000 square-foot two
story concrete and hrick struc
ture is about double the size of
the present building. It is located
next to Carson Hall, on 13th
Ave.
Built with Fees
Built entirely with student
fees, the new infirmary will ac
commodate 44 beds to start, with
room for expansion to hold 20
more Most of the rooms will be
two-bed wards, with four one- i
bed "isolation rooms" for serious i
contagious diseases.
The new infirmary will be
staffed by eight full-time and
two part time doctors and 13
nurses.
In addition, new members of
the staff will include a licensed ;
physiotherapist, a pharmacist and i
a dietitian. Kach will have sepa
Professor Writes
About Discovery
Graham Hoyle, professor of bi
ology at the University, has re
ported in "Science" magazine his
findings on the nature of the
coupling processes, one of the
most important unresolved prob
lems of muscle physiology.
The report appeared in a July
Issue of the weekly magazine
publishe I by the American Asso
ciation tor the Advancement of
Science.
Hoyle is known for his work in
fundamental muscle research He
is currently in Tokyo, Japan for
a series of scientific meetings
With his associates ami gradu
ate student*, he has been doing
research into the control of mus
cles by the nervous system and
the biophysical and chemical
processes which result in muscle
contraction.
Since January, the scientists
have been using the University's
new electron microscope, which
is 100 times more powerful than
an ordinary microscope, to ob
serve the muscle cells of inverte
brates
One basic concern has been to
find how the nerve impulse is
transmitted to the muscle fibers
Carlson Gets
Ed School Post
Richard 0. Carlson, associate
professor of education at the Uni
versity, has been appointed head
of the Division of Educational Ad
ministration, Curriculum, and
Supervision of the School of Edu
cation.
Paul B. Jacobson, dean of the
School of Education, said Carl
son would be succeeding Keith
Goldhammer, who was recently
appointed associate dean of t h e
school.
Carlson will be assuming his
new duties when he returns to the
campus from Harvard University
where he is spending the academ
ic year as a visiting professor.
Carlson is also a research asso
ciate in the University Institute
for Community Studies and a pro
ject director of the University’s
Center for Advanced Study of
Educational Administration.
of the invertebrate*. To this end,
Hoyle and his researchers have
been observing two systems, the
surface membrane and the sarco
plasmic reticulum.
The surface membrane makes
pathways into the cells to carry
impulses from the nerve ends,
and the sarcoplasmic reticulum
is a transport system within the
muscle cell.
Scientists had previously noted
that the surface membranes and
the sarcoplasmic reticulum are
often in close parallel proximity
within the muscle cell. Some had
thought that the membranes actu
ally touched in some places.
However, Hoyle discovered
something quite different. He
found after observing thousands
of their junctures, that while the
distance between the elements
is often very small, an extremely
thin sheet of electron dense ma
terial separates them.
Further research will attempt
to discover the significance of
the relationships among the
newly-found electron-dense ma
terial. the two elements, and the
muscle fibers, for 'determining
how the fibers are stimulated to
contract. j
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rate quarters in the new building
to offer services not now pro
vided.
I)r. Blemker said that the
building is being built to accom
modate a student body of 18,000.
Doctors Get Three Rooms
Each full time doctor will have
a suite of three rooms—two exam
ination-treatment rooms plus an
office. These, plus the general
offices and the pharmacy, are lo
cated on the first floor.
The second floor includes the
hospital area, the kitchen cafe
teria and one of the building's
two minor surgery rooms. The
structure also has an elevator,
unlike the present two-level fa
cility, plus an emergency en
trance for ambulances.
The basement will house the
physiotherapy department, in
cluding six whirlpool baths, a
heat treatment room and an ex
ercise room.
Using New Design
Dr. Blemker said that the
building is being constructed, us-1
ing the “new designs” in hospitals
—open construction and centrali
zation of services, avoiding long
passageways between areas.
Other new features will in
clude equipment for electrocar
diagram measurements, added X
ray and fluoroscope facilities, an
expanded laboratory, pneumatic
tubes to carry messages through
the building, a sterilizing appara
tus and a central oxygen supply
to allow oxygen to be piped into
the individual patient rooms.
The facilities of the Health
Service are now available to all
University* students. Drugs, tests
and other care is administered
free when possible; at other
times the charges are well be
low commercial rates.
After the Health Service moves
to new quarters the present infir
mary will be used as a facility
for the science department. The
basement now houses a S300.000
atomic accelerator, acquired by
the department last year.
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