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Monday, March 26, 1984 Vol. 8 No. 29

ALTERNATIVES TO HOSPITAL CARE

Editor's Note: In a previous Forum article, out-patient surgery wasaiscussed as an alternative to in-hospital care. Following is an article from the Personnel Office explaining another alternative. These articles are part of a series to assist all Grand Valley personnel in contributing to health care cost contairrnent.

Grand Valley State is one of the first employers in west Michigan to offer a total benefit package of alternatives to in-hospital care. Hospice care is one of those al ternatfves.

A hospice is a coordinated plan of home and in-patient care which

treats the tennfnally ill patient. A hospice is designed to meet the special needs of the patient's family unit during the final stages of a tenninal illness and during bereavement. Care is provided by a team made up of trained medical personnel, homemakers, and counselors. This team acts under an independent hospice administration and helps the family cope with physical, psychological, spiritual, social, and economic stress.

In 1981, a hospice was established in Grand Rapids. This Grand Rapids based program, called Hospice of Greater Grand Rapids (HGGR), provides care for tennfnally ill

INFORMATION FROM THE PERSONNEL OFFICE As mentioned in last Monday's

Forum, George J. Slykhouse will be afscussing many aspects of estate planning, including wills and trusts, on Thursday, March 29, in Rooms A, B, and C of the Kirkhof Center. He will be making two one­hour presentations, one at 11 a.m . and one at 12 noon.

E.F Gearhart, of Integrated Resources Equity Corporation, .. will be making a presentation about planning for retirement on Monday, April 2, in Rooms A, B, and C of the Kirkhof Center. One-hour presentations will be made at 11 a.m. and 12 noon.

Also, representatives from the three financial planning/consulting finns will be in the Kirkhof Center between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the rooms stated below.

Baxter-OeHaan & Associates (Paul Springer and B111 Sinclair,

456-1434) Tuesday, March 27 -- Cove Room

The Grand Valley For111 is published every Monday by the Public Relations Office. Copy deadline is the Tuesday noon prior to publication. All materials should be sent to Sharon Coelfng, editor, Public Relations Office, 26 Zumberge Library, GVSC, Allendale MI, 49401. Telephone: 895-3221.

E.F. Hutton (Gary Martin, 242-5439) Thursday, April 5 -- Bay Room

Integrated Resources Equity Corporation

(E.F. Gearhart, 949-3426) Friday, March 30 -- Bay Room Faculty and staff will be

receiving a booklet titled Your Social Security. -­The booklet is the most recent

MERC FINDS IN COLLEGE'S FAVOR

In an opinion dated March 15, 1984, the Michigan Employment Relations Co11111ission (MERC) ruled in favor of G,:.a11d Valley State Col 1 ege regarding the placement of the Inventory Control Clerk position into the Clerical, Office, and Technical (COT) bargaining unit.

Nearly two years ago the college requested MERC to hold a hearing to detennine whether the Inventory Control Clerk position was appropri­ately placed by the college within the COT bargaining unit rather than the Maintenance, Grounds, and Services (MGS) unit. The college requested a detennination from MERC after complaints from the MGS union that the duties perfonned by the Inventory Control Clerk were the same as those previously perfonned by a MGS employee.

In upholding the college's place­ment of the position, MERC concluded that the college (1) had conducted

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persons who choose to die at home rather than in a hospital setting . HGGR is planning a major expansion of services by the sunmer of 1984 , when ft expects to be certi fied for reimbursement under the medicare system.

More details about insurance coverage and limitations on hospices will be available soon in a new booklet from Equitable. Both HMO's, West Michigan Health Care Network and Grand Valley Health Pl an, co ver hospice care in full upon a doc t or 's referral. The HMO's both use the Hospice of Greater Grand Rapids .

publication from the Social Security Administration which describes benefits available through them .

Finally, faculty and staff who did not previously receive E.F Hutton's Investment Objectives booklet should be receiving one this week .

Extra copies of Your Social Security and Invesbnent Objectives are available in the Personnel Office.

"an initial, independent investigation or study of the job's placement based on an in-depth objective evaluation of comparative job duties" and (2) made a management decision and properly "exercised its rights to efficiently run the organization "

COMING EVENTS

Socfal Issues Serfes The School of Social Work invites

all faculty, staff, and students to a second session in the social issues discussion series.

From 12 noon-1 : 30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, Bennie Khoapa, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, will lead a discussion on "South Africa: Friend or Foe of the united States?" The infonnal discussion will be held in the Portsfde Room, Kirkhof Center.

