Brown and White Vol. 92 no. 29

              lehigh university brown and white - : _: : vol 92 - no 29 bethlehem pa tuesday february 3 1981 215 86.v4184 emergency training ample campus police measure up by michele gerencher all university campus police are now certified m cardiopulmonary resuscita tion cpr but only a majority have first-aid training according to campus police chief eugene dax last february the force consisted of 10 officers all state-certified m first aid at that time only seven were cpr-certified since then the force has expanded to 12 full-time and three part-time officers we will have a one-day first-aid pro gram shortly dax said it will be an eight-hour program in early sep tember two officers attended a first responders emergency medical care training course at the allentown police academy dax said the week-long 40 hour course taught basic life support and methods to prevent further injury and minimize patient discomfort dax stressed the importance of police training m cpr i think the most impor tant thing for an officer to know is cpr dax said a case requiring cpr is far more critical than most first-aid cases he added dax said all officers must have cpr training which requires nine hours of instruction judgment plays a key role m effective treatment dax said i feel the campus police use really good judgment he added if there is an emergency they call an ambulance immediately or trans port the patient themselves campus police also call the health center for their advice on many cases dax said the health center staff is always very cooperative he added dax said emergency transportation by cruiser car or ambulance is available by calling the campus police he said the health center should be called simul taneously an alternative is to call an ambulance directly any person at their discretion can call an ambulance without contacting campus police dax said dax labeled response time the most important factor m a medical emer gency response time for the campus police is a matter of minutes it is rare when response is not from two to five minutes dax said quickness of response is dictated by the type of call and m some cases may even be a matter of seconds he added dax referred to overall emergency procedures at the university as ade quate there's always room for improvement m anything but i think we havea pretty good system he said as far as the campus police we are staffed 24 hours it's just a matter of calling us dr carl ruch medical director of university health services agreed with dax that emergency capabilities are suf ficient i've found the university very supportive of health care he said i think ours is an appropriate set-up to care for emergencies ruch said that although expanded facilities would be desirable m most cases they would not be feasible he explained that because of the number of times certain added equipment would be needed its use could not justify its pur chase or the salary of a technician we must have a certain volume before it is feasible to have such equipment he said ruch agreed with dax that campus police should be called m a medical emergency campus police is the most reasonable place to call he said this is especially true at night when there is only one nurse on duty at the health cen you don't know me but . . ." freshman ben blinder caught m action hatting the breeze on richards b-l it sure doesn't look like he's talking to he mollies pizza man ifc plans greek party list to eliminate campus clutter by tom dipiazza a list of parties will be published weekly by the interfraternity council ifc to replace individual posters on lower campus according to del mark ward 81 ifc president while individual party posters have been banned on lower campus they may still be placed m residence halls he said the ifc voted 24-6 last thursday m favor of the policy change he added nobody was getting their message across . . and it looked trashy on lower campus markward said explaining the change the policy change follows a suggestion by faculty members who met with ifc representatives as pari of the fraterni ties faculty relations program accord ingto markward faculty members were getting the impression that all fraterni ties did was have parties markward said the list will be posted around campus on wednesday begin ning tomorrow he said initially the list will include only greek parties but that it may change as more persons become familiar with it he said it may develop into a message sheet for the entire campus markward said the party list which was previously distributed to the frater nities will continue to be compiled by the fact finding committee the commit tee will also be responsible for distribut ing the posters the cost will be covered by the ifc printing budget markward said ib&w photo by steve gompefuzi if it hadn't been for the factfinding sheet i might have missed this theta chi party but i'm not going to let the university's ban on lower campus party posters ruin my fun . . when the fact-finder speaks i listen neh grant awarded to university by mark carroll the university hopes to have filed for the first installment of its recently awarded federal challenge grant by july 1 1981 according to john hunt dean of the college of arts and sciences hunt who is the principal project director for the grant added vhat the money will probably be spent soon after it is matched although no decisions ha ye yet been made as to what the first project will be the is a three-year 500,000 national endowment for the humanities neh challenge grant that was awarded to the university dec 15 the university's grant was one of the 12 larg est of the 122 institutional challenge grants awarded hy the neh last year the neh program established by congress m 1976 is designed lo help ill tural and educational institutions improve their humanities programs recipients ol neh challenge grants must raise $:) m new or increased dona lions lor every 1 of grant money ther eby making the university's grant worth a total of 2 million the grant was awarded to the univer sity lo be used m five different areas endowment for development of the faculty of the college of arts and scien ces library collection departmental general operation expenses support of distinguished professorships and for capital expenditures for linderman library renovation and automation according to christine smith assist ant director of development the univer sity originally applied for a 4.5 million neh grant besides reducing the overall grant amount she said the neh rejected two of the university's proposed projects funding for an administrative assistant to help raise the non-federal portion of the grant and for a scholarship program for students studying the humanities was denied the decision as to what projects will be tackled first and exactly how much will be allocated to each project will proba bly be made m several months according to hunt he said any such decisions made before then would be theoretical since conditions and priorities may well change between now and the time the money becomes available he added however that provisions have been made to allow contributors to designate their donations for a particu lar project hunt also said the final approval as to exactly how the money will be spent will come from university president deming lewis hunt noted that it may be advisable to begin capital expenditures such as lind erman library renovations and automa tion as soon as possible m order to avoid higher costs m the future due to inflation all the programs approved under the grant are vital m keeping up the long term quality of the university hunt said he added that he is particularly anxious to see the college's faculty devel opment program continued and expanded smith said the development depart ment has set its july 1 fund-raising goal at 125,000 solicitations from alumni corporations and foundations have begun but no current figures are availa ble as to how much has been raised so far see area page 4 see allocation page 5 inside hourglass p 4 what's happening p 5 pards win p 8