Regents keep insurance plan
By Sarah Scalet
Staff Reporter
At an emergency meeting Thurs
day, the NU Board of Regents voted
to have the same company continue
covering the employee health plan,
an official said.
Although bids from other compa
nies were considered, Joe Rowson,
director of public affairs for Univer
sity of Nebraska, said the Mutual of
Omaha still will cover the plan.
Coverage will remain the same,
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said John Russell, assistant vice presi
dent for administration.
“There (was) no contemplation ol
changing benefits in the health plan,”
he said.
The bids are reviewed occasion
ally to make sure the plan is still
competitive, Russell said. The last
review was in 1983.
The only change in the health plan
for those eligible — faculty and staff
who work at least half time — would
have been a different company send
ing claim checks, he said.
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Finney
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Finney studied and performed jazz
dance and ballet in theaters in
Colorado, New York and Califor
nia.
“I had always wanted to dance,”
Finney said. “In Lincoln and in the
Midwest, I didn’t know how to
pursue dance and due to lack of
cultural orientation, my interest
stayed focused on sports.”
An involvement in dance and
athletics spurred his interest in
health, physical education, kinesiol
ogy and sociology, Finney said. In
the late ’70s, he worked at fitness
clubs in California, developing an
exercise program.
Since then, Finney has appeared
as a guest fitness and conditioning
expert for ABC’s Wide World of
Sports, PM Magazine and Good
Morning, Houston.
As a lecturer and trainer, he has
worked with John Denver, Kirstie
Alley, the Harlem Globetrotters, the
San Diego Chargers and the 1981
Men’s and Women’s World
Championship Racquetball Teams,
among others.
He also has written a book and
produced a video promoting his
program, “The Finney Method.”
The program, which he devel
oped in 1979 and brought to Lin
coln in June, is sponsored by
Lawlor’s Sporting Goods and in
cludes workshops for students,
sports teams, hospitals and corpo
rate-wellness programs.
His program emphasizes the
management of substance abuse and
stress, but it also includes methods
for stretching and conditioning,
which arc his forte.
Despite his current success,
Finney’s road back to Nebraska has
not been smooth.
After he left UNL in 1973, Fin
ney said, cocaine abuse led him oil
course. It really became a problem,
though, when he was in California.
“I remember moments in my
past when I had the cars and the
money, but I did stupid things and
lost it,” he said. A priest once told
him, “Once you lose something,
you never really had it.”
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I remember moments in
my past when I had the
cars and the money,
but I did stupid things
and iost it
Finney
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“I guess I didn’t have a grip on
the moment,” Finney said.
But, last June, Finney completed
rehabilitation and volunteer work at
a center in Newkirk, Okla. Now, he
said, he has control of his life.
“I want to be a pbsitive attribute
to society, my community and my
planet,” he said. “I don’t plan on
sitting on the bench.”
While spending four months at
the center, Finney said he realized
that his emotional support came
from his business, his life, the pur
suit of his goals and his relation
ships.
“I’m at a place and time where
I’ve made a decision to finish my
education, and this education is
being reinforced by some very good
friends,” he said.
Finney attributed some of his
success to Drs. Gregory and Marga
ret Kontras-Sutton, who have
encouraged him to return to school,
get a degree and be productive in
the work force.
“I connect these two people to
my success,” Finney said. “They
know things about me and my past
and support me both indirectly and
directly.”
Other friends and family also
have played a role in his success,
Finney said.
“When I think of family, I think
of individuals who have made an
impact on me and my life,” Finney
said. But, he said, “It was up to me
to change, and others believing in
me.”
Finney said his decision to return
to UNL has been beneficial in that
achievement of his goals will be a
long process.
After finishing general classes in
human relations at UNL, Finney
said he plans to transfer to Doanc
College to get his degree.
And someday, Finney said he
hopes to use his experiences, lan
guage skills and motivational teach
ing method to develop a drug and
alcohol-abuse program to help those
suffering as he did.
“I want to cam a living and be
productive in society, and I want
other people to have this same
opportunity — to be competent,”
Finney said.
Lights
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house fixtures in the core of campus
are being replaced with newer, brighter
fixtures, he said.
“Everything comes down to fund
ing,” he said. “Money is not allowing
us to do much right now “
All questions or comments regard
ing lighting on cither campus should
be directed to landscape services, he
said.
Caublc said that although lighting
was inadequate in some areas on
campus, the areas were safe. He said
the police patrolled more on foot in
those areas at night.
“I personally don’t feel we have an
unsafe campus,” Caublc said. “We
haven’t had any physical crimes re
ported to us anywhere in the interior
campus so far this year, and we have
n’t had that many in past years. You
may not feel safe, but you are.
“But as long as there is the percep
tion that there is a problem, there is a
problem.”
Cauble said he planned to walk
around campus within the next few
nights to determine where more light
ing was needed and to report to facili
ties management where lights were
n’t working.
Rich McDermott, director of fa
cilities management, said light bulbs
were replaced as quickly as possible
when they were reported out, gener
ally within a few days.
“If there is a special part that is
needed or it’s out because electricity
has been cut for construction or some
thing, it could be out longer,” McDer
mott said.
In most cases, he said, there was a
maximum wattage bulb that could be
placed in each fixture. For that rea
son, putting in brighter bulbs was not
always possible.
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