University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1983
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Insurance cards mailed to students
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students who have complained about not receiving student health insurance identification cards don't need to worry, a health insurance official said
The cards are in the mail, about a month later than normal.
Bob Hunter, director of student health insurance for Education Insurance Service of St. Louis, Mo., said that students didn't need to worry because they were covered as soon as they paid the insurance premiums.
About 2,000 KU students are using the student medical insurance plan.
Hunter said that the cards were delayed because the company had
originally planned to distribute the cards through Watkins Hospital, but now was mailing them directly to students.
"We realized that picking up the cards wasn't what the students had in mind, so we switched to mailing." Hunter said.
THE CARDS were mailed on Monday and Tuesday, he said.
Education Insurance Services is the servicing agent handling the bookwork for the health insurance, which is being Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Ohio.
Hunter also said that the company was going to send the I.D. cards along with bills to students who are paying them for their tuition. The bills will be going out next week.
supervisor for the state department of commerce, contacted both of the companies this week.
Rich Huncker, accident and health
He said that some confusion arose because so many different people were involved.
He also said that certificates of insurance, which should have been mailed immediately, had been delayed but would be arriving within two weeks.
"APPARENTLY the claims office didn't realize they were the ones who had to mail the certificates," Huncker said.
He said that students who had problems should call Watkins Hospital or Education Insurance Service.
This is the first year Education Insurance Service has handled medical insurance at the University of Kansas. Hunter said.
Board defers decision on bus for handicapped
By the Kansan Staff
The Student Senate Transportation Board last night deferred a motion to pay the University's share for financing a shuttle-bus service for hand-capped students until it hears the university's justification for the move.
Kevin Neal, the board's director, said that he would ask William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, and Dewey Allaire, associate director
of facility operations, to explain budget cuts that forced the University to stop paying for its share of costs for the KU lift-bus.
Handicapped and severely injured students use the lift-bus as transportation between their homes and campus. They arrange their pick-up schedules through the office of facilities operations.
The transportation board, which already finances three-fourths of the $20,000 annual operating fund for the
lift-bus, was asked earlier this fall by the administration to pick up its $5,000 share. Neal said that the University had quit paying its share, which was used to finance dispatcher charges, in July.
Under federal law, Neal said, KU had to provide the lift-bus because it provided bus service for non-handicapped students.
Because of this stipulation, Neal said, the administration turned to the board for funds because of budget difficulties.
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Oil fields quake in Nebraska Computer aids earthquake study
By CHRISTY FISHER and ROSEMARY HOPE Staff Reporters
A master's thesis on the origin of earthquakes in Nebraska might seem a shaky project to some, but with the aid of a new computer, Dave Evans thinks the ground rests firmly in his favor.
Since early Wednesday, 42 small earthquakes have been recorded at the Sleepy Hollow Oil Field in Red Willow County. Neb. The largest one measured 1.1 on the Richter scale, barely enough to rattle the dishes.
Evans, a San Carlos, Calif. graduate student, is one of four students analyzing data from Sleepy Hollow. The students are using a new computer that was recently installed in the Earthquake Seismology Lab, along with seismograph data, to study the earthquakes.
A RESEARCH team at the University of Kansas has been monitoring the Sleepy Hollow earthquake since 1979.
In his thesis, Evans proposed that drilling in the Sleepy Hollow Oil Field by the Amoco Production Co. might
cause the small earthquakes. He said the fluid-injection method of drilling, which pumps water into the earth and then uses this to give the ground to shake as the oil surfaces.
He said the force of the water creats stress on faults in the earth, causing them to move. When the internal forces move the rocks past each other along the faults, the movement is an earthquake, Evans said.
However, he said, the drilling might not be causing all the earthquakes. Geologists have found that earthquakes occurred in the area before the drilling began and that other oil fields using the water injection method have not had earthquakes.
HE ALSO said the drilling was too shallow to have caused some of the deeper earthquakes.
George Rothe, assistant professor of geology, said recently the oil company might be using a different drilling process than water injection that might be triggering the increased number of earthquakes. He said chemicals injected into the ground could cause the same reaction.
"I'm suspicious when we used to have one earthquake every three days
Rothe said they would work with the oil company to find the reason for the drop in gasoline prices.
for a year and a half and now there is 72 times as much activity," he said
Although earthquakes in Sleepy Hollow are being watched now, Rothe said, the computer will eventually be used to keep track of earthquakes in other parts of the Midwest.
IN TWO WEEKS the computer will link up 18 stations in eastern Kansas to keep track of activity on the Nemaha Ridge and the Humbolt fault, which also have had some minor earthquake activity.
The $90,000 computer, which was purchased with funds provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the Marathon Oil Co., records earthquakes, Rothe said.
Data gathered from the computer is valuable because it is more accurate than seismograph drum recorders, he said, and because it gives more information about the forces within the earth. Roth said the department also uses the computer as a back up to the seismograph, which records only the time, place and magnitude of an earthquake.
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