University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 3, 1987
THE FAR SIDE
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By GARY LARSON
"Oh my God! It's from Conniel. She's written me a 'John deer' letter!"
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INSERT CORRECTIONS
Wolfe's 8 page insert in today's University Daily Kansan contains the following printing errors we wish to correct:
P. 2: Maxxum 5000 with 28-70mm Sigma zoom should be $449.99, it was shown incorrectly as $299.99.
P. 2: "Complete your Maxum" outfit should be $299.99, it was shown incorrectly as $449.99.
... 35-700mm f2.8-4 Sigma should be 35-70mm
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone.
ECM Center Events
Dec. 4: Friday Free Movie:
"The Mission"
7:30 p.m.
Dec. 6: Sunday Evening Worship and Supper 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 9: University Forum: "Right Angles and Burning Giraffes: the Content of Modernism in Art" Timothy Mitchell speaker 11:40 a.m.: lunch Noon: speaker
ECM Student Christian Center
Scott Carpenter/KANSAI
Campus/Area
Charlie Sumeleh, Lawrence resident, sprays a new coat of paint on a female lion, one of a male and female pair, in front of Hunan restaurant, 1516 W. 23rd St. The lion, which represents the future, was painted yesterday as part of an annual refurbishment.
Painted lion
Housing may not be provided for students here during break
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Staff writer
KU students who want to stay in a residence hall during the winter break may have to look elsewhere.
Sammie Messick, office manager for residential programs, said yesterday that at least 50 students have to sign up for housing in order for a hall to be kept open over break. But so far only two students have signed up at the office of residential programs. Messick said.
The deadline to sign up for winter break housing is Dec. 8.
Messick said she could remember only one year when enough students
stay in a hall during the break, she said.
"I think students use a lot of the break time to travel in the United States, and I know it's lengthy breaks and they have time to get somewhere," Messick said.
Students must pay $115 for vacation housing for a period from Dec. 19 to Jan. 10. The housing department participates in 30 students participate. Messick said.
Only students who live in a residence hall or a scholarship hall could
If the program is offered, the students probably will stay in McColum Hall because most of the students who signed up in the past lived in that hall, Messick said.
If McCollium is chosen, students who live in McCollium could stay in their own rooms. But students from other halls could stay in a McCollium resident's room if they received the resident's permission, she said. Otherwise, the students could live in one of about 22 end rooms, she said.
If a hall remained open, food would not be served, but mail service would be provided, and desk assistants and security monitors would be on duty 24 hours a day, Messick said. Guests would not be allowed in residents' rooms.
Messick said she thought residents knew the program was available because information was posted in each hall. But she said she thought students weren't interested in the
program and nothing could be done to get more students to participate
"I wouldn't want to stay in a residence hall during Christmas," Messick said.
If the program isn't offered, Messick said students could turn to local motels for vacation housing, some of which provide student discount rates.
On the Record
- Cash valued at $200 was taken between 11 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday from a business in the 2200 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
Two teddy bears and cash valued at $225 were taken between 6 p.m. Monday and 7:15 a.m. Tuesday from a business in the block of 2100 West 28th Terrace, Lawrence police reported.
A vacuum cleaner valued at $255 was taken between 3 p.m. Monday and noon Tuesday from a business in the 2800 block of Four Wheel Drive, Lawrence police reported.
Stephan says OK to charges for insurance
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Attorney General Bob Stephan said in an opinion released yesterday that the Health Care Commission has the authority to establish participation charges for health insurance for state employees.
Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Parsons, sought the attorney general's opinion on the state's new health insurance benefits plan. The senator questioned whether the participation charge could be based on the state employee's income level, as called for by the new contract. The contract, with Blue Clear and Blue Shield of Kansas, became effective Jan. 1, 1988.
Johnston also sought Stephans' opinion on whether smokers can be charged an additional $10 a month, following toward "wellness programs."
Stephan, in his nonbinding opinion, said those provisions in the contract were in keeping with the law.
"The statutes granting authority to Kansas state employees Health Care Commission to establish employee participation charges do not limit the commission's discretion in establishing such charges," Stephan said.
"Further, the distinctions drawn between between higher- and lower-income employees, and smokers and nonsmokers do not rise to the level of equal protection," the attorney general added.
He also said: "We believe monies generated by the smoking surcharge should be used to benefit smokers is some way. The mere incentive to stop smoking may be sufficient bene- tial for the reduction incessation programs and overall health cost reduction will be targets of these funds."
Stephan also said expenditures of revenues collected by the tobacco surcharge are subject to legislative appropriations acts.
The new plan has prompted protests because of the increase in premiums, including an increase of at least $10 for an optional family health care insurance.
A report, compiled by the Legislature's Division of Post Audit, said the contract called for lower premium increases than the original contract that Blue Cross and Blue Shield had proposed.