University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1984
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Imagine coalition captures most junior, senior offices
Imagine coalition won all of the senior class offices and most of the junior class offices in the 1984 KU Board of Class Officers election Tuesday and Wednesday.
Action coalition won all of the sonhomore offices
Retention commission for all of the sophomore applications.
Senior class officers for 1844 are: Dan Lowe, Olathe, president; Julie Flyn, Oklahoma City, vice president; Ken Prendergast, Roeland Park, treasurer; and DeAnn Johnson, Wichita, secretary.
Junior class officers are: John Allison, Prairie Village, Imagine, president; Mark Ferguson, Junction City, Imagine, vice president; Mike Slaney, Wichita, Action, treasurer; and Janet Mahoney, Overland Park, Imagine, secretary.
Sophomore office officers are: Todd Benson, Overland Park, president; Jill Lander, Overland Park, vice president; David Epstein, Prairie Village, treasurer, and Sara Mallatt. Madison, Wis., secretary.
BOCO is in charge of Encore, the student variety show. It also assists the office of student organizations and activities with the homecoming parade.
BOCO gives $9,500 to United Way
KU's Board of Class Officers this week presented a $9,500 donation to the Lawrence United Fund, more than doubling last year's contribution.
The money came from the proceeds of this year's Encore, a three-night student variety show sponsored by BOCO, David Watson, and Sara Levine.
BOCO was able to increase its donation this year because the Encore production proceeds doubled, he said.
Jeff Stanton and Dave Smith, co-business managers, organized the event and out this year's costs substantially. Watson said
"It's run more like a business now than it ever had been in the past," he said.
Smith, who will be next year's executive director, said he expected next year's pledge and donation to increase. The 1985 pledge has not been decided.
Watson said that last fall BOCO pledged $4,500 for this year, but because the show earned more than expected, it was able to increase its donation.
He said the standard policy was to donate 50 percent of the show's proceeds to the Lawrence United Fund. Forty percent of the proceeds go back to the living groups that participated, and the remaining funds are used to support the next year's production.
POCO contributed $4,500 to the United Fund in 1983
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT'S WATCH with $500 was stolen Wednesday from a room in Gertude S棘ards Pearson Hall, KU police said.
KU FACILITIES OPERATIONS reported the theft of copper electrical cable worth $500 Wednesday, KU police said. Police reports showed that the burglars used bolt cutters to cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a storage area.
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The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 864-4358.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Health plan could cost employees more
Staff Reporter
State employees could be saddled with new health insurance coverage this August that would include deductible and co-payment plans — features that would shift more costs to the employee.
With the exception of a proposed dental option, some KU employees have said recently that the proposal, which was drafted by the state's new health insurance commission, erodes state employee benefits.
A DUEDUCTIBLE IS the amount employees pay before they are covered by insurance. Co-payment means that after a deductible is paid, the insurer
The present basic coverage under Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Kansas, known as the "Cadillac" plan, does not carry deductible or co-payment features and pays 100 percent of covered charges.
Duncan said the proposal was a comprehensive major medical plan, which essentially combined the present basic and major medical coverage.
Co-payment for individual coverage ranges from $200 to $1,000 under the four plans. Family coverage ranges from $400 to $3,000.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL, deductibles are $100 in Plans A and B, $200 in Plan C, and $100 for an individual and $300 for family coverage in Plan D.
Barbara Duncan, an administrative assistant at the Department of Administration, said the proposal was broadly outlined and left enough flexibility for insurance companies to draft their own versions.
The proposal, which outlines four plans and an optional dental plan, should maintain and could possibly lower the premiums now paid, she said.
For the first time, the state is allowing insurance companies to bid on contracts for up to three years, she said. The contracts were offered for only one year.
Although premiums could be lowered, the employee woud give a greater discount.
The extended contracts should increase competition and give the state greater control.
The plan would pay 80 percent of the covered charges in all four options.
The state now pays $84.75 a month for single coverage. The monthly cost of family coverage paid by most employees is $139.
The Kansas Department of Administration is accepting bids from insurance companies until May 3. The new policy will go into effect Aug. 1.
