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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 23,1993
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Students doctor nation's health
Class project sent to Clinton By Tracl Carl Kops on staff writer
Mark Slyter said $50 a day would keep the doctor paid.
But Slyter's idea was not adopted by President Clinton, who unveiled the new national health care plan last night.
Slyter was one of 26 KU students who put together a national health care reform package and sent it to Washington last semester. The plan required everyone to pay $50 a month for insurance guaranteeing health care.
Carol Roscoe, White House assistant to the president, sent Slyter a letter thanking him for the proposal. She said in the letter that the proposal would be sent to advisors for review.
The students put the plan together as a final project last semester for their Work Roles in Health and Medicine class.
After reviewing the plan, Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, suggested that the students send copies to Washington D.C. So they submitted their proposal to Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan. and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.
Jim McLean, Slattery's press secretary, said Slattery decided the proposal deserved to be sent to Hillary Clinton's health care task force.
"I was very impressed with the extensive research and analysis contained in the final proposal," Slattery wrote.
Yockey said he was impressed with the students' ideas on how to pay for health care.
"It was really a pretty good project for a group of students who had no experience with health care," he said.
Slattery, who is a member of a House health and environment subcommittee, has worked closely with the national health care reform plan.
Slyter, an exercise science major, said the students' reform package did not increase taxes like Clinton's plan
would. The students' plan is regulated by the private sector and paid for by individuals. Clinton's plan is regulated by government and paid for by businesses.
"We brought it down to the consumer level because we thought it was too much of a burden on businesses," Slytter said.
With the students' plan everyone would pay $50 a month but deductibles would be based on income levels. For example, a student who lives on $200 a month may have a deductible of $5. The students' plan was a base plan, Slyter said, and those who wanted more coverage could pay more than $50 a month.
The two plans are similar in that they both include universal coverage
and mandated benefits. Slyter said.
After studying health care plans from 10 countries and 11 states and 16 other proposals for national health care, the group modeled their plan after Germany's health-care system.
Slyer said the students dealt with the fact that increased technology was keeping people alive longer and creating huge health costs.
Unlike Clinton, the students could address the tough issues of rationing health care and putting a cap on spending because they did not have to worry about getting re-elected.
"Iguarantee no politician will touch on that," Slyter said. "These are going to be hard decisions to make, but they will have to be addressed."
KU enrollment falls from 1992
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Following a trend throughout the Big Eight schools, the University's official Fall 1993 enrollment dropped by a small percentage, according to the 20th-day headcount report released yesterday.
The Department of Educational Services compiled the report on Sept. 20, the 20th day of classes. The report indicated a decrease of 274 students on the Lawrence campus, from last fall's 25,160 to Fall 1993's 24,886—a loss of about 1 percent
Decreases of more than 10 percent were noted in three professional schools: business, engineering and journalism.
For all campuses, including the University of Kansas Medical Center, this year's total enrollment of 28,862 was 299 students less than last fall's total. It was the first decrease in total enrollment in six years for all campuses, representing a 1 percent loss.
With the rest of the Big Eight schools experiencing similar decreases, Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said the University had anticipated the decrease in total enrollment, possibly due to a sluggish national economy.
"You have to look at the size of the University as a whole when considering these numbers," Meyen said. "If you look at a variation of 299 students, that's a very small variation."
The Graduate School had an increase of 2 percent, the largest percentage among the 14 KU schools.
Falling off their Fall 1992 enrollments, the Schools of Business, Engineering and Journalism saw the most significant drops of all the schools.
Joseph Bauman, dean of business, said the nation's poor economy and the school's steps to limit enrollment during the late 1980s had contributed to the decrease.
"We set the size of the school below demand when demand was at its peak in the late '80s," Bauman said. "We've now taken some steps in improving the attractiveness of sophomore-level business classes to recruit more students."
Job cutbacks in the defense industry along with the economy had led to the recent continuing decrease in the School of Engineering's enrollment, said Carl Locke, dean of engineering.
Changing enrollment
The schools of business, engineering and Business journalism have seen some big changes Engineering in enrollment in the last few years. Journalism
KJHK DJs turn the tunes
KJHK Radio station's announcers find fun late at night
Winnie the Pooh's voice drifted over the airwaves on KU's alternative radio station.
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
At 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, KJHK jockey Suzy Sturm, Evergreen, Colo., junior, leamed back in her office chair and cued a record.
Source: 20th Day Headcount
"Is anybody at home?" the honey-loving bear said.
