Monday, December 2, 1996
Textbooks back at Ackerman Union
The renovated UCLA Store moved one step closer to completion
Nov. 18 with the transfer of the textbook department out of its
temporary home in the Plaza Building into its new quarters on the
A-level of Ackerman Union.
The textbooks were moved to "avoid another rush at Plaza," said
Marian Sattar, the supervisor of the textbook department of the
UCLA Store and a second-year political science student.
Moving the textbooks before the rest of the store opened was
done now to coincide with the new shipment of books for Winter
Quarter which is due late this week.
Many students seemed unaware of the change, as evidenced by the
fact that they were surprised to see the "closed" sign at the Plaza
building. Traffic through the new location has been slow, but
Sattar attributes it more to the off-season than anything else.
The rest of the UCLA Store is scheduled to open the first week
of January, according to the Associated Students of UCLA.
Decline in patient rolls worries Irvine officials
University of California administrators are worried that a sharp
decline in patients at UC Irvine Medical Center could threaten the
only doctor training programs in Orange County.
The reason for the patient decline is competition from private
health management organizations, according to center director Mark
Laret. The center is considering affiliation with HMOs as a
possible solution, he said.
Programs in emergency medicine and urology were put on probation
this year by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education because doctors-to-be weren’t getting enough training and
experience.
Emergency medicine has since been reinstated.
"We have too few patients to keep ourselves accredited in some
of our residency programs," Laret told employees on a recorded hot
line this week.
The average daily in-patient census went from about 320 five
years ago to 202 in October.
The answer might be a partnership with a large health-care
company where residents can train, Laret said in an interview.
He is negotiating with Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Columbia/HCA
Healthcare Corp. A decision on whether to affiliate with either
organization is expected by April.
GOP wants to kick out
wayward candidate
The Republican Party wants to toss out congressional candidate
Paul Stepanek for criticizing top Republicans and endorsing
President Clinton, party officials said.
Stepanek was defeated in his Nov. 5 attempt to unseat 11-term
Rep. Henry Waxman in the solidly Democratic 29th Congressional
District, which covers the west side and portions of the San
Fernando Valley.
He endorsed Clinton over Bob Dole, denounced House Speaker Newt
Gingrich and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, and suggested fellow
Republican congressional candidate Rich Sybert’s campaign had
racist overtones. Stepanek still lost to Waxman, 68 percent to 24
percent.
Now, Republican Party officials have lodged a formal complaint
against Stepanek, a step that could lead to his ouster from the
party.
"We have filed formal charges," said state party spokeswoman
Victoria Herrington. "For the party to throw someone out, it has to
be something extreme. We’re not in the habit of doing that."
Party bylaws explicitly forbid a GOP-sponsored candidate from
endorsing an office seeker registered in another party and spell
out punishments ranging from censure to dismissal from the
party.
Stepanek’s fate will be decided in February when the party’s
executive committee meets in Sacramento.
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