University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 7. 1971
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Senate Vote To Decide Health Plan
By SHARON HUNSAKER
Kansan Staff Writer
The fate of the 1971-72 student health insurance plan will be decided by the Student Senate. The plan will be made by Mutual of Omaha, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Prudential and Travelers' Insurance, the company that has enrolled students for the past two years.
The bids will be considered beginning Friday by the student health subcommittee and the student services committee. Gary Jacobs, Prairie Village sophomore and temporary chairman of the student services committee, said Tuesday The students will receive bids from the Student Senate for adoption.
Schweeger said the student insurance program, offered for the past 10 years at KU, was effective. About 60 people at the lowest cost. To limit costs, obstetric clauses, and other clauses that would not be applicable to some students have been omitted. Schweeger said the idea of what benefited the general population kept the监护ors on the "blade of a knife".
Because there had been no major criticisms directed toward the present group policy, Dr. Raymond A. Schwager jersey, 78, of New York, services, said he had assumed that the policy filled most of the students' needs. In a recent interview, Schwager urged students to voice their opinions on the policy or to him before the Senate vote.
Group insurance plans which are offered to universities are patterned to the particular health needs of students and said. The KU student health insurance plan is optional, he said, and asks to supplement the plan with additional services exclusive to Watkins Hospital and the KU Medical Center. The present Travelers' plan includes "no deductible" coverage, coverage, ambulance service, consultation fees, prescription drugs, diagnostic X-rays, off-campus protection and major medical care.
To receive group rates, insurance plans are available only at the beginning of each semester, and coverage ends at the beginning of the next fall semester. Schwegler said. The annual premium rate for a student is $107.90 for a single student, $162.05 for student, spouse and children. Tom Greene, insurance provider of students for 1969-70 and Kappelman, the Travelers' Agency in Lawrence, said Monday that the company lost $170.80, while the company paid $70.40 to students for 1969-70. Premiums paid to the company were $170.80, while the company paid $70.40 to students that the loss didn't even include claim and administrative costs.
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Although insurance sold to students helped to inductate the Travelers Company Groene said that the people who set the rates dealt only with cold, hard facts. For non-degree students, the group gave students on the group plan, he estimated the cost would be $180 to $210 annually for single per-room additions $3 to $14 a month for a family.
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Committee Approves Social Security Rise
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively adopted Tuesday an automatic cost of $250 million for benefits for years when Congress doesn't vote a benefit boost.
The cost of living clause was inserted into a combination welfare-Social Security bill being enacted by the tax-writing panel.
The cost of living escalator was $180.5 per person, of living rose at least 3 per cent over the preceding 12 months and Congress had not voted an in-vestment bill.
Since Congress recently voted a 10 per cent benefits increase retroactive to Jan. 1 for the 26 years since it was passed, widowed persons who are recipients of social security, no automatic increase could take place before early 1973, and then receive an increase vote an effective in 1972.
In related action the committee
—agreed to an automatic increase in the amount of a waiver issued by a Security taxes whenever the cost of living escalator is triggered.
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This increase in the base would be based on average annual earnings in the nation at the time.
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The University of Kansas could open a miniature zoo right on campus if all the animals kept by the university are brought under the same roof. The biology department alone houses everything from monkeys to fruit snakes.
By FRAN CLARKE
Kansas Staff Writer
'An Speak, and save ... the biology department, said. 'The animals are used primarily for research and special individual projects.'
The departments of human development and family life, psychology and biology are the principal users of animals.
The psychology department has a rat laboratory where Damon Mountford, assistant professor of psychology is doing research.
One psychology course used planaria for observations to see if after chopping the organism's tissues they would react to stimul and regenerate.
Departments Maintain Menagerie
BRUCE KLEPINGR, assistant professor of human biology at the Rats from a particular breed house depending on what breed of rats we want. The rats we buy are docile and homogeneous.
The HDDL department uses only pigeons and rats which they buy from supply houses all around the country.
"The rats cost $1.50 apiece. We use about 60 animals a semester, so we spend around $180 just for the purchase of the animals.
"The cost of the animals is small compared to the cost of maintaining them. Food must be bought, and a man must be hired to feed the rats and keep the cats because it is the major expense involved."
Animals are used only to a limited extent in HDFL classes. In the 'Introduction to Research with Children' course, rats are used in the first part of the course to show lab procedures.
The department is given a fixed budget from the state which pays for the animals.
RATS ARE ALSO used in the nutrition classes to demonstrate group behavior and the effects of
Most animals in the HDFL department, however, are used for individual research projects. The associate professor of human development for example, is doing continuing research with rats. Sherman describes the project as concerned with the acceptance things as effective stimuli.
Sherman has received grants from various groups which has helped him purchase and the maintain the animals he must use for his research. Most researches are financed through grants.
THE BIOLOGY lab spent $45.50 in the past seven months purchasing animals. Spekwi spent each year for Biology 2.
The biology department is the biggest purchaser of animals for classroom and lab work
The money for these animals comes from the budget allotted to the biology department by the University each year.
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The animals are used by the biology department mainly for observation, dissection and collection of specimens, although a few are best kept in museums.
The Biology 1 lab recently acquired a new pet hamster, when it dischenchanted owner Sara in goldfish after the hamster bit him.
THE BIOLOGY 2 lab doesn't lack pets either.
The lab is the home of two rhesus monkeys which were donated to the biology depart- ment of its brother, who works for a zoo.
Spevak claims that the most unusual way he ever tell his tow horse to rescue him is called to rescue some hamsters which had been abandoned in a cave, and then to fetch Snow with a note attached reading, "Give them a good reading."
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The Biology lab is currently inhabited by hundreds of fruit flies which are being used to
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Mary Makepeace, Biology 1 lab supervisor, explains that certain animals are kept on hand only to cause they are easy to maintain.
"We keep pill bugs, mealworms and flour beetles on hand because they are easy to grow to them." Projects and demonstration
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The biology department gets its animals from many different sources. Some animals such as goldfish are bought at a grocery store in Lawrence. Some of the animals are kept in the laboratory by the biology staff or donated by
private citizens. The more exotic animals are ordered from supply houses.
perature fluctuates to a great degree, many of our animals die and they have to be replaced.
Unexpected emergencies some make it necessary for us to buy them or numbers of animals in a short time."
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