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COMING EVENTS (Continued from page 1)

Translator to Lecture On Wednesday, March 28, the

English Department is sponsoring a lecture by Paul Roche, translator and scriptwriter of the film version of Oedipus Rex. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. in Room 6174, Lake Superior Hall, followed by the lecture. Roche has written translations of nine other Greek plays as well as several volumes of his own poetry.

FACULTY AND STAFF SKETCHES

Richard Atkinson, professor of chemistry, presented a seminar at Cen.tral Michigan University on March 5 entitled "The Reaction of TK-3 with Adriamycin and Daunomycin: Studies in Cancer Chemotherapy." He will present the same seminar at Calvin College on April 24.

· Ursula Franklin, professor of French, has been notified that her article, "Lafo~gue and His Philosophers, or the 'Paratext' in the Intertextual Maze," has been accepted for publication in Nineteenth-Century French Studies."

Jitendra M. Mishra, professor of management, Seidman School of Business, has been informed by Dr. William Perkins of Indiana University, Bloomington, that his paper has been selected for presentation at the 1984 Midwest American Institute for Decision Sciences to be held in Indianapolis, on May 2-4.

Toni Poll Sorensen, associate professor of physical education, presented a paper on "Dealing With Teacher Stress Through Exercise and Good Nutrition" for the Inter­Institutional Council Inservice Training Conference held on March 16 at Aquinas College.

Don vanderJagt, professor of mathematics and computer science, served as conference co-chairman and facilities coordinator for the annual conference of the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) held on March 15 and 16 in Grand Rapids. Over 2,600 MACUL ml 1bers attended the conference, which covered a multitude of topics dealing with the educational uses of computers. GVSC mathematics and computer science

· faculty presenting talks at the conference were: Carl Arendsen: "Pl ease Organize Your Programs-

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Structured Basic"; Ken Johnson: "Computer Competf ti ons"; Bruce Klein: "Prograrrmi ng Methodology"; Phfl Pratt: "Database Technology-­Past, Present and Future"; and Don VanderJagt: "State Certi ff cation in Computer Science."

On March 6-8, President Lubbers, Provost Niemeyer, Dean Fletcher and JoAnn Foerster visited four ·community colleges to discuss transfer articulation and future curricular plans of the institutions. The colleges were:

North Central Michigan College in Petoskey; Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City; West Shore Community College in Ludington; and Montcalm Community College in Sidney. The GVSC representatives met with the president, chief academic officer, student services personnel, and faculty of each college.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday, March 26

On March 6 they hosted a reception for GVSC alumni in the Petoskey area.

11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Art exhibit. Paintings and drawings by Elsa Hall. Kirkhof Center Gallery.

12 noon: Lunchbreak. Aebersold and Neiweem, piano duo. Free. Calder Fine Arts Center.

12 noon: Orwell course. Professor James Connors, on pessimism and optimism in Orwell's writing. Room #102, Manitou.

7:30 p.m.: Orwell course. Professor James Connors, on Orwell's religious views. Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids.

Tuesday, March 27 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Art exhibit. Paintings and drawings by Elsa Hall.

Kirkhof Center Gallery. 1 p.m.: Baseball. GVSC at The University of Michigan. 3 p.m.: Softball. GVSC at Central Michigan University. 10 p.m.: Movie. "Green Berets." Manitou.

Wednesday, March 28 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Art exhibit. Paintings and drawings by Elsa Hall.

Kirkhof Center Gallery. 8 p.m.: Lecture. Author John Molloy, on "Dress for Success." Ff el d

House Arena. 6 p.m.: Film, Oedipus Rex, and lecture by Paul Roche. Room 1174, Lake

Superior. 10 p.m.: Movie. "Green Berets." Manitou.

Thursday, March 29 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Art exhibit. Paintings and drawings by Elsa Hall.

Kirkhof Center Gallery. 8 p.m.: Student recital. Flutist Diane DePeel and Violist Anne

Priebe. Calder Fine Arts Center. 8 p.m.: "Almost Anything Goes." Field House Arena.

Fri day, March 30 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: Art exhibit. Paintings and drawings by Elsa Hall.

Kirkhof Center Gallery. 3 p.m.: Softball. Aquinas at GVSC. 8 p.m.: Medieval religious drama "Everyman." Tickets, $4.50;

students, $2.50. Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids. 9p.m.: Movie. "Jaws." FieldHouse.

Saturday, March n 8 p.m.: Medieval religious drama "Everyman." Tickets, $4.50;

students, $2.50. Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids.

Sunday, April 1 10:30 a.m.: Dialogue worship. Kistler Pit. (Coffee at 10 11.m. ). 6:30 p.m.: Catholic mass. 102 Manitou. 7 & 9 p.m.: Movie. "An Officer and a Gentleman." Calder Fine Arts

Center.