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With the first measurable snowfall of the new year, and temperatures in the mid 30’s, snow made for natural mirrors
on the UNL City Campus.
Chambers says~r
UNL inflating
NCAA threat
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
A state senator on Wednesday accused
the University of Nebraska of buckling * -
under NCAA pressures at the expense
of UNL student-athletes.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said that
UNL was using “alarmist” tactics to show that
it must have its way or the football program
would be shut down.
Chambers spoke in op
position to LB963 at a hear
ing of the Nebraska Legis
lature’s Judiciary Commit
tee. m
The bill, proposed by
Sen. Chris Beutlcr of Lin-_ _
coin, would postpone for two years the im
plementation of LB69, a law that requires
Nebraska col leges to award studcni-aihlclcsall
the need-based financial aid for which they
qualify.
“The university has already said football is
more important than the players,” Chambers
• said. “Now they’re saying the institution is
more important than the students.”
The senator also criticized a letter written to
him by UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier. The
letter was read to the committee by Jack Goe
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Student insurance rates rising, official says
Hepresentative
says health plan
still a good deal
By Trevor Meers
Staff Reporter
Ithough UNL students can ex
pect their health insurance rates
to keep rising, they are getting
their money’s worth, an insurance
representative said.
Sheryl Augstums, a student insur
ance representative at the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said student rates
for health insurance through the Uni
versity Health Center had risen each
year at about the same rate as other
insurance policies.
“There is normally an increase of
about 15 percent per year,” Augstums
said. “This year we have kept it right
at 15 percent.”
The health center offers health
insurance to students for a full year,
DCginmng Aug. Z4, tor a premium ot
$340, Augstums said. If the policy is
bought in the fall, students can pay
the entire fee at once or pay for three
or six months at a time, she said.
Students also can purchase a pol
icy for $216, which covers the period
from the beginning of the spring
semester to Aug. 24, Augstums said.
For $93, students can buy a policy
insuring them for the summer school
session.
During the 1988-89 school year,
one year’s coverage cost $225, Aug
stums said. In 19%-91, the premium
was $308.
“It basically covers everything
associated with illness or an acci
dent,” she said. “If they’re referred
outside the health center by one of our
doctors, there’s a $150 deductible.”
After the deductible, Augstums said,
the policy covers 80 percent of usual
and customary fees, which refers to a
national average of what medical
services should cost. However, stu
dents should expect to be charged
more than the average, she said.
The increasing prices are caused
by new benefits added every year,
Augstums said. She said it was a
trade-off between more benefits and
lower fees.
“When we have negotiations, I
say, ‘Can we have this?’ and they say,
‘That’ll make the premium go up X
amount of dollars,”’ Augstums said.
She said the policies’ benefits were
limited in some areas to keep the
premiums lower.
For this year’s higher premium,
she said, students receive expanded
benefits in the area of miscellaneous
hospital expenses, including cover
age of services such as the operating
room and lab tests.
Augstums said she understood
students’ concerns with rising premi
ums, but the rates probably would
keep rising each year. However, she
said, insurance through the health
center still was a good deal for stu
dents.
If students were to compare health
enter insurance rates
/The following s one year's coverage cost
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center policies with other insurance “Our goal is to keep it as afford
policies, they would find they were able as possible,” she said. “But
receiving equal benefits at competi* medical care and insurance is expen
livc prices, she said. sive. I think we do a pretty good job.”
Bill protecting
archeological
sites disputed
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Nebraska State Historical Society offi
cials told members of the Legislature
Wednesday that LB 1073 is vital to protect
archeological sites in Nebraska, but media
representatives disputed that claim.
The Government, Military and Veterans
Affairs Committee heard arguments for and
against the bill, sponsored by Sen. Jerome
Warner of Waverly. —
The bill would allow
public institutions to keep
secret archeological sues
being investigated in Ne
braska. Names of donors to
public institutions also
would be kept secret. Un
dercurrent Nebraska law, public state agencies
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AIDS on a
rampage
Page 2
ASUN fails
to make a
quorum, de
lays funding
action. Page 3
Valentine's
Day bleak for
the romanti
cally chal
lenged. Page
Cartoon Diversions. Page 5
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Nebraska Women's basketball team
defeats Missouri tigers. Page 13
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Diversions 5
Sports 13
Classifieds 15
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Party members vow action
Cultural awareness,
safety among issues
By Cindy Kimbrough
Senior Reporter
Promising action and not just words, mem
bers of the first party of the 1992 student
government elections announced they
were stepping into the running Wednesday at
the Nebraska Union.
The three primary
members of the ACTION
party — presidential can
didate Alyssa Williams, first
vice-presidential candidate
Pat Piper and second vice
presidential candidate Chris
Olaes—said they would reinstall the students’
faith in the Association of Students at the
University of Nebraska.
Williams, a junior philosophy major, said
she was running because she saw room for
improvement at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
If elected, she said, her main goals would
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center on women’s issues, bringing issues to
the students and placing blue lights on emer
gency phones.
An inequality exists on this campus for
women, she said. According to the Women’s
Resource Center, female staff membersat UNL
receive approximately $2,000 less than their
male counterparts.
Williams said this inequality also existed in
AS UN. A female president has not been elected
since 1985, and ASUN members can recall
only three women who have ever served as
president, she said.
To combat these inequalities, Williams said
she would pay attention to salary and classifi
cation cquitabilily of women staff and faculty
members. In addition, she said she also would
form a women’s resource subcommittee in
ASUN.
Bringing the issues to the students is another
key to educating the student body, Williams
said.
To do this, she said, ASUN could adopt a
special issue each month and sponsor confer
ences, rallies and guest speakers to educate the
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