1978_11 The Daily Collegian November 1978

              The Daily Collegian
Commentary  _____
Health 'services' leaves patient cold
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David Armstrong's American Journal
The rebirth of midwifery
lo those struggles
w and potentially
irds home birth
me the rebirth of
body of knowledge about pregnancy
and childbirth, midwives were driven
to the edge of extinction in America
only several years ago Today, they are
growing in number, education and in
fluence-even as they remain illegal or
severely restricted in most states
halt of the babies born in the United
States were delivered by midwives
f ightv percent of the world  s children
elations   campaign   by   mostly
to have their babies in hospi
time   the campaign was deva
«" births   many ot
tices    there were   SO 000 home  births
the number is doubling every year   In
in a telephone interview,  'as many as
10 percent of  the babies in  America
By Arms count, there are approx
mutely 2,000 licensed nurse-midwives
who work mainly in hospitals under the
supervision of physicians, and several
thousand more lay (unlicensed) mid
wives, who work mostly in their clients homes They are concentrated on
the West Coast, in the South and
Southwest and in New England, though
isolated midwives also practice  else
lay midwife, was charged with second
degree  murder  when  a  baby  she de
complications   five   days   after   being
Although the infant s parents
praised Doshi s efforts and refused to
press charges authorities prosecuted
the midwife enthusiastically in a case
that attracted national attention On
Oct 20. a judge dismissed the charges
handing the alternative health care
movement an important victory and re
affirming a woman's right to choose
where and how she will give birth
So keep is the competition from
home birth becoming, some hospitals
ribes  i
ml.-'
Troll herself a lay midwife, "are Ttore
ughly educated They study medical
exts    apprentice   with   more   experi-
Ktors will talk to them and a
ange
Home   births  c
them attended by physiri
d there mostly in rural areas poor
served by doctors and in the South
d Southwest where traditional cult
>s placed high value on  midwifery
Midwifery was revived in the e;
1970s with the surge of interest in t<
inism and natural lifestyles   Today
sense of lay midwives Many doctors
will not perform home deliveries since
they are usually not insured
Many women, seeking alternatives
to the soaring costs, heavy medication
and impersonality of hospital delivery
rooms feel more comfortable giving
birth in familiar surroundings in the
company of women trained tor the task
Unlike      obstetrician.gynecologists
hospital   births   simultaneously,   mid-
AP&P recommends four
year ROTC program
alls.
with    her
longer befo
And unlike hospital births which can
lost up to 1.3.000 home deliveries with
midwives in attendence are relatively
c heap  seldom going over J3O0-S4O0
The response ol Ihe medical profes
sion to the rebirth ol midwifery has
been generally hostile Even certified
nurse-midwives often encounter opposition from doctors, who view midwives
as a challenge to their authority and
a threat to their profits   American ob-
By RICHARD EBERLE
The expansion of the Air Force
ROTC program to four year was recommended last Thursday by the Academic
Policy and Planning Committee
(AP&P)
Lt. Col Robert G. Stuart requested
expanding the current two-year program as a way to Increase enrollment.
The program at CSUF Is the only one
serving the central valley area.
Expanding the program would place
no financial burden on the University,
since It Is funded by the Air Force.
According to Stuart, the additional 100
people Ihe program could bring to campus would benefit the university by
increasing FTE. ■
(The State reimburses the University
on the basis of full-time enrollment
(FTE). the total units all students take
divided by 15.)
Stuart said that the current program
recruits students mainly from the community colleges. He added that a full
program at CSUF Is needed because
the Air Force is putting emphasis on
four-year scholarships
Additional classes, totalling eight
units, have already been approved for
the expansion by the Curriculum Committee
In other action. AP&P delayed, until
their meeting this week, taking action
on whether an option In Ihe Masters of
Arts Degree In Education be granted
for special classes In reading. Currently, (he classes are designated as an
area of Interest. The committee wanted more Information on the nature of
the cousea Involved.
Anti-nuke demonstration at Oklahoma
power plant leads to 360 arrests
INOLA, OK (LNS)-ln a demonstra
tion that represented several "firsts"
dnd "mosts", over J60 people were
arrested recently for trespassing at the
site of the planned *1 67 billion Black
I ox   nuclear   power   plant   in   Inola,
at Black Fox were required to be
members of affinity groups which
trained in non-violence together
Alliance representatives also went to
talk to members of the sheriff's office
and to the District Attorney of Rogers
County (where Black Fox plant is
located) as well as to the Oklahoma
Highway  Patrol    The group  reported
Black Fox (instead of in one compact
mass), and that it would take police
officers all day to find them
As the occupation was scheduled for
the day of the Oklahoma University-
Texas football game, many police officers were unwilling to spend so much
time    hunting    down    demonstrators
lh.
