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Show abstract ethics that would make your eyes sparkle like a farmer handling early potatoes or bottled peaches. I count my pulse at 37 and it is filled with love. These are the gifts of a University, amplified a hundred-fold by a clinic. But now goodbye. Goodbye Center! Goodbye Clinic! In seven weeks I will put flowers on your grave and mourn you along with those who would yell "burn, baby, burn!" The administration has removed its ears. Seven weeks. . I . , . And goodbye to you too, Vincent, "the world was not meant for one as beautiful as you." Name witheld on request Expensive Editor: As one of the "expendable" students at this University, one "with emotional or psychological problems requiring long-term therapy," I would like to respond to Wednesday's article concerning con-cerning the cutback in health services to students. The cutback, especially in the department of mental health, concerns me on several levels. The first is personal. One look at the new fee schedule leaves no doubt that I will no longer be receiving the help that has been the most valuable and educational part of my University experience. Good guys Editor: In response to the article written concerning the "change" for the Student Health Clinic, I would like to voice my gratitude to the clinic. If it had not been for the clinic's employed nurses and its location, I may not have received help quick enough after a serious accident that occurred from a fall at school.. Because the clinic is located in close enough proximity to the majority of the class buildings, I was able to get help quickly enough after seriously injuring my leg. I thank the nurses for the immediate, courteous and efficient ef-ficient service that they gave to me. T. Snarr Goodbye! Editor: O, Starry Starry Night! So unlike the hot world I knew before, is this campus, sparking with the wonder of a Van Gogh Canvas. Like a swoon is the deepness of my feeling. And now to have it interrupted by death, like the death of one's parents to a young man; for it was the Student Mental Health Clinic along with the Student Health Service, who first considered me whole and introduced me to a world entirely free from coercion and manipulation. Dr. Edison, I admire your courage for not resigning. But how are you going to build a Student Health Center with a staff of two, on a fraction of the budget of a private physician and the daytime space of four parking stalls? I admire your courage; but your reassurance is like watching one's father wink from his deathbed. What will happen now, to us who do not respond to simple forms of counseling and brief behavior modification aids, to students such as I who progress erratically and need a semi-permanent emotional reference point? The kind of care I received, the patient pa-tient consideration and articulation articula-tion of my tiny problems what will we do now, serve up our symptoms on a platter (had we but the reincarnations) to the new counseling service? Shall we turn to Darwin? I am sorry it seems a bit of insanity. To remove a service without consultation of student government (timed for the chaos of administrative change) without researching student opinion and need, does not seem to show the rational care of education. And to picture our educational system as one that does not make mistakes, that does not feel responsible for its mistakes, is like viewing a system of law without a system of corrections. Today my weight is well below a hundred pounds lighter than my early school years. I can run for miles without stopping or swim across a lake. Though I once failed 28 hours, I have not received below a B since my last therapeutic session. I can talk of On a second level, I am : Pe by the mentality uc eliminating full psytilusi services to those who rPun Considering the time ,ver and efforts that have ; r a 1 understanding psyche e P into educating the 'hen regard emotional distui at t legitimate and curable ost it seems unfortunate tbliti in authority at this sea! .use and enlightenment tc.ienc those with psycf:e tr problems as "elf 0w Wouldn't an intelligent e c see programs to lrsh0n awareness, self-unc and personal adjust 11 essential part of edifcj Obviously, the student- nerjc and have been gettin,erns not benefit from (he -hat y services, but I feel 'Slide will society at large H isens stumble are allowedly, than being helped i nistr, successful adjustnd rfl( University situation,' will be lost toeveneth p'a In short, I find ll,ef.ot qL neither expedient ot- luting maybe the higrwJ ops v who finds meexpa bi good enough W c a g and explain its nistra Shirley rBryoni - istra noon the f 'fjdly, SC should preteraOlv S(K-sp,ceava,iable, S(K-sp,ceava,iable, l ;,,;t we shorter letters- w . name and Socia1 .y adequate " 5 The Chronic rJ y'? pre; jStes c, |