Sturm said she sympathized with Winnie.
"Sometimes I feel like nobody is listening," she said.
Despite the hours, Sturm said she did not have a hard time staying awake.
Sturm is one of many DJs who work the late night and early morning shifts at 90.7 FM KJHK and to entertain themselves during the wee hours of the night.
"There's too much to do," she said. "I think around two in the morning it gets a little tiring but not boring."
Ian Ritter, Overland Park sophomore, said there was enough work to keep busy, but he and fellow DJ Rob Wood, Overland Park junior, still needed something to get them through their 1 to 3 a.m. Friday shift.
"It tends to stray away from mainstream, and that's were it gets all of its power and individual," she said.
"We overload ourselves with caffeine and cigarettes, which causes us to get kind of wacky," he said.
Ritter said he and Wood tried a different gourmet coffee each week with a coffee maker from Ritter's roommate.
Although the coffee and cigarettes keep them awake, Ritter said, he and Wood often have panic attacks from the nicotine and caffeine.
Disc jockey Ian Ritter, Overland Park sophomore, hosts the Free Jazz show on KJHK.
"You're trying to finish your cigarette and coffee before the song finishes, and that causes even more stress," he said.
To keep themselves entertained in the middle of the night, Ritter said, he and Wood often would sing and burp on the air, and not necessarily in that order.
"We haven't done any farting yet, but if the possibility arises, we might do it," he said.
"We didn't want anybody throwing their radios away," he said.
Wood said he and Ritter limited their singing on the air.
They also danced on the hardwood floor of the cramped control room if the song was good enough, Wood said.
Ritter said he and Wood once had an argument on whether or not they should play a song. So at 2:30 a.m. they had a call-in to decide what to play.
Only one person called and voted for the song to be played.
"We're just generally being weird to keep ourselves up." Wood said.
But the strangest thing was two drunk students who walked into the station and requested the "70s hit 'Shaft' by Isaac Hayes, Ritter said.
"We couldn't find it so we played 'Superfly' for them, and they seemed satisfied," he said.
Minorities' committee draws fire Claims of inattention by University made
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Even Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life, said she initially did not know the purpose of her committee.
"We're trying to figure out exactly what we're doing, too," said Ballard, head of the Study Group/Coordination of Programs for Minority Students Committee.
The committee was appointed last month in response to last year's African American Student Concerns Task Force, said Ballard, who was a member of the task force. She said it was appointed by Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, to fulfill the task force's request for a plan to implement its recommendations.
But Carlos Fleming, a former member of the task force, said that the committee's formation was too different from the original recommendation and that the University was stalling real action.
Ballard said the purpose of the committee was to coordinate the actions of different offices on campus that recruited minority students. She said the offices then could work together to bring minority students to the University to avoid overlapping efforts.
She also said such coordination would help with retention as well as recruitment of minority students.
"After we get them here, how do we keep them?" she said. "That's what these offices do."
But Fleming, Shaker Heights, Ohio, senior, said the committee was a tactic by the administration to delay substantive progress on other measures of the task force. He said larger issues, such as moving the Office of Minority Affairs higher in the administration, were being ignored.
"The big problem that we've had was that the administration always seems to postpone action for future generations."
the executive vice chancellor's timetable on the task force's request said the committee's job would be to "further review the organizational structure and reporting lines of the Office of Minority Affairs."
Fleming also said he protested the lack of undergraduate students on the committee. The 11-member committee is made up only of office heads and faculty.
"Certain things transcend color lines," he said. "If you want to help students, you go to the students."
Ballard disagreed about the lack of students on the committee. She said the department heads were the ones who controlled policy and that each one knew what its patrons wanted.
"We're looking at offices that provide services," she said. "Students don't head offices."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, disagreed with Fleming about the Office of Minority Affairs. He said the committee should not review the office's position.
"The best place for it to accomplish its mission is with the dean of student life in the department of student affairs." Ambler said.
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Entry Categories:
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- Float Deadline for entry applications is Friday, Oct. 1 at 5:00pm.
Entry Applications & Deadlines:
- Marching Bands and Banners- Deadline for entry applications is Friday, Oct. 8 at 5:00pm.
- All entry applications should be submitted to the SUA Office, Level 4, Kansas Union. For more information call 864-3477
Required Parade Meetings
- Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 5:00pm in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union, Level 5. All FLOAT entries must have a representative present for rules and safety review by the KU Police. An absence from this meeting could result in disqualifications from the parade or loss of points.
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