Farnsworth said that the Health Services often refers its patients tooutside doctors when its own doctors are unable to help. In such cases, he said, a student's health insurance covers the cost of the appointment with an outside doctor. Later in his testimony, however, he said that if a woman is referred to an outside gynecologist, she is only covered up to $25.

Strict Constructionists

He said the Health Services' policy on birth control for unmarried women "has been in a state of suspended animation" since a July 8 federal court ruling that the state law against giving such information was unconstitutional. The case is still pending in higher courts.

"Harvard and Radcliffe are not practicing medicine-our physicians are doing it," Farnsworth said. "Contraception is a matter for a doctor and patient."

Alexandra J. Murray, a student at the Medical School, said, "The health needs of women, as they define them, are not being met by the Health Services."

"I am simply urging a reordering of priorities at the Health Services," she said, citing their dermatological and allergy departments as divisions given more attention than gynecology.

Murray said that the psychiatric division includes only two women among 18 psychotherapists.

Marriage Benefits

Another graduate student said that the only way to get maternity coverage from the Health Services is on a dependent's insurance plan-with either the husband or the wife listed as a dependent.

Linda B. Sibley also said that unmarried women are not covered for maternity benefits. "She should not be penalized financially-she is already penalized by society," Sibley said. She added that unmarried women's miscarriages and misallocated pregnancies are covered, "but if she is unlucky enough to have a healthy baby, she will have to pay for it."

Dr. Thomas B. Brazelton, assistant clinical professor of Pediatries, said that Harvard ran a pre-school day care center during the early 1950's. The center, he said, was run by departments interested in child development and financed by research grants. It was discontinued when grants were cut off and Harvard refused to back it, he said.

Lever

"I'm not advocating children being tortured or the prospect of research on children being used as a lever to keep people away," he said. "But I feel very strongly that if day care is set up, it should be with some sort of studying involved."

Brazelton said that in the previous center, researchers and future doctors observed children, "because many of them had never seen young children just playing with each other."

He said that he thought the reason why Harvard does not presently have day care "goes back to the old set of tenets of a university being separate from the lives of its students."

The committee's last scheduled hearing will be on women graduate students, next Friday, at 2:30 at the Faculty Club. Those wishing to speak should contact the committee office at 495-4289 by Wednesday.