1   Black   Fox   plant   i
iwer plan
being built by Public Service Organization (PSO). which is controlled by the
Oklahoma based Kerr-McCee Corporation   a major producer of oil and
company has become infamou:
n with the case of Karei
Silkwood, an active trade unionist at .
KM nuclear power plant in Crescent
( Melanoma Silkwood died in a suspici
s she travelled tc
.  plant
The recent occupation was led by the
Sunbelt Alliance, composed ot affinity
groups from six Oklahoma cities
Memb-rs   of   the   Sunflower   Alliance
Kocky  Flats   Truth  Force  from  Color
The Oklahoma based Sunbelt
Alliance was founded late this summer
According to Jim Carrison, a ministerial student who did much of the organizational work tor the Alliance, the
founders at first expected no more than
18 people to take part But the interest
proved much greater, as the turnout for
the Black Fox action proved
In keeping with non-violent traditions and  structures  adopted  by  the
back that some of the law enforcement
officers, as individuals, expressed sympathy with the anti-nuclear cause once
they knew that the demonstration
would be disciplined and nonviolent
As one policeman told them, "I think
what vou all are doing will help my
children "
Meanwhile, the Public Service
Organization urged that police arrest
not only demonstrators but also any
reporters who accompanied them onto
the plant site PSO also urged that no
one be allowed to enter the core area;
the Alliance responded that if demonstrators were not allowed into the core
area, they would enter at a number of
scattered points around the border of
when they could be at home watching
the game on TV This, at least, is one
explanation offered for why the Sunbelt
Alliance was  permitted to enter the
The night before the occupation, the
demonstrators camped in a 40-degree
chill in the nearby Rocky Point campgrounds Before daybreak they woke
up to the sound of a cow horn and
joined in a circle as the sun rose.
The eclectic religious currents present in the anti-nuclear movement were
expressed through the chanting of the
Hindu 'Om' and a Biblical reading
from Psalms which made a nuclear
connection for some: 'The earth is
the Lord's and the fullness thereof/
The world and they who dwell therein.*
Frank Thomas, a Cheyenne Indian
medicine man, joined the circle with
two other Native Americans carrying
an American flag decorated with eagle
feathers and a sacred pipe. Thomas has
been travelling around the U.S. and
Canada urging Indians to oppose
nuclear power plants
Then the demonstrators headed out
for the plant site, crossing the barbed
wire boundary around the Black Fox
on wooden stiles made by the Alliance
As they started to cross, loud harangues boomed over a bullhorn held
by the Ultimate Trip, a fundamentalist
Christian Youth group from Tulsa.
'The Black Fox you've got to stop is
sin,' shouted the preacher. 'It's more
important to stop pollution of sin
than to stop cancer and leukemia *
. The Ultimate Trip preacher claimed to
have been at the 1967 anti-war march
on the Pentagon
Later as anti-nuclear demonstrators
arrived at the construction site, the
sheriff. District Attorney and PSO
security guards were waiting there
though without riot gear (another first)
Demonstrators who made it to the
core site in the course of the demonstration and arrests were amazed to
look from that vantage point across the
vast area bulldozed by the PSO: the
landscape had become like the surface
of the moon! A construction worker
said that small hills had been bulldozed
away entirely
The 360 were issued traffic tickets
which could bring them each, at most,
a $25 fine in the October 31 trials in
Rogers County. Alliance members intend to continue their anti-nuclear activities, including a rally at the Kerr
McCee building in Oklahoma City
November 13, the anniversary of
Karen Silkwood s death
Tuesday morning - 8:30
Basketball tickets go on sale
Students season tickets for this
year's basketball I games at Selland
Arena go on sale Tuesday at 6:30
am at the College Union information
desk.
To purchase the »12 tickets, students need both their ID and activity
cards. There Is a limit of two tickets per
student.
According to Tom Kane, Sports
Information Officer, there are 830
student tickets available. Kane expects all the tickets to be sold within
an hour of when they go on sale. The
tickets are for seats in section 14 and
the north end of the arena
The unprecedented high demand
expected for the tickets (only 102
out of S12 season tickets available last
last year's PCAA co-champion
and one of the best recruiting years
ever. Last year the last six games
were sold out at Selland.
Kane said that the capacity of Set-
land has been expanded to accommodate 6,530 people Last year 5,816
seats were available at Selland, though
the number
course of these
As of Friday morning 4,15
season tickets at $30 apiec
balcony sections had be
Kane expected  the   less
tickets that remained to kx
the deadline Tuesday.
Kane said that there w