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zone decision,
focus elsewhere
From Staff Reports_
Any decisions about bicycles at
UNL will have to wait until next se
mester, parking advisory officials said.
ASUN com
, ments on student
reaction to the
proposals were not
presented at the
I February parking
meeting. ASUN
has withdrawn its
opposition toabi
zone.
cycle dismount
Because of time constraints, offi
cials said the committee would spend
the remainder of the school year fo
cusing on parking handbook revisions,
the proposed sector parking and bud
get.
A recommendation to Jack Goebel,
vice chancellor for business and fi
nance, about parking changes was
expected by March 1. Officials said
the committee was still on track to
reach that goal.
Groups affected by any parking
changes will be notified before imple
mentation, officials said. It was un
known if there would be further op
portunity for input on the parking
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Professor: Reform an ethical issue
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Heal th care is not a commodity, but
a fundamental good and one of the
necessities of life, a former member of
President Bill Clinton’s health-care
task force said Friday.
Ruth Purtilo, aprofessorofclinical
ethics at the Creighton University
Center for Health Policy and Ethics,
spoke to more than 200 people at
Nebraska Wesleyan University.
She said reformers who quibbled
over the cost of a national health-care
plan should not overlook the ethical
issues involved in health-care reform.
Purtilo, who gave the speech,
“Some Ethical Problems of Health
Care,” said she was disturbed by the
growing health-care gap between poor
and rich people.
“The poor are getting poorer and
the rich arc getting richer,” Purtilo
said, “and one of the best manifesta
tions of that is the level of health care.”
Poor people, Purtilo sa id, were gen
erally not as healthy because of living
and working conditions.
“What to do about these people
should remain in discussion,” she said.
The Clinton task force was a sign
anyone could get involved in national
legislation, Purtilo said.
Purtilo said the task froce was com
posed of a diverse cross-section of the
major players in the debate. Doctors,
lawyers, congressional aides from both
parties and other health-care workers
took part in discussions.
Human dignity is one of the main
issues involved in health-care reform,
PurtilQ said. She said people had in
trinsic and priceless value.
There has been a kind of “moral
schizophrenia” in the last 30 years
concerning universal access to health
care, Purtilo said. Most Americans
want some type of national health
care, but at the same time do nothing
about it, she said.
Next year, she said, the number of
Americans without health insurance
was estimated to reach 57 million.
Purtilo said all other industrialized
nations—with the exception of South
Africa — offered a basic health-care
package. She said fairness had to be a
part of health-care reform—not only
in care but in sharing the burden.
Purtilo said the public should de
cide what issues to address in the
health-care debate. Audience mem
bers mentioned topics such as univer
sal access, individuals’ choice of doc
tors, the restriction of pharmaceutical
companies and price controls.
“Those are all on the table ... and
continue to be on the table,” Purtilo
said.
Purtilo said the health-care debate
in Congress had reduced health care
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The poor are getting
poorer and the rich
are getting richer, and
oneefthe best mani
festations of that Is
the level of health
care.
— Purtilo
professor of clinical ethics
Creighton University
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as a product instead of as a service.
She compared it to buying compact
discs and airplane tickets.
Preventive care also needed exam
ination, Purtilo said. The current
health-care system generally address
es problems after they happen, she
said.
She said the American Medical
Association gave more money to op
ponents of preventive care issues.
“We should not rely on lobbyists on
this issue,” Purtilo said.
When considering health-care is
sues, Americans must allocate money
wisely and be more responsible, she
said.
“To contain costs ... we must be
more responsible for our own health."
Regents
Continued from Page 1
Vrbicky agreed costs of duplicat
ing needed addressing. Also, he said
he didn’t know if creating the new
college would help the university as a
whole.
“The concern is to make a top
quality program that benefits stu
dents," he said, “not duplicating a
program that lowers quality.”
“When you don’t honor the sys
tem, you don’t honor students,” he
said.
Both District 3 candidates said stu
dents’ needs should be at the forefront
of the campaign.
“The reason the university exists,”
Vrbicky said, “is to give students a
quality education so they can complete
in finding jobs not only in state, but
out as well.”
Vrbicky said regents couldn’t al
low political pressure or outside inter
ests to dictate university decisions.
When that happened, students’ needs
are ignored, he said.
With the engineering college de
bate, Hassebrook said, Omaha busi
nesses were trying to blackmail the
university into making a decision that
would hurt students.
To support two colleges, the uni
versity would need to raise tuition, he
said, therefore making education less
accessible.
“I'm skeptical that we need to set
up a new college.”
Hassebrook said he would address
the soaring costs of a college educa
tion. Twenty years ago, he said, stu
dents could finance their education by
working through school. Today, tu
ition has increased past the rate of
inflation, he said.
Whenever the university looks into
building costs or duplicating a pro
gram, it must consider how it would
impact students’ costs.
Crime
Continued from Page 1
In the case of annoyance calls, he
said, the victim only needs to call the
phone company. A similar record is
made, he said, and the company then
sends a letter telling the caller to stop
or the phone will be shut off.
While the number of incidents has
remained constant during the years,
and UNL police continue to make
arrests, James Griesen, UNL vice chan
cellor for student affairs, said such
harassment did not violate the student
code.
But that is about to change.
By the end of the month, Griesen
said, the Office of Student Affairs
expects to present ASUN with a ha
rassment resolution.
“It’s going to add acts (to the code)
that are intended to unreasonably
alarm or threaten another student/’ he
said. “Most universities have some
thing like this in their code of con
duct.”
