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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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