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Page 8 SHIC urges required student health plan B\ Brian Blur h Emerald Assoc i.ite Editor lacing drastic. premium hikes and dwindling lieneiits the Student I le.dlli Insuranc e ( nintnitlee responded In on going i lies tin allurdahle iie.11111 i are I'ridas u illi a i all for man dator\ ASl’O insuranc e uiver age for .ill students The i I dec isinn to recnm mend to the I ni vei sits admin istration a mandatory ASIA) health insurance requirement III! the 1 tl‘10 u 1 si 111 II >1 year i .uni' at the end iit a heated SIIK! meeting called tu e\am me solutions to the i m renth troubled insurant:e program The four committee members w Im voted in tavcir ol the re quii'ement maintained th.it a mandators enrollment policy would reduce' student premi unis while me leasing benelits The ret (iinmentlatitin w ill In passed on In the t'niversits ad ministration lur t tinsiileratiiin and a final dei isinn will be made sometime in April or May \bcuit I atlll students i us ered under this year's optional plan are fat mg rate hikes ol up to 1(U) pert ent. ini leasing tie dm tildes and lower c Inim pay outs from insuranc e i an ier I he Prudential t o Prudential nltii nils maintain the premium hikes are due to flight'i numbers id t laims com pared Iti int culling premiums We processed more claims than we received in premiums during the last two soars, said ( and \ess man. Pi udential at count executive We couldn't covet nui expenses tor the at i mini .it .ill \ml\ ('lark i iiiiiiiiilln’ mein Imm ,iih) AM '() piesident said tlir mandators rr(|uiri>nii,iil would i rente a l.ii vl ABA claims spark fee hike for incoming law students By Chris Bouneff Emerald Associate Editor The University's law school has responded to concerns from the American Bar Association by charging higher fees for incoming law students to pay for improvements in the law program. The ABA threatened in October to revoke the law school's accreditation because of low funding and gave ad ministrators until Dec. 1 to respond to ABA concerns Among the ABA's concerns were the law library budget faculty pay levels and the lar k of an externship program, where students work fora community law firm “The increase in fees will generate revenue, and the rev enue will be maintained in the budget of the law’ school." said Maurice Holland, law school dean. Holland. University Provost Norman Wessells and repre sentatives from the Oregon Slate System of Higher Education have been meeting since the October letter from the ABA to draft a response to the problems raised in that letter Holland said the fee hike was one short-term method of providing additional funding to address the ABA's concerns over computer equipment and the library budget University and law school administrators w ill decide dur ing the normal budgetary process this spring which programs the additional funds will go into. Wessells said. Turn to Fees, PaRe 5 Rolling up the welcome mat Hie I 'nivcrsin s plan l<> t in hack enrtdlmenis has led to fewer international students on campus ami tlieir numbers may continue to shrink in disproportionate numbers. Bv Denise l littnn finer aid \ssoi i.ite Flfilor ( ills iiits t uts It seems like evervlliing li.is l.iken its turn .it tlii' I hriverstlv s chopping him k puitire departments sin li .is gerontology .mil religious studies huve been plat eil on the line I ni idly positions li.ive nut been lllletl .mil many ( lass sei lions li.ive disappeared Ami students base been i lit troni the I uiversits .is well Xitel bill tel III 1 00. tbe administration .innuunied it would i lit tlie number nl students down to ,ibout 1C itttt tIn* I nisersil\ s olfi i i00 students e.n b sear during 1'IM‘i and !<)«((I sii the optimum enrollment level i ould be reached bs tall I‘too Hut to i ill enrollment bs .">00 students, tin- admissions oil it e lias to re|e< t more than I >00 ipialdied applu ants bills tall till' admissions nttu e denied eniollmelit to 1 000 po tential freshmen and transfer students ()l these too svere (fregou residents and I ,t>oo ss eni out ol state and inlet national students III addition between tall I0HM and lall HO svblle the >00 stu dents ss ere trimmed (a I pert ent de< linel international student en rollment dropped bs I > percent to l.liti.t students Internallonal students now make up only 7 pert.cut <>1 the total l'Diversity stu dent population \ .did ( aim crns Audun Kunde Norwegian graduate student and the dtrei lor ol tin' I'diversity . Association ol Norwegian Students Abroad said Ills i oik erns about enrollment ( ills slmns Irom the alreads depict ed Norwegian enrollment at the I 'Diversity When I ss.is beie last tune in M"> getting ms b.n helm's de gree there were user 100 Norwegian students he said N’oss there are less Ilian t>0 I oin Mills director of international servii es partialis attri butes this drop to ness highei reipiirements for international stu dents partii ularls students from \orssas and ((real Britain We re ar (nails gelling a belter-quality student than sse se had in the past ' he said But Kunde disagreed the ness standards caused the drop in en rollment because most students don't think about it (studying abroad) mill h until thus base the requirements anvssns And Kunde warned the I 'uiversits s assumption tlial it i an at trait higher quality international students through more stringent requirements may be dangerous "The l ’diversity must remember that people ss ho are ai i epted here mas also be accepted somesvhere else like in (California and everybody knows more about (California, or some famous' l ast (Coast si hool he said And these people are more likels to go to these other si bools II the I 'Diversity gains a reputation in \orsvay of rejei ting a lot of international students the really qualified Norwegian students mas stop apply mg." Kunde said Furn to ( ills. Page 4 Life abroad nets valued experience By Polly Campbell Emerald Reporter Despite distances f <>r from home the t ool ()re non weatlici and ,i foreign i ulture. stmlenls (time Iront .til over the globe to study .it the I 'Diversity One of the biggest problems international students experience is be mg misunderstood said Wiomi Tateishi. an inter national studies senior from Tokyo llllt Tateishi S.ml pro pie within her depart nienl .ire always yvillmg to help out There have always hern many students who would help me hei ause in the international stud ies department, students are interested in learning about foreign countries and cultures.' she said t'ahad Al-Meiiky. a graduate student from Saudi Arabia. agrees there are often misunder standings about interna tional students. but through the help ot stu dents and faculty no big problems exist "We have a great facul tv that helps me to dcvel op my schedule, help me yy ith re scan h. and overall they help me to develop my skills. Al-Meliky said. Turn to Students, Page 4