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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1986)
University student endeavors to change dorms * safety policy By Mary IJchtenwalner Of Ika Emorold Several dorm residents are horsing around, and one ac cidentally puts a hand through a glass window. It’s a bloody scene, so one student calls the resident assistant for help. Housing Director Marjory Ramey thinks this is a good reaction. The resident assistant knows how to apply first aid and is aware of where the first aid kit is located, she says. That's fine, agreesUniversity student Steve Kichkind. as long as there actually is a kit .' available. But he says that ■ remedy is not realistic because '. ohly one kit is located In each dorm complex. That means ■ there's only one kit for about • SQO people, Richkind says.° ' ^ Most students don't kriow where thatp Ohe kit is. located. either; Richkind says’ lie's try-' '•ing-.tift encourage the'Housing » •; Department to^ require readily '‘available first-aid kitsiri every dorm'.”* ■ think until a°person forces ‘. t he;M6Usjng Depart me.nt.to pdt. 1 “in.kitp.Jhpy Won't da anylKing.' ; (The ".Housing UepnrtmetM)'.is * • •: worlrCed . about' ii^Bll'ity.'.' f. /"Richkind Wys.'-./• >* V"' “ / : //Richkind pitwehti>d.v'tl^;’iniat^ ' ter- foiifie’Ham 11 ton complex ■ president's , council" Mcfriday:. and Mhe* (.arsonharl complex . k - pr«»sid.eht's counc i I .Wed nesllay' • lie says' a'.resident assistant at Wednesday's- meeting'■was.:'' definitely opposed to' his pito posa I j; ‘ ‘She felt *. it Was: a not her. added responsibility to be nurse ' , by simply having the kit in her room." he says. ' . '’/i +. Ramey., however. sayV / Richkind's concern .is. ii.ij-’ necessary "It. doesn't answer . any particular need as yet. A. person, who ciits a finger should bie able- to supply their bwn , Hand-Aids,", he says. / ' . Dorm residents have had a need'for such kits but have been aurpirised to find they are dif-" ; , ficpll or impossible: to. locate; '•. R i cb k° i n d says, fie/ says although the kits are necessary. . for minor injuries only;' .that doesn't decrease the need/ •I,’-'." "The. use of the kits is discouraged. that's why there's only one per complex,” Kichkind says. "That's not ade quate. They should have one per dormitory." Dormitory resident assistants are trained in first-aid fall term, says James Jackson, Student Health Outer director. "And I believe they know where the kits are." he says. But Clark Hall resident assis tant, Karl Gates, says he was never told where the dorm's kit is located. In fact, he says his area manager told him last week the Walton complex first-aid kit had just arrived, a little lata. Gates says he assumes the kit will be located in the resident assistant lounge. • No Residents have leceivad serious injuries in the complex, ■ Gates says. "But I keep Baikb. Aids' myself and give "them .out,”-he-says." •' .. .. The Housing. Department is’, rhiking-a" risk- by providing .the-: training and. tjhe kits that .are ; ■available. Ratoey saysr liability ; is always* <i qcfrtcarrt,-. but it 'a at chance the”-University- must" . taTke.. she,says. v .-Y- .Ulntil about Six years .ago. the president>• assistants -vyeref'^iidt;! ° given any-' firet-Aid "’training" lxx:«iuSh;df thVproximity. of such’ V ’s professionaU'seryices as Sa'crmT Heart General Hospital, the health center and the Eugene Fire and Emergency Services, Ramey says. “I’ve chosen to take a somewhat limited risk, but we’re not going to go into a full scale training program for R.A.s because it simply isn’t our role,” Ramey says. “We’re not a health agency.” Richkind argues that point, citing the fact that the health center closes at 8 p.m. and the hospital is a distance for those injured, especially if transporta tion is not accessible, he says. "What happens then?” he asks. One answer, Ramey says, lies ' with campus security. If a st'u- ' dent needs professional care im mediately,*th% resident assistant, . .will call security - for help: arid •-. transpdrtation.shesays. . 0 : , Rir.hkind.plans td pursue the- *. •Issp.ff further, possibly cifT • ' -dilating'' some - petitions- and ' sending; .thenr-to legislator's to .push • for-new- legislation: ’ ’ ^’•Miost: people,- don-’-t .even ■ ° know.that thejin are any: first-aid kits;. tWij’Js this false security. : And;,-their, - parents - probably -'don’t • veven" know* ’ V. Richk i nd , ] ^ys “‘r. want . their-parents to know there a re nd , f i fs t-a ld% k its,. . apd-’j/waht students io know.’*’ . i FIRST AID KIT •„ ' Pfco«» by Karan Millwood UnifenitystudentSteve Richkind wants the University’s hous ing department to place fint^aid kits'in'every dormitory • • ' V ;• 0 ... •, *«. ~*v • . • . . * ** . 0 . 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