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Patients Sue For Neglect

Five physicians at University Hospital
are defendants in two suits for alleged
negligence of former patients.

Drs. Benjamin Liptzin, Leslie E.
Rudolph, and Richard C. Brown have
been named defendants in a $100,000
suit brought by Barbara H. Moore of
Orange.

In another suit, the estate of Hazel
Nickell of Rupert, W. Va., is seeking a
$50,000 settlement from Drs. Frederick
Westervelt and Peter M. Williams.

The Moore suit alleges that Mrs.
Moore fell out of bed while a patient at
University Hospital on Sept. 9, 1971 and
fractured her hip, although no notice was
made of the injury until Sept. 28, despite
X-rays. She was temporarily admitted to
the psychiatric ward during this period.

The Nickell suit claims that Mrs.
Nickell was released from the hospital on
Sept. 11, 1969, after treatment for a
kidney ailment. While at home she began
hemorrhaging from the mouth and nose,
and was returned to the hospital. The suit
alleges Mrs. Nickell lay unattended in the
emergency room from 1 a.m. until 8 a.m.
on Oct. 18, 1969. She died later that day.

Graduate Programs

The State Council of Higher
Education has decided to recommend
that six state colleges, including the
University, drop 29 graduate degree
programs that have had no degree
recipients for at least three years. Both
the master's degree and doctorate
programs are involved.

The five other colleges that may lose
graduate programs are Longwood College,
The College of William and Mary, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Virginia State
College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University.

Complaints about the unproductive
programs have been aired by council
members for over a year. Recommended
to be dropped by the University are such
programs as social foundations of
education and Romance linguistics at the
master's level, and a civil engineering
doctorate program.

Assembly Delegates

The Selection Committee of the
Williamsburg International Assembly is
presently seeking delegates to its
sixteenth annual convocation.

The assembly, to be held June 4-7, is
designed to give foreign graduate students
who will be returning home after this
summer a chance to compare their
impressions of the U. S. with Americans
as well as their peers from other
countries.

Delegates will be guests of the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for
housing and meals during the conference
period. A limited number of travel grants
are available.

Application blanks and details are
available in the International Student
Office, B-20 Cabell Hall.