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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 5, 1989
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Stacey Gore/KANSAN
Emily Leaut, left, and Laura Kihm, check posters of the solar system.
Lawrence stargazers focus on Voyager 2
By a Kansan-reporter
Voyager 2's journey through the solar system was commemorated Friday night in a star-viewing session organized by members of the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence.
advantage of the interest created by the flyby of Neptune."
Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20, 1977. The space probe visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1979 and last week it finished its mission with a survey of Neptune.
"Saturn was our main attraction," Brown said. "It usually is at this time of the year."
"We had over 50 people there," said Mark Brown, vice president of AAL. "We wanted to take
Rock Chalk seeks new image
The Rock Chalk Revue advisory board wants to change the image that all participants of the philanthropic, student-rum variety show are members of greek living groups.
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Revue's advisory board starts early effort to lure non-greeks
To attract non-greek living groups, the advisory board sent out letters to residence and scholarship halls. A meeting was held Aug. 30 for people interested in participating.
"It worked. Interest has been shown and we are going to take it from there," said Ned Nixon, Wichita senior executive director of the revue.
An informational meeting for residents of Oliver Hall, Templin Hall and Lewis Hall will be held at 7 tonight at Lewis.
"We are going to come together and see if we can come up with any ideas," said Monique Roberts, St. Louis sophomore and Lewis social chairman.
Nixon said.
All scholarship halls have expressed interest in participating,
To participate in the show, a group must create possible show ideas and put them together in notebook form. The notebooks are presented to a panel of judges.
Nixon said three main reasons the revue had been greek oriented were the fact that many people did not know that anyone could submit a
The advisory board is going to attempt to help non-greek living groups find ways to reduce their costs and give them fund raising ideas.
notebook.
Cotter Brown, Parsons senior and president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said if notebooks placed by residence halls were accepted, the residents could request money from AURH.
"I am in full support of Rock Chalk," Brown said. "I believe we can find the funding one way or another."
All of the money raised by Rock Chalk is donated to the United Way.
Med students' insurance costs up
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
Some students at the University of Kansas are paying about 72 percent more than last year for medical insurance under the plan offered at the College of Health Sciences.
The rising cost of health care and inadequate finances caused premiums for students there to increase this year from $45.64 a month to $78.50 a month, said Donna Kempin, associate director of student admissions and records.
She said the amount of insurance premiums was less than the amount paid out in claims last year. Eighteen percent of the premiums in excess of $25,000, Kempin said.
She said students at the college must show proof of insurance before they can enroll each semester. They must be insured under a plan comparable to the college's plan.
She said it was especially important that foreign students were insured because they generally did not have insurance and if they were injured there would be no way to cover the cost.
Students at the college are covered up to $1 million in medical costs, Kempin said.
About 800 students a year are covered by the college's insurance plan, she said.
By requiring student medical insurance, Kempin said, both the students and the doctors who treat them are protected. She said students with health insurance could be assured of needed care and hospitals could be assured of payment.
"Hospitals are beginning to say, 'Hey, we're not going to subsidize this anymore.' " Kempin said. "They are sending students away."
"We are the forerunner in this area and one of the very few with this type of policy over the last10 to 15 years," Kempin said.
Insurance also is offered to toilets students through a separate policy.
In order to avoid the premium increase, the college tried to join the insurance plan offered at the Lawrence campus, she said.
Walters said most non-traditional students were at a greater health risk because of their ages and lifestyles. Insurance premiums are determined according to age, stability of health and probability of encountering health risks involved in such things as bearing children, he said.
Ray Walters, associate director of Watkins Memorial Health Center, said Watkins and Student Senate voted against the joint policy because, with mostly non-traditional students from the college included in Lawrence's policy, premiums would have been reduced for the Lawrence students.
He said KU policies did not require insurance for students at the Lawrence campus because, according to a survey, most students were covered by their parents' plan. Walters said only 1 percent of the students in Lawrence who had insurance were not covered by their parents.
He said that the cost of insurance for Lawrence students increased by about 10 percent from last year. The policy this year costs $43.75 a month. Walters said that Lawrence students paid about $33 a month last year.
Both policies are offered through Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Lawrence students are covered up to $250,000 in medical costs, he said.
