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              charles saunders vice president for medical and academic affairs at st luke's hospital said m a lecture at rauch business center monday that the current cost of health care is inhibiting the country from future reform the lecture and slideshow the future of health care can the in dustry reform itself was sponsored by the lehigh university economics society the total cost of care is approach ing $ 1 trillion saunders said these increasing rates over the last 35 years are not supported by our economy he said the single most important reform is the ability to establish out comes measurements and practice guidelines so physicians can ensure the best quality health care to their patients saunders said if someone comes by mitch sherry news writer the total cost of care is approaching 1 trillion these increasing rates are not supported by our economy " charles saunders vice president for medical and academic affairs at st luke's hospital o:.:-x'k please see week page a4 auditorium all profits from the show will go to local charities scan seamone 95 vice president correspondent of sac said we had a good turn out and everything seemed successful so far everyone seemed a lot more active this week the main event on saturday will be the lehigh lafayette football game at lafayette college for that evening sac has a video dance party planned m lower grace hall from 10p.mto2a.m freeof charge there will be three big screens playing the videos of the songs played the technical work at the party will be performed by the same company lhat did the mtv rockin new year's eve party last january the video dance party is cosponsored by4he asian cultural society black students union and late night at lehigh seamone said as for this weekend we were not going to plan anything for saturday because people usually go up to the hill however the acs and bsu said that they wanted a non-alcoholic event so we lehigh-lafayette week an age-old tradition cel ebrating the 130-year football rivalry between the two schools has once again arrived heralded by a flurry of student activities the student activities council ran programs and activities all week to raise school spirit and get students involved most activities have been free and at the most minimal charge to make them all easily avail able to students john egan 98 spoke of his anticipation of these activities i knew coming to lehigh that lehigh lafayette weekend is supposed to be one of the best weekends so i'm looking forward to it sac sponsored a tarot card reader and an old fashioned photo booth with dress-up costumes and black and white photos tuesday m the ulrich student center wednesday they had graffiti artist t-shirts with various designs to choose from comedienne pam stone from nbc's coach performed a stand-up routine thursday m packard m with chest pains there will be a systematic approach as to what tests must be conducted initially and auto matically if we don't do this we won't know what restrictions of services interfere with the overall quality of caregiven to patients saunders said saunders also discussed the many health care concepts citizens must case of malpractice suits and m order to prove if needed that he did the right thing the problem is the expense for an extra mri or refilling a prescription another problem involves em ployer-employee mandates for small businesses health insur please see health page a4 professor pens updike bibliography by jennifer engels news writer please see updike page a4 friends relatives and updi ke hi m self all helped de bellis track down the sources of the author's work de bellis also worked through various libraries including the new york library the los angeles li brary and several university libraries it was not until de bellis decided to pursue graduate studies at univer sity of california-los angeles that he became interested m updike i saw him as an up and coming writer with literal brilliance and talent de english professor jack de bellis has published a bibliography of works by john updike an american novel ist poet and critic de bellis originally intended to write a book about updike while on sabbatical m 1991 i got about 250 pages into it and realized it was going to be a difficult project de bellis said as i began to amass materials for the book i saw that i had the workings for a bibliography the bibliography is intended for collectors updike has been writing for 35 years publishing at least one book a year sometimes two or three de bellis bibliography includes the last 25 years of updike's writings de bellis discovered works by updike all over the world translated into various languages including russian portuguese finnish chi nese and polish de bellis said it was interesting to find that m addi tion to his known works he had published books short stories and poems privately the brown and white all the lehigh news first lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 friday november 18 1994 vol 102 no 19 st luke's doctor lectures on future of u.s health care by annabel lukins news writer baw photo by david j uaker lehigh cheerleaders parade past the marching 97 at last year's lehigh-lafayette game lehigh-lafayette week the tradition continues face today the first question concerns access saunders said if you're fully em ployed and wealthy you have suffi cient access to health care insurance but if you're one of the 40 mil lion who are poor part-time work ers between jobs or unemployed you have no care it's disastrous and one-third of the uninsured are children saunders said he also talked about trying to simplify the billing process saunders said that of the 1,200 insurance com panies m the country each has its own procedure with different rules and regulations patients and even physicians m hospitals don't know all the proce dures saunders said you can lose coverage if you don t follow the rules it's really a non-system and very confusing in relation to professional liabil ity reform saunders admitted that even he has ordered extra tests m _^ _^^^__^__^ news al-a5 si|isbi|e^^^^|^^i world news briefs a2 bfflfj^fflfflhßrammmhf campus tv station a3 mfefr . j james taylor preview all yhßw™aiii ii htt^bhh p at feature a2o swimming feature on casey bahrenburg see sports page al9