The student health consultants who evaluated Oberlin Student Health Department will file their reports next week.
Dean of Student Life and Services Charlene Cole hired a group of managed care health experts who specialize in student health to study Oberlin Student Health. She also hired a separate consultant, student health expert Richard Keeling, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
The consultants visited the campus in February. They interviewed students, faculty, administrators and the staff at the student clinic and Allen Memorial Hospital. Keeling held a forum on student health in the Conservatory. He also interviewed students on the sidewalk outside the Java Zone and the Co-op Bookstore.
The consultants' reports are also based partly on the student health surveys sent out by the Student Senate last semester. The results of these surveys, which 439 students answered, reflected dissatisfaction with Student Health.
Cole said that the group of consultants told her yesterday that they will send her the first draft of their report next week. She will receive the final draft of the report the following week.
Cole will also receive a report from Keeling.
Both reports will be shared with the Oberlin community, Cole said.
Senator sophomore Marissa Demetrius said that the consultants Cole hired will know which survey responses are appropriate for judging the overall quality of Oberlin Student Health.
Demetrius said that anybody who wishes to read the results of the student health surveys may ask to see them. She said that the print-outs of the results are difficult to interpret, and that she believes she should explain them to whoever reads them.
Cole received the surveys yesterday. She said she had not gone over them yet, and has given them to President Nancy Dye. Cole said she and Dye will discuss the results.
Though the Student Senate approved a proposal to hold a concert to benefit Financial Aid, the date has been postponed for an unknown amount of time.
Senate does have between 10 and 12 bands and other acts lined up for the show.
Senate does not intend to charge students much for admission and are instead hoping for financial support from Oberlin alumni. "We think that students paying for financial aid would be redundant," said senator sophomore Andreas Pape, an organizer of the event.
Elyria resident Jonah A. Locke, arrested in Brecksville last week for assaults allegedly perpetrated in Lorain, Medina and Cuyahoga counties, is being held in the Cuyahoga County Sherriff's Department medical pod. He is suspected in the assaults of several Oberlin students and residents.
While Locke's bond is set at $25,000, no trial date has been set. Ohio law requires that a suspect be brought to trial within 270 days of arrest.
Locke is originally from Los Angeles, Calif., but has been living in Ohio since the age of 16, and graduated from Chardon High School on the east side of Cleveland. He was a member of the Army Signal Corps until 1993.
He has been convicted several times of public indecency and sexual imposition in several localities in Ohio, including Euclid, Wycliffe, North Royalton, Cleveland Heights and Brecksville. He is also suspected of similar crimes in other areas, including Oberlin, Berea, Brunswick, North Olmstead, Lakewood, Wellington and Cleveland, where he is under investigation by the Cleveland Police Sex Crimes unit.
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Volume 124, Number 17; March 8, 1996
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