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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 8, 1991
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New health plan may benefit more students
By Amy Francis Kansan staff writer
An insurance company will offer a new medical insurance policy to KU students next fall when they pay their tuition and required fees. New requirements will make more students eligible for the policy.
G-M Underwriters Inc., will offer the new policy with Fidelity Security Life Insurance Co., said Jose Alpers, vice chairperson of the Student Health Advisory Board. Blue Cross/ Oldfield is the current policy provider.
The new policy covers everything the current policy does, but it allows for undergraduate students enrolled in at least nine hours of classes to buy the policy, she said. The current policy students to be enrolled in 12 hours.
The requirement of three hours for graduate students and one hour for post-doorbal students will remain the same. Alpers said.
"One of the major things we wanted was for the minimum number of hours for an undergraduate to be nine hours," she said. "The Student Health Advisory Board is not required to accept the lowest bid. We take the bid that we feel will best serve the students."
Mike Lambert, chairperson for the advisory board, said, "We thought that would make the plan available to you. We thought it was the best company."
Alpers said that each year the board received bids from insurance companies and then decided which company to recommend to Student Senate for approval. Senate then votes to choose the company.
Student Senate approved the recommendation Wednesday.
Jim Strobil, director of Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the waiting period a student already had accumulated while waiting for a policy to take effect would be transferred to the new policy.
Alpers said another reason the board recommended G-M Underwriters was that it accepted the bid policy
exactly as the board had proposed it and raised the cost only 7 percent Blue Cross/Blue Shield proposed several changes in the policy and raised the premiums by 38 percent.
The general cost of health care has risen about 10 percent since last
The annual cost for the most widely used policy, the single-member policy, is $252.36. The new policy will cost $565. Alpers said.
Besides the new company and policy, the board will use a new method to verify that all the policies are checked in the required number of hours.
Strobli said that an audit would be conducted each month to affirm that the policy-holders were enrolled in the required number of hours. The board may try to work with the Computer Center to audit enrollment by computers. Now, it is done manually by checking lists.
Lambert said, "We want to be very certain we don't get people applying that aren't really students."
Funny for monev
With a chance to win up to $10,000, Carie Chapman, Shawnee freshman, tells a dead-cat joke to the camera crew of the TV show "America's Funniest People." The crew was on campus from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday outside the Kansas Union. About 50 people signed up and performed tricks, impressions and jokes as auditions for the show. Those selected for broadcast will be notified by telephone.
Summer subleasers can be hard to find
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Since spring break, Angie Oades had been trying to find someone interested in subleasing her apartment for the summer.
But even after putting up signs on campus and taking out ads in newspapers, Oades, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, still had to offer to pay some of the rent to attract a subleaser.
Oades' difficulty in finding a subleaser was not unique.
For this reason, tenants may have to offer some compromises or incentives, such as paying part of the subleaser's rent.
Vivian Bliss, Legal Services for Students attorney, said that because many landlords required 12-month leases, there might be many students who wanted to rent their apartments this summer.
But before subleasing their apartments this summer, Bliss said, students should remember that their rental agreements
might place restrictions on them.
She said an apartment rental contract might not allow tenants to sublet their apartment or could damage a home in responsible for the apartment.
Because damage or unpaid rent becomes the responsibility of the person whose name is on the contract, Bliss suggested that ten years of Friends or reliable acquaintances to take over their apartments.
Bliss recommended that the tenants and subleasers put their agreement down on paper. The tenant has the power to issue complex legal terms, she said.
"You could pattern it after your original rental agreement or contact the Consumer Affairs Association," she said.
Legal Services for Students can help students who want to sublease their apartment to people who are not students, but it is often taken from handling legal affairs between students, she said.
Commission introduces members to city issues and legal restraints
New commissioners influence will further develop city goals
By Vanessa Fu Kansan staff writer
With little time to spare before the first meeting of the new Lawrence City Commission, newly elected commissioners got a crash course in local issues and the legal restraints of public service.
Bob Schulte and John Nalandband, who will be sworn in office tomorrow night, received their introduction to city affairs Friday City Manager Willden and incumbent commissioners conducted the orientation session.
Although the new commission will tackle issues discussed previously by former commissions, commissioners agreed that the input of new members would influence the further development of city affairs
"If you change as little as one person, you've got a new commi-
sion," said Bob Schumm, who was re-elected Tuesday to a two-year term. "The chemistry and the inter-commissioners are totally different."
Some of the long-term goals that the commission has begun working toward are the construction of a highway system encircling Lawrence, a long-term, comprehensive land-use plan and an economic model that would include a revision of the city's current tax-adjustment policy.
Nalbandian said he did not want to disrupt the consensus already established by the commission on some of the goals.
"What I’m concerned about is that Bob (Schulte) and I don’t force you to reinvent the wheel." Nalbandian told me, "I have a plan to down the line on some of the issues."
But Mayor Shirley Martin Smith said that the commission would be faced soon with several new issues. One of those is a final report from the Community Task Force on Racism, Discrimination and Human Diversity.
The report, expected in May, possibly will recommend that the city establish resolutions or ordinances to combat discrimination.
"It's something that the task force wants to be a workable document," Martin-Smith said.
Other issues that Martin-Smith said the new commission would deal with include drafting an ordinance to protect the rights of tenants of mobile home parks and an ordinance to tighten restrictions on private clubs.
"We're not so far into those that all of us will be looking at those for the first time."
The new commissioners also received an introduction to the legal powers and restrictions that come
with their positions. Schulte and Nalbandian each received copies of the city's new ethics policy and state statutes concerning home rule, conflicts of interest and other legal aspects of public service.
Wildgen said, "Certainly one of the most important parts about it is being cognizant of not putting your position that you don't want to be in."
Dave Corliss, city management analyst, discussed the open meetings act. The commission is being investigated for an alleged violation of the open meetings act because of a March 5 executive session during which the commission approved a city policy.
Corliss said that the open meetings act benefited commission members because it prohibited decision-making among only two commission members.
"It serves as your protection," he told the commission. "You're not going to have decisions made without your knowledge."
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The University of Oklahoma's Naval ROTC drill team competes in the Naval ROTC Big Eight rifle, pistol, and drill meet at Memorial Stadium. Iowa State was the overall winner of the competition Saturday.
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An awards ceremony was conducted after the all-day competition in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The Big Eight schools with Naval ROTC programs are Kansas, Missouri, Iowa State, Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas, all compete in Memorial Stadium.
KU played host to the Naval ROTC Big Eight rifle, pistol and drill meet Saturday.
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ROTC member John Sullivan, Schaumberg, III, junior, said it was the first time KU had been the host of the annual tournament. It rotates to a different Big Fight school each year.
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Iowa State finished as the overall
Naval ROTC drill team captain, Armen Kurmand, Wichita junior, said the Kansas drill队 did not do as well as he had expected.
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champion, he said Kansas placed second in the rifle competition and fourth in the pistol competition.
'It was matched nerves during the competition. Your hands start shaking when you have to pull the triever.'
Kurdian said the Kansas Naval ROTC program only had 91 members, whereas the other schools had much larger programs.
"It was matched nerves during the competition," Tidball said. "Your hands start shaking when you have to pull the trigger."
The Kansas drill team came in last in all categories, Kurdian said.
Naval ROTC member Robert Tidball, Beach, N.D., sophomore, said the meet was nerve-racking
"We'll be practicing for next year," he said. "Maybe we can come back with a vengeance."
"It was a shock when we got the scores," he said. "It was like a brick wall fell on me."
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