University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav. March 1. 1989
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Board is revising student insurance
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
The student health advisory board is revising the specifications list for student health insurance, and it has problems that occurred Spring 1988.
James Strobl, director of student health services, said the student health advisory board put together a list of specifications of what type of insurance coverage it wanted for students.
The specifications list is sent out to any insurance company that had expressed an interest in the University of Kansas contract," he said. He would have all the bids, they recommend, plan to the full Student Senate.
John Gatti, Topeka senior and board chairman, said the revised specifications list should be sent out by Spring Break.
Last year, the University did not take bids on the contract because the board renewed its contract through GoalWorks. An advance through GoalWorks Ind writers.
Gatti said the board had asked Colonial Penn for the same plan as the previous year with a few minor changes.
"Then at the last minute, G-M switched carriers on us from Colonial Penn to Equitable," Gatti
said. "By then it was late April and we were hurt with a situation where we had to go with the G-M plan or have no plan at all."
Gatti said the Equitable plan did not match the board's specifications list.
"It is roughly the same as the specifications list, but in the finer points their are a lot of discrepancies." Gatti said.
Michelle Roberts, Olathe senior and student health representative for G-M Underwriters, said the plan covered accidents and sickness for students, spouses and dependents.
Roberts said the policy covered the student 24 hours a day worldwide, but that there was a $50 deductible per accident or illness if the student visited a health facility at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"Anything done at Watkins is covered 100 percent by the plan," Roberts said. "That includes X-rays, lab fees and prescriptions."
There are four plans available,
each with a high option and a low
option. Roberts said the high
option paid a maximum of $250,000
in benefits, while the low option
paid a maximum of $25,000.
Costs of Student Health Plan
"The majority of people who have insurance on our plan are not
Currently, the student health advisory board is revising the specifications list for student health insurance. Listed below are the four health insurance plans now available to students. All have either a high or low option. The high option pays a maximum benefit of $250,000, while the low option pays a maximum benefit of $25,000.
--dents were covered by the plan.
Source: G-M Underwriters.com
covered by their parent's plans."
Robertssaid. "Many of them get
drop off when they turn 21."
Roberts said that if a student did not have health insurance, the student plan was a good option.
As of Jan. 31, approximately 2,100 students, spouses and dependents were covered by the plan.
"We can go with the same company for up to three years, but it has to be reviewed every year," she added. "Every year we keep the insurance companies competitive and get the best deal for the student."
KU moot court team not just a bunch of talk
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
Without the help of a coach, a KU moot court team won the oral competition of the national environmental moot court tournament.
The tournament was conducted at the Pace University School of Law, White Plains, N.Y. Each team oralist scored best oralist in a round of eight to present oral arguments in moot court proceedings.
Phyllis Savage, Lawrence law student and team member, said the University of Kansas was the only school at the competition whose coach was not present.
"Our whole goal was not to embarrass ourselves," she said. "Each round until the final, we thought someone else had won. We were definitely surprised."
Twenty-six teams representing 23 schools from the United States and Canada took part in the tournament last weekend. Savage said it was the first team to competition concentrating solely on environmental law.
"Most environmental cases involve an industry that is polluting, a state agency that is not making the industry follow Environmental Protection Agency guidelines and a citizens' group, such as the Wildlife Federation, that is lobbying for the end of the pollution," she said. "Each round of the competition involved three teams that represented each group."
Savage said tournament judges told the teams that the problems they presented were some of the biggest hurdles.
Team members include Savage, Jim May,
Overland Park law student, Linda Guinn,
Lawrence law student, and M. J. Willoughby,
Lawrence law student.
Guinn won best oralist for the team in the final round. She said the team was unusual because none of its members had taken an environmental law course before.
"It was supposed to be offered for this semester," she said. "But the professor who was supposed to teach it was sick, so the class was canceled."
Some teams KU competed against included Syracuse University, Washington University in St. Louis, Queens University in Canada and Southwestern University in Los Angeles. The teams were well-prepared.
though all the schools were well applauded.
"I was really surprised at the level of oral arguments," he said. "I didn't know the teams would be preparing so much."
"When we agreed to do this, we said if we lost, at least we'd get to see the city (New York)," he said. "But as it turned out, we just got to see White Plains."
May said the team's "recipe for success" included going to bars every night until 2 a.m. and then getting up at 6 a.m. to prepare for competition, and it made the team well-relaxed in its moments.
The team was awarded a painting of Storm King Mountain, the object of the first environmental case ever, Guinn said. John Hulsey, a KU graduate, did the painting and was so proud of the team's accomplishments that he gave them an extra print to present to the School of Law, Guinn said.
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