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Students complain, and with good reason, about the difficulties of seeing a doctor at the University Health Services. Receptionists, students say, can be rude, appointments can be difficult to obtain, and waits in the UHS urgent care clinic can be long. Sometimes, students say they feel like UHS is working against them...
...control is not the panacea its advocates claim it to be. The Justice Department has found that 93 percent of gun-using criminals already obtain their guns through illegal means. Also, waiting periods have proven ineffective at stemming crime. From 1952 to 1974, California had a lower murder rate than the rest of the country. A 15-day waiting period on handgun purchases was enacted in 1975, and from 1975 to 1990, California had a higher murder rate than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, tough gun control laws in New York City and Washington, D.C. have done little...
...Robert Fasciano, chief of the dental health services, says it is especially hard for students to periodically obtain care when they don't fully understand how UHS works...
Have you ever visited University Health Services? Yes 81%How easy is it to obtain routine medical care at UHS?Very Difficult 4%Somewhat Difficult 22Somewhat Easy 21Very Easy 15Don't Know...
...private detective lectured on how best to obtain information about everyone associated with an abortion clinic. License plates make it easy to trace home addresses; Social Security numbers and public records can be useful in assessing a subject's financial status. The point of such snooping is to lay siege to people who perform or facilitate abortions: pray or picket in front of their houses, confront them in the supermarket, identify them as "murderers" to their neighbors and children. A lawyer instructed the Melbourne volunteers on how far they could go with such harassing activities while remaining within their First...