Student fees support health center
Insurance plans give
students total coverage
By TOM WOLFE
Of the Emerald
Among charges you’re paying
this week for tuition, books, I.D.
cards and other necessities is a
$22 health fee you probably didn’t
even notice.
The fee is levied with tuition for
full-time students and the money
collected pays 80 per cent of the
operating cost of the Student
Health Center, located on 13th
Avenue across from Oregon Hall.
The remaining support comes
from charges to students for lab
work, medicine, X-rays, allergy
shots, special services such as
physical therapy and miscellane
ous charges for splints, bandages
or other materials. Students are
never charged for time spent with
doctors.
"Basically, we do everything a
general practitioner’s clinic would
do except surgery requiring gen
eral anesthesia or obstetrics,"
says Dr. Avard Long, center direc
tor. In addition are student
tailored services; family planning,
psychiatric counseling, clinical
gynecology, allergy immunization
and even wart removal.
Full-time students are covered
for up to 15 days hospitalization a
year free of charge in the center’s
infirmary. (Non-matriculating stu
dents pay no health fee and have
no benefits.) Eugene’s Sacred
Heart General Hospital now
charges $31 just to see a doctor
and rooms are up to $212 a day.
Regular hours at the center are
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and
8 to 11:30 Saturday mornings.
Appointments with a staff physi
cian may be made by calling
686-4441. No appointments are
necessary Saturdays.
A few years ago the center
started a women’s clinic, offering
pelvic exams, pap smears, IUD
insertions and abortion counsel
ing from grad students or
psychiatrists at little or no charge
to the students. “They’re things
we should have been doing all
along,” says Long.
For emergencies the center is
open around the dock. Twenty
four hours a day one physidan is
on hand just to handle
“emergents." He has no appoint
ments.
About 70 per cent of the time the
emergency service is misused,
says Long. “Some guy comes in
and says I’ve had this sore throat
for 6 days’ and he wants some
thing done right then. It’s the same
in all hospitals — not just here.”
Long is also anxious to point out
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that the University is only a partial
health plan and, he says, should
be supplemented with a health in
surance plan covering major prob
lems.
Each year the ASUO negotiates
a comprehensive accident, sick
ness plan for students and de
pendents. Cost for students is
$92.90 a year or $31.30 per term.
Students may also buy insurance
for their families at a cost of up to
$285.95 per year depending upon
the number of dependents being
insured.
The insurance covers hospital
stays of up to 30 days, surgical
expenses up to $1,000 and limited
ambulance service. Excluded are
dental and eye care, childbirth and
prescription drugs.
A second plan for students only
offers insurance in case of acci
dental death or dismemberment.
At $12 a year the plan pays
$10,000 for accidental death or
double dismemberment and
$5,000 for single dismemberment
(eye, arm or leg).
Either insurance plan may be
purchased while registration is in
progress at the EMU or later in the
Business Office, 130Oregon Hall
The plan is available at the same
time from Metzker & Associates at
870 East 13th Ave., 342-4868
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Program
reinforces
ed skills
Condon Hall houses what might
be one of the most beneficial prog
rams on campus: the Learning
Resources Center (LRC).
The center is available to help
University students achieve their
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potential in developing efficient
learning skills and methods
needed for success in college.
“It’s actually a vehicle for assur
ing that people have an opportun
ity to learn the skills needed to be
successful," says director Nancy
Ames. “In turn, it helps teachers
understand how people do learn."
Ames explains that while many
students may be prepared when
they arrive at college, many others
from poorer school districts are
not. Yet, the center is not a reme
dial program. For $15 and less,
there is a variety of what Ames
refers to as "skills building"
courses offered.
Some students find the
academic maze to be a mystery.
Knowing what your skills are (and
aren't) can make studying a less
haphazard process. The center
can help students recognize their
academic strengths and weak
nesses through individual skills
inventories and give recommen
dations for specific ways to im
prove.
Besides the tutorial program
(see other story) the center
specializes in refining study tech
niques, reading skills, writing and
term paper preparation. Specific
skills courses like exam-taking,
time management, vocabulary,
grammar, spelling or English word
usage are also available.
Another part of LRC includes a
section on English as a second
language. The person heading
the program this year, Renee
Jacobsen, is from England and
has taught similar courses in
France and other European coun
tries.
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graduate entrance exams such as
the LSAT or Graduate Records
Exam, the center has specific aids
for you.
Ames likes to stress the
center's reading programs. She
says many people seem to think
speed reading classes are only for
those who want to read faster, but
that is not the case. "You read
most effectively when you read
with definite objectives in mind,"
she explains. Speed reading is
designed to increase comprehen
sion of content along with building
a faster reading rate.
The advanced reading class is
geared toward persons who want
to develop higher levels of com
prehension while brushing up on
rate improvement techniques
Reading efficiency is sharpened
through use of techniques for
evaluating schools of thought in
the student’s academic area.
"We want students to improve
their awareness of differing pers
pectives within a field," explains
Ames. "Authors are often led to
various conclusions by making
assumptions based on those
perspectives. Not every advanced
reading course includes this kind
of analysis."
Students meet together and
also individually with the instruc
tor. They learn to become critical
readers by analyzing reasoning
patterns, recognizing fallacies in
logic and discovering author
biases.
Classes taken at the LRC can
not be counted for University cre
dit, but Ames believes the know
ledge gained from them is useful
to people throughout their lives.
Students and faculty members
can sign up for fall classes at the
LRC table during registration or at
the Center sometime during the
first week of class.
Located at 268 Condon Hall,
the center also maintains a library
of some 400 books, as well as
fairly extensive footnotes and
exam files.