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Health center looks to improve privacy ■ The University Health Center gathers ideas to deal with the problem By Jessica Blanchard Oregon Daily Emerald According to results collected from recent University Health Center patient satisfaction surveys, some students don’t feel their pri vacy is respected when taking care of health needs on campus. In response, health center ad ministrators have charged the Stu dent Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) with gathering student in put and forming proposals for in expensive ways to improve priva cy throughout the health center, according to health center director Dr. Gerald Fleischli. The privacy issue came into fo cus when health center administra tors were looking at restructuring women’s health services during fall term, Fleischli said. Previous ly, women’s health services had been located in Area D on the sec ond floor of the health center. While that arrangement benefit ed women by providing a seclud ed area for their health services, some students questioned why it was exclusively for women. This term, health center officials dis bursed women’s services through out the building and opened the area up to all students. But the pri vacy issue still remains. “It really got us started thinking about ways we could increase pri vacy for everyone and really get that women’s center feel for the rest of the health center,” said SHAC member Greg Byrd, a senior biology and biochemistry major. “There’s always room for improvement.” One of the common complaints was that the large windows near the entrance allowed passersby to see students in the health center, Solving the privacy issue The University Health Center is looking at several ideas to help improve privacy for students, including: Moving benches from in front of the pharmacy to around the corner Moving rope waiting lines to various medical areas to give patients more privacy during their appointment check-in Using blinds or some type of window covering to shield the large windows in the front of the center Putting up dividers between medical areas Source: Dr. Gerald Fleischli, University Health Center director Byrd said. Other ideas offered at the SHAG meeting were instruct ing nurses to be more discreet when checking students in, rear ranging the medical areas to be more secluded, putting maps of the health center at strategic inter vals to show people their location and using dividers in certain med ical areas between windows. “I think it’s gotten a little better, but still, voices carry,” said Caro line Wolfram, a health center pharmacist. “We try to keep things as confidential as possible and be as sensitive as possible. But I think we need a more private area than this.” Ideally, the health center would like to remodel the exist ing building, Fleischli said. The health center has put in a propos al for a major building renovation to the Student Building Fee Com mittee, but any actual construc tion is a long way off, he said. Mayoral candidate ‘Izzy’ poised for third run ■ James Whestine is running on a platform of environmental responsibility, urban sprawl and humor By Sara Lieberth Oregon Daily Emerald He promised the voters in 1992 that he would “be a part of Eugene politics in the future” and his campaign buttons from 1996 coy ly read, “Re-elect Izzy in 2000.” James “Izzy” Whestine is back in the race for mayor running with a positive attitude and an un daunted hope that this third time will be the charm. “I made a commitment to the citi zens of Eugene and I won’t quit until they come to their senses,” he said. This playful posture carries over to his latest campaign motto, “He’s relatively harmless,” which he said will soon be appearing on the lapels of supporters citywide. Others who have officially filed with the city recorder’s office are 21-year-old Uriah Murray, a stu dent at Cascade Institute of Mas sage, and Lazar Makyadath, own er of Lazar’s Bazaar, a local business. At 61, Whestine is a retired Union Pacific yard master, father of two and grandfather to four children. He has called Eugene home since 1959 and is actively involved in local theater, is a vet eran blood donor and can be regu larly found rafting the white wa ters on Oregon’s many rivers. Though his lifestyle might be seen as too light-hearted for a se rious run at the office of mayor, he believes campaigning for the post is really a rather funny proposi tion in the first place. “A candidate in a town the size of Eugene has to spend about $60,000 for a job that doesn’t pay,” he said. “Now, that’s funny. ” Whestine isn’t all humor when it comes to the issues he cares about, though—such as big business and the environment. He fiercely op posed Hyundai’s settling locally be cause “who wants dead fish and drinking water that glows in the dark so someone’s computer can work 13 seconds faster?” he said. The hot-topic of urban sprawl is another issue that gets him en gaged, as a recent visit to Califor nia reminded him of how happy he was to live here instead. “It’s a symptom of the rebirth, the revitalizing of the downtown core I know,” he said. “But grow ing up is the only real answer.” Critical of the ways in which, according to him, politics in gen eral value bank accounts more than platforms and business con tracts more than constituents, Wh estine said he hopes his cam paigning will change that. “I think voting against money is probably the best thing the middle and lower classes could do for themselves,” he said. “I have no business-oriented goals for this job. I would like to supervise the grinding of the public ax. ” RENTALS! Downhill (new shaped skis) ^ & Cross Country... 1V Snowboards SiV^ & Boots.♦•) Back Country & Telemark Pkgs. Snow Shoes. j *15 13th & Lawrence • 683-1300 Berg's Ski Bus to Willamette Pass, lit. Bachelor & Hoodoo! Don’t have any more DUCK BUCKS ? Don’t have a cowman... come to EMI Suite 300 Dead Man Wafting The Journey 008416 Speaker, Sister Helen Prejean, Csj, author EMU Ballroom University of Oregon Wednesday, February 2, 2000 NOON Co-sponsored by: • ACLU of Oregon • Life for a Life Committee • U of O Cultural Forum • Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty • U of O Peace Studies Program • Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation • U of O Student Activities Resource Office • Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association • Sponsors, Inc. • Oregon Peaceworks • St. Thomas Moore Newman Center • St. Vincent dePaul Society of Lane County, Inc. • The Koinonia Center • Wesley Foundation Presentation is free and open to the public. . B§M