BSU wants KU group interaction
Frenchette Garth hopes BSU will help students have a feeling of identity.
By Jennifer Metz and Cory S. Anderson Kansan staff writers
Along, with its new officers, the Black Student Union will have a new focus, said Frenchette Garth, BSU president.
"We're trying to do things that are more academically based this year," Garth said. "I'm hoping that we can make the international and business-like atmosphere."
Garth, Topela junior, was elected in May, along with Stacy Burtin, vice president; Tilia Weaver, recording secretary; Tanya Shivers, corresponding secretary; and Kellie Paris, parlementarian.
"I want to see us become a very strong organization on campus," Garth said. "We want to try and enhance what was done in the past."
During Hawk Week, BSU members sponsored the Network Fair to introduce freshmen and transfer students to KU faculty and student organizations. Garth said the fair was one of the many programs BSU would sponsor to help students familiarize themselves with campus resources.
She also said that aside from academics it was important for students to have a group to identify with.
Burtin, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said she hoped to start service projects that would involve BSU with other campus organizations.
agreed with Burtin and said that there was a need for interaction among campus organizations.
Weaver, Kansas City, Kan., senior.
"I would like to see a stronger relationship between not only minority students, but all students," she said.
Burtin said that understanding racism may be the focus of service projects between BSU and other campus groups such as the Hispanic
In addition to the service projects, Garth said BSU members would like to hold advising sessions during enrollment and provide tutoring during finals. She stressed that BSU activities were not just for African-American students but for all students.
American Leadership Organization.
Paris, Omaha senior, was president of the organization last year.
Art school strives for equality
By, Tracy Wilkinson Kansan staff writer
In an age marked by demonstrations for equal opportunity and sexual equality, the University of Kansas department of art is doing its best to balance the difference in ideas between past and present.
Each year since 1970 the department has issued the Clyde Bonebrake Lockwood and Ward Lockwood Art Scholarship Fund to an outstanding student in art or sculpture. The stipulation in the late Lockwood's will is that the recipient be a male.
art department, said that although Lockwood's will did specify a male recipient, the department does as much as possible to even out the monetary difference between men's and women's scholarships.
"Because of the nature of the situation, the Endowment Association gives us money to balance that scholarship," he said. "We try to be fair."
Robert Brawley, chairman of the
Brawley said the Lockwood scholarship takes up a significant amount of the total scholarship donations, and because of its large size had been broken down into various amounts.
Although no specific breakdown
could be given, Jeff Weinberg, associate director of student financial aid, said last year's fund delivered over $1.6 million to a current stipends among seven students.
Brawley put a special emphasis on the fact that the department made an effort to distribute the scholarships evenly among male and female students.
"There have been years when money has gone back to the Endowment Association because there was a lot of work with female scholarships," he said.
Scholarships for the 1990-1991 school term will be awarded
Officials see strong Margin support
Kansan staff writer
Rv Doug Fishback
Prospects are good that Kansas legislators will implement year three of the Margin of Excellence, two Board of Regents members said Friday.
Norman Jeter, Regents chairman, and Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, visited the University of Kansas campus to observe results of the first two years of the Margin and to discuss their thoughts for the coming year.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
were very optimistic about the chances for year three of the Margin." Jeter said.
He said that the first two years of the program amounted to a commitment by the Kansas Legislature to higher education, and that commitment likely would continue when the Legislature convened in the spring to discuss continued financing.
"We have no reason to believe that they won't continue to help us." Jeter said.
He said strong popular support of the Margin would help push lawmakers toward financing the third year.
"I think the support is out there," Jeter said. "I think they will be heard from, and we feel that the governor the Legislature will respond to that."
Koplik said one reason for the support was that the public was well-educated about the purpose of the program.
Not only has the state's program won the support of the public, Koplik said, it also has increased support of the U.S. military relatives such as Camp Kansas.
"The Margin of Excellence has been woven into the vocabulary of Kansas higher education," he said.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year, $150 million fund-raising drive.
Koplik's visit to KU came one day after he and Chancellor Gene A. Budig spoke before the state Senate Interim Ways and Means Committee, which was reviewing Regents schools' fiscal accountability to the Legislature.
Koplik said he did not think increased legislative oversight of university budgets would become a stipulation for year three of the Margin.
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