Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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An enlarged, air-conditioned waiting room makes the wait for an ill student more comfortable. A weekly check by RN Ruth Joy enables Mike Tucker to monitor his blood pressure Like most other services, this is free of charge. Before she can see the nurse, Elaine Wagoner shows receptionist Lana O ' Reagan her student i.d Students are asked to show their validated i,d, as proof that they are enrolled. £ 3 E £ student healtl7 Chris Orhsner

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Once his sprained ankle healed, Shawn Martin no longer needed crutches to maneuver about campus. A ce wraps, sl- ings, tape and bandages are available, free of charge, from the center. tmosphere improve STUDENT HEALTH CENTER MOVES TO UNION For years, students seeking medical attention have waited in long lines in the hallway of Sheridan Coliseum to visit the Student Health Center. Dr, Dorothy Cody, who used to prac- tice in Sheridan, now treats pa- tients in the new SHC office, located in the basement of the Memorial Union. Ed Smith, who has taken allergy shots at SHC for four years, likes the new facility, It ' s a lot more professional looking ' Smith said, You feel more at ease going in there ' Although Cody thinks the new office is fine, she said she never complained about the Sheridan facility. Cody said the nurses are the ones who really benefit from the new facility because they work longer hours. They saw all the disadvan- tages, Cody said. Kathy Douglas, SHC director, has been employed as a full-time nurse at SHC for eight years. Douglas said she found the old facility inadequate in several areas. Sometimes we tripped over each other, Douglas said. It wasn ' t so much the room, but it was poorly arranged. Douglas said the lack of a waiting room in Sheridan was one of the major drawbacks to the old facility, In the middle of the summer and winter, it was real uncomfortable in the hall, she said. Douglas said that a major im- provement in the new facility is the access to an elevator. The elevator shaft is only several yards from the entrance to the new facility. The ramp fin the old facility) is what we said made it accessible to the handicapped, Douglas said. It was too steep however, and it was very hard for people on crutches and wheelchairs to get up it ' The construction of the new SHC cost approximately $20,000. Some new equipment was pur- chased for the office, but most of the services will remain the same, SHC paid for the entire project through student fees. In 1981 SHC proposed a 50-cenhper-student fee increase. The Student Government Association approved the in- crease, and in 1982 the increase went into effect, bringing the SHC fee to $1.25. The new facility consists of three examination rooms, a nurses ' station, lab area, storage room, nurses ' office, waiting room and secretaries ' office. Douglas said SHC now per- forms all the services of a private practitioner ' s office, with the ex- ception of in-office surgery. It costs $1 for FHS students to see Dr. Cody. The cost covers any medication which is prescribed to a patient. — Wayne Laugeson Upon a nurse ' s r ecommendations, Pam Carlin has her ears checked by Dr. Dorothy Cody. Rest and a small amount of medication is the most common prescriptions. 1 Student health

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lear blue skie AND FORMER KANSAN YIELD GOOD WHEATSTOCK The sky was clear. The weather was dry. What seemed to have been a Wheatstock tradition had ended — it did not rain. For the past four years, the Wheatstock outdoor concert has been planned in hopes that the tricky Western Kansas weather would not rain on the concert. But each year, the rains came to dampen the Memorial Union Ac- tivities Board sponsored event, Cyndi Young, MUAB chairman, said, This is the first Wheatstock that it has not rained. The only complaint was that it was slightly windy. And that came from the band members ' Besides not being rained on, this Wheatstock was different in other ways, Wheatstock had previously been scheduled before the first home football game. However, it was moved to Friday, Sept, 23. Due to the later date, more students and community people attended the concert. Mike Brown, MUAB music chairman, said MUAB wanted over a 1000 people to attend the concert, but only 200-300 people attended, This was a slightly larger crowd than in previous years, Brown said. Another change in Wheatstock was the addition of a feature singer, Steve Walsh, formerly of the rock band Kansas, performed with his new band called Streets. Wheatstock was opened by the band Alchemy, from Topeka, and followed by Steve Walsh and the Streets. Louis Seemann, Kensington fr„ said that he didn ' t like the Alchemy opening, They (Alchemy) seemed to have prob- lems with the wind. And people just didn ' t seem to get into it, Seemann explained, They (Alchemy) were a decent band, but people didn ' t seem to think they were, Kevin Smith, Kesington fr., said. Until Steve Walsh came out, that picked it (Wheatstock) up. He was what they came for. Not Alchemy. — jerry Sipes ISheatstock