BUT JOE COLLINS, president of the KU Classified Senate, said, "I do not believe the state needs to get a deductible program for its employees."
Because the three-year contract should enable the state to find an
insurance company that offers better coverage, Collins said, it should not have to resort to deductible and co-payment plans to control costs.
"I recognize that the state is trying to control costs," he said, "but it will cost employees more if they go to the doctor."
and the employee share costs until the employee has paid a predetermined amount.
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Duncan said that because of the rising costs of health care, the proposal also incorporated features that would help to reduce unnecessary hospitalization
"If a person is involved in paying for their health care," she said, "they will spend it more wisely.
"We're trying to encourage them to use medical facilities when it is necessary, but not when it is unnecessary."
BUT SUZANNE CUPP, administrative assistant to the dean of education and former KU Classified Senate president, said. "I don't think people go to the hospital unless it's absolutely necessary."
The bill was one of 20 approved by the governor yesterday, including one allowing Kansas banks to install automated teller machines and other remote service units anywhere in the country. Currently, Kansas banks are limited to installing such machines within the state.
Carlin signs bill to raise marriage-license fee
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Carlin also signed a bill that will
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed a bill raising marriage license fees by $8, with the additional morality care for victims of violent violence.
SUPPORTERS OF THE bill argued that under the time schedule involved for nomination to office and elections, candidates had to practice law six years before taking office.
"It is bad public policy to alter election laws pertaining to candidate qualifications at a time so close to the election office," Carlin said in his vow speech.
The increase in marriage license fees from $10 to $18 is expected to generate almost $500,000, which will go into a new Protection From Abuse Fund to be
would have reduced the requirement to five years before taking office if elected.
Carlin vetoed a bill that would have shortened the amount of time a person must be an attorney before becoming eligible to become district attorney.
Under current law, a person must be an attorney at least five years before being nominated for office. The bill
used solely for the purpose of domestic violence programs.
make it more difficult for other states to divert Kansas water. Under the new law, the chief engineer must approve that the state should divert water to an adjoining state.
The programs include temporary shelter for victims and their children, counseling and educational services aimed at reducing domestic violence.
THE MEASURE WAS requested by the KCC after the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that the commission was restricted to determining only the reasonableness of the location of the line.
Another bill signed into law yesterday allows the Kansas Corporation Commission to determine the necessity of a commission line before grapping a permit.
5 residence halls join AURH in boycotting Coors
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Five KU residence halls this week joined the Association of University Residence Halls in boycotting the Adolph Coors Co. because of racist comments the company's chairman reportedly made in February.
The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday called off a five-day boycott against Coors that involved 1,700 Southern California distributors, and Cox's team to establish $100 million economic opportunity program for blacks.
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BUT JAMES JEFFLEY, AURH president, said earlier this week that he
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THE AURH BOYCOTT prohibits residence halls from using AURH money to buy Coors beer, but it does not require them using their own money to buy Coors.
George's residence hall boycott proposal prohibits residence hall governments from using their own money to buy Coors beer.
LaDale George, who proposed the idea of the boycott to AURH, said that he and other members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity had met with the governments of the five halls to persuade them to join in the AURH
This week, hall governments in Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin Halls, Hashinger Hall, Lewis Hall, Oliver Hall and Templin Hall passed resolutions similar to one adopted by the AURH general assembly April 5.
would push to see more KU student groups adopt boycotts against the brewery.
The Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee will also consider whether to join the Coors boycott at its meeting
McGovern said at the meeting that a Denver newspaper reporter had quoted out of context comments William K. Coors, chairman and chief executive of the company, made to a Denver minority business group.
Coors has since apologized twice for the comments.
The residence hall boycott proposal also would prohibit halls from partici-
George said that he would present a resolution to boycott Coors next week to the KU Panhellenic Association, and to hall governments in Ewlsworth Hall, McCollum Hall and Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Wednesday, the Student Senate decided at its meeting Wednesday night.
Jeffley, George, and Coors campus representative P.J. McGovern and Student Senate president Carla Vogel spend Tuesday to discuss the AUHR boycott
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Jeffley said that he would reconsider the AURH boycott of Coors only if a transcript of Coors' speech showed that he had been quoted out of context.
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