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Calendar
Monday, Sept. 8
What: New Employee Orientation
When: 8-10 a.m.
Where: Room 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall
About: Information about the University's mission, structure and staff benefits and opportunities.
Tuesday, Sept. 9
What: Dealing With Stress
When: 9-11 a.m.
Where: Joseph R. Pearson Hall
About: A free Human Resources workshop open to the public.
What: Lawrence Farmers Market When: 4-6 p.m. Where: Downtown Lawrence About: Open air market to select fresh produce and baked goods from the area.
Wednesday, Sept. 10
What: Study Abroad Fair When: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Where: Fourth Level, Kansas Union About: Students can learn about worldwide study abroad opportunities.
Thursday, Sept. 11
What: Is This Real Life?
When: 5:30-7 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: A KU Common Book Event.
What: Moonlight Movie: "Grease"
and "Remember the Titans"
When: 8 p.m. to midnight
Where: Potter Lake, Pavilion
About: A free double-feature showing of two classic movies.
Watkins extends deadline for students to sign up for health insurance plan
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Due to a change in the United Healthcare Student Resources' health insurance plan mandated by the federal Affordable Care Act, many students missed the deadline to enroll for the insurance plan offered by Watkins Health Center. However, an extended deadline is now being offered.
"The insurance company changed the open enrollment period so that it ended with the first day of school," said Diana
Malott, associate director of Student Health Services. "However, this information did not get out to students before they arrived on campus, making the enrollment period much too tight. Because of this, United has agreed to extend the enrollment period until Sept. 15."
While students may be hesitant to get on a health insurance plan due to the cost, medical expenses are one of the leading factors for students not completing their education, Malott said.
"Health insurance can mean the difference between being successful in college or failing due to an unexpected medical expense," Malott said. "The Kansas Board of Regents determined many years ago that sponsoring a health education plan helps students be successful."
The Kansas Board of Regents has sponsored this student health insurance plan for many years through United Healthcare Student Resources. The student insurance covers routine care at the campus
health centers, inpatient hospital care and coverage anywhere United health insurance is accepted.
The plan's coverage began in August and ends in July 2015, and costs $1,489 for the year or $124 per month, Malott said.
["Our plan's cost] is much less than health plans that can be found on the federal exchanges on the Internet or through many employer groups, and the benefits are equal since our plan is ACA compliant," Malott said. "We've also found it may be significantly less than
parents are paying to keep their students on their health plans."
While the deadline may have been extended, students are asked to act quickly if they want to get on Watkins' health insurance plan.
Students wishing to enroll in the plan should contact the Business Office at Student Health Services, either in person or at 785-864-9520, to request the necessary enrollment paperwork.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
Harvard's health school to get record $350M gift
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A $350 million gift pledged to Harvard University's School of Public Health is the largest single donation in the university's long history, officials said, and will help bolster research in several key areas including global pandemics.
The donation, to be formally announced today, comes from a philanthropic foundation established by the family of T.H. Chan, a Hong Kong real estate developer who died in 1986.
In a rarity for Harvard, the school will be renamed the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The only other school within the university to bear an individual's name is the Harvard Kennedy School, named for John F. Kennedy.
"I think he would have been very pleased ... that the school would be part of his legacy," said Dr. Gerald
Julio Frenk, the school's dean, called the $350 million endowment from The Morningside Foundation a "transformational gift," one that will help students and faculty working to stop pandemics such as Ebola, malaria, cancer, obesity, and address global health threats stemming from war, poverty, environmental hazards, and failing health care systems.
Chan, describing his father as a staunch supporter of education who often helped family friends pay for schooling or study abroad.
"We can apply it to the priorities of the moment and those priorities that are likely to evolve because public health is a very dynamic field," Frenk said.
A researcher was already involved in trying to trace the origin of the current Ebola outbreak in western Africa, he said, while another was examining how mobile technology can be used to track Ebola patients.
Proceeds from the gift also will be used to expand student financial aid and provide loan forgiveness to graduates who decide to work in underserved U.S. communities or poor countries. The oldest continuously operating school of public health in the world, it celebrated its centennial anniversary last year.
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The largest previous single gift to Harvard University was $150 million for financial aid given in February by Kenneth Griffin, founder of the Citadel hedge fund management company.
Billionaire philanthropist Hansjorg Wyss has made a pair of $125 million gifts in recent years to the bioengineering institute.
9/11 museum shows SEAL's shirt from bin Laden raid
The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a special coin given to a CIA officer who played a key role in finding him are being displayed at the Sept. 11 museum, adding potent symbols of the terrorist attacks' aftermath days before their anniversary.
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The items are going on view Sunday at the ground zero museum, where leaders see them as an important and moving addition to a collection that often uses personal artifacts to explore the events and impact of 9/11.
"The death of Osama bin Laden is a huge part of the history, and we have an absolute obligation to tell it," said Joe Daniels, National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum president. The display, he said, "allows millions of visitors the chance to recognize the extraordinary bravery of the men and women who sacrifice so much for this country at home and abroad"
The shirt and coin will join
The uniform shirt, tan with camouflage sleeves and an American flag patch on the right shoulder — stars forward to invoke the historical role of a flag-bearer leading a charge into battle — belonged to a now-retired member of SEAL Team Six, which put an end to the long manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist.
an existing display with a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist at the helm of the attacks was killed.
3 disqualified from freshman elections
the Student Senate Court of Appeals met Sunday night to hear a complaint brought forth by a group of freshmen who were disqualified from the freshman elections. The court denied the appeal of the freshmen, who asked to be allowed to participate in the election.
Freshmen who choose to run in the elections, which are held every year at the start of the school year to give the freshman class representation, have to get 25 signatures by members of the freshman class and a stamp from the office of the Dean of their college. This stamp certifies that the student is within that school and a freshman.
Three freshmen who did not get the stamp filed were then disqualified from the upcoming election. The three freshmen — Brandon True, Corbin Painter and McKenzie Ortiz — then filed an appeal against the Elections Commission to the Court of Appeals. The chair of the Court of Appeals, Dylan Fehl, a senior from Hutchinson, said the Elections Commission did not violate any rules and they did everything correctly. Fehl also encouraged the disqualified senators to find a way to be involved on campus, outside of the freshman elections. Only five freshmen remain in the freshman elections, and there are only five freshman Senate spots so everyone on the ballot will receive a spot in Senate.
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