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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, August 20,1998
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FUTONS
Todd Hershberger recalls listening to Elton John's greatest-hit album at the age of 4, through headphones that seemed as large as his head.
As a child, his favorite song was Rocket Man. At the time, he loved the song because, like most 4-year-olds, Hershberger, Lawrence junior, dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
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His preschool teacher also noticed something musical in Hershberger.
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These lessons would lead Hershberger to win a $1,000 research grant at the age of 22 for his proposal to write an orchestraal piece for an entire symphony.
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Hershberger said people needed to open up their ears and take in the everyday music around them.
Todd Hershberger works on a piece at his piano. Hershberger, who has been a musician since his youth, won a $1,000 grant to write a symphony. Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN.
Hershberger said his musical dream was for people not to call his musical creations just interesting.
He said that everyone should try to appreciate different musical styles.
"He's an all-around musician," Hoag said. "He is a good instrumentalist, a good composer and has a good background."
Jordan thinks, "I don't want my music to change people's life." Hershberger said. "I just want them to like it. I want it to be appreciated."
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"I dare people to get out of popular music." Hersberger said. "I like to urge people to
get into jazz, just listen and don't just sit there with a blank look on their face like they are staring at the wallpaper."
"Even the bugs in fall are just as beautiful as anything ever written," he said.
Hershberger's talents continued to grow, he said. The child who started on the piano graduated to the saxophone and then to the bassoon.
"Todd is a very gifted and articulate young man who knows what he wants to do," said Charles Hoag, professor of music and dance with whom Hershberger has been studying.
"I quit taking piano lessons in the beginning of high school," Hershberger said. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I started to experiment with sounds, doing my own things. I really started composing when I was young."
Composing music was something Hershberger discovered at a young age.
GTA health-care plan sparks differing reactions
The new health-care plan for graduate teaching assistants is receiving both applause and criticism.
By Julie M. Sachs
Kansan staff writer
Although many are elated that there will be employer-contributed health care, there has been much debate because of the cost of the plan.
"What's most disappointing is that the plan is too costly for most GTAs," said Mark Horowitz, Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition organizer. "At least it's a first step for GTAs to improve their working conditions."
Provisions in the plan, which are to go into effect Sept. 1, also are very complex, said Erick Honores Trujillo, Peru graduate student.
Jeanette Johnson, assistant to the provost, said that each month the University of Kansas must check to make sure that those graduate assistants enrolled in the plan meet certain enrollment and appointment-length criteria
Graduate assistants must work
750 hours during two semesters
and also be enrolled in six hours to be covered by the plan, Johnson said.
Provisions in the plan also state that the employer contribution by the University is void during the summer if the insured person does not remain an employee, said Ola Faucher, Director of Human Resources.
"The state said we can only pay when the GTA is on payroll," Johnson said. "We don't contribute over the summer. The GTA has to pay 100 percent over the summer."
Individuals who choose to become insured with the plan have to be treated at Watkins Memorial Health Center to take full advantage of the plan's benefits, said Jim Boyle, interim director of Watkins student health services.
"It's to your advantage to use Watkins as your medical source," Bovle said.
But not everyone insured under the plan is able to be treated at Watkins.
"Spouses are not eligible to use Watkins if they are not enrolled," Boyle said.
GTA health care plan
The health care plan consists of two coverage options; a basic plan and a comprehensive plan. Costs are listed by age group for each of these options.
Comprehensive Rates Per Month (includes University contribution):
Baeie Raaties Pk Monit (incluces Uiversity constraction):
Comprehensive Rates Per Month (includes Unlimited Babies)
under age 25 age 26-30 age 31 and older
Student $18.08 $25.75 $51.67
Student and Spouse $141.50 $170.58 $269.08
Student and Children $101.83 $124.00 $175.17
Family $181.17 $217.17 $339.00
Basic Rates Per Month (includes University Costs)
Student 72.56 $10.11; 82.18
Student and Spouse 40.00 $48.33; 78.83
Student and Children 23.58 $29.25; 49.92
Family 56.33 $67.42; 107.60
Children also are not able to be treated at Watkins, but the plan covers an insured child's visit to a pediatrician.
Some graduate assistants said that they were upset at the publicity of these meetings.
Further details regarding the plan have been addressed in several informational seminars.
"It was poor publicity, nobody can go and the times were awkwardly set," said Helen Schuemaker. "It's very disappointing. I haven't talked to anybody who has any idea what's going on."
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Johnson said that the times
allotted for the meetings were the best that the University could do on such difficult time constraints.
"We have told all the departments that we would be willing to make a presentation if there is a large interest," Johnson said.
Praise of the new health care plan is all that Johnson said she had received.
"I have had a lot of individual calls," Johnson said. "Most people with whom I talked were very grateful. They were grateful there would be something."
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