Friday, January 23, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Student health care proposal approved
By Susie Gura
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission unanimously approved a proposed regulation for student health care benefits, which includes benefits for graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants.
The proposal for a student health care regulation, which would make students at all Regents institutions eligible for a student health care benefits component of the state health care benefits program, was approved in December. But the commission decided to vote again on the regulation yesterday because of an added proposal.
"The vote was just a formality," said Jeannette Johnson, assistant
to the vice chancellor.
The commission's attorney said it was best to vote with the added companion proposal in the regulation, Johnson said.
The addition states that certain students who are state employees and who enroll in the proposed student health care benefits program are eligible for an employer contribution if employed at least part time as a graduate teaching assistant or graduate research assistant.
The University's contribution will be determined after a new health care plan is adopted.
STUDENT HEALTH CARE BENEFITS PLAN
"We are pleased that the HCC has moved further and is following through in an attempt for a statewide plan," said Mark Horowitz, Graduate Teaching Assistants' Coalition organizer.
Each student at the University will be eligible for the student health care benefits component of the state health care benefits program. Eligibility and participation will be subject to provisions established by the Kansas Health Care Commission.
All state institutions' participation in the student health care benefit component will be voluntary.
All students' participation in the student health care benefit component will be voluntary.
- **Yesterday's approved regulation should go into effect July 1, 1998.**
- **Health care plan specifics should be determined by the commission during**
Rich Givens, assistant provost, Karen Dutcher, associate general counsel, and Johnson represented the University administration at the meeting. Members of the coalition and Scott Sullivan, student body president, were present along with
Terri Bernatis, director of communications of the commission.
"It is definitely a good thing because we were ready for negotiations to begin," said Stephen Mathis, chairman of the GTA negotiations committee.
University Senate to alter literal value of A's and C's
A proposal by the University Senate Executive Committee could change the definitions of two letter grades.
The committee proposed that an A be changed from "... work of marked excellence, indicating high honor" to "outstanding quality." The letter grade C would be changed from "work ... of average quality" to "achievement of acceptable quality."
The move is designed to make grading less ambiguous for faculty, said Lawrence Draper, president of
By Gerry Doyle
University Senate and professor of microbiology.
gdoyle@kansan.con
Kansan staff writer
"No one knows what average is," Draper said. "The new grades are a more direct statement of what the grade is."
Faculty could adjust their grading policies based on the difficulty of their course, said Steve Shaw, professor of physics and astronomy and a member of the Academic Policies and Procedures committee.
The new grade definitions wouldn't change the difficulty of a course, but they would make grading more equitable for the students, he said.
The value of the policy would make students more
aware of their expectations, too, said Nhan Nguyen, Wichita junior.
"It think it's good because you don't know what the average is until the end," Nguyen said. "In a math class, 'acceptable' is lower than say an anthropology class. The old system is not useful."
The policy has been in discussion for about two years, Shawl said. It passed the Academic Policies and Procedures committee last year and was amended Tuesday by the Senate Executive Committee.
Draper said the policy could go into effect as early as next semester.
Cracked water line leaves buildings dry
Watson Library and Twente Hall were without water yesterday afternoon as workers replaced a cracked portion of a water line outside the northeast corner of the campus power plant.
Rex Hays, facilities operations assistant director,
said workers replaced a six-foot section of pipe.
The problem was more serious than Hays initially expected, but was not unusual. He said about 20 water-line breaks occur in a year.
When workers began digging up the pipe to find the problem on Tuesday, Hays thought they would find a leaking joint.
However, on Wednesday morning they found a crack in the older of the two water lines that serve the area. The crack was in such a position that workers could not cover it.
Facilities operations workers initially noticed water leaking into the power plant near the location of the water lines last Friday.
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