Oregon daily emerald., March 13, 1975, Page 3, Image 3

Hospitals
expect
credentials’
return
Although the hospitals connected with
the University of Oregon Health Sciences
Center (UOHSC) in Portland have lost their
national accreditation, officials there hope it
can be regained by early summer.
Administrators at the UOHSC were
notified Monday that the Joint Commission
of Accreditation of Hospitals had removed
its accreditation of both hospitals con
nected with the institution. Lewis Bluemle,
president of UOHSC, said most of the criti
cism directed at the school was in the areas
of "record keeping and documentation,”
rather than patient care or treatment.
The most immediate effect then will
probably be a loss of prestige for the school,
since Bluemle said the administration ex
pects to quickly correct the situation.
UOHSC vice-president Joe Adams said,
however, one of the problems cannot be
corrected until the state legislature approp
riates some money. For instance, he said
the administration is waiting for the legisla
ture to appropriate $1.97 million for a new
fire protection system for the school to bring
it into compliance with federal standards.
Bluemle said he hopes the situation can
be essentially under control by the middle of
April, so that the school could apply for re
accreditation in June.
A two-person survey team visited the
hospitals in early December and filed a re
port which was primarily concerned with the
school’s deficiencies in organization and
record-keeping. Most of the deficiencies
were corrected in January, Bluemle said,
when new Medical Staff Bylaws were
adopted.
A long term loss of accreditation could
reflect on teaching quality, high recom
mendation marks at graduation and possi
bly financing.
If all works to plan, however, the school
will probably regain the commission’s favor
before those effects become apparent.
The Health Sciences Center has not had
any direct connection with the University
here since the early 1940s.
Union charges unfair labor practice
By CHRIS JUPP
Of the Emerald
The University of Oregon is charged with unfair labor practice in two
complaints mailed to Salem Wednesday by the American Federation of State
County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME), a national labor union campaign
ing to win representation of the University’s classified employes.
The complaints were filed with the Public Employe's Relations Board
(PERB), collective bargaining's governing body in Oregon.
AFSCME is charging that the University violated Oregon’s labor relations
law 243.672 by denying campus mail use to the union.
Administration officials defend their position by citing a clause in the
school’s present contract with the Oregon State Employes Association which
prohibits University aid to rival unions.
Once PERB receives the complaints, it will appoint a board hearings
agent to consider the case. PERB must also notify the University of the
charges against it. Administration officials have not yet been shown copies of
the complaint, according to Mel Huey, AFSCME’s southern Oregon represen
tative.
In a related case two years ago, PERB ruled that the University could not
grant mail privileges to organizations opposed to the OSEA.
A group of secretary’s had joined informally together and distributed
through campus mail an intermittent news letter called The Classified. OSEA
claimed that the publication was antagonistic and filed a complaint with PERB
charging the administration with breach of contract, according to Ray Hawk,
vice-president for administration and finance.
“PERB did not say specifically that we acted in ill intent, but they did
strongly tell us to be more discriminate in the granting of privileges,’’ Hawk
said. "It was with this case in mind that we decided against AFSCME."
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budget, says DeGross, when the Native
Americans "threatened war" if the centers
were not reinstituted. Even so, the centers
remain appendages to the current program,
DeGross emphasized.
According to Barcelo, “Each center drew
up a proposal, discussed it with Donald
Rhoades, Dean of Student Administrative
Services, and they negotiated.
Out of these negotiations came the fol
lowing funding: Bridge (the center for low
income white students), $13,000; the Black
Cultural Center, $15,000; the Native
American Program, $17,000; and Tezca
(the center for Chicano students), $13,000.
These funding levels include the salaries of
the directors of the centers. In other words,
above and beyond the actual salaries of
their directors, the centers have the follow
ing funds to spend: Bridge, $3,400; the
Black Cultural Center, $5,400; the Native
American Program, $4,500; and Tezca,
$3,000.
Just who is the EOS student? Barcelo
claims that some 280 students are currently
going to school under EOS. However, De
Gross says that there are 15 Native Ameri
cans going to school right now under EOS,
Coiner says there are 55 low-income whites
in the program; and Hernandez freely ad
mits that he has no idea how many
Chicanos are going to school on EOS
monies.
How many Blacks are attending the Uni
versity on EOS funds cannot be determined
at this time, either. The director of the Black
Cultural Center is currently in the Soviet
Union and will not return until the end of the
month.
“Students have no reason to come to the
centers anymore,” stated Hernandez.
"They used to come to the centers to get
tutors, etc., but now we no longer provide
any academically-related services.”
DeGross said further that the lists he re
ceives from the main office of EOS contain
the names of students who have not at
tended the University for several years
now.
Hernandez explained that the way
Coiner became acquainted with low
income students in the EOS program was
to go out and seek them out in their homes.
“I don’t have that kind of time,” Hernandez
said.
“What we really need in this program,”
explained Bridge Director Coiner, “is stu
dent input. Right now, there is no way to find
out if we re meeting the needs of our stu
dents.”
At the same time, Associate Director of
EOS Campillo feels the program is effec
tive. As proof he cites the fact that EOS
students are completing more hours now
than ever before.
EOS students must complete 12 hours
per term, according to Campillo, to qualify
for work study and thus, stay in the Univer
sity.
Both Coiner and Study Skills Director
Cawthorne emphasized the strain this puts
on EOS students.
‘‘Many of our students have been dis
criminated against in their earlier school
ing,” explained Coiner. “As a result, they
have less college skills. Work-study com
bined with taking classes combined with
sessions in the study skills center is like a
lead weight around the student’s leg.”
What Bridge students need, according to
Coiner, is more time to get through the Uni
versity — five years instead of four.
Cawthorne also spoke about this prob
lem: “Students come in for skill building with
such severe deficiencies in some cases
that a course here or a course there won't
help.
"We have some students who cannot
write or read at a seventh grade level and
yet they have to compete and complete 12
hours per term,” he continued. “I know how
to solve their problems, but I don’t have the
time or the money."
Concerns about the actual progress of
minority and low-income students at the
University led to the preparation of a report
entitled “Academic Progress of Students"
by research assistant Willetta Wilson in
1973. The report was completed under the
direction of the Office of Support Services
at the University to determine how well low
income and minority students were doing
academically.
DeGross stressed, however, that the
ethnic centers were never told that such a
report was being done and after it was ac
tually published, the centers had great diffi
culty actually getting copies of the report.
“I still don’t know who Willetta Wilson is,”
noted DeGross.
The report points out that minority and
low-income students have not been as
academically successful as other students.
The report does not attempt to answer why.
"What we need to do now,” noted Bar
celo, “is to find out why they (low-income
and ethnic students) have failed to make
the same progress through the University.
“We are going to start doing exit inter
views to help us determine why students
are leaving the University,” she sad.
Bogen cancelled an appointment with the
Emerald to discuss the EOS program. Ac
cording to his secretary, Elizabeth
Goldthwaite, Bogen plans to do some “re
structuring” of the program today when he
meets with the entire EOS staff.
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